Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-14 | Page 10 | School Music for the Big Fair

SCHOOL MUSIC FOR THE BIG FAIR A very Interesting feature of the Utah public schools exhibit at the World's fair will be the 500-page volumo on music Just prepared by William A. Wetzcll, supervisor of music In the public schools of Salt Lake City. In the preface to the volume ls set forth the system of Instruction In the various va-rious grades, which Includes ear training, train-ing, sight reading, melody writing and the mechanics of music. In the grammar gram-mar grades harmonic structure Is also taught. The singing of songs ls the principal work In the primary grades, and Supervisor Wetzell Insists that with tho training received by the pupils In the Salt Lake public schools, the time will como when children will be able to express themselves as fluently flu-ently In melodic sentences as "by the use of English. The book compiled Is a groat credit both to tho Instructor and the children of the city, containing exhibitions of work from every grade of every school In the city. Beginning with the pupils in tho primary grades, where the work, so far as the mechanics of music ls concerned, consists simply in writing the scale of the treble clef In the key of C, the work gradually becomes more difficult until the eighth grade Is reached, and here Jiome very clever original compositions are shown. Mr. Wetzell exhibited tho book to a number num-ber of well-known musicians yesterday, who pronounced it a most praiseworthy compilation, and said the people of Salt Lake City have Just cause to be proud of the work being done in the lino of music in the public schools here. J