Excerpt from Elementary MusicianshipThis text for beginning music courses is meant to be used as a manual. For the teacher it provides many examples, student drills, explanatory notes, and opportunity to expand both the material and its application. The book is designed not only to be read but to be written in, sung from, marked, annotated to be used as each student's first reference work in treading the long path to expert musical crafts manship and artistry. The text will, it is hoped, have meaning in terms of tonal experiences to be had far beyond the first music studies.In using the text, two important principles should be kept in mind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.