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The Four Pillars Of Choral Music Education, Joanna J. Setness
The Four Pillars Of Choral Music Education, Joanna J. Setness
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This paper investigates how the philosophy of several key choral music educators influenced their working methods and the principles that they emphasized in their teaching.
Lowell Mason, named the “Father of Music Education”, and the first public school music teacher in Boston, spearheaded the school singing movement in the mid 1800’s. F. Melius Christiansen, teaching at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN left a legacy of the “ideal” choral sound and elevated the choir to a prestigious position in schools. John Finley Williamson, with the Westminster Choir, blended “sung-speech” and the quality of individual sound to produce an entirely different …