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

Chapter 59: VITA.
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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.

VITA.

The writer was graduated from New York University in 1900 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. She entered Columbia University in 1907 where she received the degrees of Bachelor of Music in 1910, and of Master of Arts in 1911.

She is the author of “The Advanced School of Vocal Art,” and of various operatic libretti, and the translator of numerous published poems from the French, German, Italian and Spanish.

During 1902-1904, she was a contributor from Russia to “The Brooklyn Daily Eagle,” and, in 1912, to various periodicals. During 1904-1913, she was one of the four directors of The Powell and Pirani Musical Institute of Brooklyn, New York.

In 1909, she was one of the incorporators of “The Public Good Society of New York City,” and was elected its president, which position she still holds.

In 1912 she was elected honorary member of the American Philharmonic Society.