George N Heller

Biographic Data

ID5787232
NAMEGeorge N Heller
GIVEN NAMESGeorge N
FAMILY NAMEHeller
SIGNATUREHELLER G N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kansas
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX1

  • Alice Carey Inskeep (1875-1942): A Pioneering Iowa Music Educator and Menc Founding Member

    Open AccessDebra Gordon Hedden, George N Heller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…2007

    The purpose of this study was to examine the professional contributions of Alice Carey Inskeep (1875-1942), who contributed significantly to music education through her positive and effective teaching, supervising, community service, and leadership in music education. Inskeep was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, and taught for five years in that city's school system after graduating from high school. She served as music supervisor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, fo…

  • Lowell Mason's The Song Garden (1864–66): Its Background, Content, and Comparison to a Twentieth-Century Series

    Open AccessCynthia M Colwell, George N HellerARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…2003

    Lowell Mason's The Song Garden (1864–66) is a progressively arranged set of three volumes that may be regarded as the first music series books for schoolchildren. According to the publisher, the series is a “systematic, intelligible, and thorough course of teaching vocal music” (p. ii). Following Pestalozzian principles, Mason believed that students should first learn by rote before actually reading music. Following the singing-school tradition, …

  • Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America

    George N Heller, Mark N GrantARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1999Cited by: 2

  • Charles Leonhard: American Music Educator

    Lizabeth Bradford Wing, Lizabeth Wing et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996

    Charles Leonhard (b. 1915) was a pivotal figure in music education history. His career bridges the gap between the singing classes of the 1920s and the aesthetic education of the 1990s. Heller synthesizes a large amount of information from primary sources, interviews, archival materials, photographs, and teaching materials. He treats Leonhard's youth, his career in public school music in Oklahoma, and his work at Illinois. An outstanding contribu…

  • Willem van de Wall: Organizer and Innovator in Music Education and Music Therapy

    Open AccessAlicia Ann Clair, George N HellerARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…1989Cited by: 1

    This research is an analysis and description of the unique role of Willem van de Wall in the development of music education and his influence on the development of music therapy in the first half of the twentieth century. During his career, he served as a professional harpist, a choral director, and a professor of music education. During the course of his professional life, van de Wall wrote numerous articles and several books that advocated the …

  • Music in Kansas Grade Schools from 1870 to 1900: A Study of Organization and Growth

    George N HellerARTICLEAmerican Music1985

    The history of vocal and general music in grades kindergarten through eight in Kansas from 1870 to 1900 reveals a period of extremely rapid expansion. From 1870 to 1900 the population of Kansas nearly quadrupled. The average daily attendance in public schools in 1900 was 664 percent of the 1870 figure. The number of school districts rose from 2,068 in 1870 to 8,927 in 1900, and the number of teachers went from 2,240 to 11,513 in that same period.…

  • Early Advocates of Music Education for the Hearing Impaired: William Wolcott Turner and David Ely Bartlett

    Open AccessAlice-Ann Darrow, George N HellerARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…1985References: 1

    Published histories of music education do not often recognize early instances of music for handicapped students. Music for the hearing impaired is more obscure than for most handicapping conditions because it is often regarded as impractical. This study recognizes the early efforts of William Wolcott Turner and David Ely Bartlett on behalf of music education for the deaf In an 1848 article in the American Annals for the Deaf and Dumb, these two p…

  • On the Meaning and Value of Historical Research in Music Education

    Open AccessGeorge N HellerARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…1985

  • Music, Education, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Kansas Euterpe, Tönnies, and the Academy on the Plains

    Open AccessPaul A Haack, George N HellerARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…1983

    This study applied the conceptual structures of gemeinschaft (community) and gesell-schaft (association) developed by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies (1855–1936) to the history of music education in Kansas during the nineteenth century. It documents the interactions among musical activities, educational institutions, and community structures in the missions of the early nineteenth century, the relatively independent small town and rural …

  • Fray Pedro de Gante Pioneer American Music Educator

    Open AccessGeorge N Heller, George HellerARTICLEJournal of Research in Music…1979References: 1

    Fray Pedro de Gante was an important figure in the history of American music education. His life and work in Mexico City predate similar activities in the United States by at least a century. He worked in a radically changing ethnic arld sociocultural environment and was a principal agent in the acculturation process. In teaching music he also became involved in the arts in general education, multicultural education, and student teaching. He was …