Music Educators Journal

EDITOR'S NOTE: Many supervisors have been greatly helped in their local work by the activities of the Playground and Recreation Association of America. That Association has now undertaken a study which should have the whole-hearted support of all music educators, and to which they may look for helpful guidance in many of their larger problems. Mr. Zanzig, formerly Instructor in Music Education at Harvard University and Smith College, and in the public schools of Brookline, Massachusetts, is Director of the National Music Study of which he speaks in the following paper. Two years will be given to the Study, during which time Mr. Zanzig will visit many cities and towns in all parts of the country. A General Committee and Special Committees of men and women prominent in each of the fields of musical endeavor will have an important part in carrying on the Study.—P. J. W.

NOTE: It is the plan of the general chairman of the Conference Committee on Music Appreciation to present a series of articles covering the fields on which the various sub-committees are working. Miss Lowry is chairman of the sub-committee on children's concerts; her group expects to make an extensive survey of such concerts in the United States and to report its findings from time to time in these columns.—A. K.

NOTE: In a general educational survey measurement program recently applied to the schools of the state of Florida one item which was included was a twenty minute music test for grades four to ten. Besides the four types of tests which purported to measure knowledge, there was a group of questions, not counted in making up the mark or score, which sought to ascertain the attitude of the children toward various aspects of music. The replies which were presented on the 324 papers turned in were studied by Mr. Rutledge and submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for initiation into the professional fraternity Phi Delta Kappa in Teachers College, Columbia University, in the summer of 1928. His material, presented below, is valuable in itself and very suggestive of further studies which must be made before we shall be in possession of all the facts we need for revising our courses of study. That this study is only a beginning is evidenced by the fact that the entire music test, including the questions discussed herein, is being radically revised.—P. W. D.