Excerpt from Three Hundred and Ninety-Six Two-Part Exercises for Choirs and Schools
Counterpoint to sing the scale, and vice versa', and keep them reversing in this manner until each exercise has been completely mastered. The Author believes that no other plan can be adopted by which the habit of singing in tune can be so well acquired; because by the plan recommended each half of the class will in its turn be doing that which will be well within its power, viz., singing a scale, and thus giving, support to those members of the class who are practising the counterpoint. The support thus afforded will be much more valuable for ultimate purposes than that which can be obtained by the strumming of every note on a pianoforte; as it will be the support resulting from the harmonic relationship suggested to the minds of the pupils, and not merely that of sounds to be imitated.
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