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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 12-1-1926 Volume 44, Number 12 (December 1926) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 44, Number 12 (December 1926)." , (1926). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/45 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]. A MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR THE MUMCIAN^HE MUSIC STUDENT, AND ALL MUSIC LOVERS. ,_JlS.-Owing to the educational Edited by James Francis Cooke eh«^rter’of*THE"ETUDE a majority of its readers » • • nt Editor, Edward Ellsworth Hipsher to miss an issue. Therefore, the pub- DECEMBER, 1926 H h rs are pleased to extend credit covering atie Tweli- paid- , attne P. O. at 1 Months’ subscription beyond expiration of the ch 3, 1879. .p period. Those of our subscrlb, Philadelphia, Pa A. and Great Briti il ther.— Is of this Copyright. 1926, by Theor iat :r will pies or discontinut Printed in The World of Music "The slnitiiiK of “music Clubs is to (Izinslti, The Philadelphia Grand ^onv- claton Mwmlciimeta<ine their “semi-centennial the National Federation ril 16-23, 1927. Dr -- f/bi. its inaugural performance, on . .n Chicago A i con v MU ion at Rochester, New York, December Boyd hi i National d.-imfeU1 bed P»W “Vo d October 28, at listoric Academy or Music, 28-30. 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