Music Education

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The paper traces the development of music education and discusses the four major international styles that have had a great impact on the way music is taught, namely, the Kodaly method, the Orff Schulwerk, the Suzuki method and the Dalcroze method. The paper talks about groups who raise money and stress the importance for music in our schools and focuses on VH1's Save the Music Foundation, The National Association for Music Education, and the American Music Conference.

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"Music education seems to always have been a subject on the minds of many Americans. After its beginning and the growth of the subject, schools seemed to either embrace it, or shove it off into a dark corner. Many argue that children's minds react from musical stimulation, and that children who are taught the art of music may excel better long-term throughout their lives. There are different ways of presenting the teaching of music, and these styles came from all over the world. Programs have been started to save music programs in today's schools, and it seems that music will somehow always exist in the education of the youth."

Sample of Sources Used:

• AMC. 2007. American Music Conference. 2007. http://www.amc-music.org
• AOSA. 2004. American Orff-Schulwerk Association. 2004. http://www.aosa.org/home
• DalcrozeUSA. 2007. Dalcroze Society of America. 2007. http://www.dalcrozeusa.org/home.html
• MENC. 2007. National Association for Music Education. 2007. http://www.menc.org
• Mursell, James. Music in American Schools. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, 1953.

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