MUSIC WITHOUT TEARS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 146, 14 March 1908, Page 10

MUSIC WITHOUT TEARS.

mo, says M; E. | ~^penj f , | Vthat., - 'sb.: i 'niiny" .teachors .ot; music ;i aro satisfied ivifcli bringing iipi thoirvlittl6,';pupils...T/ithoiit fostering, anyj , feajl'iidVcf iorib ; poets :dr .their' 'p-^&^7an^%elTigont : little, giri of.. about ' ; eleycn,' years!-.of; "ago, ; -who, ! had been, taught ' thq piano For*four"years by a qualified- mifc'lircSs, if sho. liked XBi&tlioven. She' lookecl "iinazecl}, .aticl'^replidd,'. "Boofchoyen, .whatis the A'Md6nlig_h'6 : 'Ss)iatS','' I Srid sho immddiafoly' lhtfer&tedj'' : Jißd;,wished .to heiir tho v^tßiovwluch^lind' : sq> attracted -thivblind, girl*' •'iven'-woriaprin^ ■'wfiefiV'sho herself would .bo "<jfficioht enough''ttfllearh : it; >■:;

•t. This:bhpd'iwbr l ie'd;-vory hard at ■ lier - music; ; arid riii'iay few daysViriariagbd: to play ;' quite - nicely t-ai Shorti>piccoy- by. - heart j y she • knew-.thatdf: ih'e.accofiiplished;this she w"puld' ,he'4r;.Tinothen.'anecdoto;y Yet ltipLniiisfti : ifiis-' ~^^.<Sad' i fold v lior that, it Was ;usb; ;lbss ~te :,bftntinub'>teaphirig; tho. littlo girl, 1 as ,'shb took no iritbrest iri inusicV arid had made ,pb.;prbgress f.or-by/jr , ' I ,'jepevb that ilbzen: cliildreri. uridbr had' feebived'some "(foirt'of musical,,education, for several 'yeafs picked ybtit liapliaiiard from ; almost ariy ;part-'bf''Eriglarid' that it would bo discb'vb'red 'that'r'qiiit'b. half '.that number wotild ..bo'; eri-. tbat'such - riibn . .-as Bacliy cfh ■ ;ijyef; bxlstbd; alitl tlio . rbs); 'ywoiild yorily. lo'bk " upon the'rii as,; people' whoso oply idea had been ijb' writo.diill riiusic .'•'■-' with rip.tuftb in it," or .at best tliqy would associate their nanies with .dilßdtilt,passages ~tfhicli,,wbrb utterly; irioiinirigless. to therii, .and : whichy-wero a:.-sourcb of trouble to '- bothteachbr ahd pupil. ,vy■ - | " ", 1 I: think,that'this, feblirig,-would be entirely 'SWbpt I ,a,way. if'thb -"ariecdbto" pliiri wero ,'gonoiriiUy-yadoptbd;;y It. involves' very little ■ tTOublby.bri; tlib, partyof ' thyb toacherj who would--/fed'amply.-.repaid by : s6birig tlio pupil's • interest-: iiwakeried. ' . I-thereforeysiiggest, siijipbsirig ,a . halfhourly, .-leSsori '..bo given twice a' week, that ' onca a week, ten minutes bci devoted tb sin -ariecdoto. The young piipil will bo found to atterid.mrich^"moro.'closely to his work if hb bb'Sbnibtiiries allowed something' ai»art'' from thb ordinary routine. ,