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Music
Haggin, B. H. | October 14, 1950 issue

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The article focuses on a revolutionary change made by Juilliard School president, William Schuman, in the curriculum of the school. Most of the students wanted only to learn to sing or to play an instrument, but the administration opposed this narrowness of interest and attempted to give the students general knowledge and understanding of music by means of lectures on history and classes in theory. In the three years of the course they were taught only to work out certain conventional progressions of a few basic chords in a simplified four-part harmony, to translate these into a few sample figurations and to arrange this material in a few sample formal patterns.

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CURRICULUM change; MUSIC -- Instruction & study; SCHUMAN, William, 1910-1992; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; LECTURES & lecturing
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