History of Music Education in America

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America has a great history from the beginning. It began with the migration of people from Europe. They colonized the states and began life there. They eventually fought for their freedom and now are the United States of America. Within this history is another profound history, which is the history of music education in America. Music education has changed and grown dramatically from century to century from the 18th century to present times. Each century show a great moment and growth in the history of music education. This paper will show how music education has grown from the 18th century.

18th century

The 18th century can be considered the beginning of centered music education. The reason for this is because of the great decline of the singing conditions of singing in the churches. This led to the foundations of singing schools. The rationale behind the creation of these schools was to improve the singing quality of students for church purposes. In this time the church was held in very high regard. This is because the people in some places of the, who were not Native Americans, came from Europe for religious freedoms. For some of these people the church was the main concern of their lives. So improve their quality of life they made these schools. People wanted to make things better in church, and this help those beginning schools flourish. Coincidently, it was inevitable that people would use this, not only for church, to improve or enrich their daily lives.
The first American school dedicated to singing was in the year 1717 in Boston, Massachusetts. This school was made mainly to teach skills in reading music and singing in religious celebrations. This school would serve as the foundation of schools to be made for music...

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CONCLUSION
In conclusion music education has a very vibrant history in the United States. From the 18th century till now it has shown great progress. From century to century it has shown great strides from each other. It started from singing schools in Boston, Massachusetts. These schools started to help teach people how to read music and sing. This led to the making of the first American textbook that surrounds music. The next century starts the first schools surrounding general music. These schools promoted the teaching of music theory. Then in the 20th century began the growth of four year degree programs in music education. This led to the growth of music in high schools. Now music is still growing and even has a field of music composition using technology. This shows the growth and progress of music education as time progresses and it hasn’t stopped yet.

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