Volume 71, Number 04 (April 1953) Guy Mccoy
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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 4-1-1953 Volume 71, Number 04 (April 1953) Guy McCoy Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation McCoy, Guy. "Volume 71, Number 04 (April 1953)." , (1953). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/119 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. w- r L8TTeRS T 0 T D E EDITOR let Them Sing 1 mean pounding out the notes, Dear Sir: Now, my real reason singing along with them, etc.) William M. Felton *MODERN FRE CD ORGA T for writing this letter was the ar- numbers they were going to per- ticle by Grace C. Nash, "Let Them form-and their universal wail I' ti and contemporary *tAT THE CONSOLE. Rowland W. Dunham was: "Oh, if only I had learned Familiar transcriptions of c assic, roman IC~13_40004 $1.50 Sing," in the August 1952 issue. Fifteen French compo itions of medium difficultywithori . to read music." And not only is writers, for ~o manual organ. inal registration and phrasing. Fingering and pedaling adde~. Miss Nash touched on a subject that has been close to my heart it the soloists; choir-members 433-<0022 $1.50 *AT THE CONSOLE William M.Felton for many years; and frankly, it have the same problems. Many made me heart-sick as I read her times when helping singers, I have (Registration for the 2E and 2D connsonata.) tORGA TR CRIPTIO OF FAVORITEHYMNS article. And I was surprised at the found that they can't even recog- 413-40009 $1.50 lar nee Kohlmann ETUDE for apparently supporting nize that when a note stays on the Twenty rather IT nscripti n of Hymns of the Protestant such an attitude. In the first place same line or space, their voice stays on the same pitch. It is such *tCHANCEL ECHOES William M. Felton faith. .13-400 II $1.00 why do you have to "take the do- re-mi out of music to let the pupils elementary things as this that I am Forty-two transcriptions for two manual organ, mostly secular. teaching my intermediate choir; 413-40005 $1.50 sing," as Miss Nash suggests in EIGHT E HOR L PR L D J. Bach- Krait her closing sentence. Statistics when they should have learned it Well cho n and un urp sed f r both church and rerit~. show that 80% of all children are years ago in school. *CHANCELECHOES William M. Felton .. 13-00350 $1.50 musical. I think I am qualified to And that leads me to ask Miss (Registration for the 2E and 2D Connsonata.) speak. First, because I went to Nash this question: "If children . 413-41010 $1.50 IX ORGA cnon school in a city where the do-re- aren't taught these things in school, h-Rl menschneider mi's were taught 'and a great deal where should they be taught?" more about the fundamentals of From at least the third grade up, *tWEDDING MUSICFOR ORGAN ompr hensive sour which studies of the music; secondly I taught public- if presented in the right manner, Bach int rpr t ti n m .33-40001 $1,50 George Walter Anthony school music in that same school children can be taught to learn These pieces of medium difficulty include: The Wagner and system; and thirdly (and most im- music-reading. At this time of Mendelssohn Wedding Marches, «0 Promise Me" by DeKoven t IX ORGA rn i FROMBACII portant), 1 now have three musical their lives, learning is easy. They (with text), "At Dawning" hy Cadman, "A Dream" by Bart- daughters coming along-the two are in a class where {hill is easy. lett, "I Love You" by Grieg, and «Sweetest Story Ever Told" ft • 33-' 00 20 $.50 eldest. 15 and 12, who were not As for using the syllable teach- by Stults. 433-41008 S1.00 taught to read music in school. I ing of do-re-mi or A, B, C, I can't t IX ORG TR RrPTIO FROM MOZART also am the director of the inter- see the difference. But since the tCONCERTO GROSSO No. 8 (Christmas Concerto) . Kraft '3'-'0007 $.50 mediate choir in our church (First do-re-mi is the accepted and uni- Carelli-Moschetti Two small but distinct contributi to the literatureof organ Baptist Church, Birmingham, versal system used in all English- mu ic and II tudent lh r r. .Michigan); and since I am an speaking countries (as you can Superb for recital, this excellent transcription retains the pure organist, too, do a great deal of learn from your English or Welsh spirit of Carelli's inspired conception. One of the most beauti- accompanying. I have also di- friends); why not use it? And ful examples of the concertante style. 433-41007 $1.00 tTE ARI FOR OR rected adult choirs. then, if by the time a pupil is in a J. B ch-Pfatt icber and Ames I can remember no occasion of high-school or adult choir, he has tORGAN VISTAS Taken from th ant Ias of B ch. Presents ,dditionellrio "tenseness, fear; no stiffened forgotten the names, and reads by material nd v luable pedal stud! . shoulders, or long faces" (Quoting position-what difference does it Twenty-nine easy, transcribed and original compositions. 12.00 Miss Nash again) either when I make? He has retained the basic 413-40019 $1.50 was in school as a music pupil, or knowledge that he needs. tTE CHOR L PREL D FA A Y as a teacher. When I taught, some- All through Miss Nash's article tEIGHTEEN LARGE CHORALES o FAMILI R BY H. A. Matthews times the pupils came to me in a runs the thought that you can't "music-room," and sometimes I enjoy singing if you know how to J. S. Bach-Riemenschneider Simple in difficul ,these well·Jmo-· went to them right in their own read it. It would be interesting to An eminen~ ~ach autho:ity lends help over difficult passages hymn tun nand Reneral use. room. In either case, they had and melodic mterpretations, but avoids over-editing leaving • 3J:.-f 100 I S1.00 make a survey of well-known per- scope for research and creativeness. 433-41006 ' $3.00 their "music-seats" and of course formers to see how many of them a variety of music books. They got part or all of their musical GOLD 'THEA RY were always ready for music class. training in school. No one would LITURGICAL YEAR (Orgel Buchlein) PEatteich r and Davison I never had any discipline prob- quarrel with her that school sings lems, because, as Miss Nash says, are a lot of fun; and no one would A superb ri of preJud In· J. S. Bach-Riemenschneider three-velum and postludes. children love to sing. We always suggest that in community singing Forty-five organ chorales, each preceded by the vocal ar c1uded are some of the best works of such classical masters as began the class by singing favorite of any kind note- reading should be rangement-with scholarly annotations on interpretation. - Bach, Bobm, Han.lf, Kreb , \ alther, and maoyothers. &left $3.50 songs. Usually then came note- taught; and no one would want 433-40003 $2.25 reading and theory. This part of " Sold only in U.S.A. Volume I, 433-oCOO2' VolufIle It 433-41003 Volu • Ill. 433-41005 the fun and delight taken out of t Hammond registration. the class was fun, too. class room singing, or the fun of Miss Nash says' that only if learning some rote-songs be taken studying an instrument is it neces- away from school children-but sary to study note-reading. I have for goodness' sake (and for good THEODORE PRESSER COMPA MAWR, PA. always considered the human voice music's sake) let us put note read- Y BRY the most valuable instrument of ing back in our public schools. 70 Years of Music Service all. I have helped many, many Esther R. Meily singers-from young beginners to Birmingham, Mich. highly paid soloists-to learn (and (Continued on Page 3) ETUDE-APRIL 1953 1 MANHATTAN Letters to the Editor "My TON~ahin~t ,"".de ~oga=ine (Continued from Page 1) SCHOOL OF MUSIC ETUDE",c Articles ing from the field even while pu- is indispensable 'ness Janet D. Schenck, Director Editorial an,d BtlSl Offices, Bryn ,;\Iawf·, Pa. Dear Sir: My subscription to pils are still coming. And how I ETUDE expired with the October have enjoyed these many years; to me" issue. I began in 1896 and have and even now some pupils insist James Francis Cooke, Editor Emeritus Founded 1883 hy THEODORE PHE55ER e (Editor, 1907./919) received it without interruption on staying until they can establish says MARGUERITE PIAZZA SUMMER SESSION these 56 years, and until I came to mutually satisfactory connections Managing Editor Darrell Peter, Director Guy McCoy, my present 'quarters a few months elsewhere. l\'Iarjorie E. Mosher, Business JlIatlfl{{('r June 8th to July 31st, 1953 ago, I think I might say I had a All this leads up to what I wish Harold Berkley n'Ma urtce, Durneenll- Karl \V .