The Eleanor Smith Music Course Vol 1 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Eleanor Smith Music Course, Vol. 1 IN placing before the public the First Book of the Series the author has endeavored to present music which shall assist in the best technical and artistic training possible to young children. The material consists of songs with some pretensions to artistic form, which are designed for rote singing, besides a large number of the simplest melodies, which will help to improve the intona tion and perfect the rhythmic sense of the children, besides serv ing as material for reading and writing music. Some of these have been composed for the book - more have been gleaned from every source Open to the assiduous seeker. The children's song literature of many nations has been drawn upon, and folk-tunes as well as less easy songs by eminent composers have been in cluded. The latter are, however, all children's songs, and very few alterations or adaptations are to be found in melodies Or texts. Care has been taken Where translation was necessary, to keep the spirit of the original, and the contributed poetry, as well as selected matter, will be found to be fresh and child-like. 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.