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Stewart Macpherson (1865–1941) was known as the Father of the Musical Appreciation Movement in Britain. To further the cause, he founded the Music Teachers’ Association in 1908 and wrote key articles and books on appreciation, principally between 1907 and 1914. It was Macpherson’s colleague, Percy A. Scholes, who from 1919 energetically promoted the cause of the gramophone as a vehicle for propagating musical appreciation. The two men held opposing views on this development, and on the vexed issue of whether or not only teachers with specialist knowledge should teach music. In spite of these disagreements, Macpherson continued to lead the musical appreciation movement which helped to shift music education away from the acquirement of a technical proficiency towards instead the cultivation of taste. |
