International Conference on the Role and Place of Music in the Education of Youth and Adults; Music in education; 1955

General exposis

of music along with the other fields of music-musicology, professional
music, conducting and composition.
I want you to note the order in which I have given you these two
developments-namely, first, the professional organization and, second,
the recognition of the profession. This is the sequence of these develop-
ments. The recognition of music education as a profession very gra-
dually emerged from the founding, the growth and the leadership
which was fostered within the professional organizations. To this very
day, and this might even surprise some music educators in the United
States of America, the prestige of the profession of music education
is enhanced and its stability is maintained through this symbol of unity
within the professionwhichis manifest in the professionalorganizations.

Trends and new trends have evolved from these two developments

Any thoughtful presentation and evaluation of evident trends and of
tendencies toward new trends in music education necessarily needs to
assume the premise that there have been these two important develop-
ments-which in the process of their growth have been trends in them-
selves. It also follows that the consistent and parallel growth of the
professional organizations and the profession of music education in
the United States of America has been the result of: (a) trends which
have been indicated from within the profession; (b) trends which have
been accelerated as the result of experimentation by the music educa-
tors themselves; (c) trends in the changing pattern of general education
toward broader curricula; (d) trends which gradually became accepted
practices and objectives of the profession, only to inspire further expe-
rimentation and exploration of new techniques, new materials, and
new objectives.
Does this give you a little insight on how the profession grew and
changed and grew some more-and how and where the growing-up
process took place-within the ranks of the profession and the pro-
fessional organizations about which we shall hear more later? Within
a span of 50 years a new profession has been added to the American
scene of music and education, has become of age, and is facing its
future fully alert to its professional responsibilities.

Music education as a part of the development of the public education

Music education has developed and is continuing its development as
a part of the total education programme. To appreciate the growth of