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3-1-1928 Volume 46, Number 03 (March 1928) James Francis Cooke
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of the March Nor?rv\ “always did want to play” $2.00 A YEAR dfreei THE WORLD OF MUSIC Interesting and Important Items Gleaned in a Constant Watch on Ever Happenings and Activities Pertaining to Things Musical Everywhere too Late to Learn ? MfmL LITTLE six-year-old girl from St. of life? Has the Goddess of the Muse forever music: v^anyuuiiuinaiuiicr VXJUiayouinump Louis is out in vaudeville with her Buescher bidden you adieu? Is it, for you, too late to out "Home, Sweet HornC'with one finger, at Saxophone. Her name is Dorothy Johnson. learn? Here is a note of encouragement for you the piano? Then you can learn to play a Bues¬ She started taking lessons when she was who have missed the opportunities of youth. cher. But only with the simplified fingering four. It was partly because of her youth that "Beforepurchasingmy CMelody Saxophone, of the Buescher is rapidprogress assured. You she learned so quickly. I endeavored by various don’t have to favor andfuss for certain notes. 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THE ETUDE MARCH 1928 Page 173 iMusical Education m the Home Conducted by LEADING PIANO PEDAGOGUES Margaret Wheeler Ross USE THE VISUOLA .fiShe Age to 'Begin then it should be enrolled in a school of The teacher who gives High School credit-the one whose work is ^cognized by the Department PERHAPS THE most frequent in¬ quiry that comes to this department music—possibly entered in class-room of Education—has the largest class. This is an age of credits. , ■ ri salaries received, is “What age do you-think is the work. If, on the other hand, it is dis¬ where the credit will count and credits and Degrees are very important factors in the salaries received. best for a child to begin music lessons?” tinctly talented, craves lessons, has a Most mothers seem to be under the im¬ rhythmic and melodic sense decidedly pression that, because six years is the marked, and is sufficiently interested to definitely determined age for children to enjoy working alone, then it will be better lie received into the first grade of the pub¬ placed with an understanding, private lic schools, some like age is generally ac¬ cepted as proper for the beginning of Most mothers make the mistake of be¬ Are You Making Progress? music lessons. Furthermore, most mothers ginning actual lessons too early. The associate with the term "music lessons” average tiny tot, say, from five to seven If you cannot give your pupils the best methods in teaching-someone else who has been wiser the purely physical act of playing upon an years, should be put in a class of one of than you are will secure the pupils you might just as well have. , • instrument, usually having the piano in the leam-while-you-play methods where it will get a firm foundation in rhythmics fi %e 2)iUer-($uaile The Solid Reputation you gain in your profession comes from the results you obtai . The facts are apt to be overlooked that and a background in musicianship before music is a scientific subject of many it is taxed mentally and physically with [School of music phases and that the demonstration of it, the technic of an instrument and the (I Extension Courses Growing in YOU MUST KNOW either by playing an instrument or sing¬ strain of practicing. On the other hand, ing, is only one feature. Mothers fail'to actual lessons should not be delayed too Popularity Each Month take into consideration the evidences of long, if any real facility is to be ex¬ 947 Madison Annul* How to successfully organize a class, musical talent or the physical and mental pected, because of the necessary train¬ There is a greater demand all the time for capabilities of their children, which vary ing of the muscles and ligaments of the Nnoforfe May 27, 1 ?27 the courses we offer, as they fit teachers for how to obtain pupils and how to retain them, greatly in different individuals. All of fingers, hands and arms while they have these are important factors in determining the flexibility of childhood as well as of better positions. This is an age of specializa¬ how to hold the interest of the indolent, in¬ the age to begin. the active, plastic mental processes of early tion and the specialist is earning fully dou¬ different pupil, Beginning music lessons, for the average youth. Also there is a certain psychology ble or more the salary of a musician with tiny child, consists largely of rhythmic in acquiring the “baby work” before the' ’only a general knowledge. Openings in the how to select your teaching material, training by means of song, dance and tap¬ self-conscious years are reached. ping exercises, hand and finger drill for In the hands of an music field are growing very rapidly. There how to keep accounts with your pupils and the development of muscles (done on the According to the Child intelligent musician and are big paying positions for those who are top of a table, often accompanied by a how to collect their tuition fees, EEPING the foregoing in mind the expert teacher, the Visuola chart of the keyboard), car-training, best time to begin would seem to be, ready for them. simple melody building and the acquiring only in rare instances and under ideal con¬ is a valuable aid to early how to plan and successfully carry out recitals of the early fundamentals by games and ditions, from five to six years of age. If of your pupils so as to bring you more pupils, mechanical equipment. piano teaching. It can he A Diploma is the key to the best teaching the child is robust physically and men¬ This department is thoroughly con¬ position. Do you hold one? etc. tally well-developed, the ideal time is from used to advantage with any vinced that every child, no matter how seven to eight years of age. Where any small the talent, should be given a trial in so-called piano method, A This knowledge you gain from the courses. doubt concerning the child’s strength and music. We believe the piano, for many vitality exists, from nine to tell years of child's key-hoard sense will Our Diplomas and Degrees are Awarded reasons, to be the best instrument on which No Entrance requirements except for Certificates and De¬ age would be the time to start. When the lo start lessons, after thorough prepara¬ develop more accurately and* gree courses. child is being crowded to retain its grades by the Authority of the State of Illinois tion for its physical demands have been in school, music study should be deferred rapidly hy the use of the acquired. But it is on the ■when and the until later and then taken up in the vaca¬ It is up to YOU. On your own decision will rest your Credits earned by using your spare time for advancement. how of beginning that the musically un¬ Visuola than hy the ordinary tion period. But lessons should begin be¬ future success. Fit yourself for a bigger position—demand trained mother needs advice, since, in most fore twelve, if facility and musicianship old-fashioned teaching procedure. This Is Your Opportunity-Mail the Coupon TODAY! cases, the whole future of the child’s suc¬ larger fees. You can do it! You can easily and quickly fit your¬ in the technic of an instrument is to be ex¬ cess in the subject will depend upon the pected. self right at home through Extension Courses. initial period. UNIVERSITY EXTENSION CONSERVATORY, Dept. H This department will welcome commun¬ Langley Avenue and 41st Street, Chicago, Illinois. Now is the opportune time for you to clip the coupon below. ications from parents and teachers on this Please send me catalog, sample lessons and full i l formation regarding Tools—T eacher—Tactics important question. Mothers who have Get it in the first mail. You perhaps have seen this ad many course I have marked with an X below. 'T'HREE IMPORTANT factors will had several children who have studied mu¬ times before. Don’t waste any more time! The coupon will □ Piano, Normal □ Cornet, Amateur □ Violin 1 greatly enhance your child’s musical sic might tell us what they have discov¬ Course for career—an intelligently purchased instru¬ ered and proved through their experi¬ bring you information about the lessons which will be of untold Teachers □ Cornet, Profes¬ □ Guitar value. No obligation on your part! O Piano, Course for sional ment, a wise, experienced instructor and ments. Teachers of beginners might give □ Ear Training and carefully supervised practice in the early the results of their efforts and their con¬ Students □ Organ (Reed) Sight Singing grades. clusions therefrom. More than 200,000 ambitious men and women have gained □ Public School □ Voice □ Mandolin The age to begin the study of music, Every thinking teacher will investigate carefully this new idea which is proficiency in these various branches of music by the University □ Harmony □ History of Music □ Adv. Composition as in the case of any other special subject, M. E. N., Columbus, ' Ohio.—It is a bound to be of such tremendous benefit to teacher and pupil. Extension Method. And to you we offer the same advantages should be determined by the particular great pleasure to direct you to sources which were given to them. . Age. child, whose mental and physical condition where you can get material upon the sub¬ Send for a copy of “Blazing a K[ew Trail in Piano Playing” Street No. ... should be carefully considered and under¬ ject of “Music In the Home.” If you will stood before this subject is added to its look over the past issues of The Etude City ...... State . required school work. Then the general you will find many practical articles that touch on some phase of the topic. If you VISUOLA CORPORATION How long have you taught Piano?.How many pupils have characteristics of the child should be University Extension Conservatory thoughtfully analyzed before a decision is will write Mrs. John P. Buchanan, Chair¬ you now? .Do you hold a Teacher’s Certificate?.Have made upon the manner of beginning. If man, Committee on Music in the Home, Aeolian Hall, 689 Fifth Avenue LANGLEY AVENUE and 41st STREET it is the type that requires the spur of com¬ National Federation of Music Clubs, you studied Harmony? .Would you like to earn the degree of petition and like associations to develop Marion, Virginia, she will also help you. NEW YORK CITY CHICAGO, ILL. Bachelor'of Music? .. interest and industry in a given subject, (Continued on page 235) e to our advertisers always i ;utlon THE ETUDE. It Id with the higher ideals of a Please mention THE ETUDE when addressing our advertisers. THE ETUDE THE ETUDE MARCH 4928 Page 175 Page llh MARCH 192S FASCINATING PIECES FOR THE MUSICAL HOME JAY MEDIA Allegro vivace MUSSOLINI Drammaticamente INTERMEZZO g--~, m.M.J=108 When Summer Comes Intro. A a KEEP UP MUSICAL INTEREST IN YOUR COMMUNITY WITH SPECIAL CLASSES An All-Year-’Round Delight Tell Music Lovers, Singers to Little Students and Lovers and Students of the New of Music. Ideal for Easily Pleasure they will have in ‘Piano Classes for Children Formed Special Summer ± Ped . ad lib. 4 3 3 i 4 3 Music After a Summer of Primaries in Musical History ^ L- iJ. tJ- Er Study in Your Class Using of,- and g-sg performing ability in, the great art of mus.c. Any .nte hgen f\ ^ --r~V 4 i~'n -^ —-- carent even though a piano is not in the home at present, will Young Folks’ Picture Harmony Book appreciate the value of giving the child the opportunity trough a class of obtaining something which would cost considerably m y History of Music for Beginners individual instruction. Individua instruction nev'er wdl be surpassed oUUTA JJ but the class method is ideal for awakening 'nteres and g v.ng By James Francis Cooke f ’ f ” FI’r frfvf By Preston Ware Orem musical oDDortunities to many who might otherwise be left musically ignorant and subject to social embarrassment later in life because of A Book that Magnifies the Average A Text-Book that Lays a Most Sub¬ such ignorance. Child’s Interest in All Music Study. stantial Foundation for Real Musician- Its Popularity with Teachers Indicates ship by Making the First Steps in Its Merits Harmony Easy to Grasp ^^4 3 “Harmony Book for Beginners” is MUSIC PLAY FOR EVERY DAY The author begins with the old brief, simple, vital, practical, and dis¬ Greek fable regarding the origin ot tinctive. It is an excellent text book music and soon leads to the facts relat- for class or private instruction as well complct&WinYonePbookP-AYITlSo pubushed in parts for class use ing to the growth of musical art in such as an admirable book for self-help. It 5 • ■— —1— A “brand new” book for piano beginners that engages the interest of an engaging manner that the young '** if ** ? jgj f ’ ^ _ 7 K _ —i— gives the main essentials of the subject reader is fascinated with musical lore. f_ in such simple, understandable and in¬ children just like a delightful little tot’s story and picture book It s$ the composite work of warm-hearted educators who have sPentInowfedge Then, in due course, little biographical teresting manner that it will prove in- the ways in which children can be led to an eagerness for beneficial knowledge outlines and anecdotes are given of the ' valuable in first Harmony instruction or old masters. More important modern as a self-tutor. This work is not a re¬ and musical performing ability. “Music Play for Every Day ls 1“® n ^* N"' •* J. *1 EbT ^ ■ * J. * J. * J. ** charming and captivating pages that give much in fascinating pictures p y masters are briefly introduced, thus ac¬ hash of the old “cut and dried" har¬ quainting the young musician with monies, but a fresh, new, sound treat¬ little melodies, story-like explanations and a natural step-by-step P™c^du^ t a never lets a new step appear like a problem. It is always the fun ot finding practically all of the great composers. ment along modern lines. Hundreds ot out something new in the "play-times" allotted. No teacher or prospective enthusiastic letters have been received Throughout the printed pages of the teacher of juveniles, either in class or private, should neglect making the from delighted users of this book and book there are numbered spaces and it leading musicians and critics have acquaintance of this book which gives music a new and decidedly is play for the juvenile to cut out of attractive appeal to children than any other first instructor. praised it unstintedly. picture sheets provided, the one hun¬ dred and some odd pictures and paste Price, #1.25 them in proper spaces in the book. Classes of Boys and Girls, Who Feel, Considerably the Seniors of These attractive illustrations arouse an Kindergarten and Primary Tots, Progress Finely with— interest in the things and individuals For Further Study and instruments pictured, arid while they apparently provide play with sci' Theory and Composition FIRST YEAR AT THE PIANO sors and paste, they are leading the By John M. Williams child to a wealth of information on of Music Complete in One Book, Price *1.00 In Four Parts for Class Use, Each 35c things musical. By Preston Ware Orem Few progressive teachers are not somewhat acquainted with the practical A natural play-like process of evolv¬ May be taken up by anyone having and successful teaching ideas of John M. Williams. Many agree that the ing tunes is given, and so the young an elementary knowledge of harmony. “First Year at the Piano" is one of his finest educational works. Tremendously student may get the fascination of writ It teaches melody making, harmonising successful as published originally complete, popular demand for it in parts for ing little melodies, there are a hali melodies, how to write an accompani¬ convenience in its use as a class instructor caused its recent publication in tour dozen pages of wide-spread music staves ment, modulation, modern harmony, parts. It is a com'monsense work throughout and aids the teacher to achieve provided. and musical forms. excellent results. Price, #1.00 Price, #1.25 oArvy One ofoAny oAge ‘Npf Informed on {Musical {Matters will find it Profitable to Join a Special Summer Music History Class or Study Club Using as a (juide~> The Standard History of Music By James Francis Cooke PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED—ENGAGINGLY WRITTEN-UP-TO-D ATE—THE MOST POPULAR MUSICAL HISTORY-CLOTH BOUND Price, #1.50 The matter of a summer music history class need not be approached timidly by the teacher. Every respectable member of the community may be invited to join. Not one, but a number of classes or music history clubs may be started and the nominal fee to each member for each meeting brings the The more (oik the teacher teacher a comfortable and profitable summer revenue. Classes for school children, afternoon classes interests in musical history D. S. % for the ladies, and evening classes for those who cannot conveniently devote daylight hours arc either through class, private possible if proper publicity, initiative and intelligence are"combined in the teacher’s activities. If the i Ai k. community is small, a family affair, with all ages represented, can be made interesting and profitable readily will future pupils -4T ffpi to all. Thousands of teachers know "The Standard History of Music" and how admirably it ■ -p —= J- 1 " — -J- Ip*- 4-..M, SrsE answers for a text-book. Those who do not know it need only to examine' a copy to have their study be secured. enthusiasm aroused over the possibilities of using it to stir up a real musical : h : interest in their communities. V irf V} rit. — iite a) Oh! Muss olini. etc. AteinS m TwROFIOT? P PrP«QFR Co DIRECT MAIL SERVICE on EVERYTHING IN MUSIC PUBLICATIONS m I HbUDURb 1 KESSFK . . . . 1712-1714 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. 5H Copyright 19 2 7 by Theodore Presser Co. British Copyright secured Other Music Sections in this issue on pages 203, 211, 243 MARCH 1928 Page 177 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE Pag.m marcs ms PLAYING soldiers SOLDATENSPIEL t L_y r ~ ^ y . 4 ^_ 1 3 a „ , 5 3g ! _ _ yjj r ■ ■J lxj " • • EB * 3 4 f 2 ft | , ... 1 x i ,.-j}_n 11-,n ^r.T": Jaaaiv A Jft- A A £ m m * € > > > > Ljj jj . 3 3 4 \ ■ ,u , 7 , .jiiU JiV- ' p f ffJif-fx f p f ’-»> if f-ff .ii p»f|. sf.if Ilf f£f I i.n*,^.H 4== % f-=Tdf==^E^E^E=£E i ^ ^ iJ ^ zJ ^ tJ. i 1 3 f 2 3 ? > 3 i ^ i :: 3 1 hi ♦ A ?-f Prf^p r-n .—i ,7 j ^ 7 -pL I—, l g-—iT rrr-fFi CantaMle_ ■ Li H4i£ff rp l£jfLf _ 0 ll lT *4 )\ \Y > tL*' ; ; i 4: ? ! f—p- ; ; - -i gg i tfp— W Lai iis J'JeTE # > & >K 4 »- * J—i ^ i,|j> 1 wmM Copyright 1927 by Theodore Preseer Co. International Copyright secured MARCH 1928 Page 179 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE Page 178 MARCH 1928 In modern Viennese style. Grade 3 ALA GAVOTTE HANS PROTIWINSKY Allegretto m.m. J = 116 8 * 3 * _ ? J _ 5^ > . .. nif a tempo poco ritardando^ - Fine MESSAGE if —-H rTf=5= ’VIA//] D wk m iip TO THE PIANO TEACHERS 3Ww-fw r r"r r OF AMERICA! THE responsibility of keeping America truly musical rests squarely upon the shoulders of the piano teacher. Through the piano, the basic instrument of all music, young America can be educated to become musically appreciative. It has been demonstrated that thou¬ the child is learning is of a proper sands of promising students of piano standard—equal to the production of have been early discouraged in their harmonic and beautiful tones by which attempts to learn to play because the a child can gain a true conception of what music really is. -,4 ^ i piano upon which they studied was in¬ % From here go back to % and play to Fine, then go to Trio D. C. al Fine adequate and hopelessly out of play¬ The Association is appealing to the “ '928b“WHEN SHADOWS PALL British Copyright secured ing condition. No child, no matter piano teachers of America to see that W ith a broad expressive melody in the middle voice. The sweeping' chords must be duly subordinated. Grade 4 T F RORFPTS how talented, can scale the barrier set the home study of their pupils is done Moderato espressivoM.M. J = 63 . ' up by an obsolete instrument. on a piano that has not outlived its use¬ fulness. The National Piano Manufacturers Association is broadcasting a message When a child comes to you to study, to the mothers of America which will he must of course have hands, eyes, result in a greater love for music and ears and a willingness to learn or you a truer appreciation of it. It is urging could not take him as a pupil. Is not every parent to give their children an an essential requirement a good prop¬ opportunity to express their inborn de¬ erly tuned piano at home? sire for music through the piano. This National Piano Manufacturers Ass’n. is possible only if the piano upon which 247 Park Avenue, New York City, N. Y. ^Jhe THE BASIC MUSICAL PIANO INSTRUMENT Copyright 1927 by Theodore Presser Co. British Copyright secured THE ETUDE MARCH 1928 Page 181 THE ETUDE Page 180 MARCH 19. -The Greatest Collection of Piano Music in the Worl I want to tell OF PIANO MUSIC MASTERPIECES every woman ConteiContents of 218 ."1 about this special use of “Mum”— rd-boV.-ih .jf£S uMum ’ assures daintiness during those trying days mm ‘By WINIFRED SHERMAN (Graduate Nurse) “Mum" lor tins important use, vvnen me occasion next arises. Just ask for a jar of “Mum” at your drug or department store—35c and 6oc (The 6oc size con- CLOTH BOUND $3.00 — or sent postpaid on receipt of price by — PAPER BOUND $2.00 THE MUMIL PUBLISHING CO. - 1140 Broadway, New York City * COMMENCEMENT and GRADUATION MUSIC ! T I 7T, shall be glad to send, upon request, complete and detailed lists of ! 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SCHIRMER, HARP MUSIC THE E'l MARCH 1928 Page 188 ige 182 MARCH 1928 THE ETUDE 75he Musical Home Reading TSable Anything and Everything, as long as it is Novelties for Pianists r Instructive and Interesting Young Players as well as Accomplished Concert Performers will Find Conducted by These Unusual and Novel Numbers Most Interesting and A. S. Garbett Delightful to Those for Whom They Play For Young Pianists A Variety of Things that are “Different”, Yet Readily Handled A Wagnerian Estimate of VYlozart IN THE FOREST MODERN POPULAR STYLE A Unique Collection of ^Nine Nature Study Songs, Midgets .Daniel Rovre .Ill $0.30 and most convincing view of the true and TRANSCRIPTIONS, VARIATIONS, ETC. Wagner's fine tribute to Mozart in his The Poems by Katharine ’Bainbridge Ivories .Wallace A, Johnson ....IV essay on “Opera and the Nature of Music” proper position of the Musician toward Music by HOMER GRUNN 19866 Jazz Americana .. ,C. Harles .V 4325 How Can I I ““ Price, 75 ct deserves to be more widely known than it the Poet. yOUNG pianists may use these numbers in vari 19825 W’hitemania .Charles Wakefield Cadman.IV ways. They are songs easy to p 19882 Strutting Out _Irene Marschand Ritter..IV is. Here are some vivid passages. “How little did this most richly gifted of 23477 Patter Without choose, or they are recitations with .35 9621 Humorous V a t “There is nothing more characteristic musicians understand our modern music- solos with Chatter .C. Blanco .V .Siegfried Ochs 19826 Jazz Scherzo .David \y. Union V Brahms, Beethoven of Mozart, in his career of opera-composer, maker’s trick of building gaudy towers of ATMOSPHERIC than the unconcernedness wherewith he music upon a hollow, valueless foundation 18528 Wing Foo .Cecil Burleigh .HI been their original writing. 16270 Indian War Dance..a It. Kroeger .IV 18455 The Country Band. .Wallace A. Johnson . IV went to work. It was so far from occur¬ and playing the rapt and the inspired where WHAT THEY DO IN WONDERTOWN 16925 Chinese Wedding Quite characteristic and delightfully entertaining |tl it ring to him to weigh the pros and cons all the poetaster’s botch is void and flimsy, Picture Play for the Pianoforte Day .W. Berwald .V introduction of some “old timers.” 9348 March of the Indian 23524 TheDarkie's Dream.Harl McDonald .IV; 1 of the aesthetic problem involved in opera the better to show that the musician is By RUTH ALDEN Price, 75 cents Phantoms .E. R. Kroeger .VII 22502 The Arkansas Trav¬ that he rather engaged with utmost un¬ rpHE author takes the audience to Wondertown through CHIMES eler .Harl McDonald .V the jack in office and can go any length . an .invitation in poetry and then a reading of the 181513 Those Distant 23751 Barn Dance (The constraint in setting any and every operatic he pleases, even to making something out interesting imaginary trip, illustrated by eight first and text-book offered him, almost heedless There’s Profit and Pleasure in Chimes .Wallace A. Johnson _111yi Arkansas T r a v- of nothing—the same as the good God! second grade characteristic piano pieces that are to be (The Little Church in the Valley.) eler) .James H. Rogers .V whether it were a” thankful or a thankless played ill the course of the story as indicated. Another 8607 Chiming Bells of 14245 Nearer. My God, “O how doubly dear and above all decided novelty for the recitals of the beginning pianists, Long Ago .Louis A. Drumbellcr —IV task for him as pure musician. to Thee ..F. Illmmelrelch .V honor is Mozart to me, that it was not 19403 Monastery Chimes..John Martin .IHJd 14454 Dixie Doodle .Edward llolst .Ill “If we piece together all his aesthetic Teaching the “Melody Way” THE CAT CONCERT 19409 Cathedral Morning An interesting medley, one section giving Dixie In on possible to him to invent music for Tito Chimes ..John Martin .HV/i hand against Yankee Doodle in the utlicr. hints and sayings, culled from here and Six Compositions for the Pianoforte like that of Don Giovanni, for Cosi fan 13357 Old Mission Chimes. Stanley F. Widener _IV 14176 Variations on a Na¬ there, we shall find that the sum of his You will enjoy teaching the “Melody Way” be¬ By RUSSELL SNIVELY GILBERT Price, 60 cents DESCRIPTIVE tional Song _Eugenio Pirnnl .VII tntte like that of Figaro! How shamefully CLEVER numbers that have much of interest in the 1168 The Sailor Boy's An Imitation of various Instruments using "Amriln.' reflection mounts no higher than his fa¬ would it have desecrated music! cause children love this simple, fascinating method. nistsWayT^yeaIirtf4ndmeto tdSS!? iifa INTERESTING, BUT NOT ALIKE mous definition of his nose. The sailor in 111 8362 The Beetles' Dance.Edward llolst .IV “Music Mozart always made, but It arouses and holds their interest from the very start. highly imaginary cat concert where “The Cats March the church with ... _ “He was so utterly and entirely a musi¬ J,n’ ‘he “Professor Cat Sings a Prayer,” “The Prize A very popular, showy type of number. beautiful music he could never write ex¬ is a suggestion of the rolling v i of the sea. 19152 Lilt cian and nothing but a musician, that Children considered “untalented” often become the Cat Fiddler,” “The Three Black Cats Plav a Trio,” “The 23339 The Storm .Clarence Kohlmann. .Cecil Burleigh . V Kitty Kittens Dance" and "The Moonlight Glee Club A sprightly, vivacious little classic. through him we may also gain the clearest cepting when inspired.” A piano arrangement of the storm os played by the 23503 Rode Sings. They are about grade one and a half and two. composer on the famous Ocean City Auditorium organ, March-Galop.A. Jackson Peabody Jr..IV most eager students. Little pen sketches beside each title add to the juvenile 19721 Storm on the Ocean.John Martin .HIM .45 A "Bang-up" number for the robust player. interest, \\hen the youngster gets through with these 23068 Battle of Lake Erie.Frank T. Brehm .IV .35 3356 Humorous Fantasy. .Erwin Schneider .V .70 The “Melody Way” enables you to teach ten, fifteen minor AmteJ“majo^"?) tea”4 ^ ™G r™i°r.- D A portrayal of a rural Fourth of July celebration Tjhe Gilded Angel interrupted by a thunder shower. By GEORGE TOMPKINS or twenty pupils as easily as one. A spirit of friendly SOUVENIRS OF THE MASTERS 1 Conct i the . -.Oscar Schmidt .VI .fit of ‘one of the angels’ who appeared in rivalry develops in the class. This promotes interest. Easy Piano Solos Introducing Famous Melodies with A wonderful trill number in which the nightingale “It is only in modern times that the Text Ad Lib. and the cuckoo are heard. training of the childgln music has attracted Rome in a religious pageant. This particu¬ Your charges vary according to size of class, making By GEO. L. SPAULDING Price, $1.00 The good tl tre pianist"will find' .... PIECES FOR THE LEFT HAND ALONE an Oriental atmoapherSygr the attention of eminent authorities,” re¬ lar angel, a child, had been gilded from a„C„qi"^nt.anc.eu w!t!1 tlle melodies of i 13009 Believe Me, If All head to foot and died because of the stop¬ your services available to many more pupils. . . player through these 27 Thiose Ekidearing marks Louis Elson in “Children in Music.” second and third grade pieces that - ■' • Young Charms . .W. P. Mere .IV .25 MISSISSIPPI RIVER SCENES He then tells us that “The records of chil¬ page of all the pores of the skin .... spired melodies of Beethoven, Mozart,, Hayden, Handel, 17025 Traumerei .It. Schumann .V .25 “About A. D. 940 we find the first musi¬ ndelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, _, 9114 Shepherd's Lullaby. Marcella Henry .in .50 By CARL WILHELM KERN Plan°for,c price „ „ dren in music, in ancient times, are re¬ Gounod, Rub •—'- Moszkowski, Paderewski, cal child prodigy, appearing at the French Classes Do Not Interfere With Tbr Wt~ 13160 jMarcella Henry .Ill .25 markably brief. Children were allowed lottschalk, - ’aganini,___ .Chaminade, ...-PPI ' A S£ITE tI charmi»« cI,arac.,eri*tie piece* for the jouno- court. The youngster of nine years played only. furnish. delight'"’delightful study' ’ r 13889 Home, ' Sweet can The "umbers contained therein arc truly .Wwi- to sing in old Rome, on special, holidays, Individual Lessons can, being suggestive and descriptive of a trip taken In the upon the ponderous pipe-organ of that went wbh-„ -A „ W OUn?lPl!yel-an, «”'*'».*» AD *»*• Home .M. A. nenry .ni ,35 composer upon the Mississippi River. In addition t- be- and even took part in some of the histori¬ f, *■ wltn pardonable pride to his hearers something of 6921 Spring’s Greeting..F. Hummel .IV .20 time, an instrument which had keys as the great composers. >. 43, N 1. n^vel ^L;„Cach,"*g, nHraber#» they also make very cal triumphs of long ago. Their training, “Melody Way” class instruction gives beginners an novel and taking recital pieces. large as bricks, which dipped about eight like all the school training in ancient Rome, excellent foundation. The elements of Rhythm, Mel¬ Individual Easy Piano Solos in Sheet Form was probably very severe, with frequent inches before a tone was sounded, and Suggestions for Concert and Recital Artists or Accomplished Players ody, Harmony and Form are taught from the first les¬ Boys Particularly Like Numbers recourse to the rod. which were pressed, not by the fingers, but by the fist. Our little prodigy Such as These FROM THE SOUTHLAND “In the Middle Ages children often sang son. Rapid progress makes them eager to continue. AMERICAN INDIAN RHAPSODY fisted so well that he is recorded in Piano Sketches and acted in the religious festivals and After completing the first term, many enroll for in¬ 23563 The Camel Train.. .William Baines ..IVA $0.45 By H. T. BURLEIGH Price, $1.00 mysteries. ’ We have the story of the death history.” An interesting descriptive piece. The approach of the i-pHESE piano sketches are artistic tone poems of the dividual lessons. camel train, the Bedouin chant, the drums, cym- , southern plantations and the old colored folks’ jubi- I by Thurlow ALS™-Ita-PS°dy on, tl?.em's suggested bals and hiP's a™ all depicted. 2^25 Chinatown .James II. Rogers .II.30 ees and camp meetings. There are only six numbers, 23100 Hindoo Dance ....furl A. Pieyer . in/ 25 but they are well worth the attention of the pianist who 1Bad tympany for a Gentleman’s Son Children in your community are waiting for an opt 22906 The Village Church.Richard J. Pitcher’!!.’! .11 / 25 junction0 wthM*8 di'- i '1CCf 50JlJettllinS beautiful in con- as a Strictly cSncert l.ovcUy. “ maSt suUa,’le Bells are Im.il, I l,t lower cluck strikes. I he'‘congre¬ portunity to learn the “Melody Way.” Hundreds of gation sings and the organ plays the recessional The violin today is a gentleman’s instru¬ light, brings him into the middle of bad ln tllIS 'lever little piece. teachers have more than doubled their incomes. Let 227o9 Toot. Toot, Toot!.. FROM THE DALLES TO By MELODIES ment. Fritz Kreisler, for instance, gave company and takes up a good deal of time ‘h° -st.attrac^'of'th? up a commission in the Austrian cavalry to which might be better employed. Few us explain just how to organize classes and teach piano MINNETONKA things would mortify me more than to see Five Impressions for the Pianoforte become a virtuoso violinist. ■by this profitable and delightful method. Mail the It has not always been thus, however. you bearing a part in a concert with- a fid¬ By THURLOW LIEURANCE Price, $1.25 play, but in these conpp t ’ an, . sometimes difficult *o coupon for full information. made everything so nlairfVi, Hartmann has Consider Lord Chesterfield’s advice to his dle under your chin.” TT IS so very easy to get many commonplace things for What a courtly flow of language would 23585 The Funny Come- i.thl'P'an° the verY difference of the numbfrs in interpreteybTinyU^ItVri^ta^od’" may eaBily ,,e son: “If you love music, hear it; go to tnis little folio should make it a temDtinsr nffprintr tn inspire his lordship’s supercilious pen if lie any pianist of ability, tu «... -^ s. uruamg to the persons concerned and pay fiddlers to 23582 The Vilalii" . .'Frank 1 STRATFORD^ON-AVON lived in modern times and could see his off¬ 1923S Petit Burlesque.. .IV. p. either based upon Indit play for you. But I must insist upon your Thurlow spring with the business etid of a saxo¬ f^ the 5 ‘ n Pian°f0Wc«, 75 cents not playing yourself. It places a gentle¬ Miessner Institute Berwald , phone in his mouth! 23109 Chinese Dance ...... “By t : Water these folk dances of "iS™. DJ}nce* The music for man in a very frivolous, contemptible 22817 An Indian Fancy.. .Helen Dallam .. ! m acteristic, and these a?ran«mems l!?nl'r n,05t char' 22650 Chun Sticks ally difficult, will find , :nen s’ which are not unustt- OF MUSIC (Waltz) .A. de Lull! .m °f any good pianist who £ace in ,he repertoire 23139 The Winding Road.. Paul Bliss . m out of the ordinary. Wh° ‘ seeking something to use For right hand alone. Young pianists can esl ALBUM OF SIX COMPOSITIONS Tohe A Quitar and a Bottle oj Rum cBehold this representative specimen of modern futuristic art! Much of the futuristic music IT is by an accepted painter designed for children, which and is published in Lu¬ has gotten into print, seems to gano. Lugano is a lovely us like music designed for the little Swiss city, at the north children of chimpanzees and end of an entrancing Italian gibbons, rather than for the Alpine lake. The people, for children of human mothers. the most part, speak Italian and When will this preposterous French and lead a delightful fraud upon the public be and somewhat placid existence. stamped out! The normal child The town is orderly and almost likes beautiful things—novel and orthodox in its rational aspects. fresh, we grant you. But what Futuristic art, however, is like kind of child is it that clamors the turtle’s egg in the hen’s solely for the ugly and imbecile nest. It may hatch anywhere. stuff that some composers seem We must confess that we to think they ought to have. have not advanced to the state Lord, spare us our reason! where such a work of art as “A The gullibles in art and in Guitar and a Bottle of Rum” music are numberless. Like the has any poetic significance to “suckers” around a “phony us. Its symbolism may be ob¬ game” at a street fair, they lit¬ vious'to some. The guitar is erally leap forward and lay slightly distorted and is labeled down their money only to be “Rum.” The note on the staff defrauded over and over again. covers four lines and we must Several times disgusted com¬ assume may be played that way. posers h ive “faked” supposedly The star of Bethlehem and the ace of spades make queer bedfellows; but doubtless there is modem compositions and produced intsntioned musical carica¬ something mystically significant about it all. In the back¬ tures, hopelessly without artistic value, only to have their jokes ground there is a symbolical patch for a pair of tweed accepted as masterpieces. breeches. (If it is not that, what in the name of all the pagan In art the case of Paul Jordan Smith, the novelist, has re¬ Gods in the Pantheon is it?) cently received international attention. One of the fine mod¬ This picture is reprinted from a representative German ern paintings of his wife was criticised by a futuristic critic magazine of high standing, which means that it has been given as being old-fashioned. The indignant novelist, wholly with¬ earnest consideration by people who at least take themselves out painting skill, daubed up a caricature of futuristic art which seriously. Its art value is utterly lost upon us. The only im¬ was hung conspicuously in a representative exhibition and at¬ pression it makes is of a hopeless and useless jumble which any tracted enthusiastic praise from futuristic magazines here and small boy might make with chop-sticks and a blacking brush. abroad. He was hailed at once as a ne w and powerful master. This picture looks to us just the way much of the futuristic We are convinced that with a chisel and a bung-starter we music sounds. Moreover, we are not “bamboozled” one little could produce upon the keyboard masterpieces equal to many bit by the nonsense of these propagandists of noise and chaos, cf the futuristic compositions we have seen in print, particu¬ who try to humble us by pointing to the failure of past gen¬ larly if we happened to be seized, in the moment of inspira¬ erations to recognize the genius of such men as Beethoven, tion, with a violent spell of fits. Chopin and Wagner. The lovely flights of the finer things of Debussy, Ravel, It is no sign of progressiveness to mate a practice of swal¬ Stravinsky and Scriabin thrill us with new joys. But the lowing any kind of musical nostrum that any clique of fanatical deliberate clap-trap cf composers who try to capture public enthusiasts passes off as high art. attention by side-show tricks appalls us. MARCH, 1928 15he ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE voi. avi, n». j MARCH 1928 Page 187 THE ETUDE 'Baking up Music in Later IN FULL SWING AGAIN the music season is in full swing. From now until the voice was really essential and that tne pia ■L *-next June, the music worker will be actively engaged every late the timbre of the voice. Therefore such music lost hope moment. lessly in being transferred to the keyboard. America’s enormous prosperity, the well-filled books, the Others noted, however, that all of the works o: Bach Bee¬ lower prices, all make it possible for the home of moderate means thoven, Liszt, Brahms, Wagner, Schumann and J^ky-Korsa to insure the musical education of the child. koff could be arranged for piano for two hands or four hands, We are greatly blessed in this. No other nation in the so that the magnificent organic structure of the composition world has been so fortunate. might be comprehended entirely without the tone-colors of the It is possible for almost every child in the land to have a orchestra. Naturally, when painted from the orchestral palette, musical training, if the parent is wise enough to see the great as intended, they are more beautiful; but the music itself, as dividends that come from the study of music. sheer music, heard through a monochromatic instrument, is The teacher, the manufacturer, the publisher and the dealer, beautiful enough to stand in every instance as an art work. in America, all are working harmoniously to bring the parent Music that depends entirely upon orchestral color is often to realise that his duty is not done when he clothes and feeds no more permanent than the clouds in the sky. Perhaps this his child, and gives him a common school education. They are is one of the reasons why one so rarely hears the gorgeously making it clear that through music the child is insured certain orchestrated compositions of Berlioz, despite the fact that they mental and personal developments which are quite as important were written by the greatest press agent in musical history. as anything that may be derived from the performance of his other'obligations. KEEPING CHEERFUL Even during the most active part of the season the teacher “It is a priceless ex' “Much of the Great should endeavor to do something every day to spread this IN all probability the average person imagines that the work perience to he able to message. of the music teacher is a pleasant sinecure—an innocent piano playing of the calling, involving very little labor and less strain. Our present musical prosperity in America is due to the go to the \eyboard and world has been done fact that we recognized years ago this life value of music—that Those who know realize that music teaching calls for so we brought the public to understand that music is not a much intense attention to exactness, so much giving out of permit great master' by Virtuosi long past jumping-jack. inspiration, so much in the way of painstaking explanation, pieces to sing through sixty." We are glad to receive the most sanguine reports of wide¬ that we doubt whether there is any other branch of the teach¬ spread activity from our teacher readers. This promises to be ing art which makes such a ceaseless drain upon the pedagog’s your fingers. a banner year for the teacher of unceasing activity. energies. Many teachers are so carried away by their calling that FREAK MUSIC they become imprudent. They overdo. They become tired, “worn out,” taciturn, cynical. * | 'HERE was a Scotch tradesman who thought himself very The next step is a chronic bad disposition. People natur¬ wise. He made a trip to Germany and found that the ally shun an ugly temper. Therefore, it should be obvious to Germans were manufacturing various kinds of cloths with every teacher, who aspires to the greatest possible usefulness extremely bizarre patterns. He saw that the Germans liked and real material success, that above all things he should keep these cloths and bought them in very large quantities. cheerful. If he cannot keep cheerful, he should not expect “Aha,” said the canny Scot, “here is a fortune for me.” prosperity. He bought a large stock and took them back to Edinburgh. “Here,” he said, to his customers, “here’s something far and The great English journalist, Lord Riddell, says in “Some Things that Matter:” away finer than the tarlatans you love so much. The tarlatans are hopelessly old-fashioned, and therefore ugly.” “The merry, eager, inquiring mind goes all the way; the dull, bored mind soon gets tired.” His scheme was a wonderful one and he would have become a rich man, save for one thing. His customers did not agree If you find yourself getting dull or bored or pessimistic- with him. look out! No matter how hard you work you will defeat your own purposes. Form the habit of looking on the bright side The music teacher must realize, first of all, that music is a of things trusting people instead of doubting them. Hold fast human need; that musical taste may be gradually developed, to your faith in the goodness of the Almighty but that it cannot be forced. He must be rational, if he is to America particularly is a land of optimism and faith succeed. If he happens to visit the studios of a few musical © PIRIE MAC snobs, who go into artificial rhapsodies over “cubist” music, Let those who do not appreciate what this has meant in our which in many cases they do not even understand, but which development seek other shores and find a civilization to their liking. Alas! Such a civilization exists. they extol because a group of extremists pronounce it, “the An Interview With the Distinguished American Educator and Novelist thing,” he must not bewail his fate if his public begins to fall off, when he tries to feed that public the same music. PICTURES IN MUSIC John Erskine THE Erst writing of man was picture writing. He made a Let him go through the exhibitions of cubist paintings— AUTHOR OF “GALAHAD,” “THF. PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN OF TROY,” “DEMOCRACY AND IDEALS, ugly, out of perspective, freaks and curiosities—and ask himself intiET °f a dog’an "row, an ax or a cow, and chiseled it “THE KINDS OF POETRY,” AND OTHER WORKS. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT CO¬ into stone in a way that has endured thousands of years Sub¬ if he would pay real money to possess one. LUMBIA UNIVERSITY. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC. It is all very well to go to see the Bearded Lady, the tat¬ stantives were easy. -We often wonder how he began to exprts his verbs and adjectives by means of pictures 8 P tooed man, and the dog-faced boy, in the side show, once a 4 i riOME MONTHS ago The Etude Music Magazine editori- ing the following interview upon a subject of real and direct Picture-writing is the first penmanship of the child Hri year; but, goodness gracious, we don’t want to invite them ^ ally took “Who’s Who in America” to task for failing to interest to thousands of its readers. John Erskine was born. home to live with us! scrawlmgs and scratchings on sheets of paper are raret made to mention in its excellent biographies of outstanding Americans October 5, 1879, in New York City. He studied at Columbia imitate script, but are initial attempts tomake pictme Does The music that lasts is music founded on the human desire (.26,915 in number) the significant fact that many of the leaders University, receiving his A. M. degree in 1901 and his Ph. D. in not seem reasonable, therefore that the r • LMes, for real melodic and harmonic beauty. 1903. After three years as an associate professor of English at little one is so innatVthat it Luld in our national life had been excellently trained in music and had kind of musical education7 y cognized in any followed it as one of their beloved avocations. The 1927-1928 Amherst, he returned to his Alma Mater where he has been ever DOES IT SOUND WELL ON THE PIANO? edition completely ignores the fact that such notables as John since save for a period in France as Educational Director of the TOURING a recent extensive European tour, the Editor of Erskine. Owen Wister, Charles M. Schwab. Ralph Modjeski, American Expeditionary Forces, at the University of Beaune. The Etude had the privilege of talking with many of the *2V£ss"jrron ^ n°»; from •»*> little child, pictures will never be omitted°f fhc Vladimir Karapetoff and many others set out in life to become Although 'widely known in the educational world, it was not until foremost living composers. Naturally, modern music was the pictures’ sake alone, have very little S in 2“ Plcture%,for professional musicians. All men who have gone. through this the publication of his famous novels that he became an interna¬ basis of many extensive discussions. Somehow, most of the must be conceived as a part of the ven i° edlJca1tlon- They musical experience have repeatedly vouchsafed their enthusiastic tional figure in the broader sense. Professor Erskine’s own rela¬ men volunteered the remark that if music does not sound well, The child’s interest mu/ not be detectedk?5"¥plan' appreciation of the value of such a training in preparing them for tion of why and how he returned to music should prove a great when adequately played upon the piano, it is not music which the mental problems in other callings. be stimulated. Generally soeakina- tk u i Plctures; it must inspiration to thousands of readers of The Etude Music is likely to endure. The instance of Professor Erskine is one of the most remark¬ —» «** s&a?—* able. The Etude Music Magazine takes great pride in present¬ Magazine. In the great ocean of music there is always a wave of inspiration for you. Find it,every d am confident that anyone who very much most rejuvenating? More than any other 4kA-T-sAKING UP MUSIC in later life play some instrument; but I haven’t the desires to play will find the way and the study, it calls for alertness; and alertness I has been the ambition of great time to give to it.’ time. Many are deterred by the thought is one of the marks of youth, numbers of very busy and in- “This pathetic excuse', ‘no time,’ all too telligent people, who, however, soon suffo- often points to a real lack of will or to a that it is too late. ‘I am too old 1’ they ex- Alertness Through Technic claim. Ah! but don't you know that mu- 44tT IS NOT to be supposed that one cate the ideal with the thought: disorganized life plan. We all make time sic, of all arts, is the one which is the A who has had no musical training “ ‘I would give anything if I could only to do the things we really want to do. I MARCH 1928 Page 189 THE ETUDE TEE ETUDE Page 188 MARCH 1928 by educators in these days. In addition to ., D-Flat by whatever in youth can in a few months gain modern ideas of music. He replied in E-Flat by Chopin, Etude ” similar inducing rapid thinking, developing con¬ { MARCH 1928 Page 198 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE Page 192 MARCH 1928 Flew Lights on Scale Playing By Isadore Freed SCALES SHOULD indeed be com- going up and down the keyboard with ut- The following chart gives in detail the E* ® pletely mastered. But there are vari- most ease. Thus we see that a scale is fingering for every scale which varies from ous ways of doing it. The worst of played by the combined movement of the the usual 1, 2, 3—1, 2, 3, 4. these ways undoubtedly is the endless un- fingers, thumb and forearm. To use this chart, follow the line of intelligent repetition of scale after scale If these three elemental movements are any particular scale from beginning to end. so characteristic of the practice of a cer- completely mastered before scale playing For example C#, right hand, begins on taln, school of pianists. Much better is is attempted, the technical difficulties con- second finger with the following fingering: the intellectual mastery of the problems of nected with scale playing will almost 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2. scale playing followed by the working out entirely vanish. Scales can then be prac- Minors and majors utilize the same of the mental and mechanical problems of ticed more as a test of one's mastery of fingering except B flat and E flat minors, the intelligent coordination of the mind these three elements than as a technical left hand and the playing mechanism. For the scale, problem in itself. Right hand scales C, D, E, G, A, B, and Here notice that the lower notes form although a complicated combination of Scales, as they are usually practiced, re- left hand scales C A G F E, D, begin -perfect downward going chromatic scale. various technical difficulties is after all quire the working out of these three 0n the first finger (in the first group), constructed along lines both logical and fundamental movements during the actual All other scales are indicated in the above - 7 systematic. The mastery' of scale playing playing of the scale. This is not easy chart B therefore depends upon the degree with when the musical and fingering difficulties The chart is extremely simple. For ex- which scale principles have been assimi¬ are added as problems also to be overcome, ample, the E flat major scale begins on 3 lated. If, however, the technical difficulties are of the group of 4 sounds, 1, 2, 3—2, 3, 4. It is interesting t a analyze these scale studies as separate units they are much The fingering is 3, 4—1 2 3—1, 2, 3, 4 The upper notes all form ; diminished Principle's in order to see what technical more quickly mastered, and a great saving All the other scales follow the same plan, seventh chord on A. elements are used in scale playing. On in time and nerve energy can..be effected. Thus it is apparent that the fingering of what principle are the various scale finger- Most confusing of all of the " scale’s all scales is the same in principle but ings based; also, on what musical principle difficulties i .‘he question of fingering, that each scale begins at a different place, Ex.8 are scales constructed? Here, too, a few simple basic rule"s will which“is not at all surprising s Musically scales are very simple Major be found very helpful. Since both major scale begins on a different note. JiJ 4ffi dharVet InH 7?, TVu / ” scajes consist of seven After scales have been mastered music- g"a L =, 7th and 8th degrees, sounds repeated octave after octave, it, ally, technically and digitally, interest- Mmor scales are really of three kmds: of course becomes self-evident that the ing things can be done with them. They natural, melodic and harmonic. The fingering,_ first a =group_ of three notes and should be played hands together in similar natural minor is based on the major scale then of four notes, * When one can play scales so well that beginning with its sixth note, thus: t'Kt 2SS - - various speeds and they5* ***should «rif one is to have a fluent there came together some 240 boys and desultory preparation, you could success¬ he suggests. His system emphasizes the MUSIC EDUCATION instructors girls in an excellently balanced chorus. fully make music your life work is another advantage to a teacher of having a type¬ are working hard to stimulate writer at his command and of learning to Most of the towns sent one or two, or, question. You need an intensive course Book. What exercise book shall 1 greater interest in music in this use it at least enough for practical purposes. ^Musical (Competition or at most, three quartets. Aberdeen being of training, under a well-trained teacher next take? As I am a great lover country, no more significant means having Brushing up One’s Playing Letters and manuscripts of all kinds are of classical music, I wonder it you the city of the convention contributed a or at a first class conservatory—a course could suggest some simple classical been used than the revival and expansion I am a busy housewife, with a more convincing in type than in ordinary larger number and helped to overcome somewhat desultory musical educa¬ extending over several years—before you material. of the competition movement. Employing tion, far in the past. I have kept handwriting. With the many rebuilt and I find a great trouble with my some slight inequalities of some of the are fitted to take an honorable place in the fourth finger, and often hold down much the same methods of those which (Cooperation or ‘Both •’u bit music to a certain extent by portable typewriters now on the market at other towns. For the opening rehearsal aching beginners and by playing profession. If you have time, means and notes in my scales. Could you give have been widely used in athletics, music moderate prices, every teacher, surely, any exercises to remedy this fault? there was almost an even division of parts perseverance to fulfill these conditions, go competitions have attained a position of ahead. But you had better pursue some should have one as part of his equipment. surprising vitality, vying in interest in with possibly 65 sopranos, 60 altos, 50 -r the instrument and By Peter Dykema diligent practice, together with r less exacting occupation than that of turn¬ 1. The natural sequence to the Begin¬ many places with competitions in athletics. W. tenors and 55 basses. The director might faithful p—«• have called for almost any town and ing out a fourth-rate musician. ner’s Book is Presser’s Student’s Book— In fact, music “meets,” in certain sections Professor of Music Education _... play it, if not bril¬ Position at the Piano asked that the quartet from that group School of the Pianoforte, Vol. 2. If you of the country apparently excite even Columbia University liantly, at least acceptably. (1) What is the best thing for me rise and sing any designated number. But for years I have neglected How to 'Beach Scale Fingering prefer a more radical change of material, greater interest than athletic games. piano practice, seldom playing any¬ to do with several of my older pupils Just as there are many doubters who thing but such church music as may Two solutions of the problem of who are careless about keeping their I suggest Easy Studies in Early Grade by high school students, the idealized devo¬ fingers curved properly? The girls Mathilde Bilbro. A little more advanced question the wisdom of basing athletics should be attractive when learned and be worked up at home. Occasionally fingering have recently been received. First are very proud of their fingernails, should be interesting and stimulating dur¬ tion of the youth to his maiden. I find it necessary to prepare ' largely on competition, so there are large' Plowing New Ground lor some public auf' although comes one from Elwin A. Sherman, of which are long and make a disagree¬ is Mathews’ Standard Graded Course of ing the process of learning. It should be (8-9) The religious element was well ....ries with able clicking sound. Studies, Grade 2. numbers of musicians who not only doubt HE DIRECTOR heard one quartet in ;lf bungling Laconia, New Hampshire, who sends the (2) Also, what is the best way so varied in character as to lend itself to represented because the first of the con¬ T to' get, beginners to practice with There is a wealth of simple classical the wisdom of competitions in music but particular with great pleasure. This nervously ’ even over” selections of following rules: are even strongly opposed to it. They the three contemplated programs. certs was at the Sunday evening convoca¬ moderate difficulty, such as Tschni- their hands held properly? What are material contained in the Sonatina Album, was from a town which was between 30 kowsky’s June—although I have good exercises ' '' admit that students apply themselves as¬ 2. If possible, this material should ap¬ tion. The alto solo 0 Rest in the Lord, o flatten t Vol. 49, of the Prcss'er Collection. and 40 miles from a railroad. Of this played it well enough at home. I my pupils war siduously to the winning of a contest, and pear in a single publication in order to and the tenor solo If with All Your suppose It is because I am conscious 5 In the r „ gers. They do 2. You need to learn just how to focus avoid expense, differing editions and the quartet two memlicrs had never seen an of my faulty technic. their lessons, but I am i that, through this spur, greater attention is Hearts, both from Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” Could you suggest some material ; B major and l do something over each key when you sound it, and to given to the working out of fine details of possibility of losing single sheets, which is gave opportunity for the use of the alto elevator nor a railroad train, this being for practice that will help me to re¬ the left hand and F major and ticing correctly. transfer that attention to the key which inor in the right hand, in which performance. the main disadvantage of octavo music. and tenor sections in telling solos. their first journey away from their home gain a fair technic and build up a you play next. Forearm rotation is a town. Moreover, it was the first time that short repertoire, so that I need not ie fingering is 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. It is useless to attempt to play the piano But they maintain that music being con¬ 3. It would be a great help if orchestral (10) Lovely Appear from Gounod’s be so nervous about playing in pub¬ i scales extending more than one great help toward this end. accompaniments were available for the their school had had any musical organi¬ lic V Since I have but little time for tave, the thumb is substituted for with long fingernails; you will have to ceived as an expression of the finer side “Redemption,” calling for a quartet and ie fifth finger in beginning the sec- Hold down treble G with the fifth choral numbers. zation to represent it. A music supervisor, practice, is it necessary to use tech¬ convince the pupils of that fact. Nothing of man’s nature is harmed when feelings chorus, sounded the keynote of peace and nical exercises and studies? Would is more annoying than a continual clicking finger of your right hand, and poise your of rivalry are associated with it. They After considering a number of publica¬ though only recently appointed, had, never¬ it not be possible to accomplish the ingering scales ti good-will which had special significance in same end by studying well-selected „„ „ ____t with the sec¬ of the nails on the keys while playing. hand over it, with the wrist held high and point out that competitors are seldom in¬ tions. the “Green Book of the Twice 55 theless, during her first three months, ond finger, the thumb taking the the voices of youth. . what pieces would But I am wondering whether you are the other fingers in the air above your terested in noting and appreciating points Community Songs” was selected. In this picked out and trained this high school you recommend? At present, I do first white kev in the right hand as¬ (11) The thrilling chorus from Gou¬ not attempt to play anything much cending and the left descending^ Jr" not insisting on an extreme position. fifth finger. You ought now to have the of superiority in the performance of their 25c collection was to be found material quartet. No one of the young people had nod's “Gallia” gave opportunity for using beyond Grade V.—M. M. VV. thumb also t g the first v.- feeling of balancing your hand over the rivals, but are almost completely absorbed which apparently met all of the require¬ had any music in the grades and at least key after a k key thereafter. When I was a boy, I was taught to keep eight beautiful soprano voices on the solo Exceptions__ ___- B-flat and E-flat fifth finger, just as though you were in the question of winning. Music, like ments specified above. two of them knew nothing alxmt reading If you hire a carpenter to repair your my fingers so curved that the ends were and then bringing in the whole chorus in the left hand, in which the standing on your right foot, with your all the arts, they say, is intended to excite house, you will find that the first thing he thumb takes the second white key. directly below the second finger joints. with magnificent sweep. music This does not always finish the left foot held up. a free appreciative spirit which is almost On their trial they were asked to sing does is to see that his tools are all in From this position, they were to be raised Twelve 'Numbers Chosen scale at the top or bottom with the Now, suddenly throw the hand to the completely blasted by th‘e spirit of com¬ (12) Finally, David Stanley Smith’s Who is Sylvia t because it makes a defi¬ A-l condition. Just the same, you should finger that began it, but, as I al¬ in a perpendicular line as high as possible, graceful setting of Christina Rossetti’s begin each day’s practice, however short ways first teacli the scales in con¬ for each stroke. It was a tremendous re¬ left, so that the fourth finger sounds F. petition and resulting strife. Tilt: TWELVE numbers chosen were nite but not over difficult demand upon each trary motion, this gives no trouble. At the same instant, release all the weight The writer is not unaware of these as follows: text A Hope Carol gave opportunity for voice. The soprano and alto had clear it may be, by preparing arms, hands and lief to me when I went to a teacher who Teachers differ as to whether or not from the fifth finger and poise on F, as criticisms and has, nevertheless, maintained (1) That stirring patriotic chorus To beautiful tone and great variety of inter¬ but rather metallic voices which added fingers for the fray. Most important of had the good sense to reiax this con¬ all, start with some relaxing exercises, the scales beginning on black keys should though you had transferred your weight and still believes that there is a legitimate Thee, O Country! by Eichberg, who, al¬ pretation. A fine American composition desirable quality to the ensemble even strained position and to allow the fingers, for American youth. always use the second finger for the to the left foot. After you have sus¬ place for competition. It is, however, not though born in Germany, passed almost though they were not as yet ready for the following these by a few scales or arpeg¬ while still curved, to assume a more lowest note in the right hand and the tained F for a few seconds, suddenly ro¬ a universal method of aiding music. There forty years in this country of his adoption best solo work. The tenor had an unusu¬ gios. This purely technical work may be natural attitude. confined to but five or ten minutes; but highest in the left. Personally, I have Most piano pedagogues now agree that tate back to the right, sounding G with are times when cooperation, reinforcement and wrote here a large amount of his Call for Quartets ally beautiful voice and would have ac¬ found it more advantageous to use the the normal position at the keyboard should the fifth finger again, and poising on it, as of the efforts of other groups, rather than music. The sweeping lines of this melody ceptably sung a solo. The voice of the it is indispensable. A FTER THESE twelve numbers with Now apply what you have done by work¬ same fingering throughout the scale—for be that in which the upper line of the before. Repeat these movements ad libi¬ competition and endeavoring to surpass and the effective use made of the voices, bass was a fine instrument, but the pos¬ the other group, is more desirable and n*- many moods and many degrees of ing on some technical study, say by Cramer instance, to begin and end B-flat in the forearm and the back of the hand are tum, always keeping the wrist high, and together with the introduction of the ca¬ sessor of it had not yet learned how to more effective. A recent experience of his nonic figure in the chorus and the fine difficulty were selected, in the spring of or Czerny. Or, you may proceed directly right hand with the fourth finger. practically level, the knuckles protruding maintaining the balance over the key use it skilfully. So long as he had a will give point to this observation. 1927, the supervisors of music and the to some piece that is largely technical in .The next solution is by T. Alien Haw¬ a little and the fingers moderately curved, which you are holding down. climax (made, at the end of the third, piano accompaniment to start him right, verse, by having the sopranos follow the principals of the high schools throughout scope, such as Cyril Scott’s Danse negre, kins, of Jamestown, New York, who says: Now treat the fourth and third fingers or a neighboring voice to remind him of ■ thus: line of the accompaniment with corre¬ the State were informed that this was the Grieg's Papillon, MacDowell’s Hexentans, in a similar manner, rotating to the right All'State Chorus the proper tone, he was safe, as regards After reading Miss Margaret Mar- sponding changes in the other parts) all njaterial which was to be used at the State or Schubert’s Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 4. ■■ • article in the August Etui™ WKst in playing with the fourth, and to the left T N THE SPRING of 1927 the president tonality. The tone itself was thrillingly I am reminded that just such ideas combined to make this number an excel - meeting in November. Any high school For pieces within your grasp that com¬ have been helpful to me, so that j Back oF hand In playing with the third, thus: -* of tlie South Dakota Teachers’ Asso¬ beautiful. ■ lent one for opening the first concert. which could produce a group of four bine technical work with considerable perhaps my own particular r ^-’Fxn.ger ciation, Mr. H. D. Foght, at the instiga¬ He was a lad of probably eighteen, of fingering scales may 1'> helpful’ t (2) The old Netherland Thanksgiving singers who could stand up alone and musical interest in the way of lyric pas¬ tion of some of the music supervisors of the size and stature that we attribute to Prayer with its stately unison opening and sing all twelve of these numbers ade¬ sages I suggest Rubinstein’s Third Barca¬ By using the typewriter, one can that state, decided to include on the Asso¬ Abraham Lincoln—tall, lanky, raw-boned put a great deal in a limited space, Key-board surprising harmonic close made an' excel¬ quately would be eligible for inclusion in rolle, Moszkowsky’s Air de Ballet, Op. 36, and children can read it readily. ciation’s program an all-state 'high-school lent combination number for the more rap¬ the chorus. Normally, the groups were —but with a voice made not only to cope I use a two-colored ribbon, so I No. 5, and several of Chopin’s waltzes. that It is easy to change, from black chorus. Doubtless influenced by the fact idly moving Eichberg patriotic chorus. , A to come in quartets. Only in exceptional with the elements of a wild country but For special purposes, this position may that New York is a long distance from simple contrast was obtained by haying instances would the smaller schools be al¬ one that, when trained, was like the tone In most of the scales the fourth be duly altered, as, for instance, by raising South Dakota and that the fame of a JYCusic as a Life Wor\ finger is used but once in the oc- the boys sing the first verse alone, the lowed to send portions of quartets. It of a great organ pipe. or lowering the wrist or rotating from The exercise may be performed at first prophet increases almost in proportion to girls the second and all combined, the third. ’ was pointed out that the benefits to the Here was a quartet from one of the side to side. For incisive passages, the legato and afterwards staccato. While his distance from the scene of his appear¬ yearssa o©*f age°and«*».« -—- have— b^playing . - - The fourth finger Is typed in black, (3) The Volga Boatmen’s Song ar¬ local school would be much greater and least well-prepared sections. Alone, it the piano from memory or by ear fingers may be more contracted; while, ance, the president wrote to the head of however, when used as substitute for you asked especially about the fourth ranged as a canon, was properly treated all preliminary rehearsals much more ef¬ had many faults, but in cooperation with since I was six years old. When¬ the thumb in beginning B with the for the expression of a melody, they may the Music Education Department in ever I bear a piece, which is not too left hand and as the highest note of finger, the exercise may well be applied as a dramatic patrol in which the treble fective if the idea of quartets was held the others it was a most valuable adjunct. difficult technically, played through be more extended, sometimes to a nearly Teachers’ College, who welcomed the op¬ i the right 1 to any other pairs of fingers, in either voices were first heard softly in the dis¬ to strictly. In a competition this group would have three or four times, I can play it. I peggiosocsscji, ...ii a similar way. flat position. “Make the punishment fit portunity Of cooperating in the experi¬ do not care for jazz but love good Terhaps the following eight points tance and again dying away at the close,; had practically no recognition, but in the ment. The supervisor of music in Aber¬ All the different means that were used in scale-playing may be new to some the crime,” and do not become a slave to After you have practiced the exercise combination it was as highly honored as I have had about two years' piano teachers: as the group of toilers passed up the riv’er. to teach those boys and girls the parts lessons, but find reading music very a cut-and-dried tradition. for a few days with these extreme mo¬ deen, where the Association was to hold any other group. 1. Correct notes (piano keys). its meeting, cooperated from the first and (4) The Bfahriis’ Lullaby in a simple, can hardly be enumerated here. In fact, difficult. I understand that those 2. Correct fingering. If you look after the position of the tions, it may be quickened, with a lessen¬ It is interesting to know something who play from memory, like myself, 3. Correct time and accent. was of the greatest assistance in devising effective, three-part arrangement formed a ' they are not all knowii to the writer! usually have much more trouble in beginners carefully at each lesson, your ing of the rotation, until the trill is played about the procedure by which these 240 4. Correct touch. the plan and carrying it through to a beautiful contrast through its quiet mood. But it was evident, from the way these reading than those who cannot play 5. Good legato, good quality-of precepts ought to sink in after a while. at a moderate pace, with the rotating mo¬ students who had never been together be¬ without . ,, tone, no notes slighted. successful conclusion. (5) A strikingly different mood was; young people sang, that there had been I have been wondering whether Perhaps you can enlist the aid of the tions only slightly apparent. But you fore were fused into a united chorus. 0. Good position of the hand, the For the three appearances of the chorus presented in the sprightly Dancers by La- much careful preliminary work. So great it is advisable for me to continue wrist well out, fingers slanted in, fin¬ mammas as occasional supervisors of their must always think the rotation, and be There are, of course, many methods which with my studies and make music my gers curved. on the general program it was decided to come, who, though a Frenchman, has writ¬ life work. I have a great desire to children’s home work, sure to transfer the focus entirely, from was the interest in the idea, so alluring the could have been used. The one which is 7. Prompt movement of the have twelve musical numbers. In selecting ten in the dashing Spanish style. learn the pipe organ and also to thumb under the fingers. one key to the next. Otherwise there prospect of meeting with mates from here suggested may not be the best one teach piano and organ. I am ex¬ S. Swing of the arm from the these the following points were borne in (6-7) Two beautiful love songs were other cities and taking part in this chorus ceedingly poor on sight-reading, and shoulder as the fingers pass the Rotation Movements will be a lack of clearness of utterance, mind: Schubert’s Who is Sylvia? and Pinsuti’s and may not be applicable to other condi¬ this fact causes me to be at times thumb; quiet wrist. before the State Teachers’ Association, discouraged.—R. R. W. C. just as a picture comes out blurred when 1. The material should be within the tions. It will, at least, serve as a basis I am an adult beginner teaching Good-Night Beloved! both of which pre- . that, although tills was the first time the The writer appends a table of the scales, the focus of the camera is not sharply de¬ capabilities of the high school singers, for comparison with other plans. You evidently have real musical taste myself to play the piano and I have sent, in a way that appeals strongly to plan had been tried in South Dakota, with the fourth finger typed in red, as just completed Presser’s Beginner’s fined. (Continued on page 225) and ability. Whether, however, with your MARCH 1928 Page 203 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE Page 202 MARCH 192S CLASSIC, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MASTER WORKS Keep Your Piano in Ybune MAURESQUE MAURICE YVAIN In Moorish style. Grade 3. By William Braid White Allegretto M.M. J = 108 % William Braid White is the Technical Editor of “The Music Trades R» . Associate, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Chairman, oo _ Division, A. S. M. Member, American Physical Society; Member, National PxO.no Technicians’ Association; Consulting Acoustic Engineer to the American Wire Company. treat it roughly, carelessly or negligently ERE IS A very informative article becomes much drier, owing to the cvap- he had time to tune his own piano as H often as his ear tells him, he would tune is to commit a crime against a beautiful by a noted authority, upon a mat- oration of moisture and failure to keep piece of expensive craftsmanship. To pay ter of real importance to the mu- on hand open vessels of water, flowering it once a month at least. "From a strictly scientific point of view, a lot of money for a fine piano and then sical home. It is reprinted, by permission, plants or other moisture retainers or evap- allow it to go to ruin for lack of expert it is probably true to say that no piano from The Music Trades Review. The orators. Consequently the moisture in the care is not merely aesthetically wrong—it Etude has called attention continually sounding board rapidly passes off, the ever made stood in tune, without a drop or a rise, for more than twenty-four is bad business.” to the fact that people who would not board shrinks, the strings slacken down, The editors of TnE Etude have been hours, unless it were maintained at con¬ dream of failing to have their automo- and the pitch drops. promoting a campaign to give its readers biles gone over regularly by experts, stant temperature and at constant baro¬ metric and hygroscopic conditions, in a more and better information about the order to keep up the value of their invest¬ Continual Variations pianoforte. Thousands of inquiries have laboratory. ment, often fail entirely to realize that a been received already, and answers to piano (even of the most superior and these have been prepared by a piano ex¬ desirable make) demands the regular treme, even in climates which have only The Neglected Piano pert of long experience and sent to the care of a piano expert: In fact, the finer comparatively short UoO much then writers. The only thing that The Etude the piano, the i deserving it is of range> this process O for the fre¬ does not do is to make comparisons be¬ regular attention. continually going quency and need of tween one make of piano and another. Millions of dollars have been invested tuning. If now a This would not be fair to the manufac¬ in pianos, in America. We do not hesi¬ "Every change of piano is neglected, turers, because the piano which makes a tate to state that millions have been lost if it be allowed to particular appeal to one connoisseur might through ruthless neglect of fine instru¬ degree in - temper- of 1 one- go through from not at all please another. ments. Every piano student should be aturc, one season to an¬ taught the main principles of the con- ten,h of other, • say, from struction of the piano. Few of them ever barometer, has its The Best Guarantee effect. The sound¬ Spring to Winter dream that an ordinary piano, when N THE WHOLE, the best guaran¬ board of the piano, without tuning, it O tuned to concert pitch, has a strain on the tee of worth in a piano is the repu¬ then, is always slowly will probably at wires amounting to twenty tons—the tation of its maker for producing an rising and falling the end of that weight of an ordinary electric street car. enduring instrument capable of fine ar¬ through short distan¬ time be consider¬ We now give way to Mr. White: tistic effects. Do not expect to get a ces, and, constantly, ably lower in pitch therefore, suffering than it originally superior piano for very little money. It t4TN ORDER to understand why variations in its abil¬ It will have can not be done. The materials that go -*■ piano goes out of tune, it is first m ity to hold the strings gone through a into a good modern piano come from all essary to remember that the whole instru- up to proper pitch. rise, followed by a fall, parts of the globe. The ivory may come ment is always under a varying stress. “On the other hand, if and the fall will be from Africa; the woods, from South The two-hundred-and-thirty-odd strings the piano be neglected, greater than the first America and India; the wool-felt, from are stretched at an average tension of from unless it be tuned AT Australia; the steel, from Pennsylvania; one hundred and fifty to two hundred LEAST ONCE the paint, from Illinois; and so on to the pounds apiece; so that the iron plate, to- EVERY CHANGE IN gether with the heavy wooden framing, SEASON, SAY FOUR fact that some items in the raw carries a strain totaling .from eighteen to TIMES A YEAR, dur- materials used may have become a little twenty tons. ing Spring, Summer, cheaper in recent years; but tire cost of “Now this stress is not constant, for the Autumn and winter, a fine instrument has been kept up by the reason that the steel wire is highly elastic. WILL NOT STAND increased wages paid for expert work¬ The sound board is merely a thin sheet DECENTLY I manship. When about to buy an automo¬ of Spruce (pine) averaging three-eighths TUNE, bile, one naturally consults an automo¬ of an inch in thickness. If it be properly bile expert, not the street cleaner who constructed, the whole board becomes The Truth About dodges them all day. In the same way, something like a highly elastic spring. Standing in Tune when one is buying a piano, the advice of The more elastic it is, the freer and more tlie musical friend or of the unbiased agreeable will be the 'tone emanating f man’s standnoint piano expert becomes important. from the piano. , . : , While the outside case of the piano four times a year should should be in good taste and of fine ma¬ be sufficient. The terials, what really Sensitiveness to Atmospheric Changes knows, however, that if counts is the inner “TTNFORTUNATELY, however, this construction of the very construction is extremely sen¬ instrument. Natural¬ sitive to all changes of temperature and ly there are many barometric pressure. pianos made in all Thus, in summer which time, throughout the countries, i greater part of the there is no particu¬ country, there is lar pride taken upon much moisture in the part of the the air most of the maker other than to time, and rain is produce something frequent. Wood, in which will • be a these conditions, commercial success. swells up, nor will Other makers look any kiqd of coating upon piano construc¬ protect a wooden tion as an art and sound board from take pride in secur¬ these influences. On ing the most supe¬ the contrary, when rior and desirable the heat is put on materials. That is Copyright 1910 by E. Demets during the colder the reason why the Other Music Sections in this issue on pages 175,211,24d. months, the air in the _ piano dealer’s repu¬ interiors of rooms ™E STRAIN 0N ™E WIRHS 0F A PIAN0 IS AB°UT tation is so valuable 20 TONS to the purchaser. THE ETUDE MARCH 1928 Page 204 MARCH 1928 the studs THE GIPSY BAND DANZA UNGHERESE C. ADOLFO BOSSI, Op.24, No.6 A Virile Kecital Piece by the famous Italian Composer Adolfo Bossi of Milan. Grade 6. Andante grave (quasi in 4) M.M. J=60 Copyright 19 28 by Theodore Presser Co. International Copyright secured the etude MARCH 1928 Rage 207 MARCH1S2S IMPROMPTU THE etude See a portrait of Schuberton another page of this issue. Op.90, No. 4, is a brilliant piano so]o, always enjoyable. Grade 7 rrnv FTUDE MARCH 1928 Page 211 THE ETUDE Pagc210 march 1928 BARCELONE ENDORMIE OUTSTANDING VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL NOVELTIES BARCELONA ASLEEP From Souvenirs d’Xspagne (two impressions). The music of the dance is heard very softly, as though from a distance. Grade GOD’S LOVE ERNEST H. JACKSON FELIX FOUDRAIN Allegro misterioso M. M. J= 72 7 >r~ a - bide; I care not where my foot-steps go, God guides! This is e-nough to know. I know not when I Copyright 1927 by Theodore Presser Co. 8va bassa Other Music Sections in this issue on pages 175, 203, 243 British Copyright secured MARCH 1928 Eage 213 Page 212 MARCH 1928 the etude TO SBYILLA J. DESSAUER 1 UI UUIC1 u iUr jiLTLJI * ff-fV ittrrf Iff ***821 ItifTfr- Pf’Pm- ti -1 ^ * T i p 7* v jjjj ^ p f r * r r 'S’ T ^ 3Z 7 iff J- 7 jjr 7 Wf 7p_ 7 V bLU k err r F /W. " Unfair Se - vil - la, in fair Se-vil - la, Is a qui - et lit-tle street,. 2.1nfair Se - vil - la, in fair Se-vil - la, Is a charm - ing lit-tle cot,. Ji THE ETUDE MARCH 1928 Page 215 THE ETUDE GARDEN OF ROSES Trans, by ROB ROY PEERY Page 214 MARCH 1928 THE LONELY HOUR TOD B. GALLOWAY Very popular as a piano piece. Equally effective for Violin. IRENE M. RITTER Copyright 1928 by Theodore Presser Co. # From here go back to the beginning and play to Fine, then play Trio. British Copyright secured MARCH 1928 Page 217 THE ETUDE TtMITUM CHANT SLAVONIQUE PAUL du VAL Page 216 MARCH ms SLAVONIQUE CHANT PAUL du VAL Allegro moderato m.m. J = 126 PBIMO v In the style of a Mazurka Caprice SECONDO Allegro moderato M.M. J=' / *D. .S’. s| r " \ A A A ^ 1 A J % —1 A 1- tl- -fll. rJ •-.■■■- ’ vmm » 11 i t t mm it t it t sfc From here go back to $ and play to A; then go to B ^ Prom here go back to and play to A; then go to B Copyright 1928 by Theodore Presser Co. International Copyright secured MARCH 1928 Page 819 THE ETUDE tiie etude Page 218 MARCH 1928 ! Swell-full MARCH OP THE NOBLE Educational Study Notes on Music Great-full except Reeds Ped. Bourdon 16' in ^dhis Etude Sw. toGt. Sw. to Ped. FREDERICK KEATS A useful Postluds or Processional. By Edgar Alden Barrell G-sharp. --- monic." The pedalling in this C-sharp section is more difficult than in the rest f?:mnLns which he has drawn up for the future mm,I--sitiuu. Tile cntato mood of this .. . thfe Jnd the thoroughness with which he must be carefully striven for. 01carries • out thosetnose nlans.l - Everything, * in life should Barcelona Asleep, by Felix Fourdrain. Hnf’s character through music is striking. We Si.-:, unduly it will lose nearly all _ —_ - city taken by Napolean from the English in 1808 and restored to Spain in ' ,,0The‘swaying Neapolitan theme in C Major’ is Paris—is supposed to be moment. The harmonies_ -VT^j^^onlsatd lyric. The turization are modern withe melody notes should he emphasized. French composers—Bizet, Dc—,-, a host of others—have interested themselves he bass staff—should be rein¬ eagerly in the rhythms and color of Spanish support.. In this way much music and have composed Spanish pieces more or less true to type. The rhythm of this Bar¬ celona Asleep is that of the Habanera, Al'" Plaving Soldiers, by Leon Jessel. " >anish dance which is always in : TW is a companion piece to Mr. Jessel s onnular March of the Wooden Soldiers. It has thesam/whimsical humor and the same delight- God’s Love, by Ernest E. Jackson. nei^in^uttei ance of repeated notes. With the The poem of this eloquent song embodies the ■ familiar l-.IO-l fingering indicated the repett- ill idea of complete resignation to circumstances SUSSES® “~S= Ts>he Luxury of 1Period ^Design sglS The lovely Grand shown above illustrates how IVERS & POND designers keep pace with improving taste in American interiors. Favored decorative styles are utilized to en¬ case the famous IVERS & POND musical qualities. Write for our latest catalogue showing distinctive Graryds, Uprights and Players. Ivers & Pond iSSSi' PIANOS Possess a charming, characteristic tone which their sterling integrity of construction guards through the years. 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Moreover,^stow hands, nn- ^|ajor an(j \ Major. ^ Ivers & Pond Piano Co. 'h-e ehord on rtftlnJ beat in meas- which is extrlmety'‘tellrtg^Bizet u • marked staccatissimo. In case you , j- ^ d m0st memorably in the famous 141 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. markings "w^m nJ-"d th t0 h* Va-^°US staCCat0 Toreador Song from the opera “Carmen.”^ cap I'redges'laPed mark over a note means star- tcresTn™88^ t*'e"'e in aJ r p y °VtF3° or m°Te s,urred notes mcmo-staccato. 0'f°”h's^ChantIt is a fine measure forty-seven, and following meas- for an unusually well thought out UroL?„Ccenf, the left hand melody as md.ca.ed, E ETUDE when addressing our advertisers. MARCH 1928 Page 221 Page 220 MARCH 1928 the ETVDr the etude Good Diction By Katharine Bemis Wilson 'She SINGER’S ETUDE Good DICTION implies clear enun¬ In articulation the student is concerned ciation, correct pronunciation and with words and their syllables spoken or Edited for VYCarch by distinct articulation. And this can sung so as to be intelligible. Special at¬ be acquired only by the free acting tongue, tention must be given to vowels and con¬ Eminent Vocal Specialists jaw lips and palate, together with a throat sonants, the vowels purely sung and the which is entirely released from all con¬ consonants crisply clear. There must be EARLY ALL writers c N ■ IT IS THE AMBITION OF THE ETUDE TO MAKE THIS VOICE DEPARTMENT traction, the whole being supported by no contraction, no stiff muscular effort of from the Italian Tosi t “a VOCALIST’S MAGAZINE, COMPLETE IN ITSELF.” quickly performing, adequate breath. the tongue, jaw, lips, palate or throat. Henderson, have spent much time A satisfactory enunciation means a All should work easily and in perfect and energy bemoaning the fact that sing¬ accord—in short, with studied effort¬ ing is not what it used to be; that no clearness of utterance combined with a lessness. longer are there singers who sing in certain roundness of tone whether uttered The practice of singing one word, syl¬ the grand old manner; and that the art fortissimo, pianissimo or in any inter¬ lable by syllable, until articulation is en¬ is slowly but surely “going to the dogs.” mediate degree. In every-day speech a tirely free and pure, will be of great as¬ This lament has been put forth year singer's enunciation should be carefully sistance. Sharply attuned ears, patience after year by any number of writers watched and all indistinctness blotted out. Salient (Changes in Voice and persistence, should be the singer’s who remember the great artists of their Then, when speech is put into song, the younger days as much superior to those singer will enunciate distinctly from force of their maturity. The most recent of teaching in the ‘Past of habit. these writings is “My Adventures in the Uncovering Defects Golden Age of Music” by Henry T. Finck. The Pronounced V^ord A N EXCELLENT habit for the singer Mr. Finck had forgotten that many of the Fifty Tears PRONUNCIATION relates to the ac¬ P*- is that of reading aloud, not only the older critics of the time to which he refers cent and sound of words as set forth lyrics of songs but other poetry and prose USICAL influence during a thought Jean De Reszke inferior to Mario by any dictionary or other authoritative as well, giving each word, each syllable, M and Campanini and Sembrich inferior to work. Too many errors in the pronun¬ the proper enunciation, pronunciation and period of seventy years in the Patti and Nielsen. Later on Caruso was By Harold L. Butler ciation of any language will not be articulation. This method of using the history of the Kimball house has been declared inferior to De Reszke. tolerated by a discriminating audience. If vocal cords will uncover many defects, of cumulative value. Not alone in Perhaps these lamenters do not realize HAROLD L. BUTLER IS THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS OF SYRA' a singer does not perfectly understand the and, if, they are persistently eliminated, that they themselves were more easily CUSE UNIVERSITY. AMONG HIS TEACHERS WERE GOTTSCHALK AND HACKETT, OF pronunciation of a foreign language, he will result in smooth, rolling lyrics. Then, the widespread use of Kimball pianos pleased when they were young, that youth CHICAGO; BLASCO, OF MILAN: should not attempt to use it in song, and if they are combined with pure tone, a and pipe organs, but in pleasant added glamour to the light that beats D DUBULLE AND CLARKE, OF PARIS. he should lie very certain of the pronun¬ most satisfactory singing performance will associations with many prominent a great artist, and that the experience ciation of his mother tongue. Indifferent . 11 uuxuuwij, U,due uiem a combination of diaphragmatic and To-day we probably ei be evolved. which comes with maturity has made them pronunciation of song lyrics gives the im¬ Attention to detail, then, in the art of musicians. critical. In old age the tinsel shows breathlnS- The result is a firmer tone, rection. Brilliance of pression of indifferent musical preparation. singing as in any other line of endeavor, through the gold. What went unremarked better control of dynamics and less physi- that we sometimes over-use eeh and aye So it behooves the earnest student to strive will build up, bit by bit, a perfect struc¬ For over forty years, the American Conservatory has been continu' in youth brings out bitter criticism when cal fatigue in singing. with a resulting brittle, metallic tone un- HAROLD L. BUTLER ceaselessly for perfection of pronunciation ture. And to possess good diction is to youth and its illusions are things of the The singing ■ teacher’s library is replete suited for expressive singing. The hoot ously “at home” in Kimball Hall, and the present building is one of ill conversation and song. have laid a lasting and firm foundation. past. °n !infng Jhich adv?ca*e !_,as giyen way t0 the tootlly tone. Per- the best teachers of a generation or two the noted music centers of the country. Here a number of the most im- three register^—chest, medium and head, haps the prevalence of the phonograph ago Singers of Yesteryeai portant conservatories and many individual artists have their studios. To-day practically every teacher teaches partly accounts for the change. Both The art of singing has not yet gone to In Kimball Concert Hall the greatest of musicians appear in recital. WERE THE artists of one hundred. eo^ 0 register. The result is teacher and student study records where the “demnition bow-wows.” We may have Vrue Vocal Art in Singing and fifty, one hundred, or" fifty nta ™ore ev®n ?cale and a Jsmaller1™13!6! ”numberumber the artist has used his most brilliant tones fewer vocal gymnasts, but in their places By Lotti Rimmer Kimball Pianos have the background of the years of musical culture. years ago really so much greater than ‘breaks”—in both voices and singers, in order to make his _ “register” on we have an increased number of musicianly those of the present day? I do not think ■? prevalent mistake in voice work two or the record. The result of this There is naturally a demand for the large concert grand pianos, and PART XI No doubt an artist' here and another *r“,„deca,delago, wai,the «he change in the “ear” of the„ singe/midU- -. r— - -- ^able to sing a much greater call for the smaller sizes in grands. Upright pianos really greater. But, on the vowels ooh and °!t- The result was dark, also might say, i the “ of the music the “old songs” together with the product of ROPER ACCENT in speaking and which some vocalists have, thus checking retain a secure position. average, I think our present day singers j . , -,0f “urse> the best teachers to- our most modern opera and song corn- P are capable of holding their own with the day strike a happy medium, just as did posers. singing adds greatly to the beauty of the beauty of the tone. As long as the average of any period. speech, in helping to transfer our student is unable to hold the breath, filling There has been a growing need for the small or “Junior upright, an The demands on the singer, as regards thoughts to our listener. Some accents in the lungs with air for the proper emission instrument of full scale and ample volume, and only 44 inches high the English language are put on vowels color, interpretation, characterization and of sound, at the time the vibration of the —a wonderful accomplishment for the class' declamation, have constantly increased dur¬ and some on consonants. The accents on vocal cords takes place, there can be no teacher, for the studio, and the student. ing the past fifty years. One has but to Classifying the Voice consonants are more difficult in singing satisfactory singing nor any possible man¬ compare programs of three, four and five than in speaking. agement of voice. Therefore, avoid mixing Note the illustration here and the harmony decades ago with those of the present to Words with vowel accent are: shelter, By Ada Mae Hoffrek the breath with the Voice. of proportion. be convinced of this fact. Not only ' garden, reason, beauty, wiles, nation, me¬ this true of the recital singer. It applies thod, tempest, difference. Some even force the breath, which is The HUMAN VOICE is the one of tone ; wonderful See and hear the Kimball of large or small to the opera singer as well. It is only ' natural musical instrument and, of expression. powers of Italian contralto, who, her prime, al- Words with consonant accent are: gift, dangerous to the health, by unduly taxing size. Catalogs and dealer address sent on the oratorio that the demands on the singer all,“’1, thethe, most expressive and fasci- The following is the rivalled. Patti jopularity,..r-v sang silk, milk, nut, beet, tart, smart, ill, left, the lungs. In generating sounds, a proper have not been greatly broadened. Needless nating. Throughout the advance of civili- pass of each division ppr°xlmate c?m- easily from E on the third space of the bring, mystery. method of breathing is of the greatest im¬ request. Kimball “Junior” Uprig ay, these increased demands have zation, the cultivation of the various uses t e temaIe voice: bass staff to C on the second line above In an unaccentuated syllable the voice portance. An excellent way to attain brought about changes in teaching. of the voice has been of interest. Because the treble. need not dwell upon it. It is generally ex¬ smooth, calm breathing is to raise the lips W. W. KIMBALL COMPANY No longer will a beautiful voice, an even of these facts, a little general knowledge of Mezzo-Soprano Contralto The so-called “Registers” in each voice pressed in music by a short note. slightly, assuming the semblance of a To attain skill and artistic effect a (Established 1857) scale and a facility in coloratura be the it is a necessity for all students of music is a matter for consideration by a skilled smile, drawing in the breath noiselessly, only equipment of an artist. Of course, who would be intelligent in their work, knowledge of dynamics and rhythm is also teacher in treating with each individual. mostly through the nose, thinking at the Department KE, 306 South Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, U. S all these' are obviously necessary to the In childhood, the girl’s and boy’s voices necessary. This sort of foundation is in¬ Tons of air and mountains of paper have same time of the vowel i (ee). Thus the modern singer. They are the foundations are much the same in range. Then, at dispensable for a good vocalist. Orators been wasted in their discussion, and to no student will be able to fill the lungs properly of all singing Without them no singer about fourteen, the boy’s voice changes; highesth,v°hL thmt ™range!LV01 The“ theW ‘enor7 ~is the avail. The one thing to he greatly de- and speakers do well to peruse the same with air and to hold the breath for half a can reach artistry. But today he must go so that the compass of the man’s voice responds to the Lv c 7 .tenor ‘ > sired is an even scale gradually blending studies and methods, for the speaker de¬ ♦ ♦ t♦ ♦ 1 ♦ t♦ ♦ t ♦ second before emitting the sound. HARMONY BY MAIL 1 much further. Musicianship, a good gen- is about an octave lower than that of the ities • and the d™ !oprano ln s qual- from the low notes which get much of pends entirely upon his voice and modula¬ tion, to call forth the sympathetic attention If the singer omits this preparation of A practical and thorough course of 40 lessons. eral education, a greatly broadened scale woman. robu'sto, correspondTT thTd’ °r ■<’norc their «>PPort tod beauty Tom" using Small monthly payments. of color, a fine interpretative ability, skill Female voices are divided into three orann. The th dramatic so- larirelv the rh«t - -.,,.,7.;.,,, hndv. to of his listeners, whilst the singer is able to holding the breath for a half a second, character,Vation 5 a T " 7”' , I'emaI® v01“s are divided into three prano. The baritone is■ a l SO; ,argel-v the chest as a resonating body, 1 Send for Prospectus and Rates. Mss. corrected. Jn n declamation equal classes, depending for this on their range medium range'. The bass N th °f the b'k’hest notes, in which the place of illustrate the meaning of the song through the collected air escapes at the same time Music composed, send poem for estimate. Pianologues Voice, rhythm and music. The laws of prose, as the words, owing to the vocal cords ALFRED WOOLER, Mus. Doc. The clever pianoloeue merits a place on every enter¬ It sntrvLf TJ ,h V reqarC f '‘"r T The Soprano is the highest range of the male voice and L" eS‘ grea‘«t resonance has gradually shifted Suite A. 171 Cleveland Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. tainment program. For either stage or home use, we in addition to the aforesaid studies, are the having no time to close on each other and especially recommend the following as musical readings finishing touches for an actor. The singer, thus preventing the requisite resistance to or as vocal solos: Counting Daisy Petaog . . (Humorous) SriS though, has to continue the lessons on the rush of air. The lesser the quantity of Breamin' in de Twilight . . (Negror theory of sound to enable him to master treble staff he always sounds tones air ejected, the greater the purity of tone. Keep a Smilin' . *' . . . (Inspirational) his or her voice successfully. The Ladies' aid .... (Humorous) . .. - -..,-rano, notes but more of the lvrir 7 7 octave lower than the ones he reads. The Sometimes pupils use too much breath in The Lady Who Lives Next Door (Humorous) toppling of the super-structure about the se&EHi " ‘“- LEGEND OF A TWILIGHT BELL . (InsplratlOraJ) speaking. To check this effectually it is And Bac\ to Breathing The Old’ Family album .’ , (Humorous) advisable to practice on the clear vowel A Perfect little Lady (Humorous Juvenile) be able to sing with intelligent inter- tions; and the lyric soprano, whose voice Sr™ sms, si! ? /CONTROL of breath is indispensa- PRETENDING.(Humorous) Ex. 2 which case the voice always sounds an oc¬ i (cc), this vowel having the narrowest Speak for Yoreself, Yohn . (Swede Dialect) pretation. is usually of medium power and silvery ble to the good singer. Sometimes Speak Up, Ike, an' 'Stress Yo'se'f . (Negro) Baritone tave lower than the notes really written. aperture in the epiglottis. WE TEACH YOU THIS PROFITABLE Style.(Humorous) “Abominable” Breathing S° ^ k ?! ?dapted to the artistic This is just a careless makeshift of the one can witness the difficulty of breathing PROFESSION AT HOME DURING SPARE TIME TONY ON da PHONE . . (Italian Dialect) .. . delivery of beautiful melody. The mezzo- Send for FREE cony of the 30th ANN IVERSA RY composer and publisher, instead of using EDITION of our book, “WINNING INDEPEN¬ When Mother Sang to Me' . ' (Inspirational) I ME 1HKEE salient changes in teach- soprano is of medium range, usually not DENCE.’* Read how students muster tuning with The Youngest in the Family mg voice production are, perhaps,.in quite so brilliant as the soprano, and the true tenor cleff. "I feel strongly that we cannot become a really musical nation until we our TUNE-A-PHONE and WHY our graduates (Humorous Juvenile) head the profession in all parts of the world. Wiih In full sheet music form—price, postpaid, each .35c breathing, registers and tone color. Not inclined to be dramatic or lyric. The con- Of rn„rW i. give first consideration to grand opera. I believe it is the The set of “Etude 1928 Collection,” $5.00. many years ago many voice teachers tralto, or alto, is the lowest range of the sideration ttoS be,tak«n tabs con- live of all musical art forms, because it calls upon all of them/°r its ■anted. MONEY BACK Large catalogue of entertainment material on request. taught abdominal (sometimes’ called abom- woman’ The trained artist does not find it hard successful expression. Moreover, I believe it gets closer, to the people than ? NOT SATISFIED. $10.00 ™ _- T. S. DENISON & CO. only occasionally adapted ceed any range' may “ to enter into the mood of any song, but he :ceptional opportunities and an ideal profession inable) breathing. To-day practically all to coloratura, and1 its fflnrv is in itc -i— does any other form of music; it comes nearer to representing their hopes, Dramatic Publishers glory is in its beauty direction. For instance, Sh: 'L either has ^ hard, as must all, on songs 623 S. WABASH AVE., DEPT. 73 CHICAGO ’ great every mood.’-Tno Sc hip a. higher ideals of art ami life. MARCH 1028 Page 223 the etude the etude Page 222 MARCH 1028 When Organ ‘Practice Injures Piano Toechnic [AUSTIN ORGANS! By Helen Oliphant Bates ^ 'THERE, is a splendid family of Aus- The habit of doing at least part of ffieir Now if the organist claims also to be a 1 tins in Philadelphia, and in churches T5he ORGANIST’S ETUDE where musical discrimination is keen. practice on the piano, adopted, generally pianist the danger of falling intq! a slovenly, The location of recent important New from necessity, by most organists, is not colorless manner of playing is sufficient York contracts is one the highest tributes without its perils for piano technic. The reason for refraining from using the piano ever paid, for large Austins have been Edited, for VYlarch by Eminent Specialists placed in St. James, Little Church danger lies not in the fact that music for as a note grinder. But even if the organist Around the Corner and St. George's. one instrument is being practiced on has no aspirations toward artistic piano These things are significant and worth IT IS A well-known fact—even among the opening measures of an organ “toccata,” another or that the touch of organ is differ- playing and uses the piano only to help out those of us who do not read “question IT IS THE AMBITION OF THE ETUDE TO MAKE THIS ORGAN DEPARTMENT see if you can play the right-hand part a committee beyond any doubt. i ent from piano, but in the fact that expres- with organ repertoire, he should stiff books,” with which to discover, blush- third (or even a fourth or fifth) as fast sion, the soul of music, is secured by dif- strive to fill his music with the life and “an organist’s etude, complete in itself” ingly, the near limits of our knowledge— with your feet as marked for the hands ferent means on the two instruments. All poetry that he wishes to use later on trie This sounds terrifying, perhaps, but it AUSTIN ORGAN Cal that Achilles’ vulnerable spot was the heel. 165 Woodland St. Hartford, Conn. I those devices which keep the organ from organ. Why? Because if a piece is The story of why this particular bit of really is remarkably fine as a trial of your being a mere machine are peculiar to the played as artistically as possible on the his anatomy alone was so is interesting, pedal limberness, accuracy, speed, and gen¬ organ, and are therefore not found oil the piano, it will be easy to transfei it to t ie but it would be beside the point in this eral coordination. piano. organ, and, provided organ technic is suffi- paper. What we do want to stress is the We give here the first measure of that GlIUANT ORGAN SCHOOL A crescendo on the organ, for example, ciently advanced, it should be .instinctive fact that the heel is the vulnerable thing For Efficient Heel technic: most noted of all toccatas, the Toccata is made with the swell pedal, and on the to make the crescendos and diminuendos about the pedal technic of nearly every from the Fifth Symphony, by Widor. Ori¬ Dr. William C. Carl, Director piano, by greater force, weight, or pressure, with the feet instead of with the bauds or organist of the present day. The toes are ginally in F, we transpose it to the key How easy it is to reason, "Well, because to change a stop instead of changing the alert enough, but the heels are sluggish of D, for suitability on the pedal board. Teacher of Organists I have no swell pedal on the piano, I won’t manner of attacking the keys, in movement, indecisive and insufficiently •A Suggestion make any crescendo until I get to the But, on the other hand, if the piano has trained withal; they do not carry out the Ex. 7 A Distinctive School for Serious Students organ.” Again, on the organ, variation in been used merely to learn the notes, the commands of the brain with the efficiency tone color is secured by changing regis- true spirit of the piece has not been and accuracy they should, and hence set By E. A. Barrell Free Fall Term tration; on the piano it is secured by ap- grasped, and it requires a special effort to up a real hindrance to the organist’s prog¬ SCHOLARSHIPS Now OPEN propriate touch. And since the piano does insert the various expression marks in their ress towards technical perfection. A. Exercises away from the organ. Moderate Ankle Movement (Interval of New Prospectus Ready not have any stops to pull out and push proper places. Instead of rising and falling There are, of course, many ways com¬ B. Exercises at the pedal board. the Third) in nor buttons to turn on, it is a great naturally with the flow of the music, the monly employed to put the heels through C. Massage night and morning. 17 East Eleventh Street, New York temptation to practice without thinking of crescendos and diminuendos are tacked on a “course of sprouts” which will render D. Frequent participation in tennis, skat¬ E*'3 Mainly right foot timbre or of light and shade. mechanically at specific points. them assets rather than liabilities to their ing, hand-ball and (provided you’ve —says of the Three'Manual possessor. However, the discussion of no religious scruples) dancing. This may be taken using both feet at first. these various methods is not our purpose A. Here are three invaluable exercises Later, see how nearly right vnu can play 0RG0BL0 Kilgen Organ recently installed here. We wish rather to mention an aux¬ which should be done sitting in a chair ‘Modulation for the Organ Student the notes, using the right foot alone. in the Sanctuary of St. Patrick’s iliary training, which will do an infinite with your shoes off. Do not continue any Except for notable exceptions, the pedal of these to the point of undue muscular By Charles Knetzger deal, we believe, towards developing the work of the modern organist cannot com¬ Cathedral, New York: fatigue, which would be harmful. skilled heel technic which every organist pare with that of former executants. For Facility in the art of modulating from was rendered by an organist who preceded worthy of the name should enjoy. This (1) Extend leg in front of you and instance, a prominent feature of organ key to key is one of the most important every single number of the service pro¬ “I feel I am doing a wonderful service to training centers about the ankles. The raise foot about five or six inches history in America during the last twenty qualifications of an organist. Unless he gram by the stereotyped cadence, consist- churches by recommending Kilgen Or¬ ankles can be from the floor. Rotate foot (a) in¬ ' years has been the installation of count¬ has had practical training in harmony and jng off the ttome, sub-dominant and domi- gans. No other pipe organ manufacturers (1) Drilled to far greater flexibility ward (b) outward and finally (c) THE SPENCER TURBINE COMPANY less and costly instruments (they all cost have the great artists to produce tone- than is customary. inward and outward alternately. Organ Power Department working knowledge of all the major exactly $50,000!) in our theaters. It is Hartford Connecticu An organist who has mastered the art quality and to engineer perfection as in (2) Developed' muscularly to a consid¬ The rotations should be slow at and minor chordscnoras anaand cadences, withwnu theirmen , . . r , your organization... I feel you have reach¬ erable extent. first, and may be increased in speed not generally known, however, that some inversions, of these organs have no pedal board at >* »«■ * ■“>><= -o *> zzzzz ed the zenith of your art... Your organ But before we enter upon a discussion as seems wise. Note: The leg in the line of modulation. position to another. If, however, one is is far superior to anything on which I have of a regimen which must be followed to must be kept as still as possible dur¬ all; and even when the pedals are avail¬ Attention, Piano Teachers! And yet no organist who lacks this ac- able, they are generally used sparingly and fortunate as to be able to invent ever played. I have demonstrated thisover accomplish these ends we would like to say ing this exercise, and, most im¬ complishment is fit for a position, for his these Qn the spur o{ the moment, it would ignorantly. Of course in the churches the METRONOMES and over on my recital trips thruout the just a word regarding the sort of shoes portant of all, the . leg and thigh playing will be neither continuous n"" . . Greatest Ankle Movement (Intervals of situation is better, but here, still, one sel¬ An Invalual.lo Aid in^tiio be advisable to memorize ; . number of world... What more can I say about ai which are best suited to unhampered pedal¬ muscles must not be allowed to symmetrical. In passing from one key the Fourth and Fifth) dom comes across an organist who has modulatory phrases. organ than that ling. We have known organists who have tighten at all. another there must be some sort of cc anything remotely resembling a standard¬ Tempoaw An organist's education is incomplete worn “carpet slippers” when they played, (2) Extend leg and raise foot as in nection by way of finished cadences. Thi ized pedal technic. without a knowledge of transposition, and we have also known organists who previous exercise. Wag foot side¬ Our Metr be done by appropriate modulations modulation and improvisation, and these ways, back and forth, rapidly; and If the last paragraph seems to make us used enormously heavy high-topped boots, and not by a sudden and unprepared plunge should receive no less attention than hand Mr. Yon is one of the greatest the soles of which were very thick in¬ do not move leg any more than you out an incorrigible old pessimist, we hasten into the new key. and foot technic. To be an accomplished living organists, being the organ¬ deed and the' heels nearly approximating can help. to assure you—optimistically -that we Every organist should have at his fin- organist requires unusual nerve force and the thickness of a piece of “hotel” beef¬ (3) (a) With the heel on the floor, firmly believe that this decadent state of ist at St. Patrick’s and honor or¬ gers’ ends a number of interesting phrases a brain ready to meet any emergency a steak. For a long time we ourselves were raise and lower the toe, first slowly organ pedalling now in existence can be KRAUTH ganist at the Vatican in Rome. modulating in all the keys. One of the cover any gap that may aris i the course in doubt as to the best selection—but we and then more quickly and at gradu¬ improved and re-vitalized. Let us all strive BENNINGHOFEN most pathetic performances I ever heard of a service or a program. have come more and! more to realize (and ally increasing distances. for this: let us set pedal technic in almost For St. Patrick’s—one of the most (b) With the toe on the floor equal estimation with manual, and devote you can take thi^-asvan ex cathedra or ab¬ prominent churches in the world solute fact) -that the best shoes one can the heel [see the directions to it something of the same energy and wear are what are generally known as tioned in (a)]. care. If the suggestions in this brief paper SPARE TIME WORK Organist’s Repertoire —Kilgen is now building a large (c) Alternate (a) and (b). are in any way helpful in bringing about Piano Tuning payseasily $2 to $4 an hour. Requires “pumps” or “dancing pumps.” They are about 90 minutes to tun© average piano. Pay organ composed of Main, Sanctu¬ (d) Do each of these exercises with this end. we shall feel very gratified in¬ Mclodu in F, the Intermezzo frony “Cavaleria as light as possible and yet are strong, ranges around $5 per tuning. Player work also Rusticana,” Prayer from ary and Echo Sections with two both feet. deed. brings big pay. No capital needed. We train you firm and of excellent width. The heels thoroughly at home at small cost. Two diplomas orrespomlent wl Ints help in selecting "Jocelyn,” >p. 4->. No. are about half an inch high and the soles B. More interesting, perhaps, are the isic of a devotional character for 10, Handel’s Largo. Chopin's_ _•tume. Op. consoles; a four-manual in the Genesis of the Organ irposes, and my list may offer some . ...Meditation, and Grieg's just thin enough so that the tactile powers following six exercises, to be practiced at Finally, we would recommend as a Berceuse, Op. 38, No. 1. Gallery, and three-manual console of the feet are not set at naught. the organ. It is taken for granted, inci¬ “wind-up” for these five exercises that By Helen W. Ross hiiitaries (or Preludes) I play some- There are also the slower movements from dentally, that the student will not neglect -'"ditation and melodious char- Beethoven Sonatas, Nos. 4, 7, 1G, 48 ; Men¬ in the Sanctuary. the organist practice the trill with each It is probable that one of the early id's Elegy. Itimsky-Ivorsakof’s delssohn's Bongs Without Words. Gottselialk's his pedal scales each day; they are the Last Hope or Dying Poet, Lejbach’s Lift Noc¬ foot separately, and With the following steps in the evolution of the primitive or¬ When one regards the impressive roll whole basis of perfect pedalling, and you Xnrht.'tlJ"Sc-h'll turne. Largo from Dvorak’s "New World Sym- Soft Heels—Hard Wor\ directions as to tempo: gan was taken when, possessed of the syr¬ phonv." Mozart's Adagio from “C-Minor will never become so fine an organist that Sonata." Simple Area by Thome aiid Liszt's of world-famous Organ Masters who inx of Greece and such reed pipes as the /~\F COURSE, it goes without saying you can dispense with them entirely. It is Consolations and Licbestraihur. choose Kilgen above all others—men that rubber heels—so excellent at Egyptians invented, attempts were made to For the Offertory, the advice given in a said that Paderewski still practices scales COURSE IN rcent Etude is good. * " ' like Yon, Christian, Rienzi, Hollins, other times—are taboo on the pedal board. associate several whistles or reed pipes to- .y^hymi e Grce at his piano! Davis, Vierne, Diggle, Goldsworthy, It is also obvious that the organist’s heels Least Ankle Movement (Interval of the gether on a common windchcst so that must never be allowed to “run over.” If Second) they could be sounded by the breath of a Theatre Organ Playing Carpenter, Biggs, Cowper and Thomp¬ they be allowed to do so, there certainly This completes the exercises which wilt, single performer. The bellows likely sug¬ son, to mention only a few,—the very can be no such thing as uniform sureness Ex.l if given th,orough and painstaking trial’ gested supplying wind by other means than Two- and three-manual Kimball theatre unit organa for 11111? be improvised by soul of this great instrument is laid bare! of technic. ^ Right foot the mouth of the player, for they were used of the last hymn. Ohm render the ankles infinitely more supple lessons and practice. Special course for pianists changing shout the Glad Tiding May oee send you the Kilgen Book ? The word “ankle” is,a word of Teu¬ and readier to obey the injunctions of the for blowing smelting furnaces as early as tonic origin, as is evidenced by the modern organist’s mind; and thus they will insure the fifteenth century B. C. Numerous ex¬ to organ. Advanced pupils have the advantage of lessons Postlmle work. The Hull/ Canada) on request. It ia an intensely interesting Dean of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the A. G. O. THE STUDENTS were to sing for crescendos and diminuendos, long phrasing WANTED or sharply cut short phrasing, lingering booklet, profusely illustrated, containing the titles, Ho question will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full name the first time Sunday night. On Sat¬ descriptions and complete contents of ail the books and address of the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, will be published. urday night the director met the super¬ here and hurrying there, prolonging this listed below. Whether you are a teacher, a student visors who had trained the students and and shortening that, making this group of or a musical amateur, you will find a number of who were to have charge of the prelim¬ tones gay and light and that one heavy have one year more at High School11 used by Harrison, Compton, Hill and ms inary rehearsals during the ensuing days. and dark—these, and any other sugges¬ books for violin, piano, voice, organ, saxophone, i would like to study theater organ- tions indicated either by word of mouth or etc., which will prove the most satisfactory collec¬ I have taken piano lessons, although This group of about 25 were treated as a practiced regularly nor paid much chorus. With them the twelve numbers by a slight movement, were accurately and tions which you have ever used. Mail us a post¬ attention to the finer details, such as finger¬ quickly responded to. Because the super-, ing, chords, harmonies and so forth. I lust Music i were sung in just about the way that the card today with your name and address and the Theatre Organists naturally “picked up” music, and 1 play director planned to take them with the visors had realized that the students must catalogue will be sent by return mail. at home and school quite often. I can read Q. Will you please advise me as to wh at sight easily. I want to study the fundar students. To a considerable extent this be ready for the interpretation by some¬ mentals of pipe-organ at a small school or MTpVp\ indicated the tempos and the outstanding body else, the students came with unprej¬ THE “WHOLE WORLD” college, and, when I have mastered that, Positions paying salaries of $40 take, special, work in theater organ-playing features of the interpretation. udiced, open minds and allowed their MUSIC SERIES at a large school in Chicago, which I have It is worth noting that, although these music to be colored as the director desired. to $ 100 weekly are so many that seen advertised in the Etude.. Would you in Proves "'Di'cUonar"^ Music" a’l.cf1’® is the world’s premier line of musical collections advise me, to do thist Or what would you supervisors all sang well, all knew the Naturally dramatic, these young people aiss° for piano, violin, voice, organ and other instru¬ suggest 1—R. C. we suggest “The Modern Organ,’’ by music and all were responsive and anx¬ took on various characters as they sang finished players are practically A. You should have good piano technic, ious to do all that the director suggested, the different songs. The eight sopranos ments. Each volume contains 256 or more pages including correct fingering, as a proper prepa¬ For your practical work on the instru¬ ration for organ playing. Our advice would ment we suggest a modern edition of °Th0 the singing which resulted from this group who were selected for the solo part of O devoted to the choicest classic and modern com¬ assured of engagements through be that, while you are at college, you spend Organ,” by Stainer, which also contains some was, in comparison to what the young Turn Thee from “Gallia” sang with the positions. Printed from engraved plates on clear part of the time in work on the piano, information about the instrument. The either previous to taking up the organ or lisln.s of The Etude can furnish you with people themselves did, even on the first tender reproachfulness of a mother en¬ white paper, and substantially bound in either the College. at the same time. Assuming that you expect any of the works named. cn day, quite drab and colorless. It was to spend four years at college, why not deavoring to recall her erring child to the cloth or paper. take two years of piano preparation and two ,, hat been. The altos poured forth O Rest in Operatic Violin Pieces. College. positions should they take’ rhe groups are ture, the panting eagerness to do every¬ the Lord with the sure confidence of ma¬ Kecital Piano Pieces. Standard Violin Concertos. Q. I am preparing to he an organist and relatively strong Also plan, suggest the. thing perfectly, together with the large Piano Duets . Light Violin Pieces... best arrangement when ,h, nu mbers of the ture women. Light Piano Pieces . Encyclopedia of the Violin. Direction: would appreciate any information about what number of singers, gave life and virility Concert Piano Pieces (Paper hooks would he useful. I have had no har¬ choir are seated in three, pews placed thus: Thirdly, there was an infectious enthu¬ that was not possible with the small Concert Piano Pieces (Cloth) Children’s Piano Pieces. CHARLES H. DEMOREST and HENRY FRANCIS PARKS mony nor any instruction other than having siasm which made every song an occasion Modern Opera Selections.... Sacred Music . taken piano lessons for three years. I shall group of more mature singers. of joyous expression. Happiness filled the Grand Opera at Home. Grand Opera with a Victrola. continue taking piano lessons while studying Light Opera at Home. Famous Theatre Organists the organ. With the memory, then, of the way in hearts of these young people, loosened Saxophone Pieces (E|j Alto). Gilbert & Sullivan at Home. Saxophone Pieces (C Melody). (1) —What subjects, such as harmony, which the material had been sung at the their voices and gave a vibrant thrill to Songs Whole World Sings.. should 1 study before and during the time Love Songs . Saxophone Pieces (B|> Tenor). I take lessons t Saturday evening preliminary meeting, all their tones. At the end of the third Ballads Whole World Sings. Organ Pieces (Paper).. (2) —What would be a good beginner’s the supervisors on Sunday morning re¬ ~Organ Pieces- (Cloth). book and what other works should 1 use concert the whole group, while rejoicing me Music Album. SUMMER MASTER SCHOOL latent hearsed the chorus in separate parts, one over what they had accomplished, were ir sent direct on receipt June 25 to August 4 (Six Weeks) (d)—What available books pertaining to of them taking the sopranos, another the saddened at the thought that they were to the organ would you advise me to uset altos, another the tenors, and another the A. (1)—It would he well to study har- sing together no more. Several of the SCHEDULE OF LESSONS -ounterpoint, fugue, improvisation, basses. At eleven o’clock, after a half students spoke regretfully of the fact that, orchestration, choir-1"*- "-lining,i organ construc- hour’s intermission, the entire group of being seniors in their respective high 1st week—Preparatory for Screen playing (2) "The Organ” (modern edition) 240 came together. schools, they would not be able to sing in 2nd week—Playing of weekly News features .. Stainer From that time on the rehearsals were the chorus next year. 3rd week—Short feature film and jazz Studies in Pedal-playing”—Nihon “Master Studies for the Organ" almost entirely with the complete ensem¬ CHARMING 4th week—Short feature film, comedy and jazz ble, there being only two short rehearsals I BELIEVE IN YOU 5th week—Long feature film and comedy "Eight Little Preludes and Fugues’^ Mutual Appreciation with the girls alone and with the boys 6th week—Long feature film, comedy, cartoon, scenic and effects; and play¬ for Organ”.Each ing of song slides. Harmony Book for Beginners” alone. During the three days there was A S A RESULT of the loveliness of the <3) “Organ Playing, Its Technic and™ a total of four hours of part rehearsals T*- singing, of the malleability of the Improvisation, modulation, arranging orchestral works for organ, harmon- Expression”.Muli . and six hours of full rehearsals. There interpretation and the joyousness of the Organ Stops and Their Artistic ■zmg from violin and melody parts; dramatizing the picture musically; tak- M Registration”.A udsleti were three concerts, each between 30 and expression, the three days passed without ng cues and playing from cue lists and playing with orchestra are all given “A Primer of Organ Registration” 40 minutes in length. All of the twelve there being a single occasion for chiding or attention in the course. Various styles of playing jazz, ballads, intermezzos numbers were used at least once, and reproving any member of the chorus. characteristic numbers, etc., will be thoroly covered. . 0- 1 am an organ student and intend some of them three times. The singing Children and director were so appreciative ta th,eatfr organist. I find the Organ improved from the beginning to the end. of what the other had done that there was as Pweliwell easns educational,ed ’ Tt-e Bfude and” vamery takinainteresting the In comparison to the product of the or¬ complete understanding, complete coopera¬ ;y Order or Stamps accepted. opportunity of asking a few questions dinary high school group it was perfect at tion. ,iYn hv ,are expression pedals of a Possibly the newness of the experiment \aroan for Flutes, Strings, Reeds, and the first rehearsal; by the time the first- AT LAST —FOR ONLY - $ J £5-00 FREE FELLOWSHIPS ■r , l?rth> instead of th, l G ,t S ell concert was given it was worthy of al¬ and the place in which it was carried out The Neely 4-Octave Keyboard With INDIVIDUAL KEY-ACTION - Choir, and. so forthf ntoeu, Mr. Demorest and Mr. Parks have each consented to award Free Fellowships of two lessons most any choral society. By the final con¬ had something to do with all of this. It lard leev.; or. weekly, each of thirty minutes, to the students who, after an open Competitive examination are found to possess the greatest gift for playing organ. Free Fellowship application blanks "“usr^isrM -m- cert it was the equal of many excellent might be harder to obtain similar results in .JiLSTTfLTfXf permanent choruses. some other sections of the country. These JJv—PlG.a8G trU me something of the life ' What was it that these students gave? young folks from the far stretches of open FALL SESSION OPENS SEPTEMBER 10 id inventions of Robert Hope-Jones..—G. M. B. 9- Will you kindly name several up-to- country in South Dakota are fresher and atc works on organ construction that con¬ First of all, a surprisingly beautiful tone. A. (1)—Expression pedals on unit organs more open-eyed, more unspoiled, than the COMPLETE SUMMER OR WINTER CATALOG ON REQUEST ie so arranged that they may be effective tain hints on organ repairs t—J. It. M. , : It is probably not strange to have beauti¬ cA- ,lr! . addition to extended articles m young people who are in the midst of SPRING TERM NOW OPEN FOR ORGAN STUDY Grove s Dictionary of Music and Musicians ful sopranos and altos by picking from 25 sssja & ygS ;or ™6 works treating of organ construction or 30 high schools, nor impossible to have thickly populated states with their great cities. They have a sense of responsibility, Arrangement °s “referable11 “ “anu^ The Modern Organ. .. Ernest M. Skinner good basses. But it did seem too good to Practical Organ Building. .W. E. Dickson believe when the sixty tenors were tried a sense of poise, a joy in life, a belief in STUDENT DORMITORIES lestes. UM^eTSalSeqSt\1,C,“^n Ce' Modern Organ Building.. W. & T. Lewis beautiful experiences, a willingness to take •mmodations for m taps not usually designated as “Ml*tT?e“’ Organs and Tuning.Thos. Elliston and produced a flowing and well-con¬ Send for our . Prices reasonable. the finest and to rejoice in it. They have The term “Modern Organ” does not neces¬ trolled tone with beautiful timbre. When Thematic Catalog of Easy Piano Pieces, Grades 1 to 3. Contains Excerpts of over 200 JectivHyAform6 a^^YiixUir^”0^8 co1- sarily imply up-to-date information, as the not yet become blase and tired and irre¬ title refers to the Modern Organ of the period from these 60 tenors, there were selected attractive compositions that will be of value to the piano teacher in early grade work. rfng 'the tnsAucHoT of tSeA.nif organ' in which tile books were written. One or the best 30 for the singing of If With all sponsible. two of the works mentioned are fairly recent. At the last rehearsal they were asked Theodore Presser Co., 1712-14 Chestnut Street, Phila., Pa. Some of the more recent works on the organ your Hearts in unison, the result was sur¬ ” “Hr';? to write down the three or four numbers Lumenent' 1 construction of this type of are those by Dr. Audsley, but we arc not prisingly beautiful. Properly modulated, aware of their treating the matter of organ that they liked best and any numbers that CHICAGO IS born in 1859 repairs. Ilig works include “The Art of the voices of high school boys and girls Organ Building" (published some years ago), are a delight to hear. These young peo¬ they did not care for at all. There was originally trained as an electrical 'T®* ,Jhe °.r”an ,,f the Twentieth Century, a total of 700 votes recorded. Of these r,K,'!;i,.St°l,s an Trill St By O. Sevcik ,E Boor"“, %H1-20 ETUDESr*L IN THEVioBn FIRST MUTTON ’ Attention, Music Teachers! New Way Key Board and Staff Reader MUSIC ENGRAVING am EDUC^Kl'c’l «Sr Wodrk,C°anTc 1712-1 ruH«M!tnutRm. PRESSEphiiadelphia. Pa. OOSptidge Building 1-1 U t Vf ORv > Vl,k VIOLINS-O/ Every Qrade-OLD and NEW the ETUDE THE etude MARCH 1928 Page 231 rage 230 MARCH 192S rSVMMER MAS TER SCHOOL Jvne 25 To Ave vst 4 (Sc(Six Weeks) HERBERT WITHERSPOON LEON SAMETINI VICTOR KUZDO FLORENCE HINKLE PROF. LEOPOLD AUER distinguished teacher and educator AMERICA’S WELL-KNOWN SOPRANO MASTER VIOLIN INSTRUCTOR OF THE WORLD master violinist and teacher eminent violin pedagog and assistant to PROFESSOR AUER ALEXANDER RAAB EDWARD COLLINS MOISSAYE BOGUSLAWSKI RICHARD HAGEMAN PERCY GRAINGER EMINENT HUNGARIAN PIANIST (Mar. 1 to Sept. 1 RENOWNED AMERICAN PIANIST FAMOUS RUSSIAN PIANIST noted coach and accompanist WORLD RENOWNED PIANIST CHARLES DEMOREST EDWARD MOORE (Guest) W. OTTO MIESSNER MAURICE ARONSON GRAHAM REED CELEBRATED THEATRE AND CHURCH ORGANIST MUSIC CRITIC “CHICAGO TRIBUNE” NOTABLE AUTHORITY ON PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC EMINENT TEACHER WELL KNOWN COACH AND TEACHER SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION FRENCH PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC HARMONY, COMPOSITION, COUNTERPOINT, ORCHESTRATION, PIANO lister Alden Mabel L. Howatt Leonie Rom CLASS PIANO INSTRUCTION MUSICAL LITERATURE, CANON AND FUGUE Willa Bee,Atkinson Harry R. Dctweiler Jewell Harned Marian D. Martin Walter David Smith David W. Gavin Kathleen McCurry CHOIR AND CHORAL CONDUCT¬ Gustav Dunkelberger Wesley La Violette Jane Waterman Lillian Boguslawski GustavDunkelberger Mabel WredcHunter Dorothy Mendelssohn Mrs. L. 1. laylor Elma Pearl ITALIAN ING Laura D. Harris Nellie Moench Frances,es Bohannon Evalie Martin Fisher• Myra Seifert Johnson Kathleen Moffat Gertrude Towbin Amedeo C. Nobili Vera Bowen Faye Forsythe Blanche H. Jackson Laura Neel Jane Waterman ENSEMBLE PLAYING W. Otto Miessner C. Gordon Wedertz Paul Breitweiser Marjorie Dwyer Florence B. Johnson Mrs. Hal Holt Peel Percy Grainger (Two Piano Music) HISTORY AND APPRECIATION Mary Rives Brown Gertrude M. Gahl Carrie D. Keil Lillian Powers Merle McCarty West Bertha Kribben (Chamber Music) REPERTOIRE-INTERPRETATION CLASSES Gordon Campbell Ruby Ginsburg Max Kramm Bess Resseguie Stephen B. Williams OF MUSIC Gertrude Williamson Herbert Witherspoon Herbert Witherspoon Professor Leopold Auer Percy Grainger (Piano) Julia Lois Caruthers Helen Greenebaum Grace Levinson Lstella A. Striplin SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ART (Vocal) _ (Violin) Alexander Raab (Piano) Anna Ring Clauson Charles D. Hahn Bess Clair Murray Troy Sanders Elisabeth J. Wiley Lester Alden EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Richard Hageman (Vocal) Leon Sametini (Violin) Maurice Aronson (Piano) Kenneth Cummings Myrtle Hahn Louise MacDowell Adelaide Sanford Giula Williams Clara T. Dailey Eudora B. Harbers Della T. Matthews Gaylord Sanford ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC Eston V. Tubbs OPERA CLASSES (Repertoire and Action) MUSICAL APPRECIVTION Richard Hageman VOICE CONCERT, CHAUTAUQUA, SIGHT READING Aurelia Arimondi Ottley Cranston Winona Lightcap Lillian H. Polley CLARINET LYCEUM Florence Loftus Mrs. C. M. Robertson EAR TRAINING EPISCOPAL CHOIRMASTERS’ COURSE MUSIC CRITICS’ COURSE Vittorio Arimondi Louie Collier Cranston SAXOPHONE Mabel Lewis Howatt L. N. Dailey W. II. Manning Troy Sanders VOCAL ART AND LITERATURE Charles Demores t Edward Moore (Guest) Lyman Ackley Chris Lyngby Arch Bailey Ernest Edwards Florence J. Madsen Clark E. Snell HARMONIC EAR TRAINING AND TOE, BALLET, INTERPRETATIVE, Effie Cline Fones Minaperle Maxwell Estelle A. Striplin Betty Baker DOUBLE BASS CLASSICAL AND FOLK DANCING ACCOMPANYING CLASSES (Vocal, Violin, Opera, etc.) Rose Lutiger Gannon Etta McCue Lucille Stevenson KEYBOARD HARMONY Lois Holt Brown Otto Hyna Libushka Bartusck Richard Hageman Mrs. Dan Brown Maude Gutzmer AUene S. Miller George Sutton Harold B. Maryott Sara Irene Campbell Mabel Sharp Herdien Pauline Castlen All orchestral instruments not named above taught by member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gordon Campbell Charles H. Keep Jessie Waters IN TEACHERS’ NORMAL COURSES Ella Cave Elsie Kincheloe Edward Pease PIANO VIOLIN VOCAL VIOLIN Percy Grainger Professor Leopold Auer Herbert Witherspoon Alexander Raab Leon Sametini Lois Dyson Ray Huntington John McKenzie Raphael Spiro Maurice Aronson Max Fischel Mrs. John L. Eckel Blanche H. Jackson Rudolph Reiners Editha Todd Julia Lois Caruthers Max Fischel Victor H. Jindra Harry H. Ryan Mary Towbin W. Otto Miessner Maurice Goldblatt Bertha Kribben L. Dean Sands Anah Webb Guy Hartle Christian Lyngby . Bernard Senescu 5tu dent CLASS VIOLIN INSTRUCTION CHURCH ORGAN BAND AND ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS Charles H. Demorest Henry Francis Parks C. Gordon Wedertz COURSES FOR SUPERVISORS OF ORCHESTRA AND BAND MUSIC MOVING PICTURE ORGAN ORCHESTRA AND BAND ENSEMBLE Charles H. Demorest Henry Francis Parks Helen Greenebaum Dorm itories Raymond Dvorak J. C. McCanles Artistic and comfortable dormitov; accommodations tor nen and women in VIOLONCELLO VIOLA college building. Piano furnished with each room. Prices reasonable. CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA K Make rest vations early. Percy Grainger, Director A Free Fellowships Teachers'CertificatesandDegrees Prof. Auer, Mr. Grainger, Mr. Raab, Mr. Boguslawski, Mr. Witherspoon, Mr. Collins, Mr. Hageman, Mme Hinkle, Mr. Sametini, Teachers’ Certificates and the Degrees of Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, Bachelor of Music Education, Bachelor of Oratory Mr. Kuzdo, Mr. Parks and Mr. Demorest have each consented to award Free Fellowships to the students who after an open com¬ nnd Master of Oratory are conferred at the end of each summer session upon professionals, who have the required knowledge petitive examination, are found to possess the greatest gift for playing or singing. Free Fellowship application blank on request^ pass satisfactory examinations. Full details in Summer Catalog. FALL SESSION OPENS SEPT. 10 COMPLETE SUM ME**0R WINTER CATALOG ON REQUEST Chicago Mu? ical College]LEON SAMETINI, Vice-President CARL D. KINSEY, Manager THE the etude MARCH 1928 Page 238 Page 232 MARCH 1928 Fairies in ‘Music ASK YOUR DEALER TO SHOW YOU (Continued from page 194) librettos and music by both American and composed an overture to “The Tempest;” The Most Popular Piano Books European writers, have been founded on Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote incidental mu¬ New Revised Editions Washington Irving’s story. sic for it, Tschaikowsky, a tone poem in¬ SUMMER MASTER SCHOOL Possibly the great Norwegians, Grieg spired by the play. It was even made the THE MOST POPULAR and Ibsen, never heard of the nine-pin subject of an opera, with music by Fro- RECITAL PIANO PIECES men of the Catskills; but there is in mental Halevy and libretto by Eugene Six Weeks, From June 25 to August 4, 1928 ASK £ MJjii/j (New Revised Edition) Grieg’s “Hall of the Mountain King” Scribe. Nor have the most modern of (from the “Peer Gynt” suite) a certain moderns scorned the theme, for Arthur FOR lH CONTENTS suggestion of the setting of the American Honegger, composer of the famous “loco¬ 1/ fUFM Wr / Alpine Maiden’s Dream.Labitzky classic. Grieg composed this work, to¬ motive symphony,” and late of the Paris rrlLM ■! 1 [( Andantino in D Flat.Lcmare gether with the rest of the suite, upon the “group of six,” has been represented on BYNAME i| ■Mil. Aragonaise (Le Cid).Massenet request of Ibsen as incidental music for the concert programs during the present New T!'1 Barcarolle.Scharzvcnka York season by a “Tempest” prelude. Josef LHEVINNE drama of “Peer Gynt,” and in this country IConfidence ...Mendelssohn the music is more widely known than the Consolation .Mendelssohn WORLD RENOWNED PIANO VIRTUOSO. REPERTORY-TEACHER’S CLASSES. AUDITOR CLASSES Fairy or Fol\ Lore play. The entire suite might be regarded Coppelia (Valse Lente)..Delibes as fairy music, since the drama, by Ibsen’s 'T'O SEPARATE fairy lore and folk Here is a typical Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda) .... PonchieUi own statement, is founded in pa!rt on a -*• lore and the various forms of my¬ contents list. Other Dying Poet, The. .Gottschalk fairy tale; but the Mountain King move¬ thology is not always a simple or easy collections are: Forget Me Not.Macbeth ment is particularly fantastic in spirit matter; for these, when considered by and was written to accompany the scene themselves, without (any thought of their Children’s LTngenue ..• •; • Arditi described as “The Royal Hall of the King employment as the framework for musical Piano Pieces Menuet A L Antique.Raaerezuskt Oscar SAENGER of the Dovre Trolls.” In this is discov¬ compositions, will sometimes merge and Selected Moment Musical ,.Schubert Piano Pieces- Nocturne .Chopin INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS MASTER OF THE VOICE. OPERA CLASSES. ered “a great assembly of troll courtiers, overlap. It is possible, however, and in¬ gnomes and brownies,” with “the old man deed necessary, in an article such as this, Transcribed Norwegian Dance . .Grieg TEACHER’S CLASSES. REPERTORY CLASSES IRANSCRIBED Polish Dance .Scharzvenka of the Dovre on the throne, crowned and to make a few general distinctions. Piano Pieces Romance.Rubinstein with sceptre in hand.” Music based on Greek mythology, we believe, should not be classified as fairy Operatic Scarf Dance.Chaminade music; neither should that concerned with Piano Pieces Serenade Badine .Gabriel-Marie JACQUES GORDON More American Fairy Music HENIOT LEVY angles or devils, with shades or other crea¬ Famous Pianist and Instructor. Repertory-Teacher’s Famous Violin Virtuoso and Concert Master Chicago Modern Serenade (Les millions d’arlequin).Drigo HE CONCEPT of a castle, half Classes. Symphony Orchestra. T tures of the nether world. It would be Piano Pieces Serenata.Moszkozvski cloud, half mountain and mostly' manifestly inappropriate to include in a Concert Simple Aveu. Thome dream, is reminiscent of the work of an¬ discussion of fairy music, "Faust,” “Me- Piano Pieces Souvenir .Drdla SILVIO SCIONTI HERBERT BUTLER other American, the late Charles Tomlin¬ fistofele,” or the other operatic works Brilliant Pianist and Instructor. Repertory-Teacher’s Eminent Teacher of the Violin. Every number in Swan, The .Saint-Sa'cns son Griffts. and his symphonic poem, founded on Goethe’s drama. Gluck’s “Or¬ Classes. every book a gem of Why? (Warum) .Schumann “The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan,” pheus” should not be called fairy music, after Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan.” Griffes for furies are not fairies, no matter how musical literature. Will O’The Wisp.Jungmann KARLETON HACKETT ADOLF WEIDIG himself has stated (again we are indebted fantastically they may dance in the tor¬ THE GREATEST 60c VALUE IN MUSIC Distinguished Vocal Instructor and Critic. Repertory- Noted Authority on Musical Theory. to a program note) that the basis of this menting fires of the life after death.- Order from your music dealer or Teacher’s Classes. work is in the lines, “the stately pleasure HINDS, HAYDEN & ELDREDGE, Inc. dome,” "the sunny pleasure dome with And this brings us to what is, if not an E. WARREN K. HOWE WILHELM MIDDELSCHULTE caves of ice,” the “miracle of rare de¬ invariable, at least a frequent, difference 5-9 Union Square __New York City Eminent Teacher of Voice. One of the World’s Greatest Organists. vice;” and that in composing the' musical between music founded on heroic myth setting "imagination was given free rein and that celebrating those diminutive FACULTY OF OVER ONE HUNDRED ARTIST INSTRUCTORS in the description of the strange place, as creatures of the imagination whom we call Special Features include: Opera Classes, Recitals by members of faculty and Artist Students, Lectures by eminent well as of the purely imaginary revelry fairies. However elaborately programmed educators, classes in children’s normal work, intensive courses in Musical Theory which might take place there. It is this the latter, it is likely to be a nearer ap¬ “purely imaginary revelry” which we proach to the “absolute” in tonal creation. think permits taking this composition out Heroes and gods in - music may tower Every Teacher wants her pupil to progress. Every Mother wants her - taken toward Certificates, Diplo¬ of the classification of absolute music and above the work of the composer; fairies Child to know music. Every Child wants to play the piano. SUPERIOR DORMITORY ACCOMMODATIONS Show the Child that learning to play the piano is just another way of having mas, Degrees—granted by authority of the State of including it in a discussion of fairy music. in music fill the traditional role of fairies ' RATES OF TUITION MODERATE FUN ! There is an Instruction Book that makes learning FUN 1 It is Illinois. Summer Session prospectus, Regular Catalog and It is not necessary to seek any such jus¬ —lending magic and brilliance and wit, Public School Music Circular mailed free on application. tification for cataloguing Henry Had¬ and flying away when their work is done. ley’s “Culprit Fay” with tile musical fairy MIDDLE C and its NEAR NEIGHBORS folk. This American composer found the Music of "The Fairies" An Instruction Book for the Piano Summer Courses in inspiration for his symphonic tone pic¬ SCHOOL OF WALTON PYRE ture with this title, in a word poem by By Elizabeth Blackburn Martin Price 60 cents PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC THE following is a list of “Fairy” piano THEATRE ORGAN PLAYING SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION Joseph Rodman Drake. The story Is of compositions which have gained great “MLDDLE C” has dozens^pretty pieces, jolly ^stories and cute pictures. Each piece O.JE. ROBINSON, Director a culprit fairy "whose elfin purity has favor among teachers, especially for recital PROGRESS IS SAFE AND CERTAIN! fcost-graduate and regular Courses lead¬ AND DRAMATIC ART been sullied by the glance of a mortal FRANK VAN DUSEN.'A.A.G.O., Director purposes. The Roman numerals indicate Everybody is happy who uses this Book because there is ing to diploma and degree—Bachelor of maiden’s eye;” of the penance exacted of- Music—including Courses in High School Direction of MR. WALTON PYRE their place, ten grades system. NO FUN LIKE DOING THINGS AND HAVING FUN DOING THEM! and Elementary methods, Harmony, Ap¬ Intensive courses for beginners, ad¬ the culprit by the assembled council of Airy Fairies, I.G. L. Spaulding Intensive Summer Course leading to fairies; and of the fay’s own miraculous preciation, Band Instruments, Orchestra vanced students, and professionals. Spe¬ Brownies, III.H. Reinhold Conducting, and all other branches. cial attention to Theatre Repertoire— Diplomas and Degrees, including classes feats in meeting their demands. Along with “MIDDLE C” use a clever Book which makes learning the in Expression, Acting, Stage Technique, Dance of the Midgets, III. .C. IV. Cadman Send for Special Circular Classic—iPopular—and Jazz. 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Lemont Short Pieces for the Piano with Preparatory Exercises °f the Ideal) “is a metamorphosed state Fairy Tale, III.He Reinhold of real things and persons, rather than a Fairy Tale, II.L. Schyttc fabled locality.” Its characters1 are vil¬ By Buenta Carter Price 50 cents AMERICAN CONSERVATORY Flame Fairies, 11^2.A. C. Galbraith lagers, peasants, nuns, and a pair of hu¬ ; Technical Mastery Goblin, II.•'.L. Ree man lovers, symbolically transported to fairyland. I Heard a Fairy Piper (Song).IP. Baines In a Fairy Swing, IV/2.M. Ewing John Knowles Paine, pioneer in musical CLAYTON F. SUMMY CO., Publishers OF MUSIC education in America, was one of several March of the Dwarfs, V.E. Grieg 429 South Wabash Av« 572 KIMBALL HALL JOHN J. HATTSTAEDT, President CHICAGO, ILLINOIS creative souls' of: his time to celebrate in On Fairy Barque, IV.C. Iluertcr ;™US1C Shakespeare’s fairy play, “The Puck, V.E■ Grieg , tempest.” His composition with this title Sleeping Princess, III.M. Ewing is a symphonic poem. Sir Julius Benedict Uglv Dwarf, The, IH.M. Ewing , Please mention THE ETUDE w n addressing our advertisers. THE the etude MARCH 1928 Page 285 Page 24. MARCH 1928 The tense Public School Music THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL (Continued fr om page 22?) SUMMER SCHOOL moment Their first choice was the one which not know definitely what to work for in they sang with great zest and vim—the order to make themselves better. The com¬ Five Weeks - - June 2S to JulF 28 bined chorus is good in that it gives an STAINED frock or a wilted col¬ infectious Dancers by Lacome. The favor¬ Classes Every Day Practical and Intenslve Courses A ite that was next in the list was David honorable place to a large number and lar! Perspiring hands with slip¬ summer G^ession PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC, ORCHESTRA CONDUCTING, BAND Stanley Smith’s A Hope Carol. The third, leaves no bad feelings behind. It is poor CONDUCTING, APPRECIATION OF MUSIC pery fingers, the humiliationof Eichberg’s To Thee, O Country, and the in that it does not so sharply point out noticeable odor, embarrassing always, superior performance and show up inade¬ gne course for foe "^School fourth, the Volga Boatmen. O Turn Thee, June 18 - August 11,1928 One course for the Senior High School how much more disheartening and Jerusalem and Good-Night, Beloved, also quate work. APPLIED MUSIC—PIANO, VOICE, VIOLIN,_ THEORY, disconcerting to a musician! ranked very high. Competition is probably valuablel as a Excessive perspiration from nerv¬ spur. Cooperation is best both to begin BRASS AND WOOD WIND Two Distinct Incentives (Specialist for every instrument) ousness and excitement can be easily and to conclude. In a chorus a certain Features: amount of the poor may be combined with THE FACULTY and harmlessly prevented. 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The first study is so pating. reaches our readers we expect to have plied to teachers at the lower than cost of The special introductory price in ad¬ Jetty Lou—Operetta—Stult ms from Nature—Piano—Nivin.50c. at tiie top were self-taught. Remember easy that it may be played with the first A folder giving further details about vance of publication is 35 cents per copy, ready a new cantata by the favorite com¬ manufacture price of 30 cents a copy on this opera will be sent to anyone request¬ that THE ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE advance of publication orders. and second fingers of either hand. As the postpaid. poser, It. M. Stults, entitled Easter Glory. s Voict [etiiod for Young Beginners.30c. is a wonderful inspiration during the Sum¬ book progresses various rhythms are in¬ ing it. The subscription for the first edi¬ This notice is being written for an issue Do not neglect this when making your Coke IIT IN Palestine, A—Opera—Weinberg mer, as at all other times. 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They will supplement admirably desirous of starting promptly the necessary beginning. gradually through the various degrees— short musical comedy in three acts suit¬ ECENTLY we received two letters. One came from a so-called any instruction book or the first volume The wholly uncalled for loss brought rehearsing to insure a satisfactory per¬ able chiefly for those of High School age. The special introductory price in ad¬ thirds, sixths, octaves, etc., and through all R about by the habit of some pupils of stop¬ sophisticated music teacher in a big city. She said, At last, I see of any method. Both clefs are used from formance on the part of the participants. It is based upon two of Aesop’s fables, vance of publication is 35 cents per copy, the keys. The editing of this work will be ping music study during the Summer If you have not secured your copy of this postpaid. * THE ETUDE has come to publishing music of the so-called moderns. the very beginning. “The Shepherd and the Wolf” and “The done by Otto Meyer, who has edited sev¬ The special introductory price in ad¬ months, is one of the greatest handicaps in helpful folder send for it at once as it eral of the other well-known Sevcik works I congratulate you upon it. We need this fresh invention, these new ideas American musical education. Milkmaid.” Although in three acts, the vance of publication is 30 cents per copy, may be obtained free for the asking. work is very compact, requiring only an First Folk Songs published recently in the Presser Collec¬ these ^different twists of the imagination.” Another letter came pom an ol,d Think of it,—a quarter of the year,—the postpaid. Although some numbers used on com¬ hour and one-l*alf for production. There tion. subscriber in a remote rural district. She said “l liked all the pieces inthe best months of all for music study,—actu¬ For Violin with Plano Accompaniment mencement programs are not obtainable are ten (10) musical numbers, all very- last ETUDE except two, and I couldn’t make head or tail of them. What Twenty-five Primary Pieces for ally thrown away, in unnecessary indo- By Maiiel Madison Watson The special introductory price in ad¬ 'kind of music is that? It seemed to be full of dissonances. Is this what they upon the terms of our liberal On Sale plan, bright and tuneful. The dialogue is cheer¬ vance of publication is 35 cents a copy, most all of them may be had for exami¬ ful and witty without any long set After having attained a most flattering call modern music?" the Pianoforte Active, progressive teachers can easily success with her beginner’s method. The postpaid. nation over a limited time. This applies speeches. 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Our more entitled The Very First Pieces Played at ning to conduct Summer classes and ac¬ beginner’s method. As the name indicates, number. Sample copies of octavo choruses, all who may be interested in productions By R. M. Stults progressive ’readers have appreciated this beyond words. In the present issue the Keyboard. It begins where the other cept private pupils during the Summer. the thematic material is taken from vari¬ vocal and instrumental solos, operettas of this nature. This is a real comic opera but not too we have two very delightful things. One ‘‘Moresque which means a piece leaves off, and works its way gradually The main thing is to do this sufficiently ous folk songs and familiar tunes. In, the and cantatas, cheerfully will be sent for difficult for production by intelligent ama¬ of Moorish type, is by Maurice Yvtan. This has been very successful in into the second grade. Each of these little in advance and express clearly the many The special introductory price in ad¬ first part of the book only the open examination. A large and efficient corps vance of publication is 35 cents per copy. teurs. In many ways it approaches the Europe, and we are publishing it by special arrangement with the PM'sher> study pieces is in characteristic vein, this reasons why Summer music study is so strings are used, so that the young begin¬ Professional calibre. The plot is lively, also are we publishing the “Barcelone Endormte from a set of affords opportunity for even young play¬ advantageous. ner may have the pleasure and experience SOUVENIRS OF SPAIN. Here we have from the pen of Felix Fourdram, Begin now by writing us today to send interesting, the dialogue is witty and the ers to develop a certain picturesque style of playing a familiar melody with the music is bright and melodious. The work a delightful piece of impressionistic color, ‘‘Barcelona Asleep. of playing which is very desirable. Some you catalogs of new and fresh* teaching piano. There are several places where the is not difficult to prepare. It is sure to We are sure that the introduction of occasional pieces of this type will of the titles are: The Bee, Song of the material, etc., in line vyith your needs. “Educated men are as superior to the piano part is written in such a manner prove highly pleasing to audiences, in fact, l ■ „ £Lth of freshness to THE ETUDE. Our readers will find them Night Wind. Rain Drops, The Booster, Thousands of teachers have conducted that a second violin may play along. This this is one of the best operettas we have weRSworth study and investigation. They have been very carefully selected The Frog Serenade. delightful classes in History, Harmony, uneducated as the living to the dead’' work, we are sure, will be much sought Technic and other musical subjects to the ever issued. We anticipate that it will be by experts here and abroad. The special introductory price in ad¬ after by teachers, particularly those mak- ready at an early date. great profit of their pupils and themselves —Aristotle *nfLa specialty of young beginners. vance of publication is 35 cents per copy, in the Summer. Fhe introductory price in advance of The special introductory price in ad¬ postpaid. (Continued, on Page e‘o) publication is 60 cents a copy", postpaid. vance of publication is 50 cents per copy, postpaid. "Advertisement” MARCH 1928 Page 251 Page 250 MARCH 1928 THE ETUDl the ETUDE Eclectic Piano Studies tion to our catalog, solving the question of piano teachers and school supervisors as World of Music Compiled by Louis G. 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