Allen Britton
American music educator
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Allen Perdue Britton was an American music educator. Through his many passions in life he contributed to elevating the field of music education to the same stature as the field of musicology. He developed the doctoral program in music education at the University of Michigan, where he directed 51 dissertations. He contributed heavily to the history of music pedagogy in early America, especially singing schools. To combine his two interests of music education and history he joined with Marguerite V. Hood, Warren S. Freeman, and Theodore F. Normann and created the Journal of Research in Music Education .
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- Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller (1986) (41)
- Music Education: An American Specialty (1962) (21)
- Worlds of Music (1953) (20)
- Theoretical introductions in American tune-books to 1800 (1950) (15)
- The Watkins-Farnum Performance Scale for All Band Instruments (1954) (15)
- The How and Why of Teaching Singing Schools in Eighteenth Century America. (1989) (13)
- American Sacred Music Imprints, 1698-1810: A Bibliography (1990) (12)
- The Easy Instructor (1798-1831) A History and Bibliography of the First Shape Note Tune Book (1953) (12)
- The Fabulous Phonograph: From Tin Foil to High Fidelity (1956) (9)
- Music in Early American Public Education: A Historical Critique (1958) (7)
- Founding JRME: A Personal View (1984) (5)
- Miscellaneous Papers: Research in the United States (1969) (5)
- Unlocated Titles in Early Sacred American Music (1953) (3)
- The Place of Historical Research in Graduate Programs in Music Education (1984) (3)
- Protestant church music in America : a short survey of men and movements from 1564 to the present (1967) (2)
- America's Music (1956) (2)
- Musicians in English Society from Elizabeth to Charles I (1954) (2)
- A Note of Greeting and Gratitude (2001) (1)
- An Introduction to the Singing of Psalm-Tunes, in a Plain & Easy Method. With a Collection of Tunes in Three Parts (1954) (1)
- Obituary: Marguerite Vivian Hood (1903-1992) (1992) (1)
- Music in Education: International Conference on the Role and Place of Music in the Education of Youth and Adults, Brussels, 29 June to 9 July, 1953 (1956) (1)
- Public Relations in Music Education (1954) (1)
- The General Theoretical Foundations of Music Education (1964) (1)
- Keokuk to San Antonio… 75 years of change (1982) (1)
- Musical Education in the United States of America (1982) (1)
- Introduction to Music Education (1952) (1)
- ISME National Sections and Organizations (1983) (0)
- Liberal Education and Music (1963) (0)
- Fundamentos teóricos de la Educación Musical (1964) (0)
- An Introduction to Musical History (1955) (0)
- The Development of Courses, Resources, and Activities for Performing Students (1964) (0)
- Music Buildings, Rooms, and Equipment (1955) (0)
- School Music Handbook; A Guide for Music Educators Designed to Meet the Needs of Classroom Teachers and Special Music Teachers in the Grades and Junior High School (1955) (0)
- The language of music (1953) (0)
- International Journal Of Music Education: Contents Of Past Issues (1984) (0)
- Letters to the Journal (1963) (0)
- Music Education in the Nineteen-Sixties (1961) (0)
- The 1962 MENC Program (1962) (0)
- The Present Status of Accredited Music Instruction in American Universities (1954) (0)
- Music Research Handbook (1962) (0)
- Doctoral Dissertation Committees Chaired (2001) (0)
- Foreword (1958) (0)
- MENC Membership over 36,500 (1961) (0)
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