MUSIC MEMORY CONTESTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 30 November 1927, Page 2

MUSIC MEMORY CONTESTS

AN AMERICAN PRACTICE Tlio music memory contest is a familiar and popular fixture jn American musical education centres, and town after town now tests the children, of its school in this .interesting form of mental exercise. For two or three months before a contest pupils of the schools who intend to compete hear and learn particulars of many , pieces of music—by medium of pianofortes, gramophones, singers and teachers'. Local contests in the various schools eliminate a number, and the survivors of these contests meet in a final central contest in a local hall, where either an orchestra or solo instruments play a selection of the music which has' been heard in the preceding montfis, and the listening children note down on score-cards as far as they can the name of "the piece, the composer's name, nationality and country, and make remarks on the significance of the music. Prizes are given to the children who come out best, and to the schools which gain the highest aggregate of marks.