(MUSIC) Mason Lowell Musical Exercises for Singing Schools

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(MUSIC.) Mason, Lowell. Musical Exercises, for Singing Schools, To Be Used in Connection with the "Manual of the Boston Academy of Music, for Instruction in the Elements of Vocal Music." Letterpress title-page and advertisement leaf printed recto/verso, double-page introductory chart and 66 double-page plates of music scales, notation, dynamics, and lyrics. Large folio, 23 1/2x15 inches, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rebacked, some repairs with sympathetic marbled paper; title-page with marginal loss affecting imprint; offsetting, latter third of the book with light dampstain at upper edge. Boston: Wilkins, Carter & Co., 1851

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A monumental volume of music lessons - certainly one of the largest of its kind printed in nineteenth-century America. The huge double-page format was intended to supplant blackboard instruction, being 'printed in characters sufficiently large to be seen throughout the school-room.' America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by S.F. Smith appears on the final spread.