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ERIC Number: EJ1375494
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Apr
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1536-6006
EISSN: EISSN-2328-2525
Early American Sunday School Tunebooks: Laboratories for Public School Music
Sanders, Paul D.
Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, v44 n2 p133-152 Apr 2023
Early nonsectarian Sunday Schools provided instruction in spelling, reading, writing, and singing in the years prior to the introduction of free, public education in the United States. This study explores the Sunday school as a laboratory for public school music education. Several of the first Sunday school tunebooks included theoretical introductions with elementary instruction in music reading much like the early school songbooks that followed. Three early tunebooks will be considered, E. Osborn's "The Sunday School Music Book" (1826), Ezra Barrett's "Sabbath School Psalmody" (1828), and Elam Ives, Jr's "American Sunday-School Psalmody" (1832). In each case, the various "experiments" introduced in the tunebooks will be discussed. Some of these experiments were rejected in the public schools, but others had lasting importance.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States
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