Excerpt from Manual of the Boston Academy of Music, for Instruction in the Elements of Vocal Music, on the System of Pestalozzi Q I. Design of the manual, 2. Peculiarities of the system, 3. Sources of information, 4. Reasons for general cultivation of vocal music, I. It can be generally cultivated, IL It ought to be, Advantages Of early cultivation, I. Improves the voice, II. Conduces to health, III. Tends to improve the heart, IV. To produce social order and happiness in a family, V. Intellectual and disciplinary, ll. Cultivates the feelings, 12. Error 1n supposing it can be taught m a few months. 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.

Opens a conversation about the life and work of the music teacher. The author regards music teaching as interrelated with the rest of lived life, and her themes encompass pedagogical skills as well as matters of character, disposition, value, personality, and musicality. She urges music teachers to think and act artfully.

The first music textbook designed for use in English schools, Turner's Manual is more than a historical curiosity. This, the first music textbook specifically designed for use in English schools, was published in 1833 under the auspices of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge - an evangelical body much concerned with "good works" andthe furtherance of sound educational principles. The author was an experienced and influential London teacher, a practising musician and an advocate of the teaching methods of Pestalozzi, still then unfamiliar to most teachers inthis country. Although the pioneer English teaching manual for schools, Turner's Manualis not just a minor historical curiosity.