Excerpt from Common School Course; Comprising Studies in Tune and Time, With Songs for Practice and Recreation: Part I for One Voice; Part II for Two Voices; Part III for Two Sopranos and Alto, With Added Notes for Bass Through this process, analagous to guessing, the singers obtained in a laborious and uncertain manner an approximation to the Sounds that the composer desired. This uncertain manner went on for many years. The first steps taken were in the direction of rote or imitative Singing from an ex ample given by a teacher, whose vocal attainments were of the most limited and doubtful character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.