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The training received by boys in church and pieces lithographed on good paper from sheet pieces with a technical purpose in view. The pupils’ first miles, as did Bach, but the Englishman’s inborn love much to be said. cathedral choirs has much to do with the general music plates, and bound in a striking and tasty pieces, and yet sufficient material for several years of study for travel has added much to the English musician’s Price, 75 Cents In discussing London as a center for musical stu¬ diffusion of musical education among the working- but, nevertheless, substantial manner. and pleasure.1 Published in substantial and attractive style general culture, which will certainly find an ultimate dents, it may be well to ascertain at first whether the people. Not only the boys directly concerned, but expression in the music of England. A popular collection that will. 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A By Thomas Tapper study in musical history this book is the best obtainable. Teachers who looks upon any inquiry of a personal nature with in a manner highly insulting. The chivalry of the w1 !e 8uP*ri?rvalue of biography over history for first study will much suspicion; and it is only by the exercise of con¬ musician is well repaid if he hears nothing else in English gentleman is always a protection to a woman 1 ^^INTERPRETATION secure the best results in their class-room work with this volume. siderable tact that one can secure any really desirable London but these inspiring bodies of singers. The traveling alone in England, and the men of London biogrophy ‘s.the result of careful study; it is direct, readable, and By A J.GOODRIC ”*7er ,a.'7' ,F-'!ents in American history are deftly woven in, and the reader information without offending the informer. As soon boy-choirs in France and are instructed are, as a rule, too self-respecting and too industrious gets an historical picture from biographical study. fts he is assured that you are not asking questions along entirely different lines and are as far inferior, to make remarks about passers-by. This is a unique work, a indeed, from the fulJ and complete sketch of every composer’s life is given, containing as fact of it being the only complete work on Interpretation student should know of composers. Its value lies in the o Ratify idle curiosity he will become very communi¬ generally speaking, as the American boy-choir is to Price, t'?ul?tes and maintains; in the expert manner in which it makes English Ballad Concerts. that there is published, and not a mere compilation, bnt Seneral history by identifying each composer with certain cative and do much to assist you. After many tours the English. Even in the Cathedral the sing¬ a complete and original system for the unfolding of $1.50 and inc>dents, thus matin! music-history a part of the n the city you will probably find that there is very ing is inferior to that in numerous comparatively un¬ London is in many ways a singularly beautiful musical style and content. It contains the essence of all ZL™°7i in. *ts method of presentation, serving as a reliable introduc¬ tory tnanuaf to the special study of music history. known Episcopal churches in our large American other works on the subject. A Text-Book for students’ 1 tie difference indeed between the general musical city for the student, and there is much of romantic to the teacher, explains fully how to proceed use. atmosphere of London and New York, Chicago, Bos¬ cities. and historical interest that cannot help inspiring any For Self or Class Study Tnd illns^t"1 t?aSh,,ne- .With each composer there is given a portrait The work contains many (acts as to the meaning and views, sets of questions on the text, and sugges- on, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, or Baltimore. The Cheap Concerts. impressionable person. In fact, one feels that it is structure of music that every progressive student should For One’s Own Reading know. It is not necessary to have studied harmony for jn er set out one fine morning to find the address One can hear good music in London at prices seem¬ much more interesting to the stranger than to the this work to be of the greatest value to yon. It really THEQ, PRESSER, Publisher, j» SifflSW*street* 0 a famous London musician of international fame ingly ridiculously cheap to Americans. A good seat Londoner born. This novelty contributes to the artis¬ analyzes the spiritual in music by beginning with the an^H mus*cian8. It ia next to impossible to find to hear the Joachim Quartet may be secured for 1 tic atmosphere as indeed nothing else can. There smallest germ or motive, and showing the construction “ *"ress in the complicated London directories shilling, in a location in every way as good as that are many things that the American finds hard to by dividing the composition into separate parts. Mr. Goodrich has explained the subject thoroughly and —B00K F0R ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED in choral music ,d*V.'de 80ciety into so many different classes. for which a New Yorker would have to pay $1.00 or reconcile in the musical world of London. The Eng¬ carefully by the use of many illustrations; so clearly w er ,v'ng asked a number of intelligent men and $1.50 at a concert of the Kneisel Quartet. Chaminade lish Ballad Concert is one of them. It is difficult to that the average student will have no difficulty in not omen if they happened to know in what part of and the Philharmonic Society (Dr. Frederic Cowen, see how an audience that one moment certainly ap¬ only understanding, but will be able, also, to apply the CHOIR AND CH°Rus conductinc theories set forth. t Tr C*ty the famous man lived, I was surprised conductor, Jan Kubelik, soloist) may be heard at the preciates music of the highest possible standard, the This work, on the Theory of Music, should be the first * fa displacing the one. _ B°Und ln C,°‘h* ^O. same rate. The admission, including a good seat, at next moment goes in equal raptures over a program tl mo n that they 1,81,1 not even heard of their fa' book which every one who desires to understand music us (1) fellow-countryman. After entering several the concerts of the Richter Orchestra, under Dr. H. of very empty tunes. At a concert that was repre¬ intelligently should own. Richter; Vladimir de Pachman, Godowsky, David sented by prominent musicians as being a High-Class Handsomely printed and bound, with Index and Com¬ ^ an<1 rece'ying little more satisfaction from their pendium. ^Pers, I finally went to a large musical-instrument Bispham, Madame Albani, Clara Butt, Santley, Lady Ballad Concert, one is surprised to find nothing of .-. THEO. PRESSER. Publuhcr. 1708 Chestnut St.. PhlUdelphi . tron' Where 1 learne

The bowing given below is certainly more difficult, it is advisable to use at least half of the bow on F- pupil must be careful to accent the lowest note. but the result is proportionally more artistic. sharp, in order to obtain sufficient freedom of stroke (To be continued.) The accents clearly indicate that the detached notes on the B. The same principle applies to the 10th should be played with additional force and strength. measure. Conduoted BY QEORQE LEHMANN. And, more than this, the sign of the marteU means In studies of this character the pupil will always A lady write* me that she This is the briefest account of Mrs. X’s wonto u that the stroke be taken invariably at the point, find it difficult to adhere to the tempo, the tendency discovery. It was all so simple and so conclusive that whereas the detacU may be played with other por¬ is the fortunate possessor of a being to increase .the speed rather than to diminish it. another no one can fail to see that Mrs. X’s discovery must tions of the bow. fiddle made by Stradivarius STRADIVARIUS. result in universal joy. In all parts of the civilized These are the distinguishing features between the The Tenth Caprice. seven years before his death. globe exist fiddles bearing the joy-giving label, and two strokes: detacU and marteU. Regarding the em¬ There is scarcely anything in this study that calls Owing to certain circumstances she nas decided to their owners have but to peer through the left f-hole ployment of the staccato sign where such bowings as for analytical comment. In the class-room much can part with her fiddle, and wishes to know where she order to satisfy themselves and credulous mankind saltato, spiccato, etc., are desired, I shall have some¬ be said and demonstrated regarding its peculiar worth would be likely to find a purchaser. My correspond¬ e born in the workshop of the thing more to say in a future issue of The Etude. and difficulty; but written words, wholly unaccom¬ ent further informs me that she is willing to sell her that their fiddles v panied by demonstration, are obviously inadequate ABOUT PRAYING. fiddle for “from eight to ten thousand dollars,” and great Antonio. thought for a moment and then said: “Just a little for a study of this nature. 1 am led to suppose that she regards any sum less ARTHUR ALLEN. bow-legged.” _ A correspondent asks me No study could be bet- It will be seen that the purpose of this study re¬ than eight thousand dollars as wholly inadequate I teach two young girls who are quite chummy. A DREAMER AND A DULLARD. to explain the apparent incon¬ THE RODE STUDIES ter calculated to develop sembles that of the eighth Caprice, and that in design, for the instrument in her possession. THE For purposes of this anecdote we will call them Anna NANCY H. BU8KETT. STACCATO DOT. sistencies in the employment (Continued). strength and independence also, there is a striking similarity. It should be I am going to tell my readers how this lady hap¬ and Clara. At a recent musicale Clara played “Even¬ One day when I was giving a lesson a lady was of the staccato sign, and lays of the forearm and wrist played in the upper part of the bow, with independ¬ pens to know that her fiddle was made by the great ing Prayer,” by Behr, very effectively. Anna, on ushered in whom I recognized at once as what is the fact that many admirable violin- than the eighth Caprice. It should he played in the ent forearm and flexible wrist. Italian master. She had so little dilliculty in reach- - . n going home, told her mother that one of Clara’s pieces commonly known as a “society woman.” She in¬ upper quarter of the bow, and in the following man¬ ing a decision as to the origin of her instrument that, ists either disregard the sign altogether or give it a Its demands on tlie musical intelligence of the was just lovely. “It was a prayer,” she said, “and troduced herself as Mrs. Grandy, and at once pro¬ in divulging her secret to mankind in general and my musical meaning differing from the apparent intention ner: player are insignificant. All dynamics, however, must made you feel as if you were in church. Why, ceeded to tell me of tlie many different piano-teachers readers in particular, 1 feel that I shall earn the of the composer. Also, he writes that most players be rigidly observed, and the player must aim at main¬ mamma, it was a great deal better than you can she had employed for her little daughter, and of the with whom he has conversed on the subject have gratitude of millions. taining a fine quality of tone. pray.” failure of each to accomplish anything with her. She either very hazy notions or no understanding of it Mrs. X—let us call her so—has a fiddle that has ended by saying: whatever. The Eleventh Caprice. been in her possession for many years. She knows DO NOT STARE. “Now, Miss B., if I give my daughter to you for 1 must frankly confess that I cannot account for This study is written in Rode’s happiest vein. To that it is very, very ancient, because her father's The upper arm should take no active part in the HERBERT G. PATTON. lessons, you will promise me that you will make her ie such remote and n the absurd contradictions that continue to escape our the average player it may seem to be calculated father's uncle’s brother (or work, though it is obviously impossible for it to practice and learn to play something, won’t you?” 1 committal ancestor) bought it from an old and feeble otherwise^ lynx-eyed publishers. The origin jof^the merely for the technical development of the fingers Have you ever observed the fishy stare assumed remain motionless. The wrist must remain supple by the student amateur while intently reading his answered that I could only promise to give her in¬ Italian whose great-grandfather had lived in Cremona. whole difficulty may easily be traced to the composer, and the wrist; but a close study of its general design throughout the entire study. The forearm necessarily struction to the best of my ability; but that 1 through whose indifference, or lack of conscientious¬ reveals the fact that, in this Caprice, Rode has artis¬ music? He winks his eyes only at rare intervals; this This is an excellent beginning, us my intelligent thought it the duty of the mother to attend, to a ness misapplication of the staccato sign has been per¬ responds to every movement of the wrist, but it is tically combined many valuable features of the higher habit is so general that it deserves attention. Ocu¬ readers will admit; for had the great-grandfather of certain extent, to the practice of the child. I ex¬ petuated. Hut it is not easy to understand why, after the latter that must do the actual work. art of violin-playing. lists and opticians tell us that the act of winking the old Italian who sold the fiddle to Mrs. X’s father’s pected her to be offended; but she was not, and when all that has been said and written on this vexed In my edition there is nothing indicated at the be¬ serves to wipe off the anterior surface of the eyeball, father's uncle’s brother been born in Dublin, it might The proper division of the bow, in the 6th measure, she left me she smilingly remarked: “I depend upon be difficult to convince fiddle-lovers of the present question, our publishers still continue to remain un- ginning of this Caprice to guide the player regarding and the momentary closing of the lids gives the ocular causes the majority of pupils some difficulty. Their you to see that the child learns to play some pieces.” century that this fiddle had been fashioned by the interested in details of their work that certainly de- the desired quantity of tone. It should unquestion¬ perplexity is occasioned chiefly by the groups of de¬ apparatus periods of rest. Afy own teacher used to ably be begun forte. Later on, also, there is a careless lecture me in this regard; and sometimes, on finishing She came at the appointed time, and I found that cmining hand of Antonio Stradivarius. But, as the serve their closest attention. tached notes in the previous measure. These must she was a dreamy child of about twelve years of age, matter stands, only a sneering skeptic could harbor When it is taken into consideration that the stac- employment of the forte which perplexes the majority a selection, he would say: “But you must wink!” naturally be played at the point, which leaves the wrapped up in books and nothing but books, and at the suspicion that this instrument might possibly be cato dot, as employed to-day, is often the cause of of players. The fp in the 6th measure is correct, but accompanying the remark with a wave of his hand player with an insufficient amount of bow for the the first lesson my patience was exhausted in trying a recent importation from Markncukirchen, Germany, perplexity among experienced players, the despair of the forte must be resumed in the following measure. close to the offending members. By persistent effort sextoles of the 6th measure. This difficulty is ob¬ to gain her attention long enough to impress upon the inexperienced in determining its value is little The last two measures should be played leggiero. a natural, unstrained action of the eyes may be as¬ Now let us see by what an absurdly sixuple process viated, however, in the following simple manner: the her mind one idea at a time. It took a number of of reasoning Airs. X possessed herself of the knowl¬ cause for wondennent. Experience and musical in¬ sumed, even accompanying the violent tension of The Ninth Caprice. bow should be pushed quite rapidly on the first note lessons to teach her to concentrate her attention,— stinct often enable the player correctly to decide what reading a difficult score at sight. edge that her fiddle is a genuine Stradivarius. of the 6th measure, so that fully a fourth of its length not that she was dull, for she was not,—but she had the composer had in mind; but the novice is at a The Adagio of this Caprice, like all of Rode’s slow Until recent years the fiddle lay neglected in the is utilized. This will give the player sufficient freedom been allowed to do just as she pleased, and it had decided disadvantage in such matters, and he cannot movements, abounds in opportunities for the display A TALKING AUDIENCE. garret. Timid mice scampered over its strings and for the down-stroke, after which it will be possible pleased her to read, read, read, and then to dream, reasonably be expected to form a correct and inde¬ of beautiful violin-playing. The tempo mark in my EUGENE F. MARKS. were frightened by the sounds they produced; but the for him to employ the entire length of the bow for the dream, dream. pendent decision. edition, 84 eighths, is excellently chosen. bolder, sophisticated rats sniffed the strings sus¬ remaining sextoles. The lamentable position an audience frequently as¬ About tlie same time another mother came to me piciously, and, finding no cause for alarm, ate them Clearly the solution of the problem does not require The second measure often betrays a habit which is The 8th measure should be played as follows: sumes toward a participant in a recital was rather with a daughter who had discouraged her parents and the efforts of a gigantic intellect It requires only the exceedingly inartistic, affecting, as it always does, the in E-A-D-G order with commendable musical apprecia- slangily, yet tersely, told by the remark of a very a number of teachers. t,on. concerted action of our publishers, who, with the aid player’s style and general bowing. I allude to the young member of the preparatory department who I do not think I ever worked harder with any pupils On a raw, drizzly day in November the postman of a capable violinist, can easily decide upon a system up-bow on the third beat of the measure. Most pupils had appeared on a program, and, notwithstanding the than I did with these two. After constant labor they brought Mrs. X the Sunday edition of the New York of signs and nomenclature whose meaning is unmis- resume the stroke at, or about, the point of discon¬ fact that she was perfectly familiar with her piece both showed signs of improvement, and I was be¬ Itrrald. She seated herself close to the cheerful grate- takable. Until this sensible step is taken, confusion tinuance on the previous note. 'Such a habit naturally and played it from memory, made a slight error. ginning to rejoice that after the time, energy, and fire and systematically proceeded to acquaint herself and misunderstanding will always be inevitable, precludes the possibility of a broad style, and con¬ “I would not have made that mistake,” she said, nerve-force I had expended on them I was at last with the happenings of this degenerate world. Three My correspondent also calls my attention to the tributes materially to a feeble and uncertain manner loo often there is a strong tendency to cramp the “if the people had not been so ‘chinny’; I could hear about to reap my reward when my little “dreamer” blood-curdling murders and fourteen divorce cases had meaning which I give the word detacU, and informs of bowing. The up-stroke, on the dotted eighth note, bowing in the 23d measure and in all subsequent them all the time, and it flustered me.” stopped for awhile, on account of illness in the family, been devoured with all their interesting details when e that a certain writer on violin questions expresses should be re-begun at the point of the bow. measures of similar construction. Not only must the I wish the audience could some time be made aware and, in fact, never came back. Mrs. X’s eye was attracted by the following head views radically differing from my own. On this point The ornamentation on the first quarter of the utmost flexibility of the wrist be maintained, but the of what the players feel; I am sure there would be The other pupil continued her lessons and surprised lines: I only care to say that the writer referred to has third measure sometimes disturbs the pupil’s sense o pupil should employ a sufficient amount of bow to a change in their actions, and that they would become even me; for she was so delighted when she discovered never been taken seriously in the violin world, nor rhythm. The group should be played in such manner A $10,000 FIDDLE avoid angularity of style. more considerate toward the performers and cease that she did have some ability after the adverse ver¬ Bearing the Label has it ever occurred to me that his opinions might be as not to disturb, in the least degree, the time-value Ihe modulation to D major (30th measure) may their whisperings during the progress of a number. dict passed by friends and neighbors, that she went “Antonius Stkadiuarius Cremonensis regarded as authoritative. of the sixteenth note (A). legitimately be preceded by a slight ritenuto; and the Nothing is more disconcerting to a player or to a at her work, and kept at it, with a determination and FAC1EBAT ANNO 1710” The staccato sign (the dot), when placed either The pupil should not be mislead by the following whole episode, beginning with the 30th and ending singer than the inattention of an audience; and if a persistency that surprised all who knew her. Bought by above or below a note, means that that note should group on the last eighth of the first measure: with the 33d measure, requires suave, graceful play- person is worthy to appear on a program certainly he Some time after the little “dreamer” discontinued Professor Zmidkewski. be sharply separated from the note that follows it. lng rather than metronome-like precision. What fol- is worth being listened to. her lessons I met her mother on the street and she This sharp separation (or detacU) is accomplished by anxiously asked me “Why Grace (referring to pupil o+t it,i T p 1■ -f Vi ®"s, however, demands the resumption of a vigorous The lady’s heart stood still. And well it might; means of & rapid stroke of the wrist. It may be A NEW ILLUSTRATION, No. 2) had learned to play so nicely and her daughter for in the garret lay a fiddle that her father's father’s played, according to circumstances, at the point the —— i c. L. had failed.” I explained to her that just at the uncle’s brother had bought from a decrepit Italian middle, or the heel of the bow; but, if the resultant Ihe octave progressions, in the 69th and 60th meas¬ One day while giving a small boy his music-lesson critical time when both pupils had showm signs of whose great-grandfather had lived in Cremona. She tone is staccato in character, the stroke which pro- ures, point a much-needed warning to most pupils. The general tendency is to linger on the upper no ^ I had occasion to explain to him the difference be¬ improvement, her daughter had discontinued lessons, flew to the garret nnd rescued her fiddle from two duces it is properly termed detacU The following hough the composer has plainly indicated that the (B): a misapprehension which destroys the musics^ tween legato- and staccato- touch. For comparison virtually losing all the money, time, and patience ex¬ wise old rodents that were investigating the virtues illustration may help to make my meaning clearer- accent should fall on the lower note of the octave, meaning of the whole phrase. The first quartet o pended on her, while Grace had continued her study of the finger-board and bridge. Trembling with fear Q _ & m08t players have the habit of disregarding this ac- I used the kitty and the puppy, saying: “The kitty the sixth measure is manifestly the musical res W and had gained what to her was more than a fortune. and expectation she peered through the dust-laden ! ! j— cent, giving the upper note the prominence which the walks evenly and smoothly, which is legato, while point. Of course, she could not understand it, and even to /■-holes, and lo! there was the little label bearing ^" . °"er one should receive. the puppy walks in a jerky, uneven manner, which is The Allegretto is a severe tax on the wrist, staccato.” Thinking my boy thoroughly understood, this day when I meet her she will remark upon it Antonius Stradivarius’ name. The perplexed pupil naturally asks: What, then is j ln my edition the 70th measure is grouped as fol- bow must remain on the strings, and all not®8 a I asked him how the kitty walked. The little fellow with wonder. 302 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 303 not be termed incomplete, seeing that they cannot be ites. One of the most popular choirs in the city of To educate the public mind in this as in other respects legitimately completed. organ 4 stops, and the pedal organ 10 stops. The Philadelphia often sings, just before the close of the is the duty and privilege of organists, and sooner or Nearly all orchestral or imitative stops, which are organ contains 27 combination pistons. The opening service, while the congregation is kneeling, such later they will awaken to the fact. called by the name of an instrument, are incomplete. recital was given by Mr. Harrison M. Wild, of hymns as “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” “Rock of Ages,” Latterly I have spent some time studying fugues No orchestral instrument has five octaves of com¬ Chicago. or “Just As I Am” with all the finish that a quartet by Guilmant and Salome, two representative French pass, as the organ clavier has; for example: the of highly trained singers can give. composers for the “king of instruments.” Admiration Mute has no bass, nor yet the Oboe, when treated A writer in the Boston Transcript, who seems to Aside from hymns, the organist will find it de¬ for their works increases as they become more and orehestrally. But Oboe treble and Bassoon base are have a grievance against the management of the sirable to select a few pieces that can be given with¬ more known. In them is found brilliant, yet withal often conventionally grouped into one, under the City Music Department, as he failed to secure an out accompaniment, something between a hymn-tune solid, scholarly workmanship, attractive alike by name of Oboe, just as Violin and Violoncello are engagement in the City Band, has this to say rela¬ and a regular anthem. Some of the so-called hymn- their clarity and uniformly maintained interest, their combined under the name of Gamba. tive to organ-concerts in a recent issue: Edited by EVERETT E. TRUBTTE. anthems can be so used: if not as a whole, at least ease, gracefulness, and naturalness, as against the Divided stops are stops drawn in two portions by “While we all love music, some of us can pay for in part. We ask for more unaccompanied singing, lucubratory laborings we (too often) meet in this two stop-handles, one producing the acute, and the the pleasure and some cannot. Therefore the city paths. And is that latter element not the one that in which the charm of the human voice, with the form. In fine, they at once bear the impress of mu¬ Fernand de i.a Tombelle other the grave, portion of the same series of pipes. provides it for all of us, but specially for those who keeps a choir rather low in point of efficiency? The addition of skilled training, may have sway.—IF. J. sicianship. PE LA TOMBELLE. was born in Paris on the 3d This form of divided stop is not common in modern are poor. But the poor don’t want organ-recitals, services are usually modeled one after the other; Baltzell. Guilmant’s series of “Pieces in Different Styles for of August, 1854. His early organs; but where there are incomplete stops the and most other people would rather pay than to each successive Sunday shows the same methods in the Organ” (eighteen books) contains several interest- instruction on the piano was well conducted by his costly lower notes which they lack are usually sup¬ listen to them for an hour. We like to hear the use, follows the old routine. The anthems vary but In response to. numer- ing fugues (Sonatas, Nos. 3 and 6 have fugue move¬ mother, who was an excellent musician, until the time plied by an independent set of closed wooden pipes, organ in the church only when it peals forth with little in style and usually demand the same forces. GENERAL NOTIONS ous questions relative to ments; No. 5 contains a choral and fugue). Salome’s when the university took up all the lad’s time. After which can be drawn to complete any one of the might like a voice in the praise of God. The layman Chorus singing, with a strong, rich organ support, UPON ORGAN-STOPS. the classification of or¬ Fugue in B-flat (No. 6 of “Ten Pieces,” set 2) may his graduation he returned with renewed vim to his incomplete stops, and is termed Stopped Bass. has no other use for the organ, and, if the Com¬ musical studies, studying organ and harmony with is inspiring and effective; but if heard in much the gan-stops we quote the also be recommended. While thus writing I might Compound stops are those which have two or more mission contemplates educating the musical instinct Guilmant and counterpoint and fugue with Dubois. same amount, power, and with about the same char¬ following from that excellent work, “Organ Con¬ mention a few works of Bach which may well serve pipes to each note: i.e., two or more complete series of the people through that channel, I for one pre¬ His studies were well directed and well pursued, as acter, throughout an entire service and Sunday after struction,” by J. W. Hinton, M.A. Mus. Doc.: as introductory (in a progressive sense) to his more of pipes are brought on simultaneously. dict utter failure. I have seen how lovers of music, the results testify, and he developed a style at once Sunday, interest is lost. We cannot appreciate the By the term “stop” is meant a number of pipes elaborate and profound creations. Fugue in E-minor, harmony, and sweet melodies were bored to death The pipes of which stops are composed are thus pure and masterly. value of music which never varies. We want con¬ following each other chromatically, and extending Fugue in D-major (“The Great,” volume I, Best’s edi¬ classified: and left in dismay the organ recital, while master¬ Leaving the Conservatoire, he received the first trast. There are certain musical combinations that over the full compass of the keyboard, or some por¬ tion); Fugue in A-minor, Prelude and Fugue in-G- pieces and fugues were played, saying: ‘We cannot prize of the “Soditt des compositeurs" for quartet and are effective, that form what the uninitiated call tion thereof only. Each set, cr series, of pipes thus I. Flue pipes. minor (volume II); Fantasia and Fugue in G-minor, stand it any longer.' How sorely the Commission symphony, and has been appointed an Officer of Public “pretty chords”; but if used frequently their effect situated is composed of tubes of the same construc¬ L Reed pipes. Toccata and Fugue in D-minor (volume IV); Fantasia misjudged its vocation when it bought the organ! palls. Some organists are lavish with their use of Instruction. tion producing the same quality of tone throughout; Flue pipes—virtually whistles of various shapes— and Fugue in A-minor, Fugue in G, Fugue in G The organ-recital gives enjoyment to the student, diminished sevenths, dominant major ninths, and His compositions include several suites and other and—as there is a pipe (or sound-producer) to every are subdivided into: twelve-eight time (volume IX), which has not inaptly and to him only. To almost all other persons it is a orchestral pieces, chamber-music (quartets and trios other large chord-formations, augmented fifths and key—the series aforesaid constitutes a complete in¬ Open pipes: i.e., those having their upper end open. been designated by Mr. E. H. Lemare “Fugue ft la torture. How, then, will the commissioners, and how sixths; so much so that everything they play—it strument or stop. When two stop-handles are drawn Stopped pipes: i.e., those in which that end is Gigue,” presumably on account of its lively character; can they, excuse the squandering of $9000 of the is in their improvising that this occurs most fre¬ there are two instruments simultaneously control¬ closed. and also the Prelude and Fugue in D-minor and the public funds for repairs of something the public, as quently—is like an electrical display: dazzling, but Prelude and Fugue in B-flat of the “Eight Short” lable from the keys, just as would be the case if it Reed pipes—provided with vibrating tongues—are such, does not want?” Evidently our band musi¬ not restful. After such extravagance in the use of (shunned for recital purposes for no valid reasons).— were possible to unite two pianos in such a manner subaivided into Beating reeds and Free reeds. In cians, judging from the above, do not like the organ; dissonances, how quiet, how soothing it is to have E. Stanley Jones, in Musical Opinion. but there are others. that they could be simultaneously played by one beating reeds the tongue beats against the reed; in a passage in the simple common chords! performed on one keyboard. free reeds it beats between the sides of a slot or So also in regard to anthems rendered with the I am frequently asked by The German term Stimme (or voice) for Stop is groove in the reed and does not touch anything. In New Bedford, Mass., Miss Grace Simmons re¬ full power of the instrumental and vocal resources. PROPER SHOES an excellent one, as the organist must consider that pupils, correspondents, and cently discovered a new source of truly silvery music, We call it brilliant, but we also want quieter work. FOR ORGAN- he is virtually directing a chorus, each stop being a people whom I meet which but it brought her into the district court to-day, and That is the time when the organist and choir¬ Instrumental fugal music is unit. If he draw one, it fs as though he told an PEDALING. kind of shoes I recommend nothing but the good nature of the court, backed master will reduce. Let him select a simple piece: ORGAN-FUGUES, caviaie to the average recital- individual to sing alone; if he draw two or three, it for organ-pedaling. I am by the forgiving nature of her foster-mother, Mrs. such as can be sung without any instrumental sup¬ go°r; trite enough a fact, in all is the same as though he told two or three persons generally inclined t quote a little slang and reply: Geneva Allen, allowed her case to go on file. port whatever. The congregation will appreciate it; conscience. The following oity definition reminds us to sing in unison. ‘Oh, any old shoe.” Now, this may be slang, but it Grace was charged with the larceny of $6. She there need be no fear on that score. There is a the latter part especially-—tnat “many a true word I certainly think that all separate series of pipes expresses more than one would suppose, as any new said she sat down at a cabinet organ and commenced charm in unaccompanied singing that always holds is spoken in jest.” “In a fugue the parts run away should be termed “voices,” according to the German shoe would be the worst kind of a shoe to wear drumming on the keys, when one of them jingled an audience. This is shown by the fact that the from each other, and the listeners run away from the precedent. To call each voice or instrument a Stop when attempting any difficult pedal passage, while and produced real coin. The more she worked the most successful choral organizations in cities and lot.” Why is this? is as unphilosophical as to call it a wind-tap, or a shoe that is half worn out, provided the heels are key, the more money came out, till at length she had towns are those that devote a large share of their When we find how appreciated choral fugues are, stop-cock; it only describes a portion of the mech¬ not too much worn off at the back or sides, enables $6. She concluded that she was entitled to the study to madrigals, part-songs, glees, and such work it is, to a certain extent, difficult to account for. Yet anism necessary to secure the independent action of one to use the feet in pedaling with greater ease fruits of her musicianly attainments, pocketed the as can be sung without accompaniment. The charm we need not go far to seek a part explanation. Many the “voice” in question. and flexibility. Whether the shoe is buttoned, laced, sum, and spent it. Her mother accused her of steal¬ lies wholly in the blending of the voices and the of the more elaborate fugues of Bach, Merkel, Rhein- From an etymological point of view it is, however, or of the Congress pattern is purely a matter of ing the money, which Mr. Allen had stowed away careful shading that distinguish a well-trained choir. berger, and other classical writers .are not even ordi¬ quite easy to account for the word “stop.” Until taste. in the organ for safe keeping.—Boston Herald. The present writer suggests that a portion of the narily interesting to, and appreciated by, organists Fernand de la Tombelle. about the middle of the fifteenth century each key in Occasionally one meets an organist who prefers a rehearsal-time be given to unaccompanied singing. themselves at one hearing; indeed, many immortal an organ controlled a certain pre-arranged number low shoe, and I once met an organist (?) who “could Start with a hymn-tune that has variety of harmony works in this form—for fugues will assuredly live, for strings or for piano and strings), choral scenes, of pipes; in fact, the organ was simply a huge not play” unless he wore his patent-leather slippers. The following organists received the Associateship with melodic quality, and opportunity for effects in notwithstanding modem and ultramodern tendencies The objection to slippers and an objection to low Degree at the recent examination of the American sets of songs, and numerous organ-compositions, in¬ ’’mixture,” sometimes having forty or fifty ranks. shading. The director must be guided by the ability and developments—can only be understood and ade¬ shoes, though less in the case of the latter, is that Guild of Organists: cluding two sonatas. It is by the compositions for When means were devised by which the player could of his singers, both as to facility in reading and the quately appreciated by continued study. How, then, Mrs. Gertrude Elizabeth McKellar, Miss Edna C. the organ that he is best known in this country, two stop certain ranks from sounding, thus isolating they slip at the heal. range of their voices. He may also select tunes that can it rationally be expected that the general public I am inclined to think that too much stress is put Tilley, Mr. Merrill M. Hutchinson, Miss Mabel A. sets of five and six books each, Op. 23 and 33, being others he wished to use alone, a new era dawned will give each part some prominence. Many more care for fugues? As organists have to be educated, upon the subject by would-be organists, and that it Bennett, Mr. Walter Kellar, Mr. Arthur Dunham, the principal works. in the annals of organ-building. The term “stop” tunes, frequently used, than the average singer is so must the public. is only necessary to stick to some one kind of a Mr. Harry Ludlow Cooke, Mr. William F. Paul, Mr. recalls the fact that sliders were first used rather aware of will permit of special prominence in the Further, for the state of affairs to which allusion shoe, as changing from high to low, from heavy to Alexander Bachmann, Mr. John N. Frazier. Til's organist and choir- to silence ranks of pipes than to bring them on, and, inner parts. A tine example of this is Barnby’s tune as been made organists must be prepared to accept light, or from new to old will cause more incon¬ The Fellowship Degree was awarded to the follow¬ UNACCOMPANIED master should be alert at in itself, constitutes a record of the causes which ‘Merrial.” sung to the words, “Now the day is over ” a share of the responsibility. Religiously to include venience than is at first thought. ing: SINGING. all times to find new ideas led to its invention. Similarly the term “barrel m which the bass has prominence in the first line- a Bach item in each recital program, because it is con¬ Of course, rubber soles or heels are out of the Samuel A. Baldwin, John Hyatt Brewer, H. Brooks to introduce into the mu¬ applied to the body of a gun, reminds us that gun- in the second the alto and tenor have the greatest ventional so to do, is not sufficient. Who will deny question as being entirely objectionable, and the Day, Clifford Demarest, S. Archer Gibson, Warren sical part of the service; and not only to find new barrels used to be made of wooden staves hooped prominence, with the tenor strong at the end of the at Bach would become a more widely known and quasistylish shoe of to-day, which has the soles pro¬ Rosecrans Hedden, George Francis Morse, John B. ideas,—they are rare,—but especially to improve together like a cask. line, and in the third line really carrying the mel¬ Norton, Minton Pyne, R. Huntington Woodman. upon well-known and much-used methods. Original Popular composer with the masses if his compositions jecting from a quarter of an incH to a half an inch, ody; in the fourth line the tenor and bass are most ^ Stops (to use the accepted term) are thus classi- and uncommon capacity is oftener shown under the ^ere Played, not so much as regards the method of cannot be worn without inconvenience. Likewise the noticeable. In fact throughout the tune the tenor pressure of necessity than otherwise. The organist reatment (though this is no unimportant factor), as heavy winter shoes, with stiff soles a half-inch or s in the position of carrying the leading melody I. Complete stops. Guilmant has been authorized by the Minister who has at hand well-nigh all he can wish—a fine ln a certain progressive order? (And, of course, more more thick, are not desirable. Ihe popular “Lead, Kindly Light,” by Dykes offe« H. Incomplete stops. of Fine Arts, in France, to play the great organ organ, a large, well-selected library, a well-trained organists need to study Bach.) Personally, I prefer a light, thin-soled shoe (but¬ splendid opportunities for effective - III. Short, stops. at the Trocadero every Monday at 4.30. These re¬ choir, with a fund to pay for all the special helps unaccompanied Methinks that organists are not really aware of toned or laced) which has been worn in walking for singing. Every vocal effect that can be Zd lu lne IV. Divided stops. citals, which are part of the organ-course at the that he may want—is not always the man who gets eir responsibilities and their true position in rela- a month or more and is thus flexible and easy to the sanctuary can find a place in the unaccompanied V. Compound stops. Conservatoire, are given only before a limited num¬ the best results. I have known cases in which nearly . public. The possibilities arising out of foot. The heels must be kept square, else the diffi¬ rendering of this tune. The setting of “Holv PHolv ber of listeners, and are free. They are designed to all of the elements necessary in equipping a choir uencet exerted by them might be immense, and culty of many pedal passages is increased. Holy I” found in most hymn-books is n fin * Complete stops arc those which extend throughout give an opportunity of hearing the works of ancient were lacking in some point, yet the work achieved the entire compass of the manual keyboard or pedal Material assistance rendered toward bringing about a voca! effects. The newer hymnals of the Ep^scopll A FOUR-MANUAL organ having 65 and modern masters. was admirable. And this success was largely due to clavier. . cr and thorough understanding of all that per- and Presbyterian churches are full 0f tlm.a . P Guilmant has just recently installed a fine organ the inventive capacity and tireless energy of the ains to our “divine art.” The musical tastes and in- MIXTURES. speaking stops has recently been the best English, German, and American com Incomplete stops are stops which, while usually leader in seeking ways to interest both choir and placed in the Grace Church, Chicago, in his home near Paris. It is a three manual instru¬ made of complete compass, may, in particular cases, ? mati°ns of the public generally are, to a large ex- congregation. that can be used for unaccompanTeTwo.k by the Kimball Organ Company. The great organ ment, of twenty-two speaking stops, and six on the b, found aloo that mentation. win be found commencing at some point above the usual Z ’ ent!r6,y *n ^eir hands. “The fugue,” as Schu- contains 15 stops, the swell organ 17 stops, the choir pedals, which has a scale of thirty-two notes. It has A leader of this kind does not stick to beaten carefully ,h. nn writes, “is the most profound of musical forms,” one, thus lacking some low notes. seventeen combination pedals. an must be popularized to be genuinely appreciated. organ 11 stops, the solo organ 6 stops, the echo Short stops are virtually the same; but such must 304 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 305 A PLEA FOR THE PORTFOLIO. Baltimore a harpsichord that formerly belonged to of the work, and anyone desiring further information work of over 300 pages, 8x11, containing a great mass “Zcrall .T •! Revolutionary lame. can refer to that issue. BY MARION OSGOOD. of useful knowledge on almost every point connected It ha. .top. on e.eh .id. of the **» The advance offer is $1.00, postpaid, while it is in with the teaching and study of music, the profession, It is announced as definitely settled that Mascagni flWBMSSte press. Let us have your order before the month musicians of eminence; 60 that under one cover it closes. will visit the United States next season, bringing with Fanny comes in for her piano-lesson. Her train will be possible to find help and stimulus upon any him a large orchestra and a company of singers who was a little late and she is hurried and out of breath. point in which a musician may be interested. An ex¬ will produce “Cavalleria Rusticana” under his direc¬ Quickly unstrapping her music-roll she places the KiMotes We have in the course of publication a work of haustive index will make the work thoroughly avail¬ education along new lines, entitled “Suggestive Studies tion. music upon the piano-desk. The music immediately able. The advance price for this large and important The Paris opera employs 51 principal singers, a for Music-Lovers,” by C. I. Norcross. There is a great work is only 75 cents, postage paid if cash is sent A UuiDlLHOini festival is suggested for Berlin this curls up. We have the pleasure “Always remember,” remarks the teacher in a dry number of music-lovers who have not, unfortunately, fall. chorus of 165, an orchestra of 107, a ballet of 217, with A TEXT-BOOK and honor of announc- with the order; if the book is to be charged to an supernumeraries, machinists, electricians, costumers, monotone, as if he were repeating something learned had systematic instruction in childhood, and to whom account, the postage will lie extra. Prof. Julius Epstein, the celebrated piano-teacher __1,« „ rrrand tnTR.1 OI OF THE LESCHETIZKY ing the publication of a by rote, “to roll your music backward before placing the small elementary instruction book is not suited, of Vienna, has entered his seventy-first year. METHOD. work on the Leschetizky which is primarily intended for children. There is no 1530. it upon the desk.” Oue music pages contain a num- Raoul PUGNO, the French pianist, is to make a System. This system good work published for pianoforte instruction that is The Iowa State Music-Teachers’ Association held As the teacher had given the same direction to each MUSIC IN ber of pieces thoroughly well suited concert-tour in the United States next season. has created a great stir in the piano world, and right¬ intended for students intellectually matured, a need THIS ISSUE. to the season of the year: “Wood- the seventh annual meeting at Dubuque, June 24th- pupil that day, and for many past days, and naturally fully so, as there is scarcely a great virtuoso, from A foreign exchange says that a new concert-hall, which this new work of ours is intended to supply. Nymphs,” by Martin, has a joyous, 27th. The morning sessions were devoted to essays expected to go through the same formula for the Paderewski down, who has not received technical in¬ sealing 20,000 persons, has been opened in Paris. The work could also be put to very many other uses unfettered spirit such as that attributed to the bright and discussions, the afternoons and evenings to con¬ benefit of the majority of his pupils (who carried struction from Leschetizky. The next meeting of the Music-Teachers’ National which the ordinary instruction-book does not reach. creations of old mytliologic faney; lightness and certs. rolls) during all the days in his future teaching, he The demand for a text-book on the Leschetizky Association will be at Asheville, N. C., in July, 1903. It is suitable for vocal students, aiding them to play grace characterize the piece. “The Rendezvous,” by Walter Damrosch, in addition to the regular may perhaps be pardoned for exhibiting some slight Method comes from all parts of the country, and we Arthur Nikibch has t>een elected principal of the their own accompaniments, and to gain some knowl¬ Schnecker, is one of a set of “Outing Pictures” that series of concerts given by the New York Philhar¬ weariness. are the first to supply this demand. The book has edge of theory. It is also useful for the general lover are splendid examples of descriptive music. What Leipzig Conservatory of Music, succeeding Carl Rei- monic Society, has planned for a series of Sunday “Oh, I forgot!” said Fanny as she hunched upon the been prepared by one of the oldest and foremost of of music who attends concerts, since it gives him in¬ necke. could be better suited to the vacation season than a afternoon concerts at low prices of admission next stool and began to “turn the music backward.” But Professor Leschetizky’s teachers, Marie Prentner. She formation necessary to enjoy classical music. “Gavotte Rustique”? The spirit of the field and The recently published financial statement of the the small hands were inadequate; the music “would has been with him for twelve years, and is his first Each lesson contains some instruction in technic, forest are in this piece. Mr. Franklin's song, “What Cincinnati May Festival Association shows a loss of In April of this year the United States exported not lie flat”; so the teacher must needs go through assistant. some rule of harmony, some information necessary for the Birds Say,” is also suggestive of the season in $2,K40.28. the process for this pupil, as he had done for most of musical instruments to the value of $383,083, a gain The work has the unqualified endorsement of Les¬ the appreciation of music, the book being rather a which out door life plays so prominent a part. The Mr. Harold Bauer is living in Paris this summer, the preceding ones that day. of about forty per cent, over the same month last chetizky, to whom it is dedicated. We have an auto¬ series of helpful suggestions than a comprehensive “Scherzo,” by Petre, has a most peculiar flavor, lie will have a very large number of Americans among There was one pupil who had no such trouble with year. Ten months preceding April showed a total ex¬ graph letter from him to Fraulein Prentner before us manual. Scandinavian, semipastoral, and yet capricious. If his pupils. his music, nor did he cause his teacher any; for this portation of $3,170,920. from which we quote the following: The book can also be used very well as a supple¬ “Scherzo” implies humor, this composition is not one A new fairy opera, of which the title is not an¬ pupil’s music lay flat in a neat portfolio, and was The London Athcnwum says that the manuscript “Your being my pupil of many years’ standing and mentary volume to the ordinary instruction-book. The of broad, but of a delicate, gay, suggestive spirit. Our nounced, by Humperdinck, is to be given in Berlin quietly taken out and placed upon the desk, so that of the fifteenth prelude and fugue of the second book most valued assistant, it goes without saying that author, Caroline I. Norcross, has had an extended duet, “Spanish Dance,” by Rubens, has the florid the pupil took his lesson from a page which lay flat next season. of Bach’s “Well Tempered Clavichord,” has been you are thoroughly qualified to write and publish a European education, with many years of experience character and strong rhythm common to the Spanish and fully opened before his eyes; no curled or torn A music-festival to be given in Berne will include brought to light. The handwriting is claimed to be school after my principles and system of teaching.” in practical teaching. gypsy. The piece must be played with dash ami seventy-one societies, the largest gathering of the kind pages nor broken bindings to distract the attention unmistakably that of Bach. The advance made by the Leschetizky Method in A teacher in one of the large institutions of learn¬ spirit. “A Plaintive Story,” by Bassford, is a study in Switzerland. of pupil or teacher. The teacher asked this boy why Young students should remember “Never to take piano-technic is astonishing, and there is not a piano- ing, who has examined the manuscript, ordered fifty in expression, and we trust all our readers will be able he used the portfolio instead of the music-roll. Hans Merian, a German writer, author of a “His¬ lessons from a professor who never learned himself,” teacher in all the land who can afford to miss the copies to be delivered on the publication of the work. to make it tejl something. It is adapted for the “I like to keep my music nice,” was the answer. tory of Music in the Nineteenth Century,” died re¬ to “Avoid all masters whose methods have been the opportunity of seeing what has been developed by The book can be placed in the hands of a bright organ as well as the piano. Tlie spirit of the tar- The teacher, after commending the boy’s preference, cently in Leipzig. cause of their own failure,” and “Never accept an as¬ this system. It is about as nearly perfect a course pupil who has been playing the piano by ear. There antclle is evident in Horvfith’s “Scene Neapolitainc.” added that he had tried to induce all liis pupils to The Musical Courier says it is reported that Rich¬ sertion unsupported by evidence.” of piano instruction as can be made. While great is a great number of pupils for whom the average in¬ The belief in the power of violent exercise to counter¬ use the portfolio or the leather case, but because of ard Strauss will come to the United States to direct stress is laid on the technical, the artistic is not lost struction-book proceeds too slowly. They are able to act the poisonous bite of the tarantula still exists. According to a London paper the most successful the slightly greater cost, or for some other reason, concerts next season. grasp a great deal more than is given them, and this Music lends its aid in a wild dance and a tempo opera-houses are those which do not receive govern¬ sight of throughout this method. his attempts have been in vain. book is suitable for just such pupils. The course of pushed to the extreme limits. This piece must be As Austrian violinist has constructed a new viola ment or municipal subventions, as the Lyric at Milan; A detailed description of the system and its ad¬ Another teacher (an instructor of violin this time) theory that goes along with the instruction is of the very fast to bring out its best points. A “Song of which ran be lingered the same as the violin. It has Covent Garden in London; and the Metropolitan at vantages will be published in a circular which we watches his pupil as the boy rolls his Kreutzer studies utmost importance and is made quite a feature of the Dreams,” by Hartwell-Jones, is a splendid example of the true viola quality. New \ ork. As lias been said, “instead of having one shall issue in a short time. We merely desire to an¬ vigorously backward and places the book upon the work. the best type of the English ballad. Tlie refrain is Madame Fanny Bi.oomfield-Zeislkr is to give a or a few patrons, they have many subscribers, which nounce at this time that a work on the Leschetizky light aluminum violin-desk. Alas! it stubbornly re¬ The book will be gotten out in the very best style, captivating in every way. number of concerts in Europe this summer. She will makes a deficit unlikely.” Method is in the course of publication. It will be curls, and the impetus of its sudden jump back to its as far as typography, paper, and binding go, and it return to this country after Christmas. published in two languages, the original German in Permanent orchestral concerts will be given in “music-roll” habit sends the music clear off the desk. will be ready to be delivered before the season’s work “Seventy-Five Short Melodic Vocalises” is the A prize of #500 for the best march-song suitable one column and the translation in English in the Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Pitts¬ As the boy jumps to save it his foot strikes the begins. name of a valuable work for teachers of singing by for the coronation season, offered by an English com¬ parallel column. burgh, Cincinnati, and Chicago. Several other cities, spider-like leg of the desk, and over goes desk and We will, as usual, make a special offer on this new W. Francis Gates. As there is a demand for a con¬ The work will be brought out in Germany, England, mittee, was won by Miss Alicia Needham. such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and San music together. The teacher subdues comment and work, which should be in the hands of every practical densed and inexpensive work that shall combine the and America simultaneously. The making of the Swedish musicians have petitioned their govern¬ Francisco have orchestras, but they have not been stoops to reduce order. The boy, on hands and knees, teacher, if only one copy for their own use, for refer¬ best ideas on vowel and consonant practice, Mr. Gates, original plates and everything in connection with the ment to tax each active visiting musician. The meas¬ put on a strong financial basis. St. Louis, with the gathers up Kreutzer, and finds that the fall has dis¬ ence. The book can now be procured at a very low who is an experienced teacher, has prepared this series bringing out of the work will be in our hands, the ure is aimed at visiting artists, principally. coming world’s fair, affords a good field for a strong located several leaves and broken the binding. The rate, which will be 75 cents, postpaid, if money is sent from his own teaching material and other sources, organization. other publishers receiving only duplicate plates of our Mr. Horatio W. Parker, professor of music in fall has also caused the desk to close partly, and has edition. with the order. Those having good, open accounts and it finds a ready welcome from the vocal teacher. Yale University, received the degree of Doctor of The town of Lindsborg, Kansas, the center of a slightly bent the rod which supports it. Five minutes with us can have the book charged, but postage in It is handy in size and inexpensive in price, and com¬ The work will be ready for delivery about the time Music from Cambridge University, England. Swedish colony, holds annually a “Messiah” Festival. are lost in putting all to rights; then a little flushed this case will be additional. bines the good points of a number of writers of the teaching season opens, and in the meantime we The Philharmonic Society of Warsaw, , gave An auditorium seating upward of 4000 persons is and nervous, the pupil begins to play. Kreutzer does vocalises. A novel feature is the page of consonant will offer it at “Special-Offer” price, as usual with im¬ a total of sixty-six orchestral concerts in the four used for the concerts. The chorus numbers 400 mem¬ not lie quite flat upon the desk: the leaves bulge in a work, with directions for practice. A page of blank portant works. The work will be called “The Modern We will publish this month an edition of Kohler s months from November, 1901, to March, 1902. bers, many of them being students in the college in provoking fashion, necessitating a bending forward to staves is also added for the use of the teacher who Pianist,” and the “Special-Offer” price will be to those “Practical Method,” Op. 249, with the first two books the town, which is supported by the Swedes in the one side or the other as the performer stands, in order may wish to give some special exercises. Every vocal Mr. Frank van der Stuckkn, of Cincinnati, con¬ "ho send cash in advance, $1.00, postpaid. in one volume. This form we know is demanded by teacher should have on hand a stock of these vocalises ducted the orchestra of the Royal Harmonic Society vicinity. The community for miles around are patrons to see the printed page; but this bending and stretch¬ a considerable number of teachers. The first book is of the festival. to use with every pupil. They may be used with any at Antwerp, the program including one of his own ing is bad for the regular tempo, and the loss of the entirely too short for an instruction-book, and usually system of instruction. Price, 25 cents, with the usual compositions. The annual convention and festival of the New perfectly correct position during these times, induces The work by Edward Baxter Perry which has been the second part has to be purchased a few months discount. Mr. Frederic Lamokd, the English pianist, who is Hampshire Music Teachers’ Association will be held a faulty tone; so the lesson’s end finds both teacher announced the last two or three months in this afterward. The binding of the two volumes under to be heard in this country next season, was a pupil in Music Hall, The Weirs, August 4th-8th. Both and pupil in a state of nervous irritation. Many journal will soon be ready for delivery. It has been one cover will prove a great convenience to, not only “The First Studies of BAcn,” by Maurits Leef- of von Billow and, as may be supposed, has a fine educational and festival objects have been considered children who are near-sighted find even more annoy thought advisable to change the title from “Inter¬ the teachers, but the pupils also. This also consider¬ son, announced in last issue, is designed as an intro¬ •Beethoven repertoire. and the officers of the Association feel that a fine anee from the use of these music-rolls. pretation of Pianoforte Music” to “Descriptive Anal¬ ably reduces the expense. We are the only publishers yses of Piano-Works.” This second title is just duction to polyphonic playing. The selections are Enrico Bossi, the well-known Italian composer, has program will reward all who attend. Madame Julie All teachers should seek to inculcate care of t e who bind this popular method up in this form, and in "hat the work is. This will most likely be the last chiefly from the most admired of the compositions of been appointed director of the famous Musical Ly¬ Rive-King will give a recital; a complete scene from music as one of the important fundamentals. PUP’ 3 order to introduce it we will make tlie unusual offer ®ontli in which the special-offer price of $1.00 will John Sebastian Bach, with a few examples from the ceum, in , to succeed Martucci, who goes to Gounod s “” will be given by soloists, chorus, should be encouraged to buy the best editions and to of 35 cents, postpaid, for the two books. H the book inn orchestra remain open. There is still time for anyone desiring a works of his sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl the Conservatory at Naples. take proper care of them (which can never be done i is charged on our books, postage will be extra. ®°Py of this work to procure it at this rate before Philipp Emanuel. There has long been a demand for A Russian nobleman has established in St. Peters¬ 4,. , , .. -association he!< the use of the music-roll is common). F°r *he sa"* We would advise all practical teachers to take ad¬ t e regular market price of the book is made. a work of this sort, a work of even less difficulty than burg a series of popular symphony concerts. He di¬ third annual session at Asheville, N. C., June then of the music, of the teacher, of the pupil, let us vantage of this offer, as the two books will sell for It is a work that is invaluable to the private teach¬ the well-known “Little Preludes.” A thorough course rects the orchestra and chorus, and guarantees the 19th. An interesting program of essays and r abolish the roll, and use instead the leather case about the price of one book. ers, and it throws light on the great compositions in polyphonic playing is now considered indispensable expenses from his private purses. was given by members of the association. The of the board portfolio. for all students of the pianoforte, and this volume is for 1903 are Mr. J. W. Jendwine, Raleigh, N C 1 ■at are played the most. For club-work it will be positively the very best elementary work yet offered. The Council of Trinity College, London, which is ° the greatest assistance. The interest of pupils can We are often asked by subscribers for copies of TnE dent; M. T Nelson, Knoxville, Tenn., Treasurer The numbers have all been selected and edited with one of the strongest musical institutions in England, The musician should study poetry,—not greatly enhanced by this work, Etude containing articles bearing upon a certain sub¬ E. Geiger, Athens, Ga„ Corresponding Secretary, the greatest care and many of them have been espe¬ has given $25,000 to the University of London for read it, but study its law's of form and constru 10 t is not a pedagogic analysis of compositions from ject, particularly upon some topic under consideration association has invited the Music-Teachers’ Nat cially arranged for this work. Our special offer for the establishment of a chair of music. He will get many unexpected lights on his °wn a ^ a atrueU*ral standpoint, but is more of a poetic, dra- or discussion by musical clubs. For some years past Association to nold a joint session in the South this month is 25 cents, postpaid, if cash accompanies The Knabe Piano Company have on exhibition in summer. and learn the secret of how “good music ’ shou matie, and historical analyses of works. we have selected the most valuable articles published order. “married to immortal verse.”—E. A. Clarice. n our last issue we gave an extensive description in our journal and are now nearly ready to issue a 306 THE ETUDE gives me pleasure to state that it is a very helpful you our eon.pl.lo of catalogue., M and suggestive work. Moreover, it is eminently prac¬ “Chords and Arpeggios” is the title of a new pub¬ plain our system thoroughly and carefully. tical.— George C. Young. lication, designed to fill a long-felt wunt. This work We will be better prepared in the fall than ever “First Parlor Pieces” is a most admirable collection, is uniform in size with Th. Prosser’a "Scales and attend to all supplies used by schools and teachers of well calculated to interest a beginner.—Mrs. J. H. Cadences,” the two volumes used in conjunction being Stevenson. music. We claim to be the quickest mail-order music designed to furnish the essential materials for daily “First Parlor Pieces” is the best work of the kind supply house in the country. pianoforte practice. We have had many demands from I have used. I would certainly recommend it for teaching use.—Jennie L. Wlieeler. time to time for a publication of this sort, a work in NEW Music is sent out during the summer months Let me say, as one of your subscribers to The which all major and minor common chords, dominant several times to any of our patrons who desire it; a Etude, that I speak of it as “My friend, The Etude,” seventh and diminished seventh chords are written couple of bundles, one-half dozen pieces in each, of and eagerly devour the contents of each number.— out in full in their three- and four- voiced forms in all Miss Marian Holland. cither vocal or instrumental or both, at our usual teachers’ book-keeping. keys, together with the arpeggios derived from them, I consider “The Modern Student,” Volume I, a valu¬ the fingering being given throughout; also brief rules large professional discount. This music is On bale, able collection of pieces for teaching.—Lucy H. Morley. In these days of close competition and overcrowded and directions for lingering. It is seldom that so subject to return. Our regular New Music On Sale I find the “Key to Clarke’s Harmony” an excellent professions it is incumbent on the teacher of music much material has been given on so complete a man¬ during the winter months begins with October, about help to one who desires to examine the Harmony. to conduct all matters in as businesslike a manner as ner in so limited a space. This work has been care¬ fifteen pieces monthly, until May. There are not less Both Harmony and Key are evidently well worth possible. Musicians are proverbially accused of being study.—L. P. Annin. fully compiled and arranged by Preston Ware Orem. than fifteen hundred schools and teachers who take unbusinesslike, and it cannot be denied that some advantage of this opportunity to receive a small I have thirty pupils and two orchestras, and I feel measure of truth lies in the impeachment. On the For this month only we will make a special intro¬ that their interest and advancement have been largely amount of New Music every month. It is added to ductory price of only 10 cents, postpaid, if cash ac¬ due to The Etude and the music sent me.—Marion other hand, there are many signs of improvement in companies orders. their regular large “On Sale” package which we send Y. Albs. this particular. In most conservatories and schools, out according to your order and needs at the begin¬ I have had music from your publishing house, and especially, the business side is well looked after, and Oca three months' trial subscription to The Etude, ning of the season, to be kept during the entire teach¬ find it very convenient to have music carefully selected in this respect, as well as in some others, the private which offer we make during the summer months, any ing season, returns and settlement made at the end of for the graded work.—Mrs. A. G. Coombs. teacher may do well to imitate. 1 am strongly of the opinion that the teaching force three numbers from June to September, has been The book-keeping of the private teacher need not can create real love for music and practice in the taken advantage of to a very large extent. The offer young by using your works, which are more than be complicated or elaborate. We append an article is quite popular. There is considerable reason for this. entertaining. They are uplifting and lasting in their upon this subject which should have a genuine prac¬ Possibly, first, we might say it is cheap. For 25 cents, influence upon the young people.—Agnes M. Fairfield. tical interest, trusting that it may aid in promoting interested musical persons, pupils paticularly, obtain To say I am pleased with “Preparatory Touch and further discussion of this important matter. The Technic” is putting it entirely too mildly. It is just about twenty-five to thirty varied compositions, in¬ various devices described seem wholly admirable. what I have longed for and tried to find in music- cluding piano and vocal, of different degrees of dif¬ stores here for a year or more. I felt the need of such This department is open for the free discussion of ficulty, as well as four-hand music. The reading a work very keenly. It is indeed bewildering to start just such practical devices bearing upon all phases matter is inspiring. It keeps the interest in music a child in the four books of Mason’s “Touch and of the teachers’ work, and we trust Miss Baily’s ex¬ Technic,” and it is hard to pick out certain exercises thoroughly awake, and brings the pupils back in the ample may be followed by many teachers having ideas fall with the idea of music-study well planted in their and expect a child to take interest in them without “THE STORM KINO” MARCH-GALOP IS E T. having the music to play from. The “Preparatory to impart or to interchange, which might prove of minds, and, last, not least, it possibly means a new Pauli’s latest and greatest composition, and bids Touch and Technic” puts the work in so clear and value in the work of their fellows. subscriber, a regular subscriber to us, to The Etude. fair to outrival his “Ben Hur Chariot Race.” Readers concise a form, that an older person can grasp the To all the teachers who have had this three months’ of The Etude will find a special offer on this piece in ideas more easily than from the Mason books and be EROM SUSAN LLOYD RATT.Y. EMERSON PIANO CO. trial subscription sent to their pupils, we would say: the column advertisement of the E. T. Pauli Music ready to take them up with a much clearer compre¬ I keep a set of four books as follows: “Class-book,” BOSTON, MASS. send for our Premium List and try to get a full year's Company, found on another page; just take five hension of the exercises.—Harry R. 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In self with a music-school as assistant teacher; can also Crolius Piano School, Carnegie Hall, New York City, dues the inflammation of the mucous mem¬ order, or when you send us one of our self-addressed this book I slip a tiny memorandum book or pad in teach German and conduct ensemble. Address: R. V., are now vacant. Applicants must not be over eight¬ brane of the stomach, thus removing the NO POISON Postal Order Ulanks which we send to you free of care of The Etude. _ which I scribble down anything of importance oc¬ Kitchen Utensils een years of age. cause of the disease, and effects a cure. 0 HAVING this Has ever been found in the charge, be sure to sign your name. When you send TEACHER OE PIANO DESIRES SMALL CLASS The closing exercises of the Landon Conservatory, curring to me during the lesson that either must be For any stomach trouble it will do good TRADE MARK enamel of the money, write a little note along with it, and do within seventy-five miles of Albany. Address: W. 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At the head of a page stands the name ! HUfj cover actllai postage, a liberal pasted on every piece, citals during the summer in Wisconsin. He returns to .Ample, that will prove ' claims 1 make to your entire full address as well every time you write. PROVES IT. WANTED —A DIRECTOR WITH EXPERIENCE Vienna in the fall to continue his studies with Les- of a pupil with the date of registration. Below satisfaction. This preparatk _ chetizky. in most cases gives wonderful results. If substitutes are offered write us. and references for a chorus in Bois5, Idaho. A follow three lists headed, respectively, “Technic,” New Rookie/ Free. In all its publications this house is guided by in¬ good location for an energetic man to teach vocal and Mr. Wade R. Brown will begin work at his new Studies,” and “Pieces,” under which is entered all the PROF. CHAS. MARCHAND, 59 Prince St., N. Y. Agate Nickel-Steel Ware is sold instrumental music. For further particulars address: telligence and practical musical experience. We mean position in the Baptist Female University of North nork done by the pupil in these departments. Pieces 3lMl by the leading Department and Housefumishing Stores. by this that Mr. Prosser, the head of the house, was Mrs. N. M. Perkins (President of Philharmonic So¬ Carolina in September. ciety), 231 E. Bannock Street, Boise, Idaho. played in concert are marked in a special way; pieces for a great many years a successful teacher of the The closing exercises of the Conservatory of Music Grand Conservatory of Music Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co., of Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, E. C. Zartman, memorized have another peculiar marking. There is areSAFE New York, Boston, Chicago. piano in a number of the leading schools of the A FINE OPENING FOR A CONSERVATORY OF director, included a performance of Cowen’s Rose also space reserved for remarks, and if lessons are country, as well as in private work. His oversight, Music. Good building, at reasonable rental. Ad¬ dress: Sauter Brothers, Boonville, Mo. Maiden.” discontinued the reason is recorded and the total 356 West 57th Street and the careful attention given to all our publications Miss Agnes Elliott closed her work in Detroit number of lessons taken is entered. by able assistants, mark the distinction between the A TEACHER OF MUSIC THOROUGHLY Ac¬ For 23 years in 23d Street with a kindergarten musicale. This book also contains a complete list of all the publications of this house and those of almost every quainted with Berlin wishes to take a limited num¬ The Schumann Club, of Saginaw, Mich., under the Rare Old Violins ber of young ladies to study music there. Entire ex¬ pupils I have ever taught entered according to the year, .Largest and Unset collection on this continent other house in the country. What is the result t Our direction of Mr. Albert W. Platte, had a very success¬ New York Fine catalogue free) containing SO fac-simlle penses for nine months, $750. Full particulars sent on o lowing each name, in separate columns ruled for labels In colors and Biographies ot all the works, almost every one of which has been a great ful season. At the last concert Mendelssohns -ind particulars of Solo application. Address: Miss Henriette Marie Palmie, e PurP°se, the branches studied. By looking at the -- .j0 to HO, 000. Monthly success, are copied; not word for word, but page for Box 171, Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Paul” was given. The only Music School, empowered by Act of the Legis¬ payments may be arranged. V iolins sent on Mr. Harold Nason, of Philadelphia, who has been number of the last name I know at once exactly how sevMi days examination ^Formal OertiBeats page, altering the matter, inserting inferior selections, lature, to confer the degrees of Bachelor of Music, Master with Leschetizky for a year past, gave some very many different persons have studied with me; by and making what might almost be termed a musical of Music, and Doctor of Music, and the kindred arts. LYON & HEALY, “<£££* successful recitals in Grenoble, France. oo -ing at them grouped according to years I am able “hodge-podge.” This statement may sound strong, Thorough and systematic instruction in all branches of vocal Mr. E. W. Grarill, Dean of the College of Music o tell whether my business is growing or decreas¬ but it is true, and all we ask is that when you order of the University of South Dakota, sends us p and instrumental music, as a science and as an art, by the the publications of Theodore Presser, we refer par¬ grams of the recitals of the school for the last seas ing according as the number of new registrations for most eminent artists and teachers. The full course leads to ticularly to several of our instruction-books and the They show a fine grade of work. 6 current year exceeds or falls below that for the the degree of Bachelor of Music. The Opera Company and ERNEST M. SKINNER Mathews’ Standard Graded Course of Studies, be sure Mr. Lynn B. Dana is in charge of the musical wor Preceding year. There is also a comparative table of Concert Company are open to students for membership. that you get them, and do not take substitutes. If at Silver Lake Assembly, N. Y. essons. The page containing this is ruled in fourteen Church it becomes necessary, after repeated attempts at send¬ Cowen’s “Rose Maiden” was given at Sioux Fa s, oo umns. The first column contains the date of each S. D., under the direction of Ella Estey Boyce, OPEN ALL SUMMER. Fall Term begins September 2d. ing you substitutions, return them by express at the uceeeding year that I have taught. The next twelve Organ Builder choral society consists of fifty members. _ DR.. E. EBERHARD, expense of the dealer who has sent them to you, and umns represent the months of the year. By enter- Mrs. Marie Fobert’s vocal pupils gave *fv 387 East Eighth Street open an account with us. recital for the season at Rockland, Mass, iweu j m^ mon^k *ke nurnber of lessons given in that SOVTH BOSTON MASS You will find us always ready to make all our deal¬ T/ kave. "vW 'V? two C0P'es o{ “Introduct pupils participated. w y °n h I am able- to compare the work of any month ings satisfactory in every way. We need say nothing of anv Wt T°r tUrP ” 1 think !t is far 1 The Euterpean Society, of Keuka College, • ” °r fack Fear °f my professional life. I find this table e Mabasb Xjnc Skinner Tubular and Electro Pneu further with regard to our editions, but as to our man/ HeV T USP<1> and 1 have used a g, De Witt D. Lash, conductor, gave selections iiT ,*mmense satisfaction to me. Some February, for Ub matic Action and Movable Consolt service, we do not think it can be excelled; so a num¬ Hru7n the Hght thin§ in method* the “Creation,” and Mozart’s Twelfth Mass’ er0Hs ns anee, when every pupil is ill at the same time Examples of the Skinner action and consoles may be found In closing concert. The year has been a very pro.p with the Symphony Hall. Boston; St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York: ber of unsolicited testimonials have said. We attend I am very much pleased with First Recital Pie. B_grip and I think I am doing nothing and le tbe Ulatural TRoute Church of Divine Paternity, New York; South Congregational one for the society. . o Church. New Britain.Conn.; Arlington St Church. Boston; Holy discouraged about the years work, I look to every order the dny it is received. We have plenty AWfivT Y1frftoa/se a" lntereSting and instructiv Trinity Church. Brooklyn; Churchof the Saviour, Brooklyn; Brick Mrs. E. Burns’, of Livonia, N. Y., music class ^ Presbyterian Church. New York; Church of the Ascension. New of clerks. If you have not dealt with us, let us send the closing musical of the year at the Hign that * record i°r February in preceding years and find Between Megtern (gateways 1 have received “Choir and Chorus Conducting.” York ; Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago. HI.; Second Church Chapel. About two hundred guests were pres several of them exactly the same conditions (Continued on page SOS.) an& principal Eastern Cities _ - 808 Till MTlfiB THE ETUDE 311 (Continued from page 307.) Fletcher. Music Methoty ^ simplex and prevailed, and yet 1 remembered that in those every A KINDERGARTEN years some of my best recitals were given, so I pluck SIGNOR AUGUSTO ROTOLI Boston KINDERGARTEN Original Kindergarten Leipsic up heart and wait for better days. The fourteenth Mr Calve | MADAME“‘oPE^PRK^oatS;11 8Ch0<>1 °f L°nd°n ^ Calve OIMPLEX B. J. LANG, Boston column contains the year’s total, and no tonic can Comments on a e LEONARD LIEBLING, New York City compare with this for utterly routing “that tired as«^%SK==Rasa-. iano MetropolitanM^n RT,A' «School hCK.’ of9 irectorMusic, StToronto Mary*. School. Raleigh feeling" as I see the scale of lessons for each year R Toronto Conservatory of Music, Toronto American Conservatory, Chicago advancing over that of the past. Rather than multi¬ sO: AYER Gottschalk Lyric School, Chicago ply books I do away with a pupil’s address-book and Canadian College of Music, Ottawa Your Simplex Is so near perfection that I marvel more each time I Tsssrnssm.fmum ISIfff&liSCs London Conservatory of Music, ' keep post-office and telephone members in this same many endorsers of the method, WM TOMLINS, Choral Dir. World's Columbian Exp'n N Y niT >n Cw^rv“,or5' ?f Music, Hamilton hear it. Every quality of touch and degree of power seems responsive, and a partial list of the conser- -L\RT0PSLAW IDE ZIELINSKI, Buffalo P “’ NY' Bmnfford -Willard Seminary Conservatory of Music, Troy “Record,” the latter being entered in lead pencil, as with ALWAYS THE PROPER SHADING. College, Brantford they are subject to frequent change. vatortes in which it is taught, MAX Wei. Sch >ol of Music, Halifax The fault of all other players which I have recognized is the impossi¬ 1 School, Raleigh, N. C. The "Financial Register” contains date and amount bility of playing a melody with one degree of power and the accompa¬ PA MASON, New York 8&S5K 9&S. of each bill rendered and date of payment. The moral niment proportionately lighter. This the Simplex does to perfection. SAMUEL W. COLE, Bon_ ci vaiuiy, uurnam, n. is obvious. rvatory of Music, Detroit h the study of music causes Rook 4 contains Jists of studies and pieces. Resides The Aim of the Fletcher Method Fundami_, hildre my own lists 1 have copied into it graded lists pre¬ be thorough, natural, a My Dear Mis: :ise threefold power, to develop the child physically, mentally! and artistlcaUy” pared by different teachers of high reputation. . 1 have taught the Fletcher Music Method Pieces 1 have not used, but whose titles 1 wish to onvey to you the unanir delight and interest years, with increasing satisfaction as to result' expressed by teachers of the Synfhe»«. " dem- wonderfully, not only directly " wsSS firarrs ssSsssJSS Sss remember, I copy in lead-pencil; if after using them I — .. - ems as if your kindergarten system broadening and deepening all m funnel through which true ideas may be carried in problems of teaching. There is notning find them valuable, I enter them in ink under the lligent rethod of either vocal or instrumental mu,.., „„u „„ ear, fingers, brain, memory, imagination, i ch all teachers must give you a hearty indorsement. I are readied and made Music Director atat St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N. C. heading “Tested.” Superior in All Ways to Any Other Piano Player. Why? to contribute their share to the general nn deal culture. Further Yours very truly, KATE S. CHITTENDEN, it is a delight to the children, who learn e Simpler—More Artistic Results — Less Work—Abso¬ and later on their practice, finding it no hardship, • "Dr. William Mason says s New York. President of the Synthetic Guild. surprise of their parents. The Fletcher Method seems l< lutely Perfect in Mechanical Construction. Price, $225, le well adapted to the rapid RECITAL PROGRAMS. President of the Metropolitan College of Music. ROBERTA GEDDES-HARVEY, Mus. Bac., and thorough accomplishment of purpose because o[ its ten- IMPLEX dcncy to immediately arrest attention, cash. May be bought on instalments. AGENCIES Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of the n Institute of Applied Musi (Trin. College). Organist of St. George's Church to promote - habit oft —mental concentration on the part of young Pupil* of Earle C. Iltnman. IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES. Send for Catalogue. Guelph, Olid Hy the Spring. Qurlitt. La Clnquantalne, Oabrlcl-Marte. . DIANO the originator of the Fletcher Rural Dance. Op. 37. No. X, C. von Sternberg. Nocturne, Evelyn A. Fletcher-Copp, gating all methods or ideas which appeal to her as of psychological THEODORE P.BROWN.ManTr, 20 May St., Worcester, Mass. Music Method, has had the benefit offive years’ musical training abroad Field. Arietta. Lack. Dio Milhle, Jenson. Canzonetta. s Ilayer value to the children. The advantages to teachers of being brought in Hollander. Ktude. Op. 22. No. 1. Wollenhaupt. Hark, and has since twice returned and successfully introduced her system into Hark, the I,ark! Schubert-Llszt. Valae, Op. St. No. 1, contact with the latest European musical ideas (as well as American) Chopin. Etude. Ravlna. Tarantella, Coverly. Scarf Dance. London, Berlin, Leipsic, Dresden, and Brussels. Chamlnade. La mouse. Op. 167, Ra” --Tarantcllc,o Op. 85.r' which this regularly recurring visit entails, are obvious. No. 2. Heller. Air do Ballet. Op. I Ms *, Chamlnade. BRACE UP BE UP-TO-DATE Already the demand in these foreign centers is so great that Mrs. Realizing the inadequacy of teaching by correspondence, and rec¬ Rhapsody. No. 11, Liszt. Fletcher-Copp has arranged to personally teach a Normal Class every Pup it* of Mrs. Charles 8loeumb. your children with the by using the “ KINDER ” PEDAL EXTENDER ognizing the great value of her system musically, Mrs. Fletcher-Copp second year in Europe. Bird's Lullaby, Read. Narcissus, Novln. Fiir Ellse, • KINDER" ADJUSTABLE FOOT REST. (ADJUSTABLE), in connection with the Foot Rest. continually refuses applications to those desiring to study bv mail, and Beethoven, ltoecnco, Meyer-Hclmund. Quartet—Over Hill It gives the child the same control of the piano as and Dale (2 pianos, 8 bands). Engelmann. Flower Song. Don't be cruel and make them practise at the Mrs. Fletcher-Copp’s motto is that the teacher should always be the piano from one to four hours a day with their feet a grown person. her certificate of authorization to teach her method can only be ob¬ Lange. Rustic Chit-Chat. Sudds. Fascination Waltz, most eager student, and she consequently spends much time in investi- Wacus. By the Brookalde, Tours. Ballndo, Op. 47, Chopin. dangling In the air. The skillful use of the pedal arrangement of a tained by those who study with her personally. Spinning Song (Flying Dutchman), Liszt. Awakening of It rests the child's feet, braces the body, straight¬ pianoforte is absolutely Indispensable to the attain¬ the Lion (2 pianos, 8 hands), do Kontskl. ens the back, squares up the shoulders, strengthens ment of musical and artistic effects, and it is very the arms, gives firmness to the touch, keeps the Mrs. Flctchcr-Copp will hold two Summer Normal Classes in Boston, the first opening early in July. For particular regarding these classes, apply to Pupils of Gertrude Whiling. child's mind on the work, and prevents exhaustion. important that a beginner should give early atten¬ Hungarian Dance (4 hands), Moszkowskl. Hunting Song, tion to the proper use of the “ damper” or “open" Home Address, 99 Francis S(., Brookline, Mass. New York Address, 1125 Madison Avenue Aletter. Tiny Tim. Orth. Farewell to Home, Children at E. A. FLETCHER-COPP, PR.ICE. $3.00 pedal, for this is a most important agent in the cul¬ Play. Paul Hiller. Valse Caprice. Grieg. Vonetlan Gon¬ tivation and development of a musical ear. ADVANTAGES TO TEACHERS FLETCHER MUSICAL ASSOCIATION BULLETIN dolier. Liszt. Chansonetto. Rogers. Will o' tho Wisp, This is a paper edited three times a year for the benefit of the Fletcher Music teachers. Jensen. La Flleuse, Raff. Etlncclles, Moszkowskl. Taran- Special discount to teachers and trade. Sold by In connection with the system, and for the benefit of the teachers, the FLETCHE telle. Heller. all first-class music houses. PRICE, $2.00 PER SET OF TWO MUSICAL ASSOCIATION was established in 1898 and has since that time establishe FLETCHER. MUSIC BUREAU branches in Chicago, Toronto, New York, and London, besides the home association i The demand for teachers has been so great that a bureau has been opened to which all Pupils of Urs. Kate J. 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