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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Arthur Somervell |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Arthur Somervell; Gordon Cox |
ISBN: | 1843830191 9781843830191 |
OCLC Number: | 51900579 |
Description: | xv, 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | General introduction -- The right place of music in education / A. Somervell -- Somervell's speeches -- Somervell's correspondence regarding the folk song and national song controversy. |
Series Title: | Classic texts in music education, 26. |
Responsibility: | edited by Gordon Cox ; foreword by Elizabeth Jane Howard. |
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The educational dilemma that presented itself to Arthur Somervell at the start of the last century is evident again in Britain today. Thus, in addition to being a work of significant scholarship, Gordon Cox's book makes a valuable contribution both to our current thinking about the place of music in the school curriculum, and to the wider and ever more pressing debate about the purpose and nature of schooling. - -- John Paynter * MUSIC & LETTERS * Compelling reading for anyone interested in the history of English music education....[Through this book] we now have access to a significant body of material by Somervell. This is very welcome. * MUSIC EDUCATION * Read more...


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- School music -- Instruction and study -- England.
- Music -- England -- History and criticism.
- Musique -- Étude et enseignement (Secondaire) -- Angleterre.
- Musique -- Étude et enseignement (Primaire) -- Angleterre.
- Musique -- Angleterre -- Histoire et critique.
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- School music -- Instruction and study.
- England.
- Somervell, Arthur.
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- Großbritannien