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Answers to criticisms of piano class instruction

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"Vy/^ BELIEVE this pamphlet constitutes a valuable addition

lA/ to the literature on piano classes issued by the National

Bureau for the Advancement of Music. Most of our booklets on

^ this subject treat it from the positive angle by presenting the

advantages primarily and, in a broad and impartial way, the net

benefits to be derived. "Answers to Criticisms of Class Piano

Instruction" concentrates on the negative side of this increasingly

O important subject. The negative side is usually considered to be

oj "an unpopular approach in presenting constructive thoughts con-

^: cerning any line of endeavor, yet if there are misapprehensions,

I believe the greatest service can be rendered by treating them

boldlyv-sp€€ificallyr-and-ditectl^;_Herein lies the great contribution

which this booklet makes to the steadily growing literature on

CD group piano instruction, and the authors are to be congratulated

0 on the clear-cut and yet impartial way in which they have undertaken to remove disturbing doubts. They have listed the objections

cv, for the purpose of exposing them to expert and non-partisan

cc evaluation based on wide experience, so we may know how real

^ or how imaginary this negative side is. To the skeptics, and

particularly to tliose teachers who have been confronted with

difficulties and problems they could not meet, the negative side

has seemed very real.

or While Miss Mason and Mr. Burrows do not claim, in these

1 answers, to speak with conclusive authority, because no one indiv^ idual or limited group could do this, they do speak from a long ? period of successful experience. Although there are undoubtedly ^ many diflPerences of opinion among the leading minds in the piano . class field, there is a unanimity of judgment on the point that

practically all the difficulties can be overcome. The authors tell how they would handle each problem. Added weight will be attached to their opinion because of the broad character of their experience. Miss Mason encountered and overcame these problems while personally teaching in the schools of Rochester, New York, during a period of eight years and later studied them from a national vantage point as the Piano Class Specialist of the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music. Mr. Burrows has an equally unbiased viewpoint as head of the Piano Class Department of Teachers College, Columbia University, for this department utilizes

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SRLF:LAGE-2286645

Publisher

[19--?] : New York : National Bureau for the Advancement of Music., 2024

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cdl; americana

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95774619

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computer

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Piano
Instruction and study

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Statement of Responsibility

Mason, Ella H; Burrows, Raymond, 1905-1952

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Suwardi

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https://archive.org/details/answerstocritici00masoiala/page/n4/mode/1up

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urn:oclc:record:1040018948

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