New American Music Reader: Number Three

Excerpt from New American Music Reader: Number Three

The same methods of procedure are continued in the New American Music Reader Number Three that characterize Number Two. The voice is regarded as of the first importance, and all songs and studies are in such keys and within such range that the head quality always employed in the high voice may be blended with the lower register without recourse to the harsh tones of the chest.

The period intended to be covered by this book is that in which the boys' voices have not yet begun to change and when they are at their very best both in beauty, fulness and range as sopranos. The mistake should not be made of habitually giving them the lower part unless there are special reasons in individual cases. When the alto is sung by the boys the voices must be used with a soft and mellow tene, as far as possible removed from the chest or shouting register. Thus used school boys' voices should rival-those of trained choirs.

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