New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

,.ror,, or ,,r-s1c AND MUSICIANS FOR YOUNG
THE Rf sTSkh Or BY L1cS iE Sewyort Harper
Brothers rc~
This publication shows strange indifference
.. ..rsLsratioas which should be first In the prepare
So, AZ hook designed 10 instruct children concerning
,hs theory and history OF one OF the arts numoer "a
articles winch Published In Hdrpers fou"g rePe
have been brought together in book form win sumee"'
n,non.nes. I'm " biography and binding to give ITEM
,,s .embance OF value We have read the book TWIN
.. muca patience possible under tho sore u'ai
that the reading occssoued In an ooncst enors 70 M
.ometh,nr in 1t to commend but We nave Tailed III
papabo case OF vast amountof writing based on an
equally vast amount OF n-iigested aud misnnderoou
fading To euumerate the shortcomings ana the
bnnder Of the would require MS 10 stop az nearly
every page OF the two hundred and forty live
AT almost every the author SHOWS
her want Of knowledge of even the ter
uinology OF music To her mind harmony thorouen-
base and counterpoint one aud the same tns anu
.consitute the sc,euce music; score the music
and words together; the last movement oil sona'a "
an allegro, presto. or rondo'; the " n'"uo' VI
sehrrzo" vas introduced in the sonata oy Beetho'eh
tnrrc mas eeu much OF late years "a TO the
tempo In which the sonata should be pIayed bson
...ms 10 have achieved much OF his significance from
the ,avottes and "symphonies" which ne wrole' Shu
sssame of the gavOttes In single pieces, souo w
what are called suites" In Mrs Lilies pages AL pe
thoveu ia Won Beethoven" Rubinstein. "Rupenstein
Percolese "Pergo Iesi"; Dufay, Du Fay anu 30 on
Che heeins her book with account OF the pahoioro
and It's precursors, but the SUN OF the inior'n"t
conveyed is the names Of the early ins'ru"eu' m
manner in which she disposes OF the harps'o'o'u w"
,,u.,r.te "a very fine harpsichord ooAeu so'n'
ching like n grand piano, but ~ nan t"o io"' '"
~. ma uppsr and lower shal not
hero 20 into a description OF the harpschoru' o"
needf,l TO cay that II was the outgrow'h OF c'"'o"
1 rc,n.l and sp,net and had of the defects as
wall a. the good points OF all three NOW as lney WOW
Taught IN the earlier pages that the cavichoro snu VIZ
.,nal . t,nlIed but wore told why they tlhkNo'
and are told In next paragraph alter tha' qu' w
barpschoras we're linking little AFFAIR.", IL Is ui'
10 see how young readers are to he ehpecteu 10 An
ANYTHING about early history OF the pianoiorte "e'
thew have got through with Mrs Lilies hrst chap'r
Ana this is specimen of the kind of information nn-
parted by "Ihe Story of Music and MUSICIANS
THE HYGIENEOF THE VOCAL ORGANS a praSuo S
Haud ,ooA for SINGERS and peakers ny n oh4LL "A0
KKNzlE. NJ D.. etc. LONDON: Macmillan o.
To Dr. Mackenzie belongs the credit, not
ANAL matter inst now OF having written an hstru''No
aud lucid book much abused SUBJECT VI 'ooo''
YEAR. there have been without eud about the phys
ioogy of singing, the atomy OF the Voca organs a
40 forth, until the patience OF reviewers All" s'uS
has been sadly strained The controversy over dher-
emf methods OF voice production AMI voce training mas
Re-, c,-red ~, 50 acrlnnn ously AMI persistenty tina
music lovers who neither Psychologists nor sing
ing teachers. have been tempted strongly TO s'Sn 10"
return to-the good OH time when as Dr. M"cAe"~e
GAYS: "rhe Oil italian masters. who knew little Sho
cared less about science, but were sked III '"' '
q, ,nc1ng trained their pupils voices with success
certainly not inferior TO that OF our mo eFn
professors armed with their aryngoscopes splrome'es
stetbmneters and other vOccu turai impeneh'~
Dr. Mackrnzr keeps out oftne Ola quarre's' 'nouH"
nd ing long reed aud "snort reed registers TO the
,o,osncature Of the mechanism OF vOice-pr0ducion
and contents hi nsef with exceedingly clear eXp's
ton Of the anatomy OF the vocal organs, an aoe ais
cussion OF me essential things voice training ana
,oe extremely sensible atoms the care OF the
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time IN the study OF singing should he taken TO heat by
the wonld-be prime donnie " today.