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Editorial flvufout&t Ai&fidituml 1 TTME E1OT Tike Voice of tke Village Sccfouare by HARVEY S. WHISTLER mm@§€ mai® sisSww § MODERN HOH M AN N-WOHLFAHRT Beginning Published monthly Method tor Violin, Vol. I. First Position $0.60 BY Theodore Presser Co., Philadelphia i, Pa. HE IMPORTANCE and the potentiality of the small com- turning into hopeless anthropological microbes. MODERN HOH M A N N-WOHLFAHRT Beginning 1 EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY STAFF munity in America is understood and keenly appreciated In the small towns, the pressure is less, but the small town total Method for Violin, Vol. II. First Position 75 DR. JAMES FRANCIS COOKE, Editor in Chief by all experienced men and women in our country. Indeed, population in America is immense. Our national statistics show INTRODUCING Assistant Editors T THE POSITIONS Guy McCoy and Ethel M. McKray, for Violin, Vol. I. were, Dr. Peery, Music Editor if are to believe one great thinker, the voice of America is the there in 1946, in the United States $1,560 communities Third and Fifth Positions. 75 Rob Roy we Harold Berkley Dr. Nicholas Douty Karl W. Gehrkens Dr. Guy Maier voice of the people of the village square. Many corrupt politicians with a population of less than 50,000. These communities may be Ruth Evans Buhman Maurice Dumesnil Elizabeth Gest Dr. Alexander INTRODUCING THE POSITIONS for Violin, Vol. II. McCurdy Pietro Deiro Edna Fort George C. Krick N. Clifford Page divided thus: Second, Fourth, and demagogues have found this to be true, to their dismay and Sixth, Seventh and higher positions .75 William D. Reveili Peter Hugh Reed DEVELOPING DOUBLE-STOPS downfall. The small town folk presently will be called upon to 215 communities of from 25,000 to 50,000 population for Violin. A complete »> tt a ” it course of study in double note -FOUNDED 1883 BY THEODORE PRESSER 745 10,000 25,000 and chord development in determining the greatest problem in the » »• >» ” »» influence the world 1,112 5,000 10,000 ! it >» >i ” it history of Man. This is the problem of averting world suicide. Only 1,502 3,000 5,000 it >> »» ” it Publications 2,120 2,000 3,000 for other bowed all instruments: live think and work together for the good of »» »» »» ” it by learning to and 2,963 1,000 2,000 FROM VIOLIN Contents a TO VIOLA. A transitional for 1947 problem be solved. Because music must have a 53,095 under 1,000 method for those who already possess a humanity can this knowledge of violin playing conspicuous this plan, we pre- Of course these proportions . ... 1.00 part in VOLUME LXV, No. 5 • PRICE 25 CENTS INTRODUCING THE POSITIONS sent this editorial on a subject which continually changing, as our popula- Clip. V„l ,k. Ftiurtk Po ,,„„n , „ EDITORIAL cannot fail to tion increases. ONS C readers of The Etude * "• " The Voice of the Village Ihird, L W-d-.-H.,,. Square STuTsand Third-and-a-Half™f Positions 243 find unusual and arresting. In and around these towns and 1 > • • . » « . 'I MUSIC AND CULTURE L S R STRINGS There was a time when a kind of smaller cities there are rural com- Ind SPenSable C0l,ect,°" of
explosions a*. Alamo numbers of the foremost men and women of America power of the bomb in the test Tribute Dinner To known to A Music and Culture have chosen to live in the small town community. gordo, New Mexico, we did not make this educate the They find in the village square an arena for un- the world, and did not employ it to peace, as we trammeled thought that would be denied them in world to new ideas and thus compel Great Conductor tests as we the babel of an immense city. One such man is Albert might have done after such a series of Einstein. later held on the island of Bikini, in the Pacific, r. WALTER DAMROSCH, who has made Albert Einstein is in every devastating initial raid upon him- sense of the word a instead of making the millions urged self beloved to through his “world man,” but having lived happily in America Hiroshima. Many leading physicists at the time eminent unthinkable career as a symphonic and operatic conductor since 1934, as a Life Member of the Institute for the War Department not to make the D York, and through his fourteen years of Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, and hav- attack upon “defenseless women and children.” The in New broad- ing casting educational programs for the National become an American citizen, there are few who Etude, not knowing all the facts, does not question Broad- Company, retired on April first, at take more pride in the honor of living under the the military expedience of the use of the bomb. It is casting the age of eighty-five, from his position as Music Stars and Stripes than he. Readers of The Etude merely noting Dr. Einstein’s opinion. Counselor for are familiar with the article in the issue for January, The eminent Bavarian Jewish philosopher, who N.B.C. He states: by I retired from the New York Mrs. Andor Foldes, describing a musical visit with occupies an immortal place in history, is now a proud “When Symphony her piano virtuoso Society in 1926 I thought my career was husband to the home of the re- asset of America. Listen to -his concluding remarks to over. But it nowned philosopher, physicist, and mathematician. the village square, as he ends his statement thus: It is gratifying and inspiring to all musicians to know “We must be not merely willinsr. but actively eager that Professor Einstein all his life has been an en- to submit ourselves to binding authority necessary thusiastic musician and able performer upon the for world security. violin, and never has missed an opportunity to make “We must realize we cannot simultaneously pre- clear the significant power that music has upon the pare for war and peace.” lives of all of us. “When we are clear in heart and mind—only then Professor Einstein recently sent us a letter with an shall we find courage to surmount the fear which interview from The New York Times, containing state- haunts the world.” ments so important, so understanding, so portentous, It is not rational to expect an immediate restora- and so stupendous that it burns into the brain like tion from world confusion leading to an ideal peace, a branding iron. If we are to agree with him, it is a without world police supervision for a long period. matter of firsfl; consequence to every human being Anarchy might easily result. We must not expect to realize that “an entirely new type of thinking is or invite permanency because it will never come and essential if Man is to survive and move to higher might be very unwanted if it did come. attic sage levels. An Of course this refers to the paralyzing terror induced said, “The only thing certain is change.” Therefore, in Man by the atomic bomb and the rocket the most we can look for is beneficent upward trends bombs, with their threat of world suicide. NICKY in human ideals. But while we are working toward LAST CHRISTMAS WITH Professor Einstein, himself at the pinnacle _ of half-year a fool-proof international security, it is the present Rise Stevens (Mrs. Surovy) and her two and a old son. psychical science, is fighting to awaken the minds of obligation of every men to the living human being to do inces- solemn gravity of the immediate need santly everything possible to bring it about, and to for control of this stupendous scientific discovery do nothing that by thought which could, in a few or action might interfere hours, blot out all that Man with has accomplished the work of others who are laboring day and up to this time. This must be dis- night to save civilization from the Right Start! posed of before annihilation. Make we can even dream of any of the The time has benefits of our future long since passed when musicians RISE STEVENS civilization, our religion, our were education, expected to stand submissively, as “souls apart,” our music, our art, our science, our industry our outside the gates of world progress, and not commerce, and our very lives. participate A Conference with own view, then, I find that the right start consists in the tremendous movements of the age. The atomic bomb in itself, like the The Etude chiefly in a mental insistence on integrating all the gangster’s “gat” feels that the is merely a participation of musically trained minds mechanical and chemical device The elements of vocal production into a smooth, unified cannot fail to be of priceless value danger is not in the bomb itself, to the body politic incline break but in the minds of at whole. For example! Many students to the men—the this startling moment in world history. war makers, the “trigger men,” who l^ise St,evenA down singing habits into separate little units—breath- For all of its journalistic determine to employ life The Etude has felt it wrongfully. That is what Pro- DR. ing, resonance, flexibility, seem to them to be very very close to the cultural developments WAITER DAMROSCH fessor Einstein means by an entirely in the village Popular American Star of Opera, Radio,, and Screen different problems needing special and different care. “new type of square, and this In His New York Home thinking, appeal is made directly to its a realization upon the part of men every- readers In a sense, perhaps, they are; but it must be borne in because The Etude reaches began all over Leading Mezzo-Soprano of the Metropolitan Dpera where that the use of such a thousands and thousands again in 1927, when I became Music of singing includes weapon means self- of smaller mind always that the complete act destruction for towns all over the country. As omiselor for the National everyone. Indeed, if atomic force can Albert Broadcasting Company. Star Df the Prudential "Family Hour”, CBS all of them, and that each has important bearing on Einstein’s example as a musician A wonderful be directed toward construction has influenced thing about the art of music is that re- instead of destruction great numbers, on the others. Thus, while breath control certainly it could become we urge our readers to procure y ie really great lasts/' one of the great blessings of copies he said. “There are flashes, quires special care and practice, it is not a problem man- of his printed statement, and were, kind. That is what by writing to the Emergency too, even in the times Professor Einstein is seeking of Mozart and SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY ROSE HEYLBUT that ends with the drawing of correct breath. Actually, Committee of Atomic Scientists, Beethoven. through “a new type of thinking.” 90 Nassau Street But great music is safe. It will its Let us all pray Princeton, Insist on it has as much bearing on flexibility as it has on the that this New Jersey, requesting own continuity. Art is may be the glorious result of his amazing a copy of the so innate you cannot fool the emission of a single tone. Indeed, the problems in flexi- pamphlet, “Only Then people, twentieth century crusade. Shall We Find Coinage” in toe long run. Fakers enclose and have their days, but bility that sometimes arise in the third or fourth years Note these a stamped, addressed, envelope. great lasts quotations from Prof. Einstein’s The pamphlet 71 for generations.” Rise Stevens has won her way to a notable career by rein- but felt she needed to try her wings. She secured a position generally be traced back to some momen- from which we have of vocal study may tous statements to the quoted, also includes an 6 I it0r of The forcing her natural gifts with vigorous intelligence and nearly on the Palmolive Beauty Box radio show (again beginning in people of the village squares: from article Dam / Etode recently visited Dr. defect or difficulty in breath control that should have ‘Modern The American Scholar, by Dr. SCh incredible hard work. Born in New York City, she began pro- the chorus), and saved her salary for another summer abroad. war, the bomb, and other Christian Gauss ® “ hls home in New start! discoveries Dean of the 7a York and found the been cleared up at the very present us with College of Princeton University c°nductor fessional singing at the age of ten, as member of a children's In 1936, she coached in Paris and Salzburg, and then deter- revolutionary circumstances. for twenty in flne spirits, with the same Never years and spr,^ chorus under the direction of Milton Cross on Station WJZ. mined that she would not return home until she had had before was it now President of the possible for one nation to United Chapters of 0J miStic outIook on life make war on ! which has character- school high school and, at operatic experience. She sang auditions in Paris, Zurich/and First Phi Beta Kappa. His izedizpd V,’- She sang her way through and Develop Proper Breathing another without sending armies words make clear that seemingly his long career. across borders Now the only seventeen, Joined a small company of opera comique. Her Basle; everywhere she was praised—but told that the season's with rockets and defense we have against the magn mcent “Thus, the first step is to realize that everything you atomic bombs, no center of popula- atomic bomb trit>ute dinner given by N.B.C. to earnings were microscopic, but the company gave her excel- plans were made and could not include her. Discouraged and is not a new n/Vf , tion on the earth’s scientific instrument but a do—every single problem you approach, has meaning, surface is secure from surprise world under- on March thirty-first, Brigadier Gen- lent training in stage routine, speech, projection, and danc- nearly ready to give up, the girl called on Erich Simon, standing based upon “the ideals eral „ not only in its own right, but as part of the complete destruction in a single attack. set forth by Sa off ing. Miss Stevens began in the chorus of this company and European representative of fhe Metropolifan. He could give Jesus ™ ’ Presdent of R.C.A., stated that and spread by the the f are trying develop. In this There is no foreseeable Jews in Palestine, ? advanced to such solo parts as Ludmilla in "The Bartered her no position, but he asked her to sing for him. She sang vocal production you to defense against atomic nineteen hun conductor, in his educational broadcasts, dred years ago.” The great had maH. "Fricka," singing, another sense, then, the building of correct breath control and bombs. solutiok of the st nu*nbers Bride," Prince Orlovsky in "Die Fledermaus," and so forth. At unaccompanied; and while she was formidable mo 't Y® of devoted friends who never problem which has can forppi one of her performances, the girl's work was observed by visitor entered. He was George Szell, then chef d'orchestre correct support must come first. Just which method “Should one rocket, with war ever confronted i“sp head, strike Minne- ^- ration - Dr. James Angell, apolis, mamty will not come to former l Rowland Mme. Anna Schoen-Rene, herself a pupil of Pauline Viardot of the Deutsches Theater in Prague. He offered to play her exercises are to be used must, of course, be that city would look almost us through the spipnHe PtpJhdent of and which exactly like laboratory, Yale University, the Toastmaster teachers the grew accompaniment; then rose the piano, to but through the . of the nr and one of the foremost vocal of time, who from went Mr. the individual teacher who under- Nagasaki.” Golden Rule. We are aS n recommended by that musicians sme hiS deligh «ully witty remarks im- enthusiastic about Miss Stevens' talent and urged her to study Simon's telephone, and called Prague, announcing that he Now, to what would will not hesitate to take Phed that i^ ’n stands the individual voice. But every singer should Professor Einstein part in work- Damrosch desired; had found a Stevens left turn in - like a prima donna, had seriously. This was precisely what young Rise most new mezzo-soprano. Miss at once order to bring about a 6Verything formed f f spend a long and earnest period in developing proper great world agreement between “ the Ietirine the only difficulty was ways and means. A partial solution for an audition which resulted in her engagement as leading world°of ever three men, order ^tomorrow.’ Dr ieemfr °! ^ years, breathing. Defects in this department can lead to all m to avert the shocking catastrophe 0 was found when Eleanor Steele provided her with a private mezzo-soprano in Prague. She entered the Metropolitan in which Let love be 17 President of ASCAP, commented the new and diabolical without dissimulation. upon Di na !: sorts of later difficulties which may not seem to be at misuse of a great Abhor that which S scholarship to work with Mme. Schoen-Rene. The great 1938. Since then she has sung throughout Europe and South scientific is evil; cleave to VaSt con tribution to toe pro- ciscovery has that which is good. motton girl all related to breathing. made possible? He turns, not merely ot C£cZ’n teacher, however, soon decided that the needed broader America and has endeared herself to American audiences to Be kindly music ’ 1116 dinner, attended by the huge affectioned one to training as well as freedom from private patronage, and through her distinguished work in opera, concerts, motion- urban centers, but to the village another with brotherly manvLif! Ua Clans square the love; ’ concluded in honour preferring one with a very spirited advised her to try for a Juilliard scholarship. Miss Stevens pictures, and radio. —Editor's Nots. small community where the greater another. presentation nf The Natural Voice Dr ’ body of people Damrosch's best known musical under thi oughout the world —Romans composition n was immediately accepted and continued her studies live their lives. 12:9, 10. D ever “Another point on which I cannot place too much > sung Dr. Schoen-Rene at the Juilliard School. At the end of her “‘To the village Damrosch’s' f magnificently by Mme. square we must s protege,protofto fulfill carry the facts of Lawrence year, Miss Stevens sang the title role in a school pro- emphasis is that the voice must be allowed to atomic The extreme length of this editorial Tibbett. second energy. Prom there ( for which must come Americas Editor apologizes) duction of "Orfeo" as a result of which, she was offered a “^TP^HE most important thing in a vocal career is itself naturally. I speak from experience here, since my is the result of a profound cZ contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company. This she making the right start. No one, I imagine, will own vocal development involved what can be a hazard- “Ignoring 01 ed ,0T sending along the realities of his infinitesimally she teacher felt that she was not yet faith, good will and smallTmaiT refused; both and her JL disagree with that; the problem is, however, ous thing—a change of voice. In my ’teens, I was a contributionZ to the river Tt eklng a solution of minds leading nd °f emotion ready for it without a period of European training. Accord- ’ we Place too much the oniy t0 let Emotions which to find out exactly what the right start is. In attempt- contralto. I had no thought of being anything else, c t conceivable solution themselvpi h Z ftothln1 wrlegallsms of an it possible for Miss Stevens > treaties, and epochal problem described in ingly, Mme. Schoen-Rene made tj mechanisms.” Get culty, words with such diffi- ing to solve it, I can speak only of my own experience; and was surprised when my great and beloved teacher, ^deplores together in harmony or are dirprti that her score of He the fact face the type 7 conveyed to go to Europe summer ( 1935), bought a that having discovered Z to man in music, and I do not set up as an authority on vocal pedagogy predicted that at some future the obliteration that has „ ™in that is its Mme. Schoen-Rene, wiped "Der Rosenkavalier," and took her to Salzburg where Mme. out untoldZuiiTs power and significance ..." indeed, I feel that my own career is hardly advanced time, voice would become a mezzo-soprano. Well 244 Gutheil-Schroeder, creator of that exacting role, coached her my Tolstoy. give — in it. At the end of the summer, Rise came back to Juilliard, enough to me the right to advise others! In my —it did! Not because of (.Continued on Page 248) ’’FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC THE ETUDE MAY 1947 "MUSIC LIFE" 245 , STUDY EXALTS '
Music and Culture Music and Culture ALTHOUGH usually considered apart from each /\ other, the ties of music and religion are possibly JTJl closer than we think. Would music as we know it today have developed without the help of religion? Wauls to be A Concert Pianist And likewise would religion have become as universal without music? A consideration of these questions may I am a senior in high school and Table considering music as a career. I have stud- Round The Teacher’s lead to some surprises. Music a Gift of Religion? ied piano for approximately Was seven years, No one seems to know which came first: music or and I would like to be a concert pianist. Historical Essays,” Mac- Therefore I would like to ask the follow- religion. In his “Critical and an asset in moral uplift for the commu- produced ing questions: 1. Would it be more prac- Dowell says they were twins, born when man Conducted by nity, with emphasis on the fact tical to study in a conservatory, or with that some have the first tone, possibly on a hollow reed. He must There’s Much Evidence in Support of the Affirmative good, private teachers? 2. If you favor a of the greatest musicians have come from been filled with wonder. He had found a medium for conservatory, or college course, how long small villages and towns, and made the toward his a course is necessary? 3. After completing expressing his feelings, not the least, those Ifjfjaurice ^bumesnif grade through earnestness of purpose, the course, what is the best thing to do as- Creator. Men have praised God with music ever since. next?—T. R. M., Illinois. siduous work, and encouragement from Where can one find a more perfect medium for ex- French-American their fellow citizens. Of course Eminent this speaker pressing emotions aroused by worship—awe, wonder, In the first place, I find your attitude a should be a highly respected c*£)oron -Antrim personality. devotion, adoration, ecstasy—than in music? by little naive. The word “consideration” Pianist, Conductor, Lecturer, Among the ministers, or school principals were strongly influenced by ought Musical instruments not to apply in this case. Either your vicinity, there and Teacher in ought to be just religion. Long before Christianity, primitive peoples you feel the impulse irresistibly, or you the right person, musically inclined and petitioned their gods with the sound of drums and don’t. Only if your mind is made up will endowed with civic spirit, who would feel other rhythm makers and a crude sort of chanting. Rome introduced it to improve the singing of the con- “the days of David and Asaph” were long remembered. . you be able to have the required stamina it a privilege to be called upon for such They also danced. The Greeks, Egyptians, Bards, Ro- gregation. Subsequently however, he abolished congre- We find several references in the Bible regarding to go through all the hardships involved an occasion. And believe me, with such mans, used dancing and bodily movement in their cere- gational singing and substituted canonical singers, but the influence of music, notably that of David and Saul. in qualifying for a concert career. a prospect in view, pieces would be memo- monial religion. Swaying, clapping hands, and rhythm the organ has remained in the church ever since. Saul was afflicted with deep melancholy. “David took Whether you study in a conservatory, or friend, the metronome. It sees to 7t that rized and remembered, and advice would still survive as integral parts of the worship of Negroes We have seen that early musicians in the church the harp,” says the Bible, “and played with his hand, privately, is of no consequence. The main we count ... on time! For velocity, what be h*eeded. in South Africa and parts of the United States. If you were highly venerated, often called gods and priests. so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil thing is that you go to the best available about Czerny 299, and also his “School of have ever attended a Negro camp meeting in the deep In the Old Testament, one thinks chiefly of David, ac- spirit departed from him.” How many other people teacher wherever he is. Graduation from the Virtuoso?” And for the “procedure” south, you will have come away impressed with the complished on the harp and as a poet, from whence have experienced this same release from gloom through a conservatory or college takes four years which you mention, that excellent book “Spineless Debussy? their devotions. the phrase, “Sweet singer of Israel.” music. for a bachelor’s degree. Scales Ar- vital part rhythm plays in However, a col- by Cooke, “Mastering the and I need your help regarding one of my In South Africa, the drum, still a sacred instrument, There was also Asaph, contemporary of David, whom We have another incident when Saul was just about lege course includes so many academic peggios”; I know of no better one. advanced students who loves Debussy. She are high played some of his Preludes last sets the rhythm, and skilled drummers to take over the rule of his kingdom after the subjects that piano practice is necessarily Correspondents with this Depart- Regarding a book on theory and har- year, is ment now studying Reflections In flic Water. I priests. Anyone who would study rhythm in- coronation. At this time, the prophet Samuel, limited. Although I favor greatly an all- are requested to limit letters mony that you could study by yourself: to One Hundred and Fifty Words. have the same trouble with tills piece as tensively can do no better than listen to some feeling the young king’s need of spiritual guid- around education such as you receive in you need is similar What something mu- before: she keeps her feet on both pedals colleges, of these South African drummers. The variety, ance and inspiration, said to him: “Thou shalt still the years are few in which sically to the so-called “Self-taught most of the time and it seems to me much subtlety, and complexity of their rhythms sur- need a company of prophets coming down from to build up the perfect technical equip- Methods” for learning languages: vocab- too long; she often plays so soft Uiat many of the notes are not heard, and her pass those of the Western world where the the high place with a psaltery and a tabaret ment and large repertoire needed for a ularies, themes, and versions are in one per- formance Is "spineless." If I try to correct so closely associated with and a pipe and . . . concert career. Therefore, leave it drum has not been a harp and the spirit of the I to Naturally the preceding volume, with figured pronunciation; the her she says: "But shouldn't Debussy are on the "seri- be religion. So we see that in influencing the drum Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt you to draw your own conclusions. “keys” are in another volume. •blurred.’ since he is ous” side; but there is Then you an impressionist?” I no objection to as an instrument, religion also gave us one of prophesy, and thou shalt be turned into another As to your question No. 3, that is, when can compare your would appreciate your suggestions both of them learning light and pleasing text with the cor- you think studies are completed and you responding —E. W. G„ Ohio. the tap roots of music—rhythm. man.” And so it came to pass. pieces which they can play key and see where your mis- are when not- The prophet Elisha also turned to music in ready for the concert platform. Then, takes, if any, have been made. too-musically-inclined friends and neigh- I don't Excellent question, indeed, for it gives Early Use of the Trumpet a time of need. Elisha was at a loss what to tell my young friend, your real troubles be- know if any such book exists in bors will call. As to technic, they need to music, me an opportunity to pound once more gin: first, could be mentioned. One the three kings who came to him for advice on you must “put yourself on the but you can find out very easily Other instruments expand the scope of the exercises and by in- on the nail in an effort to drive it in map”; is trumpet. their critical problem. It was one of the few this involves a New York debut quiring from the publishers of the oldest used in worship the also the reach of their hands. I suggest of The and dispel that misconception of De- recital with its inevitable outlay of Etude. It was employed for assembly, alarms, burnt times in the life of this great prophet that he for this “Mastering the Scales and Ar- bussy’s aesthetics which unfortunately money; if you “get by” the critics and offerings, to exorcise evil spirits, command the felt a lack of direction. So he said, “Bring me peggios” by Cooke; it has everything and lias caused, and Is still causing so much notices are favorable, you must follow it gods. The ancient Egyptians claimed that the a minstrel.” We learn that “when the minstrel can be studied for a lifetime. Isidor I hat damage among teachers up with more advertising Lack of Concentration! and students. god, Osiris, invented the trumpet. It was played played, the hand of the Lord came upon him.” and publicity. Philipp’s “Exercises in Extension for the I Yes, you are right, The next step is have been a piano teacher for twelve and your student is temple. As result, divine inspiration, to convince your man- Fingers” by their high priests in the In the a spiritual en- will also bring rapid progress years, but results in this location have been wrong. In the first place, ager that placing you on his list is not nothing irked wilderness of Sinai, the Lord directed Moses to lightenment, followed and he spoke words of and fine results. If your disappointing the past four years. My pu- Debussy enough, that local music more than the qualification of wisdom. he must secure for you the pils learn their studies and review “make thee two trumpets of silver . . . that they dealer does not have the works men- real his music as paid engagements well but when asked to play “impressionistic." When a before you need to recover tioned, these stud- may be for you a memorial your God.” they may be secured from the ies without notice stupid art critic your expenses and proceed further. When they have forgotten called Claude Monet an Moses persuaded the Israelites that the trumpet Music's Debt to Religion publishers of The Etude. ‘ h m ,nd stumble through f, 2 them dread- impressionist, in derision, all these obstacles have been hurdled fully. They after his early was an instrument blessed by the Lord and Although we are indebted memorize easily but forget as canvas to primitive re- and easily. I “Impressions” had been you can compete adequately with have them play for each other exhibited that only high priests should be allowed to ligions for rhythm, to the Christian religion, times at in other winners, Reading but they act so foolish Paris, he certainly "started the upbuilding of your Time they spoil the some- play it. distinguished from most others by its inward- the ’ P ay ' I don t dare say thing!” The career will start, and it will . much to word was extended to music, be up to you I have been playing piano for twenty them or ^uthey One historian has left an account of what ness and quietude, music owes much for its quit lessons; parents are and now to create a growing demand for your years, hit and miss, played the violin touchy we see countless well-meaning seems like incredible number of seri- and become hostile. The mother an instruments melodic and harmonic development. With the ously. Would like to straighten ru of pianists services through your attributes of talent, my piano ? ycar old wants her to who strive to “float,” to “coax," used in the great temple of David at Jeru- music. I tried ?.~ play music antiphonal chanting of the Psalms, we find a a teacher, but became ill too difficult personality, last and flares up if I to caress,” all and audience appeal. fall, tried again this trytoeS culminating in confusion, salem: 200,000 silver trumpets and 40,000 harps line, fall and became ill things. I melodic often without form and rhythm, don t think these pupils ridiculous again. Lessons seem to cause tra concen attitudes, and ultimate destruc- and psalteries. If these were all played together, too much ten- e enough. They and the but nevertheless a thread of melody. The sion and excitement, mother Com- tion of and the result is ill- Plam if I keep them Debussy’s own intentions. Please we can imagine the overpowering effect. Cer- ness. on a piece any lonSr Psalms with their sublimity of thought, are Technic and Repertoire I practiced alone all summer, than two tell and weeks. When asked to your student this: tainly, the trumpet was highly valued as in- stayed well, so it play thev the “blur” is but an more adequately expressed will have to be that way shrug their shoulders in song than in We live in a small town and find it and say “I one touch dif- If you could suggest the correct know don’t of color among many, and it strument of worship and was closely followed ficult to secure course of anything." They don’t speech. Chanting became the custom, a section really good piano teachers. study for advanced y seeme t0to must only work, it will help. I rb What they be used when by the harp. My little girl, age eleven, is ?° ’eam Is ffiere ™y needed for spe- being sung by one part of the congregation and very quick to can play Grades f S0^: learn five and six correctly, tion to this problem? cial effects. Oftener and plays with ease. What should she anything than not Debussy answered by another, or by the priest con- more difficult I read well, but and be studying besides scales and 4th and 5th rhythm -(Mrs.) F. G. M., Oregon. must be played Introduction of the Organ and time are bad, I with utmost clarity and gregation. This part of the ritual is centuries grade pieces? Shouldn’t need some she be having studies to improve them. precision. “lots" I need velocity You certainly have Pedaling must be managed with Outside the temple, the trumpet was not old. of sonatinas and technic work? Also, studies, not one, but also to know the procedure for ad- many great discrimination. how should I teach scales to six problems on your There ought to be overlooked. Joshua, one of the most astute Then important my year vanced scale and arpeggio work. hands! But from came an development in the old who plays second Would travels mv constant grade music quite like a book on theory throughout this flexibility in the delivery, but generals of Bible times, came to the city of history of well? and harmony that I great country music and Christianity. Emperor What technical work besides scales can study can i never any myself as I will not attempt a assure you that sentimental, emotional rubato Jericho with a strong army. But he didn’t use Constantine of Rome (306-337 A.D.), became should she have?—Mrs. P. W. A., Kansas. teacher your case is not again, since I cannot stand the umque it v nch would weekly all sum,, up to a lack distort the smooth flowing his army. Instead he called his band of trum- converted to Christianity, gave the religion of- routine. My chief trouble seems of con Why ... of course to centration music. Of peters up front, as directed Lord, your little eleven be in reading time in difficult m practice, on the ? course louder tones by the ficial status and encouraged the development pieces; I part of the rave year old girl would like to improve students, and to be used, should have plenty of sona- that more than aiiv a lack of seriousness though they should never marched around the city with them and blew DAVID PLAYING FOR KING SAUL of music as an art in the church. Pope Sylvester thing.— (Mrs.) A. in out become tinas, and etudes, and Bach! V. C., Canada. look on the part of brittle or harsh. the walls down without exchanging a shot. She sounds both the youngsters The tonal plan- founded the first singing school in Rome (314 “musical,” so lr ning must be By the Swedish painter, Julius Kronberg. she will love it. rente - ° worked Maybe present day generals could learn some- A.D.) Give her Evidently your Y U Med ° ut out with infinite . Events then followed in rapid succession. temperament and that -de heTp are, the the “Little Preludes” KrstFirst Sof all,fl r and it requires thing from Joshua. From National Museum in Stockholm. and the “Two-part of the teacher do not organize a students’ tremendous atten- Flavian and Diodorus made antiphonal chant- ” “click.” But is it a recital t Inventions; Czerny featuring, at least on m 'listening Came the instrument which developed 299; a selection of reason for giving up the in part, special to one’s self.” Your stu- was ing of Psalms a required part of church service Heller idea of seeking pects and Cramer Etudes; Mozart’s as explained in dent should devote almost exclusively for the church. It is not known the easy an instructor? You might be this column of much time to the latter set “over the services of song in the House of at Antioch (350 A.D.). Out of this decree grew the Sonata in able to find February the piactice C major; Beethoven’s two easy issue (The Pupils’ of dynamics when the organ was first used in worship, although one the Lord.” large-sized job, Ambrosian one who will understand your own Recital) fn and tone produc- A it included overseeing the and Gregorian chants, the latter of which Sonatas in major per- way n. As to G and G minor, Op. 49. sonality and through the “blur,” to is mentioned in the Talmud as having stood in the music both instrumental and vocal. seems is still in use. and problems, perhaps one appealing titles may I refer you Asaph to Soon she ought who u can get S eS to be able to play those can take y around some °f March 1938 of temple of Jerusalem, which contained ten notes with have been a skilled arranger and for those As a result of singing you outside of a regular sched- parents’ touchi- ^ and May 1940 composer schools, singers became skilled by Haydn and the early ones ness as regards the T™E; ten pipes in each note. Nothing by Beetho- ule, when you feel difficulty nf and for more complete de- was overlooked in the primitive times, having adapted and composed a con- and soon craved more variety and ornament than was ready to submit the tmi. . ven. For your little six year selected, and you nd great old, there is work you have can make their Principles of interpretation you temple. siderable amount of music for the services. A golden afforded in chanting. Accordingly we find a tenor voice prepared. In this way the gradefit r_.- , f an ample choice of in properly. Then, C “ Sonatinas: Clementi, routine you have an lt How t0 According to Jularius, a Spanish bishop, the organ age of Jewish history, it was noted for poetry as well singing a melody and other Kuhlau, fear so much would be internal Dehn! °^ P>ay a"d teach voices running parallel Diabelli, Dussek; all are excel- dmmg which a was in common use in Spain in 430 A.D. The advan- as avoided. For speaker ?“ umesnil) • This music. We have no record of the latter, since above and below. accurate rhythm and time wm de nniv P. however deals nota- Thus was born counterpoint. Eventu- lent preparation for the higher short, friendly lth tages of an organ for church services grades. there is no better address on the ^ advanced works, his quickly became tion had not yet appeared, but we do have the im- ally came harmony, the first evidence of checker than our old value „f earfipr since which was musical education in c°m apparent and in the seventh century Pope Vitalian family life and Positions can well be taught at perishable poetry. Asaph set some of it to music and two voices singing in thirds. Followed sixths, finally as min theth "MUSIC "standard” ways. STUDY EXALTS LIFE’ MAY, 1947 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” 247 THE ETUDE — a
company of experienced artists the re- who hav should not climb. But Music and Culture the bass and four part harmony. Huck- music in worship. It helped put him en mere voice sung the opera hundreds of times great deal more than under bald (about 840 A.D.) Creator. God seemed to quires a varied conditions and before was supposed to be rapport with his accurately, it seems audiences by training. If I judge of the first to introduce part singing and to hear his petitions when accompanied our young every national color and reaction! far too many of it i Guido, a monk of Arrezo, is tone. that reiteration of to me that possible attributed Priests found on the idea that quite to study mis-en-scene emo- students base their work the beginning of written music over certain notes produced definite their without previous stage experience, to sing correctly, and nine types of music if only they learn hundred years ago. tional reactions. Special unfor- every year, fortunately, more and are over. Fortunately or more Notation was to music what the print- had a pronounced effect on morals. Music worries artists the case! The de- experienced and teachers are ap- ing press factor in molding tunately, that is not was to language. It offered a became a more potent plying themselves to teaching vocal organism is only It. My own means of preserving the best efforts of character than creeds, prophets of moral velopment of the Amateur Pianist study in Europe (in 1935 Technique for the artistic work. Speaking and 1936) the past, hastened the development of philosophies. And it increased religious the beginning of was should say that o merely a preliminary study for the music as an art, made music universal. fervor, inspired, exalted. Music helped as an operatic singer, I stage surety is the This kind of work entails learning Before Guido, music was largely a thing man plumb the heart of the Christian equal importance with vocal how to on to a stage, to character . . . not walk walk off, to of the ear, passed on from singer to religion—love. sure ability to project walk but to on the stage once you're there singer, player to player. Sir James Frazer sums it up admir- merely to ‘act’ and make gestures, (and these arled C^ooLe require Ly Wa/oc a Walkings’ as much With religion giving form to music’s ably. "For we cannot doubt,” he says, send your conception of a character specialized the person technique as singing does!); how tap roots: rhythm, melody, harmony, “that this the most intimate and affec- across the footlights so that to pick Teacher and Author of the Popular Book, the up a glass, a flower, a dagger, Piano and with notation, development was tive of the arts, has done much to cre- lives as an actual human being in a tele- rapid. The phone; how to place your The sixteenth century produced ate as well as express the religious emo- hearts and minds of your audiences. feet, to sit stand some great composers of the Mass: tions to which at first sight it seems only clue to such character projection lies in down, to up. Then, the motions Palestrina, Nanio, Anerio, Gabrieli, Wil- to administer. The musician has done his the study of foreign languages and of themselves must be studied in association laert, Orlando di Lassi. part, well the With Bach in as as the prophet and stagecraft. with the style and habits of the age, or the next century, the Mass attained thinker, in the making of religion. Every It be up after the pupil has studied a “Learn languages—not merely the pro- period, in which they are to be used! OMPARING technique for the amateur pianist pupils. may taken lofty pinnacle. During the eighteenth, faith has its appropriate music, and the a year.” At first the student should confine his nunciation of the words of your own Carmen walks and sits and picks things with technique for the artist or the artist-in- about and nineteenth centuries the Mass con- difference between the creeds might also the attention to playing the exercises in the key of C, in songs and rdles, but the languages them- up very differently from Octavian. Roc- the-making is a little like comparing tinued to attract the ablest composers, be expressed in musical notation.” C firm, touch. Gradually slow tempo and with a strong selves. Be able to read them, to speak coco gentlemen behave differently from physical-training routine of people who go to the gym- among them: Leo, Durante, Pergolesi, To which I can do no more than add train- he should start transposing them: No. 1 of Book One them, to think in them! Norse warriors or Italian banditti. And healthful exercise with the physical Cherubini, Rossini, statement nasium for Haydn, Mozart, a of Martin Luther, who was similarities, in G, No. 2 in F, No. 3 in D, and so on. Then he should the most beautiful vocal emission in the of champion athletes. There are some Beethoven, Schubert, Hummel, Weber, probably the greatest single influence in ing Artistic Acting Important world won't help you to know employ different rhythms, as shown in Example 1. Gounod. German Protestant “For what to do but more differences. church music. — Additional benefit from Hanon may be gained by “As for stagecraft, the greatest need or when to do it. word “amateur” in its best sense “a lover Other forms of church music were music is a gift and largess of God,” he I use the posing, solving, the problem of pitting the fore- we have, I think, is for greater attention “As I see it, then, the secret of prefer the term “non-professional” to “ama- and forthcoming. After the reformation in says, “not a gift of man. Music drives progress of.” Some real need to shy away from going rhythms against each other; No. 1 in the right England, the old Latin chant was dis- away the devil, and makes people happy; to mis-en-scene—that is, the art of know- lies in realizing that all of the elements teur," but there is no noun or adjective, has merely hand against No. 2 in the left, No. 5 in the right hand carded and we find instead the beginning it induces one to forget all wrath, un- ing what to do on a stage. It is not enough of finished art are necessary to sound “amateur,” which, as to to have had its fine original against No. 4 in the left and so forth. Hanon is a bot- of the matin, evensong, anthem, and chastity, arrogance, and other vices. sing well and to learn a role! Im- study, and in never allowing concentra- been unfortunate enough of a disreputable cousin, tomless pit of material for technical improvement, for hymn. When the Protestant body of Ger- After theology, I accord to music the agine what happens to a young artist who tion on one problem to becloud the long meaning tarnished by that not only can one usefully vary the exercises in key and many rejected the old ritual music the highest place and greatest honor.” sings well, knows her role—and then view of the whole. That is what I mean ’’amateurish.” chorale was steps out on the pianist, then, has (or should have) a rhythm, but also in dynamics and touch. The late produced which in turn led Thus we see that music is deeply in- stage to perform in a by making the right start!” The amateur CHARLES COOKE 2) improv- Sergei Rachmaninoff once stated (see “Great Pianists MAJOR to the cantata and oratorio which debted to religion for its very being. Re- daily chore, by way of 1) “keeping up” and rigorous, and on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Vir- reached a summit with Handel’s “Mes- ligion is likewise indebted to music. ing his technique. His chore is a lot less In the uniform he wore during his : “In the Im- siah.” Probably more than any other single a good deal more fun, than that of the artist. I was tuosos” by Dr. James Francis Cooke) many flights over enemy country. On the other to repertoire- perial music schools of Russia, the student got most of hand, what music has factor, music helped make religion uni- Beginning the referring as much to technical study as done for religion Scale on Each Deqree for first five years from is hardly less significant. versal. Which aided the other most is a building, when, in my book, “Playing the Piano for his technical instruction the should never be dry. If you are not interested in them, Early man found definite benefits from question. Pleasure,” I headed one chapter, ‘The Pleasant Neces- Hanon; in fact, this was practically the only book of work with them until you become interested.” strictly technical exercises employed.” by Cjeorge listrownion sity of Practicing.” Furthermore, even the most con- In my teaching I specialize in adults with nonpro- scientious amateur need not devote more than fifteen fessional aspirations, the blessed race of piano hobby- technical study. Hanon-Lindquist INCE many, or thirty minutes a day to purely ists; and I place achievement of memorized repertoire Make the Right Start! if not all, individual stumped by a specific passage which was Let’s talk first about similarities between the tech- The Hanon lily has been gilded, too. There is avail- first, technical study second. But I always assign tech- passages require special study to thought to have been covered in the gen- play nical labors of, respectively, artists and amateurs. able a volume which might be called super-Hanon: nical study, in greater or lesser degree according to (.Continued from Page 245) S fluently, after much general eral practice. For instance, after much practice, Orville A. Lindquist’s “Technical Variants on Hanon’s need. Apart from scales and arpeggios, I assign tech- it is not unusual to find oneself scale practice, commencing the scales on Regularity Exercises.” The preface to Professor Lindquist’s book following sources: Hanon, ‘training’, however, and never through work, my full nical work mainly from the natural voice was ready the tonic, first degree, as Is customary, it similarity. The artist dares not states: “C. L. Hanon’s ‘The Virtuoso Pianist’ is un- forcing. Mme. Schoen-Rene (or Schoen, for me to use. One does Regularity is a main Pischna, Philipp, Friskin. not change one’s is not usual as to find there is difficulty In his practicing, part of which goes toward questionably the most universally used book of tech- Hanon we have discussed. I called her), built my voice as the voice, ever. The voice does exactly what be irregular in beginning the scales on the other de- part toward technique. Some ar- nics that we have. Excellent as these studies are, it is contralto it was, and waited for nature to it needs to do; if repertoire-building, a change occurs, it grees. do the Thus it might be a good plan to use scales and arpeggios for technique-practice; the feeling of the author that in order to get the best Pischna, Philipp, Friskin rest. Gradually, then, as the re- happens by itself. All one can ‘do about tists sult commence on each degree when prac- which we’ll come to promptly; still results from them they should be practiced in all keys Piano- of years of singing, my voice de- it’ is to adjust its development. others use Hanon, Pischna’s “Sixty Progressive Exercises for the ticing scales. veloped higher quality. other artists get their technique, after graduating from and with various rhythms; hence this work.” Profes- forte is No. 260 in the Presser Collection and I place The important “The application of exercises is a dan- thing to watch The accompanying exercise, with its student status, from practicing the difficult porions of sor Lindquist presents prodigies of transpositional and Exercise No. substituting Lento in matters involving gerous matter to discuss at long range. most emphasis on 7, slightly unusual combination of fingering the method, regularity of rhythmic complications which squeeze the last drops changes of this kind, is always quality Each voice has its their repertoires. Whatever marcatissimo for the Moderato indication, and direct- own needs, its own and and not range. accentuation, may at first prove dif- practice is, with exceptions which merely prove the out of Hanon’s extraordinarily juicy opus. The student raised slowly and as The possession of low strong points, its own limitations. The ing that fingers 3, 4, and 5 be tones does not ficult. Fingered 543213212312345 through- rule, characteristic of artists. And the amateur, if who has worked through both Hanon and Hanon-Lind- notes, that make a contralto, and the young singer herself and the teacher who a high as possible before playing their and possession of high out, right hand, it is not so difficult, but desire to maintain and improve quist may be considered truly Hanonized. the tones does not make a guides her are the only ones who can he is sincere in his as much attention be given to the up-stroke as to soprano; it is the color, the quality even so, it may take a specific effort to his technical equipment, will find that regularity— like reversion to the of the judge of the value of specific drills. I down-stroke. This may seem a voice that determines these play it that way. Practiced with the indi- to day routine, never varied unless circumstances Scales and Arpeggios actually, things, and wish to point out, however, that no ex- day outdated “Mozart style” of finger technique; that can never be forced— cated fingering this will facilitate force it will be a major factor in his steady progress. without dis- ercises can be helpful unless they are study — Regularity and Hanon, together with the inevitable it is a fine method of developing strength, muscle- astrous consequences! the beginning de- based upon a sure foundation of correct of passages on every staples of scales and arpeggios, about bring us to the control, and independence in the weak fourth and “As my ‘new’ voice gree of the scale. only Hanon developed, though, breath control and free, forward singing. It will promote not end of known similarities between the amateur’s and fifth fingers, to the end that, in the full employment I had to build a new technique mechanical skill, skill: for it. My Scales, drills, vocalises, and so forth, are but also aesthetic Many artists practice Hanon regularly. All amateurs artist’s pursuit of technique. I say “known similarities” of modern “weight-relaxation” touch, the fingers may problem was for to make my higher tones as only as valuable as the production meth- the fingers take their turn in playing should, for their own good, be Hanon-conscious. By because some very odd things have come to ear from better and more accurately discharge their duties. free, as natural, accented as important, and as ods that support and unaccented notes, thereby closed doors of practice rooms of great Pischna No. 7, practiced in this way, is frequently them. It is a good thing, Ex.l behind the the even as those of more gaining my accustomed therefore, to remember that the first evenness and fluency of touch. virtuosos. Paderewski was once heard tuning up his assigned by the master teacher, Mme. Olga Samaroff, lower registers. My beloved Schoen had breathing exercise This exercise I have the privilege of studying. This you learn is shaping somewhat neglects the i. technique with adagio lugubreoso repetitions of an with whom died, and my present teacher, fifth rm Mme. Vera the pattern of later coloratura tech- finger. However, it is not the object octave study by Sartorio, Rachmaninoff with a sim- Pischna volume should be thoroughly looked through, Schwarz (a distinguished singer of of opera nique! And also, on the subject of exer- the exercise to strengthen this finger ilarly appalling rendition of Schubert’s Marche Mili- by the amateur and by teachers of amateurs, for further and operetta, and one of the greatest cises, keep an alert open mind! exercises for doing but taire. Clearly, anything can happen and perhaps has. useful exercises. Another Pischna suggestion: do the Study so are numerous— 2 . j n J — technicians of the time) helped me great- your own voice and find out for yourself to promote facility in playing scale pas- Omniscience might even disclose that Liszt warmed right-hand alone of No. 44, the left-hand alone of No. 45. ly by combining her own insistence on the things that are right and wrong for sages commencing on each degree of the up, privately, on Chop Sticks. Isidor Philipp’s great two-volume “Exercises for In- technical perfection with the Insistence your voice. scale. A vocalise that gives life to s. We are on less conjectural ground when it comes dependence of the Fingers” is more immediately val- on quality rm that Schoen had given me. one voice may work Practice harmful results to the exercise slowly, at first, and to scales and arpeggios. Many artists practice scales uable to the amateur in Volume I than in the very ad- We worked for nearly a whole year on another—just as certain fruits agree with increase the and arpeggios every day of their lives. Nonprofessional vanced Volume II. Especially recommended: First nothing but piano speed as fluency is gained. singing. Starting in my one person and bring Practice out a rash on an- each measure as a separate study 4. J J J J pianists doing likewise will, even in the amateur’s Series, complete; Second Series, Exercises 1, 2, and 3: low voice, continuing through my middle other! and when shorter time-segments of practice, derive consistent Fourth Series, complete; Twelfth Series, 7 through 15: voice, and going they have all been mastered up as far as high C or D- “If I might permit myself a bit of ad- separately, combine one ex- benefit. Your guide? A good teacher is always a good fourteenth Series, 11 through 15. Built as it is on the flat, I sang scales, scales, them to form scales, as piano vice to young singers, I should ercise say that as 5 . guide. If you happen to be engaged in self-study, I stretch- requiring chord of the diminished seventh, as possible. Never written. Or you may proceed hm was I permitted to the one thing they need more than any thus: project Learn Measures one and two sepa- urge you to buy Dr. James Francis Cooke’s “Mastering Philipp is not only excellent for developing inde- the full voice; everything was other, perhaps, is a broadening of their rately I of course, C. L. Hanon’s great fun- the Scales and Arpeggios,” within green covers of fingers for in- kept soft, piano, and then combine as one study; “Hanon” mean, the pendence (and strength) of the but using the ‘Kopf-Toene’ general training. We have magnificent next learn damental work of piano technique, “The Virtuoso Pi- which you will find outlined the best program of creasing stretch. Play the exercises firmly, or head-tones that are Measure three separately; then hand so vital a part of voices in our land! There are no artistic add it to Measures prac- anist.” That title is, I grant, a large order, but the scale-and-arpeggio study available anywhere. accurately, and, with rare exceptions, slowly. bel canto production. After a year of such heights one and two, and to which the American artist tice more Measures one, two and three as one book’s preface is for the ambitious amateur, in a As a closing thought, consider well this brief quota- James Friskin, noted pianist and a Juilliard faculty comforting key: “This work is intended for all piano tion from Nicholas Rubinstein: “Scales and arpeggios member, with whom I (Continued on Page 288) 248 "MUSIC STUDY (Continued on Page 290) THE ETUDE MAY, 1947 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE’’ 249 — . —
rc*ii*». J * the Music in the Home Oym- Music in Home phony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski Comprehensive Opera Guide with Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano) . Victor set 1089 “Operas and Musical Comedies.” By J. Walker McSpad- Falla: El Amor Brujo; The Pittsburgh Symphony den. Pages, 607. Price, $3.50. Publisher, Thomas Y. conducted by Fritz Reiner, with Carol Orchestra, Brice Company. set 633. Crowell (contralto) . Columbia one encounters two state in the cover announcement that It is seldom that sets of a work The publishers The Etude Music Lover’s Bookshelf World-Wide Selections splendidly achieved that the largest, the most complete, the most up-to- that are so choice between this is to make. Mr. Stokowski date, the easiest to use, and the only opera book con- them is not easy has a flair comedies as well as the traditional for tonal coloring which stands him in good stead taining musical in the books Falla’s vivid music. There are operas. Your reviewer is familiar with all of de moments like in Any book here the past decade, in English, French, The Magic Circle and Pantomime where Stokowski of this kind, of reviewed may claim is be secured from Of Master Recordings of German, and Italian, and believes that this conveys a subtlety mood that Reiner does not THE ETUDE MUSIC well substantiated. The book is well planned and writ- match. Miss Merriman is perhaps more stylistic MAGAZINE at the in ready under- price given on Miss Brice, ten in easy but accurate style, bo provide the national sense than but the latter’s receipt of standing. Over three hundred works are included, voice is more beautiful and more appealing. In either cosh or check. Little Tycoon” and listener will not ranging from Spenser’s “The case, the go wrong in his choice for by feeler ^Jluyh Ideed Morse’s “Wang,” to Wagner’s "Parsifal” and Berg’s both are finely planned and well executed perform- “Wozzeck.” The book is a “must” for the musical library. ances of one of the composer’s greatest scores. Brahms: Concerto in D Minor, Op. 15 ; Rudolph Serkin (piano) and the Pittsburgh Symphony Musical History Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale”; The Or- Important chestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner. Columbia Iddereditb C^adt Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by set 652 by R man Bruno Walter. “The Worcester Music Festival.” By Raymond Morin. Chopin: Concerto in F minor, Op. 21; Artur Rubin- Columbia set 631. Worcester County Musical stein and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Pages, 189. Price, $3.00. Mozart Symphony in D, K. 504—“The Prague”; conducted by William Steinberg. Victor set 1012. Association. St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. Sousa told your reviewer Dvorak: Concerto in B minor. Op. of the development of Sui Generis Golschmann. Victor set 1085. 104; Gregor Pia- A very informative account that he thought she was one of the greatest harp solo- tigorsky (’cello) and the Philadelphia significant musical developments in The music of Beethoven’s “Pastorale” has always Orchestra, con- one of the most “Keller’s Continental Revue.” By Winifred Bambrick. ists he had ever heard. After Mr. Sousa’s death, Miss ducted by Eugene Ormandy. Columbia monumental work of Carl Zerrahn been close to the heart of Bruno Walter and he plays set 656, New England. The Pages, 462. Price, $2.75. Publisher, The Riverside Bambrick went to London, where she played thereafter, Khatchaturian: Piano Concerto; festivals) and Albert Stoessel (eighteen this Symphony as well as any conductor of today. In William Kapell (thirty-one Press (Houghton Mifflin Co.) touring Great Britain and appearing with famous and the Boston Symphony told in a highly interesting manner. This the Scherzo he does not quite get the subtle touch of Orchestra conducted by festivals) is bands and orchestras. Slight, petite, and very retiring, Serge Koussevitzky. Victor set 1084. year will mark the eighty-seventh Festival of an in- humor that Toscanini obtains, and in the Storm There never was another book like “Keller’s Con- she gave little suspicion of aspiring to write a work of Scene It is Reiner who invests stitution which has had far-reaching influence in the he misses some of the dramatic intensity, but his part or the Brahms tinental Revue.” It is sui generis—all of its own kind. panoramic size. Your reviewer dined with her innumer- in piano concerto with musical history of the New World. the quiet lyrical passages his reading is equally the most vivid Interpretative It is the story of a traveling hippodrome—some three impressive. Mr. Golschmann gives a straightforward artistry. Serkin does not quite measure up to Bachaus hundred people, including forty nationalities, young reading of Mozart’s great “Prague” Symphony, at the height of liis powers, but his most but performance is Concertos and old, sane and insane, moral and promiscuous; one feels praiseworthy Concerning that Beecham has penetrated the heart of for its technical accomplishments and of them very poor and willing to work night and day the work in a more telling musicianly taste. 312. manner. Rubinstein tends to over-play the “The Concerto.” By Abraham Veinus. Pages, for little or nothing, with the aim of having the priv- Wagner; Die Meistersinger Chopin — Prelude; The NBC Concerto as though it were a modern Price, $3.50. Doubleday, Doran. ilege, honor, and opportunity of “doing their stuff” on Symphony virtuoso Orchestra, direction of Arturo Toscanini. score. To be sure, his traversal of the piano brightly lighted stage for a hard bitten public. As part is a able and readable coverage of the great con- the Victor disc 11-9385. vivid one tonally A very and an imposing one technically, of the story is in pre-war Germany, the foregoing but certos. Twenty-five years ago there could have been much Von Suppe: Fatinitza Overture; it lacks the The Boston “Pops” refinement of artistry that one finds Teutonic sentence is worthy of the book. in little for a book on this subject, but the radio Orchestra, conducted by Arthur Cortot’s demand Fiedler. Victor disc earlier version. Although Casals definitely In the revue there are tons of scenery arid costumes 11-9261. and the movies have brought concertos to everybody, over-shadows Piatigorsky in his playing of the Dvofdk necessity and musical instruments, including a large, portable Moussorgsky: A Night and a book such as “The Concerto” is a real on the Bare Mountain; The ’Cello Concerto, it must be said thnt the latter gives in this day. The author was in the U. S. Second Air pipe organ. There are singers, dancers, actors, musi- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, a superb conducted by Fritz performance on his own. Tire trainers, comedians, tumblers, cyclists, Reiner. tonal warmth Corps in the World War II. cians, animal Columbia disc 12470-D. and richness of Piatigorsky’s ’cello is a joy to the ear rope throwers, knife throwers, midgets, giants, snake Piston: -Prelude and Allegro; E. Power Biggs and one does not think of any other charmers, prima donnas, Heldentenors, trapeze per- (organ), the Boston player w-hile Symphony Orchestra, conducted listening to him. Mr. Ormandy Composers of Our Time by Serge lacks the imaginative formers, strong men, magicians, contortionists, jugglers, Koussevitzky. Victor 11-9262. interplay of rhythmic effect and coloring that Mr. Szell clowns, wrestlers, and a chorus (quasi-nude) of sev- Purcell: ' Trumpet Prelude, and Haydn: 18th-Cen- brought Modern Music.” By Max Graf. Pages, 320. Price, $3.00. to his orchestral enty-two of “the most beautiful girls in the world,” tury Dance. Victor background of the Casals Library. disc 11-9419. set The "Khatchaturian” Publisher, Philosophical Concerto is a rather empty, together with a mule, a lamb, a camel, a hyena, two Tchaikovsky: March Slave, Op. 31. Victor pretentious disc affair in repetition. Mr. Dr. Graf, whom Richard Strauss has hailed cordially elephants, three horses, five Borzoi Hounds, five leop- 11-9388. Wagner: Siegfried— Forest Kapell plays it Murmurs. Victor RUDOLF SERKIN with TOtaioste brilliance of disc 11-9418. but he lacks the imagination as a critic, has provided us with a kind gradus ad ards, twenty dogs, pythons, cobras, guinea pigs, mon- The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, zinski’s more straightforward 0ura Lympany in the parnassum in the understanding of music progress, keys, twenty-four Shetland ponies as well as the fam- direction of Leopold Stokowski. handling of the music °„,^ Decca set. However, Mr. S< V1 “e“s to us offer y g* ves a Twilight of the Classical Gods” to the Toscanini’s t0 more enduring qualities more vivid treatment to the from “The ilies of the foregoing human beings and those of the performance of the Prelude from “Die in repeti- nrrhA f tion despite Mr. part than dld present day. Only a relatively few years ago, the ap- of little children Meistersinger” Spencer’s revival-meeting Mr - Fistoulari. Victor’s re- menagerie, to say nothing seven surpasses all others. Fiedler gives oration corriw f K von Ormandy s performance S UC better peal of such a work would be limited to the few people Suppe s brash and sentimental of Strauss’ early tone balanced than the Decca set white, brown, yellow, and black. (The paragraphs seem music a rousing per- dealing poem' and !! ? n formance, with the unpleasant subject WlU repr0duce better on who possessed great scores and could read them with to be getting more and more German.) and Reiner gives a forthright, musicianly of sickness and most American S6t f rth phonographs. ease. Now, however, most of the works that Dr. Graf account of the Moussorgsky bUt the recording is The whole caravan is ruled by a genial despot, “Herr Tone Poem. Mr. Sto- fhe he f u not up to °*, the orchestra. G discusses can be procured through recordings and (Brazilian his kowski’s three Stravinsky’s set minor- 74, No. 3—“Horse- Direktor” born, but with father a Ba- discs reveal his uncanny gifts for . of the “Fire °P- B Smte 1S advertised he Budapest scores of them are heard continually on the best sym- making an as a new String Quartet. varian and his grandfather Scotch) , who cracks the orchestra sound, but his fondness for lush f th u augmented version X-274 Columbia set effects bUt tWS iS quite phonic and operatic programs. whip one and feeds his company lollipops the and emotional ex-cesses are not always a true statement of moment in keep- fact.ifir 1 The composers earlier ^' bn S The book is authoritative and is written in inter- ing version ^nes *" next. It is he who leads this huge, conglomerate group with what the composer intended. Compare Rod- made in France Quartets is played here with not only provided the a virtnnP. esting style, in its journey from Haydn to Shosta- zmski’s treatment of the same music but gave VitaUty that from country to country, and it is he who knows of the March Slave and Reiner’s points us a few to ^ jUSUCe of the kovich. treatment of score that are omitted romances, the catastrophes, the humors, the murders, WINIFRED BAMBRICK the Forest Murmurs. Mr. here It is mi Piston’s Pre- doubtedly rt lude the finest version of this e M nUetS and- Allegro is a well-written modern mus^ onrecords ' 176: Vox Chamber Or- in his ceaseless struggle to coordinate the incredible opus in the to date and especially chestra rmid P^ K spirit of Handel, mating enjoyable for its by Edvard Mixing of Melodies mass. able times, with Mr. Sousa and his staff. She said little the organ and strings restoration of Fendler ’ Vox set 166. A in seveial sections, like Mozart wrn^ an engaging the ingenious C & gI0Up of 18 first chapters with therefore incredible manner. It is a work that we can well Scherzo and the minuets for a Christmas The twenty have to do the apo- but kept her ears open. It seemed imagine complete final Hymn. Generally partv at Sqni bUi “Counterpoint.” By Walter Piston. Pages, 235. Price, will grow on one with well recorded it fail len hc was eigh plectic saga of mounting the great revue upon the stage to him that Miss Bambrick had written a book of the repeated hearings only in the S are i teen. These works Copland: Infernal Dance to be q u tr ^stlbleM $3.75. Publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Lincoln Portrait; as realistic , ’ for their of the huge Alhambra Theatre in London. The night dimensions of “Keller's Continental Revue.” The se- The Boston ; melodic and Symphony duction as the early rhythmic vn charm Orchestra, conducted Stokowski set. n t and of in of by Serge Monteux eave^h' ’ notable the premiere, three of the performers in the highly cret lies in the fact that Miss Bambrick, search Koussevitzky, with first ^ P ays ™th After Dr. Piston’s work upon Harmony, it Melvyn performance of Stravinsky’s «akable re Douglas as narrator. Victor set 1088. now famous°U Sacie rh was to be expected that he would come forward with hazardous show are taken to the hospital in ambu- adventure, joined just such a group, which toured the Strauss: in Paris back in 1913, when thp snrihr.™ ? Death and Transfiguration, Op. Messiah; Isobel a text upon counterpoint. Many Continental theorists lances. After successes in England the show moves on Continent for three years. When the World War closed 24; The racket that the conductor had 11 a Gladys Rinw^ Baillie (soprano), Philadelphia Orchestra, a hard tirn^ni^^ to Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Antwerp, Leipzig, where it in, she was in Leipzig, but managed to escape to Eng- conducted by Eugene Or- ’ anies Johnston (tenor) have stated their convictions that harmony and coun- score. It seems to us that ^ Norman '{ * mandy. Columbia set 613. MonteS haSesthm Walke^Tbas^ meets with even greater success. It is a riot of color land, where she toured again and finally made her way more persuasively Society the Huddersfield Choral terpoint are one indissoluble subject. It has been the Stravinsky: Fire Bird— than any living conducto^-L with the with Suite; The Philharmonic- more h Sets“T ^P001 Philharmonic Orchestra, habit of writers, however, to treat the subjects in two and “orderly confusion.” Then comes World War II back to the United States, one of the most lurid, Symphony color from it and his treatment direction of MaWi^ Orchestra of New York, of the 1"1 Sargent books. and the fight to keep the lumbering revue going under kaleidoscopic, and absorbingly interesting stories of conducted by Igor rhythmic 6 ’ c°lumbia set 666. Stravinsky. effects in the latter Columbia if* k Columbia set 635. part of tLwnrk-T^’ ® c° Nazi conditions, right to what happened in Germany just before war. together better 8S ngratu l ated on making this set Dr. Piston (Harvard B.A. 1924) studied at the Ecole up the attack upon Poland. the She Stravinsky: Le than it does in any available in this sacre du printemps; The other recorded ? UntI so shortly Normale in Paris, where his teacher in composition It all makes astonishingly dramatic reading. has the faculty of taking the reader “by the hand” San formance. The San Francisco in England after its issuance Francisco Symphony Sj-mphony As t> T T Orchestra, conducted by Pierre posing C rdln 14 takes was Nadia Boulanger. His original works have pre- Music is always in the background. Why, then, devote and making him live with the Revue and think with Monteux. viruosity in this performance S the earlier Precedence over Victor set 1052. which i perform!. ,? ? Plcb Victorw has a ce that Sir sented many innovations. His “Counterpoint” is ana- all this space in The Etude to this review? The reason the Revue, in its days of prosperity and of adversity. brilliantly recorded. . Thomas Beecham In a work like made (set 271) ?? Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” 1 handling lytical, in that he has attempted is that the author, Miss Winifred Bambrick, has been Behind the psychology of the performers there is al- the has been of the large chorus to show how music speaker l " e\Dpr'tk contributes to its ""T P e ultimate enjoyment. Mr n 1 eered f°r has been approached contrapuntally, rather than “how a professional musician all of her life. Born in Ottawa, ways a heaven, which, if God is good, they may reach Douglas soloists Clarit >' of toe. The tends to be too dramatically LThe new sp? H fervent, but one n0t qulte equal it should be written.” He takes apart the actual com- Canada, of English parents, she made her debut as a some day. Alas, none ever do reach it! That heaven is suspects that he the earlier one a11 those in sought to match the dramatic but thf?bey positions, searching for the Hollywood. inten- style. are weh matched have principles and rules in- harp prodigy in Carnegie Hall at the age of twelve. But surely, the story will find its way to sity with which Koussevitzky RECORDS Manv win and invests the score. Rod- “ th b volved by the masters. The work is warmly recom- John Philip Sousa engaged her at once and she toured the movie magnates of Hollywood and doubtless, some a* tat '. ‘W“» °< tl« Pert°™- L™ 8 h mended. 250 slapdash £ Cr C has noted “when the with his famous band for years, in the United States, day, we shall see it all in glorious Technicolor. methodsneinods ofnf per-.-, /j? "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS ( Continued on Page 300) LIFE’ MAY, 1947 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE" 251 THE ETUDE —
the tenseness which has crept do to counteract into her all as a result playing and is ruining it, of the way Music and Study Music and Study she he APPROACH to the keyboard must be first a being taught. Isn't it a pity to waste four is now of the which takes place s life in mental experience, something years of a young person that type of teach best in the mind, and then in the muscles—from in- especially in the case of this girl who . . . has T ing the inside. Sit in a chair one I side, outside—not from outside, most natural ability of any have ever taught?” or on a bench not too high, directly in front of the- only a pity, it's a crime, and should rate It isn’t dras- middle register of the keyboard, but not too near the punishment. When a student is progressing tic well chair is more conducive to relaxa- colorfully, piano. (Sitting in a plays zestfully, fluently and it is criminal tion.) Sit still* for a few moments, resting your hands to impose old-fashioned, Played The Pianist’s Page for any teacher stiffening empty your entire body- The Piano Likes to Be on your lap. Let your mind dumb-dumb methods. All music teachers should be consciousness of all stiffness; in other words, think to take “refresher” courses in newest compelled technics relaxation. Begin at the top of the head, anticipating When those “correct note” every year or two. teachers mentally the complete elimination of any form of into the thousands or those How Simple Laws Improve Practice who number — “stiffeners” tenseness throughout the body. Even the toes must be talented young people away hy. <2)n uy / v icuer drive aspiring, from the included in this process of freeing the muscles. Get are killing the spirit—one of the most ^ piano they hein- into an easy attitude mentally. You cannot really re- Leschetizky Exponent Gives Time-Tested Helps crimes of all. When our students beg for Noted Pianist and ous bread lax unless you think first. rocks or pacify let’s not give them hard them with The piano likes to be played—but not mistreated. Music Educator . first will dispose soggy crackers. . . The of the spirit You cannot fight it successfully with will-power. Fear quickly, the other will expose it to long lingering starva- or discouragement o-ver the- expression of what you tion. Better ask yourself, “Am I a 'Correct Noter’? A hear in your idealistic inner-ear, compared to what you ‘Stiffener’? Phooey on me if I am!!” actually listen to in tangible manifestation on the key- board; is partly due to the wrong approach. The piano before you can A Time-Saver is like a sleeping lion. It must be tamed call upon its noble and tender qualities. What listener Mary Boxall Boyd is the daughter of J. A. Homan, musician Many of us resent taking time at lessons to write roarings, its sighs, and The alert and for the most part youthful faculty of has not been captivated by its and writer, for many years music-critic of the Cincinnati necessary items in pupils’ note books. A well known authority the Music School are thoroughly imbued with the its songss under the control of the masterful Enquirer. Her teachers were Douglas Boxall, well known Eng- Kansas City teacher (L. W.) sends us samples of during the five years she spent ideals and objectives of the college through the unique the of a great artist! But, one must begin. lish pianist of his day, and, work of the Speed-O-Print reproducing process, in Berlin and Theodore Leschetizky Stephens faculty-student advising plan, and the close she Although you may say that the surgeon’s stroke, in abroad, Artur Schnabel 1927 says, “I bought this duplicating machine so I can in Vienna. She made her debut in New York in played tie-up of the Music School with the Humanities add its importance to life itself, cannot be compared to — pupils’ note books painlessly twice with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra—had studios new pages to my whenever the art of beautiful piano playing, yet, technically Department. York where she held open classes for I like. It is simple to operate, has very clear type their in Boston and in New I believe that the only way to measure the effective- and speaking, there is some similarity basically in young artist pupils preparing to play in public. Before the response makes a good looking page.” surgeon makes an incision. The scalpel ness of any music education program is by the approach. The war she held classes during the summer in Salzburg, Austria, the above . I can attest to statements. . . Might be a carried by the hand and arm, in the right way, it stirs in the students exposed to it. . . . Well, prepare must be for American students. She was secretary and treasurer of thing for you to examine. Here's one of the relaxation yourself for a shock! During a recent three-week period good speci- to its goal by the combination of restrained The Leschetizky Association of America in 1945-46. She is for thousands of open-eared enthusiasts listened avidly to men pages L. W. makes her pupils. (relaxation combined with conscious lightness), by now Director of Instrumental Music at Greenbrier College, Note. the following musical events at Stephens: an exciting skill, and by economy of motion. The stroke goes di- Lewisburg, West Virginia. —Editor's bimonthly During the past year Dr. Guy Maier has made two-piano recital by Milliken and Johnson; another Technic Exercises rectly to its goal without waste of energy or super- trips from his home at Santa Monica, California, to Stephens miscellaneous concert by faculty members; two concerts fluous motion. It must be right the first time. This is College, Columbia, Missouri, where he acts as supervising These exercises are for the purpose of keeping by the college symphony orchestra with the violinist the- combination which all successful sportsmen either counsel for the large piano department. Dr. Maier has entered the arms free and light in developing certain Szigeti as soloist; three Sunday morning services with acquire consciously or possess unconsciously in their heartily into this new musical activity. Stephens College for motions which are necessary for rapid, musical the orchestra and college chorus participating; two games. Their bodies vibrate with a living lightness years has been famed for its unusual and progressive innova- spe- playing. which govern the natural, beautiful, and clean per- tions. For instance, the famous actress Maud Adams was cial evening concerts by college choruses and soloists; a which swings them into a rightly directed power. This While some of the movements are exaggerated at formance of any given work. Wieck, the father and formerly the head of the Drama Department. There is also concert; a packed house recital lightness is the open door to infinite possibilities; it is band for a by the pian- will look for first they10. become so small when used in playing teacher of Clara Schumann, said, "We a course for women airplane pilots. —Editor's Note. ist Leonard Pennario (in competition with several the scientific approach to any material goal in which pieces that they cannot be seen. the true and the beautiful—and, first of all, to a clear, Saturday night major dance events!) three crowded the hand- and arm play a vital part, and it can be ; They are valuable because they keep the arm unaffected, healthy performance, free from forced vesper services each week, in which music played a ma- learned and' practiced. Along the Shining Rails muscles from becoming unnecessarily tense. character.” jor part. Then, as if all this were not enough to induce You may say that you are relaxed. That is not espe- "Clickety clack, clear the track; acute musical indigestion, audiences accomplish. Conscious lightness, how- of 1,000 students cially difficult to Natural Position of the Hand We’re on our way , . . to Co-LUM-BI-AY" overflowed the auditorium twice for Humanities De- A Gold Star ever, takes time and patience to acquire until it has The natural position of the hand is the right position partment all-musical convocations! will be given for each exercise that you master. become- unconscious. It is then that one finds the art From the beach of Santa Monica to Columbia in the What other school, university, in playing. If you will notice a baby’s hand, you will small or large town, 1. Up Fling of beautiful piano playing a simple, natural means center of Missouri is quite a trek, any way you look at it. match such record? see that the knuckles above the second joint of the can a Why do the girls pack the 2. Up Swing of expression. Difficulties in virtuosity are overcome A “commuter” has plenty of time in the forty-eight auditorium in the face of of fingers form the highest point of the hand; in their the dizzying amount of cur- 3. Down Dip naturally, easily, and scientifically by the use the hour train trips, each way, to ponder on pianists and ricular and extra curricular natural position they are above the wrist. The fingers activities of college life? 4. Paint Brush process of restrained relaxation, skill, and motion fly,” here’s piano playing.. “Why not you ask? . . . Well, (Don’t forget that there are curve slightly. If you rest your own hands on your lap thousands of boys at the 5. Finger Tip Percussion economy. why: Just now a brash young brat (about 9), one of University of Missouri in Columbia sidewise toward the little finger, you will find the same who offer plenty of 6. Floating Elbows, those nuisances who make train trips unbearable by Flipping Thumbs counter attractions!) . . . Could Lightness natural formation. it be the sheer power 7. Skip Flips Conscious racing up the aisles, halts breathlessly at MARY BOXALL BOYD and down my of music? Or the vitality of its Now, place the hand, without changing the position, presentation? Or the 8. Blind Flying Only by using your mind can you acquire a com- berth, screaming, “Hey, Mister ! do you know the dead- release and enjoyment it gives the lightly on the keyboard, using only enough pressure students? 9. Flash Bounce pletely light arm, light wrist, and light hand. Such There is no possibility of developing an ugly, crass- liest poison in the world?” “No, I don’t!” says I, throw- Whatever it may be, Stephens has to hold down five keys without much effort. Do this set the pace for Rotary Raindrops lightness is an everready resource to the player; he sounding, or hard individual tonal-quality when the ing him a lethal stare . . . “Airplane poison: One drop, other colleges and fixed off the communities . . . and a several times, at intervals, taking the hand tough pace Those exercises are items the “Children’s Tech- does not have to use any unnecessary waving of the idea of the circle is followed. It allows no hitting or and you’re DEAD! . . . Whee-ee-ee!” and with a blood from it is! No wonder Stephens lures an old, keyboard in order to test the lightness of the arm. hardened mu- nic Book,” by Maier-Liggett, the revised edi- arms or hands to free himself of fatigue in order to striking of the keys; it is, even in its minutest part, curdling yell he’s off. . . .So there have it. . . third and you . For sician to commute so often, well above the keyboard. Note the dif- even in the face of the tion of proceeds Raise the arm curve scoops the calls it into a sing- these frequent trips the Music School of which is now available. regain his lightness, skill, and power as he a which key and to Stephens rigors of present day travel. complete relaxation and lightness; the is ference between ing quality of tone-production. College at Columbia, Missouri, I ride the shining rails, from passage to passage on the keyboard. Lightness Keep your eyes and ears on is dead weight, the latter is released alertness. Stephens College! the electric current which carries all difficulties easily former •The whole circle is accomplished, for instance, in because I sissy about airplanes. Ha, Ha! . am a . . and Oh, Yeah? marked degree release. Some orchestra conductors have it to a middle section of the And why, pray, should anyone want to commute through the process of instantaneous Once the such octave passages as the Scene: One of well it surgeons have it Danger Signals my scouts attending a recital by a keys are pressed down with suddenness or with slow —some painters have — must A-flat Polonaise by Chopin by the action of the right thousands of miles to Stephens College? . . . Because it known piano a I should like to thumper ... a woman, quite evidently pianists should have it. And just here coupled with skill. The is one of the most extraordinary college communities Read this impress and the sound is heard, as the case may be, movement at the right time, letter from a gifted young college friend piano teacher corner. He, too, of with a young man student sitting behind mention the traffic policeman at a busy if scientifically handled by in the land; because it believes in steering its young mine, and weep: there is nothing more to do about the matter but to manipulation of the keys, the scout, the definings of law woman explaining the pianist’s “attack” proceed scientifically with the least effort and motion has it. How swift and accurate are his the process of taking-and-releasing, under the physical women students solidly along the track of “head, heart, "The teaching I am receiving here ' • at college sc°ut • is so pricking up his ears when she hears . . and order! His white-gloved hands (in Boston he wears and hand” balance; because its Music School with 1,000 mediocre compared with j to the next pattern or patterns of passages. laws of relaxation and lightness-after-tension, need my former home-town train- Oh, yes, Guy Maier hands gloves) loose wrists control the come-and- students advocates always keeping is of or com- white and not interfere with the rhythm of the complete circle and a faculty of thirty-seven has an almost ing that I don t feel I’m getting By patterns meant the forming chords a thing out of it on the keys for one automobiles. too, not make All control and tone. Of course, that’s go of hundreds of He, may It is through the of skill that unparalleled opportunity to teach music for recreation, my teacher is interested in binations of notes in the hand before the chord or movement. development is whether or not I way to play the the first time. enjoyment, release; have all piano, but it’s not as free as the quick playing de- any mistakes. He, too, must be right the keys not interfere. circle' in motion ignores and because the Stephens Depart- the notes correct. She never says passage is reached. In swift passage this do The a thing about phras stroke from above him, and you will see the circle in motion, a ment of Humanities offers a course indispensable the keys.” vising of quick pattern-forming depends upon the skill Watch all material obstacles. to ing, tone, shape or any of the things that really K0 into Ouch! Has the lady ever easily good example of controlled lightness and economy of young people—a general survey of the five major arts the making of music. tried drawing the tone of the performer. Leschetizky was, I believe, the first The finger singing-touch is a minute part of a circle And its always just nomfhe with a fascinating that She instrument rather something motion intelligently directed. exposition of their interrelation thinks I’m ready for a recital than throwing great pedagogue to discover and make practical the The fingers learn to move in quick succession in this just because 11 ’ through form, I have the 1S simply caressing, knead- structure, symmetry, rhythm, color, and notes perfect. ... If my floating, brushing, idea of patterns. I remember what pleasure he had in manner without ever striking the keys. The result is former teacher could hear ingf* tneTtone The Circle of Imaginary Lines movement. The vitality of this course can be me with perfectly coordinated large and small showing the pupil to form various chord and greater sonority a singing quality measured now, she’d no more let me play than how and in quick passages by the the man in the muscle masses versus that fact that 1,000 students elected “Slap . . Take All motion in this application of .motion-economy on well have to take it moon. What this college needs and Whack! . passage-patterns away from the keyboard and then to as as in slow ones. is someone like her' and that!” this year. with full arm, If only see' fit the keyboard is part of a circle, consciously drawn in I have decided not to go into music wrist and fingers how nicely the pattern of the hand the required One can prepare the body, arms, hands, and indi- seriouslv for it he piano As for applied could strike what a directed consciously its object ac- and theoretical music, any of the 2,200 seems utterly futile; so I plan back at its flagellators, chord or passage on the keyboard. space, and toward vidual fingers for the scientific measuring of keyboard to drop piano at the end welcome carnage Stephens college students may choose suitable courses of the semester.” u we’d have! The learner of keyboard motion-economy and con- curately measured by the eye and controlled through a difficulties. There, should be no impulsive jumping to without paying additional tuition. Valuable scious lightness sensitized condition of arm and hand. From the play- involving experiments Here’s another letter, this time from must begin humbly. Humility, in this points exacting skips; instead, there is con- in group a teacher- “Mv instrumental and voice teaching are being most gifted pupil Mary X-, Fingering sense of the word, is power. The player opens his mind ing of one single note to the executing of simple or sciousness of direction through lightness and through now at one of the undertaken which might well develop into a “Stephens best relaxes his muscles in order to receive consciously difficult chords or passages, the imaginary circle should the known schools in the South, came of and sensitivity of the entire body in relation to the back to me in rief rails releases a steady stream Group Training Plan” for use in other colleges. the flow of rhythmic motion which is his guide be evident either in small or in large curves (part of process in peration one day this week to find P nd Playing above action which holds the steady flow of the out what she could thoughts. Here are a few: Edfflc!,n all else in the successful achievement of principles the circle). of the circle ( y m memorizing 260) rhythm and Continued on Page 285) 252 a ( Continued on Page "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” MAY, 1947 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” THE ETUDE 253 Music end Study He had been ill d’Amore.” for some time act of Music and Study Before the first the opera he began to cough, and some blood appeared at corner of his mouth. the There are sev! T WAS one of the great adventures descriptions of that eral opera night of the human mind when Marjorie which meant sadness and excitement to I Lawrence, gifted, and beautiful Aus- whole world. Let us follow the the de- tralian soprano, notwithstanding being scription of Frances Alda, the Let’s Give the Young Singers a Break operatic paralyzed from hips the down, sang the soprano and wife of Mr. Gatti-Casazza role of Venus in Wagner’s Go On” “Tannhauser.” Must of the Metropolitan “The Show director Opera House* This part, it is true, did not require her have Caruso should cancelled the per- to stand, but an enormous amount of at once, of course. VERY normal parent would like to assure his formance But he will power and energy was needed to go child of a good 'speaking and singing voice; not wouldn’t. He sang the First Act through through the ordeal preceding her first necessarily from the standpoint of becoming a sang it marvellously—though the bleed- E appearance in a wheel chair on the con- on continuously. professional entertainer, but because a good speaking ing went Members of cert stage and on the hidden couch in will important factor in deter- ^the chorus kept passing him or singing voice be an Venusburg. fresh hand- he sang. mining success in any line of endeavor. kerchiefs as Caruso wiped his Very few girl children have strong, interesting voices until after maturity, sometime between twelve and six- Happiness illuminated the face of said that there is no greater love than It has been teen years of age. As the author of this article points out, they should not attempt difficult music until a few lips, then threw the pieces of linen in Marjorie Lawrence when music lovers at that of a mother for her child. Sometimes this love the well, which was part of the years after that period. There are a few young, large, tall, fat girls (perhaps they suffer from an insufficiency York’s Town Hall congratulated set. New her blinds the judgment of the parent, and the child is of thyroid or suprarenal activity) who have excellent voices and can really sing. The others are not very It was one of the greatest who on her first concert feats of since she had been unconsciously forced or rushed ahead so fast that it useful to any choir director. As is quite well known, many boys can sing strongly and well from the age of stricken eighteen heroism the stage has ever seen. The months before by pa- actually impedes instead of helps his development. seven until thirteen If they are well taught in the English manner, to make use of the head voice exclusively, fanatical idea “The Show must ralysis. She became ill on her honeymoon go On” they are very valuable singers indeed. However, from thirteen to seventeen, they should not sing at all. In my This is particularly true pertaining to singing. which carries the Pagliacci through early in 1941, possibly caused by an epi- the own case, I did not sing from thirteen to eighteen, but studied organ, piano, and harmony. My organ teacher If the singing standard is to be improved in future tragedy of their lives, demic poliomyelitis (infantile greatest enables (when I was eighteen), needed someone to sing Bach, so I was pressed into service, and I continued to sing paralysis) generations, the general public must be told the truth Editor's though she herself saw her illness con- singers such as Caruso to do the impos- publicly until after I was sixty. —Voice Note by Dr. Nicholas Douty. about the human voice, so the parent will protect and nected with a smallpox vaccination to sible. But the audience did not share care for not only the child’s body, but also for his which she was required to submit before that fanatical consciousness. During the voice as well. An important factor heretofore over- obtaining a visa to Mexico. Her back and intermission the Brooklyn manager tele- looked pertaining to the talented young singer is muta- legs were paralyzed while her voice never phoned Mr. Gatti-Casazza in New York tion. The average person (who is the parent of the fu- If the word moderation is understood and adopted his disposal, the singer has continued to sing through was affected. Gradually, with the help for advice. Then he informed the audi- ture singer) associates mutation only with certain as a symbol of guidance through this interval it will childhood, has misused his voice almost daily, and still of various treatments, one of them the ence of the tenor’s illness. “He says,” males between the ages of thirteen and seventeen be of invaluable assistance in preserving the young continues to hope to be a singer; ever looking for a Kenny-treatment, she could sit up, and Frances Alda continues, “if you wish, he years. In reality it is a physiological change that occurs voice. miracle or short cut to mastery of his singing ability. immediately she started studying the will go on with the performance" . . in every normal human, regardless of sex. The few songs usually sung in school or church will It is true that there have been great singers who part of Isolde. Finally when she was able “No! No!” the house cried. By the time a child is seven years old the larynx not be too harmful between seven and twelve, but com- did sing through childhood and did study voice before to sit up unstrapped and not fall over, Caruso was taken home to the Van- (which contains the vocal cords) is approximately half petitive and professional singing where one child is they should have without apparent harm, but for every she returned to the concert stage and derbilt Hotel and put to bed. He died the size of an adult and there is little or no change trying to out sing another is dangerous at any time one of these who have survived there have been hun- then to the Metropolitan Opera to sing after a short apparent recovery in Italy from seven to puberty whatever age that may be. until twenty-one years of age. dreds of thousands who have either failed completely “Venus.” She attributed the return of her from broncho-pneumonia and empyema. The majority of parents consider the singing ability The parents must be extremely cautious about al- or incurred enough damage to stamp them as mediocre. faculties first to her strong faith in God’s of a child only temporary and if sufficient talent is lowing the child to sing profusely. Singing around the help and second to her strong desire to Heroic Pianists present to warrant financial or personal remuneration, house in moderation will not be dangerous, but public Competent Coach Needed return to music. The person who under- Robert Schumann is a warning ex- the voice is displayed as long as it lasts. This procedure singing should be avoided until the child is at least If the parent still persists in having his child sing goes difficulties, she warns, should get ample of how a mislaid heroism may is tragic, for an exceptional voice will have been ruined seven years of age. Surely a parent can control him- from seven to twelve it should be placed under the rid of self-pity, and try to root out a destroy the career of a musician, He was before the possessor of the voice old enough to self and not display his child’s talent until it has, at competent learned pitying attitude from those who surround was aegis of a coach, so songs may be an excellent pianist, but he decided to decide the most profitable or preferable process of least, a slight chance of being permanent. and performed correctly and easily. But, never under him. He does himself most good if he put his single fingers In a sling while utilization of his ability. Many young singers are unintentionally ruined in teacher rises above his difficulties and goes ahead any circumstance should a parent allow a to practicing to make them independent, choirs and various choral groups. A child under twelve the child’s voice with such activities as he is able to per- attempt molding or development of form. more quickly. This theory produced a Care of the Young Voice years of age is unaware and can not be made to com- before eighteen and preferably twenty-one years of age. lasting inflammation of one finger which If it is discovered that a child has exceptional sing- prehend the first symptoms of vocal fatigue, conse- A voice teacher who is qualified would never attempt quently will usually sing until hoarseness is present Galli-Curci Sings in Wheelchair ended his career as virtuoso—an experi- ing ability it should be cared for the same as any other such practice, but one who is ignorant of the intricacies ence which contributed highly to his early talent. The care of a young voice can only classed indicating the voice has been overused. of the vocal phenomena or has a desire for experi- Galli-Curci, the famous soprano, once be melancholy. as conservation or preservation, for there is actually mentation always welcomes the opportunity of new had to sing in a wheelchair to enable Ignace Limit Singing Publicly the “show to go on.” In Jan Paderewski, in his Memoirs, no means of voice culture that can be applied without material. 1915 she was in LILLIAN NORDICA describes, how he played whole concerto child While directors of such groups have inten- If professional career is chosen for the child Barcelona while a typhoid-fever epi- a compunction. A who has a beautiful voice at the good a be- evening despite a painful panaritium, a eight or nine years of age will have beautiful voice tions about the musical education of the child, it is tween seven and twelve, the greatest caution must demic ravaged the city. She fell ill her- a suppurative finger. At recommended vocally. musical knowledge to see the is self; the opera, “Barber of Seville,” was inflammation of a at twenty-one, provided vocal damage has not been not to be The be executed that voice not misused in sold out. “I can sing,” she decided, “but another time he had a painful experience incurred in the meantime. This vocal damage is what must be taught and learned by other means or instru- any way, consequently if all conditions are not favor- which later compelled him to renounce must be eradicated if the future generation is to have ments and not by the use of the voice which will un- able the child should not be allowed to sing. I cannot stand." So when the little singer <2V. 01 wt s>t* lAJafdemar ^cliu/efoli I ^ Hl'iimr the piano felt —we are told byGalli-Curci’s biographer, v entirely for four years. He masterful singers. doubtedly be lost in the process. The first six grades of school are where the future C. E. Le Massena—in a wheelchair, was continuous pain in his right hand and The surest way for this damage to be eradicated is Choral groups, church choirs, and so forth, should voices must be saved and not in high school or college. rolled upon the stage, in the second scene arm. He believed that the action of his for the child not to sing until at least eighteen and be restricted to people of eighteen years of age and These first six grades determine the type of speech of the “Barber,” holding a bouquet pianos at that time was extremely heavy preferably twenty-one years of age. It is up to the par- over. Then at least the director will have practically production, mouth and lip manipulation, and so on, as of flowers bound against the muscular walls of the throat. The opera- and fatiguing. It with the national colors presented by an Infanta, tion left the was changed, but later a regulator ent and school teacher to enlighten those with excep- full grown instruments to work with and not toys, well as pronunciation habits the child will have. Would a singer with the full use of her voice. restored it hurricane of shouts beset her. Vocally she was in fine to its former stiffness without Paderewski, tional voices as to the importance of preservation of that, like Humpty Dumpty, once broken can never be it not be sensible, therefore, to require the teachers knowing it. “As form. Between scenes she was fed strong meat jelly Real Martyrdom usual,” he relates, “I struck two or that ability, for once it is lost it cannot be regained. put together again. of these grades, especially those of the first three three opening and champagne; she was convinced that only the chords—when suddenly something broke It is a difficult task to keep a youngster with a. beau- A child with only average vocal talent at seven or grades, to be skillfully trained in all phases of voice Herman Klein has described the last excitement performance in my arm! A terrific kept her from collapsing. of the soprano pain—and agony—followed.” The tiful voice from participating in that which he excels, eight is considered of no consequence and is allowed to insure correct use of the vocal machine from the Theresa Tietjens in Her Majesty’s doctors warned him not to go on playing. went on but vocal participation can be extremely pernicious. to misuse his vocal machine to whatever extent he very beginning? Theatre, London, in 1877. The He Operation singer was subject to with his concert Delayed by Singing attacks tour despite the constant and terrific As a matter of fact, so pernicious that it will be may desire. To the parent of such a child it must be of severe pain, brought on by a tumor Galli-Curci is example that pain in his arm • an of the desire of singers was to carry her which compelled him to play with four anomalous if he is able to sing satisfactorily at twenty- said that exceptional singing ability may appear at Bad Speech Habits off six months later. In spite of fingers to delay operations as long as possible if this only, of his right been one years age. child has average talent they inter- she was capable of singing hand. Some tendon had of any age and as long as the The bad speech habits must be avoided or removed fere through operas such as strained with their singing—a rather dangerous though an exact is preserve it. state of ‘Norma” and “II Trovatore,” diagnosis was never made, Since very few persons will adhere to not singing at the least that can be done to if the child is to speak correctly. This is as important mind. without betraying anv in fact, This world-famous coloratura soprano suffered that finger remained, years, all before twenty-one, more Unfortunately there are those who cannot heed even perceptible sign of fatigue. On the for over thirty a moderate procedure in the training of the child as any academic subject, for many years from a goiter which fatal night she weaker than any was pushing on insisted, against the orders of the others. must be introduced if the number of surviving adult the moderate advice that is mentioned above. One and, since the ear of a child is most sensitive and the the trachea, of her doctor, on keeping narrowing the passageway of the tubular singers is to be increased. should not think one is abnormal if he comes under faith with her loving public by sustaining child is more impressionable between seven and twelve, organ to fifty per cent of its so trying a normal diameter. This i ole as Deaf The vocal organs undergo little this category, because, for over three hundred years Lucrezia Borgia. It was an example Musicians or no change from these are the years to install the proper methods. Js an enormous hardship for anybody of real even if he has martyrdom. She that Pianists and seven to twelve years of age. Therefore, it may be con- it has been advocated by great singers that a child Many school teachers do not realize the importance fainted after each act, but such as Count Zichy to use his voice only in normal limits, but for a singer imme diately on recovering consciousness ,‘ ttgenstein who lost an arm, in play- ceded that singing during this interval will not be or person should not sing before mutation is consum- of speech defects and instead of the unfortunate being it must have decided to pro incr „ succeeded meant agony at times. The superhuman ceed with 0ne likely to cause severe vocal mated. consummation ages range from sixteen to the performance. Never hand - SeveraI compositions have been damage, provided: the The corrected he is allowed year after year to mispronounce, so much as a . behavior of Galli-Curci may be seen from the fact look es songs or gesture betrayed to her audience eciaI1y i°r one-handed Famous is are sung in comfortable keys, the child does not twenty-one years. With this wealth of knowledge at and so forth, and is made to feel inferior to his fellow that apparently neither audiences the mortal anguish thp n P pianists. nor critics had any she was suffering. strain his voice, does not sing until hoarseness After the curtain fell one_armed flutist. Count Rebsomen; he ap- students because of his speech debility. idea of goiter trouble in her case. she had hnri i!f! remained where she had fallen, 1 arm pears, does not sing when ill or fatigued, does not sing The unfortunate can usually helped without a Finally an unconscious, for twentv and his right leg in Napoleon’s be operation was necessary—or the singer minutes. camnafLe^w too loud or In the following week an With only his was an too softly, does not over use the lower jaw great expenditure of money. The best years to correct would have suffocated. The trachea operation was per- excelled a right arm he was fifty per cent 1 or lips during ’ n° SUCC6SS WaS 81 ' The fin was pronunciation, and so forth, and, if he speech defects are five if the parent, compressed, the larynx P0SSiWe in SUCh P^gressed 6ering of the left hand from to seven and was displaced one and one-half Ste remark k : rests his voice a placed between for the few minutes after each song and at teacher, or physician in the locality is unable to help, inches to the left, tilting to a rieht h the holes fifteen-degree angle; By such tale we least an hour after a program of are immediately These keys were opened the second five songs or their VOICE there are many clinics and universities which, because the esoRhagus was an inch out of line. As a reminded of ioinN by result, Caruso’s heroism at the end of J the rigbt equivalent. tones instead his operatic career hand fingers. of their vast research, can (Continued on Page 286) of being projected upward, were forced He , sang in Brooklyn, in 1920, in a * deafness performance of “L’ElSr is a tragic example of the mental anguishaIf” MAY, a musician 293) 1947 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE" 255 254 "MUSIC (Continued on Page STUDY EXALTS LIFE’’ THE ETUDE " ; —
Music and Study Music and Study
How Music Helps With Other Studies Summer Courses for Organists
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Editor of the Organ Department
years If you know a public school teacher, ask him to read Mrs. Green's unusual article, dug out of many
of active experience in music teaching, supplemented with a practical knowledge of psychological prin- to not have to give all of his thoughts to the organ. He ciples and based upon her own experience as a soloist and as a member of a large symphony orchestra. RGANISTS, at this time of the year, begin , to improve themselves through should be an able accompanist, and a student of vocal She has a M.Mus. from Northwestern University and is now Instructor of Music Education at the famous think of ways able to sing himself, in order summer study. With all of the summer courses technique. He should be Music School of the University of Michigan. The Etude has had many reports from teachers who have found O' show others how to sing. He should offered in all parts of the country, surely the organist that' he may that when students drop their musical work "to have more time for general study," their marks in general (There are many books on should be able to select a course which will be of great study choral conducting. studies in some mysterious manner go down, instead of up. —Editor's Note. advantage to him and one that will be of help to him this subject which are of immense value, such books, “Choir and Chorus Conducting,” by in putting his work on a higher plane. for instance as “Choral Technic and Interpretation,” by Cow- We are told, time and time again, that the organ is Wodell; “fake.” This idea ard; and “The Art of the Choral Conductor” by William HERE APPEARED, in the autumn issues of entire present generation as it grows to adulthood. the “best” instrument on which to for thought. J. Finn.) Finally, he should acquire a repertoire of The Etude, for 1946, a factual sequence of ap- Permit us to digress a moment. In the summer of may or may not be true, but it is food certain organists attempt good music for the church choir. Tparently unrelated articles whose significance is 1938 a great many hours were spent in reading every- Without a doubt, on hearing con- I have mentioned that there are courses for organists profound and widespread. Their juxtaposition halts thing available on the subjects of music therapy and to play a service or a radio broadcast, we are serious and choirmasters which are conducted during the courses point of having one in his tracks with a pause to consider basically music in industry. The works of Podolsky and van de vinced that they should apply themselves to study of these make a library at the disposal the intellectual foundation upon which music study Wall, the magazine articles on the work in England, in order to improve their playing. They a tremendous new in some of rests. all commentaries which could be found on music in should gain new ideas, new approaches, of the summer students, and there are repre- In October (1946) the lead article concerned an in- industry were laboriously and fascinatingly perused. new repertoire, and new horizons. the summer schools, major publishers who terview with President Truman on the part music Certain significant trends were already beginning to Today, there are more opportunities for sentatives of the display their books, special numbers, plays in his present-day life; the significant theme show; namely, (1) that music could relax tired work- good organists than ever before, and arrangements, which we otherwise being the rest and relaxation—the clearing of cobwebs ers and result in better output, both as to quantity those who are in demand, are the ones and might not have an opportunity to know. from the mind enabling it again to see clearly and and quality; (2) that music could reach the blank who can combine excellent organ playing perform accurately—which a few minutes in the world minds of certain depressive patients and had been with excellent choir conducting. It stands How to Place the Organ of music can accomplish. known to rehabilitate them, bit by bit, until they were to reason that if an organist can play the In November (1946) the cover of The Etude was at- again useful members of society—not institutional organ well while doing a good job of As an organist and choirmaster, I am tractively adorned with a picture of Princess Elizabeth, cases. conducting the choir, the very best results constantly asked about the placement of and we learn of her outstanding accomplishments in Having been myself an educator for some twelve ELIZABETH A. H. GREEN can be obtained. On the other hand, if the the console. Generally, for a modest the field of music; her keen interest was stressed. years at the time, and having been also, in most of organist is interested only in playing the sum, most consoles can be moved if they I shall never forget the in music class when the offer fill day Music has so much to to to the richest the my music teaching a practicing psychologist (I have organ, he must be assisted by a choir are not in the right place! Although it is “jubilee” finally arrived for that girl. With completely hours one spends upon it. often wondered which was the greater contribution to director. Occasionally good results are ob- better to have the console in a position read in exhausted patience I gave her a picture of herself—of And then we the same November Etude a the child, the music taught or the work we did to tained by this combination (this is true to be seen by the choir it is not abso- how slow her mind was; how a teacher could tell her modest little article by Dr. Podolsky, famous researcher teach the child how to use his mind practically!) the when the choir director is a sound mu- lutely necessary. One prominent archi- — and show her repeatedly, refused to learn in music therapy, wherein the following statement is and how she the so called tect says, and that I agree basis for certain things, made apparent by the students sician) . As a rule, however, I must say even the simplest things. I showed her in no uncertain made, relative to research performed by Dr. Ira M. with whom I worked, began to take cognitive form. choir directors are merely amateur singers with him. “In designing churches, there terms why she received the poorest grades academi- Altschuler (Page 604) : “Music ... is first perceived who have ways of talking themselves into are only two correct positions for the cally in her entire class. After the session I thought Non by that part of the brain known as the thalamus. The Significant Questions their jobs. scheme choir, one is in the divided chancel and to myself, “There goes thalamus is one of the older portions of the brain, one pupil I have lost.” What must an organist be to qualify the other is in the gallery at the rear Among such things were the answers to such ques- Tlie next and it is the seat of all sensations, emotions, and week when I returned to the building I organist and choir- SCALE rux of the church.” one has the tions as: 1. How can these students for the position of When who are juniors was called to the principal's woman aesthetic feeling. . . . Stimulating the thalamus auto- office. The good saying, does it divided chancel choir, the console should and seniors in high school spend three master? It goes without or more hours asked me what to matically incites the cortex of the brain, the seat of I had done to the student. More not, that he must be a good organist, good be placed as shown in Scheme No. I. a day on music in addition to carrying full work the higher elements which aca- give myself time to organize for any are involved in thinking demically my answers than enough so that during the service he does summer months. Some of these This is a very practical arrangement and one which and still get the average and above-average other reason and reasoning." I stalled for time with the question, “Why courses are given at The Juilli- has been adopted by many churches, especially those grades they do get? 2. How does it happen that in The article in question goes on to apply all this to do you want to know?” astonishment was com- West- the case of a weak student My ard School in New York; having a liturgical form of worship. (not outstanding musically plete, the mind of the mentally insane. The thing that at the answer. She replied, girl has picked in Prince- and a definitely poor student “The minster Choir College If the choir is in the gallery, the console should be academically,) when he up so noticeably amazes us, even into a wide-eyed state, is that such in her school work, and the children ton, New Jersey; Oberlin College placed as indicated in Scheme No. II. It will seen drops his music load in order to “have more be stupendously overpowering statements are time to in the class said made rela- study,” you did something to her, and we (Dr. Christiansen’s School) that this plan is just about ideal, in that it provides his grades do not improve? In fact, they often wanted tive to the influence of music on the brilliant function- go to know what it was. We would like to try it Northwestern University; Den- every member of the choir with an unobstructed view down instead of up! 3. What is music really doing ing of the brain and then never carried over into the elsewhere if it works for the youth who devotes like that.” ton, Texas, (Dr. Bain in charge) of the organist-director. some time every day to it? The realm of plain, ordinary mental hygiene for the per- story has a sequel. This incident happened when Los Angeles, (Arthur Leslie Ja- Another possible way of placing the choir in the 4. Why do we have to work so hard with some children fectly sane mind. the girl was in the fifth member who come into the instrumental music grade. She remained a cobs in charge for the Federation front of the church is shown in Scheme No. III. Note The ^ct that music “rests refreshes” one, class? Their of the and and music classes and the she was a of Churches) The University that the chancel is in front of the choir, the console minds seem to be completely ossified. And why orchestras until ; the fact that it can fill, in a fascinating manner, the is it junior in that with painstaking help high school. She was never a good student. of Southern California; the Pope is directly back of the altar, and every member of the we do finally manage to hours spent upon it, these two things dwindle to a Actually she did be awaken these minds a bit in the music not have the mental equipment to Pius School in New York and at choir can see the organist. minor significance when the statement made in the class? 5. And even average. if this is so, and it But she did manage low grades the Berkshire Music Center with In general it may be said that in the famous apparently is for we have seen to pass on third article casts its brilliance over the total picture. it and arrive at junior year, in happen many times, then do not the standing. Finally, during that Hugh Ross and Robert Shaw churches of the world the placement of the organ fol- parents of the er parents decided to ac- charge. In these schools, courses lows one of these schemes. The beauty of the church boys and girls who have taken piano lessons, have her stop her musical Music a "Rest and Relaxation" and who tivities have tooted horns, and and concentrate only upon her studies in the are offered in all subjects per- edifice is greatly enhanced by the appearance and style drawn bows across strings or If it is true, and apparently it is, according hopes that she to the studied voice—do not these parents could do a little better before gradu- taining to the work of organists of the organ case. A Gothic design in a Byzantine owe the music ating. research authorities, that music received through the teachers a debt far She dropped she and choirmasters. There are also structure often appears very incongruous. Such an greater than they dream in her music. That semester thalamus ‘‘automatically incites cortex what received the of the brain, has been done not only for four straight failure mark in special courses for organ playing offense does not occur as frequently in this day as in the aesthetic side of F grades, the the seat of the higher elements which are involved the evei °ne in child’s development but for the Her subjects. I have thought of that alone and for choir conducting a previous period, when less attention was given to total mental lifeu of often thinking and reasoning”; if fhn /-»Vi ilH O gir . this is true, then it is no The stimulus that music thinking alone. The repertoire classes in harmony and beauty in church interiors. an gave to the wonder that people in executive positions find it a borne fifteen reasoning field or in are worth color years ago a youngster of part of her brain was the thing that either both The scheme both of the exposed pipes and the “‘rest and relaxation.” apparently kept it It is no wonder that those who slow mentality was a active at all. the their weight in gold. How wood of the case also should harmonize with that of member of a violin class When she stopped this stimulus know music find it I sav so. If this fact alone can be con- “apparently” slow mentality ram stopped working entire wonderful for those who the church, so that the worshippers may have nothing because she was a noor too. Having flunked her vincingly presented to educators, administrators, and student academically, ioi y ear, the although a nice-appearing parents had her change schools. She “get in a rut,” singing and to disturb the atmosphere of peace and restfulness parents, music may begin to assume its rightful place g°rl ed who -did not look as though ™ again with four F's. she playing the same music which makes religious services so helpful to those in she should be as dumb I do not know whether in present-day education and in the society of the as she was! uu Was graduated whole from high school or not. each year, to get a the congregation. The organ should become in every ms is only one case new outlook for the future. sense a part of the service in our modem churches 256 study, (Continued on Page 286) "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE The men who are in charge sanctuaries of refuge in a greatly confused world. THE ETUDE MAY, 1947 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE’ 257 »
NSTRUMENTAL music teachers are now faced Music and Study with an administrative demand that they develop Music and Study I formal courses of study in band and orchestra. Since the manner in which this demand is met can determine whether or not instruction in. instrumental brings up our third type of as integral part of This graduation th music will justify itself an our will * scale. It be noticed from it is extreme importance that Pythagorean Ex l th educational system, of calls, in comparison with this division the tempers we devote our best thought to the matter. A Course of Study for for a sharp third, fifth, sixth, and avowed purpose of all music educa- Factual Approach to Intonation scale, seventh Th Although the A sharp tones adds life the brightness of to melodic jw tion is the development of a love and appreciation especially in ascending passages whose orchestras have been managed ing, very natuT of music, bands and this lift. Notice that the fourth, purpose was the development of demands which usuaiiv as if their primary y tends downward, is tuned slightly flat. professional musicians. In my opinion, the procedure Band and Orchestra previous article, mention was an essentially healthy one because of its In my made of mental has been IHuJt S. and physical conceptions. The following conception emphasis on musical values, an emphasis which is of intonation should be found helpful in responsible for the tremendous growth of instrumental instrumental en semble playing. Compare the tempered scale music instruction during the past twenty-five years. « to a streetcar which runs on a track along a given Nevertheless, it now seems wise to extend our de facto (J3rilton street JML p. patterns: (1) The route. The track makes the car follow an purpose so that our theoretical ones may be better OST players and teachers of orchestral instru- around three rather definite scale ever reliable Pythagorean. This can be represented musically realized. ments are agreed that the problem of intona- tempered, (2) The just, and (3) The path. by the key- by division of the board and mallet type instruments. The student after three or four years of participation tion persists as the most serious obstacle to The tempered scale is characterized The other two M is necessarily just school band or orchestra should be intimately parts. This scale types of scales, the and the Pythagorean, in a high fine, consistent performance. When one delves into the octave into twelve equal can be The need for a course of study in the instrumental music programs of our schools has been recognized by nature and intelligently familiar with a selected range of the explanation, surprised at well mu- compromise with the discrepancies of likened to the trolley-bus which has, in many cities, and scientific he is how a re- educators for some time. Except for a few isolated instances, little or nothing has been accomplished in the this light. Despite the the streetcar. This bus follows literature of music, and as a result of this experience, sicians do in spite of the many handicaps laid down by should always be considered in placed the same street formulation of such a program. In the following article, Mr. Britton presents some new and valuable sug- theoriticians, the should be in possession of such techniques and nature and man. A purely scientific approach to this abuse it has suffered from certain route but is free to meet special conditions. When he it gestions for the organization of a course of study for bands and orchestras. While to many, a specific course art of music has pro- to swerve to the curb either information as will enable him to listen intelligently to problem would almost dictate that it is hopeless and fact remains that the general needs on side, it can easily hundred all forms of music. We must show "Johnny” that of study may not seem practical or desirable, no one will doubt that a carefully planned progressive program impossible and that therefore there can be no such gressed more rapidly in the less than two do so. This is represented musically by the changeable thing as music. However, the fact remains that music years since its introduction than in all previous re- orchestral instruments. there is a greater satisfaction to be obtained from from the elementary grades through high school would eliminate much of the confusion, inefficiency, and music than that which comes from pushing the lack of uniformity of standards found in many of the school instrumental programs throughout the nation. in some form has existed since ancient times, thus corded history. As has been suggested before, the player or singer chief functions: (1) It middle valve down at just the right instant, or win- indicating that man through the ages has insisted on The tempered scale has two should learn to adapt his playing ns much as possible — Editor's Note. study free into various keys without loss ning a solo contest, or parading down the street for the art regardless of the cold facts of science. A permits modulation to these rapidly shifting conditions and not think stabilizer, world to see. It is my deep conviction that of the development of music through history shows of musical efficiency: and (2) It acts as a exclusively in terms of any one pattern. Remember all the that the art has come first, and that to science has something to be used as a gauge something to return these joys are the greatest ones that many of our — that in this external tug-o'-war, something has to give is true that to. ear depended upon to make students derive from playing in our organizations. But material is susceptible to the Units of Work been assigned the task of explanation. It The human cannot be —it will be either the scale pattern or the intonation. store house of which the art is greatly indebted to such outstanding scientists this exact division of twelve as its derivation in a they are not joys that wear well when school days are logical arrangement assumed by the term “course in I. Homophonic Forms You cannot have your cake and eat it too. 'It can as Pythagoras, Helmholtz, Seashpre, Redfield, and highly complicated mathematical procedure. For ex- over. Too often our students go into life only a little orchestra.” Within the framework provided 1. Song and Trio readily be seen that the string family has the greatest band and fine many others; but these men have merely tried to ex- ample, Redfield* gives the following method for laying degree flexibility better able to appreciate music than would be the by the organization of this material our traditional 2. Rondo of and adaptability. This elasticity is plain and classify that which already existed. In spite a mathematically perfect temperament. case if they had never studied with us. function freely, but they will be spe- 3. Sonata-allegro one of the chief reasons that a fine orchestra can sound practices can of their exacting work in trying to explain these things, A worthy course of study in instrumental music in cifically directed toward the development of a love and 4. Variation Forms more richly colorful than a fine band—thus it is an the great majority of scientists admit that the final my opinion, is one which provides for the highest 5. Ex.3 ever-present challenge to the band. appreciation of music. Such appreciation and knowl- “Overtures” to rest with the human ear of the mu- Pythagorean 440 495 possible development of musical skills, together with decision has B60.7 680.7 080 742.5 835.3 880 Some music edge can be carried on into life, whether the student II. Contrapuntal Forms Tempered 440 498.9 554.4 687.3 educators have advocated the use of such attitude 059.3 740 830.0 880 sician. Only a very few have taken the that Just 440 495 650 680.7 000 783.3 825 880 the social values which may be derived from partici- becomes an engineer, a housewife, or a priest. It is 1. Inventions audiovisual devices as the tonoscope, stroboscope, and the musician should follow the dictates of science. pation in performing groups, but which has as its will recognize as worthy, 2. Passacaglias so forth, as a means of training a a value that administrators abolish- student’s ear into Some have even gone so far as to recommend primary and unifying orientation the systematic one that we can defend unhesitatingly before all the 3. Fugues certain concepts in listening. These are all very helpful ing our present system of notation and tuning. (Numbers indicated actual frequencies) study of musical literature. world, and which will dignify our profession as Third year—Style in Music agents in developing the idea, but their chief use is in It is interesting to note a brief history of standard The high school freshman is already capable of none other can. Pupil Objective: To perceive how subtle manipulations measuring and not in training. Probably the most di- pitches which have also aided in creating confusion, In the above example, starting with low A, each filled rect understanding many types of popular songs, marches, of the elements of music produce music of distinctive method of approaching the three-scale concept is especially in the building of wind instruments. In 1860 in note is to be tuned as a flat or sharp interval to the dances, and the so-called light classics. By focusing Suggested Outline style and to become familiar with the most important through sets of bells which are tuned accurately in the London Philharmonic Society adopted 435 as the open note at the rate indicated in beats per minute. his attention elements of prin- on the music and the follows: styles themselves. those patterns. Even the unmusical student can dis- A possible organization of this material is as standard frequency for “A.” This has at present been If this procedure is followed exactly, a perfect octave ciples of form which such simple music has in com- tinguish between First year The Elements of Music Units of Work will the functions, because bells, with their — changed to 439. The Vienna Congress of 1840 estab- be arrived at, but only if gach count is exact. This mon with the most complex music; that is, pure and by Pupil Objective: To become intellectually aware of the I. Classic gives coldly impartial tones, give vivid impressions lished the 440 which has been used in Germany ever some idea of how impossible it is for the ear to making him intellectually aware of how the music is II. Romantic of the various discrepancies cited above. elements of music and to see how they function in since. For some reason the French and the United determine or hear, unaided, the tempered scale, he used constructed from which has already derived emo- simple music. III. Modern States governments did not agree to this but took 435 melodically or harmonically. It also shows why it serves tional satisfaction, we can provide him with a key Units of Work IV. National (German, Russian, Italian, and so forth) (adopted by France in 1858 and later by our own as an excellent gauge. to all the treasures of the art. We must lead the student year I. Melodic Elements Fourth —The Art of Music After the instrumental a good American Federation of Musicians—England was using The disadvantage of the tempered scale is that it student has acquired to discover that the difference between the most Pupil 1. Motives Objective: To explore music as an art form, 440 that time). In America, the pitch gradually cannot be used in conception of tone production, be made at chords at rest. When used harmoni- he should simple and understandable music and the most complex perceiving its relationship 2. Phrases and Periods to and divergence from sharpened until, in 1927, the American Music cally its imperfect “beat” conscious. the Industries intervals will throw up the beats This can best be done through and recondite music is not one of kind but one of other 3. Simple Song Forms art forms. Chamber of Commerce adopted 440. The score which have been placed medium of the sets of through now there to temper the scale. This bells suggested above or degree, that there is no essential difference between the Units of Work the A. Marches stands officially: produces a lack of clarity and an unpleasant blend Dea-Gan-Ometer (a set of “A” bells tuned to 435- popular tune Stardust the Fourth of and Symphony of B. Miscellaneous Dance Forms I. The Function of Art in Life United States and Germany 440 sound. 436-437-438-439-4401. Intervals or unisons which are Brahms. C. Hymns and Chorales 1. Pictorial Art England 439 not in just intonation will throw up beats which can be II. Elementary Harmony 2. Sculpture France 435 me just plainly heard by The acme anyone with a little practice. Individual Differences 3. 1. Tonic Chords Architecture General pitch has a tendency to rise in orchestral speed of these they For the purpose of playing beats can be slowed down until place 4. chords, we had best To primary emphasis upon the study of music 2. Dominant Chords The Dance playing. This is due chiefly to two reasons: (1) The utilize tones disappear entirely, which clarity perfect in- as they would be found in the just scale indicates a as such does noi mean that there should be any 5. Literature tendency of strings to “tune up, not terval. 3. Sub-dominant Chords but to tune down” The intervals here are by no Any scientifically sound approach which will means equally distributed lessening of emphasis upon the development of per- III. Elementary Counterpoint 6. Music and (2) The attitude developed by many that “it is a but are make the student “beat” follow. ananged so that there will be no beats conscious is all right to forming groups. I rather doubt, however, that any II. Principles of Form in Art sin flat when 1. Canon to play but not a sin to play sharp.” The same they are used in However, the idea of should triads. By referring to the table just plain pitch listening fundamentally better method than we now employ 1. Dominance tendency exists in band playing, of 2. “Counter-melodies” probably through an comparative frequencies (Ex. always be encouraged along order to keep 1) , it can with this in can be devised; can only do better already 2. Unity unconscious be seen that the we what we IV. Rhythm desire to obtain the same flexibility as third, sixth, him in touch view. and seventh tones, for example, with the purely artistic point of do. Perhaps something will be accomplished by the 3. Variety strings. must be 1. Duple Some of our major concert organizations have flat After played in comparison with the “beats” are understood, there are many meth- setting up of standards of technical excellence; 4. attempted tempered scale The scales 2. Triple Balance to meet this problem by taking their pitch fifth must ods of employing tem- be played sharp. Regardless of whether them in drill. Gauging with the played with a certain proficiency, the completion of 5. Evolution and Climax from an unchanging and impartial electric “A." any 3. Mixed This one agrees with the pered scale is an sound produced, this is best pursued through the use of certain amounts of standard method books, the HI. in seems a step in the right direction. the only V. Timbre Form Music way that objectionable beats can be accurately tuned reed instrument has eliminated from organ. This knowledge of a certain number of musical terms, and 1. Strings (The principles of form in Unit II applied to Ex.l the triads. There are those who advantage over the be easier so on. advocate the exclusive piano in that it can But the problem of individual differences faces 2. Woodwinds a selected number of compositions being (Figures represent beats per minutes, flat or sharp.left use of this type of intonation (the uned, will stay in tune, It has just scale) There and will sustain a tone. us in more acute form in music than in any other 3. Brass studied by the group, the primary purpose being in each interval) are two main objections to this: 1 advantage over the change field of ( ) ite inadaptability pipe organ because pitch subject matter. Further, music teachers have 4. Percussion the development of an intelligent critical to changing conditions due to such as modulation temperature is the developed into other negligible. Organs in which very efficient techniques for coping with Second year—Form in Music faculty.) keys; and (2) The dead tone is sound it produces in electrically produced can also be utilized. these differences. Traditionally, we take each pupil repertoire melodic Pupil Objective : To become intellectually aware of how The of the band or orchestra would playing. The entire range of the instrument should be checked, where he is, tell him the thing he needs to know at the elements of music are employed in the usual comprise the basic materials of the course. Although °"e ‘Redfield, e at a and the time he needs to it, John. “Music, a Science and j°" time, chromatically, diatonically, know select our materials forms in which music is written. certain compositions might lend themselves better an Art” cnordaUy in various keys. The wind instrument pla>’er with the capacities of our groups carefully in mind, to one aspect of the work than another, any com- i be able to arrange the students within spot his bad tones because, theoretically, the group so that each position could well be approached from any of the s instrument can perform has been tuned by the manufacturer, at his proper level, and in many other four viewpoints suggested. Let us by no means as nearly band, as possible, to coincide the tempered ways insure that the problems of the individual are consider that the proposed It is up to the instrumentalist ORCHESTRA with course implies that any to sift out of this no compass provided for. wind instrument of great particular selections are necessary to it, that list controversy those factors which will aid in BAND and a furthering and n e erfectly learn By orienting our work toward the study of music ORCHESTRA , manufactured, should of specified compositions his art. Regardless of the controversy CHORUS ,. p the player Edited by is to be built up. The litera- and historical o eliminate his literature, however, present William D, Revelli Edited by beats from the unisons humoring we ourselves with a rich ture of music is too vast to origin, the finest ensemble playing hovers flexibly William D. Revelli by admit the desirability of TWs must expense of *“ not be done at'the tone quality. The Page 292) MAY, 1947 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS 258 string ( Continued on LIFE" 259 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE ETUDE mam THE — —
Music and Study Music and Study later music Hebron Academy and and languages in addition to attractive 1 of should contain, . Proctor Academy. any such procedure. Our aim is not the study sh f library—on open compositions include specific literature, but of the constituents that are able furnishings, a good Mr. Newman’s concert be a piano and H son ?S books and scores. There should well as church and school music. Several common to all of music. as of h At least a minimum in past issues of have deliberately omitted extensive biographical radio-phonograph. _ songs have appeared The Etude I aie ™medidi Thf kept in the room where they Music Section contains and historical material from the course. Emotional should be month the a setting for should be devised whereby w experiences with music, based on the ability to ately accessible. A system voice of Mr. Newman’s beautiful and effective without Out i library could be used intelligently listen to it, must precede such studies. the regular school Fields with God, previously published the for high A Master Lesson on Raffs Cavatina As a matter of fact, it would be impossible to teach trouble. , . voice. complete implementation the courses having to do with styles without intro- A serious obstacle to the has been proposed is ducing a minimum of historical materials. Anything of the course of study which work books. It is hoped additional may well be left to a special course in the lack of proper texts and supply us with these history or to the mounting enthusiasms of the stu- that alert publishers will soon The Pianist’s Page material is available, we can dents themselves, who will want to know more about materials. Until such (Continued from Page 252) effect the first, third, and fourth historical considerations just in proportion to their put into immediate caused (1) peimit, tricky passage is often by uncertain the above suggestions, and as time will and increasing insight into music itself. of constantly changing fingering, or materials. therefore (2) i can begin the preparation of our own nept And now, we are faced with the problem of teach- we awkward fingering. Always try out several comprises but or finger the In view of the fact that this article in Section of this issue Editor's Note. ing four separate courses in music literature at first. Once the natural, musical, This composition appears the Music comments and patterns and most class, carrying a most tentative type of program, same time, to the same and yet on fingering for your hand is sincerely appropriate found, mem- normal and necessary rehearsal procedures. The suggestions from all quarters are very it exactly and adhere to it Inflexibly. orize . . . Your following suggestions are offered in the hope that ripsirpH insecurity will then' quickly vanish. interested band and orchestra conductors will think beautiful music in everyone’s style but his own. It is diminuendo starting in the first beat of Measure 8. of others and communicate with me. Until the plan rather ironic that of all his tremendous output—his Play Measures 9, 10, and 11 much more softly than Little has been tried out in numerous situations, it will The "Big" Finger opus numbers run well over two hundred—the only Measures 1, 2, and 3. Just whisper them. Don’t use too be American Composer impossible to be more definitive. Roy Newman, work to contain that intangible spark of individuality much bow—half the length of the bow, from middle to Never for a moment let up working on your fifth Make every rehearsal a lesson in music litera- was the little Cavatina. point, will be quite enough. The Up bow in Measure (1) 1890—1946 fingers. Strengthen those “big" little fingers every day, ture. This is the basic requirement. It 11, however, should go to the frog, so that the full can be put for with the thumb they are the most important fingers immediately, HAT the truly American song should express Good Taste In Interpretation length of the bow can be used for the dotted half-note into effect regardless of whether or of your hand. Whether you train them in five-finger simplicity was the firm belief of Roy not a systematic course of study is being followed. purity and is lyric in Measure 12. This note requires a whole bow, for a position or in the octave span, remember that power Essentially, the mood of this piece and serene. 19, 1946. He was born in Explain the form of every composition Newman, who died June is noticeable crescendo must be made on it. Start the (a) studied. T and endurance will more surely result if you It a song which expresses those simple emotions that cultivate a Fairport, New York, July 17, 1890. After being gradu- stroke slowly with fairly light pressure; then, (b) Have the principal themes played for the sharply plucked fifth finger inward toward the come easily to everyone. There are some measures (17 and a years at thumb group by individuals or by small groups in whose ated from high school, he studied for two 26 34 54 55) of con- during the second and third quarters, increase the with every stroke. Avoid the usually taught stroke with and 18; and 27; and 35; 53, and Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and then trans- parts they lie. siderable intensity, and the last two climaxes have speed of the stroke and the pressure on the string. the hand throwing the fifth finger outward. This up- ferred to Harvard, where he majored in music and was (c) Have all particularly interesting harmonic dramatic force. Within limits, it has a varied range of There cannot be any break in the tone between this sets rotative balance, substitutes hand and forearm for effects sounded. graduated in 1913. In 1918 he received his M.A. degree dotted note and the last quarter in the measure, even finger, and, instead of strengthening the fifth, expression and it requires this from the performer. But from Harvard taught music and lan- makes (d) If rhythmic motives are predominant, have and Romance even in the intense discretion and good though the second G is on the D string. Some practice it more and more dependent on hand and arm rein- most moments the drum section demonstrate will be needed before the shift without them. forcement. taste must rule. A certain amount of sentimentality is can be made (e) Point out various effects of instrumentation. inherent in the music; if it is in any way exaggerated, interrupting the tone, but the beauty of the effect will (f) Comment on the style of the composition, Caression the result will be “corny” in the extreme. Rather there be the reward for the time spent on it. Take the first and have illustrated individual G-sharp in Measure 13 with the second finger, in or- by performers the One of the reasons why pianists of the older school, must be a simple, direct, and unaffected style of per- characteristics which define der to avoid playing the last three sixteenths with the the style. Gabrilowitsch, Paderewski, Rachmaninoff, and so forth formance which seeks to give each phrase its due value first finger. should given some poig- (g) Use a literate vocabulary. When appropriate, played singing passages with richer, lovelier tone than but does not try to inject into the music any emotional Tfiis measure be substitute terms like motive, phrase, nancy of expression, but the shift to the must be principal theme, most of today’s artists Is because they believed in JOACHIM RAFF meaning that is not originally there. D and subordinate taken cleanly. Measure 15 should treated as a theme for the general terms tune and kneading, molding, caressing the keys. Unfortunately Rhythmically, the Cavatina is extremely simple. The be melody. Avoid speaking in generalities. steadily flowing, four-to-a-measure accompaniment pianissimo echo of Measure 13—with this difference: they and their teachers made the serious mistake of HERE ARE some short compositions that seem (h) Approach interpretative problems in terms prevails through the greater part of the piece, indicat- it is effective to make a gentle slide with the third calling this “pressure,’’ which gives a completely false to be firmly established, each in its own little of style. For instance, instead of merely instructing conception ing that little if any liberty can be taken with the time finger to the D on the third beat. In Measure 17, the of the act of caression. . . . How can you niche, in the musical Hall of Fame. No other your pupils separate T first three notes are taken on the bow in order to to notes, if such should be the values of the notes. In Measure 62 the rhythm of the Up press or push a key which takes a mere split second to composition is quite like any one of them. Dvorak’s case, explain that rhythmic music is usually played accompaniment&eases, and from that measure through enhance the crescendo. The first real climax of the sound? If you do this your physical coordination is Humoresque is one notable example; Raff’s Cavatina staccato. It the trio of a march is legato, you might 65 the soloist can take whatever freedom he may feel piece comes in Measures 17 and 18, so this crescendo warped, and the musical flow broken. ... So, why not is another. This quality of individuality has little to do point out the reasons of contrast which prompted is compatible with good taste. In Measure 21 the music should be whole-hearted. The bow should approach the call it caression, or for children "petting’’ or “stroking” with musical worth. It doubtless results in part from the composer to write it so. Although interpretation more is bridge during the A and the G-sharp and remain there the keys rather than pressure? the combination of a flowing melodic line with a de- becomes somewhat agitated—apprehensive is largely a matter of style, do not fail to make a until the last beat of Measure 18. Continue the velopment that grows naturally from the original perhaps a better word—and the tempo can be allowed point of the dynamic variations which are inherently to pick slightly, returning to the original tempo in crescendo through the syncopated F-sharp, so that the thematic material; but there is also present an in- up called for by the direction of melodic flow, by Brushing 36. This slight increase tone is at its fullest on the first beat of Measure 18 tangible something, an inner vitality, which cannot Measure of speed must be cadence, by change of tempo, and the like. When in doubt very light, soft subtly handled. It must not be a constant accelerando. the dissonance between this note and the E in the bass about how to control be defined. It is such attributes that give the Cavatina (2) Provide every student with an outline of the or pianissimo tones the keys tempo is set, by 23 latest, is very effective. or chords try brushing its unique place among salon pieces. Once the new Measure at the subject matter he will be expected to cover during with a swift, do The emotional tension relaxes quickly in gentle caress out and toward you. You The composer, Joseph Joachim Raff, was born at it should be firmly maintained until the necessary Measure the year. It is obvious that, like private practice on this as a painter using fingers, slight retard in Measure 36. 19. Here, for the first time, the steady pulsation of the “brushes” his canvas, Lachen, Switzerland, in 1822, and thus grew to man- an instrument, most of the work in music literature hand, forearm combination, let rhythm momentarily ceases; so the group of sixteenths or full arm, singly or in hood under the influence of the German Romantic And now us examine the technique and inter- will be pursued on an individual basis. The rehearsal depending and can be played quite freely retard the on the quality or kind of color required, Movement. His early years were a grim struggle against pretation in detail. and a made to end will provide the laboratory, as it were, for the always with first of the measure. But only a slight retard! very care- a featherweight elbow tip. ... At poverty. Unable to afford a teacher, he was musically The opening measures should not be played too Be verification the of insights gained by private study, practice a. con- ful to play the C-sharp the third with as true “brush,” making a swift key-top self-taught; nevertheless, by the time he was twenty- softly. They are marked piano, but one must remember on beat a much just as it does for the skills gained in private tact stroke outward. Later, play as a legato brush, that one he had made such progress in composition, as well that piano does not mean “very softly.” The melody softer and much more tender tone than was used for practice. Progress in the knowledge of musical is, start the but the same note on the first beat. tone or chord with the brush "feel”— as with the piano and the violin, that Mendelssohn, to needs a warm, velvety, singing tone; for that reason, literature, however, will not be as readily apparent rest on the the key after it sounds. ... As you sustain whom he had sent some manuscripts, gave him an in- mezzo-piano would be a better marking. Take only a in rehearsal as progress on an instrument. For tone, bird your elbow tips balance on the keys like a troduction to Breitkopf and Hartel, the famous music half-bow, from middle to frog, on the first note: a A More Intense Vibrato that reason it will be necessary to prepare work swaying airily on the tip of a tiny tree-branch. publishers. Befriended by Mendelssohn, and later by longer bow would give the note too much prominence. From Measure 21 on, a slightly faster tempo can be sheets to be handed in and examinations to be Liszt and von Billow, Raff’s fortunes gradually im- In Measure 1 the slide to the G must be made lightly taken. But bear in mind that there can be no abrupt given. The work sheets should be for individual proved. Von Bulow, in particular, helped him greatly and rapidly, without any suggestion of a “yowl.” Hold change of speed. All that is necessary is to hint at the units of study and should present reading assign- Brilliant Chords by playing, publicly, a number of his pianoforte works. the dotted half-note in Measure 2 without relaxing somewhat more agitated character of the music. Play ments, if any, plus a summary of basic information, Remember that chords (like music!) originate all He composed in rapid succession two operas, nine sym- the tone—it is too early yet to phrase downwards; in the B in Measure 21 and the D in Measure 23 with a problems, and questions. These could perhaps be inside you. They must be transmitted smoothly to the phonies, concertos for piano and for violin, and a very fact, the first eight measures should be taken in one faster and more intense vibrato than is used for the issued at intervals of three or four weeks, although keyboard. If they are to incisive they are be brilliant or large breath. Don’t exaggerate the crescendo in Measures other notes of the phrase, ROY best number of chamber music works, and his fame and make a diminuendo on they should be so flexible that they could be issued NEWMAN played by letting them spring or “dive” smoothly spread rapidly throughout Europe. At the time of his 3 and 4; both it and .the diminuendo in Measure 5 are the first three beats of Measure 24 instead of a sudden at the most convenient times, depending upon the out of your body into the does not imply piano. This only slight changes of tone-volume. But there is real jeik death in 1882 he was Director of the Hoch Conserva- a piano. The C-sharp on the fourth beat of Measure 25 nature of the particular compositions being studied. guages in onerry or mannerism, but simply that you use your Lawn School in Darien, means crescendo and increased intensity in Measure 6, leading Connecti body and torium in Frankfurt and held a position of high esteem must be given noticeably more tone than the same (3) By means of a bulletin board and verbal for nine years. In 1926 he spring plus its weight economically studied at Harvard towai mass in the German musical world. to the climax of the phrase in 7. This measure should note in the previous measure, and the crescendo comment keep the legitimately. in must group informed of all musical Ph D. and during . . . chords 1927-28 taught French Most pianists take loud be played with a full, round tone and a more intense and Spai their It was not long, however, before Raff’s music was continue without let-up through to the first beat of events to which they may have access, such as con- at Bowdoin College. fingers and hurl yank, push them at the piano, or performed less vibrato than has been used in the preceding measures. 27. effect or hit and less, and in the last few decades Measure The telling of the high D is lost if certs by other school organizations, civic and pro- Mr. Newman spent his summers the piano with them. Result—quality is ruined, on his farm rhythm little of it has beeft heard in the concert halls. This This added intensity must relax immediately, the the tone does not grow in volume and intensity. Every fessional groups, radio programs, and new recordings. Maine, writing music. is spoiled as the dynamism explodes too soon change on the part of the public, from widespread ad- violinist has a tendency to play more slowly in Measure Create a habit of talking music rather than band or In 1930-31 he And of course You studied French for a year the player looks like the dickens! orchestra. in Fr- can w miration to almost complete neglect, can be partly 27, but it is not advisable to do so: a retard here is at the University of Grenoble, always spot a good chord observing h° where he ranked player by accounted for by weaknesses inherent in the structure not in keeping with the structure of the phrase. (4) A recreation room for music students lu Ie But can con- among ninety students of fourteen .™ body springs or lifts unobtrusively different natior lightly and of the music itself; but the most probable cause was by all means take plenty of bow on the eighth tribute much to their growing interest in ties. with the contact, VIOLIN notes in music. It He returned to Maine and chord, as his fingers play in key-top taught language: that lack of personal individuality which inspired a the first half of the measure. eels good, looks Edited by Harold Berkley good, and sounds well! contemporary wit say of Raff that could 260 to he compose Measures 29, 30 and 31 ( Continued on Page 290) "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE’’ THE ETUDE MAY , 1947 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE" 261 2
and clearly as HERE IS no more democratic mu- Music and Study any text I know Music Study ' ~ and whether you study alone ut sical voice than that of bells. or wi tl a they are high in teacher, I would urge you to Mounted as the continue t T mg to compose simple tower, they ring out to all men. Uncon- been made from many substances and How Shall I Play It ? pieces, and dmlh!" walls of room or concert including pewter, copper, less you will find that as your fined by the combinations, Q. 1. How does one play the following knowlel of harmony grows, hall, their cadence falls impartially on gold, silver, lead, and zinc. But only a trill, which is found on the last page of your pieces will if the vicinity. of copper and tin in the Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, as arranged come more and more coherent the ears of any in From combination and m„ i " for piano solo: Answers cally logical. usl earliest recorded history they have been correct proportion gives a clear ring. Questions and connected with the life of the Bell metal must have toughness, elas- Since it is difficult to intimately Ex. 1 study musical form unless you have some common man. They have been the voice The Wonder of Bells ticity, and durability. And, adds one knowledge ! harmony, I would recommend of the community as a whole, speaking author, neither the addition of gold, that v all when reading was only a scholar’s silver, or the bell-caster’s daughter (in Conducted by delay this subject for a while. HowevT to pursuit, telling of danger, or victory, call- the tradition of legend) improves it. the Keacox textbook which I have recom marking the march The second consideration in bell cast- mended does discuss the ing to worship, or simpler form! 2. In the tenth measure on page 9 of and so will give of the hours. ing is the mold. The actual pouring of you some start in tWT Raff’s Cachoucha-Caprice there is tnls first a chord field. From the most primitive single bell to the metal is done quickly, but a which is rolled in the left hand, but the the Kremlin weighing mold must be most carefully prepared. J(a 3. the large bell of right W. Qek There are a hand consists of grace notes leading J number of good begin well over 200 tons (443,772 pounds), to The new method uses a perforated iron up to the top note. Would both hands be ners piano books on the market played the same way? but it k highly developed sets of timed shell of bell shape, on which the shapes difficult to recommend the most 3. Does The Etude publish contributions, any certain one bells, man has responded to the charm of the inner and outer bell surfaces are or are all of its publications commissioned Professor Emeritus since the ability of small children varies clear voices. built. pieces? Would you tell me how I could get a of their poignant, greatly. If your child is quite composition of mine into The Etude?—R. W. Oberlin College talented Only China and Japan had large bells Using a clay mixture over a shell I think you would like “Keyboard Speech’ Christianity. But bells smaller than the inner dimensions of the Book One” by Rossman, before the birth of A. 1. Music Editor, Webster’s New new and Play the octave A-flat in the right in’ are of two kinds: the uncast and the finished bell, the material is carefully teresting work. But it hand, and the A-natural is rather difficult in the left hand, International Dictionary cast. The uncast bell is simply a bent shaped. For the outer mold a larger shell thus: If this should prove beyond your little of metal, open, like herd bells, or than the finished bell is filled with the girl, sheet try “First Piano Book for Little Ex. Jacks like sleigh bells. But the higher clay. The outer mold is shaped and any and Jills,” closed by Rodgers and Phillips All form, cast bells, with their greater car- ornamentation or lettering may be material mentioned may be procured rying power, were known in China 2000 pressed in with lead stamps. (Engraving through the publishers of The Etude. years before the birth of Christ. may be done on the bell after it is fin- Perhaps I should also call to at- your Bells as we know them today were de- ished. Care is taken to prevent harming tention the difference between sharps and bell ornamenta- / Want to be veloped by the Christian Church after the tone through heavy If this is too difficult, shorten the trill flats that appear in the signature a Musician as con- the period of persecution was over suf- tion or poor placement of it.) When the to six or even only four notes. trasted with those that occur Q. I a as acciden- am senior in high school and have ficiently to allow the open calling to long process of building and drying the 2. It would taken be quite possible to play tals. The signature sharp (or flat) piano lessons, courses in theory affects and worship of the faithful. mold is completed a blackening mixture both hands in the so forth in an attempt to same way, that is, start all degrees of the staff that have the qualify myself for a career in .music. Bell foundries were often built beside is dusted over the surfaces. The molds the rolled chord in the left Now I should like hand with the same name. (But it has no effect on those pertain * for which occupation in the churches, and bishops and church- for the larger bells are buried for the first grace note in the right the hand, so that of another staff.) The field of music I am best accidental sharp adapted. I intend men were often the bell casters. Bells casting. both hands are rolled together in octaves. (or to enter some accredited institution flat) on the contrary has a much after of for bell In I graduate from high were baptized and christened and could The melting the metal the this case, begin the roll slightly before more limited school, and I there- effect. A signature sharp on fore want to know rung only with the consent of the takes place in a reverbatory furnace (one the third beat, so that the last note of the what course in music be the fifth line changes aU the P’s it would be to F- most profitable to pursue. Is church authorities, a custom still fol- in which the flame is reflected from the chord comes exactly on the third beat. there any sharps—even those on the added agency to which you could refer lines lowed in many places. roof on the material to be melted) . The The notation, however, would lead one to me that would be of help? play this particular trill as you would and spaces; and its Do the various do effect extends to the musical Bells have been associated with all copper goes in first since its melting believe that the grace notes in the right institutions give help in this it, I think it would be entirely justifiable end of the staff. But an accidental affects matter?—L. F. K. point is the highest. This may take about hand should be played first, slightly be- kinds of special occasions: marriage to have the time as you have indicated only the one line or fore space on which it bells, burial bells, holy communion bells, four hours, depending on the amount of the third beat, and then the first in the first of the three examples appears, and for only A. I the one measure in have three bits of advice for bells, Christmas bells. At the early metal needed for the size of bell in- note of the left-hand rolled chord started enclosed with your you: Easter letter. which it occurs. Neither (1) Write on the third beat with accidental sharp to Professor Burnett Tuthill, California mission, San Juan Capistrano, tended. The tin is then added and mixes the top B-natural nor 2. As to counting aloud signature sharp has any effect Southwestern College, (eighth-note) of the right hand, the left- or tapping the what- Memphis 12, Ten- the four bells signalled all the activities with the copper in a very few seconds. pulse, I feel exactly ever on a different staff. nessee, asking hand chord being rolled as fast as pos- as you do. Rhythm for a list of schools that of the day; work, divine service, meals, A sand lined crucible, warmed by a is the movement are sible. This way of playing will give a more in music, and the best accredited by the National Association recreation. Bells were used to call the small charcoal heater to insure dryness type of rhythm training oi Schools continuous movement to the piece. Either is that which of Music. (2) Read the book people together, to announce danger of of the sand, is brought into position for emphasizes muscular “Your interpretation would be satisfactory, and movement, whether Career in Music" by Harriett John- invasion, to warn of the outbreak of fires, the “tapping.” A small amount of char- it be counting aloud or tapping son, and since this is largely a matter of personal the foot To Review Technic think about the various fields in to celebrate victories, to honor noted per- coal is thrown on the molten metal, or swinging the arm, as is often music taste, I would suggest that you try it both done in that it describes. (3) Make an ap- sons, and to announce the time. For the when ready, to prevent too rapid oxida- A f choirs and solfege classes. Jacques ew years a g<> I was studying ways and choose Dal- , , , pointment with of the tin. the one you like the piano and had reached your high school teacher “bell clocking” of the hour sextons tion croze was well aware of this grade six. Now I better. principle, resur of music or your city bell. Bell “tapping” takes place when the e mr lessons, but first supervisor of music climbed the tower to ring the The and the fundamental u'lfP lH ?. I would THE BELLS OF CAPISTRANO basis for the scheme like to practice a and ask 3. Send your manuscript composition to little and brush up on for information about the field clocking was no longer necessary when, metal has reached a temperature of over of his instruction my technic These four bells, in one oi the most famous Spanish missions in California, the is a swinging of the before actually starting of music publishers of The Etude, and the would you What teaching in schools. I suggest in the fourteenth century, weight driven have rung daily for two centuries. 1000 degrees centigrade. Bricks behind arms to mark the pulse, and the stepping suggest in the line of music editor will give it consideration. techS this latter because the mechanical an iron door are tapped and the white of Bv '‘“ in many respects clocks were invented and the note values with the feet. In piano “S field of school this was only hot metal comes hissing out into the practice one music is at present the chimes developed. At first can do neither of these, but most one can important type of opening for a a short forestroke to call attention to the hour about no way to repair the original and still have a hell. A cauldron. The flow is stopped by closing the portcullis About Simplifying Trills utilize the muscles of mouth and person of moderate talent, and the book to strike, then came short melodies. Later the quarter welded crack changes the bell metal composition and door. throat for counting public the pulse, and one which were successfully 1. received named above also chimed, as they are today. does not bring back its voice but only a deadened crane carries the ladle of molten metal to the Q. I have a pupil who is working on can train oneself Being thus scarcely mentions it. There- hours were much A to play the actual note encouraged, I would Venetian Boat Song by Mendelssohn, and learn like to fore you ought additional Unfortunately few of the very old bells remain. They sound, resulting in a bell-shaped object—but not a opening near the hole of the bell crown. As the metal values and measure accents more about harmony and to search for she wishes to play it in a public against this form Is it recital. fundamental possible to do this by self-study!™' information. were seized as war swept over the countries, or they bell. Another of our early bell casters (the Meneely pours into the mold filling the hollow portion between Sne is unable to play the trills with four pulsation. But of course teacher * i!s a it necessary? bells since of the Rev- notes to the beat. would be Incidentally, before decide definitely were melted down by their owners to regain the scarce firm has been making the days the two surfaces, great fumes, gases, and showers of Could I legitimately sim- silly to have the pupil continue you plify the trills for her as in examples C d U SUggest in favor of metal for other pressing needs. olutionary War) was the versatile Paul Revere. hot ash accompany the pouring, especially if the bell I, II, to count or beat the pulse /° a beginner's piano a musical career, you ought III herewith enclosed? when he has book ra She is practicing to fourteenth century Flemish that owe is is the of bell come to the point make certain, first, that you have suf- Of the old bells that do remain many are beauti- It is to the we large. Great tension the founders as example I, now. where the rhythm runs “rsxt'ti ficient as: development of the art of tuning bells in sets and metal is guided into the mold. The bell smoothly without any such s srs musical and general ability to fully ornamented and carry such inscriptions the the pouring 2. Also, device. may I ask whether you think it make see as musical instruments. In the Low will of soft iron, light enough to a success of it; second, that you "Be yt knowne to all that doth me playing them clapper be made pre- important that pupils be able to count aloud really love music else That Newcomhe of Leicester made mee.” Countries the bells had long been an integral part vent injury to the bell as it strikes. any music which they are capable of Just more than anything What Hoes an Accidental r W°“ld in of people. studying? If so, please suggest how a recommend the world and are therefore willing to Many bells were given the name of knights. of the daily life the Many bells are cast at once, and ever so many = , “One hundred teacher can d ’ get pupils to the point where 1Xt> ®*ght-Measure devote many even Big Ben, one of the famous bells in England of our Before the close of the fifteenth century a keyboard castings may be needed to obtain matched bells. In they will Do? Exercises for long hours, days, and count. I do not think, of course, theth p Piano,^ Op. the set of bells and the carillon that 821.” by Czerny. years to making as a time, dominates the London scene with its familiar had been added to the Netherlands the Hemonys, famous for their won- pupils should be required to count yourself proficient Q- I would like to know this: voice. Of bells, none is more loved than the had arrived at its full dignity as a musical instrument. derful carillons, cast all the bells for one carillon at throughout a piano lesson, but I If there is 2. I think musician. Perhaps interested our own know no a sharp or flat in it is difficult you will be better method than counting the right hand, or treble to study har- in old Liberty Bell, which was bought from England in Now the bell master could play with full expressive one time, thus gaining great advantage in the uni- aloud and e mony by oneself, looking up copies of The tapping ™ean that is the and I your old the rhythm before playing ’, ,? S same in would adv4 a pass- S 1 to you Etude 1752 for less than one hundred pounds. The Liberty artistry in a way never dreamed of when mechanical formity of tone. age that is am enclosing some secure as fine and reading an article that I wrote puzzling to i exam- a the pupil. I some- ples teacher as you times that puzzle me, and I wish you view can ?n about the Bell, weighing 2000 pounds, cracked at its first trial. It chimes or hand ringing was the highest development. When cool, the carillon bells must be tuned. Early employ other methods, but I believe would of the fact that a year ago—I believe it was in clear it up.—C. W. H. you are interest^ counting aloud by the pupil is the January was recast in Philadelphia and again cracked. A second Price explains that: “A carillon consists of a set of tuning methods consisted simply of chipping out pieces best P iti0n 11 is 1945 issue, but I am not sure. You method for developing * a11 the more a keen sense of w£tant that? impiS will also want whole idea recasting was necessary but it was ready to ring out bells hung on a frame, equipped with clappers con- inside the bell, as needed. This crude, uncertain rhythm. If I am wrong A. you have a solid to talk over the in my belief, I An accidental affects only the knowledge of manual. Just as a piano would be worth should like line musical of a musical teachers the thrilling message of the birth of the nation July 8, nected to a method was replaced by the careful shaving away of to be convinced of my error; or structure. If, career with various space on which it appears, and for however, no i for getting some pupils to the harmony E00 who know who 1776. It was while tolling the death of Chief Justice little without a sounding board and a case suitable to the metal by the use of a lathe. count aloud is teacher is to your work in music and one of the one measure in which it be found most difficult, if not the most occurs. There- town to JS will John Marshall, in 1835, that the Liberty Bell again the room in which it is to be heard, so a carillon would To the average person the bell sounds but one tone, seif study ls therefore be able advise you intelli- difficult, problem I fore an better to encounter in piano accidental on a degree of than no cracked, 13,000 have little value without a bell placed with is teaching.— the aU f you gently. If adviser in this time beyond hope of recasting. A chamber yet he conscious of a fullness of tone that is not J. M. W. ' must you have a vocational tieble staff has no effect on any ,! study by yourself t degree of would your high course pound replica, made by the American bell caster due consideration for the site where it must be heard.” due to one note alone. This is due to the fact that the bass staff. recommend “Harmony school, you should of This rule should clear up Sr Ear Meneely for the Centennial Celebration was hung in The early masters worked on the many problems actually many tones are sounding A. 1 . Trills are often Eye, and consult this to and they mingle in simplified by slow- all your difficulties, Keyboard” by person also. The decision ing and I believe it covers Heacox which the tower of Independence Hall in 1876. Mr. Chester involved. Their art began with the casting of the fine a harmony of musical vibrations. them down, and if your pupil states the go in for a musical very serious cannot all the examples you enclosed. fundamental facts of m, ! career is a structure matter be Meneely, present head of the firm, says that there is bells, and the choice of material for them. Bells have In tuned bells there is first (.Continued on Page 285) and chord connection and it should therefore not 262 as staplj made "MUSIC lightly or hastily. STUDY EXALTS LIFE" MAY, 1947 "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE’’ 263 THE ETUDE — — —
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The ^ senza Ped. , “without the pedal" to observe e since in its enchanting music. Spring in Old Vienna is an especially fine waltz. Be.careful this gives a distinct character to the work. Grade 4. RALPH Con brio FEDFRER Tempo di Valse Viennese 5 2-p- It £ ! ‘=M i d=. i i P p M r? i i 1 senza. Fed. 4 5, S. — 31 R ll ' i & u i i» l mf legato cresc. ff P tenderly inf * i Si S i i I a —i- m 5 4 senza Ped. J L. J L. J U 268 MAY 19i7 269 • L — — 1 < SPRING IDYL DANSE VILLAGEOISE A little nocturne of spring' in the first theme as though it were a flute Villageoise, by the by a composer of many successful compositions. Play the melody solo, lm Danse Russian master, Alexander Gretchanirioff, should be a lesson to young’ composers, for it indicates how, with very few notes, it is agine the second theme being possible to secure originality, charm, and played by woodwinds, clarinets, flutes, and oboes. Grade 3.|. HAROLD LOCKE elegance. This little Village Dance makes an admirable staccato study. Grade 3. Allegretto grazioso ( 1= 66) a. GRETCHANINOFF, Op. 173, No. 3 2 setup re staccato 4 4. > — »— > » i pF--F r « 7 r-rf -i « 9 »— rHr.rr — 1 1 ff#rr f K fc ! 1"- _] f=F [ p— =*4-1 vf -=p= 1— 7 — — T / — 1 9 — iuTS-*- 5* j 1^ -ihh i 4 2 5 3 5 270 British Copyright secured Copyright MCMXLVI by Oliver Ditson Company International Copyright secured THE ETUDE MAY 1947 — ^ — t-* % uTi • 5 -£ * — — A- • : U i i M m tt* i 1 P ; i if- i p • - - - --.-i- -i r -f r r 1 * r FT" J -l l I i ^f~ l I I A A A 1 5 ' _! I 1 i 1 OCO x 5 D.S.sanza 232 Pt SPRING FANCIES "^ ten. i • -W 3 2 1 1 2 ^ 4 •/ cpc tizinne Another mellow springtime composition with a cello-like middle section that will please pupils of these days. Grade m 3d. *• * Moderat-o (J = 69) J dJ poco rit. *1» * » m m I .^r-J j f ..j-f. i i faui i i i_ -i i 1 i 1 i i i ) poco mono mo.sso £ 2 1 m m * * 5 f TRIO' dolce if 1-2 •j t m Mi . ~ i i i i 1 2 -S- -f—1* ^ ***” y - f I ifr*j * /» * r j m lid i_ j t i i_ - j_ J : ^r Ih " m L S I/I mp ^ ty=|= i i 1 > 1 _J L_ & From here go back to the sign (5s) and play to Fine-, then play TRIO. MAY 1947 S7H t — THE SWAN OUT IN THE FIELDS WITH GOD iss practical keyboard con form it y. They fit the hand like a Anonymous M Ketlerer’s works are great ly in demand because of their melodic interest and their glove!’ NEWMAN f>rade ELLA ROY Andante (J = 80) KETTERER Moderato espressivo p Si 5 5=£ £ £ The lit - tie cares that fret - ted me, I lost them yes -ter - day, A- The fool - ish fears of what may pass, I cast them all a - way, A - M ^2 ^ 2= =g 4 r -& tP- H. p +1 F e o o ? ^ oz IS IS o O cresc. p an: te~ J. J) J £ £ m i 1 • * J j 1 — ^ -r£— — i r r— — £ mong the fields, a - bove the sea, A - mong the winds at play; A - mong the low- ing of the herds, The mong the clo - ver - scent ed grass, A - mong the new-mown hay; A - mong the rus-tling of the corn, Where m - i -3 't * I i' cresc. JL P -— j ^ Z2 O w i w =3 Copyright 1946 by Theodore Presser Co. 274 British Copyright secured THE etude 2nd MOVEMENT FROM “CONCERTINO ON FAMILIAR TUNES” Copyright 1946 by Theodore Presser Co. 276 British Copyright secured THE ETUDE EVENING SHADOWS 4' /Sw. St. Diap. 8! Sal. 8,' & FI. Hunimo n d Reg i strut i an Prepare: Gt. Clarabella 8' & Dul. 8’ J Sw. (11) 00 7624 101 'Ped. Bourdon 16' & Gedeekt 8’ @ Gt. g] (10) 10 8715 201 Andante CYRUS S. MALLARD 278 British Copyright secured THU ETUDE Oopyrfglit IDO'S by Theodore Presser0o. MAY 1947 \ 279 7 • 3 m 3 y * grandioso 9 • - i» zg-*- s tte --r-j «f=I hs : TJfPPiiS 1 v • m — ff 1 1 —1 gj^= i 1 — - 7 . f ' j~>j j j-j>i -H = 1 N 1- II | 1 “I" H~+ ir_r wr #f ii i S ! irs-Hr **f~ isi i 3 i j <§> t/ - — • r — -t ~[ — — ^ I ^«) ^——4 * V3 F— m 0 j j J i * ^ 3 j 4 i :V 5 «'PPj r M ~ hPrP- m /’ ff string. a tempo _ * i 7 I I i F string. <7 tempo ^5^ ft ./ -PT zzk m— • -P m i«i f U ^t 3 3 m & 9 2 rv 3 2 m 1 n pj j;~ ^ tJ 1]-J J j may i94 281 1 BOBOLINK SINGS SONG Grade 14. A LOUISE Moderato (J-W4) E. STAIRS Sin^ ing- in the field and hedge, spink, spank, spink; Mer-ri-ly,hap-pi-ly, lit-tle bob-o-link. White his col-lar, white his hat b o link, hear his song-: Bob-o-hnk, bob-o-link, spink, spank, spink; Mer-ri-ly all the day a Copyright 1946 by Theodore i Presser Co. 5 2 British Copyright secured UNDER THE MAPLE TREE MELODY PROM Grade .1. Grade 24. POLONAISE BRUCE CARLETON Moderately (J = 144) Maestoso (J = 76) FREDERIC CHOPIN, Op. 53 2 Arranged by William Priestley 5 (7* [4^4 I —4 • • p m=m m I* r *—m r f f4 r r ^ \f- 1 5 3 1 5 3 1 5 2 1 % 5 w £ 0 m £ Fine £ £ m £ £ £ mm i £ D. S. m.'if =5 Copyright 1946 by Theodore Presser Co. 282 £ 5 2 1 British Copyright secured THE ETUDE Copyright 1946 by Theodore Presser Co. British Copyright secured MAY 1947 283 . — . rather than in a manner to be swung. Wonder of Bells While chimes play only the notes of The the diatonic scale (plus a chromatic or two) the carillon plays all the chromatic piano JUST RELEASED! Continued from Page 263) tones of the octave just as the ( does. To hear a fine carillon recital is an for PIANISTS place OUTSTANDING TECHNIC bell, followed unforgettable pleasure. The best „ strike tone” of the *he lower, in the best from which to listen may be about a tone an octave JUNIOR GRADE *y * tone.” Also there quarter of a mile away—depending on of This is the “hum There should be no tall octave above the “strike local conditions. he tone an summer ? third above it, and buildings or obstructions. Calm WEYBRIGHT ” one a minor by JUNE mne evenings at nine o’clock are often se- perfect fifth above it. one ’a lected as ideal for recitals. Today America -IN TWO BOOKS' Tuned Bell Harmonics has many fine carillons and new infor- mation about these bells is constantly DEXTERITY EXERCISES to affect the technical MODERN being sought. A new book on this sub- without causing tension—psycho- growth of the young student ject, “Bells and Belfry” by Dr. Arthur the eyes, ears and hands. Lynds Bigelow, Bell-Master, Princeton logically and musically co-ordinating University, is of special interest to all prominent composer-teacher music lovers. BOOK ONE — 15 ETUDES by the with matter what land is visited, the additional appropriate fingering exercises. No there; in the simple Price 60c wonder of bells is harmonics varies from bells of antiquity, in the storied bells 20 ETUDES plus scale transpositions, major scale, This series of BOOK TWO _ with those of history, in the tuned musical bells of bass and broken chords aiming toward the untuned bell and harmonic minor scale, triads, those in Sounding as they have the mind. the singing tower. complete relaxation of the fingers and _ the tubular chime. the of , in history, they just how a bell vi- to mark great moments Price7Sc^ is not known It evoke emotions that transcend words, "The the bell shape was designed brates, but courage to all harmonics and has re- ringing out of hope and to give the best i nil II PlIUllJ about the people. When the day comes of which as it was developed, mained it will be the bells that carillon must be Tennyson wrote, JOHN 1300. 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Pedersen’s Music 285 124 — Write for particulars — LIFE' EAST FOURTH STREET, CINCINNATI 2, OHIO Studio, 804 Front St., North Bay, Ont "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS Canada. ’ 1712 CHESTNUT ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA. MAY, 1947 284 THE ETUDE ‘ — — change, slow It may be, as the female AMERICA’S OUTSTANDING PIANO Let’s Give the Young and unnoticeable. He will usually find voice APPEALS TO CHILDREN that at seventeen years of age his steady and he may resume l Voice Questions Singers a Break is once again singing. This does not mean, moderate i proclaimed, that his muta- (Continued from Page 255) as is so often tion is consummated. It merely means that the maximum mutation is over, and, oftentimes prescribe helpful treatment. from then on the change will be slow nSwerJ DR. NICHOLAS DOUTY There are those who cannot be helped; _J until approximately twenty years of age. however, no stone should be left un- Almost every student at sometime dur- turned, so to speak, in trying to correct ing his high school training has a chance the defect, for a vocal handicap will im- to explore and demonstrate his or her in High School high tones get better but my low ones lose PIANOS pede the chances of success the same as Musical Education vocal ability is ex- in the eleventh grade, and resonance and power and my low B-fiat is vocal ability. If the I am a pupil any other physical handicap. o hard to produce. When I sing too much or too and displayed Wee to enter a school to study voice ceptional it is coached ,„nuld long my voice becomes hoarse and even speech If the teachers speak correctly and in- Are,here an V schools where theywd representing the school in inter-scholastic training. is difficult. I have never had my tonsils out struct the students to speak correctly un- competition. This, although it ' seems although several doctors have told me to do til at least the seventh or eighth grade, so, but in winter I am troubled with tonsilitis. harmless, is the most detrimental thing the children will have become conscious How can l retain the low and powerful res- adolescent There are many high schools in the United that could be done to a young A onant quality that I have when I begin to sing. of correct speech and will not be so apt which include the study of music as with promising talent. states Are there any effective ways of exercising the to acquire bad speech habits. Thus, the the usual curriculum. The music course TAPER-TONE “art of voice to bring out the low calibre and still It must be remembered that ossifica- schools is headed, in many cases, by a various incorrect tendencies are stopped in these keep higher vigorous notes? I was told who is a capable my tion* is nature’s signal that the vocal well educated musician, at the source or corrected before they conductor, and, in addi- that I could become a good operatic tenor if I cords their associating muscles have choral and orchestral been permanent habits. and the rudiments of forgot my low range. I understand that a man have imbedded as tion quite able to teach completed mutation and can be strength- schools is so constructed that his vocal cords dub him All this on Hi-Fidelity Shouldered Needles production. Not only do these emphasis- has been placed voice bass, baritone, tenor and so forth. Please il- ened without damage. This does not mean record listening in music to their students, but speech in order to preserve singing, be- for your enjoyment give training range dramatic tenor, heroic them with opportunities to lustrate the of that the voice cannot be harmed by in- the full, beautiful also they furnish cause singing is in reality sustained musi- Bring out tones of your tenor, lyric baritone, dramatic baritone, bass. in public with chorus and orchestra, correct training or use after ossification, records with the Taper-Tone. Its smooth, appear Also the range of the following singers: cal speech and is produced by the same them, if they have exceptional smooth point travels over your records os even allowing John C. Thomas, Tibbett, Jan but it does mean that there is less chance is Thomas Thomas, os breeze . gives you the sing the solo parts. This mechanism functioning in every way as quietly a . . ulti* talent, to play and Donald I From the moment they start their Pierce, Allen Jones, Robert Weede, of damaging the vocal machine after mote in scratch-free listening enjoyment. to the earnest and serious stu- during speech. If, therefore, the speaking very valuable Dickson, Enrico Caruso, Mario Berini, Fran- music study, children are enchant- And this precision, ten-play needle is extra encourages him to added effort in ossification than during mutation. dent and Valentino.—R. M. ed with the Gulbransen Spinet voice is used properly and the singing gentle with your valuable records. Taper- of Mu- cesco the future. The New York High School the school teacher to Tones are available throughout the world its For parent and the Upper piano. They appreciate easy ac- ability is at the maximum only used mod- sic, The Olney High School, and ] wherever needles are sold. A. Without a personal audition it would be give the child the advantage of an un- Philadelphia are note- — tion . . . they love its brilliant sing- erately during youth, the singing voice Darby High School in I impossible for me to classify your voice for harmed voice at twenty-one years of age A Product of examples, although there are many ing tone . . . they are encouraged Will have been saved. worthy you. As you Have a singing teacher you ad- j parts of the country. If you by the progress they make this is nothing, others in various on The children who are interested in a break that will cost them mire and whose pupils are exceptional, the are not entirely satisfied with the musical responsive instrument. Write for but it will increase the possibility decision should be made by him. It is often of fu- one i singing or who show promising talent SfoaqprAjOuur training you are now receiving, write to es a difficult to decide whether a young do FREE booklet showing "America's quite fftial [ ture great singers a thousand fold. Let’s of these schools for information. should be cautioned about voice preser- or two singer is a high baritone or a tenor, the tone Smartest Piano Fashions." give vation. yell the young singers that break. Famous for Fine Needles Since 1892 being similar. They should not or shout Bel Canto. quality She Want* a Singing Teacher. long at a during sport activities. A minimal amount 2.—Apparently you are singing too GULBRANSEN COMPANY •Ossification commences in the larynx ot the hu- Q. Two and one half years ago I started to continue man male female H. W. ACTON CO., INC. time and forcing your voice. If you of comfortable yelling or shouting will and at twenty and twenty-one itlness I was forced to dis- Dept. E 816 N. Kedzie, Chicago III. study voice. Due to will do your 51, years of age respectively. 370 Seventh Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. to do so for a long period you twenty-one and 1 would not be deleterious, but the propensity is continue. 1 am now voice an injury. Ask your teacher to make a TRAIN x\\m\\\\\\\\\m again. , I am too old to start to overdo it in the excitement; therefore, like to know if schedule for you showing exactly how long foundation is limited because of My musical each practice period should be and how many it is recommended some other type of study. voice range at the short period of My there should be daily. The voice should be noise making (bells, horns, noise makers, below Middle-C to D that time was from A practiced through its entire range. High-C. Through moving I have lost ItAef and so on) be adopted. .IMPROVE YOUR above diseased they should loo 3. If your tonsils are A Results How Music Helps With — GUARANTEED! contact with former teacher. Would it be Vfe build, stTenirthen the vocal organs- The female child will commence voice my come out. Before you submit yourself to the not with singing lessons—but by sound, sci- PIANO PLAYING possible for you to recommend a teacher in entifically j? operation ask the opinion of a first class spe- correct silent and vocal exercises, mutation at approximately twelve years the Bel Canto and hsolutely . I studied with * J*' guarantee complete satisfaction New York City? take out but no one Write Other Studies Introductory cialist. It is easy to them on, 'or Voice Book. FREE. Sent to no of age. is pleas- H'dSfcunaer 17 yr.rs ola mile., If she desirous of singing Offer method .—B. J. an inch from that slimed by oerent. wad notes. Tenches the chords thoroughly can put them back again. fullness of a musical tone, a fraction of PERFECT VOICE STUDIOS, Slodjo 55>5, Kimball Hall Bli,., positions keyboard, Ihe Chicot 4. III. antly in adult life she must cease singing in their various on the vocal cords, ( Continued from Page 256) which is the key to “popular playing". 4—The natural structure of the were which is prescribed by acoustic Money refunded if returned In lO days $2-50 A. It is of course regrettable that you them, the shape of it originates in the reed at least until sixteen and preferably Send 10c Sample Lesson. the muscles that govern whether for forced to discontinue your lessons because of and WM. S. HAYNES twenty-one years of age. WILLIAM A. OTTO. 2E. 4215 Park Avc.. the throat, and the palato-lingual muscles, design, the overtones are confined COMPANY and an exaggerated one. it is Union City. N. J. Complete In away into another town, of a flute, the voice of a singer or But not an illness, and to move the condition of the mucus membranes lining consequently losing touch with your former is thin and dull. Flutes of Distinction isolated instance. As a teacher, I try very the nose and the head cavities determine to a the string of a piano, is brought and the tone The Danger Years teacher. Surely you must remember something hard not to let students drop their music YOUR SONG large extent the range and quality of the voice. STERLING SILVER - GOLD - PLATINUM Individually arranged. Complete professional piano of his instruction and when you commence whatever creations of overtones before high Careful study of course can improve about by the of full and resonant The four years from twelve to sixteen school graduation. But I have vocal score. Reliable service. Low cost. Write f >-r details. you. The creation to study again it will all come back to be blessed with. Catalog H. Saffron, 512 Glenolden, Pa. natural gifts you may con- on request are the maximum danger years for the taken careful cognizance of the resultant Urban Ave., At twenty-one you have all your life before which vibrate in sympathetic ob- 5._Perhaps the only difference between a tone is of course the primary you and plenty of time to leam to sing well, 108 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston female. Even though she is able to sing grades of those students who have and heroic tenor (Helden basic note to 15, Mass. reflection dramatic tenor a junction with the builder. With if you work hard. 2—A moment’s being jective of every piano without a noticeable change in her voice, dropped, their music. More often than tenor) is a difference of language, one will make it clear to you that the Editor of reed, the voice cord or Italian and the other German. The approxi- which the the assurance of she must not sing at all during the maxi- not the grades were lower instead of Voice Questions could scarcely recommend one Baldwin, however, HOLD mate range of this rare voice is from middle-C tuned. But the YOUR STUDENTS ,mum danger period, and should not sing higher with the additional study-time singing teacher in the greatest city in Amer- the piano string is is scien- to C, second leger line above the treble staff, the ultimate in overtones until twenty-one to allow mutation allotted. ica, where there are thousands of very fine to Time was not what these chil- all the tones sounding an octave lower than striking of a string or other- Through the Teen ones. until you discover the mere a tone specto- Years! You must search range of the oper- tifically secured by consummate unhindered. dren needed. They needed mental stimu- 3 they are written. The usual one best suited to your voice and style. it in vibration does not atic baritone in the works of Verdi, Rossini, wise setting developed by If the child is desirous of singing, de- lus which the music was providing. The Italian expression “Bel Canto” might be graph, designed and TEACH MODERN PIANO Wagner, and so on is from "Beauti- Donizetti, Puccini, creation of overtones. clamatory speaking must also be avoided. Now let us look at the upper translated into English by the words leger insure the which by note end of the A, first space of the bass staff to G, third Baldwin acoustic Engineers, However, conversation or moderate ful Song" or "Beautiful Singing." It is often speak- mental range. Here is a case study of a line above this staff. Perhaps the French and Overtones originate thru the actu- applied to that method in which loveliness of added actually photographs the tone it- THE CHRISTENSEN WAY ing does not require the vocal organs to very brilliant boy. (This case Italian baritones may have a tone or so is not unique tone and smoothness of style are of the utmost of separately vibrating sec- function in one position (on one to the upper range. ation records the relative strength Piano teachers everywhere have found it vowel, either. Similar things have importance. If find a teacher who will self and pays big happened you can are not al- dividends in student interest G. We regret to tell you that we the en- and growing classes one pitch, and one volume) for over a upon many occasions.) This help you to sing freely and comfortably, with — tions, equal in length along as the to teach modern piano by this boy was an space to answer this question of the overtones as well up-to-the-minute an enunciation of the words so clear and easy lowed sufficient method. With it, teach split second, therefore can do very little all-A student. you your students to play When he was graduated in detail. Messers Thomas L. Thomas, J. G. tire span of the string. Therefore, all * that in spite of their distinctness, the beauti- basic note. the latest song “hits” in a really modern style, vocal damage if done in moderation. from Tibbett, Weede, Dickson, Val- high school, besides his all-A record ful. legato with, you may Thomas, Jones, adding breaks, fill-ins and a full chord bass. All tone is not interfered if mellow overtones are to be cre- The voice might be compared entino, and others are all operatic baritones the material you need in Just one instruction book. to a sum he had to his credit at least three hours VOCAL TEACHERS— safely trust him to go on with the training of It's resonant voices, each of which string on every Baldwin And all In accord with sound teaching practice of money. During these years, your voice where former teacher left off. with splendid, each string must be struck at Every the owner daily devoted to music, numerous columns your important ated, that will help their classical training. Franchise is quite capable of singing the most contract gives exclusive might, if she spends it wisely, allow of HERE THEY ARE! model has been tested and retested right to teach our method printed material which had been pub- baritone roles in the usual repertoire with an exact and predetermined point. in your community. Our 43rd year. Write now for Vocal songs Is He a High Baritone or a Tenor? enough time between expenditures for the lished in the school accompaniments for traditional art, and musicianship. Messers Pierce and complete details. Enclose $2 for complete instruc- paper, one composi- taste, the for this characteristic before the done in the pianist Q. I am twenty years old, physically strong caliber with fine This requirement demands tion book. interest to accumulate until the original tion for full traditional manner by a fine Berini are tenors of equal orchestra to his credit in and healthy, and 1 studied singing for seven for both high and low voices. Lead-sheets and strong, high voices which can be heard in the care in the de- scale is approved. This accounts value is regained. Squandering of the collaboration with his best months before I entered the army. My teacher most meticulous friend, a lyrics free with studio greatest auditoriums over a large operatic or- each record. Ideal for is a very PLAY capital will inevitably result in diminish- fellow-student; a national good one who has several exceptional write a personal out of the scale, in part for the full golden reso- POPULAR PIANO first division use and perfect for your pupils’ home-practice. chestra. Perhaps if you would signing and laying pupils, but there questions that he ing of the original sum. But, on the other in Clarinet are several these gentlemen you might re- solo with the accompanying Now you can watch vocal instead of does note to any of nance of every note on every Bald- LIKE A PROFESSIONAL cords not answer satisfactorily. My low tones details for if the impact of the hammer hand, if she does not spend it at all and remark ceive a personal reply giving you more of the judge that his was the out- piano chords. FOR FREE CATALOGUE are heavy and my high tones mellow and than we can give you here. Caruso's voice was at a point win piano. with our allows the interest to accumulate until standing smooth, but I I am a against the string comes performance among ' am not sure whether eighty-sev- '-FILE IN AND MAIL of truly heroic size and beauty and in his later baritone or is from eighteen or twenty years of age, the orig- en contestants; plus a VOCALTONES, P. O. Box 4024, Village Station, a tenor. My normal range baritone-like quality National Scholastic | low days it took on an almost BREAK SHEET SERVICE Los Angeles 24, Calif. B to G above middle C. My problem con- inal value will have increased. magazine award for first that was very thrilling. He was a truly mag- division in music cerns I Gentlemen: Without please my low tones. In the morning or when obligation to me, | nificent artist. It brings you clever arrangements for playing extra The male child will usually commence composition for "a composition send me have walked in the strong Texas wind awhile, for en- your FREE I choruses of eight popular “hit parade’' tunes. CATALOGUE. voice can remain static. It either im- voice mutation at approximately four- semble of not more my low tones are very powerful, full, and 7 _No Shows you how to fill in breaks, novel figures and than six players." wine or it deteri- Name of resonant proves with age like good tricky embellishments. Single copies 25 cents, teen. To play safe he should not sing The award Studio and I exert no effort at all. Naturally was made for a string quartet. my are Only a columnist and would stamp or coin. $2 for ten consecutive issues. (PLEASE PRINT PLAINLY) high register does not have the rich, full, orates. We from thirteen to at least sixteen and One wonders assume the role of the prophet. how one high school fine-grained tones and I break on the F. hesitate to often guess whether IHatinin preferably Address dare not even twenty years of age. He may youngstei could find After vocalizing for one half hour my high Therefore we the time to do so you grow older, THE CHRISTENSEN METHOD undergo tones become singing your voice will improve as a rapid change; that is to say, much. Again, it was not the time. beautifully molded, my more OHIO It was Zone ! is baritone or become a tenor. The PIANO COMPANY .-CINCINNATI 2, Suite 752. Kimball Hall, Chicago 4, Illinois at a peak and I actually thrill at myself and remain a THE BALDWIN the change may be a noticeable one, or ( stronger your Continue4 on Page 293) I musical you become and the _Siate (Signed) feel pretty good. Both my low and high tones u:-— YY- - rr - J the better will be your chance of Howard Pianos — seem to be properly placed. T continue to physique, Makers of Baldwin . . Acrosonic . . . Hamilton and 286 If time goes by.” "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE sing for over or forced, my improvement “As THE ETUDE an hour very loud "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE’ 287 MAY, 1947 — g ? ” Organ? Organ and Choir Questions What About the Electric orWM/ from Page 264) CENTURY ( Continued had to accompany the balanced performance. ing piano in the pit, I PHILLIPS unity of your re- FREDERICK routines in a musical comedy niu,eredLy Indeed, if you regard yourself as the one- dance J Philadelphia, and a hearsal. We were in lively man orchestra I mentioned earlier, favorite symphony or called in a former reproducing a special rehearsal was of you Whether lapses of this sort have the effect of For longer than many can remember our no longer in use. This Four.een spoiling the rhythm of a full group! For movie theater, easy pieces have been teachers’ pets. No construction— of musical enioymenr. oigan. child an organ their lack of knowledge of organ vox offers endless hours (ONE ^iAN6—f001 Rands) piano only a pipe sprightly specifications for dance music, Magna my own work, I like to try through theater had no — gets bored when gay, pieces like these rrvntequote W they should not be censured a q. Please wide, sixty-five but, nevertheless, and go forward, so thirty ifeet have radio science rehearsal had to are your selection—in CENTURY EDITION at 9 . One difficult problem they all .he venders of piece (which is already thoroughly well The 20tf a church with seat too severely. combine for Mgh _ dis.inc.ive models A varied selection of interesting ar- do but play the and t W possible discrimination. If Mary learned) with an accurate metronome. It there was nothing to a copy. feet long Chancel will be to face is M.gnavox thre hundred. organ, why craftsmanship. Ye, It was a job! capacity of until « Jones is allowed Ihe use of the bes, in furnirure which will add to the organ. feet , rangements is sometimes startling that merci- dance music on the 3750 Bamboo Grove, Am-1 Giovanni ing eighteen changing wirh .he what twenty f privilege be extended to John auromaric record I about . eighteen to twenty can't the same pleasure of playing. was so great that Little Clock, F-1 America duet 20£ a copy. less little tick-tick can reveal! The reverberation 3589 Busy Arnold these two why not to others? See M.gnavox m divided faceted in chancel on Smith, and if to priced, starring a. S187*. measure ahead of the 3045 Captain Jim, F-1 '*££££%Console i dropping in to is moderately “As one advances in familiarity with had to keep a Hopkins members. above pastor's And what is to prevent a friend 3738 Anitra's Dance, Am-4 Grieg chamber ’ other radio- seven, it out him- it with played measure 3691 Going to Market, C-3 ft practice, and “trying it and compare the Hammond, one learns to watch out dancers—when I 0 // e *«**" price *rom listen to the fine stores. Hear 3503 Arogonaise, G-3 Massenet was actually present measure six had gotten 3684 Here We Go, C-1 porter self? Unless the teacher Black Hawk Waltz, Eb-3 Walsh for smooth, expressive dynamic control. only the sound of S. b. satisfied until 2988 to $4500.—E. practices (which is unlikely) these you won’t be 3134 In Gay Costume, G-2 Crosby S3500 at all such phonographs and 3124 Country Gardens, F-3 Traditional through to the stage! On a Hammond, should One finds, I believe, that while the full things could happen, and if anything 3537 Old Time Barn Dance, G-2 C ' is 3085 The Dancers, G-2 Greenwald dance rhythm would come Proehl foU big- returns on the second beat. A sake of maintaining tone quality, it is tempo softest passages. second beat is even in the The thought A Master Lesson On better to slur only the last two notes of ger tone results if the third and can be kept in mind that the left the measure, taking a separate bow on taken Down bow, and the hand Don’t make a rarely overpowers a violinist, but each of the other eighths. Keep the tone fourth beats Up bow. that wait until the right hand frequently does. full in Measure 36 until the last beat diminuendo in Measure 56; Raffs Cavatina retard in It is no simple matter to explain PIANO TEACHERS' of the measure, when the diminuendo Measure 57. Draw out the in in print the interpretation of a solo to begins which Measures 58 and 59, and take the D vio- leads to the pianissimo in never of having arrived linists one has met, and of whose ( Continued jrom Page 261) Measure 38. In Measures 36 and 37, too, 59 with the feeling fact, the case, musical experience, temperament, and a gradual retard is made, so that in 38 home at last; which is, in in- (S» measures are dividuality one has no knowledge. SPEED DRILLS should be played as softly and with the the original tempo of the movement is because the remaining Still Cards in Place tranquil I hope that these suggestions will _An5werJ HAROLD BERKLEY Back of Keyboard same quality of tone as were Measures resumed. Be careful not to exaggerate retrospective and more or less bring 1$ to many players some possibly 21, 22 and 23; the higher register itself this retard. A good fingering for Measure in short, a typical Coda. new ideas for Teaching Beginners about the Cavatina and a more is sufficient to increase the emotional 36 would be to take the G-sharp with the clear No question will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full name Contentment understanding of the means by Only initials, or pseudonym given, will effect. Here, too, the F-sharp in Measure second finger on the E string, the first A Mood of which and address of the inquirer. be published. Sight Reading other solos can be interpreted. 29 and the A In 31 call for a little extra C-sharp with the third finger on the D Measure 60 should have a mood of throb in the vibrato. In Measure 32 the string, the second C-sharp with the sec- contentment, which changes in the next Complete Set of 32 Cards, Keyboard Finder and marking should again be diminuendo in- ond finger on the same string, and the B some intensity. The G measure to one of Book of Instructions — Only 50/ stead of piano. The crescendo in Measures with the third finger. in Measure 62 calls for a restrained elo- in Existence Paganini Caprices. And he should be able to 33 and 34 leads to the Maggi*1 * Violins Drill No. 1 second important quence of expression which should con- Few play two of concerti rather Beginning The Scale Ohio.—There are many violins that or three the major For stressing visual climax, Always Intonation eh L , easily and quickly learned by tiny tots, therefore more should be made Good tinue to the first beat of the A in Meas- of Maggini, and which have better than acceptably. A teacher does not SIGHT-PLAYING accuracy hear the label these Speed Drill Cards. of it than was made of the similar pas- quarters more obvious mannerisms of his need quite such technical advancement, unless or beginners of any age, with Despite one or two chromatics and a ure 64. Notice that the accented uTanv of the individual there are very few genuine he expects to have advanced pupils. But within Makes teaching easier and quicker for class or sage in Measures 25 and 26. The shift to somewhat different 63 are not staccato; that is to workmanship, but accompaniment in the in Measure his limits able really well. On Each Degree to be seen. I suggest that you take he must be to play instruction. the high A presents a problem quite apart first two break between one Magginis measures, the phrase from say, there must be no violin to The Rudolph Wurlitzer What is vitally necessary for a teacher is a nr send the with from its own special difficulty. Most vio- Measure 38 to 45 is essentially a restate- note and the next. The accents can be sound knowledge of music, music history, EASY TO USE— Speed Drills consist of 32 cards ( Continued musical style, teaching material, and teaching for their use. On linists find that they have a strong ment of 1 to 8. For this reason the sud- made by starting each bow stroke rather from Page 248) complete and easy-to-follow instructions methods. Furthermore, he must have an en- of the note on the staff which cor- tendency to play the eighths in Measure den crescendo and forte in Measures 38 rapidly. There is no rhythmic movement each card is a picture thusiasm for his work; he must feel that the piano keyboard. Thus, 34 softly. It is a tendency that stems from and 39 would Measure 62 study. Continue thus until the An Inferior Copy responds with the key on seem to be out of place. It in the accmpaniment from seven label in your violin teaching is a reason for existence and not J N. B.. California. The student learns through his eyes, rather than the written a fear of the shift. But why be afraid? is measures are incorporated in one merely a means of existence. No matter the better to play the phrase with the same through Measure 65, which permits the study. instrument was made by Friedrich Drill No. 2 tells that the word, the location and position of each note. Play these notes with a good broad tone, same Klingenthal, whether you decide to become an orchestra or spoken simple expression that was given to the soloist to play these measures with con- In the way practice the other August Glass, who worked in For instant recognition and 1855; it also violinist or a teacher, you have a lot of hard of keyboard positions feel that the F-sharp is growing up into first line. The passage in double-stops. siderable freedom. Take the F-sharps in major scales, also the minor, and the Germany, between 1840 ADVANCED STEP— Speed Drills are an advanced was modeled after a work ahead of you. But if your heart is in it AN the A, and then go for the A with con- chromatic scales. implies that the violin student to quickly identify the note on Measures 46 to 52, offers no problem Measure 65 with the third finger, in or- This exercise may, of Glass you will enjoy it. step in aiding the Stradivarius made in Cremona in 1737. cards fidence. What if it is missed once or other than course, be extended to the (Staff with the key on the piano. These handy that of good intonation. Take der to produce a more vibrant tone, and several octaves if have thought he was copying Stradi- may accuracy, recognition of the keyboard posi- twice? The passage can be mastered with long, sweeping bows, sustaining each finger. desired. Thus it may be similarity is apparent to the Bach Concerto for Two Violins stress visual note slide back to the E with the same commenced at varius, but no and muscular practice are many of his violins Miss M. T. H., Ohio. Usually it is better to tions, producing rapid visual, mental —and more practice! Take the A to its full value. Do not play any slower, Use only two bows for the final, long-held the top of the keyboard and continued trained eve. There they are worth from fifty to play the two-violin Concerto of Bach from coordination. with the third finger, for the sake of a in spite of the in America, and “Grandioso” marking; D; too frequent changing of the bow dis- down as far as one wishes. There is, reason is that the work par- one hundred and fifty dollars at most. They the music. The bigger tone and a more intense vibrato. here the word indicates the style however, art more of nature of a concerto grosso vivid mental pictures. This of the turbs the mood of calm serenity in which no point in extending the in- might be worth more if he had not used takes the THE LARGE NOTES make It is permissible, in fact, it is preferable, than of a virtuoso concerto. of all ... children like Speed passage rather than a change of tempo. the Cavatina ends. dividual descending and ascending pas- inferior quality of varnish. feature is important, but best to slide with the third finger instead should be used at the first lesson, and the Drill No. 3 of Measures 53 and 54 constitute the third The piano accompaniment offers little sages over the octave since this Drills. They would Bows; Vibrato stressing rapidity the first. This type of shift Requirement for Majoring in Violin Material Used in pupil should have a set for daily home practice. For enhances the and biggest climax of the solo; they call occasion for comment. right is reduce the possible College The hand number of beginnings not much in favor Miss A. G., New York. In general, bows playing the keys emotional effect of a passage, provided Miss B. S., Kansas. I am for full-length bows, a noticeable string- occupied almost entirely with harmonic which it is the special point of so many made from Pernambuco wood are superior to and more of a re- this ex- of studying violin by correspondence; SIGHT-PLAYING is becoming more that it is not used too often. Play the endo, and plenty of vibrato. Make sure that can be detected any metal bow, though a good metal bow is very start, should and rhythmic background, and therefore ercise to study. However, there is no harm little faults can creep in quirement of pianists, and students at the G-sharp in Measure 35 However, if no better than a cheap wooden one. (2) Regarding with the fourth that the octave is in ! observation. will lay the foundation tune The tone must must be treated with discretion, particu- in doing so if you wish, for as said only by personal be trained to attain it. Speed Drills previ- the vibrato, I must refer you to article in finger and the D with the first, teacher is available, correspondence my shifting remain at its fullest and most vibrant larly in the forte passages. The left ously private for proficient sight playing. hand everything seems to need specific than none at all, for at the July 1944 issue of The Etude. If you do not to the C-sharp with the third. For the lessons are better through Measure 55, though the original line, however, is often very melodic and study. course of own that issue you can surely find it in the least you can follow a planned GET YOURS TODAY — Speed Drills may be obtained beginner should certainly have Public Library. You might also refer to the study. But a local music dealer, or send direct to us, the pub- order to get April 1945 and December 194G issues. There from your some private lessons at first, in instructions, only 50c. reasonably-priced violins on the lishers. Complete set of 32 cards with started along the right lines. (2) I very much are so many different makers, doubt that any college would allow any student market, violins by so many Drill No. 4 previous that it would be futile for me to recommend For stressing rapid vis- to major in violin if she had had no Mo. than another. Your per- JENKINS MUSIC COMPANY, Kansas City 6, ual, mental and muscu- instruction in the instrument. However, you one maker as better should be your guide. lar coordination A Teachers Diploma T might write to the college you are interested sonal preference in and find out what the authorities think about it. Personally, I think you would do Factory Made or Ccnuinc? better to stick to the piano. T. H. W., Washington. A genuine J. B. Schweitzer ’cello could be worth today as much y is Preferable the usual price is around $600 V String though When the Open as $1000. lOU/iam C^PlVtyY andSon VIOLIN PLAYING MADE EASY N. D., California. In rapid passages, the open or $700. But there are hundreds of violins and Ave . Chicago 4, III. fourth label, 207 South Wabash learning very (ABachelors string is usually better than using the 'cellos to be seen, bearing the Schweitzer Keyboard System makes Degree II \ . BOWS, REPAIRS, etc. 1 IN VIOLINS, finger, for it speaks more easily and also which are nothing more than cheap German SPECIALISTS WRITE FOR INFORMATION easy. Recommended by World's Greatest allows hand a moment of relaxation. In factory products of very little value. No one the PUBLISHERS OF "VIOLINS and VIOLINISTS" quote from the Mendelssohn whether your ’cello is genuine with- Violinists. Have your violin equipped. the passages you could say America’s only journal devoted to the violin it is cer- examination. Inlfour Spare Concerto and La Ronde des Lutins out giving it a personal Specimen Copy 35£—$2.50 per year. Time at mail, or write' for address of Home Learn by tainly preferable. If you feel there is need to you should or strengthen your fourth finger, Appraisal Should Be Made Private Teacher in your City, County, that end. practice exercises directed towards Minnesota. Michael Deconet Collection Of Fine Mrs. E. J., A Large State. We need teachers, we want stu- N EVERY COMMUNITY there Generally it is not good to make technical 1752 to are ambitious We offer them without obligation worked in Venice, Italy, from about to you. rule is: gain men and women who know the This great musical organization suc- exercises out of solos. A good maker, possibly a pu- VIOLINS dents. Write today to advantages in its 44th 1795. a very good of now in He was new inspiration cessful year has your technic from studies and apply it condition, one of Old & New. With Concert Tone / and ideas for their musical ad- We are the only school giving instruction in developed and trained many musicians pil of Montagnana. If in good music by and solos. much as Bernard St., Chicago 47, III. vancement. It is to those our tlie many successful teachers. his violins could be worth today as REDUCED 40% 2537 N. Extension Courses are Horne Study Method which includes in its teaching To you we offer the same of the a vantages inferior imitators put copies Send For New List. greatest benefit. all the courses which have been $2500. But many necessary to obtain the Degree of Bachelor given to them. Don’t wait Impossible to any longer. Appraise of his label inside their violins, so it is impos- The most successful of Music. The coupon will bring illus- FRANCIS DRAKE BALLARD FINNEY VIOLIN KEYBOARD SYSTEM musician, of course, is the very you our catalog, J. L. S., Indiana. I cannot possibly tell you whether your violin is genuine or busy rated lessons and sible to say Collector-Dealer one. Yet he is the one who finds information about the lessons which anything about a violin labeled “Antonius of disposing of- it, you extra time for not. If you are thinking Tuckahoe, N. Y. something Openings in the music field are will be of untold value. Stradivarius Faciebat anno 17. 50 Chippewa Rd. worth while. And to such a one Extension Cremonensis should have it appraised. Courses growing very rapidly. There are There are many thousands of violins so labeled, are the greatest boon. It isn’t always pos- sible to give big paying positions for those - - Jj^^^PPortunity—Mail thc and any one of them may be worth from five up an interesting class or position and I-ll ii Coupon TODAY! Doubtful Stainer BEFORE £ CO. who are ready for them. to two hundred and fifty dollars. The chances A NOW—AS NEVER fl *JOHN MARKERT go away for instruction. Virginia. genuine Jacobus requirement of 141 WEST I5TH ST.. NEW YORK II, N. V. are, however, that your violin is a German E. E. H., West A The violin responds to every \ as $3000, if in the artist. VIOLINS OLD & NSW The Home Study Method is factory fifty dollars. Stainer could be worth as much equally advantageous to Do product worth at most VIRZI — Acoustheory Violin Maker Expert Repairing. Send for Catalog you hold the Key Se Se condition. There are, however, very few the beginner or the amateur. Because nd m e C a I am sorry to think that you are not a regular good 1391 6th Ave. (Near 57th St.) N. Y. C. (19) the SamPle ' work can be eSS°"S a"d full thousands hav^ a r ked with an information regarding course I in existence. But there are done at home in x &w reader of these columns; if you were, you of them spare time, with no interference to the best teaching bear a careful copy would have seen similar question answered of imitations, all of which with one’s regular work, many minutes each ,c#"“ Harmony a very day may D Violin almost every of the Stainer label, and some of them are Protects be used which position—a Diploma? S«SKMass Cornet month for years past. ordinarily go to waste. U > I C ch°o1 = —Trumpet labeled Stainer run in music from Keep EVERY Sheet Music P ! Mus Beginner’s Cuitar old instruments. Violins of O J , 5 Advanced ' C Sc 01 Mus —Advanced =\ Cornet Mandolin from about twenty-five dollars to several dirt or It is fl Advancedi'?- M Voice Delay in value at Your Finger-Tips Look up to YOU. On your Composition Saxophone Answering your violin is damage. Back Over the Last Year Choral hundred dollars. How much • own decision will rest U “'’Training & Sight Singing Conducting* Reed Organ Miss M. S., New York. The answer to your your R could be determined only by having an TONKabinet drawer-trays per- What progress have you made? Perhaps History of Music Clarinet Banjo question concerning Joseph D’Alaglio appeared worth Richly styled. you have future success. Fit yourself for appraisal. mit easy filing D Dance Band expert give it a personal Beautifully ; keep sheet mu- wanted to send for our catalog and Arranging in the February issue of The Etude. You prob- sample lessons be- a bigger position —demand Name. crafted. sic neat, orderly, safe, find- ably saw it your second fore—just to look into them. That is your after you had written • able. Every sheet is always at privilege. larger fees. You can do it! •Adult or Juvenile. letter. I am sorry the answer took so long Fingerings for Cliaminade By makers of your finger-tips. At your deal- The Street No to appear, very The fingerings you give er's. Tonk Mfg. Co., 1980 N. Increased Requirement for DEGREES has Resulted in but you can imagine that a J. B. K., California. Nationally large Lisonjera of Cham- Knoivn Tonk Magnolia Ave., Chicago 14. Larger Demands number of letters come in—and there for the passages from La for the ADVANCED COURSES City is you Furniture. offered by only a limited space in which to answer inade are all excellent, and I am sure State them. have no difficulty in making these passages Are you teaching now? well. Fingering is a highly personal (f so,, sound Sizes and DL UNIVERSITY how many pupils on the musical EXTENSION CONSERVATORY have you? Do you Qualifications of Players matter, depending so much hold Symphony styles for a Teacher’s Certificate?. the player and his technical in- nets (Address and sensibility of ONKahi Dept. A-574) Teachers T 765 Homes, Oakwood Blvd„ CHICAGO 15, ILL. Have you studied given passage, the best Harmony?. H. B., Missouri. position in dividuality. For any To qualify for a enables you Schools, —^ V- '*• to^earn the Degree a major fingering for you is the one which of Bachelor symphony orchestra, a violinist should of Music?. the musical values with the least Bands, etc. at least be able to play the 30 Concert Studies to bring out Sheet Music of be sure you know what the musical for De Beriot fluently. In fact, he should have effort. But MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFEi more than a nodding acquaintance with the values are! ! ETUDE EXALTS LIFE" 291 THE MAY, 1947 "MUSIC- STUDY — a — " — ’ intervals in order to develop the habit compensation. The Pythagorean point of view prob announcing the publication ably needs less drill because it is of likely t~ develop as a by-product of the other types plus experience. If a Pythagorean bell set can be obtained, the unison prac- tice can of course be pursued as with the tempered scale. This THE Pythagorean ART OF THE SUITE feeling should be encouraged only in melodic thinking regarding the restless motion of • Eight Suites of Dances for Piano or Harpsichord one tone to another eventually — the pat tern arrives at an anticipated point of rest where the thinking can again become by Masters of the 17th and 18th Centuries just. For the wind instrumentalist it will be found helpful to practice unison pas- Selected and Edited by YELLA PESSL sages with advanced string players be- through cause their flexibility they gen- Price erally tend to develop this feeling sooner $2.00 Here again, the humoring should be ac- B. • • • York complished without sacrifice of quality EDWARD MARKS MUSIC CORPORATION RCA Building Radio City New This is the point where alternate finger- ings may be brought into play, although it is dangerous to depend too much on fingerings. I ity to concentrate with great speed. servers of labor pains of a mother. Henry In following up the idea of beats, the students will learn Music Helps with In closing, let us remark that while the T. Finck mentions that HugcTWolf used that if the beats go How Be Better Informed majority of people who study music do to be tortured during his creative mo- I fast enough they reach a frequency to which can be Other Studies so for sheer pleasure, they will begin to ments by headaches which seem to have amcome heard as another tone. This have a deeper respect for the things that resembled those with which Donizetti Music resultant "difference'’ tone has great ( Continued from Page 286) music is really teaching if they begin to was afflicted. Whenever Donizetti took utility value in developing one’s feeling in libretto completely for intonation. realize the mental implication the up a new he became The frequency of this ability to concentrate quickly and the itself. absorbed in it and forgot everything else. “difference" tone can study always be deter- brilliantly during the time available— As a field of normal mental hygiene, Almost from the beginning his head- mined by subtracting the frequencies in requires. Music thing music teaches and aches began became gradually in- the given music is yet to be scientifically explored. and so bob interval. Several of these inter- had been his constant companion since The benefits of music for the mind must tense that he was at last compelled to vals and their resultants should be “stimulates the third grade. And music of experimental- give up work and rest in bed. Presently charted, needs be given the grace as shown in Example 3, so that of the brain which are higher elements proof, if the pain passed away, and then the the group-plus-control-group but student will know what to listen for. and reasoning.” involved in thinking acute observation of several thousands of composer got up and began his work in OPERAS AND MUSICAL alert A mind which is active and can feverish haste. COMEDIES by J. Walter McSpadden. Ex. 3 students over periods varying from three accomplish much in a short time. Music length with any one “The largest and most up-to-date collection (Standard indicated by open notes to ten years in Strange was Donizetti’s belief that his adjusted tones the powers of concentration. A of stories of musical stage entertainment." by filled notes) develops of value at all, I feel sure student is any headaches were located in the left side —N. Y . Herald Tribune mind trained to read and perform music from that we can largely predict what the out- of his brain when he wrote tragic operas 607 pages, index, $3.50 at sight with the required speed of re- come of such experimentation will be —and in the right side when he wrote action (sixty reactions per minute is a virtually an overwhelming evidence that comic operas like “Don Pasquale” or MUSIC OF LATIN AMERICA - slow speed in music) is bound to have by Nicholas Slonimsky . The only com music study and contact will heighten "The Daughter of the Regiment.” In this plete, up-to-date reference work on South developed powers of concentration away mental powers the usefulness of whatever connection Caruso may be mentioned Central American music. beyond the mind that putters along at and the subjects have as original mental en- again. His attacks of headache lasted, 374 pages. 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Marilyn and L_ 294 Cotlow, soprano, "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE' ETUDE "MUSIC STUDY EXALTS LIFE” 295 THE may, 1947 ; . l , Machines and Things Junior Etude Contest WHERE SHALL 1 GO TO STUDY? will award three at- The Junior Etude you enter on upper left corner of your prizes each month for the neatest paper, and put your by oCeonora Sit —'til ionto tractive address on upper stories or essays and for answers right corner of your paper. and best Private Teachers (Western) Private Teachers (New York city) Contest is open to all boys and to puzzles. Write on one side of paper only. Do under eighteen years of age. not HELEN Ned were talking trie clocks or something ” girls use typewriters and do not have any- FREDERICK DAVIS ANDERSON AROLD and eighteen years Class A, fifteen to of one copy your work for CONDUCTOR—TEACHER Concert Pianist their new pieces. “I like “Tell you what,” broke you. about in twelve to fifteen; Class C, Member Natl. Assn, of Teachers of Singing Interesting course piano, harmony Hamm age; Class B, Essay must contain not over one hun- — to practice,” “next time we all of H to play and I like practice let’s years. Classes in branches Many Successful Pupils preteiri under twelve dred and fifty words and must be re- could we are machines, VOCAL and CHORAL ART 4-8385 said Harold, “but I do wish I and when prize winners will appear on 168 W. 72nd St.. N. Y. C. Tel. Sc our fi ' Names of ceived at the Junior Etude Office, 606 Templeton Building Salt Lake City 1, Utah gers don’t 1712 learn to play quicker. And it isn’t play the way they in a future issue of The Etude. Chestnut Phor.e 3-0316 (or 4-5746) for appointment sh0 ni r this page Street, Philadelphia (1), Pa., by MARY BOXALL BOYD too hard, or anything let’s see if we can find best contributors will re- that they’re out what paj The thirty next the 22nd of May. No essay contest ap- HAROLD HURLBUT (Leschetizky) of the machine mention. Pianist and Teacher like that.” is at fault. MavS ceive honorable pears in this month. Puzzle contest ap- Paris—New York—Hollywood teachers with whom 1 have had “Check,” replied Ned. “I wish, some joint needs oiling, put your name, age and class in which pears below. Results in August. Member Natl. Assn, of Teachers of Singing "Of all pianoforte or to either as pupil or associate, Mary Boxall Boyd some Developer of Singers of Metropolitan Opera, Chi- do, screw-bolt needs ” is, in opinion, the best." Leland Hall, Prof, of when I had a new piece, my hands tightening cago Opera, Hollywood Bowl, Radio, etc. "VOICE my — Bro., N. Y. Pub.) Piano at Smith College. could play it right off without a mis- Two days later the FUNDAMENTALS" (J. Fischer & boys c/o Studios, 113 W. 57th St., New York ELIZABETH were was endorsed by W. J. Henderson, Amato, Bispham, Add. Nola A.GEST take, the hurdy-gurdy does.” again talking about Journet, others of that great era. City, N. Y. Summer classes for teachers and students; the way their music Ned Quiz and machine. asked “How 2150 Beachwood Dr. Hollywood, Calif. June 15th to Sept. 15th — Mill Hill, Nantucket Island, “A hurdy-gurdy is a did your machine Mass. work?” e How Many? SYDNEY LEE ANGELL Successful We’re not. But of course it took EDWIN HUGHES Men and Music “Can’t sixteenth-notes in a dotted PIANO TEACHER hands to put the thing together, and say my fingers did 1. How many very well One of America's Eminent Teachers SUMMER MASTER CLASSES it but I ’ whole note? FOR PIANISTS AND TEACHERS (Boys, takes hands to work it,” said Har- found the trouble. I Advanced Pupils or Talented Beginners be sure to read ihis) was hold NEW YORK CITY: JULY 7—AUGUST 9 2. How many half-steps in an octave? Correspondence Solicited old. “And there are different parts mg my elbows tight as could WINTHROP COLLEGE: JUNE 9—JULY 5 be and Denver. Colo. 3. How many sharps in the key of c- 2065 Clarkson St. For full information address: to a hand just as there are to a that made my wrists stiff and’thev sharp minor? 338 W. 89th Sfreef New York 24. N. Y. by <£! -Jl, machine,” could ISABEL HUTCHESON Tel. 4-0261 Q. he added. not play well. So I just SChuyler made 4. How many strings on a violoncello? Teacher for Piano Teachers “Yes,” answered Ned, stretching my elbows loose, oiled O them up you many players or singers in a Modern Piano Technic: Group work for Teachers: CHARLES LAGOURGUE STUDIOS SUCCESSFUL business men, State Police (pianist) 5. How ; Herbert Leh- out his fingers and looking at his might say, Coaching concert pianists: Conducting "Piano or and the playing went quintette? VOICE PRODUCTION—SINGING professional men, writers, man, former a Teachers Forum." COMPLETE MUSICAL EDUCATION Governor of New York hands, “the knuckles and the fingers lot better.” sixteenth-notes can there D and Statesmen 6. How many BROOKS MAYS MUSIC STUDIOS Mr. Lagourgue is the author of "The Secret"—Daily like music? Did (violoncellist) — ; Charles Street, Texas Phone C-6214 Vocal Exercises Complete Treatise Transposition, M, Schwab, work on hinges, and the wrist works Well,” said Ned, “what be in one measure of six-eight time? l005'/2 Elm Dallas 2, on they study it when young was wrong etc. Classes held annually at and did steel magnate (organist); Ralph on hinges, with and they are all related my machine was- that 7. How many flats are there in the key EVANGELINE LEHMAN: Mus. Doc. The College International of CANNES, France they do their practicing faithfully? Modjeski, my arms designer of bridges (pian- to each other as well as to the and hands e-flat minor? Vocal Studio New York Address: 35 West 57th Street they hand.” were too loose and I of Do still play or sing? Do they ist) was Creative, Individual training. ; Walter Hampden, actor (violon- “And,” continued Harold, “the not sounding 8. How many sixteenth-notes equal one Send for reprint from the Etude: compose? Did their the keys surely and EDITH SYRENE LISTER music have any- cellist), and the "Reflections on the Art of Singing" President of the hands are related to the wrists, and firmly. I felt double dotted quarter-note? AUTHENTIC VOICE PRODUCTION thing to do with that a lot of nuts 167 Elmhurst Ave. Detroit 3, Michigan their later success- United States, and rests would be re- 405 Carnegie Hall, New York City Harry S. Truman the wrists are related to bolts 9. How many quarter ful careers? the forearm, needed tightening. This Collaborator and Associate Teacher with the lateW. (pianist) ma- quired to fill one measure in four-four LUCIA O'BRIEN LIVERETTE the forearm to the elbow, chine Warren Shaw and Endorsed by Dr. Floyd S. Muckey In many the elbow idea is pretty good, I Several years assistant to cases the answer is say.” if first note was a quarter Wednesday: Troup Music Studio. Lancaster, Pa. yes to Many other names could be in- to the time, the all these upper arm, and the upper arm “Yes,” agreed Harold, LAZAR SAMOILOFF Thursday: 309 Presser Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. questions. And how and cluded “and I think note the second note was a dotted Boston Globe photo why in this list of famous men to the shoulder.” would we will learn our pieces Now Teaching in His Academy (FRANK) (ERNESTO) music help these men to be- who studied a lot better. quarter note, and the third note was Sallie Newton, John Biooks, Beverlee music and who kept it That 3150 West Sixth St. Los Angeles 5. Calif. come successful sounds like one of the houses But I’m going to pretend Duncan, Patricia Donelly, Joan Mc- LA FORGE-BERUMEN STUDIOS in other professions? up because they wanted my piano is an eighth note? Phone Fe 8294 it, needed Jack built,” laughed a Carthy, Sharon Gilbert, William Alberg. Voice—Piano Investigators have found Ned. “We might machine, too. It has different parts 10. How many half steps are there in an that music it. And it might be a HENRY FRANCIS PARKS Among those who have studied with Mr. La Forge are: good idea, boys, as well make it is one of the best mind complete and say the all connected and related, too, augmented fifth? Organist, Conductor & Vocal Coach Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Crooks, trainers there for you to do a little extra and it practicing shoulder is related Individual and class instruction in Organ. Piano and Mme. Matzenauer. is, and that those to the back, and is very complicated. it (Answers on this page) Letter-Boxers who study music now while But will not and Theory. Vocal coaching for Concert, Light and 1100 Park Ave., Corner 89th St., New York you have the chance— the following Letter writers have while back, with its spine, to the go unless The Box Grand Opera with particular attention to breathing, Tel. Atwater 9-7470 in school and in college make maybe brain somebody makes it go.” some day your music will help where asked to have other Junior Etuders enunciation and proper pronunciation. the higher the power comes from to "That’s just Jumbled Orchestra Puzzle marks in their academic you to have make it,” said Ned. “The 320 Market St. Telephone YUkon 6-1816 your names included on all write to them. Due to limited space we RICHARD McCLANAHAN subjects. the parts work. As a piano is Rearrange the letters in each of the San Francisco II California Good mind training matter of the machine and we’re * Representative TOBIAS MATTHAY and just such a list of famous men. the can not print their letters in full. high fact, I should say we’re following jumbled words to find musical Private lessons, class lessons in Fundamentals marks are good “starter-offers” almost elec- engine that moves the parts. If we EDNA GUNNAR PETERSON instruments. Address replies, always, in care of the Summer-class, Southwest Harbor, Me. on successful want 801 Steinway Bldg. New York City careers. (Remember to play well we have to keep Junior Etude. Concert Pianist—Artist Teacher that, boys, when you practice.) our engines oiled and in hear from other 229 So. Harvard Blvd. Los Angeles, Calif. For Mother’s Day good con- “I would like to EDWARD E. The FE. 2597 TREUMANN following are some outstand- dition. Of course practicing the right CONCERT music lovers.” by Ethel Ray Page ORCHESTRA Concert Pianist—Artist-Teacher ing men, some way is Oklahoma THE SAMOILOFF top-flight names in the thing to to- NISH r Patricia Irby (Age 16) , by Emil Von Sauer, Moritz do for that.” BEL CANTO STUDIOS & OPERA ACADEMY Recommended Moszkowski America and elsewhere, wirh the following “I would love to receive letters from and Joseph Hofmann. who have “You’ve got the right idea, Ned. 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Class Courses Phone: Trafalgar 7-8230 (pianist “I would like to hear from others who in Technique, Pianistic Interpretation, Normal 8 West 86th Street New York City and organist); Thomas E. Dewey ONI AP are interested in music and music clubs.” Methods for Piano Teachers. San Francisco; Governor of New York Ellen Fussell, Texas 79 McAllister St., Room 1, CRYSTAL WATERS (singer);’ Mary Webster St., Berkeley, Cal. Major 2833 Concert Singer — Teacher Alexander de Seversky, air- “I like to write and receive letters.” Dear Junior Etude: DR. FRANCIS L. YORK Voice Building, Breathing, plane designer (composer) The Olympics Lois A. Holliday (Age 14), Wisconsin Diction, Expression, Styie. ; Albert lam very much interested in music and The Advance Piano Interpretation and the Theory work Etude later issue) In .preparation for Einstein, scientist (violinist) helps me a great deal. I play clarinet in (List will be: continued in a required for the degrees of Mus. Bach., and Mus. ; Thomas by E. A. G. Radio, Screen, Stage, our school band plays Sousa- Chopin interpretation. Edison, and my brother a Mas. Special Concert, Opera. inventor (played piano); phone. We have a swell band leader and he Most people think of contests in ath- DETROIT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 405 E. 54 St. New York City John Alden helps us a great deal in our music. Carpenter, marine letics Answers to Quiz Detroit, Mich. Tel. Vo-5—1362 mer- when the word Olympics or Olym- From your friend, twelve; four; 4. four; chant (prominent composer) pian Marian Hazel Zacher (Age 12), 1. Twenty-four; 2, 3, ; Cyrus Games) is used. And that is what York 5. five; 6, twelve; 7, six; 8, seven; 9, one; McCormick, International they New Harvester usually consist of at the present 10, eight. Company (composer) time. ; Lionel Barry- But these ancient Child FLORENCE FENDER events are of very Answers Has Your BINKLEY more, stage and origin, to Instrument Puzzle the advantage of piano study with screen star (pian- and back in the early centuries Honorable Mention for Associate Teacher of Guy MaieV ist) the a member of the ; Arnold Bennett, Greeks also had series of contests in March: English author a Puzzle: announces (pianist) every four 1, Tonic; 2, revel; minor; 5, February ; Pierre years, the Olympics 3, opera; 4, S. DuPont, manu- just as Irene Taylor. Dorothy Zechman, NATIONAL GUILD Five Day Refresher Classes for *'*"™ are; but Bambi; organ; event. June Ryan, facturer (pianist) When Mi in these games prizes were also 6, 7, niece; 8, Gale Lambright, Virginia Ayres. Vir- ; Noel Coward, Mother plays, in *T* Carolina of PIANO TEACHERS Busy Piano Teachers dreams I hear When « f „ given Initials spell spell actor Wien Mother plays for musical performance. Just TROMBONE, finals ginia Rgode. Joyce Prichard, Billy Muns, Bar- Inc. (composer); John D. A multitude of fancies a rhapsody Chicago, III. Rocke- near-near; Ilo Allen, Matoira Wester- ' 11 natu e imagine! play- CLARINET. bara Ann Clark, for every student suitable feller, By nimble -? sways with And we like to think that A goal of achievement May 19-23. Berning of Music, 4747 Senior, oil magnate (pianist) fingers softly f harmony Coffua, Sarah McBride, Betty School Mil- wooed. A minuet ing in mark, Elizabeth to his age and advancement. waukee Ave. Expressive or scherzo contests and auditions is a mod- Helen Moore, Harry M. Berning, Director. John D. Rockefeller, Junior, oil of her spirit’s mood." gay Hamilton, Ted Eichelberger, (NOT A CONTEST) mag- Sends kindly em idea! Mason Martens, Meridian, Miss. nate feelings on their Prize Betty Jane Parker, James The Better Teachers Are Members (violinist and organist) way. Winners for February July 21-25. ; George In Barbara Jean Gunn, Irene Meridian Music Teachers' Assn., the fourth century, B. C. (that is Marianne Reider, Chapters in every large music center Bernard When Mother plays a 504 12th Ave. Mrs. J. W. Young, Pres. Shaw, English author (pian- sparkling air about Instrument Puzzle: Kay Hiley. Sheldon Richman, Sandra Jean FOR INFORMATION WRITE The her plays six thousand years ago) a woman ist birdlings hush their trills at ^flight Class Louis A. Bonelli, Joanne Flage, Her- For detailed circular and music critic) so fkir- t 1 ^ dim A, Dorothy Uebelhor (Age 15), Ferber. address above, or ; Major John A. may be but a received a prize in Games Miriam Feldman, IRL ALLISON, M. A. And with her soulful simple hymn— the Pythian Indiana; bert Leeman, Carol Miller, Florence Fender Warner, Superintendent melodies I Class B, Esther Bystrak, New FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT Binkley Classes of New York feel a tranquilizing for blowing a trumpet louder and longer Lane. Dolores Lewis, Renee Council, The winds go singing power Peggy West 40th St., through the trees. than York;Class C, Freddie M. Turner (Age 8) Adison Finley, Nancy Silver- Box 1113 AUSTIN, TEXAS 1120 Oklahoma City, Okla. When Mother any one it. Just Robert Leeman, plays at twilight else could blow 296 hour. think Maryland. man. about that for a moment! MAY, 297 THE ETUDE 1947 “ - ' ’ A TIIK COVER FOR THIS MONTH—Cover subjects which convey BASIC a musical interest STLDIES for the Instrumenia immediately °f to the beholder are hard Orchestra, by Traugoll Rohner ,hc piocure. 2 —’Thj EASY, A Work Book by Mara In order • to stimulate ideas along portant new work, by a music MUSIC MADE this line educateLi entertaining publication for The Etude wide of Lg—This . Music Macazine a experience, presumes an elomL —a X4UJ.1 caiiecuuiy year or so ago instituted students will provide novelty as prepared material, prize contests playing ability on the part ofS? mung this work contains m several of the more te instruction. While it has been some attractive folk prominent art and carrying on from ' ell as tunes, and some schools there in the United States. technical S“PS directly as supplementary mate- adaptations from Brahms, During the ability and musicianshln designed Johann Strauss, past twelve months The i Robert Nolan Kerr’s widely used and others. Etude ha/ir! gressively through rial to Cartoon drawings make ned the practicing up on its covers some of B ^of wil1 constitute useful sup- the illustrations. the prize scales, intervals, and arneueine All in ONE' winners and some to any method. of the runners-up in variations of key, plementary material The Orders for single copies of each these cover rhythm, and part contests. Interspersed dynam? will deal with the theory of may be placed now indents Miss are melodious content at the special Ad- S 0 Eva Hoffman, harnioLi' cover such matters as vance 0" ' a student at the “Time Teasers,” music, and will of Publication Cash Price of a«d Cleveland School a novel, original feat? 35 add* ,, of Art, at the time and symbols, note values, time signa- cents each, postpaid. ccep^a, ° e . the of finally, a very useful music’ ) on offering of ' prizes in an Etude cover scales, rhythm, accent, ties, slurs, ' S contest Waltz” and selections from tures, Se5 among students there Tschaiko2s£ There will be a match- won first and Gounod, and tetrachords. KING MIDAS, Cantata for Two-Part Treble prize with the The major cover design emphasis false tests, and at- Voices, appearing TWENTY-FOUR SHORT STUDIES, Tech- course, Is S test, true or Lyrics by Celia Thaxter, Music on this issue. for placed on the string ing by an Long since we nic and Sightreading LL5 Some of the text Org have for Piano , by L. A. illustrations. May A. Strong— con- Waif, 1947 although parts are tractive An engaging offer for the |n gratulated Miss available for Vi°l 1 Hoffman and sent Wilmoi this each ?? engaging poetry, and to —In admirable new addition made up of spring music ; QomP her stmment iH be festival is this ice, _ 1Z C k of the orchestra. 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Practice faculty Publication Cash Price, Aven TnnAv \ All of the books is provided her of Lm Advance of 25 facilitated by the absence of solo voices, Fortunately for in this list are in Northwestern University . , music publishers on Passing Thumbs, Phrasing, SchoolL in these preparation for Shifting Music and cents, postpaid. the ease of the music, and especially of u+h days when a large Publication. The Director of f;WS° volume of low Advance Hand Positions. Scale Passages, Ins^mento 412 n®s* Offer Cash Prices ap. Chords, the accompaniment, which is within the helps to cover higher M^theTOiwnshipSchooisofEvar ctor' than pre- ply only to orders Thirds and Sixths, and Repeated D' re placed NOW Notes KETTERER’S BOOK OF PIANO ability of the average pianist. Appealing ,al Papel'’ printta Delivery are ELLA fAusic «- and bind- (postpaid) svill be given emphasis in other ineing, Ther ; made studies writ- Solo—For this delight- story and widely varied character there is a great when the Ten books’ are to be PIECES, for Piano parts inois “appetite” for books are Published. ten in major and minor published as fol music. The keys up to four WS: collection, Miss Ketterer has are other interesting elements of this terrific Paragraphs VloIln - ful new demand describing Viola - Cello. for every- each pub- sharps and four flats. Bass! mm lung licatton L Vutl contata. usic worthwhile in the realm appear on these Oboe, Clarinet-Trumpet, selected her own favorites from her of educa- pages. A single copy may be F Horn, E-flat M 05iC onal, standard, ordered now at Previous to publication, at >* religious, Horn and Saxophone, numerous successful compositions. Those one copy may s and classical Advance °f Publication Trombone-Ba? 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Titles cover a variety of subjects, for by Score gomery sure No .60 This work book, which to spe^7 thetb publisher wants to is de- books desired interest is sustained throughout by Dorothea J. Byerly—This expertly illus- let any worth 0 s when ordering. and Ub upplement regular instruction n Stay Ji . diverse rhythmic patterns and contrast- trated story in colored pictures relate? perman dr. OSBOURNE McCONATHY, national*, On" known music educator, and “The Show Must Go an authorit on puDlic school music, died GUY MAIER April 2 Pattenburg, New Jersey, aged seventh THE PIANISTS' WORKSHOP from Page 293) two. He held his first school ( Continued music nr/' tion at the age of eighteen in • IOS ANGELES July 7-24 Louisvil?' Kentucky. He was a former president 0 Santa Monica Bay Women's Club; 1210 Fourth St., (at Wilshire Blvd.) of excitement, nervous the Music Supervisors be a way to eliminate National Confer all of which have ence and of the Music TEACHERS' WORKSHOP and YOUNG PEOPLE'S REPERTOIRE strain, and tension— Teachers National Monday, and Wednesday mornings, from the life Association. July 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23 their effect on the heart— There are, ADVANCED PIANISTS' REPERTOIRE and work of the musician. the Tuesday and Thursday mornings, July 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24 however, well-known ways to soothe relieve the Each course, $25.00; Inclusive course fee, $40.00; Young students impact of those forces and to Competitions fee (under 17) $5.00; Private lessons, June 30 to July 30, $20.00 burden of a strained heart. per lesson. troubles were At all times when heart A SECOND PIANO CONTEST, For further information concerning courses, address musicians, they suf- spon. taking their toll of sored by the Rachmaninoff Fund, For Teachers and Students Secretary, Guy Maier audi- Inc fered silently without showing the will be held during the 1947-48 503 Alta Ave., Santa Monica, California season Aids felt. Characteristic is the The Fund’s national finals Various Study ence how they in the first Public School Piano Playing notice For of Important . , , Mr. Maier cannot offer any assistance in securing living or practise scheduled unhappy life of the violinist-composer, contest, for this spring, have accommodations in the Los Angeles area. For room information address Santa Monica postponed Wieniawski. As Leopold Auer tells us, been to the spring of I94g Educators Chamber of Commerce, 109 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, Calif. 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