The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-04
SOCIETY AND HOME TOPICS FOR WOMEN

and at no time during the course will she be allowed to practice more than half an hour day at home In the modern meth ods of instruction, the child hears and learns to love good music; the difficulty of learning the keyboard is overcome by the use of gayly coiored charts and number of brightly painted blocks, repre- senting the notes. whole notes. half notes,
 quarters. .eights. and the others, and clever little songs go with them about these notes, as for instance:
 Father Whole-note's round and fas;
 His face is like platter
 If I were he I'd run about
 To keep from growing fatter
 How can Father Whole-note run? E Tell us that we beg sir,
 How can Father Whole-note run,
 When he has no legs sir?
 "The Father Note two daughters has;
 They're always bright and hearty. They're each called Mrs. Half-note, and
 They dance at every party
 The scales, staff notation. meter, ter- minology, sight reading, memorizing, su- dition. the history of music, rythm. each and all are taught to the children" Mrs Anthony said, 'in way that is interest ing and absolutely unlike study and woik. As compared to the old methods of teach ing children music, the new methods diff fer as widely as teaching grammar and arithmetic and science ip colleges before teaching became fine art Doubtless you recall your arithmetic and the old verse:
 Multiplication is vexation,
 Divisions just as bad:
 The rule of three perplexes me
 And fractions drive me mad"
 '.All that is now eliminated in schools, just as modern methods In music have eliminated the drudgery of 1t, and there is something real in 1t all something natural end human; at feast In fancy. When pictures are shown to children 1t 1t does not take them a year to learn what lion looks like. or how Colum- bus discovered America, where Mt. Vesuvius is situated. or how King Bruce was given lesson by the spider. Those things appeal to children. They arouse their sympathy and it is such feelings as these in children, which you know so well-love of the beautiful, love of play, love of the concrete and tangible. love of doing things that modern music teachers realize interest and entertain children and make them love uansic and not dislike it''
 In conclusion Mrs. Anthony said: 'All of my life have studied music and loved it. Five years ago went to Los Angeles and resumed my study of music. expect ing to use it only for my own pleasure. After few months study was urged to train for teaching as I seemed to have many natural qualifications for that work. After considerable deliberation I decided to follow this advice. and realizing that a good foundation was the most impor- tant thing in any line of work, deter mined to make of myself the best pre- vat ar mn lcir sfs hot Ia made. With this end in view have de- voted my entire time to the study of the most modern principles involved in this work and to the various methods of pre- senting these principles. In addition to this. have kept in touch with the modern pedagogical principles along general lines and have applied them to my own work whenever possible. I am delighted with what have seen of Birmingham and more than pleased at the fine prospect of work see ahead of me with the Southern School of Musical Art"