Excerpt from Manual for Teachers, and Rote Songs, to Accompany the Tonic Sol-Fa Music Course for Schools There is a growing demand for intelligent singing in our public schools. Although the study of vocal music has long been a recognized part of our public instruction, the results, taken as a whole, have been very unsatisfactory. The Tonic Sol-fa method has been taught now for fifteen years in the public schools of Great Britain, with such success that it is superseding all other systems of teaching vocal music. It has recently been introduced into several of the public schools of America, and in every instance has won the hearty approval of the teachers. Without any unnecessary complications, it sets forth in a plain, unmistakable way, the fundamental principles of music. The method is carefully arranged in progressive steps, and is so entirely in accord with true educational principles, that school teachers can and do teach it as successfully as they teach other branches of study. 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.