Show A PLEA fOR MUSIC IN THE HOME BY A MUSICIAN I I How man many thousands of men and women today will wm confess that they thc are CC no musicians but are passionately fond of music Thor They y fail to realize that the two statements are arc contradictory today foby for fo by means of the cc Cecilian Piano everyone sincerely fond of music musk can enn become a musician mUSICIan 1 Long ago Mr MI Emerson showed us that what we wish in lB language l i 6 is a means of communication that there is no virtue in a nd of itself in knowing a new language if the wealth of thought and av au d feeling which arc are imprisoned in that language cannot C be made ma available in ones s own What I wish wih said he when I go from Cambridge C ge to Boston is to get to the other side of the th Charles River There is iF no virtue in swimming it if there is a bridge over which can cnn walk So if music IB is iF what one desires there is no virtue in l ending spending thouR thousands thousands ands of dollars unmeasured force and years of tin tim in producing a n little of it jt of indifferent quality if by ho the use of a C Cecilian Piano IJ one can get much more music much nueh more perfectly and nd feelingly ren dered at an nn expenditure which relatively is too triv trivial al to mention I beg fathers and mothers who want to give gin their t ir children a musi musical mi cal culture to purchase e for them a Cecilian Pia Piano o since I find End this thiR to be the furthest furth st developed the most useful thC he most mo t resourceful the susceptible to guidance Do not turn the instrument over to o them with so o many man rolls of music and let lot them regard r gard it morely as ns a n me toy on ale a level with tho musical box of our fathers Rather Rut er let them understand that the instrument is provided to unlock fOr fir f r them the masterpieces of melody from front every eve nation nahon in in n the world and nd that b by a study s of o f the productions of time the great composers and by J an analytical anal lical examination of the th musical structure of their works work tHey t ey cy can learn the elements and beauties of correct composition A child of twelve can learn more mor by repented repeated rep listening to toone one of Mendelssohn s than by n a hundred hued ed cd hours practice off The Battle of Prague And the relative effects e a of the two on the nerves of an anxious parent need hardly he be di I cannot too strongly advise ach lc mothers mothe s anxious to develop the musi musical musical musical cal intelligence of their little ones to r q amino amine the time educational of one of these th c instruments Let hot Urn tl m purchase a Cecilian iano place it in their homos homes and give the e dren cIren to understand that its use constitutes a lege and reward cleat one or two special classical pieces with suf melody to attract aU att ct the eat ear of r the ie child and an d let these particular pieces he be considered it its t ow n prep t Encourage the time child to play pla r these regularly and let the t X 1 sit by b the childs side and point out ont the different expression to the air nir by variations in il the tempo etc The child is by b t gifted with ith o a keen faculty of imi tation and it will not be long before ho lie or she begins to e appreciate the distinctions distinction which they can produce by variations in operating After ono pr two R have ha been mastered mast gradually enlarge c the repertoire taking tak ng great care oare that the selections made have intrinsic intrinsic intrinsic sic merit from a classical standpoint s aud and anti giving the child l every evory op to select pieces which appeal to Lo him B 13 Bj this thiR means the childs musical perceptions s will be he quickened to an extent possible by no other method I know of CALL C AT OGDEN MUS MUSIC CO 2370 0 WASH w sr AVE AVEr AV Al L E L j r |