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    The Mother's Nursery Songs
    The Mother's Nursery Songs
    The Mother's Nursery Songs
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    The Mother's Nursery Songs

    By Thomas Hastings

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Mother's Nursery Songs - Thomas Hastings

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mother's Nursery Songs, by Thomas Hastings

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      Title: The Mother's Nursery Songs

      Author: Thomas Hastings

      Release Date: April 29, 2013 [EBook #42612]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MOTHER'S NURSERY SONGS ***

      Produced by Veronika Redfern, David Edwards and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive). Music transcribed by Veronika

      Redfern.

      PREFACE.— INTRODUCTION.

      PART I. THE CRADLE.— PART II. THE NURSERY.— PART III. THE CLASS ROOM.— PART IV. THE ALTAR.

      Each song contains a link to an audio (MIDI) file. The [Listen] links are located directly following the title of each song.

      PNGs have been provided for the reader's convenience to facilitate printing of the songs for practice or performance. To download, please click on the corresponding page number to the right of each page.

      For additional Transcriber's Notes, click here.

      THE

      MOTHER'S

      NURSERY SONGS.

      BY
      THOMAS HASTINGS,

      AUTHOR OF DISSERTATION ON MUSICAL TASTE—ONE OF THE COMPILERS OF MUSICA SACRA—SPIRITUAL SONGS—INFANT MINSTREL, &c. &c.

      NEW-YORK:

      PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. HAVEN,

      148, NASSAU STREET.

      ——

      1835.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by

      JOHN P. HAVENS,

      in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

      Southern District of New York.

      PREFACE.

      The author of the following pages was one day conversing with a lady of some distinction, relative to the importance of teaching young children to sing, when a question arose—whether any thing could be done by the mother in this respect, during the period of the early infancy of her offspring? This inquiry, with the discussion that ensued, gave rise to the present publication.

      Much, no doubt, can be done in early infancy, on the mere principle of imitation. Exercises for this purpose should be exceedingly simple; and, as far as possible, adapted to the infantile capacity. Great originality will hardly be expected in such a work as this: yet the materials here presented are, for the most part, such as have not before been published. A few extracts, have been furnished from the writings of Jane Taylor: And for many of the other little poems, the author is happy to acknowledge his obligations to several literary friends, among whom are the Rev. James Alexander, Professor of Rhetoric in Princeton College, New Jersey, Mrs. Sigourney, of Hartford, Connecticut, well known as the author of occasional pieces of great poetic merit, and Mrs. Brown, of Munson, Massachusetts, the writer of several interesting anonymous hymns now in general circulation.

      The object of the work, as will be readily inferred from its special characteristics, is to aid mothers in attuning the voices of their infant offspring, and inspiring them with the love of vocal music. When the Savior was on earth young children cried hosanna: and ere he is again revealed in the glories of the latter day—his praise shall be perfected out of the mouth of babes and sucklings. Yet they must first be instructed; and this work should be commenced by the mother.

      INTRODUCTION.

      It is a point now universally admitted among practical musicians, that all children, the deaf and dumb excepted, may be taught to sing; and that the difference of natural talent in this respect is, probably, not greater, than in reference to other departments of education. The faculty in question is never truly instinctive, but always in a great measure acquired. Nature furnishes us with organs, and with powers of perception. Cultivation must do the rest.

      The fact that so large a portion of the present generation are unable to sing, is not to be attributed to physical deficiencies, but to unfortunate circumstances in the history of early education. In countries where music is continually taught in the primary schools, the children, as a matter of course, all learn to sing: and the same experiment, wherever it has

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