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ERIC Number: EJ292288
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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MENC's Contemporary Music Project Brought Composers to the Classrooms.
Dello Joio, Norman
Music Educators Journal, v70 n5 p65-66 Jan 1984
In 1959 the Ford Foundation made its first grant to support young composers teaching in high schools. Despite setbacks, this resulted in advances in thinking and attitudes in the music education world. Since then, the Music Educators National Conference has taken an active role in the expansion of this project. (CS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Higher Education, Music Education, Musical Composition, Philanthropic Foundations, Program Descriptions
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Ford Foundation; Music Educators National Conference