A Manual Of Music

A Manual of Music - R. DUNSTAN - THE issue of the Twentieth Edition of this book has calleci for numerous emendations and additions. Pupil teachers, for whom the Manual was originally written, are now practically extinct while the changes gradually introduced into our educational systems of teaching music and the greater attention paid to the higher developments of musical theory have also been carefully considered in the preparation of the present edition. The conversational style adopted in the theoretical part of the earlier editions no doubt helped to render the book popular among pupil teachers and those who had to prepare them for their yearly examinations in music. Present-day conditions do not call for such an extensive use of this method of explanation and although it has not been entirely discarded, it has been considerably condensed. A number of examination papers now obsolete have been deleted from the book, and much space has thereby been saved for the introduction of other important matters. As before, the Tonic Sol-fa and Staff Notations have been constantly employed together as mutually explanatory and complementary and the theoretical Course Part I includes a large number of exercises in transcribing music from one notation to the other. The treatment of the minor scales has been completely revised in accordance with the best modern views, and the List of Musical Terms has been very considerably expanded. Parts II and III have also been entirely re-written. They now include a Graded Course of Sight-singing and Ear-training in both notations a Selection of Standard Two-part Solfeggi Special Studies in Time and Tune for Students preparing for Sol-fa or Staff Notation Certificates an up-to-date Chapter on the Voice and Voice Production a series of Exercises in Breathing, Tone Production, Attack, Flexibility, etc. a com- prehensive Collection of Vocalises from the works of the greatest Teachers and Composers a Chapter on the Construction of Musical Sentences an explanation of Sonata Form with complete analyses of the first ten of Beethovens Pianoforte Sonatas and a section dealing with Music in Schools. The Appendix contains the most recent Examination Papers set by the Board of Education. In its new form the Manual is not only a complete guide to music in Training Colleges, but it is hoped that it will prove a valuable handbook for the general student of music or singing. London, August, 1912. RALPH DUNSTAN. Index . PAGE Abbreviations .............. 84 Florid passages from standard Accent .................... 22 composers ........... 201 Accidentals ................ 93 Form ..................... 237 Analyses of Sonatas .... 241-260 Glottis. Shock of the ........ 172 Ascending Passages ........ 2 17 Graded course of sight.singing. Attack .................... 172 Sol-fa .......... 104-1 32 --. Exercises .... 172.175. 177 -- . Staff, . . 133-162 Bar or Measure ............ 22 Harmonic minor ............ 65 Beating Time 105, I 11. 136.139, I 56 Head voice ............ 166. 178 Blending the registers ...... 178 -- . Development of the 178-181 Bracket or Brace .......... 3 Intervals ...... 7. 10. IS. 71.7 4 Breathing .............. 168-172 -- . Chromatic ............ 71 Breathing exercises ........ 170 -- Diatonic. Table of ...... I5 Bridge-note ................ 46 -- . in major scale ...... 10. 15 Chest voice ................ 166 -- . Inversions of ........ 14. 71 Chromatic intervals ........ 71 -- . Name and quality of ... 10 Chromatics. Sol-fa .......... 44 -- , Simple and compound . . 74 Clefs ...................... 3 -- . Table Complete of ....