Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class; and Moral Culture of Infancy.

child, or rather disarms the caprice, which is the principle of disorder. Two hymns are given i

, and see how it goes up these steps." She then sings the eight notes very clearly, pointing to each step of the ladder; and runs her voice, with equal distinctness, down the descending scale. The children can then be asked to accompany the teacher in going up and down the ladder, singing the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

f opinion; in which case, ask all to "hold up their hands who think it is 2, and then all who think it is 1." Tell which is right, and say, "Now let us all sing 2." Then say, "Now let us go down that step,-2, 1; and now up again,-1, 2; now all hold up their hands who can sing 1, 2, 1?" Select one after another to sing it alone with the piano, and after each has tried, let all sing with the teacher 1

n one year, which resulted in nearly all the children b

1 1; 1 1 1 1, 2 2 2

1; 1 3 3 1, 1 2

4 3 2 1. 1 3 5,

; 6 5 4 3 2 1; 1

7, 7 6 5 4 3 2 1;

6 7 8, 8 7 5 6

by repeating each note one

3 4, 4 4 5, 5 5 6, 7

4, 5 5 6, 7 7 8;

3 4 3; 4 5, 4 5 6; 5 6, 5 6 7; 6

2, 3 3, 2; 3 3, 4 4

6; 5 7; 6 8; 8, 6; 7, 5

5 3 1; 1 4 6 8,

8 8; 8 8, 7 7, 6 6, 5

4 5 4 3; 4 5 6 5 4; 5 6 7 6 5;

6; 5 6 5 6 7 7; 6 7 6 7 8 8; 8 8 8 8; 7 7 7 7; 6 6 6 6;

to go out of the natural octave, and to have the words of songs adapted to the childish capacity. Besides this singing, the piano-forte should be used to play marches, as the children go from one room to another to their different exercises. "Order is Heaven's first law," and music is the heavenly voice of order, which disposes to gentleness and regularity of motion. As all the exercises change every quarter of an hour at least,

, if taken in turn, will recur not oftener than onc

o be complete, should be master of linear and musical expression. Most of our education aims only to give him lingual expression; and drawing and music are considered accomplishments merely! The divine art which enables us

f beauty, what shall save her from the frivolity and ennui that gnaws away the heart, tarnishes the soul, and brings misfortune to the fireside? Every woman should be an artist, a

ntral chord, do-mi-sol, which we name the master chord; for, in the model gamut of do, it is around this, as around a centre, that the two other triads balance themselves, the lower fifth, fa-la-do, and the higher fifth, sol-si-re. We can show the

e three notes of the central chord with a red pencil, and reserve the three sounds of the chord on the left, (the lower or subdominant,) to be written with a yellow pencil, and the chord on the right, (higher or dominant,) with a blue pencil. On the other hand, for the appellative ch

, and terminate this first branch of

s are aware that to know well one tone, is to know them all, since they are all calculated on the model tone with which we

cial minds more. But we address ourselves to the serious, who know that it is better to know a thing in itself, (in wh

mony seems to be reserved exclusively to artists; and even among them, only the few who are occupied with composing devote themselves to it with any profoundness. It is to this culpable negligence that we must attribute the difficulties of musical education. Where is the intelligent musician who would dare to deny the happy results inseparable from the most profoun

t this result, and the spirit of routine which unhappi

evelopment of the method of Froebel, for the princ

a teacher who is capable of it, I intend, another year, to have extra hours for those who will commence instrumental music, in m

fort of those Kindergartners, who cannot command an instrument, that in German Kind