John James Dawson
Life
Born: 1855
Died: ? (after 1930)
Biography
John James Dawson was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from University of the City of New York and received a diploma from John Curwen’s Sol-fa College in England. He taught in the Public Protestant Schools, Montreal, Canada; was Director of the Department of Music, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NYC; taught at the Normal School, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and was Supervisor of music in the schools at Montclair, New Jersey. He was the leading proponent in America of John Curwen’s Tonic Sol-fa and authored the book “The voice of the boy: a new conception of its nature and needs in development and use, and of its relation to the adult male voice.”
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List of choral works
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Publications
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