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Excerpt from Church Music and Choir Training: Treating of the Management of Boys' Voices and the Proper Rendition of Church Music At this time of remarkable advancement in the Church, when the music of the Service is taking a much higher standard than heretofore, the management of Vested Choirs is assuming an important place in church work, and the necessity of instruction and guidance is often felt where such a choir is formed or is still in the experimental stages. It is not attempted here to give an exposition of the Rudiments of Music - there are already many works of this class; but it is the aim of this little book to analyze the principles that govern choir training, particularly emphasizing their application to the needs of boys' voices, and to show what are the essentials of good church music. It is a fact that some of the most necessary points regarding the management of boys' voices, and even concerning the proper rendition of the service, are almost or quite unknown to musicians otherwise well instructed in their Art. The principles here displayed are equally adapted to adult (mixed) choirs and to training children in the public schools, though the application naturally differs according to the class of voices. 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.