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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 10-1-1923 Volume 41, Number 10 (October 1923) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 41, Number 10 (October 1923)." , (1923). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/706 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. 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Presser Company rMemory’s Gardens A Romance of the Educational Publishing Field of Interest to ail Music Lovers the hands of a competent corps of editors for prepara- UNG BY THE WORLDS GREATEST SINGERS AND TALKING MACHINE ARTISTS When Mr. Theodore Presser, the founder of The Etude, was born, music publishing in the United States KANSAS CITY,MO. In this work, to which Mr. Presser personally devotes PUBLISHED BV was confined to a few individuals of little prominence; JW. IENKINS much fime and attention, he has the able assistance of and their output, as. regards original compositions, was Mr. Preston Ware Orem, under whose guidance most of MEMDRYJUMDEN ORCHESTRA ACCOMPANIMENT of little value either artistically or commercially. By U^nS:ME0DIUn ANDLOW VOICE, the editorial work in this department has been done IN ALL KEYS far the greater part of the music then finding a market for many years. 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Hatch, also noted as a composer music of a high class was limited to a few centers in of piano music with long experience in editing and pre¬ the East; and in those places it was confined to a small paring manuscripts for publication. number of persons. Elsewhere, music was known chiefly After a manuscript composition has been accepted it in the form of hymns and anthems, almost .exclusively may not, like a story, be sent to a type-setting establish¬ issued in book form or in the form of harmlessly senti¬ ment and later printed as a book or pamphlet, but must mental ballads designed to immortalize the haunting be studied by the head of the engraving department charms of some real or fancied daughter of Eve; or in whose first care is to “lay out” the work in such a man¬ tinkling polkas, mazurkas and schottisches that gave " OrTWOR O 'cOflQUMt flttfiST ner as will provide for its proper execution at the hands OpEBancrfiCoNi spirit and grace to the social diversions of the age. of a corps of engravers. Many details must be care¬ In the brief span of years conventionally allotted to one fully considered in advance, to insure a proper balance human life there has been a development of musical culture as regards the number of pages and the best place to end in America and of public interest in music that is without THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE "ETUDE” a parallel in the history of any other art. Many influences each page. Few performers realize how much their have contributed to this result, some quite commonplace ide” was bom in the little upstairs office of tt and homely. Among tlic.se must be reckoned the early Sing¬ building in Lynchburg, Va., October, 1884. convenience has been thought of before a piece of music ing School and its host of Singing School, Convention and is put in the engraver’s hands. Mr. Henry Hessel has Anthem hooks. 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