LESSONS IN MUSIC. 



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18.-DBINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES. (AN OLD Etrou MIIX>DT.) 



.M. 72. 



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D.C. 



I sent thee late a rosy wreath, 

 Not so much honouring thee, 



As giving it a hope that there 

 It could not withered be. 



But thou thereon didat only breathe, 



And seutst it back to me ; 

 Since when it grows and smells, I swear, 



Not of itself, but thee. Ben JONMN. 



This tune mast be thoroughly sol-faed " by heart," like the 

 rest, and the pupil must point to the notes on the modulator as 

 he thus sol-faes. 



Our pupils must expect no explanation at this stage of the 

 nurse, of the sharps, or flats, or clefs introduced at the begin- 

 ning of the old notation staff. They are introduced thus early for 

 the sake of those who play on instruments. It is enough for the 

 singer that the square mark ahows him the place of the key-note. 



While our pupils are advancing in their own practical study 

 of the three principal notes of the scale, we may usefully 

 occupy our time in reviewing some of the steps already 

 taken. We are assured that most of the mistakes of our 

 pupils have arisen from careless reading or from a forgetfulness 

 of the pledge to which at first we sought to bind thorn. This 

 was the pledge : " We have only two things to ask of you : the 

 first, that you will be content to learn one thing at a time, in- 

 stead of being impatient for knowledge not at the moment 

 helpful perhaps, just then, only confusing to you ; the second, 



that when something is set before you to be done, you will 

 really do it, instead of supposing it to be done, and going on ; 

 for only by doing we truly understand." But, without judging 

 our friends too nicely, we will try to meet their difficulties. 

 Those difficulties relate to the "modulator," the "pattern," 

 and " the movable DOH." 



" What I want," has been remarked by a pupil, "is to be 

 able to measure to the eye the exact interval the voice is taking." 

 It is just for this purpose that the modulator is provided. The 

 ordinary staff of five lines and four spaces does not measure 

 to the eye the exact interval the voice is taking, because it fails 

 to show pictorially the places of the " semitones " (small steps) 

 of the scale. This is, however, a point of vital importance to 

 the learner, and one which should be kept constantly before his 

 eyes Hence the necessity of some such scale as the modulator 

 offers. The modulator also possesses the advantage of showing 

 not only lines or marks for the notes, but the names of the notea 

 themselves. Our pupils have to use only the middle column at 



