The Chicago reform school band: 1862-1872

Journal of Research in Music Education

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 252-267

  Hash, Phillip M ^a  

^a CALVIN COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 60949626710     PISSN: 00224294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002242940705500306     Document Type: Review

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1. Public school bands appeared in the early 1890s in Columbus, Ohio; Greenville, South Carolina; and Live Oaks, Florida. Miriam B. Kapfer, "Early Elementary School Bands in Columbus, Ohio, and the Columbia Celebration of 1892," Journal of Band, Research 5, no. 1 (1968): 4-7
2. Emil A. Holz, "The National School Band Tournament of 1923 and its Bands" (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1960), 18-19
3. Albee, 96; E. S. Wadsworth, et al., "Description of the School and Grounds," in Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Guardians of the Chicago Reform School to the Common Council of the City of Chicago for the Year Ending March 31st, 1868 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1868), p. 48, 53
4. J. Stannard Baker, "Superintendent's Report," in Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State Reform School of the State of Michigan (Lansing, MI: State of Michigan, 1868), 39-41
5. Ohio Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, Fifth Annual Report
6. "New-York City," New York Daily Times, 26 May 1852, 1
7. Max Bennett Thrasher, "A Government of Boys, for Boys, by Boys," New England Magazine, April 1900, 205; Albee, 96; "Early American School and College Bands," The Instrumentalist 4, no. 3 (January-February 1950): 25
8. "Chicago Reform School," Chicago Daily Tribune, 8 July 1857, 2
9. T. H. MacQueary, "The Reformation of Juvenile Offenders in Illinois, American Journal of Sociology 8, no 5 (1903): 646
10. George W. Perkins, "[Superintendent's report]," in Fifth Annual Report of the Officers of the Chicago Reform School to the Board of Guardians for the Year Ending September 30, 1860 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1860), 20, 23
11. J. C. Kalleen, "Teacher's Report," in Thirteenth Annual Report of the Officers of the Chicago Reform School, to the Common Council of the City of Chicago, for the Year Ending March 31, 1869 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1869), 34-36
12. C. E. Allen, M. D. Allen, and H. Mulnex, "Teacher's Report," in Fifth Annual Report of the Officers of the Chicago Reform School to the Board of Guardians for the Year Ending September 30, 1860 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1860), 29-32; Turner, "[Superintendent's report]," 1869, 27-29
13. Marcus L. Dunn, "Teacher's Report," in Second Annual Report of the Officers of the Chicago Reform School to the Board of Guardians for the Year Ending November 30, 1857 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1857), 29
14. D. B. Nichols, "[Superintendent's report]," in Fifth Annual Report of the Officers of the Chicago Reform School to the Board of Guardians for the Year Ending September 30, 1860 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1860), 24
15. Henry S. Osborne, "Teacher's Report," in Eleventh Annual Report of the Board of Guardians of the Chicago Reform School to the Common Council of the City of Chicago for the Year Ending March 31, 1867 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1867), 35
16. Nichols, in 1859, discussed the importance of these goals in relation to general reform school education. See D. B. Nichols, "Appendix," in Fourth Annual Report of the Officers of the Chicago Reform School to the Board of Guardians of the Year Ending September 30, 1859 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1859), 42, 50-52
17. for information regarding the goals of public school music, see Michael L. Mark and Charles L. Gary, A History of American Music Education, 3d ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield and MENC, 2007), 161-163
18. Richard Colwell, "Music and Aesthetic Education: A Collegial Relationship, " Journal of Aesthetic Education 20, no. 4 (1986): 32
19. "Chicago Reform School," Chicago Daily Tribune, 19 May 1857, 3; Perkins, "[Superintendent's report]," 1860, 20-21
20. "Chicago Reform School," May 1857, 2; Steven Schlossman, "Delinquent Children: The Juvenile Reform School," in The Oxford History of the Prison, The Practices of Punishment in Western Society, ed. Norval Morris and David J. Rothman (New York: Oxford University Press: 1995), 368
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23. "Shooting at the Reform School," Chicago Tribune, 27 November 1866, 4
24. S. Pitcher, "Murder at the Reform School," Chicago Tribune, 2 December 1869, 4; Perkins, "[Superintendent's report]," 1860, 23
25. Joseph H. Gray, "Guardian's Report," in Fifth Annual Report of the Officers of the Chicago Reform School to the Board of Guardians for the Year Ending September 30, 1860 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1860), 7
26. E. S. Wadsworth and John H. Gray, "Guardians' Report," in Thirteenth Annual Report of the Board of Guardians of the Chicago Reform School, to the Common Council of the City of Chicago, for the Year Ending March 31st, 1869 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1869), 6
27. State Reform School, Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the State Reform School for Juvenile Offenders and Vagrants in the State of Illinois [dated December 1, 1870] (Springfield, IL: State Journal Printing Office, 1871), 5
28. Robert Turner, "Superintendent's Report," in Sixteenth Annual Report of the Board of Guardians of the Chicago Reform School to the Common Council of the City of Chicago, for the Seventeen Months ending August 31st, 1872 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1872), 33
29. MacQueary, "Reformation of Juvenile Offenders in Illinois," 648; Turner, "Superintendent's Report," 1872, 34
30. Turner, "Superintendent's Report," 1872, 7; "1855-1872: Sixteen Years of a City Reformatory," 5
31. Dunn, "Teacher's Report," 29; Nichols, "[Superintendent's report]," 1860, 24
32. For a description of field bands during this time, see R. F. Camus, "Military Music: North America," in Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 26 December 2006), http://www.grovemusic.com.proxy2 .library.uiuc.edu
33. Maureen Manjerovic and Michael J. Budds, "More than a Drummer Boy's War: A Historical View of Musicians in the American Civil War," College Music Symposium 42 [journal on-line]; available from http://symposium.music.org/ cgi-bin/m_symp_symp_show.pl?id=821; Internet; accessed 11 September 2003
34. George W. Perkins, " [Superintendent's report]," in Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Guardians of the Chicago Reform School, to the Common Council of the City of Chicago, for the Year Ending March 31, 1866 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1866), 23
35. Robert Turner, "[Superintendent's report]," in Fourteenth Annual Report of the Board of Guardians of the Chicago Reform School to the Common Council of the City of Chicago, for the Year Ending March 31st, 1870 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1870), 26
36. "Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert" [advertisment], Chicago Tribune, 4 December 1867, 4
37. Camus, "Military Music: North America."
38. Perkins, "[Superintendent's report]," 1867, 26; E. S. Wadsworth, et al., "Description of the School and Grounds," in Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Guardians of the Chicago Reform School to the Common Council of the City of Chicago for the Year Ending March 31st, 1868 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School), p. 53
39. Osborne, "Teacher's Report," 1867, 35
40. E. S. Wadsworth et al., "Description of the School and Grounds," 48
41. George W. Perkins, "[Superintendent's report]," in Eighth Annual Report of the Officers of the Chicago Reform School to the Common Council of the City of Chicago for the Year Ending March 31, 1864 (Chicago: Chicago Reform School, 1864), p. 25
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44. "Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert" [advertisement], 4
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46. John C. W. Bailey's Chicago City Directory, vol. 10 (Chicago: John C. W. Bailey, 1867): 569
47. "Decoration Day," Chicago Tribune, 31 May 1874, 1
48. "Death of Capt. McMurray," Chicago Tribune, 5 August 1861, 4
49. "The Fourth," Chicago Tribune, 4 July 1869, 4; Turner, "[Superintendent's report]," 1870, 25
50. Hill, "Getting Kathleen Home," 351-52
51. Edwards Official Chicago Directory (Chicago: Edwards & Co., 1869), 984
52. Stannard, "Superintendent's Report," 39-41
53. G. W. Lee, J. I. Mead, and C. Tracy, "Board of Control," in Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State Reform School of the State of Michigan (Lansing, MI: State of Michigan, 1868), 12-13
54. James Edwin Moore, "The National School Band Contests from 1926-1931" (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1968), 117, 148
55. Alfred S. Roe, "Creating Character at the Lyman School for Boys, Westborought, Massachusetts," [Lymann school magazine, 1902] [article online], 412; available from http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/ ∼"history/grafton/LymanSchoolArticle1902.html; Internet; accessed 20 November 2006; "Reformatories for Boys-Mettray," Catholic World, August 1870, 698-99
56. John J. Sloan, "Superintendent's Report," in Third Annual Report of the John Worthy School of the City of Chicago for the Period Ending December 31, 1902 (Chicago: John Worthy School, 1903), 14-15
57. T. H. MacQueary, "Report of the Superintendent," in First Annual Report of the Chicago Parental School for the Year Ending December 31st, 1902 (Chicago: Board of Education, 1903), 41-42, and Second Annual Report of the Chicago Parental School for the Year Ending December 31st, 1903 (Chicago: Board of Education, 1904), 45-46
58. W. Hart, "Superintendent's Report," and H. A. Haugan, "Statement of Expenditures," in Third Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and Treasurer of the St. Charles School for Boys at St. Charles, Illinois (Springfield, IL: State of Illinois), 13, 59
59. William K. McIver, "Band Department," in Sixth Biennial Report of the St. Charles School for Boys (Springfield, IL: State of Illinois, 1914), 14-15
60. See, for example, Ivor Kraft, "Music for the Feeble-Minded in Nineteenth Century America," Journal of Research in Music Education 11, no. 2 (1963): 121-22
61. Moore, "National School Band Contests," 102-103. Bands had also appeared sporadically in public schools by this time. Holz, "National School Band Tournament," 19-20
62. B. Kapfer, "Early Elementary School Bands in Columbus, Ohio, and the Columbia Celebration of 1892," Journal of Band Research 5, no. 1 (1968): 4-7. Examples in Illinois public schools included bands at Galesburg High School and Graham Elementary of Chicago, both organized during the 1897-1898 academic year
63. Roy Livingston Piatt, History of the Galesburg High School (Galesburg, IL: Evening Mail Press), 41; "Sense System is Shown," Chicago Daily Tribune, 20 February 1898, 12
64. Milton Jay, "Report of the Auxiliary Committee," in Twelfth Annual Report of the Illinois Manual Training School Farm (Glenwood, IL: Glenwood Manual Training School Farm, 1899), 18
65. Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Normal, Fifteenth Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and Treasurer of the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Normal (Springfield, IL: State of Illinois, 1898), 22, 30
66. Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home, Fourteenth Annual Report of the Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home of Illinois (Lincoln, IL: Illinois Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 1906), 33