Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-09-21
PROGRESSIVE SERIES
OF PIANO LESSONS
Instructor Soderlund Gives Reasons
Why this Method of Instruction is
Regarded as Standard and is Pre-
ferable to All Others.
Continued from last Issue)

struction on How to Study; and Form
and Structure, Glossary and General
Information.
The pieces include the choicest ex-
amples of the Classic and Romantic
Schools, and Series of Educational
Adaptations for the pianoforte, in
easy grades, by Godowsky. These adj
aptations afford an opportunity for
the piano student, at the earliest
stage of his development, to become
acquainted with the best orchestral
and chamber works, the favorite
songs and operas, the noblest sacred
music, as we'll as the characteristic
dance and folk tunes of different ma
tons There is thus opened vast
field of knowledge which has hereto
fore been accessible only to the ad-
vanced musician of broadcast culture
and experience.
In addition to the above, the library
includes original compositions by the
editors, and an extensive list from
modern and contemporary composers,
characteristic of each, specially writ
ten for the Society. These compost
tons have annotations on Method Of
Study bv the composer
As an example of the correlation of
any one subject in the four depart
ments of lessons, exercises, studies,
and pieces, it may be of interest to
take up one subject, for instance, the
study Of the trill. The rules on and
definitions of this ornament extend
through lessons so, SO, 55, 81, 62, SO.
Reference to. the synopsis and in
dex, shows that trills appear also in
exercise %, 100 and 1919, and in stu
dies SO, 33, 80, SIX and 108. On
page of Agghazy's "By Moonshine,"
occur number of trills which will
present no difficulty to the pupil who
studied the lessons on the trill and
attained dexterity by means Of the
trill exercises and studies.
The work is so arranged that pu-
pills in any degree Of advancement
from the beginner to the most adj
vanced-may, at any time, obtain the
material needed to meet his specific
requirements in any department, thus
obviating the purchase of superfuous
material. In order that only such
material will be purchased as is &C
tually needed, the society requires
that selections be made by the teach
err.
In the United States Government
Educational Bulletin No. 33, one sec
ton of the State of Nebraska report
says: "Theory and Harmony may be
given in classes twice each week. 1t
should comprise work equal to the
scope of the theory work in the Pro
gressive Series, by Godowsky, pub
lished by the Art Publication Society.
1t is recommended that the Progress
i've Series of Piano Lessons mentioned
above should be made the basis for
piano instruction, or that the course
be equal to the Series in comprehen-
siveness and system"
The Woodward High School of Gin
cinnati, Ohio, and the Northwestern
High School of Detroit, having inaug-
urated Piano Department, have ad
opted this work as the text for this
department. Several thousand pri-
vate teachers, Conservatives and 9th
er institutions (including over five
hundred Catholic schools and colleg-
esq are now using the Progressive
Series as their standard text-mater-
ial. Cornell University, and the Cath
Ollie University Of America have ad-
opted the Series for their Summer
Normal Piano Courses, with Univer-
sity Credits allowed.
The endorsement Of these and other
important educational institutions, is
proof conclusive that the Progressive
Series fufills the need of the two most
agitated subjects now before school
authorities and serious music teach
ers, viz:
Standardization of Music Teach
ing" "School Credits for Music Stu
dy."
On these subjects the 1916 official
announcement of Cornell University
Of the courses for teachers and super
visors of music, states:
Standardization Of music teaching
and of credits for the study of music,
are subjects receiving attention by
the educational authorities through