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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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1The American Book Company early recognized the importance of summer music schools, and started one in 1895 at Cataumet, Cape Cod, Mr. Ripley's summer home. In 1896 the school was held at Hingham, Massachusetts, under the direction of Clarence C. Birchard. Mr. Birchard had an exceptional faculty including, among others, William L. Tomlins, Julia Ettie Crane, Frances E. Howard, and Hollis Dann. In 1897 the session was held in Symphony Chambers, Boston.
3The three-year certificate course thus inaugurated was continued in New England only into the early 1900's. After that one or more summer schools were carried on in New York, Chicago, and elsewhere until the colleges and normal schools of the country recognized the success of the summer schools of the music textbook publishers and took up the problem of training music teachers to take care of the growing demands of the schools. Feeling that the summer schools had achieved their object, the American Book Company gave up its teaching and left that work to those institutions which had incorporated in their curricula courses specially designed to carry on the training of music teachers.
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