Excerpt from Melody Pictures, Vol. 2: For Little PlayersThe fact that children love a picture, or a story, needs no demonstration, and there is nothing especially new in the idea of the rhymes and sketches which accompany the musical numbers in this book. These rhymes do not indicate the 771m of the melodies, (excepting in the Spinning Song, the Hunting Song', and the but the story in them is a stimulant to the imagination, and through the simplicity and familiarity of their subject matter does the child ish mind develop an appreciation of the musical phrase as the expression of a, 1.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.