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Excerpt from Choral Technique and Interpretation This book has been written to assist Choral Conductors and Choirmasters, though its scope is not limited to these, as many of the principles embodied in the text are applicable to Soloists as well as to Orchestral and Military Conductors. There is no padding or mere theorizing in the book. Everything written is the outcome of living experience, and has stood the test of many years' trial. Other methods may be equally good, or better; but because I have found what is herein stated to be, in my judgment, the most effective, I have, without reserve, placed my plans and experience at the disposal of all who are seeking to develop Choral music and Choral singing, either in the small Choir or in the large Festival Chorus. 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.
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Henry Coward
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Born in Liverpool to parents in the entertainment industry, Coward took an apprenticeship to a cutler in Sheffield. Educating himself, he became a teacher and soon a headteacher. Coward"s interest in music developed from a tonic sol-fa class, and in 1876 he founded the Sheffield Tonic Sol-fa Association.
This was renamed the Sheffield Musical Union, and Coward was its director until 1933.
His choral legacy is still visible in Sheffield, following Sheffield Music Union"s 1837 merger with the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, a choir which still performs to this day. In 1889, Coward obtained a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Oxford, and in 1894, became a Doctor of Music.
He returned to Sheffield, where he became the chorus master of the Sheffield Music Festival. He conducted societies in Leeds, Huddersfield, Newcastle and Glasgow, and toured worldwide with the Sheffield Choir.
He also taught music at Sheffield Training College and lectured at the University of Sheffield.
In 1897, having established a reputation for conducting large numbers of singers in Sheffield parks, he was invited to oversee a gathering of 60,000 school-children in Norfolk Park in Sheffield, to entertain Queen Victoria. Dan Godfrey wrote that "it is doubtful whether England has ever produced a better or more gifted choir trainer than Coward. He has evolved, formulated and put into practice a method of choral technique which has had the result of bringing about a revival of singing in chorus which has spread through the whole Empire."
After World War I, Henry Coward faced criticism for being unable to conduct an orchestra, but was knighted in 1926 and from 1929 to 1944 served as President of the Tonic Sol-fa College in London.
Coward disliked jazz, which he described as "atavistic, lowering, degrading and a racial question.. composed of.. unquestionably grotesque forms."
Sir Henry Coward died in 1944, aged 94.
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