Dr Erin Johnson-Williams erin.g.johnson-williams@durham.ac.uk
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Music Education: The Case of Annie Curwen
Johnson-Williams, Erin
Authors
Contributors
Lesa Scholl
Editor
Abstract
During the Victorian era, male writers dominated the field of publications on music education despite the fact that a large component of the music teaching profession was female. One notable exception to this rule was Annie Curwen (1845–1932), known more frequently during her lifetime as Mrs. J. Spencer Curwen, whose widely circulated writings and public lectures laid out an accessible, child-centered psychology of music teaching. A generally forgotten writer on music pedagogy, Curwen was a remarkably successful public figure by the end of the nineteenth century, delivering prestigious lectures across Britain that were buoyed by the success of her first book The Child Pianist (1886). Her innovative contributions to how child psychology can be applied to music teaching still bear relevance for music teachers today.
Citation
Johnson-Williams, E. (2019). Music Education: The Case of Annie Curwen. In L. Scholl (Ed.), The Palgrave encyclopedia of Victorian women's writing. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_169-1
Acceptance Date | Jul 16, 2019 |
---|---|
Online Publication Date | Aug 19, 2019 |
Publication Date | 2019 |
Deposit Date | Jul 24, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Book Title | The Palgrave encyclopedia of Victorian women's writing. |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_169-1 |
Files
Accepted Book Chapter
(138 Kb)
PDF
Copyright Statement
Johnson-Williams, Erin (2019). Music Education: The Case of Annie Curwen. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Scholl, Lesa Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: [insert URL for product on https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_169-1
You might also like
Sonic Congregating: The Hymn as National British Spectacle
(2023)
Journal Article
The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain
(2023)
Journal Article
Silencing "Savage" Soundscapes: Hearing C-Section Births in the British Imperial Record
(2022)
Journal Article
Introduction
(2022)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Durham Research Online (DRO)
Administrator e-mail: dro.admin@durham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search