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Chronology by McDermid (1967, p. 42-43)
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Date |
Event or Position |
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2-19, 1868 |
Birth at Anoka, Minnesota |
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1874-1878 |
Childhood in Iowa |
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1878-1885 |
Return home and school attendance at Anoka |
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June 1885 |
Graduation from Anoka High School |
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September 1885 to March 1887 |
Attendance at the University of Minnesota (five terms) |
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April-June 1887 |
Music and substitute teacher, Anoka Public Schools |
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1887-1888, 1888-1889, 1889-1890 |
Music teacher, Anoka Public Schools |
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Summers of 1889, 1891, 1892 |
Attendance at Western Normal Music School |
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January-June 1891 |
Teacher and principal, Centreville Public Schools, Centreville, Minnesota |
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1891-1894 |
Supervisor of music, Moline Public Schools, Moline, Illinois |
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1894-1910 |
Supervisor of music, Oak Park Public Schools, Oak Park, Illinois |
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1910-1942 |
Supervisor of music, Minneapolis Public Schools, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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1915-1928 |
Instructor of public school music, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
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Summers of 1920, 1921 |
Instructor of public school music, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York |
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Summers of 1922, 1923, 1924 |
Instructor of public school music, University of Southern California, Los Angles, California |
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1923-1942 |
Instructor of public school music, MacPhail College of Music, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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Summers of 1925, 1926, 1927 |
Instructor of public school music, University school of Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
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1928-1954 |
Co-founder, vice-president, supervisor of instruction, and member of the board of trustees, National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan |
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March 4, 1954 |
Death at Clermont, Florida |
This story is given by Dr. Paul Rosene, Professor Emeritus
at Illinois State University, where he was Director of Student Teaching in Music
Education and taught music education core courses.
T.P. Giddings used to visit the campus of ISNU (Illinois State Normal University). He always traveled with a very tiny trailer behind his automobile.
He would stay in his little trailer each night, parked behind the Music Department Chair's home. He plugged in his extension cord to the house (for electricity.)
We music students thought this tiny trailer was quite funny, and one night decided to play a "harmless" trick on T.P. We waited until it was after Midnight,
and very carefully walked up to his tiny trailer, and listened to be absolutely sure he was asleep. We then, picked up the trailer (there were twelve of us!),
and moved it about twenty-five feet to the OTHER side of the house! We nearly fell out of our seats when, the next morning in class, he told us
all about how uncomfortable he was the night before, and all about the strange dream he had...and when he woke up, he had been so restless during the dream
that the whole trailer had moved! (We had to stifle our laughs!) We told him about this and our "prank" about ten years later!
(He then confessed that he was awake the whole time, watching us!) He said he enjoyed the College. Try to have some fun! Amazing!
T.P. was a wonderful musician, giving us many bits of insight and tips to become better teachers.
Giddingsm Thaddeus P.
“Also a Retrospect,” School Music, XII (January 1911), 25-29.
“Apple of Discord,” The Etude, LV (October 1937), 673.
“Artisan and Artist,” Supervisors Service Bulletin, VIII (March –April 1929), 5, 43-46.
“Band and Orchestra Teaching,” Jacobs’ Orchestra Monthly, XXI (December 1930), 7,
42.
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree,” Music Supervisors Journal, XVII (March 1931), 21-23.
“Boys’ Glee Clubs in Grade Schools,” Music Supervisors Journal, IX (December 1922),
28, 30, 32, 33.
“Brickbats,” The School Musician, II (December 1930), 6-8.
“Building Character With Music, “ National Music Camp, Scherzo, Op. 8 (1936), p.117.
“Casualty Lists in Supervision,” Journal of
Proceedings of the Music Supervisors
National Conference, Fifteenth Year, 1922. Johnson City, Tennessee: The Conference, 1922, pp. 38-42.
“The Child Voice,” school Music Monthly, VIII (May-June 1907), 32-36.
“Clamming Along the Mississippi,” Outing, L (July 1907), 473-79.
“Contests,” Music Supervisors Journal, XII (October 1925), 46-53.
Course booklets: Course in Music,
1915-1916, 1919-1920, 1921-1922, Course of Study
in Music, 1924-1925, 1926-1927, 1928-1929, 1930-1931; A Guide to Music Teaching, 1937-1938, 1938-1939. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Public Schools.
“Crying Need in Public School Music,” The Etude, XL (August 1923), 523-24.
“Developing the Ensemble and Individual Singing,” Supervisors Service Bulletin, XI
(September-October 1931), 13-14, 45, 47.
“Devices for Keeping Interest During Class Piano
Lessons,” Journal of Proceedings of
the Music supervisors National Conference, Twentieth year, 1927. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The Conference, 1927, pp. 262-65.
“Doctor Giddings Says a la Scattergood,” The School Musician, IV (February 1933), 12-
13, 36.
“Early Events in the Professional Life of One T.P. Giddings,” Music Supervisors Journal,
XIII (February 1927), 13, 15, 67.
“An Experience in Community Singing,” Journal of Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Music Supervisors National Conference, 1916. McKeesport, Pennsylvania: The Conference, 1916, pp. 78-81.
“The Function of Inspection,” Yearbook of the Music Educators National Conference, Twenty-seventh Year, 1934
“Gaining Community Support for the School Music
Program,” Music Supervisors
Journal, XV (March 1929), 29.
“The Good Old Do-re-mi,” Music Educators Journal, XXIV (October 1937), 32-34.
Grade School Music Teaching. Milwaukee: Casper, Krueger, Dory Co., 1935. (First
published in 1919: New York, C.H. Congdon.)
“Has Sight Singing Failed,” Supervisors Service Bulletin, VI (January-February 1927), 7,
43, 45, 47.
“A Hint That Took,” The School Musician, VI (November 1934), 29-30.
“House-Boating on the Mississippi River,” The Tabula (student newspaper of Oak Park
High school, Oak Part, Illinois), march 1902.
“How the Song method Is Used In Oak Park,” School Music, VIII (January 1908), 29-32.
“How to Teach a Perfect Music Lesson,” Supervisors Service Bulletin, XI (March-April
1932), 8-9, 46-47.
“Instrumental Classes,” Jacobs’ Orchestra Monthly, XXVIII (May 1937), 5.
“Instrumental Music in Schools,” Proceedings
of the Music Teachers National
Association, Forty-second Annual Meeting, 1920. Hartford, Connecticut: The Association, 1921, pp. 61-64.
“Last Summer at Interlochen,” Jacob’s Orchestra Monthly, XXIV (January 1933), 4-5, 8.
“Making Musicians in the Schools,” The Etude, LX (February 1942), 89, 124, 137.
“Music In the Public Schools of Minneapolis,” The Musician, XVIII (November 1913),
737.
“My Catechism for S.B. & O. Musicians,” The School Musician, III (December 1931),
10-11, 38.
“The National High School Orchestra Camp,” Jacobs’ Orchestra Monthly, XIX (april 1928), 9.
“New Buildings,” National Music Camp, Scherzo, Op. 8 (1936), p. 51.
“On Supervision,” Music Educators Journal, XXXVII (April 1951), 46-49.
“Pedagogy,” School Music, XV (January 1914), 5-7.
“Piano Classes in the Public schools,” Journal
of Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual
Meeting f the Music Supervisors National Conference, 1919. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Conference, 1919, pp. 52-56.
“Reading Music,” Music Supervisors Journal, X (October 1923), 48-49.
“School Singing,” School Music, XIV (November 1913), 5-8.
School Music Teaching. Chicago: C.H. Congdon, 1910.
“Second Grade Work, From Rote Singing to Note Reading,” School Music, X (May
1909), 23-24.
“Seeing Rhythm,” Music Supervisors Journal, XV (February 1929), 23, 25, 27.
“Separate or Together,” School Music, XXXV (September 1935), 5, 14, 32, 34.
“Shake Off the Shackles,” National Education Association Journal, XXXI (September 1942), 179.
“Sing! – You Sinners,” The School Musician, II (November 1930), 11, 42-43.
“Six-by-nine Kitchen,” Ladies Home Journal, XXII (November 1905), 27-28.
“Smart Pupil,” The Etude, XLVII (September 1929), 658.
The Standard Chorus Book. Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1917.
“Stringless? Why?” Music Educators Journal. XXXV (May 1949), 38.
“Systematic Instrumental Class Teaching,” Yearbook of the Music Educators National Conference, Twenty-eighth Year, 1935. Chicago: The Conference, 1935, pp. 261-65.
“Teacher, Take It Easy,” National Education Association Journal, XXIX (September 1940), 181-82.
“Teaching the Orchestra,” Yearbook of the Music Supervisors National Conference, Twenty-fifth Year, 1932. Chicago: The Conference, 1932, pp. 162-65.
“Tests,” Music Supervisors Journal, XIV (march 1928), 79, 81, 83, 85.
“Things That the Supervisor Should Know of Intonation,” The Etude, XLIX (August 1931), 554.
“Time, Its Use and Waste,” School Music Monthly, VII (March 1907), 14-21.
“To Breathe or Not to Breathe,” Jacobs’ Orchestra Monthly, XXII (February 1931), 7, 4,31.
“To Hear or Not to Hear,” The School Musician, III (February 1931), 10-11, 47.
“To Syllable or Not to Syllable,” Music Supervisors Journal, XIX (October 1932), 35, 43.
“To Tongue or Not to Tongue,” Jacobs’ Orchestra Monthly, XXI (December 1930), 7, 42.
“Unison Songs in the Junior High School,” Music Supervisors Journal, XVI (March 1930), 19, 21, 23.
“Useful Uke,” School Musician, XXIII (September 1951), 18, 43.
“Vocal Methods,” National Music Camp, Scherzo, Op. 8 (1936), p. 136.
“Vocal Music,” School Music, XXX (May 1929), 16, 18.
“Voice in the High Schools,” School Music, XIII (May 1912), 20-22.
“What Constitutes a Music Supervisor’s Job,” School Music, XXXI (January-February 1931), 9.
“What to Expect from the Music Supervisor,” The Etude, XLV (December 1927), 912, 949.
“What is the Ultimate End of Music in the Public Schools?” Journal of Proceeding of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Music Supervisors National Conference, 1915. McKeesport, Pennsylvania: The Conference, 1915, p. 67.
Giddings, Thaddeus P. and Baker, Earl L. High School Music Teaching. Milwaukee:Caspar, Krueger, Dory CO., 1935. (First published in 1922; Minneapolis: privately printed.)
Giddings, Thaddeus P., Earthart, Will, and Baldwin, Ralph L. Music Education Series.Edited by Elbridge W. Newton. Bk. I: Songs of Childhood. Bk. II: Introductory Music. Bk.III: Juvenile Music. BK. IV: Elementary Music. Bk. V: Two-Part Music. Bk. VI: Intermediate Music. Bk. VII: Three-Part Music. Bk VIII: Junior Music. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1923-1927.
________. Music Education Series, Adventures in Music. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1931.
________. Music Education Series, Creative Effort in Music Education. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1931.
________. Music Education Series, The Home Edition. 4 vols. Boston: Ginn and Co.,1923-1927.
________. Music Education Series, The Magic of Song. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1934.
________. Music Education Series, Music Appreciation in the Schoolroom. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1926.
________. Music Education Series, Outlines. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1930.
________. Music Education Series, The Teacher’s Book. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1925.
Giddings, ,Thaddeus P. and Gilman, Wilma A. Giddings’ Public School Class Method for the Piano. Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1919.
________. The Public School Piano Class Reader. 2 vols. Boston: Oliver Ditson Co.,1919, 1921.
Giddings, Thaddeus P. and Maddy, J.E. “A Demonstration of The Universal Teacher for Orchestra Series,” Journal of Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Music Supervisors National Conference, 1923. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Conference, 1923, pp. 163-65.
Giddings, Thaddeus P. and Newton, Elbridge W. Junior Song and Chorus Book. Boston:Ginn and Co., 1915.
(Cited from Thaddeus P. Giddings: A Biography. By Charles Maynard McDermid (1968, pp. 436-41)
McDermid, Charles Maynard. “Thaddeus P. Giddings: A Biography.” Ed.D diss., University of Michigan, 1967.
***Special Thanks to Dr. Paul Rosene***
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Juiching Wang
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