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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...New York City, was incorporated in 1900 by the board of regents of the University of the State of New York for the purpose of amalgamating the several educational interests of the Metropolitan College of Music (1891), the Metropolitan Conservatory of Music (1886), the Synthetic Piano School (1887), and the American Institute of Normal Methods. The institute has a strong faculty and offers practical and theoretical courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music. The Institute of Musical Art of New York, 120 Claremont Ave., New York City, Frank Damrosch, Director, was founded and liberally endowed in 1905 by James Loeb, which has made it possible to conduct it free from commercial motive. The object of its establishment was to give serious and talented music students a thorough, all-round musical education at moderate cost. Students who follow the prescribed courses of study share in the endowment. Franz Kneisel, of the celebrated Kneisel Quartet, is at the head of the department of stringed instruments, and Percy Goetschius, whose works on harmony and counterpoint are of international celebrity and use, is at the head of the department of theory. The David Mannes Music School, 154 E. 70th St., New York City, under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. David Mannes, offers instruction in vocal and instrumental music, and a special teachers' course. All courses include theory and ensemble. The Elinor Comstock School of Music, 41 E. 80th St., New York City, was opened in 1914. Miss Comstock, a pupil of Leschetizky, has for eighteen years been a teacher of music in New York. The members of her school have opportunities for carrying on academic as well as musical study. The von Ende School of Music, 44 W. 85th St., New York City, founded in 1910 and direc...

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