Prevailing Practices in the Supervision of Instrumental Music

AS THE RESULT of a conversation that began at a convention a few years back, Corwin H. Taylor, supervisor of instrumental music in the Baltimore schools, has conducted a study of supervisory practices in cities of more than 100,000 population. The supervisors in the initial discussion felt that they would like to know how their colleagues were handling certain problems and Taylor took it upon himself to find out. He constructed a description of practices in Baltimore and sent copies to all of the cities in the country that showed a population in excess of 100,000 in the 1950 census. His report, on which this article is based, includes replies from forty-four of those cities (plus Baltimore).