Excerpt from The Triumph: A Collection of Music Containing an Introductory Course for Congregational Singing, Theory of Music and Teacher's Manual, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Courses, for Singing Schools and Musical Conventions In the first department of the triumph the effort is made to furnish a means by which any company of people may join in a musi cal utterance of words, and it is thought that this department will not only promote the object for which it is prepared, but will be useful to teachers in getting up classes, as many learners having made a beginning in this way, will desire to pursue the subject more scientifically, and will go on with the other departments of the book. In the second department, not only the elementary principles or doctrines are set forth in order, but a mode of teaching those which are most important is proposed. The third department is called the Elementary Course, and goes through the major keys without accidentals. The lessons here are intended for the first term of the Singing School. In the Intermediate Course, which is the fourth department, accidentals and the relative minor are introduced in lessons which assume such various musical forms as it is believed will make them attractive and useful to singers in the second stage of their musical advancement. An important feature in these departments will be found in the arrangement by which tunes and other pieces in the body of the book may be used in the Singing School with the lessons, being so prepared that they contain the same kind of difficulties. The fifth department is called the Advanced Course, and as its name indicates, is for advanced singers. 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.