Marian P. Gibb
Published: 2015-07-08
Total Pages: 156
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Excerpt from A Guide to the Chassevant Method of Musical Education During the last ten years or so there has been, among musical educationalists, a gradual awakening to the fact that for the most part the teaching of music, which in its very nature depends upon the listening capacity, had been attempted without any special appeal to the ear. I think I do not overstate the case when I say that few grown-up persons, even after years of instrumental study and singing, can write a simple melody from dictation; and only a small proportion of those who have studied harmony can follow a progression of chords by ear. This condition of things may be partly due to the pessimistic idea, which has prevailed in the past, that some people being born with an ear for music and some without, the matter ended there. Probably, however, the true explanation is that the importance of ear training has not, to any great extent, been realised. It is no uncommon experience for a teacher to have a pupil introduced with the remark: "So and so has far too good an ear. 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.