Excerpt from Lectures on Musical Analysis: Delivered Before the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind
It has been my custom for some years past, in my capacity as Professor of Harmony, Counterpoint, and Composition at the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, Upper Norwood, to assemble the Pupils in the evening, after a day's class-work, in the hall of the College, once a fortnight, to listen to a Lecture upon the structure of Musical Compositions, illustrated upon the Pianoforte. This seems to me to be the kind of training which is of great importance to all Musical Students, as an adjunct to their own theoretical studies and exercise work. In the case of the specially circumstanced audience of young people whom I had the pleasure of addressing, it was an experiment that I made, not without some misgiving as to my power of making the subject clear and interesting to those who could not scan the works analysed, or trace in the copy the course of the exposition offered; although the training in the College includes frequent performances in their hearing of the entire repertoire of the finest Pianoforte music, with brief explanations. All doubt was over, however, after the first attempt. The interest awakened by the first Lecture was evinced unmistakably, both at the time and afterwards, throughout the College, by conversation and discussion. That interest has never flagged; which has testified to the charm of the subject, and to the excellent mental training which the Pupils receive in the admirable Institution in which they are educated.
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