| Show e Piano Schoo We have received from Mr David 0 Calder a copy of the National School for the Pianoforte by W F Sudds The talented American author has succeeded in giving to the piano student amateur and teacher one of the most complete and methodical instruction books of the day It is a work of over 300 quarto pages and contains a greater amount of information than can be found in any other method for the piano It teaches the first principles of music partly by means of musical musi-cal writing lessons to be filled out by the pupil The exercises are very carefully graded introducing the pulpil to but one new feature at a time The art of fingering touch accent and the proper use of the sustaining pedal is more fully treated than in average works It contains full and complete com-plete instructions in harmony and thorough bass and the subject of musical form phrasing etc is made plain and quite interesting to the pupil Aside from more than the usual amount of technical matter mat-ter there is interspersed a valuable repertoire of piano selections from the works of Schubert Mendelssohn Mendels-sohn Mozart Bach Beethoven etc with explanatory notes concerning the peculiarities and proper performance per-formance of each A very interesting interest-ing dictionary of music with proper pronunciation ef Barnes and musical terms including brief biographies bio-graphies of prominent ancient and modern musicians and composers is appended |
