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Music Education: The Case of Annie Curwen

Johnson-Williams, Erin

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Lesa Scholl
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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.

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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

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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




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