Music Talks with Children Part 12

THOMAS TAPPER.

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NOTES:

1: From the "Table Talk."

2: Play to the children Schubert's song ent.i.tled "The Organ-man."

3: Phillips Brooks says in one of his sermons ("Ident.i.ty and Variety"): "Every act has its perfect and entire way of being done."

4: Bohn edition, p. 35.

5: Read to the children such parts of Francesca Alexander's "Christ's folk in the Apennine" as seem to you pertinent.

6: John Ruskin, from the ninth lecture of "Val d'Arno."

7: John Ruskin. Third lecture of "Val d'Arno."

8: Franz Liszt's "Life of Chopin," Chapter V.

9: _Ibid_, Chapter VI.

10: "On Sound."

11: "On Sound" is referred to. The last paragraph of Section 10, Chapter II, may interest the children. The last two paragraphs of Section 13 are not only interesting, but they show how simply a scientist can write.

12: If the original is desired, see Tyndall's "Glaciers of the Alps."

13: Schumann wrote in a letter to Ferdinand Hiller, "We should learn to refine the inner ear."

14: From the sermon ent.i.tled "The Seriousness of Life."

15: Notice sometime how many of our English words have the Latin _con_.

16: See the fourth chapter of Reuben Post Halleck's "Psychology and Psychic Culture."

17: For instance, the subject of the C minor Fugue in the first book of "The Well-tempered Clavicord."

18: The subject of the C sharp minor Fugue.

19: The prelude in E flat minor and the subject of the G sharp minor Fugue.