The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-03
WHAT TO SING.
Best Way of Choosing Songs to suit
the Individual Voice.
BY Josephine Tozier

By Josephine Tozier
The young woman who merely sings on
plays we'll enough TO make pleasant musio
for her friends can still be artistic in tba
style and quality of her performance 10
sne hves away from musical centers one or
her greatest difficulties Is keeping In touch
with new and charming compositions and
to this end some suggestions are Offered
as to the works now deiighting the inner
circle of music lovers, both in this co,,ntrv
and abroad American composers-gMcDow.
ELL James II. Rogers, Chadwick and many
others-have recently published songs well
worth studying and not too difficult II
careful selections be made as regard tha
accompaniment. Here is a list that can be
enthusiastically recommended: "A
Dream" T. c. Bartlett; 'sThe Brookiat y
THE Captain" MY True Love Hath NV
Heart" and Dear, When / Gaze Into
Thine Eyes" all by James H. Rogers ana
are beautiful songs, although the accom-
paniments are easy. Also: "A Stein Song"
Frederick Field Bullard: "Doan Yet Crv.
Ma Honey" Albert w. Nol; Forgotten
Eugene Cowles; THY Name" Mary
Knight Wood; Under the Rose William
Arms Fisher; Message of the Lilies"
Carl Minetu; 'The Wandering Knight
Harry Eldridge; Goodbye" Charles =.
Burnham; II Plucked a Quill from Cupid's
Wing" My Song is of the North" and
The Wind is Awake" by Homer N Bart
lett.
The accompaniment is the rock on which
the inexperienced amateur is shipwreck-
ed. So many songs are now piano pieces
with voice part, and when the singer
writes for songs she should stfpuIate that
only those with simple accompaniment 10
sent her No matter where the writer
lives in this country, If there be a post
| once in OF near the place, any of the
well-known music publishers will send
her music, and she returns what she
does not use in good condition will credit
| her with 1t, and send her back tbs
money, because, after all. tastes are so
varied, and every soprano song does not
| adapt itself to high voice, nor every song
written for low voices ''lie in" every con-
| tralto's range
The wise way TO choose your vocal
music is first to know exactly which part
of your own voice is best, and to try 90
| select songs which lie mostly among
those very good notes; secondly, to read
the words carefully and see If they con-
vey to your mind any sentiment or pic
ture which appeals 10 you, and finally to
| be sure that both words and music are
well-fitted one 90 the other and that you
will be able to give theim proper meaning.
| The easier, the more naturally you pro-
nounce your words, the better, you are
| singing. Don't try to sing other than
| English songs, there are so many beauti-
| full ones now; don't sing TRANSACTIONS, be-
| cause the words and the music were not
! originally intended for one another, and
| very seldom fit. Stick TO songs written
| to English words, and ask all your friends
| and family If they can understand every
| word you sing. Your tones cannot go
very wrong If your enunciation is good.
Correct diction will take you a long way
In the race; the use of a little mother VIII
| will tell you where in sentence breath
can be taken, for, remember always, that
the musical composer writes his song 10
suit the words; he does not choose the
words to suit music already written
These little points. with the added sng-
gestion that even the most unpretendlhs
singer should know the key she IS sihs
ing in, the value of notes to be held, ana
never forget that a rest in music means
| really to rest.