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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticWolf, Edward C.
Title, AnalyticJohann Gottfried Schmauk: German-American Music Educator
Journal TitleJournal of Research in Music Education
Date of PublicationSummer 1977
Volume ID25
Issue ID2
Location in Work139 - 149
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AbstractJohann Gottfried Schmauk was a leading schoolmaster-organist in Philadelphia from 1819 to 1842 and was instrumental in introducing Pestalozzian methods to German-American music instruction. Schmauk's tunebooks, with their theoretical introductions, received widespread use during the mid-nineteenth century, and these books provide an insight into the methods of vocal music instruction in America at that time as well as evidence of the musical competence that was expected of the old German-American schoolmasters.
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MKI TermsSchmauk, Johann Gottfried, 1792-1851/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania/ Music/ Lutheran Church/ 19th century