Fifty Steps in Sight-Singing (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Arthur Somervell

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0483117102 ISBN 13 : 9780483117105

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Fifty Steps in Sight-Singing

IT is slowly beginning to be recognised that to be unable to read a single line of music at sight is, after all, rather a sign of ignorance. This is encouraging, and should be made the most of by all who have at heart the spread of musical education, and the consequent advancement of music in this country.

In our elementary schools the teaching of sight-reading forms part of the curriculum and although good results are only obtained in places where enthusiasm backs the requirements of the Board of Education, there is no reason why a much wider and more thorough knowledge of this subject should not be fostered, if teachers could only realise the fact that the teaching of sight-reading is not a subject demanding special artistic gifts, any more than the teaching of reading requires a special knowledge of literature.

But putting aside the elementary schools, where, in many places excellent work is being done in this direction, if we turn to the secondary schools, it is here that we find the subject, except in a few cases, totally neglected.

In most of them singing is rarely treated educationally.* The singing class, where there is one, exists mainly for the practice of music (learned for the most part by ear), for a school entertainment. It is true that the members of the class usually hold the music in their hands but for all the value it is to them, books of the words would in most cases supply all that is needed.

In boys'' preparatory schools the subject is even more generally neglected, with the result that practically no boy who goes on to a public school can read music at all, unless he happens to have picked up the barest smattering of the subject by learning an instrument; and even then, unless he is, musically.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0483117102
• ISBN 13: 9780483117105
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 84
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