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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1917 Excerpt: ... LITTLE CHILDREN SINGING "i'll just choose two or three familiar songs out of the book each Sunday and let the children sing them." So said a young substitute teacher to a friend who asked her about her plan for the singing in the two months she was to have charge of the Beginners. Evidently to her this was a matter of small importance. Her eyes were blind to the great opportunity through singing, both in regard to what was chosen and the way it might be presented. The good teacher will choose her songs in relation to her plan for the day. Will she think also of her plan for the season? The children will often ask for other songs that are dear to them, because they have become familiar and are really their own. The number of beautiful hymns and songs for little children have so increased in recent years that it is quite possible to have only what is fitting; yet many are still in use that are not fitting because teachers have not realized the importance of the opportunity for good through music and song, and the need for study about the use of both. i. The use and influence of music. Do you know anything like music for developing a mood tending toward reverence? It rests and soothes the little spirit and again calls forth emotions of love and joy. Music of the right kind will arouse the spirit of prayer, will quiet disturbing elements, will, in short, do what words or bells are powerless to do. But deeper far than this will be its influence. It has been said that "the right music will serve to govern as well as arouse those germs of feeling which later become life-controlling emotions." Professor Tomlins, who twenty years ago did more perhaps than any other one man for the improvement of children's singing, said what may well be repeated now: "Deep down beyo...
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