Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1919 — Study the Words of Songs. [ARTICLE]

Study the Words of Songs.

In their efforts to secure good diction —by taking lessons from a highpriced coach —singers often overlook the benefit which may be secured by reading, with careful attention, the texts of the songs they are to sing. It is manifest that a singer who cannot give an intelligent reading of a poem cannot give an Intelligent interpretation of that poem in singing. The value of each word, each phrase, and their relations to each other, and to the whole thought, are legitimate, objects for thorough study. Especially is this true of the; pause which Is so valuable In speech or in the reading of a poem.