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School music

Here are entered collections of musical compositions for children from kindergarten or grade 1 through high school.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Kindergarten
• Nursery schools

• School music -- Instruction and study
• Sunday school music

• Elementary school music
• High school music
• Junior high school music
• Kindergarten music
• Kindergarten -- Music
• Middle school music
• Nursery schools -- Music
• Primary school music
• Public school music

• Kindergarten Gift Plays (London: J. Curwen and Sons, Ltd, 1900), by Margaret E. Nuth, illust. by Mildred Emra (page images at Roehampton)

• Music and the Child (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2016), by Natalie Rose Sarrazin (PDF, Epub, and HTML at OpenSUNY)

• Songs for Worship in the Sunday-School, Social-Meeting, and Family (c1873), by T. C. O'Kane (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1887), by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, contrib. by E. Adelaide Manning (Gutenberg text)
• Friedrich Froebel's Education by Development: The Second Part of the Pedagogics of the Kindergarten (London: Edward Arnold, 1899), by Friedrich Fröbel, trans. by Josephine Jarvis (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Friedrich Froebel's Pedagogics of the Kindergarten (London: Edward Arnold, 1897), by Friedrich Fröbel, trans. by Josephine Jarvis (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Froebel's Gifts (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Froebel's Letters on the Kindergarten (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co., 1891), by Friedrich Fröbel, ed. by Emilie Michaelis and H. Keatley Moore (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Froebel's Occupations (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kindergarten Principles and Practice, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mother's Songs, Games, and Stories (student's edition; London: William Rice, 1920), by Friedrich Fröbel, trans. by Henrietta Frances Lord and Emily Lord (PDF files at Roehampton)
• The Mottoes and Commentaries of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play (London: Edward Arnold, 1900), by Friedrich Fröbel, ed. by Susan E. Blow, trans. by Henrietta R. Eliot (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Play in Work and Work in Play: Interesting and Varied Kindergarten Occupations for the School and the Nursery (London: Blackie and Son, 1888), by Joseph Hassell (PDF files at Roehampton)
• The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play (Mutter und Kose Lieder) (London: Edward Arnold, 1898), by Friedrich Fröbel, ed. by Susan E. Blow (PDF files at Roehampton)
• The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play (Mutter und Kose Lieder) (New York and London: D. Appleton, c1895), by Friedrich Fröbel, ed. by Susan E. Blow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Child Under Eight (1920), by E. R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Froebel's Kindergarten Principles Critically Examined (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by William Heard Kilpatrick
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Psychology of Froebel's Play-Gifts (c1900), by Denton Jaques Snider (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Girl and the Kingdom: Learning to Teach, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Practical Kindergarten Lessons for English Infant Schools (London: Joseph Hughes and Co., 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Mortimer (PDF files at Roehampton)

• Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class; and Moral Culture of Infancy (revised edition; New York: E. Steiger, 1877), by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Mary Tyler Peabody Mann
  • Gutenberg text and multimedia
  • page images at MOA
• The Kindergarten Guide: An Illustrated Hand-Book Designed for the Self-Instruction of Kindergartners, Mothers and Nurses (New York; London: E. Steiger; George Phillip and Son., 1882), by Maria Kraus-Boelté and John Kraus (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Kindergarten Principles and Practice, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook (reprint of a 1914 publication; Cambridge, MA: R. Bentley Inc., 1966), by Maria Montessori (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Advanced Montessori Method (2 volumes; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1917), by Maria Montessori, trans. by Florence Simmonds and Arthur Livingston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook (London: W. Heinemann, 1914), by Maria Montessori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1914), by Maria Montessori
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• From Locke to Montessori: A Critical Account of the Montessori Point of View (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1914), by William Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Montessori Method (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912), by Maria Montessori and Anne E. George (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Montessori Mother (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1912), by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Spontaneous Activity in Education, by Maria Montessori, trans. by Florence Simmonds (Gutenberg text)

• Lessons on Objects, As Given to Children Between the Ages of Six and Eight in a Pestalozzian School at Cheam, Surrey (17th edition; London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1861), by Elizabeth Mayo (PDF files at Roehampton)
• A Manual of Elementary Instruction, For the Use of Public and Private Schools and Normal Classes, by Edward Austin Sheldon (page images at MOA)
• Object Lessons and How to Give Them: First Series For Infant Schools (London: Isbister and Company, 1893), by George Ricks (PDF page images at Roehampton)
• Primary Object Lessons for a Graduated Course of Development, by Norman A. Calkins (page images at MOA)

• Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2014), ed. by Michael Fosmire and David F. Radcliffe (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Major Projects in Elementary Schools (Washington: GPO, 1922), by Florence C. Fox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Community English: A Book of Undertakings for Boys and Girls (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Mildred Buchanan Flagg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Through the Eye to the Heart: or, Eye-Teaching in the Sunday-School (1873 edition), by Wilbur F. Crafts (page images at MOA)

• Manga Vision: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2016), ed. by Sarah E. Pasfield-Neofitou and Cathy Sell, illust. by Queenie Chan (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers, by Arthur Brisbane (Gutenberg text)

• Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing with the Picture Word Inductive Model, by Emily Calhoun (HTML with commentary at ascd.org)

• Teaching in the Nursery School (New York: Harper and Row, c1959), by Sallie Beth Moore and Phyllis Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children in the Nursery School (New York: The John Day Co., c1928), by Harriet M. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Nursery School (revised edition, 1930), by Margaret McMillan (PDF files at Roehampton)

• The Nursery School (revised edition, 1930), by Margaret McMillan (PDF files at Roehampton)