Music

Abstract

Pedagogic Class I. Sight-reading of new songs, in all keys, first in unison and then individually. Effort will be directed especially toward individual interpretation, after a silent reading of the new musical thought. II. Sight-reading of rounds as the simplest form of part singing; from this the class will pass quickly to singing part songs in the canon form. III. Study of part songs in all keys. IV. Study of scale relations derived from songs. Practice in transposition, where it is desirable to change key, will lead to a study of the relations of the sharp and flat keys to each other. Heretofore the technicalities of vocalization have received some attention, also the construction of children's songs, but during February the class began a study of the pedagogy of music reading for the first time. Bertha Payne