Excerpt from The Melodic Method in School Music: A Manual for Teachers and Supervisors Music to-day ranks as one of the major subjects in the elementary school course. It is, indeed, the only subject taught consecutively throughout the entire course of eight years. The importance attached to school music is shown by the amount of time it receives. From 60 to 150 minutes a week are devoted to class instruction, the average for all grades throughout the country being about 100 minutes. Assembly singing generally occupies from 5 to 15 minutes a day, a total, on the average, of about one hour in the week. With the extra time spent in preparing songs for commencements and other exercises, and the marches usually played for assembling and dismissing schools, music is seen to receive the surprising total of two and one-half hours in the school week of 25 hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.