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NOTE: In a general educational survey measurement program recently applied to the schools of the state of Florida one item which was included was a twenty minute music test for grades four to ten. Besides the four types of tests which purported to measure knowledge, there was a group of questions, not counted in making up the mark or score, which sought to ascertain the attitude of the children toward various aspects of music. The replies which were presented on the 324 papers turned in were studied by Mr. Rutledge and submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for initiation into the professional fraternity Phi Delta Kappa in Teachers College, Columbia University, in the summer of 1928. His material, presented below, is valuable in itself and very suggestive of further studies which must be made before we shall be in possession of all the facts we need for revising our courses of study. That this study is only a beginning is evidenced by the fact that the entire music test, including the questions discussed herein, is being radically revised.—P. W. D. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Ninth Congress of the International Society for Music Education, held in Moscow, July 7–14, 1970, brought together more than 1,200 delegates and some 1,500 performers from forty countries to focus on the theme “The Role of Music in the Lives of Children and Youth.” Ardis O. Higgins, editor of CMEA News (California), undertook the major task of collecting and evaluating more than seventy papers delivered at the Congress, and of gleaning from them the most pertinent, practical, and provocative statements for presentation in the Music Educators Journal. Of the outstanding papers, the complete texts of three appear on the following pages. In addition, Mrs. Higgins has offered her impressions of the total setting and spectacle of the ISME program. These impressions, along with those of Wiley House-wright, vice-president of MENC, and Karl Ernst, past president of ISME, are the basis of the following introductory report.—Ed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The United States and the Music Educators National Conference were well represented at the International Society for Music Education meeting in Tokyo, Japan. President of the MENC, Alex H. Zimmerman, presided at a general session. Executive Secretary of the MENC, Vanett Lawler, as ISME Treasurer, had an official role to play. Many professionally excellent papers were read by delegates from the United States. Among the speakers were: Harold Arberg, Specialist in Music Education and Acting Director of the Cultural Affairs Branch of the United States Office of Education, representing the United States Government; Vanett Lawler; Barbara B. Smith, Professor of Music, University of Hawaii, Honolulu; Geneva Nelson, Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Mantle Hood, Professor of Music, Director of the Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles; Donald Paul Berger, Music Director, The American School in Tokyo; and Elizabeth May, ethnomusicologist of Los Angeles, California. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

OVER a period of years many leaders in music education have docried the acarlemic stuffiness of some of the approaches to theory instruction. Author Walton is one of the sensitive musicians whose observations and practices must be welcomed by students to whom knowledge about the structure and components of music involves something more than geometrical and mathematical analysis of its anatomy.One editorial reader of this article stated that: “Even the introdiction of a paper which has the word ‘theory’ in its title forebodes dry and dismal literary landscape! Why not change the Walton title to something of more concord with the author's thought when he says:“The current trend is for the theory course to be broader in its scope, and to assume a more vital role in the music curriculum. In this broader concept, the term ‘theory’ seems most inadequate and narrow, and the term ‘musicianship’ is much more appropriate, since the development of musicianship is becoming the chief concern and core of theoretic study.” [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EDITOR'S NOTE: This timely paper adds a valuable viewpoint to the current discussion as to the value of musical contests. It comes to us from the distinguished musician and lecturer who has charmed American audiences during the winter months and who has long been a prominent figure in music education in England. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following paper was read at the Philadelphia meeting of the Eastern Conference, and is here preprinted from the 1929 Book of Proceedings.—P. J. W. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following paper was read at the Wichita meeting of the Southwestern Conference, and is here preprinted from the 1929 Book of Proceedings.—P. J. W. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The music supervisor must be primarily an educator if he would succeed in his work; and he must be an educator not simply in his own field but in the larger sense of correlating his field to the general movements of the times. The following paper is therefore of great value to the supervisor. Dr. Boynton is president of the Department of Superintendence, N. E. A., and has been superintendent of schools in Ithaca, New York, since 1900. This address was delivered at the Cleveland meeting, Monday, February 25th, and appears in the current issue of the Journal of the National Education Association, through whose courtesy it is reprinted here.—P. J. W. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EDITOR'S NOTE: Many supervisors have been greatly helped in their local work by the activities of the Playground and Recreation Association of America. That Association has now undertaken a study which should have the whole-hearted support of all music educators, and to which they may look for helpful guidance in many of their larger problems. Mr. Zanzig, formerly Instructor in Music Education at Harvard University and Smith College, and in the public schools of Brookline, Massachusetts, is Director of the National Music Study of which he speaks in the following paper. Two years will be given to the Study, during which time Mr. Zanzig will visit many cities and towns in all parts of the country. A General Committee and Special Committees of men and women prominent in each of the fields of musical endeavor will have an important part in carrying on the Study.—P. J. W. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This Paper is presented as a timely and interesting follow-up for the recent contribution by Philip Gordon on “Rehearsing Contemporary Music.” Mr. Murphy, who is professor of music education at Teachers College, Columbia University, prepared “Judgment Values for Contemporary Music” for one of the contemporary music forums held at the 1950 MENC national convention in St. Louis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THIS is a report on the situation in Nebraska, but small towns everywhere face a similar problem. Mr. George, who is superintendent of schools in O'Neill, Nebraska, here presents some of the findings from a paper written in partial fulfillment of the requirements for his master's degree at the University of Nebraska. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BITS of news and comment about MENC folk, gleaned from various sources but chiefly from correspondence and reports of state representatives and officers of the state organizations. Many members have expressed favor for this kind of “hometown paper” department in the Journal, but the suggestion is made by several that members themselves should be invited to supply contributions for inclusion in the columns. The invitation is hereby extended. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This Article represents some of the other side of the coin from the view expressed by Stuart J. Ling in his “A Brotherhood of Thieves?” which appeared in the June-July issue of MEJ. Mr. Hauser, president of the Theodore Presser Com- pany, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is a former pres- ident of the Music Industry Council of the MENC, and also of the Music Publishers Association of the United States. He presented this paper at the session on copyright law during the 1959 MENC North Central convention in Chicago. Perhaps it should be noted that the author wrote without intention of preparing a “companion” article for Mr. Ling's, which was written independently, as was Mr. Hauser's paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]