many contingent topics that should be
considered in connection with music. To this end the subjects selected
for the chats have a practical value, cover considerable ground, and
are treated from the point of view that best aids the student. The
reader is taken into confidence, and finds in the chapters of this
work many hints and benefits that pertain to his own daily life as a
musician.

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CRAMER STUDIES.

From the Von Buelow Edition.

PRICE $1.50, FIRMLY BOUND.

The present complete edition sells for $2.50 and $3.00, retail. Much
of the material in the complete edition can be eliminated without
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the choicest of Von Buelow's edition, which we have bound, in one
volume, in very neat style. Only the most difficult and unimportant
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The Normal Course of Piano Technic.

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SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS.

By WM. B. WAIT.

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The NORMAL COURSE is based upon the fundamental idea that, for the
purpose of the development, discipline, and formation of the mind, and
for teaching the learner how to think and to do, Technical Studies in
Music are as useful as any other branch.

FEATURES OF THE BOOK:

Clear, concise statements of facts and principles.

It deals only with essentials.

It arranges the materials in grades, by Divisions, Courses, and
Steps.

It exhibits a distinct mode and order of development.

The course is as clearly laid out as in any other branch of study.

Practice based upon understanding of means as applied to ends.

It permits the attention to be given to the hands in practice, and
not to the pages.

In schools it will secure uniformity in the instruction given.

It furnishes the bases for oral recitations and examinations as in
other subjects.

It is logical, systematic, thorough.

It is a book for use by schools, teachers, and students.

NOTES:

1: From the "Table Talk."

2: Play to the children Schubert's song entitled "The Organ-man."

3: Phillips Brooks says in one of his sermons ("Identity and
Variety"): "Every act has its perfect and entire way of being
done."

4: Bohn edition, p. 35.

5: Read to the children such parts of Francesca Alexander's "Christ's
folk in the Apennine" as seem to you p