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Music As A Language
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Title: Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students
Author: Ethel Home
Release Date: July 6, 2005 [EBook #16225]
Language: English
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MUSIC AS A LANGUAGE
LECTURES TO MUSIC STUDENTS
BY
ETHEL HOME HEAD MISTRESS OF THE KENSINGTON HIGH SCHOOL G.P.D.S.T.
OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1916
PREFACE
The following lectures were delivered to music students between the years 1907 and 1915. They have been partly rewritten so as to be intelligible to a different audience, for in all cases the lectures were followed by a discussion in which various points not dealt with in the lectures were elucidated.
An experience of eight years in organizing a training course for students who wish to teach ear-training on modern lines to classes of average children in the ordinary curriculum of a school has shown me that the great need for such students is to realize the problems, not only of musical education, but of general educati