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William B. Kinnear

Biography

Not much is known about William Kinnear at this time. In 1906 Mr. Kinnear served on a committee appointed by Hamlin E. Cogswell, president of the music section of the N.E.A., to look into the subject of needed changes in the terminology of music. This committee submitted a report at every meeting of the N.E.A. between 1907 and 1914, adopting the precise meanings of more than thirty commonly used musical terms.

William Kinnear also gave a tribute to Philip Hayden at the meeting in Detroit in 1926.

He lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1907 when he attended the conference, and moved to McPherson, Kansas in 1926 .

Sources Birge, Edward Bailey. History of Public School Music in The United States. Reston: Music Educators National Conference, 1966. _______________________________________________________________________

This information was compiled by Andrew Goodrich

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