Excerpt from Tonal Phrase Book: A Systematized Arrangement of Material for Reading Music by Its Movement or Thought The minute phrasing employed is not intended as the only way in which the phrases may be rendered. In fact, some of the divisions indicated are so slight that the phrase marks would almost tend to mislead. The same person singing these phrases might take them differently on different days and two persons would vary considerably in their choice, especially on some of the phrases. The idea of the phrase marks is to draw attention to the fact that these bits of melody are not to be delivered mechanically but constantly molded or modulated in their progress so that there will rarely be two notes in succession that will have equal emphasis whether in stress or duration, however similar they may be. 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.