SINGING LESSONS
Sir-In the- "Singing Lesson for Schools" broadcasts I notice that each little section of the song being taught is introduced with the words "one, two, breath, sing," regardless of the time or tempo of the music to follow. Besides being a waste of time when it occurs repeatedly in a short lesson (attentive children should not need four beats of warning), it is jarring to the sense of rhythm except in the rare cases where the phrase happens to begin on the first beat of a 4/4 bar. Some introductory counting is obviously necessary in
broadcast lessons, but surely it should bear some relation to what follows and help to establish the rhythm.
M. H.
PFLAUM
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 24
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119SINGING LESSONS New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 24
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