harshness and coarseness may be avoided. It is the
pushed, forced tone in speech or song that is disagreeable.
If teachers will consign to well-merited oblivion those two phrases,
"speak up" and "sing out," and will, instead, secure purity and easy
production of tone, with _distinctness of articulation_, they will do
wisely. Let us not hesitate to teach our pupils to know and to feel that
which is beautiful, and good, and true, that our schools may promote the
growth of good taste, and stand for the highest morality and the best
culture.
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Errors and Inconsistencies:
to justify the teaching of vocal music in schools [is schools]
inserted posteriorly into the arytenoid cartilages [aryteniod]
forth. Even up to the change of voice [comma for period]
to sing the higher tones lightly [to sing the the]
_[-I]_, again, which is equivalent to _ah_+_e_ [_I_ not italicized]
_light--li-eet_
[_text unchanged: error for "lah-eet"?_]
_ah_ to _er_ or _er_ or _uh_
[_text unchanged: one "er" may be an error for "eh"_]
the vocalization of solfeggii [spelling unchanged]
he tries to join in [trys]
The question, How high may boys or girls sing
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