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Daniel Gregory Mason
"Music as a College Study," Columbia University Quarterly, XX/3 (July 1918)
Columbia University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Mason, like his predecessor and mentor Edward MacDowell, was deeply committed to music in the framework of general humanistic education. Under his chairmanship the Department of Music strengthened its course offerings in music in the undergraduate curriculum for non-specialists.
Howard A. Murphy
Home Study Course in Harmony, Home Study Department, Columbia University, 1934
Columbia University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Music courses prepared by the Department of Music were offered for home study, under the supervision of Extension Teaching, which was the precursor of the School of General STudies. In the first two decades of the 20th century, extension teaching was a flourishing and influential branch of music at Columbia. The expansion of its activities led to the establishment of a Chair in Choral and Church music, with extension teaching faculty member Walter Henry Hall as its first appointee.