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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1or three well-known vocalists of either sex, and not a few experts in piano and violin; several fine string bands may be heard; and as for those who can play creditably upon the reed-organ, their name is legion.
3The use of the organ is best seen in the schools, from the primary grades up to the normal and middle courses. There are at least two or three of these instruments in every primary and grammar department; about the same number in the middle schools; and anywhere from fifteen to twenty in each of the normal and higher girls' schools.
5The Imperial Government at Tokyo is now going further than that of any other nation, in that it selects promising students who are sent to foreign music centers at the expense of the government with the expectation of their returning to Japan and assisting in the elevation of the standard of music. Within the last few years the result of this foreign study has become more and more apparent by the gradual adaption of Occidental tunes and methods of teaching. More stress is placed upon vocal music and the ability to read at sight than upon the performance of instrumental music.
7Practically all the graduates of the normal schools read simple music at sight, and are thus competent to teach the rudiments of the art to the forty or fifty children who may come under their instruction. To enable these young teachers to do their best work, the Educational Department has prepared a series of text-books for the different grades and classes, and thus is laid out a course which beginning with simple, short, one-part songs, gradually leads up to those more complicated until finally we have, in the highest grades for girls, four-part songs complete.
9A glance at these text-books shows us that nature-songs hold first place. Besides these, however, devotion to parents, kindness to animals, thoughtfulness for others, respect for learning, loyalty and patriotism, are well represented. The songs and tunes seem to have been well selected, and without doubt the boy or girl who passes through the whole course, from primary to middle, will acquire a taste for music and
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