Excerpt from The Band Teacher's Assistant, or Complete and Progressive Band Instructor: Comprising the Rudiments of Music, and Many Valuable Hints on Band Topics, With Charts Showing Compass of All Instruments I take this opportunity to offer the suggestion that the teacher will find it facili tate his work very much if he adopt the tonic sol-fa method of teaching time by the use of time names, as by them the fractional divisions of the measure can be expressed with greater perspicuity than by any other means. In Part III. Scales, chords and exercises only, in all keys, are given with such preliminary remarks as, it is hoped, will be profitable and interesting. 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.