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ACADEMY OF MUSIC acquire adapted ANNUAL REPORT Mass attention BELA HUNTING BENJAMIN F BENJAMIN PERKINS BOSTON ACADEMY branch of education Cambridgeport cause of music character choir church music common schools concerts CORRESPONDING SECRETARY course cultivation DANIEL NOYES DAVID GREENE desirable devoted E. A. ANDREWS effect efforts elementary ELIOT exercise experiment favor feel gentlemen GEORGE GEORGE W GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON GIDEON F give given gratifying HENRY SCHMIDT important improvement increased instruction in music interest introduced introduction of music JONAS CHICKERING juvenile classes knowledge of music labors lectures lessons LOWELL MASON means ment mind moral MOSES GRANT Mount Vernon musical taste object Odeon orchestra past Pastor persons pleasure practice produce professors proficiency progress promote public performances public schools pupils reason RECORDING SECRETARY result sacred music SAMUEL school committee singing songs style success taught teachers teaching thing tion vocal music Webb WILLIAM WILLIAM W
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Page 15 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 13 - Christ. 1 WHEN shall the voice of singing Flow joyfully along ? When hill and valley, ringing With one triumphant song, Proclaim the contest ended, And him, who once was slain, Again to earth descended, In righteousness to reign ? 2 Then from the craggy mountains The sacred shout shall fly ; And shady vales and fountains Shall echo the reply : High tower and lowly dwelling Shall send the chorus round, All hallelujah swelling In one eternal sound.
Page 6 - ... spending a day of festivity in rioting and drunkenness, pass the whole time, with the exception of that employed in a frugal repast, and a social meeting, in a concert of social, moral and religious hymns, and devote the proceeds of the exhibition to some object of benevolence. We could not but look back at the contrast presented on similar occasions in our own country, with a blush of shame.
Page 5 - the harvest hymn,' as they went forth, before day-light, to gather in the grain. We have seen them assembled in groups at night, chanting a hymn of praise for the glories of the heavens, or joining in some patriotic chorus, or some social melody instead of the frivolous and corrupting conversation, which so often renders such meetings the source of evil. In addition to this, we visited communities, where the youth had been trained from their childhood to exercises in vocal music, of such a character...
Page 12 - Reports have been much sought after, and read with avidity. The works which they have put forth for the promotion of the art, have met with a ready sale. Inquiries have been made respecting the mode of our operations, from various quarters. Letters have been received from persons in Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, besides many...
Page 12 - These schools are free to all children, no other condition being required of the pupils than that they be over seven years of age, and engage to continue in the school one year. Mr Webb has also commenced a juvenile school at Cambridgeport, and Mr Mason has established others at Salem and Lynn, containing about 150 pupils each, and an adult class at Salem of equal size. But the Academy are particularly gratified with the result of the efforts to introduce vocal music as a part of the regular course...
Page 9 - ... that any very positive and splendid results from the introduction of vocal music into the Hawes School, cannot yet be reasonably expected, so short has been the time since the first lesson was given, and so interrupted have the lessons been. Still, however, enough has, in our estimation, been already accomplished, to warrant the belief of the great utility of vocal music as a branch of public instruction. One thing has been made evident, that the musical ear is more common than has been generally...
Page 5 - We have listened," says a recent traveller in Switzerland, " to the peasant children's songs, as they went out to their morning occupations, and saw their hearts enkindled to the highest tones of music and poetry by the setting sun or the familiar objects of nature, each of which was made to echo some truth, or point to some duty, by an appropriate song. We have heard them sing ' the harvest hymn' as they went forth, before daylight, to gather in the grain.
Page 9 - A song introduced in the middle of the session, has been invariable followed with excellent effect. It is a relief to the wearisomeness of constant study. It excites the listless, and calms the turbulent and uneasy. It seems to renerve the mind, and prepare all for more vigorous intellectual action.
Page 23 - Paul (compare the saying of the latter — ' not the moment of death, but the moment of birth, is probably the more important'). He would fix the amusements of children, in the hope of fixing their characters in after-life. In the spirit of the statesman who said, ' Let me make the ballads of a country, and I care not who makes their laws,' Plato would have said, ' Let the amusements of children be unchanged, and they will not want to change the laws.