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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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Music
has
an
influence
peculiar
to
itself.
It
can
allay
the
irritation
of
the
mind;
it
cements
families,
and
makes
a
home,
which
might
sometimes
be
monotonous,
a
scene
of
pleasant
excitement.
Pursued
as
a
recreation,
it
is
gentle,
rational,
lady-like.
Followed
as
a
sole
object,
it
loses
its
charm,
because
we
perceive
it
is
then
over-rated.
The
young
lady
who
comes
modestly
forward,
when
called
upon
as
a
performer,
would
cease
to
please,
were
she,
for
an
instant,
to
assume
the
air
and
confidence
of
a
professional
musician.
There
is
a
certain
style
and
manner--confined
now
to
second-rate
performers,
for
the
highest
and
most
esteemed
dispense
with
it--there
is
an
effort
and
a
dash,
which
disgust
in
the
lady
who
has
bad
taste
enough
to
assume
them.
And,
whilst
I
am
on
this
topic,
let
me
remark
that
there
is
a
great
deal
in
the
choice
of
music,
in
the
selection
of
its
character,
its
suitability
to
your
feelings,
style,
and
taste,
and
this
especially
with
respect
to
vocal
music.
There
is
no
doubt
that
a
good
Italian
style
is
the
best
for
instruction,
and
that
it
produces
the
most
careful
and
accomplished
singers.
Suppose
a
case.
Your
parents,
most
fair
reader,
have
paid
a
high
price
to
some
excellent
professor,
to
instruct
you--and,
with
a
fair
ear,
and
a
sufficient
voice,
you
have
been
taught
some
of
those
elaborate
songs
which
are
most
popular
at
the
opera.
A
party
is
assembled--music
is
one
of
the
diversions.
Forth
you
step,
and,
with
a
just
apprehension
of
the
difficulties
of
your
task,
select
one
of
those
immortal
compositions
which
the
most
eminent
have
made
their
study;
you
execute
it
wonderfully,
only
just
falling
a
little
short
of
all
the
song
should
be;
only
just
provoking
a
comparison,
in
every
mind,
with
a
high
standard,
present
in
the
memory
of
every
cultivated
musician
near
you.
A
cold
approval,
or
a
good-natured
"bravo!"
with,
believe
me,
though
you
do
not
hear
it,
a
thorough,
and,
often,
expressed
conviction
that
you
had
better
have
left
the
thing
alone,
follows
the
effort
which
has
merely
proclaimed
the
fact
that,
spite
of
time
and
money
spent
upon
the
cultivation
of
your
voice,
you
are
but
a
second-rate
singer.
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