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Music as a human need: A plea for free national instruction in music

Chapter 32: APPENDIX A. Questionnaire.
By Alma Webster Hall Powell
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The author argues that musical experience meets a human physiological and social need by supplying rhythmic stimulus that modulates bodily motion and emotional disturbance. Drawing on psychological, physiological, and sociological observations, she proposes toneurology as a field and contends that public agitation alters communal rhythms which music can help restore. Advocating free, state-supported musical instruction, she links such provision to the cultivation of native talent, expanded employment, and preservation of public mental health. Comparative national surveys, statistical appendices, a questionnaire, and practical recommendations are offered to support organized public investment in musical education.

APPENDIX A.
Questionnaire.

The exact form of the American questionnaire employed in the gathering of statistics is given below. The inquiries sent abroad followed the same plan and had the same scope, but were couched in somewhat more indirect and formal terms, and of course each separate set of questions was sent out in the language of the country to whose officials it was directed.

For a statistical work I need some official information in regard to the following queries:

1. How much does the American Government expend annually upon public conservatories for free tuition of pupils?

2. How much do the single states contribute annually for the same purpose?

3. Is there any subvention for Grand Opera from the American Government or from the States?

4. Is there any subvention for Orchestra organizations, or for Choral Societies?

5. Are there any prizes granted annually from the State for musical achievements to composers, singers, players?

6. Are there any endowments from the American Government or from the States to enable young gifted musicians to complete their musical education in America or abroad?