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Advantages resulting or desirable from imagined shall in music musical instruction
in vocal music more particular – 1. To the individual, it is
1. It is to the individual it is a an inexhaustible source of immediate and constant fund of self amusement – immediate
and inexhausitble. 2. It is As an exercise it is favourable
to health, by affording a gentle exercise to the
muscles concerned in respiration. 3. In as far as it is no
not, it aft is favourable to intellectual strength, by the
gentle exercise it affords to the mind. 4.⊞ ⊞ It affords an inexhaustible source of self-amusement after emancipation. 5. It is naturally favourable
to moral health, by filling up vacancies in the
mind, and shutting the door against thereby blocking up the entrance against vitious ideas &
desires: and even moreover, by a sort of natural association alliance it has with
connection it seems to have with the benevolent and social affections. 6. It ministers naturally to
the faculty of pleasing. 7. In many various instances, it
may be capable of being rendered subservient to productive
industry, by cheering the workman and by giving regularity
and thence gentleness to the motions of the workman, and in
works performed in concert, by promoting correspondence coincidence
and agreement by disposing and enabling them the workmen him to keep
time – at any rate by cheering the workman him during
the work. 8. Its faculty of ministering to religious affections
is recognized and employ'd by the Church in the
psalmody and the music of the choir. 9. Its faculty of
being made subservient to military strength,⊞ ⊞ in the character of an helpt to regularity and an engine of animation, is universally
and recognized and employ'd put in exercise in the instance of
instrumental music, and might be extended to the case vocal
branch and imposed, by being adapted to words calculated
to cherish the sentiments affections of loyalty and courage.
10. It In confirmation with metre it It may be made subservient, to instruction of
any every kind as the in the way of communication and retention,
to instruction for of anu kind, especially when conjoined with
metre: – the multiplication-table, lately set to a pleasing
melody affords a happy instance of its application to instruction
of the driest kind. 11. Its natural subserviency
to moral health may be much strength strong strengthened by adapting
it to words expressive of the such moral sentiments as are it is
particularly wished to be inculcate: such as submission to the
Company and its subordinates social affection, towards that fellow
contentment
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