Hollis Dann Music Course Fourth Year Music (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Hollis Dann Music Course: Fourth Year Music Rounds. Children who are inexperienced will find difficulty in singing one part while listening to another. Part singing is an ear problem as well as a sight reading one. Rounds are especially useful in developing the power to sing in the presence of another melody. The Round should be sung again and again as a unison song until the chil dren are thoroughly familiar with it; then it may be attempted as a Round. Care OF the voice. The pitch and compass of the songs and studies have been very carefully considered and teachers are earnestly requested to use the material in the keys in which it is printed. Careful and constant use of a chromatic pitch pipe is a necessity if the pupil is to sing in tune, remain true to the pitch, and retain the soft, mellow, musi cal tone quality which is absolutely essential to successful school singing. Interpretation. Artistic, musicianly interpretation of the songs should be carefully fostered. The utmost care and attention has been devoted to securing a perfect agreement of musical and verbal accents, thereby minimizing the drawling, unnatural pronunciation too often heard in school singing. Usually the words 'should be sung at about the tempo in which a good reader would read them. The correct tempo and an artistic rendering may often be secured by alternate reading and singing of the words of the song. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.