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Music Text Books. A mini-canon inside?. What is a folk song?. Definition evolution: Now in curriculum split into sub-categories: By Country or Region. Music Text Books: Development. Singing Schools (focus on reading and performance) Early Schools (focus on reading and performance)
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Music Text Books A mini-canon inside?
What is a folk song? • Definition evolution: • Now in curriculum split into sub-categories: • By Country or Region
Music Text Books: Development • Singing Schools (focus on reading and performance) • Early Schools (focus on reading and performance) • Folk Song Collections (focus on appreciation) • Curriculum Based (focus on large musical concepts)
Curriculum and Folk Songs Singing school masters usually wrote their own texts Folk songs were used to teach curriculum as America developed their own literature Folk songs are simply reduced now to a single part of multiculturalism
What is in music text books now? • Introduction to musical concepts • Cross Curriculum • Multicultural Songs • Folk Songs
Did Curriculum kill the canon? • Cross reference of text books could reveal similarities • Competition makes change valuable • Less than 10% were over 100 years old