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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1opportunity to study instruments privately with Boston Symphony artists who had had experience in teaching.
3For the last four years the school has also had exhibits of works of the different schoolbook publishers helpful to supervisors.
5D. C. HEATH & COMPANY
7Mr. D. C. Heath, who had opened the New York office of Ginn & Company and later was a partner of Ginn & Heath, established his own business of D. C. Heath in 1885, the year the partnership was dissolved. The Boston office is now located at [address hidden]
9In 1889 this company published a graded school series known as "The Public School Music Course" by Charles E. Whiting. This was based on the scale method as it was intended for sight reading. It used ta ta te te for time names of notes, and numbers and letters with sharps and flats beside them were printed below the different scales.
11The songs were illustrated and they and the exercises were graded. Two-part songs were put in the first book. The series consisted of six books, a supplementary third book with accompaniments, an additional girls' edition of the sixth book, an Institute Reader for books one through six and a Young People's Song Book for part singing.
13A revised edition by Charles E. Whiting was issued in 1908 called the "New Public School Music Course" which is still sold somewhat. In this the folk song, with its motif and theme, is stated to be the keynote. The technical material is grouped as exercises. There are five readers, the fifth having two editions, one for girls only, the other for mixed voices, and teachers' manuals. The Young People's Song Book with from one to four part exercises and songs is an elementary course for ungraded schools. There is also a High School Choralist by the same author.
15This company has made it a policy not to publish graded series of music books and is confining its music publications to occasional volumes which they believe have special merit, as for example A Gateway to Music by Wilton W. Blanké and Jay Speck. This has been adopted in Philadelphia as a basal textbook in elementary music theory.
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