The meaning and teaching of music

Although the work is largely abstract, the author hopes it will be found to have practical bearings. His own interest in it is wholly practical; for every part of it has been used to inform and direct the teaching of music in a city school system, and not in a vague way, but in explicit application to many details of method and practice. Primarily, however, it is not for the neophyte who has yet to attain the beginnings of a technique of teaching, but is rather for those who, already able to teach, would scrutinize again their principles of teaching and reflect anew upon the nature and possible values of their work. - Foreword.