Sarah Anna Glover: Nineteenth Century Music Education Pioneer

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In Sarah Anna Glover: Nineteenth Century Music Education Pioneer, Jane Southcott explores the life and pedagogy of Sarah Anna Glover, the female music education pioneer of congregational singing (psalmody) and singing in nineteenth-century schools. Glover devoted her life to the creation and propagation of a way of teaching class music that was meticulously devised, musically rigorous, and successfully promulgated. Southcott analyzes Glovers methods, history, and memory, and works to correct inaccuracies and misrepresentations that have emerged since Glovers death.

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An important contribution to understanding Sarah Glover, the pioneering nineteenth century British music educator, Sarah Anna Glover: Nineteenth Century Music Education Pioneer chronicles Glover's unfailing commitment to the nurturing of children's musical selves. The compelling book acknowledges Glover's commitment to "sound before symbol" and her innovative efforts to shape the Tonic Sol-fa system as a paramount pedagogical strategy. Jane Southcott succeeds in correcting the inaccuracies of earlier chronicles of Glover and challenging the old lore that surrounds Glover's life and times; she leaves no stone unturned in telling truth of a gifted teacher with an independent spirit and a dedication worthy of imitation today.

--Patricia Shehan Campbell, Music, Education, and Diversity: Bridging Cultures and Communities

Southcott's work. . . provides an important missing piece to the history of music education. As there is a link from Curwen to Zoltan Kodaly, it is essential to know that Sarah Anna Glover formed part of that link as well.

-- "Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association"

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Jane Southcott is associate professor of education at Monash University.