The Golden Lyre: A New Collection of Church Music, Adapted to the Various Metres Now in Use; Together With a New and Extensive Variety of Anthems, ... Associations, and Social Sacred Music Circles - Tapa blanda

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Note TO scholars - If you have a good voice, and can sing readily by imitation, if you prefer, you may omit the pains of learning to sing theoret ically, upon condition that you are willing to forego the advantage of singing at sight from a knowledge of the rules, and always depend upon others to teach you what you attempt to Sing. Should you wisely prefer the opposite, however, all the rules necessary for you to commit to memory, to enable you to Sing mechanically any piece of ordinary difficulty, are few and simple. Do you inquire, Why, then, so dificult to sing AT once after the rules are understood? Because (and no process of instruction can obviate it) after you have learned arithmetically that aparticular note or number of notes are sung at a beat, you have still to learn a concomitant part, Which is to DO it, after you have first learned the theory.

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