Danelle D. Larson is Professor of Music Education and Music Education Division Director at Eastern Illinois University, USA.Jill M. Sullivan is a professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, School of Music, Dance, and Theatre, at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, with normal schools pioneering teacher training in America, music education was at the center of both celebration and controversy. Tracing how these institutions shaped the nation’s earliest formal music teacher preparation, this book balances enthusiasm for music’s civic and academic value with debates over curriculum, gender, religion, and professional identity. Drawing on rich archival sources, noted music educators, and teachers of teachers, Danelle D. Larson and Jill M. Sullivan, gather their work along with that of fourteen insightful contributors into a compelling look at the beginnings of music teacher education and their lasting influence on today’s classrooms.

• List of Tables and FiguresNotes on ContributorsForeword, Christine A. OgrenPreface, Jill M. SullivanIntroduction, Jill M. Sullivan1. Establishing Normal School Music, Jill M. Sullivan2. The Music Course Offerings, Degrees and Certifications of Twelve American Normal Schools, Lori T. Gray3. “A Trained Teacher in Every Classroom” Music and Belonging in Brave Nation, Joanna Ross Hersey4. The Non-Public Normal School: The National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, Brian D. Meyers5. Musically-Infused Teacher Training: Music Education at the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton, Tim Nowak6. Normal College of the City of New York: Music Department and Education Program, Vincent Brancato7. Mary McLeod Bethune and the Rise of Music Education at the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute, Tavious J. Peterkin and Roger E. Anderson8. Music in the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, Danelle Larson9. Music Education in the Normal Schools of Minnesota, Sondra Howe10. Music in the Winona Normal School, Alana Shields and Melanie Brooks Dinh11. The Northern Arizona Normal School: Its Music and Music Teachers, 1899–1925, Roger E. Anderson and Therese Kerbey12. The Lives and Teaching Of Three Music Teachers at the Tempe Territorial Normal School: 1895–1916, Alison Sorensen13. Tracing the Evolution of Music Curriculum and Faculty at the Tempe Normal School, 1886 to 1905, Zihe Gao14. San Jose Normal: A Transformative Institution 1862–1921, Diana M. HollingerConclusionIndex

Danelle D. Larson is Professor of Music Education and Music Education Division Director at Eastern Illinois University, USA.Jill M. Sullivan is a professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, School of Music, Dance, and Theatre, at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, with normal schools pioneering teacher training in America, music education was at the center of both celebration and controversy. Tracing how these institutions shaped the nation’s earliest formal music teacher preparation, this book balances enthusiasm for music’s civic and academic value with debates over curriculum, gender, religion, and professional identity. Drawing on rich archival sources, noted music educators, and teachers of teachers, Danelle D. Larson and Jill M. Sullivan, gather their work along with that of fourteen insightful contributors into a compelling look at the beginnings of music teacher education and their lasting influence on today’s classrooms.

• List of Tables and FiguresNotes on ContributorsForeword, Christine A. OgrenPreface, Jill M. SullivanIntroduction, Jill M. Sullivan1. Establishing Normal School Music, Jill M. Sullivan2. The Music Course Offerings, Degrees and Certifications of Twelve American Normal Schools, Lori T. Gray3. “A Trained Teacher in Every Classroom” Music and Belonging in Brave Nation, Joanna Ross Hersey4. The Non-Public Normal School: The National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, Brian D. Meyers5. Musically-Infused Teacher Training: Music Education at the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton, Tim Nowak6. Normal College of the City of New York: Music Department and Education Program, Vincent Brancato7. Mary McLeod Bethune and the Rise of Music Education at the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute, Tavious J. Peterkin and Roger E. Anderson8. Music in the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, Danelle Larson9. Music Education in the Normal Schools of Minnesota, Sondra Howe10. Music in the Winona Normal School, Alana Shields and Melanie Brooks Dinh11. The Northern Arizona Normal School: Its Music and Music Teachers, 1899–1925, Roger E. Anderson and Therese Kerbey12. The Lives and Teaching Of Three Music Teachers at the Tempe Territorial Normal School: 1895–1916, Alison Sorensen13. Tracing the Evolution of Music Curriculum and Faculty at the Tempe Normal School, 1886 to 1905, Zihe Gao14. San Jose Normal: A Transformative Institution 1862–1921, Diana M. HollingerConclusionIndex

Danelle D. Larson is Professor of Music Education and Music Education Division Director at Eastern Illinois University, USA.Jill M. Sullivan is a professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, School of Music, Dance, and Theatre, at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, with normal schools pioneering teacher training in America, music education was at the center of both celebration and controversy. Tracing how these institutions shaped the nation’s earliest formal music teacher preparation, this book balances enthusiasm for music’s civic and academic value with debates over curriculum, gender, religion, and professional identity. Drawing on rich archival sources, noted music educators, and teachers of teachers, Danelle D. Larson and Jill M. Sullivan, gather their work along with that of fourteen insightful contributors into a compelling look at the beginnings of music teacher education and their lasting influence on today’s classrooms.

• List of Tables and FiguresNotes on ContributorsForeword, Christine A. OgrenPreface, Jill M. SullivanIntroduction, Jill M. Sullivan1. Establishing Normal School Music, Jill M. Sullivan2. The Music Course Offerings, Degrees and Certifications of Twelve American Normal Schools, Lori T. Gray3. “A Trained Teacher in Every Classroom” Music and Belonging in Brave Nation, Joanna Ross Hersey4. The Non-Public Normal School: The National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, Brian D. Meyers5. Musically-Infused Teacher Training: Music Education at the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton, Tim Nowak6. Normal College of the City of New York: Music Department and Education Program, Vincent Brancato7. Mary McLeod Bethune and the Rise of Music Education at the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute, Tavious J. Peterkin and Roger E. Anderson8. Music in the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, Danelle Larson9. Music Education in the Normal Schools of Minnesota, Sondra Howe10. Music in the Winona Normal School, Alana Shields and Melanie Brooks Dinh11. The Northern Arizona Normal School: Its Music and Music Teachers, 1899–1925, Roger E. Anderson and Therese Kerbey12. The Lives and Teaching Of Three Music Teachers at the Tempe Territorial Normal School: 1895–1916, Alison Sorensen13. Tracing the Evolution of Music Curriculum and Faculty at the Tempe Normal School, 1886 to 1905, Zihe Gao14. San Jose Normal: A Transformative Institution 1862–1921, Diana M. HollingerConclusionIndex