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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 11-1-1930 Volume 48, Number 11 (November 1930) James Francis Cooke 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 Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 48, Number 11 (November 1930)." , (1930). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/784 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]. November 1930 Price 25 Cents W V Study of Childri CHILDREN WITHOUT TOYS -- — me. it will give them an attractive accomplishment that will help them to make friends. It will permit them to Sum, gallant, untried . fresh as new the glamourous gardens of creative culture. develop their talents, unhampered, on what rose petals . they put their toys aside. This last does not mean that they have to is both the strongest and most perfect instru¬ Yet before them still stretch several more be poets, painters or great musicians. It ment. And it will subtly connect them with years of childhood. It is, perhaps, the most a glorious tradition ... for virtually every difficult time of all. Now more than ever pleasant familiarity with gay melodies, with great musician from Wagner to Rachmaninoff they must have plenty of just the right has used the Steinway. thing to do . and worthy friends. 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And the must be "plus transportation" beyond New Yoi have been taught how to partake of the Steinway is so perfectly and soundly built "good life” • ■ ■ swimming vigorously that it will serve your children's children 10% down 71” through the cool sea . putting the zest of health into the swing of a racket . tained now on a deferred payment plan that savouring the clean orderliness of modern will not burden even the modest income. c ’ ruluway Wall, xoq West clothes ... and strolling pleasantly through The Steinway will do more than assist your 57th Street, New York. THE instrument of the immortals STEIN WAY THE ETUDE. YOU can secure that coveted Diploma or Degree right in your own home as other established teachers and musicians have done by taking our Extension Courses * Th^fE ' letters are but a few of many thousands of similar ones in our files: ^ ) PROOF OF THE PUDDING! THE ETUDE TEE ETUDE NOVEMBER 1930 Page Christmas Gifts or Awards for Music Pupils THEODORE PRESSER CO. Relative, Teacher or Friend May Delight and Encourage the Young Student of Music With One of These Violin Outfits §?ESE?3i •S.hS|S » SS&S® ~S£H€s?I- JB MOTTO BAR PIN No. ,2 gg Hn No. » ggpsifes gSjSi pa °st *&rs£x sas-sts —© iSSM HI! mmmm H-S'3 SKsSSKS’* H£4. MfisrSa-SS ffistsSSHS 5 ““’-‘‘ihSi? :l Page 768 NOVEMBER THE ETUDE HIGH'WHEELED BICYCLES LET US BE THANKFUL ANYONE who knows Paris has surely seen some we< ANOTHER Thanksgiving uDay is in the offing. end in the Bois de Boulongne a finely set'Up elderly w< count our material blessing; ntleman in the appropriate sports attire of the “g ipaSTwTth £l^T/ncSomndan°d r4ld ‘turW ' ¥ sailing t unctuously nght gratitude to the hearts of our Pilgrim forefathers. Ob se humbly admi when he can soar along looking down on mankind! (Gonflez atete theiruicin. Most of all we at the home of The Ftttdp les pneus! Ou! la! la!) As for autos and aeroplanes—well, le blessing of the vast number of loyal friends manvnf we have an idea what he thinks of them. Fiches'moi la paix! vyiium still possess first copies of The Etude ’ Y in the high-bicycle Late m the “gay nineties” a millionaire friend invited ns ithods, business pro' W had t rdad^iSfin S lachine, the radi those days. This two-cylinder contrivance m 1 will come back to high'wheeled though it had a case of emphysema ™ to JaTt f “T!<J aj *%£ Pt0greSS “d thdr “ suPremacy1'to tnkfaTa? which is good,” is sou are rarely equalled. It is thi Stat^^tetet116 r in United ”'™.?f .They travel^ t Ws^df of toS rf music and of works presenting then «g standpoint have keep in touch with the rfady put to sham^the^relt Waif'? newer methods that really produce : Its. ■ften far more luxurious in their fittings than t Yet how ir ness have soared to success by discovering the normal tendencies In those sa of the age and building to meet their requirements. Thus nuld afford®5! Froebel and Pestalozzi and Montessori in their analysis of the parlor organs tl child mind found that imagination played a great part in the early natural educational development; and in all phases of the rmaiTmurical jhe.stoIT of economic education of the child those systems that foster this precious - -« ~».u ooastnly famiUeS °f * “WU°to gift are those which usually stand the best chance of surviving. Now the economic situation 10 a u n THE ACCOMMODATING EAR THE human ear is marvelously accommodating. It will adjust itself to like music of almost any description. The eminent reports indicate that our'sarin! “I*1? moment g°v- neighing of bag'pipes takes on a celestial sound to any real ntr4 m<»ey. This cannot last p,^ are Scotchman and so is it that one with Scotch blood, even fairly dilute, feels the call of the Hielands and the Lowlands when a Kiltie Band proudly makes its way down the street with sl sJsst*£ every player puffing his cheeks to the bursting point. al training provides. An African traveler recently returned tells how eagerly -et us be thankful for o he drank the water of a green-scummed, befouled water hole in the veldt. He would reject such water instantly at home, “ and dor but where no other was obtainable it became nectar. Of course, he flavored it with thirty'five grains of quinine a day, but^his VOUR grandfatherE^enTtCHNlG few diagrams in the fr 6 piano v» of beautiful commonplaces have ventured so far in the wilder' told to mould his hand in that°formfJ?instruction*5 1 In this way the world progresses.' In reaching out for th! fin!ers°bobbed'upkSa!d d!*^!"8 ma*hTe^In"fu extremes we come to a happy and agreeable mean. In this ™ camr'b V ufe sa£ 2* ^ t way the positive goal of the modernist has a value. Gradually the ears of the public become accustomed to new motives, new rhythms, new harmonies. Note the “Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk” mow all is Changed ■ c of Debussy, now frequently heard. When it first appeared only of rotating the hand and .ght’ taxation a a few of the “ultra” group hailed it as real music. Jazz in its hunger for new rhythmic combinations forced forefathers would h and niceties of touch g“?e difcent j alt. * , Anyone in this dav u k shad« of to ^ “But,” said a recent visitor, “what I object to is the ‘fake’ educating the pupil’s ea! • fttempts to tM u in modem music. Would-be composers with no training or skill but wholly and entirely in the quest of sensations write stuff that has no merit whatever, and merely because it is queer But shall we >f the .public which led STrTe» f1al'vea?c?mthe mentor of refined and a way THE ETUDE Page 771 A (Critical ‘Digest of VXtusic and the !Masters of Jitusic c_By Anton Rubinstein Honorably ‘Dedicated to His Highness George Alexander Von Mec\lenburg'Strelitz THE ETUDE I figgl TEE ETUDE NOVEMBER 1930 Page 773 r(jo Qount or J\[ot to Qount By William O’Toole cR&dio (Clarified A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Heard Daily SjS3S32 sks." . Over the Radio mathematical knowledge, ^Indd^U^e J^£,fZ£ ^ TEE ETUDE NOVEMBER 1930 Page 775 Fascinating Ftfusical <Dances I Have Seen East of Suez <By the Tooted American (Composer Lily Strickland ~tyfhy Great ^Artists Succeeded SiBSaira- ‘By Charles D. fclar-* ■“ - ■. THE ETUDE 15he ^Mother’s Hand ‘Points the Way Qhanging the ‘Practice Hour from ‘Drudgery to ‘Delight ‘By In a Thompson Smitherman T°“s"iE"!SHS mwm jgi'SjKSS _J2SSsSS3 SfsHSs® |pr«5?tSH2 fly. NY MOT¥nii6f Ltam\ W&S&1 «E.*^s»r,ss,.T E-Sr Hand, Staff and Keyboard SS8SS SS33E«58 S, . %~gE£ ustifss.sjgtjg? Page 77S NOVEMBER 1930 THE ETUDE T5he (Christmas Party By Virginia G. Tupper An Outline of Preparations for an Interesting December Studio or School Recital SSll gggggggj TEE ETUDE NOVEMBER 19S0 Page 779 T5eresa Qarreno as a teacher [Memories of a <Rgmdr\able Woman and VYCusician <By One of Her ‘Pupils Ruth Payne Burgess TEE ETUDE NOVEMBER 1930 Page 7 Are You Able to Play ‘Brills? By W.