Fannie E. McKinney-Hughey

Elizabeth Frances McKinney Hughey (August 4, 1857 - 1929) was a music teacher who developed the Color-Music method to teach music to children.

Early life Elizabeth Frances "Fannie" McKinney was born on August 4, 1857, in Durban, Colony of Natal, the daughter of Silas W. McKinney and Fanny Melissa Clark Nelson, foreign missionaries.

Fannie Hughey's book on her method of teaching music by the color system, "Color Music for Children," which was published in 1912 by G. Schirmer, New York, was calculated for and addressed to babes and kindergarten pupils. As Hughey rightly observed: "Instruction began formerly with the adult's conception of things; the object being to impart this knowledge to the child. Modern methods begin with the child's experience, and the things which interest him, and broaden out to include the whole field of learning. A child's imagination is very active and sensitive; his power of imitation is just as keen. His world is made up of imagination and imitation. If we would have him love music and desire it, we must go to him where he is, rather than expect him to come to us with our grown-up ideas."

Personal life On July 19, 1888, Fannie McKinney married Rev. Albert Stinson Hughey (1856-1930) and they had two children: Albert S. Hughey Jr. and Florence Hughey.

She died in 1929 and is buried at Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, with her husband.