Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1919 — Study the Words of Songs. [ARTICLE]

Study the Words of Songs.

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