List of Graded Music Series explained

This is a list of graded music series.

A graded music series is a set of instructional texts for teaching music.

• Vocal Music Readers by Joseph Bird (Oliver Ditson Company, 1861)
• The Song Garden by Lowell Mason (Oliver Ditson Company, 1864)
• First Steps in Music by George Loomis (1866)
• The National Music Course by Luther Whiting Mason (Boston: Ginn, 1870)
• The Elementary Music Reader by Benjamin Jepson (A. S. Barnes, 1871)
• The Graded School Singer by Orlando Blackman and E. E. Whittemore (1873)
• The Normal Music Course (D. Appleton and Company, 1883)
• The Tonic Sol-Fa Music Course by Daniel Batchellor and Thomas Charmbury (Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1884)
• Public School Music Course by Charles E. Whiting (1889)
• The Model Music Course by J. A. Broekhaven ad A. J. Gantvoort (1895)
• The Natural Music Course by Thomas Tapper and Frederick Ripley (American Book Company, 1895)
• Harmonic Course in Music by Thomas Tapper and Frederick Ripley (American Book Company, 1903)
• Melodic Course in Music by Thomas Tapper and Frederick Ripley (American Book Company, 1905)

References

• Mark, Michael L. and Charles L. Gary. A History of American Music Education. 3rd ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007.