The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-17

bO- convinced that it is possible for them to be made to undcrstRnd the subject, but are de- tered frUm undertaking it for want of suGFi cient time. Now Sir. were it not for extend ing this communication to animprOper length, 1 would undertake to show from reasons and facts, that this is mistake. would show many of these same individuals that they have spent more time at Singing School than would suffice to render them capable of per forming any piece of common church music at sight, or at most by a very few moments preparatiOn.-But from the negligence sf the pupil, or the unfaithfulness or ignoranceOf the teacher. or frequently all of these reasons uni ted, the time tbus spent is almost wasted, and the money which supported the school frequently misapplied. Schools are frequent y commenced with the expectation of doing bat little, andiB. that respect, if in no other, our expectations are fully rt.aiized. For the teacher, anxious to please his employers. who
 
 ifhAirexertisnas isaeissn crowd his pupils for ward before they have become equsinted with the first prineipiesofthe science.le4 consequently they anea unable ts procsrJ ssas astep farther than they are led 'by their teacISer,s and can give no better sesson for tE.eir pesft6ruaaAices than that their teacher. CT some other person, has perfornsdin the same manner. While practising in school, a few pieces of church music are sung over, and over, and over till no one can be supposed to forgot them, and then they are said to be learned and the school closes for the season. Alter this, when the patrons of the school assemble on the sab bath for worship, and hoping for assistance in their devotions from the choir. in return for their libcra!ity in supporting it. how grievously are they disappointed. The younger singers occasionally ,and perhaps some of their fathers occasionally too, take their seats in the choir for an afternoon, and the singing is conducted merely as interludes between the scenes to enable the audience to relax their attention, and to give the preacher time to take breath 1; for both the preacher and: the audience too frequently seem to regard the singing as a part in which they have no concern; and also they seem not to be aware that while preach- ing is DO where ia Scripture spoken of as al part of morshsp. singing is mentioned perhaps even more frequently than prayer.-But the singers having been accustomed to drilling over their tunes in school until they have lost their intrrest, seon become disgusted and abandon their seats, resolved t" lMy no attention to an art 50 uninteresting and contemptible.- And no wonder they think so for from the example oftheir fathers. they have DO. reason so tiiink it duty; and from their own expe- rience they do not expect any pleasure from the performance. But the evil does not stop here; the congregation finding that the sing school closes, begin to recollect that 1t always wasso; and hence they conclude 1t always will be so: and further, that it will do no good to take any measures to remedy an evil which by this time they conceive is sirremediable.- But notwithstanding, there arc doubtless rem edies, and those remedies too within onr reach. for there are instances where the subject has been treated in some measure with the isDpor- tance 1t deserves, and the experiment bas sat isfied most of those concerned. that the ad- tages resulting from well regulated Singing Schools. are such as shsuld recommend them selves to the liberal patronage of every well wishcr to community, and every friend of Religion and Morality. STOCCATO.
 State Legislature.
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