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Excerpt from Revised and Enlarged Edition of a New Thorough System for the Piano-Forte, in Four Parts: Melodious Five Finger Studies; Scales and Exercises on the Chords of the Tonica; Pieces for Acquiring a Correct Technical Action of Fingers, Wrists, and Arms, and the Art of Phrasing; On Melodious Touch and Musical Expression Executancy, lofty and spiritual, melodic and expressive, is always rounded of by delicately graduated crescendos and diminuendos. Arched and wave-like - one note rising above another in intensity of sound, or sinking beneath it, mutually supporting each other the heaving tones carry the melodic burthen, thus freely united among themselves, as if sympathetically drawn together like a society of refined and intellectually cultivated human beings. But it is an axiom, that when the material is yet raw and unfashioned, nothing but mil itary or despotic rule can prepare the way for a higher development. 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.