SINGING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2474, 19 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

SINGING.

Dr. Marx, Professor of Singing and Music Berlin, writes:—The voice is man's own peculiar musicial instrument, more— it is the living sympathetic organ of our 801119. Whatever sensatisn or emotion we feel becomes immediately perceptible in our voice. If, as in song , , properly socalled, music and speech be united, and the words be those of a true poet, then is consummated the most intimate union of mind and soul, contributing to social elevation and moral improvement. Devotion in our churches becomes more edifying, our festivals and days of enjoyment become more animated, our social meetinge more lively and intellectually joyful, our whole life in short becomes more elevated and cheerful by the spread of the love of song and tho power of singing amongst the greatest possible number of individuals. Song should be our first musicial exercise and the organs of sound begin to be cultivated from the ninth to the fifteenth year. There is to a great extent, a popular delusion that the voice would bo injured by too early exercise thereof. Never was there a greater mistake. At the Very time of life that impressions are most lasting and the organs are most in need of exercise, it has been the habit to condemn the special organs of tho throat to inactivity, from this now proved to be erroneous impression. The judicious training under proper supervision of children's voices is by far the best way of developing the faculties necessary at a maturor age to the proper management of the vocal organs, in other words to the art of singing.