| Show MAY PURIFY THE HOMELY MELODIES new york education board Is displeased with negro dialect tunes KIDS NEED BETTER ENGLISH proposal made to change wording of star spangled banner so peace lovers wont balk at bloodthirsty phrases now york A movement to purify Anie ricas famous old darky songs I 1 ind temper the star span aled banner Ili inner in the new york public schools wits begun recently at a conference of the high school music teachers nt at which dr frank it allx music director bor of the hoard board of education was present a committee was appointed to as ask k the music publishers and the public school teach teachers drs to eliminate nil all the old negro dialect from songs printed in the textbooks thus if the movement succeeds will future generations be without what lias has been it happy part of all amert american homes the alie quaint and typical dialect of tho the american negro as expressed in dixie perhaps tho the roost most beloved song in the country and in stephen posters fosters famous trio massas Massa 8 in do cut col col ground old black joo joe and suwannee Suwan neo iziver are mothers lullabies Lull for yours years american mothers have hummed ined their babies into slumber with these old folk song favorites theres hardly a lad who cant huni hum suwannee Suwan neo river or old black joe and their clearm lies iles principally in the harmless dialect there would be little left to them thein without that the chief objection to the songs us as they aro are now universally stilly sung Is a purist opposition instead of de cayse ob neb bebber ber and moe larky dialect for the cause of never and more the purists would substitute the english words and insist upon careful pronunciation it may prove a hard job for the c expressions pres might well be sald said to be born with american children so much a part of childrens ni have they become As aa to the national anthem extrom fists auld have attempted a capital ape oa it but tor for strenuous bous objection b jec tion A plan was first broached to cut out ilia word fight as it occurs in the first verse the objection was that it smacked too much of war and not tit at till all of peace more moderate counsel prevailed the change wits was not made the only t tempering 0 iti now will be a slight change of rhythm in the first and third verses rind and the adoption of clouds of the fight in place of perilous fight in the first verse perilous Is a bit too warry but cloudy clouds Is not also lie he uniform key will be changed front from 1111 B flat to all A flat to make the hinging of the song less difficult for oi eidl di nary voices dialect confuses child the suggestions of those these changes were made sonie time ago doctor rix said by him to the board of superintendents ten dents but they were shelved pud end doctor rix know whether they axe dead or not ithe the reason for changing the darky lai ky dialect should appeal to tiny any interested person doctor rix said we wa want our children to learn pure english not a dialect then also there are arc many foreign children la in our schools the number Is growing constantly st and dialect confuses them it is hard enough for them to learn our ordinary english I 1 think the lie change should be made throughout the country tho the proposed changes in the star spangled cd banner are suggested la in the hope of making the song easier for I 1 children and the populace to sing by standardizing it and making it a much more powerful anthem |
