The NBC Music Appreciation Hour: Radio broadcasts of Walter Damrosch, 1928-1942

Journal of Research in Music Education

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-77

  Howe, Sondra Wieland ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 60949909697     PISSN: 00224294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3345649     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Michael L. Mark and Charles L. Gary, A History of American Music Education, 2nd ed. (Reston, VA: MENC, 1999), 259-61, 274-76.
2. George Martin, The Damrosch Dynasty: America's First Family of Music (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983).
3. Walter Damrosch, My Musical Life (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923; reprint, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972).
4. Annette Elsie Mellion, "Dr. Walter J. Damrosch: A Treatise on His Contribution to Music Education in the United States" (M.S. thesis, Juilliard School of Music, 1947);
5. M. Elaine Goodell, "Walter Damrosch and His Contribution to Music Education" (D.M.A. diss., Catholic University of America, 1973);
6. Fredrick Theodore Himmelein, III, "Walter Damrosch, A Cultural Biography" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1972);
7. and William Ray Ferryman, "Walter Damrosch: An Educational Force in American Music" (Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1972).
8. Mark and Gary; and Edward Bailey Birge, History of Public School Music in the United States (Washington, DC: MENC, 1966).
9. Diane Ravitch, The Great School Wars: New York City, 1805-1973 (New York: Basic Books, 1974).
10. Irving Kolodin et al., "New York: Education," The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, eds. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1986).
11. and Kolodin et al., "New York," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 2001)
12. H. E. Krehbiel, et al., "Damrosch, Family of Musicians," The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986) and "Damrosch, German-American Family of Musicians," The New Grove Dictionary, 2nd ed. (2001).
13. H. E. Krehbiel, et al., Damrosch, German-American Family of Musicians, Ibid.
14. and Christopher H. Sterling and John Michael Kittros, Stay Tuned: A History of American Broadcasting (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002), 104-51.
15. National Broadcasting Company, Inc., NBC Music Appreciation Hour Instructor's Manual, vol. 4 (1931-32), xi.
16. Instructor'Manual, 1929-30; Perryman, 227; and Goodell, 323-24.
17. Student Notebook 1930-31, p. 2.
18. Instructor's Manual, 1936-1937, 62-64.
19. New York Times, 18 October 1932, p. 22, quoted in Perryman, 225.
20. For example, NBC Music Appreciation Hour 1930-31 Conducted by Walter Damrosch, Student's Notebook, Series A, prepared by Ernest LaPrade (New York: Carl Fischer, Inc., 1930), 45 pages.
21. For example, NBC Music Appreciation Hour, Conducted by Walter Damrosch, Student's Worksheet (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939). For authors, see Martin, 368.
22. Student's Worksheet, 1939-1940.
23. Instructor's Manual for Music Appreciation Hour 1929-1930, Questions and Answers by Walter Damrosch (New York: National Broadcasting Company, 1929), v.
24. Instructor's Manual 1930-31, 3.
25. "National Music Discrimination Contest," Music Supervisors Journal 18, no. 2 (December 1931): 26-27; 18, no. 3 (February 1932): 31; 18, no. 4 (March 1932): 29.
26. and "Study Helps for Developing 'Discriminating Listening,'" Music Supervisors Journal 18, no. 3 (February 1932): 33-36, 53-57.
27. John F. Royal and Ernest LaPrade, "Report on NBC Music Appreciation Hour, 1933," pages 1-3 (Damrosch Collection, New York Public Library, box 45).
28. Speech of Walter Damrosch in Albany, New York, Typescript, Damrosch Collection, box 48.
29. "Forward," Instructor's Manual, 1941-1942, p. 3.
30. Perryman, 220; and Sterling and Kittross, Stay Tuned, 152-219.
31. See content standards in Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts: National Standards for Arts Education (Reston, VA: MENC: The National Association for Music Education, 1994), 28-29, 44-45, 61-63.
32. Teaching Music, October and December 2000 issues.
33. Students study a guide, listen to CDs, and form teams to compete in a contest. See Sondra Wieland Howe, Minnesota High School Music Listening Study Guide (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Public Radio, 2001).