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Albert S. Hill Charles Brockmann Clarence R. Brown Department of Instrumental Music Department of Vocal Music Hermann H. Hoexter Laura Brockmann Orchestra School of Music

Music on Demand, Part 2: Music and the Early Curriculum, 1892-1910

While the founders of the State Normal and Industrial School agreed that some music education was critical to a woman’s education, the first fifteen years of the School’s history were spent puzzling over why and how to fit music into the curriculum rather than developing a music curriculum. As the School was founded with the […]

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Charles Brockmann Clarence R. Brown Department of Instrumental Music Department of Vocal Music Glee Club Infant Orchestra Laura Brockmann Orchestra School of Music

Music on Demand, Part 1: Marketing Music Education to the State Normal and Industrial School Curriculum, 1892-1912

The first students to attend the State Normal and Industrial School in 1892 were greeted by a progressive curriculum, demanding competencies in many disciplines unfamiliar to women of that time. Charles Duncan McIver’s insistence that women educated in a liberal arts curriculum would remedy the state of education in the South acquainted these women with […]

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