Excerpt from A First Book in Vocal Music: Wherein the Study of Musical Structure Is Pursued Through the Consideration of Complete Melodic Forms and Practice Based on Exercises Related to Them By the connection of rote songs with the sight-reading exercises, the proper relationship between imitative singing and reading music may be more definitely established. One instance will illustrate this: After the song Fire, Fire 3 (on page 7) has been well learned, and sung many times by imitation, the melody should be carefully studied. First, the rhythm should be marked by hand movement and then indicated on the blackboard or on practice paper. The tonal structure of the song may then be studied, as, for instance, by having the pupils sing the scale syllables instead of the words. Following this, the pupils should write from memory certain measures of the song - possibly the entire song, if they have had sufficient practice in writing from memory. 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.