# Music as a human need: A plea for free national instruction in music

Author: Powell, Alma Webster Hall, 1874?-1930

Genre: Category: Music

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69337

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Music+as+a+human+need%3A+A+plea+for+free+national+instruction+in+music+Powell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It will be observed that in the following pages political and economic events are presented in their aspect of emotion-producing forces in social pressure, with but scant attention to their other values. An artificially selective process must also be acknowledged in that, of those events only such as seem to have produced a direct emotional reaction upon a people have been considered. Those long continued economic movements which produced no sudden changes have not been taken into account, because what may be termed their disturbing effects were too gradual to allow of their being included among specific emotion-making forces[1]; slow changes are not sensed by whole peoples. Uneducated ma...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/8/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/music-as-a-human-need-a-plea-for-free-national-instruction-in-m-79013a24/chapters/6/index.md)