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NOVEMBER, 1916 trenches,” as he signed himself: “Let the Milk Chocolate Eatmors because they are made CONTENTS FOR sacred union of the country be maintained The distinguished Metropolitan Opera - so¬ and packed by machinery. You yourself must prano, Anna Fitzlu, recently had the unique The World of Music.767 The Music Lover’s Digest. 8 and strengthened up to the day of victory, experience of singing the Star Spangled Ban¬ Editorial. 769 Department for Organists but for Heaven’s sake after the war let every¬ take off the cap to release its treasure. Then ner before an audience of 18,000 baseball Etude Day. 770 J. Lawrence Erb 8 one be free to like whatever he thinks lik¬ out tumble 28 or more stars of pure chocolate “fans” at the New York Polo Grounds. The An Operatic Career Department for Children able. if all Frenchmen took to liking and game was between the Giants and the Mme. Frances Alda 771 J a-Shipley Watson 8 hating in a mass the same things they goodness—clean and fresh. 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Mendelssohn 7! amateur violinist of some distinction, and the logical solution of the children's candy problem. Difficult Pronunciations . 778 occasionally played second violin at the con¬ Rusticana and Pagliacci. Bodansk.v was the The Scale Wheel..Grace Buscnbark 778 Souvenir Valse.L. Ringuet 71 certs of the London Royal Amateur Orchest¬ Buy Eatmors for the kiddies and for yourself. High- conductor and the casts included Amato, The Composer Nearer My God to Thee ral Society, but Manuel has struck out a line grade pure chocolate, refined sugar and rich milk with Gadski, Botta and Kathleen Howard. Agnes and Egerton Castle 778 F. Himmelreich 7! himself in becoming an organ expert in cream make a wholesome combination, as delightful as What can be done by am earnest musician Teachers’ Round Table.N. J. Corey 781 Danse Humoresque (4 hands) it is satisfying. In a small town is made manifest in the Great Composers and the Harp.. . . 782 Geo. Spenser 7! 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Cough Drops Pittsburgh, U. S. A. Spinning Song Gypsy Rondo.J. Haydn 8 lapsody of his attracted at- Victor Herbert denies the statement that tention at on hand for throat-protection. he is half German. Both of his parents Sigismund Stoiowski 783 Mazurka Pomposa.If. Rolje 8< ndon performance. He was were Irish. His father was a barrister and What Kind of Music is Best ? Ave Maria (Violin & Piano) English railway magnate. To the studio on damp days, enervating sessions with pupils his mother was the daughter of the Irish E. U. Perry 784 Schubert-Marcosson 8' lu “** death he had been awarded painter, poet, novelist, musician. Samuel How Verdi Avoided romp. 809 So Fondly I Caress Thee (Vocal) the Military Cross. It Is good to know that • —your throat becomes dry and “picky. Meet that first tickle Lover. Herbert says that the only thing Some Facts About the Chopin Noc¬ 0. E. Dancy 81 musicians are as brave and dependable as flerman about him is his education and for men of other professions when their country with an S. B. Cough Drop. Carry a box in your music-roll. # turnes . 809 Hymn to the Setting Sun (pipe needs them; but it is sad to think that the that he is duly grateful. Organ) .F. Lacy 81 A Drop in your mouth at bedtime will loosen the phlegm. The Sound Trap.Ben Tenuto 809 great holocaust of war has no mercy even The Bohemian Club of San Francisco has Department for Singers When Ole Aunt Llndy Sings (Vocal) for those who have disdained the commoner had another joyous festival in the open. Herbert W. Greene 810 H. Clark 8( pursuits of men and consecrated themselves SMITH BROTHERS of Poughkeepsie This year's play, the fourteenth, was Gold. m some measure at least to the higher Ideals Makers of S. B. Chewing Gum and Lasses Kisses— Your Grandpa Knows Us the libretto by Frederick S. Myrtle and of musical beauty. L Please ETUDE our advertisers. 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The instrument which plays the greatest music is the Music and Heredity The Limitations of Intelligence instrument you want in your home! The Victrola is supreme. Its supremacy is founded on a basis of great things actually accomplished. It is in millions of homes the world over A gentleman of science, with morfe time and scrap paper thahi The old idea in education seemed to be that the students’ we have, has estimated that if one were to go back thirty generations, because it takes into these homes all that is best in every intellects were more or less like a series of measures into which might say to the time of the Norman Invasion of England, one would find branch of music and entertainment. be poured a certain specified amount of knowledge. Each student The artists who make records exclusively for the Victor that some single individual had 8,598,094,592 ancestors. Figuring was supposed to be able to contain just so many gallons of mathe¬ are the greatest artists in the world. The Victrola tone is thirty years to a generation the American girl who gloats over being matics, so many quarts of history, so many pints of physics, so many the true and faithful tone of the singer’s voice and the a descendant of one of the Mayflower Pilgrims, let us say John Alden, gills of language study, etc., etc. It n£ver seemed to occur to teachers master’s instrument. It is for this reason that the Victrola would have exactly cf the strain of John Alden in her blood. that there is a limit to the capacity of certain intellects for certain is the chosen instrument of practically every artist faidous This is true only in the literal sense. Owing to intermarriage the things. The students were filled with the same material from the same reservoir. If at the end one student was filled to overflowing in the world of opera, instrumental music, sacred music, band number of ancestors is greatly reduced. In his excellent book, “Be¬ and anqther half empty it made little difference. The modern music, dance music, vaudeville and entertainment. ing Well Born,” Michael Guyer explains that the present Emperor educator endeavors, first of all, to ascertain just how capacious is Go today to a Victor dealer’s and listen to this instru¬ William should have had 4,096 ancestors twelve generations back. As the intellect of the student he proposes to teach. It makes no ment for yourself. Hear Caruso or Melba or Elman or a matter of fact the carefully preserved records of royalty shows difference whether he is teaching music or bricklaying, the student’s Harry Lauder or Sousa’s Band on the Victrola. that the Kaiser had only 533 ancestors in that time. It must be clear to The Etude reader that we are, every one capacity is the first consideration. Victors and Victrolas—310 to 3400 of us, descended from a huge sea of people representing every con¬ lhat there is a very definite limit to intellectual capacity is ceivable phase of human intelligence, emotions and ideals. We are very evident to music teachers. It is a great problem with them the tiny crests upon vast geneological currents. In America there is to find out just when they have reached the end of the rope with now a confluence of ancestral currents from all countries and races certain pupils. There comes a time when it is downright unethical such as the world has never seen since Babel. to go on with certain students. The pupil can go so far and not In music heredity is supposed by many to play a very important farther. part. At the same time it is responsible for endless queer pranks. Dr. William H. Furness, explorer and scientist (son of the Schumann is one instance. His immediate ancestry is riot noticeably late Horace Howard Furness, the world-famous authority upon musical. Yet way back in that great sea there must have been some Shakespeare), some seven years ago undertook to train two mem¬ determining force which gave Schumann those qualities which enabled bers of the Simian family with a view to finding out just how him to develop himself into a master musician. There are numerous far the systematic education- of the monkey could be carried. cases similar to that of Schumann where ancestry seems to play a One was an Ourang Outang (called Borneo), another a Chimpanzee very insignificant part. (called Mimi). It was the good fortune'of the editor of The Etude Again we encounter the famous instances of the Bach family, the to witness some of the early experiments. Borneo died very young. Philador family, the Couperin family and others. In the case of the The education of Mimi continued for seven years. With the exception Bachs there are at least twenty worthy of being remembered, of the of a Chimpanzee in the Berlin Zoological Gardens, Mimi was the Philador family there were five, and of the Couperins there were most intelligent Simian we have ever seen. At the end of seven years1 eight. These historic records of families with pronounced musical continual training Dr. Furness gave up his work and sent his pet to achievements all date from periods prior to the last century. In the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens, where she now is. Although the those days it was the custom for the father to train his own boys in animal could do many astonishing things for a monkey, such as the family calling. Just as there were, families of coopers, black¬ distinguishing colors, picking out the letters of the alphabet, tieing smiths and butchers so there were families of musicians. It is to a knot, etc., at the end of seven years she was not as far ahead as a that, very probably, more than to especial musical hereditary inclina¬ child at the end 'of six months’ training. Furthermore, she showed tions, that we have these instances of continued talent. no indication of going any farther. The limits of her intellectual Students of heredity know that the accomplishments of one capacity were sd plainly marked that it was idle to pursue the work from a scientific standpoint. generation are not transmitted to the next generation. All that a father or a mother does during a lifetime means nothing to their There are some very intelligent children who seemingly have no child from the standpoint of the acquisition 6f knowledge or ability capacity whatever for music. The editor remembers onE pupil who in the hereditary sense. graduated at the head of her class in high school, who was very anxious to become able to play, but who at the end of two vears’ hard work Consider the remarkable case of Siegfried Wagner. The son of could not do nearly so well as young pupils at the end of eight or one master and the grandson of another, brought up in the Elysian nine months. ° Fields of music, trained by masters and afforded every imaginable facility for practice, the musical -world has yet to regard him as the equal of his immortal father, who was the son of a police court clerk. However successfully the followers of Mendel (that humble Austrian 1 , • V;-*M'rUU» &1VC UF 1-xt 10 tllC only course in the end for your own reputation and for that of the monk who revolutionized our ideas upon heredity) iiiay trace the pupd. You cannot afford to have delinquent pupils. 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What the American Girl Should Know About an Operatic Career

From an interview secured expressly for The Etude, with the noted prima donna soprano ETUDE DAY FRANCES ALDA (Mme. Gatti-Casazza) of the Metropolitan Opera Company

A Monthly Test in Musical Efficiency r's Note.—Mme. Frances Alda, like Mme. Melba, was born in Australia. Her studies in music started at an early age and culminated in a course with the late Mine. Marchesi n Paris. Her debut was made at the Opera ComiquC in Paris, in 1906, in the opera of Manon. Thereafter she sang in leading European Opera Houses until her debut in America, n 1909, in the role of Gilda in Rigoletto. Her success at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York has been brilliant and persistent. Later jhc became the wife of Mr. Giulio Gatti- °.a, the most successful of all impresari in the history of American opera. Her close association with operatic affairs in Europe and in America make this interview of special value.) What ETUDE DAY is and How to Conduct It

The Etude will contain every month a series of questions sim¬ Regularity and Success the top notes they did it with the feeling that there was ing the best. There is more fine music of all kinds ilar to the following with sufficient space for writing the answers right “To the girl who aspires to have an operatic career still something in reserve. In my operatic work at now in a week than one can get in, Paris in a month in the issue itself. Answers to the questions will be found m the After these^o . ffjr the best prel,ared answers. Inder who has the requisite vocal gifts, physical health, stage present I feel this to be of greatest importance. The and more than one can get in Milan in six months. reading text (see pages marked at end of questions). This enables presence and—most important of all—a high degree of singer who exhausts herself upon the top notes is This has made New York a great operatic and musical neither artistic nor effective. the teacher or club leader to hold an Etude Day every month as intelligence, the great essential is regular daily work. center. It is a wonderful opportunity ‘for Americans This implies regular lessons, regular practice, regular who desire to enter opera. soon as possible after the arrival of the journal. The pupils assemble exercise, regular sleep, regular meals—in fact, a life of The American Girl’s Chances in Opera and each is provided with a copy of The Etude, or, if the teacher regularity. The daily lesson in most cases seems an “The American girl who fancies that she has less The Need for Superior Intelligence so decides, the copies .may be distributed in advance of the Sch pri£> may be obtained with little eflort or expense. imperative necessity. Lessons strung over a series of chances in, opera than her sisters of the European “There was a time in the halcyon days of the old meeting. ; ; > ,. ; , years merely because it seems more economical to take countries is silly.. Look at .the lists of artists at the coloratura singers when the opera singer was not ex¬ On Etude Day the answers are written in The Etude in the To Self Help Students one lesson a week instead of seven rarely pro¬ pected to have- very much more intelligence proper place, thus giving each issue the character of an interesting Manv of the ablest men of this and other ages have acquired duce the expected results. Marchesi, with her than a parrot. Any singer who could warble text book, insuring a much more thorough and intelligent reading of their educations by self study. Answer the 250 questions that appear famous wisdom on vocal matters, advised away at runs and trills was a great artist. the journal itself, giving the student a personal interest in his work thus during the year and your education will be greatl> enriched. twenty minutes a day and then not more than The situation has changed entirely to-day. The and at the same time providing the class with the occasion and the ten minutes at a time. modern opera-goer demand's great acting as “For nine months I studied with the great well as great singing. The opera house calls Parisian maestra and in my tenth month I for brains as well as voices. There should made my debut. Of course, I had sung a properly be great and sincere rivalry between great deal before that time and also could fine singers. The singer must listen to other ETUDE DAY—NOVEMBER, 1916 play both the piano and the violin. A thor¬ singers with minute care and patience and ough musical knowledge is always valuable. then try to learn how to improve herself by The early years of the girl who is destined for self-study and intelligent comparison. Just an operatic career may be much more safely as the great actor studies everything that per¬ 4. Name two famous operas written by Meyerbeer. (Page 77fl.) I—QUESTIONS IN MUSICAL HISTORY spent frith Czerny exercises for the piano or tains to his role, so the great singer knows Kreutzer studies for the violin than with Con- the history of the epoch of the opera in which cone Solfeggios for the voice. Most girls 1. What famous master was the son of a Police Court Clerk? (Page 769.) 6. Did Beethoven employ the metronome? (Page 777.) he is to appear, he knows the customs, he over-exercise their voices during the years may know something of the literature of the when it is delicate. It always pays to wait 2. Name a great composer whose ancestry was not noticeably musical. (Page time. In other words, he must live and think 6. Write -out-fa phonetic spelling the pronunciation of Berlk*. Busoni, and spend the time in developing the purely 769.) in another atmosphere before he can walk Chaminade. (Page 778.) musical side of study. upon the stage and make the audience feel that he is really a part of the picture. Sir 8.' To whom do we owe the invention of the modem flute? (Page 776.) Herbert Beerbohm Tree gives a presentation 7. W hat famous contemporary of Bach and Handel was an accomplished per¬ “More voices collapse from over-practice former on the harp? (Page 782.) that is convincing and beautiful, while the 4. When was the bassoon first used' in the. orchestra? (Page 776.) and more careers collapse from under-work mediocre actor, not willing to give as much than from anything else. The girl who hopes brain work to his performance, falls far short 8. What historical foundation is there for the story of Beethoven and the to become a prima donna will dream of her of an artistic performance. Blind Girl? (Page 782.) work morning, noon and night. Nothing can “A modern performance of any of the take it out of her mind. She will seek to 6. Who wrote the Russian National Hymn? (Page 777.) great works as they are presented at the study every imaginable thing that could in any Metropolitan is rehearsed with great care and way contribute to her equipment. There is attention to historical detail. Instances of so much to learn that she must work hard to this are the performances of L’Amore di Trc 9. W'hat composition did Wagner describe as the most perfect orchestral learn all. Even, now, I study pretty regularly piece in existence? (Page 783.) Re, Carmen, Boheme and Lohengrin, as well 6. When did the words allegro, andante, adagio, etc., two hours a day, but I rarely sing more than (Page 777.) as Such great works as Die Meistersinger and a few minutes. I hum over my new roles with Tristan und Isolde. 10. What did Rubinstein think was the purpose of Mendelssohn’s Songi my accompanist, Frank La Forge, and study 7. When was the first solo for the violin written? (Page 778.) Without Words?” (Page 783.) them in that way. It was to such methods Physical Strength and Singing as this that Marchesi attributed the wonderful “Few singers seem to realize that an oper¬ longevity of the voices of her best-known 8. What was the beginning of modern French opera? (Page 778.) atic career will be determined in its success pupils. When they followed the advice of the very largely through physical strength, all dear old maestra their voices lasted a long, other factors being present in the desired de¬ 9. When was Bizet born? (Page 778.) long time. Her vocal exercises were little gree. That is, the singer must be strong more than scales sung very' slowly, single, Ill—QUESTIONS ON ETUDE MUSIC physically in order to succeed in opera. This 10. When- was Mendelssohn’s Spinning Song composed? (Page 783.) sustained tones repeated time and again until applies to women as well as to men. No 1. In which piece do we find an imitation of Chimes? Do you notice anything her critical ear was entirely satisfied, and then -—Frances Alda. one knows what the physical strain is, how peculiar about the combination of tones used to produce this effect? arpeggios. After that came more complicated Photo Copyright, Underwood & Underwood Studios, New York. hard the work and study are. In front of technical drill to prepare the pupil for the you is a sea of highly intelligent, cultured floritura work demanded in the more florid operas. At 2. In which piece do we find a suggestion of oriental coloring? Metropolitan, for instance. The list includes twice as people, who for years have been trained in the best the base of all, however, were the simplest kind of many artists of American nationality as of any other traditions of the opera. They pay the highest prices II—QUESTIONS IN GENERAL MUSICAL INFORMATION exercises. Through her discriminating sense of tone nation. This is in no sense the result of pandering to paid anywhere for entertainment. They are entitled 3. What famous rondo has a Gypsy theme? Who is the composer? quality, her great persistence and her boundless en¬ the patriotism of the American public. It is simply a 1. Is great musical ability always transmitted through heredity? (Page 769.) to the best. To face such an audience and maintain thusiasm she used these simple vocal materials with matter of supply and demand. New Yorkers demand a wizardry that produced great prime donne. the best opera in the world and expect the best voices the high traditions of the house through three hours in the world. The management would accept fine of a complicated modern score is a musical, dramatic The Precious Head Voice artists with fine voices from China or Africa or the and intellectual feat that demands, first of all, a superb 2. Who was the composer of Old Folks at Home? Who tried to purchase 4’ What is the characteristic of the bolero rhythm? Of the mazurka rhythm? “Marchesi laid great stress upon the use of the head North Pole if they were forthcoming. A diamond is a physical condition. Every day of my life in New York the honor,of composing it? (Page 772.) voice. This she illustrated to all her pupils herself, at diamond no matter where it comes from. The man¬ I go for a walk, mostly around the reservoir in Cen¬ the same time not hesitating to insist that it was impos¬ agement virtually ransacks the musical marts of Europe tral Park, because it is high and the air is pure and sible for a male teacher to teach the head voice prop¬ every year for fine voices. Inevitably the list of Amer¬ free. As a result I seldom have a cold, even in mid¬ 6. What piece is written in. the Irish style? erly. (Marchesi herself carried out her theories by ican artists remains higher. On the whole, the Ameri¬ winter. I have not missed a performance in eight refusing to teach any male applicants.) She never let Who wrote, I wish I were in Dixie? (Page 772.) can girls have better natural voices, more ambition and years, and this, of course, is due to the fact that my any pupil sing above F on the top line of the treble are willing to study seriously, patiently and energet¬ health is my first daily consideration. staff in anything but the head voice. They rarely ever ically. This is due in a measure to better physical con¬ touched their highest notes with full voice. The upper ditions in America and in Australia, another free coun¬ part of the voice was conserved with infinite care to try that has produced unusual singers. What is the • | avoid early breakdowns. Even when the pupils sang Whoso neglects learning in his youth loses the past result? America is now producing the best and enjoy- and is dead for the future.—Euripides. 773 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 772 Clarke visited the sick man in the hospital two and u times a day, until, on the morning of the as pupil and assistant to Dr. W; Done’ .^Cathedral, and Master of Choristers at the Worcester CathedrM *ree of January, he arrived to find that poor Etude Prize Contest In 1886 he became organist at St. Helen * and Foster had parsed away. Nothing being Imown of Fos er and no one appearing to claim the body, ,t wM Prize Winners Worcester. After lopg service in English chu ^ A Half Hour of Daily Technic educational institutions he came to America ’. Taken ° ‘he morgue. Clarke aUo went to the morgue, — By the Eminent American Composer and Teacher since which time he has held the post of Lnd while standing there Mrs. Foster appeared hav.ng many important American churches. He now •. too late to see her husband alive. She was dressed CLAYTON JOHNS over a most excellent instrument at Christ iHlack Looking at the body, she fell down upon her Mr. Johns, apart from his fame as a composer, has long been recognized as one pf the ablest of New England teachers. He numbers among his pupils the ‘ “ C1arke did the same, their prayers and tears Glendale, Ohio. • 'Histinc- pianist Heinrich Gebhard, who has frequently been heard with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Brookes has been the recipient of ma"y . intermingling. Subsequently Mrs. Foster had the body removed to Pittsburgh, where .« now rests. tions and diplomas. He is a licentiate of Victoria “Little drops of water. Formula No. II The second division of the half hour of daily technic College, England, fellow of the Incorporat Mr Clarke knows positively that Christie paid Foster Little grains of sand.” Press down the fourth and fifth fingers (1 2 3 4 5) comprises the scale. Church Musicians of England. His degree= of Mu- the sum of $500 to have his name printed on the Pond It has been said that Mr. Longfellow, while brewing as far as possible, resting the thumb, relaxed, on the Practice scales in eight different ways. Doc. comes from the Wisconsin College^ of Music. edition of Old Folks at Home, as he desired to have ,*c4 his coffee, every morning and taking a few lines at a keys and raising the second and third fingers; then His teacher in composition, orchestration »nd v 1 the honor of being known as the composer of that titne, translated Dante. Now, if a great poem could Sir Edward Elgar. He has played under he baton deathless folk-song. On receiving the money Foster Scale Exercise No. I be translated in ten-mihute stunts, the final result play c d e four times, with a sharp staccato touch, of Sir Frederick Ouseley, Sir Arthur Svton*** searched for and found his great boon companion Start on C, one.octave below middle C, with the hand might be compared to relaxing and pausing at the end of each: repetition. Edward Elgar, Sir Frederick Cowen, Sir Hubert Pa George Cooper, a young newspaper man and writer of placed in an oblique position, tipping it a little to the “- the mighty ocean verse who hailed from Strawberry Plain. N. J. They right going up, and when coming down, tip it to the Dr. Horatio Parker and Antonin Dvorak. And the pleasant land.” Then play e d c four times, with the usual pauses. Dr. Brookes’ prize composition, Tarante {orm went to Pfaff’s that night, where Clarke subsequently left. The thumb should not be raised above the sur¬ minor, is a brilliant specimen of this popular i oined them. .* • * The moral of this is: Whatever you do, do it regu¬ face of the keys, while the other fingers should be ■ Finally, play c d e d c four times and foiir times It is pleasing in melody, with a certain onginahty of Mr Brikett Clarke also relates a unique experience larly, and this may be applied to any technical study, held rather high; then play four octaves and a fifth, treatment, and, as it lies well under the hands, it may be in connection with Stephen Foster whirl, .s not without be it either piano or any other musical instrument. up and down, in quadruplets, counting slowly four on interest. It happened about the middle of June, 1863: The above title has been called “Half an Hour of e d c d e. Relax and pause slightly hefore beginning JP m taken at a very rapid pace. Grade IV. each note and relaxing on each note of the scale with¬ Clarke cannot recall the exact date, but it was at the Daily Technic” because half an hour done regularly out changing the position of the hand and fingers. Dr. L. A. Brookes. Mr. C. E. Dancy. time of the Wheeling Convention, in which forty can work wonders when properly applied and to play the next group (1 2 3 4 5). Continue in the The touch should be very strong, firm and with a Two Successful Contestants. The Last Days of Stephen Foster counties of Virginia repudiated secession and applied understood. same way through the rest of Formula No. II. good tone, and the hand never stiff. Practice the for admission to the Union. The day following this Before going further, let it be remembered that' hands separately until both hands can be played to¬ mind must enter into all technical study, as well as The final decisions have been reached, and we take By Houdini event he was seated with Stephen Foster and Dame gether correctly, with the different movements and pleasure in announcing the winners in all three depart¬ Decatur Emmett at the old Collamore House, corner of into any other sort of study. Neither should be touches. Spring and Broadway, New Y ork, taking over war mechanical, if the “pleasant land" ever be reached. ments of the contest. ' • Scale Exercise No. II In this contest 1,525 separate compositions were topics in general, when they saw through the window a Technic has for foundation three things: Five-finger exercises, scales and arpeggios and wrist exercises. The same oblique position of the hand as in Scale entered. The numbers were about equally divided !lf® llrter’from Mr Ha^r^Houdlnl. Mr. Houdini Ih -ho v brigade of boys on their way to the front. They were among the three classes. Necessarily the examination led by a hand playing I It uh I H ere In Dune. All of these, carefully distributed, can be put into half Exercise No. I. Before beginning the scale, drop the ah hour’s practice. of so large a number of manuscripts entailed a con¬ ‘"’Tills 1 “That is your song,” said Foster. wrist slightly below the keys (See Wrist Exercise VII, It is to be taken for granted that the student is well page 23, of the Essentials of Pianoforte ‘Playing). siderable amount df time and labor, but every manu- in 2-5Ir VXUTfnf ss „„ the small “Yes,” admitted Emmett. Presently another regiment went by, and the band grounded in the rules of technic; just how the fingers, Play each finger in turn, slightly raising the wrist with script received due care and consideration, and the .«» Information" Old Folks at Home, My Old Kentucky Home ana . | 8ongs. was playing The Old Folks At Home. in five-finger exercises, are to be raised and lowered; a quick and strong pressure, relaxing immediately to percentage of America s fmiaii « we ransacked every Clarke, young as he was, appreciated the fact ot how the hand is to be properly placed in position, the lower position, Play four octaves and a fifth, up keeping the fingers, hand and wrist relaxed, yet firm. naUhre or very near it, considerable difficulty was knowing two authors who he felt were destined to be and down, counting four slowly on each note. THe first division of the “half hour” comprises five- experienced in making the final allotments. The general remembered long after lwth he and they were dead. finger exercises, divided into four sections or formulas. excellence of the works submitted was a matter of Being in the habit of keeping a diary, he made an For the sake of economy of time and space, the Scale Exercise No. Ill much gratification. ent upon ^hearsay ^and^^ elaborate entry of the event. Trusting you will see fit to give space to this letter in formulas are shown below. Position as iri Scale Exercise No. I. Raise the wrist The awards are as follows: , . • The dots above the figures show how the fingers are Class I, for the best pianoforte pieces of inter¬ your publication, 1 beg to remain, slightly above the surface of the keys, then drop‘it To the Editor of The Etude : to be played very staccato; and the straight lines over mediate or advanced grade in any style: with a quick, strong pressure, immediately relaxing to Dear Sir:—I have read with interest the various Sincerely yours, the figures show how the fingers are to be pressed First Prize, Fay Foster, New York City, N. Y. the upper position, and counting four slowly on each Harry Houdini.. down. Second Prize, Reinhard W. Gebhardt, Dallas, Texas. articles regarding Stephen Collins Foster appearing in note. In both Exercises Nos. II and III the tone must the September Etude. It may interest you to know Third Prize, Louis A. Brookes, Glendale, Ohio. be very strong. All the scale exercises are to be played that in my search for data to enlarge my collection of Class II, for the best songs suitable either for teach¬ four octaves and a fifth; up and down. literature pertaining to the drama, minstrelsy and stage A Five-Minute Drill in Touch ing, recital or concert use: magic I am in a position to shed further light upon First Prize, Theodora Dutton, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1-2 345 12345 12 34 5 Scale Exercise No. IV—Relaxed Scale Second Prize, G. Marschal-Loepke, Wollaston, Mass. Foster’s last days. This information is secured from By Phillip E. Decker Oblique position of the hand, the fingers resting on Third Prize, Charles E. Dancy, New York City, N. Y. Mr. Brikett Clarke, a newspaper man and press agent 12345 12345 12345 Class HI, for the best anthems for mixed voices well known in his day. Mr. Clarke and Stephen Foster the keys. Relax the fingers throughout, playing four shared the same room during the months of August, Have you ever realized what touch means in piano octaves and a fifth, up and down, with an imaginary suitable for general use: September, October and November, 1863—m fact, playing? It certainly does not mean feeling in the 12345 12345 12345 metrical accent. The fingers should seem to have no First Prize. J. Lamont Galbraith, Richmond, Va. ordinary sense o ‘ the word. Probably the best defini¬ Second Prize, Jean Bohannan, Pittsburgh, Pa. practically up to the time of Foster’s removal to bone in them. The fingers may be also slightly raised. Bellevue Hospital. They lived on the south side of tion is weight seflsititivtness. Touch in piano 12345 12345 12345 The speed may be varied. Third Prize, James R. Gillette, Macon, Georgia. turns the hand into a kind of inverted spring scale. The Two of the above, composers are represented in this Hester Street. Next door to them was a grocery store ordinary spring scale on your grocer’s counter meas¬ 1 2 3 4 5 12345 12345 issue of The Etude by their respective prize winning on the corner, facing Hester Street on one Side and ures weight pressed down from above, registering it in Scale Exercise No. V—Staccato Scale compositions. Others will appear later. Elizabeth Street on the other. Mr. Clarke is now seventy-six years of age but. apart pounds upon a dial. The hand and fingers in piano 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 The fingers should be held half an inch above the playing do the reverse. They administer weight and keys. The movement should come entirely from the Charles E. Dancy from deafness, his mind and senses are keen and bright. Clayton Johns. He assures me that Foster did not have to live in. a force to the keyboard and it is the ability to administer 12345 12345 fingers, well curved and playing from the hand- Mr Dancy was born in Columbus, Mississippi, of cellar, but had full use of the room they shared to¬ this weight and force in different degrees of quantity knuckles. The stroke should be short and quick. The French extraction. He is in the meridian of life; gether. His account of Foster’s death is as-follows: and velocity that determines the technic of the player- 12345 12345 Formula No. Ill speed may be from adagio to presto. studies music for its own fascination, and for the Shortly after New Year’s Day, 1864, Clarke had an The hand must be trained at some time during the poetry it contains. After finishing, so to speak, his appointment with Foster to see the Wo&ds’ Minstrels student’s career to weight sensitiveness. Here is a hftle 1 2 3 4 5 1 2‘ 3 4 5 piano studies with the best local teachers,, he studied Press down the thumb (1 2 3 4 5), raising the sec¬ Scale Exercise No. VI on Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel. Foster drill which I have repeatedly given my pupils With piano, harmony and counterpoint with Mme. Holberg, success. ■ 12345 12345 Position like Scale Exercise No. I. Thumb resting not showing up, Clarke went to the entertainment alone. ond, third, fourth and fifth fingers; then play d e f g formerly of Paris, France, nqw of Mobile, Alabama. On his return to his room he found a letter awaiting Hold the five fingers with one hand over any hve on the surface of the key, fingers held high. Play with Formula No. I four times, with a sharp staccato touch, relaxing, and At the age of twenty-two he went West; taught music him. delivered shortly before his arrival, telling him to keys of a well regulated piano and press with each a strong and rapid stroke, with the imaginary metrical Place the hand in position, with the fingers resting pausing af the end of each repetition. Then play in several cities, principally in Dallas, Texas. Then he come immediately to the American Hotel, as Foster finger sixteen times so that the key goes down so accent, four octaves and a fifth, up and down. went to New York City, and was, for a long time con¬ on the surface of the five keys, press all five fingers was hurt. He hurried there, and found the composer slowly that no sound is made. Silent practice of this down on the keys as far as possible; then, raising the nected with one of the best conservatories in the city. in an unconscious condition. It appears that Foster kind is practicable and may be continued for a minute g f e d and, finely! d e f g f fl e and g f e d e f g He is now in New York City, where he has lived for Scale Exercise No. VII had slipped, and in falling struck his head against the or so. It should then be followed with the same exer¬ each four times. Relax, and pause slightly before* first , and second fingers (1 2 3 4 5) about an inch many years. _ stove, fracturing his skull over the right temple. cise, this time played so that the stroke is just enough to The fingers resting on the keys and not raising them, Mr. Dancy’s- prize composition, So Fondly l Caress above the keys, play (down and up), with a sharp Clarke carried Foster to a four-wheeler, and then took sound the key and no more. The pupil thus dis¬ beginning to play the next group (1 2 3 4 5). Con¬ play with a heavy pressure, adding the weight of the Thee, is a charming love song, unconventional in treat¬ staccato touch, in triplets, slightly accenting each triplet, him to the Bellevue Hospital. He then rushed out to covers his superlative pianissimo,—the stroke that will tinue in the same way through the rest of Formula wrist and arm, and even the weight of the body. The ment’ but truly expressive. A real singer’s song. send a wire to Dr. MacDowell, Foster’s father-in-law. produce a sound with the least possible difference be¬ and. ending with the first note after the eighth triplet. No. III. tempi may be varied. Grade III. Relax, and make a slight pause before beginning to In doing so he neglected to inform the hospital author¬ tween that and silence. Formula No. IV ities that Foster was the composer and author, and this This same idea may be applied to scales. After a Dr. Louis Arthur Brookes Rest the thumb over c arid raise the other four Scale Exercise No. VIII is the reason Foster was described on the hospital little practice one may play scales up and down the play the next pair (1 2 3 4 5). Press down the second, Dr. Brookes is among the many English musicians books as a “laborer.” as reported in The Etude by keyboard slowly without making a single sound. What fingers about an inch above the keys; then play Hand position either like in Exercise No. I or in who have been welcomed in America during the past Dr.’ G. O. Hanlon, General Medical Superintendent of is the advantage of this? Psychological quite as much fourth and fifth fingers (1 2 3 4 5), raising the first Exercise No. IV—Relaxed Scale. Then play four twenty-five years. He was born in Worcester, England, Bellevue. Clarke realized that Foster had been seriously as physiological. The brain is compelled to control the and third; then play (down and up), in triplets, in the c d e f g four times, with a sharp staccato touch, octaves and a fifth, up and down, in quadruplets, August 16.'1869. He was-educated in King Edward’s muscles and that wonderful co-ordination which leads same way, with a sharp staccato touch, ending with the relaxing, and pausing at the end of each repeti¬ slightly accenting in three different ways, thus: Grammar School in the same city. His first teacher injured, and though he knew that Foster and his wife had been separated for some time, he thought that a to great playing is brought about. After all the best first, note after the eighth triplet. Relax, and make a iri pianoforte and violin was his father, who was the telegram to Dr. MacDowell, who was a well-known in pianoforte playing is nothing more than harnessing slight pause before beginning to play the next pair tion. ’ Then play and repeat g f, e d c and finally bass soloist for fifty years in the Worcester Cathedral physician in Pittsburgh—then a much smaller place highly exercised fingers to a splendidly trained musical and also double bass player at the Philharmonic than it is to-day—would result in Mrs. Foster being intelligence. Five minute drills on anything like this (1 2 3 4 5), and so on through the rest of Formula No. I. Irnet f S f 6 d C and & f e d c d e f g each four Concerts. ■ which links the brain to the digits are never wasted. • After service as a chorister Dr. Brookes was articled informed. THE ETUDE 77$ THE ETUDE 774 Fxercise No II.—Extend the fingers and thumb all Octaves the way then make the same movement as in Exercise Special Directions for Scale Practice Octave Exercise No. I No 1 at the hand-knuckles, pressing down the four Gradually study through the twenty-four tnajpr and Place the hand on the octave at C, the fingers upon the palm of the hand; relax and return to minor scales, in order; taking one scale a uay (playing on middle C. Relax the wrist, then play, with the hand the extended position. Repeat fifteen or twenty times, both hands together) throUEh the e!ght •«£.«£. close to the keys, in groups, e g, etc., playing making a slight pause between the repetitions at the cises. Exercises Nos. I, II and III each once,.-N s, IV and V, each three times; Nos. VI and.VII, each moment of relaxation. four times- No. VIII, three times. Strict attention Exercise No III.—Extend the fingers and thumb, should be given to the scale positions. The scales to close the hand, making a fist of the fingers, crossing which four counts are given to each note should be the thumb over the second and third fingers at a right played very slowly. It would be well to stlldy the hands angle- relax and return to the extended position. . separately until they go well together. possible and with the least possible motion. R^ax at Repeat fifteen or twenty times, slightly pausing be¬ Arpeggio Practice the end of each group and return quickly to C. C tween the repetitions at the moment of relaxation. tinue to play in groups up to the octave abo , Practice arpeggios in triplets, slightly accenting each Exercise No. IV.—Extend the four fingers all the return, playing in downward groups: triplet when playing three octaves up and three down, way press the thumb against the second finger joint, and practice them in quadruplets, slightly accenting almost imperceptibly, sensitizing the movement. Repeat each quadruplet, when playing four octaves up and fifteen or twenty times, making the usual pause between four down. Practice them very slowly, in moderate the repetitions at the moment of relaxation. tempo then fast. The hands should be placed obliquely, as in the scale, tipping it to the right when playing in Exercise No. V.—Position like Exercise No. IV, with an upward direction (see Essentials of Pianoforte fingers and thumb extended, pressing against the second Playing, pages 15 and 16), and when playing^ in a The wrist should be very light and the groups be finger joint, and crossing the thumb over the palm; downward direction, tip it to the left. The fingers played with a single thought, as it were, "ot w,t" relax and return to the position of Exercise No. II. should be well curved on the white keys and be. more thought for each note. Repeat each grouplourtimes. Repeat fifteen or twenty times and make a slight pause extended on the black keys. It is well to play arpeggios In contradistinction to Exercise No. I, in between the repetitions at the moment of relaxation. with the fingers close to the keys for the sake of pro¬ groups are played with a single thought, is ducing a volume of tone rather than single notes, it Exercise No. VI.—Extend the four fingers and is also well, after curving each finger, to relax it by Octave Exercise No. II thumb all the way. make an O with the thumb and extension when playing in an upward direction, and Play eachjnovemeflt of the hand at the wrist with a fifth finger, vigorously pressing the finger and thumb after extending the third relaxed finger, to curve it separate though^ the hand moving from the wrist as tips; relax without changing the position and return in by contraction when playing in the downward direction. the lid of aibox moves at the hinge. The speed may the extended position. In the same way, contract and As in the scale, practice arpeggios with separate be varied. Av6id’-all stiffness in hand or wrist. extend the fourth and thumb, the third and thumb and hands until both hands can be played together correctly. Play, diatoriicplly, in quadruplets, the scale of C, two finally the second and thumb. Repeat each exercise octaves and a third,-up and down (slightly accenting fifteen or twenty times, pausing slightly between the Special Directions for Arpeggio Practice each quadruplet) twice, without a pause; then again repetitions at the moment of relaxation. Repeat each arpeggio, up and down, three or four without a pause, play,In triplets, two octaves and a fifth, Exercise No. VII— Extend the four finger* and times, according to the diagram below, in the following up and down^ once; according to the following diagram . divisions; „ . , „ thumb all the way, bend the fingers at the middle joint, Majo'r and Minor Triads—First Day. pressing down the fingers upon the thumb crossed over the palm at a right angle; relax and return to the first position, making the usual repetitions and pausing be¬ tween the repetitions at the moment of relaxation. Exercise No. VIII— Extend the four fingers and Then, continuW, without a pause, play the chromatic thumb, bend each finger in turn at the hand-knuckles, scale in quadruplets^- two octaves and a minor sixth, back and forth, fifteen or twenty times, relaxing and All triad-arpeggios should be practiced in quad¬ up and down? tw;ice (slightly accenting each quad¬ pausing at the hand-knuckles. ruplets, four octaves up and four down, making an ruplet). Finally, still without a pause, play chromat¬ CLARINET FLUTE imaginary accent on each quadruplet. ically, in triplets, two octaves and a major second, up Exercise No. IX—Make the same movement as in The reason for practicing triad-arpeggios in quad¬ and down, ojji'ce, accojding to the diagram below: Exercise No. VIII at the middle finger joint. Repeat ruplets, rather than in triplets, is to avoid the regular fifteen or twenty times, relaxing and pause at the recurrence of the thumb, which, like the tongue, is middle finger joint. an unruly member, putting itself frequently into too great prominence. ... Exercise No. X.—Like Exercise No. VIII. Move Dominant Seventh Chord-Arpeggio of C Major, with two fingers at a time. Its Inversions—Second Day. Exercise No. XI—Like Exercise No. IX. Move The triplets should be played in groups, according to two fingers at a time. Octave Exercise No. 1, slightly accenting the first note Exercise No. XII.—Extending the fingers and touch¬ of each triplfj and taxing the second and third notes. ing each other, make a lateral movement of the second The directions given, fpr the repetition, “without a finger, separating it as far as possible from the other pause,” are f

By HENRY T. FINCK The Clarinet The Flute The clarinet is another modification of j The Distinguished American Critic Discusses a Subject of Great Practical Interest to Teachers The Oboe The flute is one of the most ancient of the shawm or chalumeau, but has on y a The air column in an oboe is set in instruments and was, in fact, inventMl the single reed instead of the double reed of ; “Does this music annoy you?” I was asked one day from year to year being heard less frequently. In nobility and beauty vanish. Pondering on this amazing motion not directly, -as in the flute, but first time man blew across a hollow reed. the oboe or bassoon. The shaw™ w“ j when my little nephew’s nurse had started a Strauss the most remote rural regions bandmasters, amateurs difference, it occurred to me that Yankee Doodle also through a “double reed”-two small pieces There were two flutes commonly used in modified into the clarinet about 1690 by ; waltz on a talking machine to entertain him. and even the irrepressible, half-witted whistlers are might possibly be ennobled by playiflg it more slowly. j of Cane placed next each other with an the time of Bach and Handel—the flute-a- Johann Christopher Denner. of Nurem- ; “No,” I promptly replied, “the music doesn’t annoy apparently beginning to realize the hideous vulgarity I tried it, with rich, stately harmonies, and lo and me, but the tempo does. Nobody could dance at that aperture through which one pan blow. bec, held vertically and played with a burg. It was first used in the orchestra j of this detestable tune, than which nothing could be behold, the taint of vulgarity was gone! The range is from B flat below the treble mouthpiece, and the flauto traverso held pace, and the music loses all its charm by being taken less appropriate on dignified patriotic occasions. “Shrill in Rameau’s Acante el Cephise, 1731; was so fast.” staff to the F above it. The best tones like a niodern flute. The flute was a faulty and shallow” the late IV. F. Apthorp called it. One used by Haydn and was firmly established I shall never get over my indignation at a joke Earliest Use of Tempo Marks lie between G (same line as the G clef) instrument, uncertain as to intonation un¬ might as well class the flea among useful domestic til Theobald Boehm (1794-1881) greatly as an orchestral 'instrument by Mozart played on me many years ago by a music teacher. I The superlative. importance of tempo is abundantly to the A, nine scale degrees above; below animals as this jerky, skipping thing among our national improved the mechanism. There is no and Beethoven. Application of the Boehm used to play the violoncello, and once at a concert this demonstrated by these examples. When did musicians that it is harsh and nasal, above it is thm tunes. Thank heaven, it is not of American origin. and weak. It is hot so flexible as the reed on a flute; it consists simply of a system of fingering in 1843 greatly en¬ woman unfortunately played the accompaniments. My begin to appreciate this importance? Evidently long principal number was a Bach air. When we rehearsed, Indeed, it was originally sung in derision of Ameri¬ flute, double or triple tonguing being im¬ hollow tube, stopped at one end. Near hanced its scope. Clarinets are made m before what we call art music came into existence. she started to play it at double' the proper speed, but, cans, who surely did not deserve such an insult—but, possible. The oboe is descended from an that is an aperture across which the various keys, those in A and B flat being American Indians, for example, were found addicted performer blows to set the air enclosed on being remonstrated with, she slowed down. At the hold; yes, they did, for they subsequently, in the latter to singing their songs of religion, love, war, hunting old instrument known in England as the the most Universally used. Music for the in the tube in vibration. The compass public performance, however, either from nervousness part of the Revolution, adopted it as their own—"a and so on in varied tempi, some of them fast, others Shawm and in Germany as the schalmey. B flat instrument sounds a tone lower extends from middle C for three oc¬ or because she thought she knew better than I, she melody taken from the enemy,” as Louis C. Elson has slow. In such books as American Primitive Music, by It came into regular orchestra use about than the written note, and that for the taves. The lowest octave is very ‘woody again put on full steam and I simply had to follow, the remarked. F. R. Burton, and The Indian’s Book, by Natalie two hundred years ago, and was then A clarinet a minor third. The compass and colorful, almost menacing at times. result being that this piece, which always was encored Curtis, may be found many examples to which accurate much coarser in tone. It was mpch em¬ The octave above is clear and mellow, extends from approximately E below when I had an intelligent pianist, got a mere scatter¬ metronome marks have been affixed by the editors, as ployed by Bach and Handel. Modern and the lower half of the remaining middle C three octaves up. The lowest ing of applause. The audience evidently was a better well as general indications like “in moderate time,” composers use its reedy torte with dis¬ octave is very brilliant. By “over¬ octave, or “chalumeau.” is rich and sonor¬ judge of tempo than that teacher, who is now, I gener¬ cretion, not more than two being custom¬ “with spirit,” “very rhythmically,” “very slow,” “rather blowing,” overtones (harmonics) may be ous. and can be dark and menacing at ously hope, in a better world. fast.” ary in the symphony orchestra. Very fre¬ produced, giving another variety of tone times. The middle octave (lower half) A friend of mine called one evening on a family quently the oboes merely double the flute Folk songs of European countries are sung now, as color. The flute is very agile and can if weak and mostly used for -‘back¬ that had just bought a player-organ. He found the or clarinet parts, though the instrument's presumably they always have been,. slowly or fast, play rapid passages, scales or arpeggios ground” in orchestral music, while the whole family playing cards except one member, who expressive qualities are fully recognized. according as they were concerned with sad and solemn very readily.' By “double and even tipper tones are brilliant. The clarinet had put in the Tannhiiuser overture and was playing it topics or with gay and festive ones. There were no The range between soft and loud is greater “triple” tonguing. reiterated notes in cannot attempt the double and triple fortissimo and prestissimo from beginning to end! rules to instruct these singers in matters of tempo. than is the case with the flute. Beetho¬ groups of twos or threes can be played Nobody paid any attention to the racket; but when the tonguing of the flute, but it can play very- They followed their own taste and judgment. ven, Schubert, Dvorak and, indeed, most with great rapidity. The dynamic range visitor, who happened to be an organist, sat down and rapid music, legato or staccato, and has a In the same way, the composers of art music, even of the great composers have written some of the flute is rather limited, and it can played the same piece with the proper tempi and vary¬ as late as the time of Handel and Bach, left matters of their loveliest melodies for the oboe. play neither so soft nor so loud as the wide dynamic range. There are generally ing degrees of loudness, the card players stopped their of pace very largely to the taste and judgment of the The name is derived from an Italian violin. The piccolo, a small flute, is also two clarinets in the orchestra, and the game and stood around enjoying the music. singers, players and conductors. It is true that, about form of the French “hautbois,” “high used in the orchestra, usually by the sec¬ instrument is often employed for solo ond flautist, or the third when there is the year 1600, such words as allegro, adagio, andante wood,” as distinguished from the “bas¬ purposes. Seidl and Granados v (The Etude ttellenr.l came into use; but these, for a long time, merely indi¬ soon” or low bassoon. Concerning the same overture, Anton Seidl once told (The Etude Gallery* I cated the general emotional character of a piece, allegro me a story that threw light on a certain class of German meaning, literally, cheerful; adagio, easy; andante, conductors who missed the essence of Wagner’s music. going; largo, broad; and it was only gradually that Ferdinand Hiller was one of them; but one day, after Bass Clarinet these Italian words got their present meaning the Bassoon he had heard Seidl conduct the Tannhiiuser overture The English Horn The bass clarinet is a deeper-toned world over, of fast, slow, moderately fast and very The bassoon is a double-reed instru¬ with the proper tempi, he was frank enough to exclaim, Thh( “cor Anglais” or English horn is clarinet. The music for it is written as slow, respectively. ment, using a somewhat broader reed “Ja, se gefallt sie mir auch!” (Ah! That way I like poorly named, since it. is not of English for the A or B flat clarinet, but sounds an It is particularly interesting to note Bach’s attitude than the oboe. It is a tube about nine toward these words. In his earlier works he fre¬ origin nor yet a horn. It is, in fact a jj octave lower. It has a remarkable range Wagner himself relates in one of his essays that this contralto oboe, its range being a fifth feet long, but doubled on itself for con¬ overture, which, under his own direction, in Dresden, quently used them, but in his later manuscripts they of expression and can play from pian¬ lower in pitch than that of the oboe. It venience in playing. The bassoon forms £ took twelve minutes, was made by one conductor to are seen only occasionally. Evidently he found them issimo to fortissimo with ease. The tone is not so commonly found in the orches¬ the principal bass instrument of the wood¬ e last twenty. Sometimes, in listening to one of his too vague to be of much use and preferred to leave tra as the oboe, and, indeed, is generally wind group and is one of the most im¬ s quality is rich and golden, and is in some operas, he was almost driven to despair by the incor¬ his tempo to the taste of the performers. used only for special effects; and, since portant instruments in the orchestra. - measure responsible for the broad organ- rect and monotonous tempi. Gretry, the eminent French composer, who was born Everybody has read about the organ grinder in it is usually performed on by an oboe owing to its agility, its wide compass and | like effects Wagner so often obtains from eight years before Bach died, wrote: “I am so con¬ player, the fingering being the same, the Milan who had put up a placard on his instrument Many years ago I waged a violent newspaper war its serviceable tone quality, which blends •5 his orchestra. This is the case in the vinced of the insufficiency of the customary time indi¬ custom has developed for composers to reading “Pupil of Verdi,” and who, on being ques¬ with Mr. Jenks, of the Boston Transcript, in regard to cations that I believe it a fact that a composition writ¬ well with strings or horns, as well as with accompaniment to Elisabeth’s Prayer in tioned, explained that Verdi had once stopped -him and write the English horn part a fifth higher s Yankee Doodle. His apology for it culminated in the ten in Amsterdam and marked allegro would be played the wood-wind instruments. The com¬ .5 ■ Tannhiiuser, in which it is associated with shown him how fast to play one of his tunes. The than it actually sounds. The instrument remark that it is not unlike the melody of the Hymn only andante by the people of Marseilles.” clarinets and bassoons to produce some story may be true. A composer tortured by an incor¬ is said to have been first used at the Im¬ pass extends three octaves above B flat S to Joy in Beethoven’s ninth symphony. In my retort rect tempo is capable of worse things than that. perial Theater, Vienna, 1762, but was below the bass clef. The first octave very rich, chord progressions. Some dif¬ I admitted that only one step separated the two—the One of the saddest tragedies in musical history was more freely used later by the French. forms a good foundation bass tone; an ference exists in writing for the bass the death of the great Spanish composer, Enrique step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Haydn used it in two works, Mozart in clarinet, the French composers writing in octave and a half above that is the best c Granados, who -was one of the victims of the Sussex What has all this to do with the question of tempo? four, while Beethoven, Schubert, Weber register for solos, and the remaining ■2 the treble clef, as for the ordinary clar¬ disaster. His life had been a hard struggle to support Well, a few years ago, in reading Mrs. Wodehouse’s and Mendelssohn never used it. It is music became i tones, while reedier and thinner than the inet, and the Germans using the bass clef his six children, and the production of his Goyescas excellent article on song in the new edition of Grove’s e pronounced. It resulted nowadays in great favor with composers 1 m the invention of the metronome. This little instru- ’cello, ire not without their, kalueyas Jin l ekCept fbr a few higher notes, though the at the Metropolitan Opera House had been his first Dictionary of Music and Musicians, I came across this when they need a mournful, reflective ment for mechanically beating time as fast or slow (Jribtstlal pigment. The fact that* it cim same transposition is necessary. Meyer¬ great opportunity. Even this was marred by a faulty very interesting footnote regarding the Russian effect. Wagner has written a celebrated as desired, with the aid of a pendulum and clockwork, execute rapidly skips of an octave, tenth. 3 beer was the first composer to bring the production of his opera. For the last repetition, which National Hymn, which is attributed to Lvov: “It has passage for the instrument unaccompa¬ he hoped would be better than the others, he invited appealed at once to prominent composers like Spohr, twelfth, etc., and can be made to sound is bass clarinet into notice, especially in l.cs recently been stated that Lvov was not the true com¬ nied in. Tristan und Isolde; the lovely Paderewski, Schelling and myself, with our wives, to Clementi, Cherubini, Mehul, Mo.scheles. Beethoven in grotesque by the use of staccato, has poser of this hymn, but merely took the melody of • adagio movement of Dvorak’s New World Huguenots and Le ProphPte: Wagner his box. It proved to be the worst of the five per¬ particular welcomed Maelzel’s metronome with open 1 earned the bassoon the title of “clown of \ the trio of a Geschwindmarsch, composed by F. Bog- Symphony is another splendid example used it freely as a bass instrument, and formances, and I shall never forget the look of annoy¬ arms, and he expected great things of it. the orchestra.” This is unfair, however. •2 danovitch, bandmaster of the St. Petersburg regiment of what this instrument can do. An even Liszt also employed it in his Dante Sym¬ ance and almost anguish in his face whenever the of the guards, and published in a march collection in °"e °f Il!s letters he wrote: “I heartily rejoice more familiar instance of its use occurs 1. for all the masters have written finely for conductor made a blunder in the choice of his tempo. I phony. Principally the bass clarinet is 1822. The notes are identical, the only change being that you share my opinion regarding the terms indicat¬ in the William Tell Overture, in which ; it. The bassoon was first used orches- The composer’s hands nervously indicated the right used as a melodic instrument wherever made in the time.” ing time-measure which have been handed down to us Rossini has assigned to it the famous 1 trally about 16S9, and has been regularly tempo, but I was the only person who could see those from the barbarous period of music. For to name Ranz des vaches, a pastoral lay heard its own peculiar tone is required to That “only change,” however, transformed this tune j employed since Handel’s time. There is distressed hands. only one thing, what can be more senseless than after the storm subsides. Schumann uses also a contra-bassoon sounding an octave heighten the general effect. In this re¬ from something ridiculous into the most sublime of the cor anglais in his Manfred, and spect it is analogous to the English horn, all national hymns. Fritz Kreisler, who nearly lost his lx9™’ Wh,ch’ °nCe f°r all> means rtierry, and how far lower than the bassoon save that the two Yankee Doodle and the Russian National Hymn off are we frequently from such conception of the famous examples of its use may be found lowest tones are missing. It is a power¬ which is only found in the orchestra on life by a Cossack lance, agrees with me as to that, and in the works of Berlioz, Meyerbeer, One of the most encouraging signs of musical prog¬ many others do, I am sure. Now. try it as a Gesch- time-measure ,n that the music itself expresses some! ful instrument of great value. special occasions. ress in America is the fact that Yankee Doodle is thing quite contrary to the term? I have oftea thought Tchaikovsky, Goldmark and many others. (The Etude Gallery.) (The Etude Gallery.) windmarch—that is, a quickstep—and note how all its of giving up these senseless terms, allegro, andante! THE ETUDE 779 THE ETUDE 77 8 Difficult Pronunciations Composers, to be sure, have a nu“bf ^ovem^nt, ,a(rio presto, and for this Maelzel’s metronome offers scribing temporary changes in the rat caiando, the best opportunity. I herewith give you my word Arensky comt>OSer' such as ritardando, accelerando, thriiled etc.; but these are not enough. Wagner w by the delicate and subtle lacery of Beethov tat;on matic work, and he felt that its correc interpreUt.on BeerHozVe(5«>-lee-ohs) French compo^ l^-lSdQ. Bizet (Bee-zzy) French composer, 1838-4875. expectations, and he climax when his called for modifications of pace equally de i so subtle that no marks could indicate them. Bruch (Broochh) German compose , 838- The Composer Son was cMledTo to fact that the metronome As Anton Seidl, in his splendid essay, On Con Busoni (Boo-aolm-ee) Italian p.amst, 1866_ mark he had provided for a London performance of ducting, remarked, “Had Beethoven not become d^ Calve (Aa«-veh) Spanish opera singer, ^ his Ninth Symphony did not agree with those winch he would have demonstrated by his condu g ^ Carreno (Cahr-ra.Vyo) Venezuelan pianist, 18,3. A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life he supplied not long afterwards because the others insufficient his tempo and expression marks Chaminade (Sham-"-nahd) French woman composer. By the distinguished writers were lost “No metronome!” he exclaimed. A man correct interpretation of his symphonies. 1861. who has the right feeling does not need it; the man Weingartner’s book, Ratschlage fur Auffuhru"g™Jj AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE who has not, finds it useless; he and the whole orches¬ Symphonien Beethovens, contains a number o 1 tra run away from it.” able suggestions as to the proper tempi m these work. Authors of “The Pride of Jennico”, “The Bath Comedy”, etc. It is worth noting that not only he and Seidb buMU The “Scale Wheel” More Harm Than Good the great conductors since Wagner wrote his epoch, For educational purposes the metronome is, of making essay concerning modifications of i P , By Grace Busenbark course, indispensable, and as a guide to the manipu¬ followed in his footsteps...... «a1readv lators of player-pianos it has its uses, sparing musical Seidl also called attention to the fact that air y As an incentive to thorough work my younger pupils in his day Weber declared war against metronomic people the daily agony of having to hear grotesque y hpve a “scale wheel” like the following: wrong tempi in all directions. But as a guide to orchestral playing. Weber said there ™s " c ™ .artistic interpretation this mechanical tune-beater is a sition throughout which one measure was to be piaieo snare and a delusion. It is not too muchtosaythah like the other.” has done more harm than good. It has helped the (A second section of this important article will be survival of mediocre musicians, who, without its aid, presented in a later issue.) would have made such outra^ous blunders that they would have been promptly eliminated from the over crowded concert halls. It has often failed to indicate correctly even the initial pace desired by a composer, Some Interesting Musical Historical and furthermore, it is misleading, because in a large Facts hall and with a big orchestra the same piece must b played more slowly than in a smaller hall with a small The first known solo composition for the violin is contained in a work of Biagio Marini, published m 0rButStthe chief damage done by metronome marks lies 1620 It is a Romanesca per Viohno Solo e Basso sc in this that they have led mediocre musicians and piaci (ad lib.). “The Romanesca," says Grove s Dic¬ ignorant critics to suppose that when a composer writes tionary, “is musically poor and clumsy and except tha^ M M 0 104 or M.M. i 92 at the beginning of a move¬ in it we meet with the shake for the first time, the ment he intends it to be played at that pace metronom- demands it makes on the executant are very sma' icalh through to the end. This misconception has been The printing of music from engraved ^per plates L veritable -urse in the musical world. It is responsible is supposed to have been begun at Rome. A collection for a vast amount of dull and dreary playing .n homes of canzonets, Dileito Spirituale, was engraved by Mar¬ and concert halls. It has also causedtheworids great tin van Buyten in Rome, 1586, published by Simone est conductors, from Wagner and BlSZt . Kp vi ’ Mahler, Weingartner, Nikisch and others to he v V We have become so accustomed to printed music in lently assailed by pedantic professionals hecause hey Which every detail is carefully regarded that a single dared to be interpreters instead of metronomic ™ error or slip in printing is considered a serious dis¬ On the flyleaf of their book of etudes or exercises beaters and has thus discouraged others from follow crepancy. What would we say if composers left the they draw three circles, one within the other, making ing their splendid example. These great leaders.tore accidental raising or flattening of various notes to the a wheel with a double rim—the outer rim for the key often been derisively called “pnma-donna °r tempo- imagination of the performer, as was at one time done . letters of the major scales and the inner rim for those rubato” conductors, and this brings me to the mam In the older form of modal contrapuntal writing it was of the minor scales. The major scale letters arc made considered “incorrect” to introduce accidentals. Com¬ point of this article. with a red pencil and the minor ones with blue. ^ posers therefore omitted them as much as poss*-** Opposite the letter on the outside of the “wheel is Including them only when absolutely necessary. Music Wagner’s Bombshell the figure denoting the number of sharps or flats in the in which they were supplied was known as musica scale. Lines leading from the center of the circle out The superlative importance of tempo has been spe¬ ficta” or “Cantus fictus.” No choristers education was cify emphasized by the great masters Mozart said considered complete unless he could sing at sight from to the scale letter on the rim are called “spokes. As that “the most necessary, the most difficult and the this music. The older the music is, the fewer the acci¬ in a real wheel each spoke must be completed and dentals. In the whole of Palestrinas Mtssa brevis strong before it can be put into use, so each scale mTnfieUerntomme<: dated" September 24,^90), Edvard only two accidentals appear, though some thirty or spoke” is built up bj the pupils from the rule of whole Grie" wrote: “Tempo should be in the blood. If forty at least are required. and half steps and tested before it may be drawn m no” you may be sure that toother intentions of the Modern French opera dates from about 1645, when their charts. This “testing” • comes at class meetings, comooser also will be bungled. Cardinal Mazarin first introduced Italian opera at the when the scale must be played five times in succession The most strenuous of all the great masters in h,s Parisian court. correctly at a certain metronome speed. insistence on the all-importance of correct pace wa The “scale wheel." with its spokes slowly hut surely Richard Wagner. He not only devoted an essay of growing, thus represents good work—strong spokes twenty-six pages mainly to this subject, but frequendy making a trustworthy wheel (necessary in these days o referred to it in his other writings, including his A Hundred-Dollar Lesson “safety first”). It also shows the pupil as well as ms letters To his favorite violinist, August Wilhelmj, he classmates just how far he has progressed in this phase wrote in 1877, “I am busy with the project or teaching By Eleanor G. Warren young musicians one thing before I die: tempptha s of technical work. With the youngest pupils a two- or even one-o’etave scale if well done entitles them to a interpretation.” The following year he urgently advised After mv first year in music teaching I went to a Angelo Neumann to engage Anton Seidl as conductor celebrated teacher during the summer for a special “spoke.” for the Nibelung performances Neu“a""t’seffil taew course. It cost me about $100, but I learned one little A working (or playing) knowledge of many keys give in European cities, on the ground that Seidl knew thing in the first lesson which was worth the entire is more desirable at first than protracted practice on one or two scales. In review work, however, the scales his tempi better than any one else amount to me. . , . Nine years before that Wagner had fired a bomb into My pupils had many faults, such as fingers breaking are increased to four octaves in both parallel and con¬ the musical world which created a panic in *e camp of •in at the finger tips, bad hand conditions, flopping arms, trary motion—each one so played at a class meeting the metronomic time-beaters. ,Tt was “ etc I had tried my best from all my previous knowl¬ receiving a credit mark or star opposite the scale letter Conducting, in which he made it clear that these tim,- edge to ’•emedy this. I told the .specialist, and the outside the wheel. beaters spoiled all the music they conducted by their remedy he gave me was simply to have the little begin¬ The circle of fifths becomes soon familiar to all the incorrect tempi. “The choice of the tempo, he de ners play very softly at the start. “Their hands, he -lared, “tells us at once whether or not the conductor pupils, as a large edition of the “scale wheel on a said, “are so delicate that the effort of playing the pasteboard circle hangs near the piano in the studio. as grasped the true inwardness of a composition. piano puts into use new muscular actions. A little The choice of the right pace in beginning a move¬ It is eagerly consulted for information as to the key additional strain is sufficient to break in any finger of each new piece or study. Memorizing also is fact - ment is, however, far from being all that is expected of joint. Much of the unevenness m the students early itated by knowledge emphasized as to the definite sharps a conductor. Wagner demanded—and this is the gist playing is due to his effort to make the p'ano sound as and flats in the piece, and as one young musician ob¬ of his reform—that, not only in his own music, but m loud as though an adult were playing :t ” That infor¬ that of Beethoven and other masters the tempo mation reformed all my teaching work with beginners. served: “The more scales you have the more mustc movement should be frequently modified, according It was simple, but it was invaluable. there is.” ' the momentary emotional appeal of the melody. THE ETUDE 781

THE ETUDE . to think. She received immediate ., 9 Was mdCr»1tor Frankheim; only sufficient delay 780 orders tor enable Madame Costania to ' SMIlllllljW -—- A), and tor a Career (with joy and being grafted ^ tfae London relatiTeB. she not her in return undying hat tie toon gelemt.” The teacher hastened communicate bimf.eif had arranged, ahe •aMJsaKSiftas Dr. Lotnna waB to i|Te at Frank- to exculpate a tavorite pupn. # been Alto’s belief, in =lf and to her ^ “She has not had time<7* interrupted her Tim a™ even provided Frau liege s.back from •?»?“« its rosace windows H‘=vr glints or sun cation was not only shared py tenza berself. heim, anu , for her Journey, from ■with me °“ly that was somehow not encouraged by Madame h ambltl former with a™thlessness^ spring from an Whom fbeC°waP to receive all necessary in- The Teachers’ Round Table offensive, so ohviou y purpose. sss.nsws’^ra ss r* faWto’and the fact ^^haTconcerned Str"As°tor you/’ said madame, “you have Uls all the better. ^ I will the easier Conducted by N. J. COREY ...... o.... ah:fp°unpas,PjrohPnnytyhad contrived to conciliate • . ♦ j° obedient. Regard yourself as one branching flowers over the embroidered table¬ J oin ‘ tob a new* school—but don’t altogether This department is designed to help the teacher upon questions pertaining to “How to Teach,” “What to Teach,” etc., and not technical problems pertaining to musical cloth, set with the cups of pAU tendro ' this redoubtable ladyth was no gay theory, history, etc., all of which properly belong to the Musical Questions Answered department. Full name and address must accompany all inquiries. Reassured that the y that be wus not oame^to^the'station to see her pupil spired6 intern all, she nex^made the^tea, and‘th^n^ll^dTnsttly Lothario—reassured l>«sid ’ the lonely path She came to tncdraniat,c moment; she likely to tempt Sarolta from t ^ ^ re(jard off tnat w warm embrace; chid ChnSnZonch,erSSarolta herself felt a sudden folded the girl a &nd flnally thnl8t chosen one . but no surprise. Had UP“Doh come,mIarolte ! It’s real mean of you of high achievement, sb lte agreeable to shut yourself off. Sarolta !” johnny’s constituted women known she would be chosen? The door burst open, and Sarolta stood iinimiiiiiiiiiiuMiiiUffidi i^iiiiiiiliHUlllililllll irate and blinking on the threshold a saUow elderly person who already oo •Tan-t vou leave me a moment in peace. grew to be ”r/m,! ’bbe did not wlfib He sat awhile In silence, bis blue eyes The indignant retort sight Johnny” on “adaf?e t0^ was sorry for him. CUFrau‘Teresa Hegemann silently extended' A Backward Pupil 2. With the remarkable progress you record during Bar Difficulties Sady’s Ups fell silent; she had caught signr him success, but she, too, per pupil a She band to Sarolta. It was cold, even “What can be done about‘a pupil of thirteen his first year I should not think at eighteen he was "One of my pupils Is a woman of about thirty. She permitted h'8 as® iea8 as much as be- 0f“^-vCe0Tcn°Stoga!€'why, honey, what who has been studying for a year, but still has too ojd to realize his aspirations. You will find this She reads her notes very well indeed, hut has a because of their And so it was th"Writoto me "bone v°"’'impdored'sady. The not completed the first Mathews book, cannot play tendency to break her time between the measures, COStT?\TZmbr“hingh****** few cause of their ^^^“popelessness, Johnny tears were coursing down the uplifted face, simple pieces with ease, and does not read well question treated in a recent number of The Etude. uh^s and broke 'into ^curious measure, fS The other stiffened berself against the at sight? She understands simple musical prin¬ although she makes an effort to count regularly. loving arms flung abou^her againStt thjrta ciples well enough, but seems to have no control 3. The following compositions have special technical How can she overcome this?”-—L. D. g£.", ,S ».««■» a" *h"f“will^{“‘wlir’^crred''torolta, waking over her fingers, which are very weak.”-—C. R. value, although you should not forget that all pieces have presently came aj^se L toe from the sort of trance that held her, to lean she^was em¬ scowled at sight of him. It was a composition has difficult places which need to be prac¬ If she can be made to look upon the bar as merely a brace tighten around her, and drawing a Strengthening the fingers in this case will necessitate '““Heavens^how sad!” cried, madame. “It *n Sady here, unconscious,y enRghtened hi- SOlarieafsroenbe seated, frSuleln,” «ald Frau ticed by themselves as exercises. Weber: Perpetual Mo¬ convenience, and not a necessity in time, she will soon comfort from it that yet In an_ odd way building up the system, which will be slow if she is added to the poignancy of the acne a “Sir John, did yon not hear me say, j tion. Raff: Marchen. Schubert: Impromptu in B Flat,Op. begin to overcome her trouble. With many pupils this constitutionally small. It is .not strange if she does 142. Schubert: Impromptu in A Flat, Op. go. Chopin: halt is not so much due to the bar, as it is to passing he“Tell me, honey! Tell her own Sady! My 3U"Dla Tt said he, confusedly, startled from a6nd keeping me from bearing .11 that Ma- not play well at sight at that early age. Many ad¬ Impromptu in A Flat. Raff: La Fileuse. Reinhold; from the last count of a measure, to the first. Many vanced pupils are delinquent in this respect. An im¬ W*Tedon’?bknow“’’ g^ed'the other. “Oh, daABe C^nT hnsti‘ly "sat down, madame Impromptu in C Sharp Minor. Sgambati: Toccata. pupils have a feeling that in counting three over and Sb* r.;; .r portant thing for you to find out is whether or not she Sady, hold me I'm frightened!” Raff: Suite in E Minor. Arensky; Etude, Op. 36. over there is a tiny halt on three, due to the slight ac¬ "My blessed!—It s the horridi bea. . ot “a4iU 2‘S^I can- has any aptitude for music. The majority of backward 1,1. „ her watch - ropont, Sady; do not Chopin-Liszt: Chant Polonaise. No. 5. Schumann: cent on that beat. Counting with a metronome will S»L-«rn!:“NO! It is sad, but it is strong. It ac- tot youmelf go like that, you will do your students are deficient in musical ability, and the sense Traumes Wirren, Op. 12, No. 8. • help to overcome this feeling. The bar trouble has myself. y Good gracious! Nobody can make jot, nxyi fev m-s oftentimes has to be developed. Take some of her V0Dewa«nhetoCfth»t Sir John Holdfast made the same derivation. Your pupil doubtless has a defi¬ ten'£S the simplest and most melodious little pieces and have her A Doubtful Case TsTss y°She°broke“off abruptly, for with a vigotous a totaUy unexpected, bnt not unwelcome, cient sense of rhythm. Take some simple pieces which movement, Sarolta had pushed the consoler 2iv»r«?on He came rushing along tbe plat- commit them to memory and play them a great deal. “I have a school teacher over 30, sickly, nervous she can manage well, and try to count them placing the The New Iphlgenia. Nothing will help her so much in acquiring a feeling and sensitive, who wishes to play, but has only aW“Not go!” she was laughing In scorn K:a'.:sw:r. one hour tor practice. She has ‘played at music’ count “one” on the last beat of the measure. This “Iphigenla?" ^oedJ^Me^Jotag. of ease on the keyboard. The music will also “soak tor several years with high wrists and contracted though tbe tears stood on her hot cheeks. passed. The expression of his face was will force the bar between one and two, and having “Not go? Oh, Sady, how silly you are! h YeaSmweTas I reconect, was unkindly in” and she will begin to feel it more and more as a muscles, which I have succeeded in correcting to CO?adynwavednhenr“soaked handkerchief with a large degree. I have given her fifteen lessons, learned to count the piece she will readily begin to feel D-eltod by her papaf Behold!” said Sady, part of herself. With a pupil of this sort it is impera¬ using Schmitt, Philipp and many exercises in Somen'slTght a^ow°ofCe^speratton to such a little giggle; and this brought him with a various rhythms and touches. She cannot play a that the bar does not stand for an interruption. It is rsamrarrCntaer. “1 tive that you select little pieces that are very melodious circumstances may be permitted even to S rush‘to toclr compartment. He first grade piece with any more surety than those simply a conflict between eyesight and “earsight.” A parents alive? nev r knew you had a father about, Miss bered with one or two parcela. besides the and interesting. Music that does not appeal and into in the third grade, and an attempt at speed results “I am an orphan. • . ,. „ " At which Sadv’s laughter rang out, in contracted muscles. She finds it difficult to play reconciliation can only be effected by the musical sense m^BKauyetim^>r’silly, too, I suppose,” said inevitable flowers. Even as ne c«.uc which they do not enter with any appreciation will not with both hands, and when excited can do nothing. while Sarolla only hunched her shoulders like standstill, doors were slammed and whist « Wherein lies the trouble and what should be done? or feelings. By practicing counting on familiar pieces S2TTm^i ^Ik’tUl Do—ym6and sounded. He hn.l time but for a few in be of much help. Limit’ the amount of etude work Should I advise her to discontinue her studies?” a "s‘ir'ajohn,”°°cried the American, “is it until she begins to show a feeling for music. Playing —L. R. so that the count numbers come in various places, y0ShenStrdUownerSfeanahungrily enough upon ar"Tust‘fordaoa,;t you were off-thought I’d shifting the bar line, in other words, the difficulty may pupils to their teacher. these little interesting things is the important step for her now. ‘•impossible to tarn oeime a crisp petit pain, and pushed her cup to- ^“Petoaps "6 said^Sarolta',"'suddenly tlxtag never catch you'.-Few. flowera-few hos- Your first sentence provides a very good summing be overcome. frogs! We have to discuss things unter the youg man with darkling eyes, “he’s never Augen.” . to sent ^he^hrllTsummons of the door-bell incon¬ ""ufis to be admitted he said “bongbongs.”) Studying Without a Teacher up of the causes of the trouble. Thirty years, sickly, gruously followed by a discreet tapping, to- Madame and Sady g«.d natured!y asslst^ nervous and sensitive, a combination that hardly can he“ril °bcIshotI1if 6 have,’’’’ said Johnny. • “I am unable to employ a teacher but wish to Broad Fingers Rut even as be Sspoke, memory pricked him. in ihP holHtlne up of those farewell tokens. keep Improving a little if possible. I do not know be expected to result in anything but a l:/tle personal te‘™ly mes^ge!” cried^Sarolta.^ ^ heard Stay ’where had he heard that name? When “I Have a pupil with such broad fingers that he In her forlorn frame of .n'lnd;,5*™'*.*^ what grade I am in, but was studying Czerny's entertainment for the st'udent herself. If this is her finds difficulty in getting them in the spaces be¬ knew how gentle waa the glance .he gave fourth book of velocity seven years ago. Is there wrenching the bolt. A disappointed ejacu- ^L^"“JCSSe-: “wait a minute! him, how pathetic tbe »n>He. a good book I can get to help in the study of method of finding pleasure and relaxation, and you tween the black keys. Will this prevent him from at her that drove her out ol the door, as J: have clearly explained to her just what she may hope being able to play well?”—E. B. Ms hand had been on her shoulder. _. sav sn-t he a fellow who writes songs or transposing?”—F. R. W. something? That day I found you In your Thebgiri>lshutrahcr,5eyase?iKl'to dMicMMWhw to accomplish, and she is reconciled to the little she bKrs&sJrS&ZHoldfast walked meekly in, following tne As a general rule the fingers should be kept out of old lodgings, with your aunt, you know, you Lcto she would not trust herself to give a You should work daily on your scales and arpeggios, may hope to attain, it is hardly your place to advise CHAPTER VI. had a song with that name on it, on tne the spaces between the black keys, although there are Humming Elvira’s sweet, prim lament, 0P?‘Wyeu"^exScTaimek Miss Schreiber “If and in order to do this intelligently, secure the Master¬ •her to discontinue. Possibly you may not wish to piano.” He was smiling at his own acumen cases when the thumb, for example, may be placed Sady ran gaily up the many stairs to their you have not come in the- very nick of time ! ing the Scales and Arpeggios by Cooke, as you will find teach her longer, which is a different matter. If you frjendly. on a black key, and it may seem necessary to slip the apartment in the Rue Clotilde. pirture'of^discmnflture^'bHghtened Tore? ‘‘T C" be* toe toHowloi" were them fully treated and elaborate directions for their do continue with her, you should make her understand Sarolta, following two flights behind, her Frankheim U Not Parii. practice. The second book of Liebling’s selection of fingers far forward on the keyboard: playing the full eX“Lothnar° here*!”'"mocked Sarolta, “we’d be The train waa moving quite fast through a just what she can hope to do, which is probably noth¬ very feet weighty with thought, heard the Czerny Studies will provide you with practice covering ing more than the ability to entertain herself to a chord of E flat, for example, in the right hand. An twittering voice break Into a cry, followed ■yKrtJ^=rS?= as likelv to have Kaiser William !’ panorama of balf-bullt, lamp-lit ro»d« .he “Why, man alive!” cried Sady, “Dr. Loth- cast a look upon the unfamiliar outside a variety of problems. With it you can use Heller’s very limited extent. It is more than likely that she excessively wide finger would be seriously inconven¬ by an excited hail: . . nar’s a tre-mendous person! The great and then, for comfort. «££ Opus 46 for phrasing and expression, interspersing as should confine her efforts to pieces of a slow character. ienced in a case of this sort, and if virtuosity is aimed “Sarolta, Sarolta! Say-your friend has genius of the century, as madame calls him. paper to gaze at her l»ouquet. She started as certain new lines of determination about the But it’s quite true." she added, 'Sarolta 8 you think best. For transposition send for the Novello I do not believe you will be able to make he* play at, such a condition might do serious harm. There is mouth and an increased directness and Frau Hegemann addressed her: b6She had a scornful smile, as she emerged expectation has to do with him : we are to -Es thut mir rrtd, frSul^i. but tt Primer on Transposition by Warriner. This treats the rapidly. There are innumerable little pieces in slow no doubt, therefore, but that under the condition you sss„r.. = nj know to-night whether he s going to have from the dimness of the stairway to the be quite impossible for me to end[ire matter in a simple way from the beginning and you will tempo which she may find enjoyable, and to these she mention great advancement would be gained under a boyish and blundering as ever, y her to sing in hi flowers in the compartment. All brightness of the top landing, where the find it helpful. would better confine her efforts. If you feel that you Incandescent light was of the crudest de¬ M“rrVade r heir °thant! Miss Sady,” he “It's-settled I' e his Ipliigenia.” said scents are, ilberhaupt, noilous o tte voice. handicap often difficult to overcome. So for your own sake, you will do well to are willing to guide her in this, after you have ex¬ scription. It Illuminated something just now, ^She*lifted her head proudly, drawing up however, worth looking at—a bunch of hot¬ throw them out of the window. A Spontaneous Pupil plained the situation to her, and she wishes you to con¬ her slender throat. The glance she fixed on Sarolta’s first impulse was to resist so A Left-Handed Student house carnations and roses was tied on to johnny was no longer unkind ; it was bril¬ “I have a foreign young man of 18 who has tinue, you will be helping her to find pleasure for her the door handle of the little apartment. fufnf absurd and Ill-natured a demand. studied music under his own guidance for about a “I am told that being left-handed is of ad¬ sss liant with a wonderful light. “Reallv !-” she began. rest hours. It is doubtful if she be able to play in a “Faithful Johnny, of course! said the Sarolta this adorer of her friend is h*d b^ “Bv George,” thought he, “her very face year. He interprets seventh grade music in a vantage to tbe student. Is this so? My left hand come a familiar personality , from which « She broke off. however. Had not madame manner to make a conservatory graduate proud, manner to interest others. is much stronger than my right, as I am left- . American promptly. seems to shine! . . . Oh, how beautiful she said, “You must be docile?” Was n0 svia dispnaraeed the flowers ana surve.veu is and how I love her!” thought Johnny, and is especially good In Chopin’s music. His tech¬ handed.”—R. J. C. the card attached. As she had opined the old woman, odious as she might he, < noseo nique is fluent and comprehensive in spite of the while his honest heart sank low and lower to look after her by Dr. Lothnar, by fact that he will not practice exercises, claiming Overdoing Technic Inscription ran : “With Sir John Holdfast s with an indescribable sense of failure. It is hardly necessary to say more than that your kind regards.” Underneath this formal dedi¬ al°Wr onaanCintimafe tooting with the ob¬ that he gets all he needs from pieces. He is am¬ Vaguely it came upon him tbat a rival ad- TcSXr tlmm'up. very closely, to the bitious to become a pianist, but I feel that he “When eight years old I had several terms of informant is not worthy of your confidence. So far cation were a few words, apparently added ject of his adoration. mirer might have divided them less than this. piano lessons, but did not practice well. I have at the door itself: “Sorry to miss you. May wastes precious time in neglecting studies. kept up the playing of pieces in the early grades as possible each hand should be developed alike, al¬ Sir John’s Visit So the moment had come, the thought of 1. What would you advise me to do? 2. Is he I call this evening?” which he had abhorred and dreaded from the PaPircaB.,nant have it afnil & «*‘d the as far as grade four. Will this help me If I now though the fact that the right hand has much more “Keep them, then, said Sarolta wit 1 Though Johnny’s “friendly” visits to Paris, other firmly. “And, anyhow, too old to realize his aspirations? 3. Suggest a ' begin the practice of technic for five hours daily, first. Sarolta, flower of girlhood, was to best that we should come to a c few classics of the 6th and 7th grade that are of difficult work to do in the majority of pieces accounts difference “I make you a present of them— tread those desecrating boards ; was to offer Important technical value.”—J. D. and can I develop supple enough fingers to play diy” (accOTdingto the frequency of Sarolta's standing from the first. It l!iundJL„,tIl' rfn. difficult music acceptably?”—A. T. herself up for the public pleasure, be criti¬ that you will reside, »t Frankheim, to for its being in a higher state of development. The aD“D0on’theidw”sh you could,” responded the sndles) invariably ended in a propose1 he cized, stared at, admired, applauded, or 1. I should try to give him a serious idea of what other, with truthful accent. My angel, never once presumed beyond a manner llrnemnnnffchr 'llaux—a boarding estahllsn If you attained grade four when you were studying seeming greater difficulty in the use of the left hand wouldn’t I just quit it all- and settle dow n which would have been becoming to the Sarolta went on ; “ ‘All is arranged.’ ma- raent for ladles of tbe highest fa™1Ue*’ y*°. it means to enter the music profession from a high several years ago, and have kept up your playing, you is merely proportional to the simplicity of the accom¬ to domesticity and society—the cream of courting of the best-chaperoned young lady desire privacy and retreat—and tbe nMltu dame wrote in her wild scrawl. 'I expect tlon is conducted upon the strictest prlnc ples artistic standpoint, and -how no one yet has ever been certainly should have preserved the suppleness of your paniment figures it plays the most of the time. There British society—with^a^ttmnkfu^b.^t's a you to-morrow, at ten o’clock. . . - My dear ltl Sarolta dreamily enjoyed the fragrance and of discipline. No gentlemen are adml«“ able to achieve distinguished results without a good fingers. Furthermore you should also have increased are many apparently brilliant players who have con¬ fact- and"I don’t hanker to share any laurels r promiscuously.” She paused, and the gaze solid base upon which to work. Even though his your facility to a certain degree, although to no such fined their work to flashy pieces, who are entirely “up S rl«' in the^pera^boxes^and found she now fixed upon the girl was chargedI with’ the grizzlv that calls Itself Lothnar. John had duly brought round I...... genius be so remarkable that he can avoid the routine ^The thrfe small dormers of their sitting, the motor drives stimulating; but it was unpleasant significance. “I Mlownopromto extent as you would had you practiced with a definite a tree” when they attempt to play a Bach Fugue. The jog remained unopened where they had been that all artists have had to submit to, yet as he will room gave over a fine perspective of the Sadv who appreciated the chivalrous fasnio deposited in the antechamber. cuous intercourse under my roof. she. * purpose in view. To spend five hours daily on technic left hand, from lack of practice, simply cannot nego¬ Pantheon Dome on the right, of St. ™Pr'ne in which the Englishman offered all these on. emphasizing the words with her brown sooner or later be obliged to become a teacher, how would be in my mind- the height of folly. Through The rise, the Normande, had put them out gloved hand. “Frankheim is not i-aris, " tiate the bass and tenor pounterpoint. du Mont’s mediaeval spires on the ,ett ■ 1a“d’ good things. “Real grit,” she called him, of her hand in a dark corner; and Sady is he going to manage with average ability if un¬ it the brain would become dulled to all musical effect. beyond the brown roofs, sloping down to tne herself only found them long after Sarolta's asserted, with German hatred *nd east sundry centenary trees of the Jardln anShe°provoked Sarolta’s contemptuous mirth "Mv regulations, with regard to the■ vouM familiar with the steps which average ability has to If you have five hours to practice you would better departure. ladies entrusted to my care, yon will find, des Plantes raised waving evergreen tops „„ nne occasion bv referring to him as a kina For the old life In the pleas take in order to achieve even fair results. Certainly spend one hour on technic, one hour on etudes, two And from their bedroom lucarnes, at tne no doubt, very different from those ofMa not many of them, even with the best of teachers, back, you could please yourself with a vision the Rue de Clotilde was desti dam.- Costanza’s. Neither out of doors or on new pieces, and one on reviewing and memorizing. hut tor three days more: all within, will young females boarding with m learn to play difficult Chopin compositions within a This will result in a better balanced progress for all “Not every critic is a genius, hut every genius is a Of the twin belfrys of Notre Dame; and be- cause. For that lapse she nad^^been^^ever cisions were followed by promi Sarolta had hardly a moment {Continued on page Sii-t year’s work. your musical faculties. critic.”—G. E. Lessing. ‘or ^vond’aCTin^t^e'peaXay roofs set”partT b'eing"mnrked for Art (with a big of^th’e Louvre; or beyond all, toward toe THE ETUDE 783 the etude 782- Learning a Piece by Forget ing II

Great Composers and the Harp By Philip Gordon Alessandro Scarlattj, famous as a composer and mnn experience that a difficult passage as a performei-on the organ> and ^«er, wm It is a comnl difficulties until we finally give up will offer me-* day, behold! the notes come m» S h” S, £*«>-., in .hi. in despair ; but t easier had ever been writ- rippling along a th,s subject as follows: reord'nf the first if not the first, of the great com- ten- William .our musc/es or our brain ° tf introduce the harp into the orchestra was :W! hS »e can do so »= longer that George Frederick Handel. It was employed with par- in a new wa>, when we resumc ticularly good effect in the oratorio Esther, in comb Son wfth the theorbo-lute as an accompaniment to ■ ■ JS ^ I* have often noticed this in learning a tune; Pndeit has led a German author to say that we leant qaZXStsS?*- t; i! *•* swim dulg the winter and to skate during the summer rt. s^rsL'^X~;rfp. The conclusion for the_^sslgebextrerndyffiffi- violin “ ?»T’ that’you can make tat little tadwa, M ? « «n“ to considerable practice, lay the piee. Beethoven and the Blind Girl Vir“e"clebr,«d composer. I*** "”™J Dorette Scheidler, a distinguished harp player, who When a man becomes great many “a * red with him. Owing to .hr. he .cored stories are told about him. And the The great Belgian poet Verhaeren says that to clas¬ it many a time is irresistible to any age—while its flaw¬ of operatic transcriptions and tasteless variations which very effectively for this instrument m his works stories grow in the telling. Beethoven p'£;r^^ sify art and artists is like trying “to fix the shape of less craftmanship commands unreserved admiration. Meverbeer was the first great composer to use a a passing cloud.” Classification has, indeed; too often at the time encumbered the concert-halls. The stand¬ has been the hero (or, if you please, the “s-baTedta oUiS principles; and the capita.. Not only generous and discriminating Schumann, but miscarried as science and art-criticism has, occasionally, ard, accordingly, to judge of their value and service to victim) of many stories touching his thl Every action we perform makes a path in all contemporaries worshipped the skill and knowledge shown over-ambitious “scientific” pretenses. It remains art, should be the historical one. They both lose and irascibility of temper and h.s goodness of this, master and lovingly responded to his nature’s he tissues of the brain; repetition of the action tends true, nevertheless, that the human mind, in its pursuit gain by it, however. They lose when compared with charm and serenity, beneath which they felt deep- the passionate outbursts of greater and bolder contem¬ Se L all keys. Two double-action- harps were em- of heart. Perhaps one of the most often to. make thetne pathpai deeper* and more,g ^ meradicably up m the excr set.. of knowledge, needs help itself, in presence of the seated goodness, spiritual harmony and lofty idealism. poraries, the “preludes” of a Chopin, the Fantasicstiicke repeated legends is that of the blind girl. overwhelming task that confronts it, by grouping facts Posterity, whose verdicts are not necessarily as just The .story goes that Beethoven, passing NOe"of'thc braiTtliis tissue lias to lie replaced when the and things in a spirit of orderliness, according to re¬ of a Schumann. But they immeasurably gain if we hsa-3S2L?£3k^-r- and true as we are prone to believe, Has gone too far consider the average literature of the period! Quan¬ through some by-streets of Vienna with semblances perceived and set definitions. These well in the opposite direction, in minimizing Mendelssohn’s may be, in matters as subtle as art, either too simple tity however, is the sworn enemy of quality, alas!— a friend, was lamenting the lack of merits and, which is worse, in neglecting his works. To and in art, as the cruelly witty French writer Chamfort or too vague. Even so, we pack our stock of informa¬ one critic “his elfs look like flies”—another thinks the ' wScrTorc" ,h» an, other composer definitely recognition for his genius. S“dden y a® has it: “facility is a wonderful gift, provided it be not tion into the “innovation-trunks” of our brains—where Spring Song “tied on wire.” We hardly ever hear his fixYd the place of the harp in the orchestra, and wroU they passed along they heard the tinkling used.” Perfection of form too, occasionally spells some the complexity of things is perhaps ill at ease, but where oratories, symphonies and overtures any more. Yet of a piano, which though it was a poor the various compartments help the carrying-power of coolness—and on the whole, one may subscribe to Mr. Tf TSSTtogeSr svrtSTSimitSn;, instrument was being played with much Wagner himself held The Hebrides the most perfect Dannreuther’s judgment that most of those little pieces, our memory and understanding. orchestral piece in existence. "St“,r^3lem, for «m,.,of the.harp expression. Crossing over to hear bette , away, he will perform it no better af,c intended to be simple and straightforward and almost days than he did at the beginning Nothing.sjer It is undeniable that a certain meek streak runs _in Walkiire, ■ for instance, is impossible to Beethoven was surprised to hear snatches Mendelssohn’s Happy Art Mozartian in the expression of emotion, so full of through much of Mendelssohn’s work. It is felt, for pleasing grace, so refined and well-balanced in work¬ play. from one of his own symphonies, and The so-called “romantic” spirit1 pervades a whofe instance, in the Reformation Symphony, where, very manship, are “not music’ in the warmest sense of the glancing through the window, he saw a Study With Beads group of composers, to which Mendelssohn emphatically apparently, the Lutherean choral Unser Gott ist eine word.” Yet they contain some gems like the tenderly girl seated at the piano with a young man belongs and who, because of an unmistakable classical feste Burg is dealt with by a weak hand. But the serene one in G (No. 25), the nobly beautiful in F By Emily Harris by her side. . » learning, seem to stand on the borderland and may sprightly charm of the Italian Syinphony would seem (No. 22), the joyously exuberent Hunting Song, the “Oh, if only I could do justice to it. perhaps be fittingly described as “romantic-classics” refreshing even nowadays, while the Scotch retains its daintily vivacious Spinning Song. These can indeed be rank of a masterpiece in spite of the neglect of con¬ she cried. “It is so beautiful. I would rrssrsaScticular act our skill increases, but that sooner or later or “classical-romanticists.” Under that heading this loved as much as they should be admired and studied. writer has devoted a program, in his series of his¬ ductors. The most popular violin-concerto remains go miles to hear it well played! we begin to feel tired, so that if we keep at the work torical lecture-recitals to Schubert, Weber, Mendels¬ unique for the grace and ease of its inspiration and work¬ “That is impossible, sister,” replied the long enough we are finally unable to do as well as J Mendelssohn’s Piano-Style; Harmony and Euphony; sohn, Field.2 To forms brought to perfection by their manship, so unmistakably stamped by the composer’s young man. “If we were rich it would started. That is what, unfortunately, many -M u Color and Form classical ancestors they cling with a faithfulness that personality. This writer still remembers, as one of the drr,r^gVo, on. honf. practice for one week. be different.” do. We determine to get a thing done Perfe™y™. implies imitation, or they stumble in helplessness. Of delights of his student-days, a performance of A Mid¬ The piano-technique of Mendelssohn who was a won¬ Whereupon, being greatly touched, Beet¬ 2 m average of two hours’ daily practtce. or more. perish in the attempt; and we are. before long, obhi& the latter, Mendelssohn is never guilty. No innovator summer Night’s Dream at the theatre de l’Odeon in derful pianist himself, is voluntarily sober, reflects the hoven promptly entered on the scene, and to give up in absolute despair, muttering hopelessly, and breaker of barriers, he is a great master in actual Paris. Some Songs Without Words, delicately scored musician rather than the virtuoso. It only utilizes the '1. An at,age of one hour daily for fonr consecutive not only played passages from the work “The more I play it, the worse it sounds.” achievement. A comparison with his contemporaries by Ernest Guiraud, were interwoven into the music on previously existing resources, the material accumulated weeks. (A large red honor bead for this.) in question, but played other pieces. He This then, is what one should do: Practice until you Chopin and Schumann is indeed illuminating. From that occasion and seemed to demonstrate, in that attire in the works of other masters, without reaching out also perceived that she was blind. Finally, feel that you have reached your limit im*r° Chopin’s “cannons buried in flowers” as Schumann puts and company, the essential oneness—both the lasting into the realm of new and richer complexities. Of. t S 'puScTrftmane. -i-h *« Me “Who can you be,” exclaimed the girl, for the present period of practice; d» thls or^al it, Mendelssohn wandered further and further away, merit and the limitation—of Mendelssohn’s art. For empty virtuosity it is void—but those strokes of genius “to play like this?” ber of days, until you feel that you have the materia until dislike and repulsion were reached. With Schu¬ this art which is almost entirely a reflection of happi¬ in pianistic invention which have so characteristically TAU.nSanPc'.Tc”a month a. the Music Club. Beethoven did not answer, but broke .well in hand, ,hough hardly well^ enough »’ mann, the countryman, it was a case*of mutual admira¬ ness is in a way provoking to our suffering humanity marked the style of a Chopin or Liszt, are absent too. 7. Failure to practice the required number of hours. off into the Andante in F, which the girl satisfaction. Then, after continual work o**»“*£ tion and inter-penetration, in which the parts seemed which needs be stirred by a stronger wine to a greater The master of the instrument is mostly felt in a certain occasionally inverted. Mendelssohn’s greatest piano- intensity of life. The many smiles to this generation euphony, which, however, in all of Mendelssohn’s art' immediately recognized, saying, put your music aside for two or three > (ATh?beadsaar)e strung on a black vclvet ribbon and work : the Variations serieuses are imbued with Schu- seem mere grins—whereas the sobs of agonized'hearts has been a matter of principle. His harmony could be “I know you can be no other than your attention to other pieces. On resuming ! fi t are worn each month at the club meeting. The children piece you will find that nature has done a great mannesque feeling. But Mendelssohn’s nature—all sun¬ still and always reach other hearts in their deeper fibres. defined along the same lines: there are none of these like the beads, and work hard for them. A practice Beethoven.” shine and stupendous facility—so staggered and se¬ novel and rich “finds” that abound in Chopin—only . for you in the meanwhile. record is kept upon which the child writes down the Thereupon Beethoven said, I will tell duced Schumann, that it finally weakened and perverted- The “Songs Without Words” naturalness and discrimination, bordering on conven¬ amount practiced each day. This is signed by the you what I will do. I will improvise a his own much deeper and bolder if clumsier mode of Pierre Loti, the writer, another gentle and masterly tionality, marred by occasional weakness due mostly to parents at the end of the week. sonata for you, and will call it “A Sonata The Musician’s Worry Habit expression. poet, asserts that any sincere artist is born with one the ample use of diminished sevenths. The instrumental to the Moon.” Felix Mendelssohn loved flowers and fairies. Reci¬ or two songs on his lips, which he goes on repeating. setting and harmonic scheme are the two factors which Thus, we are told, did the Moonlight By Walter Morrow procally, flowers seemed to gather in a soft carpet for This should suffice if the song only be truly one’s own. form, combined, what we are used to call and perceive Studio Visiting Days Sonata come into existence! Historically his walk of life and the go~d fairies evidently assem¬ In Mendelssohn’s case it was mostly a “Song Without as color in music. While distinctly conservative Men¬ there is no foundation for this story of Worry poison is the "virus which inoculates more bled at his cradle.to bestow rare gifts upon that elect Words —whether called so or not. But then the name delssohn was a great master in color. A comparison By Edna Johnson Warren the origin of the sonata in question, which musicians than anything else. Do you now of their heart. To his muse they imparted something and the thing wholly belong to him. Models of that between old and new ideals in this order of things is of their own grace, lightness and fluidity and his art indeed profitable. was never given the title of Moonlight sicians have actually found that worry and *atCff form can, of course, be found. Yet the Beethovenian IN all weii kept institu^s there are certain days was to have the fragrant naturalness of flowers Modern art more and more disregards euphony and Sonata by Beethoven himself. Never¬ produce poisons in the system that havei the effect Andante from which some critics make it derive, has when the visitors from the board of governors make blooming in the sun. He was to celebrate the kind an altogether different character, a greater breadth in even harmony, in its irrepressible search after rich or theless, it is too drastic to dismiss the of depleting one’s physical and mental ene g an inspection of the building and the management. If fairies in the light-hearted rapture of A Midsummer- both conception and treatment. But Mendelssohn’s An¬ merely peculiar color. A master-colorist of the roman¬ the institution is not in the best of condition the story altogether in the contemptuous way bringing on old age? pverv night’s Dream—but the dream was really spread all tic period, which Mendelssohn assuredly was, rigor¬ Watch the average teacher giving a lesso . ^ dante from the violin-concerto is, in its very inception, manager is likely to be dismissed. many writers do, for the reason that over that life and art. So absolutely homogeneous in a ^on£ Without Words.” And a certain condensation ously subjected the color-scheme to the musical law of How many private teachers could afford to have little mistake means a wrinkled brow or Beethoven for all his gruffness and eccen¬ its evolution was this art, that he could revert, after of form for all of its variety and perfect logic—dis- euphony, the former being really made dependent on visiting day? Very few parents know much of the fist. A single scale badly played is enou*f y tricity was exceedingly sympathetic and an interruption of 17 years, to this most fitting of sub¬ tinguishes that Mendelssohnian creation from all “the the latter. Nor was the line and design, which we in actqal work in the teacher’s studio Would it not^be a some teachers to anger. How utterly tender-hearted. It is quite possible that jects and complete the musical setting of A Midsum- chips of the great workshops” of others. There are the narrower sense call form in music, ever sacrificed good plan to set apart a certain day each month for are not only injuring yourself but you are mernight’s Dream in the same spirit in which he had 8 books of these “songs” for the piano, written at dif¬ by him. It was in this that he well-nigh reached the ffie parents of your pupils to visit the studio while the at some time in his career he gave a fei eating your mental state to your pupil w °’the written the Overture as a lad, A quality of perennial ferent periods3 and obviously serving the same pur¬ absolute. Biographers tell us that Mendelssohn—a man moments of heaven-sent musical bliss t may develop the habits of impatience and y lesson is going on? ... r of versatile gifts and broad culture—was sensitive to Mothers’ meetings are a regular part of we ~ some poor blind girl. very things which you should try to avoi • MUtj’iW't*1 °* 'ts haPPy vivacity, seems inherent to pose for which, once upon a time, old. John Sebastian Mendelssohn. For that very reason his art never fails nature and highly proficient in drawing. Translate this ducted school work. The public school of to-day tries It is a fact that many of the fanciful morning when you arise see painted in your contributed to art his so-called Galanterien: provide to beguile the sympathy of the young ones—although to link the school with the home and raise the enthu- tion letters as tall as the side of your room some wholesome food and entertainment to the student into musical terms and you perhaps find the secret of names given to pieces have not been given and lover of music. skstic interest of the parents, so that the work of the 1 Compare my previous article that exquisde balance, which even now, in these times them by the composer but by publishers. WORRY.”-— of May, 1913. a Schumann in the Etude child may be advanced as rapidly as possible. Rubinstein justly remarks that these songs were of deliberate formlessness, compels the admiration of “Work with all its consequences, is one of the mosi „ ‘ °f course instrumental urns considered only. To meant to supplant in the homes the nauseating literature the art-student and, perhaps, his jealousy. For what is Why not try the same plan in your studio work by nosArtM the song-writer, and Weber, the operatic' having the parents come to know what you are striving exalted pleasures.”—Adolf Jensen. poser, this would not apply. art if not order put into the chaos of matter and •The Spinning Song v i composed in 1843. thought ? to do for their children? THE ETUDE 785

the etude • * tViA musical contents of the piece 784 Up to this P0>nt‘b what {oUows only ,-epeats de- have been complete • way that plainly shows In the following «erd« (c^^racS slowlj The Spinning-Song and then add notes as in (b) and (.el¬ velops and r°un.ds„ °^Usness. Section F introduces, the composer s mg mode_ which carries a new and mind the accents. for the first time, the m ^ fragment, absolutely j- S flavor into this alrea y k oduced in turn by G- little ™W»g ophow- ".tough ored it is n lts hust ^ va,jous tints of a many-hued parallel to B. Sect key of E major. What wonderfully Pia"lst^’ throughout by an imagina- this time m the mor d t Tie melody, applies to has been said before o 13> 14 as compared 0,ChT ^ “ol" t,od«=.io» in which «. tive ear. two me a swiftly moving de- the co/ri!sp°nciThe introduction now starts in on new united violins or ^ola® ‘ g h i_then, while this with 5, 6, 7). The 1 thrQUgh chromatic sequences, sign suggestive a melody sets in, gently art as'wdlTin lS-to “take the bull by the horns, intervals (14) and , the previously made as the familiar saying and. rare deed are. sage back to the onS'"a with reKard to well-contrasted remarks about pedaUuMS shoUld be noticed how- shadings, are valid“on_the last echo-like pas- through a happy co higher, which imparts a sage (17) apPenar?hTe lt hortens the road home. The fresh impression while n s need not be taken composer’s notationat fiBeen,aS.xteee, ^ ^ notes succeed one another in hy n of one bar de- too rigorously, the a group remains identical, of the new motive of tw s d l ent which ineach so barthat beingthe ^^‘‘^ divided into two groupsgr^ P^ consistently.-^ ^ ^ rived from it-becomes a factor ot if major thatSection close .beingH brings this timeto.-mohasized emphasued byy repetition,P with^

heightened *"™'Uee TWs ~d? rJ, eochst, of ESS-- coda of the whole piece. dosely-and very “r"hS”“Sn‘ »

two previous bars—which is perhaps

fingering which at first s g {or instance, the f» Fn ,»• a it be conducive to greater secury. Tailors % ri,=,.... ”krin,i'cwsrrs szs. sequential ^development (E) Two barsm £***£ binding, so to speak ;ccordance with the taste passing under thetst ofa good fit is may be subject to chang dutv ;s t0 “recreate and boot-makers tell , , in tbe wearing 1 o^the^officS’to i shortjoyously bubbling climax of the Performer whose h^g * q{ libcrty must its ease, hut this, really,£s of &e following (9), which by a gracduUy To secure that passage, some exercises ox falls back again, down ^whisper ^ for the kind are recommended: Ta= jrAi— t 07 charalter at ten-and leave that dainty clarinet- curate1 directions—^f" only he keeps in mind the warn¬ So only supported by short chords-strings “P—to, ing : ‘‘traduttore-tradstore.

What Kind of Music is Best?

By EDWARD BAXTER PERRY The Celebrated Blind Pianist The first thing the student ofmusichasto doisto the expression of human experience in all hs ^finitely learn to practice, and practice honestly and well the . asked is one of the many which very kind of music he or she likes least lea™u‘° 0 w” - understand and then to like it and play 1 ’ and its hours of blackest despair. Love hoP?> are the things you- ought to practice most broaden good, if they are ®0O^° !with a!ncertain tendency or anffiition, agony, despair are all favors in it which we out your narrow horizon of experience, to become familiar with all kinds-in a word, to grow- a\hTCfactTat Tote" isP the sweetest, thaJ [f ^ How often the teacher has to hear something like this: “Oh, I haven’t done much with this piece, 11 ugly; I don’t like it.” That one remark stamps the -* -h“ not mate any of them less true to life and nature or student instantly as a weakling, a trifler an « own kind the only *“ *m'u>ical clob or In the first place, no composition is a piece. in Try the experiment some la Ask each in happens to appeal^most^y^ ^ ^ ind;vidual and term should never be used. A piece is a part or trag the b; o{ fundamental importance to ment of something which was once a whole and has sutrass;o-js been broken or cut off. A composition is a whole and tTTa Steffi TZi if you would become in any entire thing, never a piece. Secondly, no good music y ca m artist is to grasp and enter into the com¬ is ever ugly. You may not see the beauty or the mean¬ z 4^ »“Fdk£“=-sn poser’s mood ’ and intention and reproduce them ing in it. That is your fault. But it is probable the composer did and you will in time. Thirdly, not liking it is no reason for neglecting it. You probably did non signifying nothing. stirring, brilliant music, UWlV r^if'o'kC H».S or like any book but “Mother Goose” when you were three years old, but you have learned to do so now. We tmy uiy • true music. TLne rest is will hope, moreover, that there is no room m a wor'a and glitter^ in them. ^ mat is tru in his life before and might be eager togivetenUmes like this for one who cannot or will not do what he lodt be will earn that evening to spend it with his sickly sentimentality. solemn, slow intended bride. But he must keep his contract and does not like. „ Take yourself in hand. Gain self-mastery or get ott play his tragic role as the writer intended it to be the earth before you are pushed off in the struggle or the survival of the fittest. PlWodrse still, the comedian must play his silly, funny Finally, if you would serve art and be counted »“ ”f lhJn,“r“," i. t,US the troth of life and death part and keep the audienee laughmg all the cvenmg among even her humbler votaries, learn all her moods A« f* ™* “ ”d'“ i"“”8 and caprices, for she has many and all fascinating, and h;*ho™Sd"f,' to render them, not mechanically, hut with real ove lyrHs no easy mistress. The first thing she demands and appreciation. So and so only shall you win er Tyou is forgetfulness of self, and it may be that crown, which has some thorns, it is true, but many forcing us to do that for a time is the best thing she r^nn And so on around the circle. roses of lasting beauty and fragrance. reThey art all in a measure right, but in the mam does for us. Good music, like every form of Ml •*. »

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sharps) than it would be'in G (one eharp7or in C,lying better u ■- „ _ rCn # This piece is easier in A (three Copyright 1916 by Theo. Presser Co. * the hands l THE ETUDE 79.1 the etude 792 DANSE HUMORESQUE danse HUMORESQUE, Comoining Yankee Doodle and “Fisher’s Hornpipe'’ Combining Yankee Doodle and FiS er Fiahers Hornpipe while Allegretto moderato m.m. J = 112 GEORGE SPENSER , ber „ in the form of a tnnsicai iohe. In the ndddie section the P«‘ P G,ade 3 THE ETUDE 795 THE ETUDE TURKISH RONDO TURKISH RONDO from “SONATA in A” from “SONATA in A” occaSional works This Xomfo is a

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Prize Composition TARANTELLA IN A MINOR Etnde Contest

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right 1916 by Theo. Prefer Co. THE ETUDE 801 THE ETUDE MOONLIGHT IN VALENCIA BOLERO RENE L.BECKER inate Idealizations of01 this danceuc are pop- • - ■ -Becker’s is A Boleror*™ is a brisk Spanish dance in % time ,the chief char- dancers ^ moosers of pianoforte music. Mr. acteristicic of which is the rhythm of the> accompaniment^^ °Smen. trade III. Lis rhythm is aerivea num i.I1C Ui WiC -3 4—a 3 ft ‘ Allegro moderato M. M. J=A08 --- jsSJ f6 ___ GIPSY RONDO Finale of the Trio in G Arr. by Hans Harthan JOS. HAYDN

One of the most famous of Haydn’s lighter compositions. than’s transcription brings it within the reach of all. Play As originally arranged from the Trio, this number is it crisply and at a lively pace. Grade III. lengthy and somewhat awkward in places,but Mr. Har- THE ETUDE 803 MAZURKA POMPOSO . fc , A vigorous Mazurka movement, affording fine practice in heavy chord work and octave passages. Note the character¬ istic mazurka accent falling: upon the second beat of the measure. Grade 4. 804 THE ETUDE AVE MARIA F. SCHUBERT Transcribed by Sol Marcosson Solo espressivo Lento assai

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Copyright t916 by Theo. Presser Co. 809 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 808 SINGS How Verdi Sought to Avoid Pomp Even in Death WHEN OLE AUNT LINDY The eagerness with which the world in any way. While engaged in fastening does honor to musicians of genius after a button, his servant, noticing that his A MAMMY SONG HORACE CLark they are dead is well known. Very often fingers seemed to have lost all power, the adulation actually begins at the grave¬ was in the act of helping. him, when was a doctor as well as a nurse to her side. Our own Stephen Collins Foster Verdi waved him on one side, and said, The old black "““peculiar faith in the child m.nd in her p0We, ‘What does it matter, one button more or An element of greatness in the negro character was the power to rise was sadly neglected during the last years harges. There was »P |obacco smoke. After her numerations,it of his life, yet his body was hardly cold above the drudgery of toil through song. No matter how hard the days > cure the earache youngster would soon be asleep to the aou^, before an elaborate funeral had been “With these words on his lips he sank MARIE SUNDELIUS, of the work it was carried through with an enthusiasm begat of the pleasure te pipe the suffering y planned for him. Verdi was by no means to the ground, and never recovered con¬ METROPOLITAN OPERA CO., selects found in singing. It was this need of self expression that gave rise to * trnlI'.H. __.... t ki ll f hi* neglected during his lifetime—indeed, sciousness. The Government took steps those improvisations which later developed into the old slaves’songs, the good fortune came very early. But he to accord him a State funeral on an only folk lore of the South. may have had his suspicions that his enormous scale, but when the will was death might be the occasion for elabo¬ opened it was found to be the dead rate ceremonials of the kind he disliked composer’s wish that his funeral should so cordially while he was living, and made be of the simplest possible character, and provision against it, not wholly with suc¬ that the hour chosen should be at break ^ifltra-Quality PIANOS cess, as is made clear in the following of day, or sunset. Moreover, there were excerpt from the admirable little brochure to' be no flowers or music, nor did he “I am much pleased with the Kranich & Bach piano. It sounds ofl the subject of Verdi by Albert Visetti: desire that cards should he sent to any¬ “His death took place quite suddenly one. Obedient to his wishes, the body very good in my music room, at the Hotel Milano on the morning of was quietly removed to the Church of and I enjoy singing to it.” /. January 21, 1901. He had spent Christ¬ San Francesco da Paola, in a second- Jyi&l^C. \ liu*6t&*** mas at the house of friends in Milan. class hearse, with a cross, two candles Among others present were Arrigo and a solitary priest! The coffin was Boito, Teresa Stolz, the famous singer, placed in the crypt, where it rested for a Constructed to-day, as for fifty years and Pascarella, the poet and humorist, the month. It was afterwards taken to the latter of whom kept Verdi laughing till Home of Rest for Musicians, where it past, by men whose names appear on far into the night. In fact, everybody now lies. This last rite, however, was the fall-board. Write for story of was struck by his good health and spirits. conducted with great ceremony, the peo¬ On the morning of his death he got up ple insisting upon an opportunity being as usual, not complaining of feeling ill given them of doing honor to their idol.”. “The Nine Muses’* 235-245 East 23d Street New York The “Sound-Trap” Priced fairly, and sold on convenient deferred pay¬ By Ben Venuto ments. Old pianos taken in exchange at liberal A short time ago the writer was called from the side of the assembly room into valuations. upon to give a recital on a new piano a hallway. which had been purchased for the as¬ The doors were accordingly closed, and sembly room of a certain high school. the effect was at once satisfactory. The successful effect of the music at the New “Master” A brief trial of the instrument, made a concert or recital depends not merely a few days beforehand, with a view to upon the skill of the performers, but on Plays the Kranich & Bach exclusively determining its best location in the room, the proper attention to various small de¬ showed all to be satisfactory, and the tails, among which the one just described acoustic properties of the room very is possibly as important as any. It may good, indeed, but on the night of the be laid down as a general rule that recital, imagine our disappointment at directly behind the performer should be finding the tone dull, feeble and deficient a solid unbroken wall, and that between in carrying-power. the performers and the audience the side At the close of the first number we walls also should present a reasonably cast a hurried and anxious glance at the unbroken surface. (Behind the audience, surroundings, to determine if possible however, openings seem to do little or what was at fault. Fortunately the no harm.) Openings behind or at the remedy was not far to seek. Two doors sides of the performers constitute what were open, which at the time of our has been called a “sound-trap,” which Conspicuous previous visit had been closed: one lead¬ catches and wastes much of the tone, ing into a small ante-room directly be¬ instead of allowing it all to reach the hind the piano, and the other leading audience. nose pores Some Facts About the Chopin Nocturnes jffow io reduce them Chopin composed nineteen nocturnes Op. 9, Nos. 1, 2, 3, to Camille Pleyel, in all. Their somewhat melancholy char¬ piano maker and publisher. Op. IS, Nos. 1, 2, 3, undedicated. acter would lead one to suppose that Complexions otherwise flawless are Op. 27, Nos. 1 and 2, dedicated to the most of them are in a minor key, but often ruined by conspicuous nose pores. Countess d’Appony, wife of the Austrian this is not so, eleven being in major. ambassador to Paris. In such cases the small muscular fibres of the nose have become weakened and Woodbury Three of these are in the key of B Op. 32, No. 1, undedicated; No. 2 dedi¬ major, the greatest number in one major do not keep the pores closed as they fibres o ^thcy fiC cated to “Madame la Baroness de Billing, should be. Instead these pores collect key, and, in fact, in any one key. There nee de Courbonne,” one of his aristo¬ suiting from yea dirt, clog up and become enlarged. iualiy reduce the are, however, three in the key of G, one cratic patrons. in G major and two in G minor. Nine To reduce these enlarged pores: Wring . Op. 37, Nos. 1 and 2, undedicated. a cloth from very hot water, lather it with vissiiiA 25c jui cakem of WoodburyU1 ali u are in sharp keys and ten in flat, there Op. 48, Nos. 1 and, to Mademoiselle Woodbury’s Facial Soap, then hold it to Geto'cakrTtoday! "* It'u**forsak" by being none in C major or A minor. Laura Duperre, daughter of a French your face. When the heat has expanded everywhere throughout the United Sta The key signatures of the nocturnes admiral and at one time a favorite pupil. the pores, rub in very gently a fresh lather . ti Write today for sample—i show considerable variety, though 4/4 Op. 55, No. 1, undedicated; No. 2, to of Woodbury’s. Repeat this hot water samples of Wood- time predominates. Ten are in 4/4, one Miss J. W. Stirling, a former pupil of and lather application several times, •cry's_ Facial Soap, Facie stopping at once if your nose feels sensi- Addressdiress TheTht Andrew Jerger his, who assisted him financially and in Co., 2132 Spring in 6/4, two in 12/8, three in 6/8, two in ' ve. Then finish by rubbing the , Grove Are., Cincinnati, Ohi other ways, and entertained him at her 3/4 and one in 2/4. Slow time is almost for a few minutes with a lump of: Co., \td., list Sherbrooke invariably indicated, only one nocturne home when he went to Scotland shortly being marked “Allegretto.” The rest are before his death. She was socially mostly marked “Lento” or “Andante,” prominent, like most of Chopin’s lady sometimes with sostenuto added. friends. Professor Niecks suggests that there Op. 62, Nos. 1 and 2, to Mademoiselle is a certain significance in the dedications R. de Konneritz, afterwards Mme. von of Chopin’s works since they tend to Heygendorf. A pupil of Chopin who ZABEL BROTHERS show whether or not he was in Paris possessed three volumes of his work's when he composed them. It was appar¬ with corrections, additions and marks of MUSIC PRINTERS m ENGRAVERS ently his custom to. dedicate his works expression by his own hand. These Send for Itemized Price List and Samples valuable indications have been used in mostly to his pupils or patrons. The COLUMBIA AVE. AND RANDOLPH ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA. nocturnes were dedicated as follows: subsequent editions of his works. Fleass mention THE ETUDE when addressing advertisers. THE ETUDE 811 810 THE ETUDE oy the careful process of rhythmic con¬ difficult to teach a pupil the shake who trol, gradually increasing the speed, fail has for some time faithfully practiced the utterly of the goal. On the contrary, trill. those who begin with the shake, unham¬ There have been many efforts to organ¬ pered by rhythm, enjoy the welcome ex¬ ize teachers with the purpose of agreeing Department for Singers perience of an almost immediate response upon the nomenclature of the art. If such an organization could be perfected, Editor for November, Mr. HERBERT WILBUR GREENE to the effort, and they find it far easier to make the embellishment even, with an and its members would go a step further equally strong accent on both notes. than merely adopting names for the sev¬ eral embellishments and prescribe minutely They also find it a much simpler matter their function and the manner in which to sing the rhythmic trill after learning they must be given, a long step would be Singing Songs from Memory .< *. the shake than it is to pass from the trill taken in the right direction. Let the pro¬ to the shake, and an important factor in The advantage of memorizing one opening measures of the number and the When Rossini was w | nt;ng him aies of his predecessors amj contempora- fession begin by adopting Nava as a safe the case is the time consumed. It fre¬ songs has been estimated by test and ir piano would finish it without further help of Seville the Problem and treat ries and partially succeeded,, His meas- starting point and add what they think quently takes as many years to perfect vestigation for a number of seasons e from the pupil, but how? Quite as the was not ow o • . . w;th the text, ure of success is embodied in the second desirable to his carefully worked out sys¬ the trill as it does months to perfect the a leading Summer School. Last seE pupil would be apt to play it after such it^tn a man^r cadenzas, trills and volume of his Clements of Vocalization, tem, making certain names and signs a torment of mechanical drudgery. but now man) runs, , :nto • — • shake. Another important fact must also yield uniform results in the notation of son it was made imperative, and nearly hope will in time be accepted Another and better system quite popu- other embellishments he ccm . wjth W be taken into account—that it is extremely the so-called graces. three hundred and fifty solo appearances the standard. He confines the mordent before the normal classes were rendered lar with some is memorizing the picture each of his anas. Thy, might apply with of the text and notes as they appear upon equal__ truth to most o - __ two notes; he gives, by the upright or from memory. that period. A singular fact in connec- horizontal positions and by the use of 3 sessions opportunity was given the printed page, the result being that as J with those masters of the then preva- dots w{thin the half circles of his double Some Precepts from Tosi the students to sing selections and accom- the pupil was performing he was prac- .------, >r without the score, tically reading the score from a .picture lent operatic form is that tney we. ed signs, indications as to how many pany themselves with o of and the Here are some old-fashioned things In selecting repertory, let no time be A good proportion of them elected to which he had printed indelibly upon the i themselves i notes are to be included in the grupetto. made into the vernacular of to-day. They spent on music that is not in every way names they gave to the graces. Half a "I have derived great benefit from using Sanatogen during memorize their songs and accompani- mind. and their initial directions. are observations of a man who taught worthy and profitable. . our opinion, the best method does century ago the American singing teac er professional ■work. It certainly has proved one of the best ments. There is much to be said in favor In In the writer’s library are nearly if not and wrote two hundred years ago, and approach the problem from either of gave all embellishments the generic Students should accustom themselves to restoratives I know of." _ ^_^ of encouraging such a system. Think of .... _rr,_-«.. ,1 _ r_n..nrl n^nnle. Stum? the as quite all thetnc puDiisneapublished worksworn* ofoi theme great yet there are those who sneer at the old- its value as an experience. The concen¬ those standpoints. We encourage the of grace notes, and peop g singing masters of the last two centuries, fashioned in the art of singing. singing before a mirror, that they may tration necessary to memorize the words, pupil to get the thought in the text and the spirit moved. and the Thev disagree with bewildering persist- not contract unfortunate habits in facial Before encouraging a student to pursue the melody, the rhythm and the accom¬ commit the ence expression. - i development. «, ...... « - the art of singing, ascertain if he has paniment is excellent mental discipli . sequence. * of, - . „ . . . ,uP wiser - and if a copy nomenclature of the principle embcllish- especially the accompaniment, since the does not develop sequentially it contains ence was none the wiser, ana i) talent. If so, he will progress easily and Nothing is more important than a well- Men and women who think and act, people of tendency of many of the song writers of no message for his audience and he will of an Italian song was P” . , " . d) wh;f|, may „ronerlv be with pleasure. If not, it is impossible to developed rhythmic sense. Some of the to-day is to arrange vocal obligatos to not select it. All texts adapted for a American house, the appogg.atura and As to the trill «h.r. may prop rl> 1, bring him to success. best artists fail in this, and to that extent culture everywhere, depend upon Sanatogen for really quite good pianoforte solos. The musical setting have a clearly presented acc.accatura were spilled into the score called the climax of achievement i fall short of perfection. recuperative aid. No less than 21,000 physicians value to students of such an exercise of picture, embodying a sentiment, an inci- by the typesetter, regardless iratura, there is a lamentable lack of Morality and nobility of soul are attri¬ have testified to the value of this ideal food-tonic the mental faculties is enhanced by a dent or a story. Such a text must first meaning or purpose. definiteness in the minds of many teach¬ butes that must join hands with the sing¬ The singing of a beautiful melody with peculiarity in the demands of the art: make its appeal to the taste of the singer. When it came to graces of i ers and singers. The writer once asked er’s perfected art. deep expression and in perfect rhythm for the nervous and overworked. : mordent : artist to trill who bad sung her way comprehends the last degree of difficulty. while there is a wide range to justifiable It is thus no effort to make it his own one note, such He who is not a good sight-reader may careful study of its treatment grupetto, there was confusion multiplied across thc continent and back in Only those who are at the pinnacle of But the best test of Sanatogen is your own. .differences in the interpretation of a song, through weli be ashamed of his ignorance. He margin of allowance whatso- by the author. The music is equally at- iby confusion. Some sang the groups ccllent concert company. She selected A, fame succeed in doing it in perfection. there does not know the alphabet of singing. Give Sanatogen the chance today to restore your technic. It must be note per- tractive through the interesting manner mordents with the words they were Rav¬ B and C and gave a fine example of even¬ In singing be careful that the words are strength and vitality. feet. The habit of accuracy gained by in which the composer has enhanced the ing, some sang them with the words tlu-v ness and control in this most difficult Teachers are not perfect. The student beauty or intensity of thoughts expressed were-approaching, and some, because "t spoken so dearly, yet without affectation, such exactions extends to many other embellishment. ’ Now." 1 said, striking should discern the defects in his training FREE SAMPLE OFFER: A 25-gram Sample Package of San¬ by the author. Here the musicianship of . ignorance as to where they should be that not a syllable is lost to the listener life activities and from a habit comes to a C and D. ’’let me hear yew give the and strive to correct them himself. atogen will be sent FREE on request, together with Richard Le be a virtue. the student or singer comes into play. He sung, did not sing them at all. The Holy and whole phrases are easily and dis¬ Gallienne’s charming booklet, "The Art of Living.” Address whole step trill.” If a student wishes to gain control of Among other advantages which„ may_ must know intimately the melodic and Bible of the musical profession—Grove’s tinctly understood. The Bauer Chemical Company, 29-G Irving Place, New York. result from memorizing are a release harmonic resources which the composer Dictionary—is.of little assistance to the “What do you mean?" she said. 1 his voice he must practice scales and while singing from the thraldom of has employed to give emphasis to the singer because its allusions to the graces never heard of it." arpeggios continually. Breathing should be so perfected that And upon trying to sing it she failed the singer is always provided with more technic, freedom of thought and fancy in text ideas which he has made his own. relate mostly to instrumental music, in He must study his vocalises until he completely. After having her attention breath than he needs. putting forth the story, directness of an There is a reason for every measure which fewer of these doubts exist, since knows them by heart. He need not appeal to the audience when uninterrupted being as it is, and that reason must appeal there are no words to complicate matters, called to the fact that there were many always sing them with his voice to learn An hour a day spent in vocal practice by a glance at the score, which in itself to the singer. If it does not, either he The turn as understood by the average more whole than half steps in the dia- them. The good student may save his is not enough, even for the most gifted. .is a gain in that fugitive quality called, or the composer is at fault, and the song singer, represented thus am is nearly scale, she set alxiut correcting the voice and learn difficult passages by think¬ How necessary then that students who for want of a better name, magnetism, should have no place in his repertory. If always sung: one note up from the defect, ing them. are less gifted should practice much and finally the highly important factor of it does, the act of memorizing it calls for starting tone, back to the starting tone. Her of the half step trill indis¬ longer. appearance, which is never quite master- no effort on his part. one note down from the starting tone and criminately is on a par with the general There is no instruction so valuable as ful when a musical score shares with the Such a system presupposes intelligence back aga;n to tj,e startin<>- tone Getu-r- knowledge of the embellishments as a hearing good artists, both vocal and Students should not be allowed to sing singer the attention of an audience; its on the part of the singer. Intelligence is icall this is a turn/ Ma° v of the ically, this is a turn, whole. Some of the old masters have instrumental. their vocalises on ah until their voices tendency is to mar the pose and poise of the basic asset in memorizing. It calls ’ ' explicit writers designate it as a grupetto. used the term shake instead of trill, and are well placed by the use of syllables an otherwise satisfying performance, for concentration and analytical study of He who has the ambition to succeed as Apart from the objective advantages of the work in hand, both from the tech- This is a very convenient term; it en¬ it is significant that a very distinct differ¬ a singer must learn the piano sufficiently such as do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or memorized renditions of music must be nical and esthetic standpoints. Each corn- croaches on the mordent on the one hand ence may exist between the shake and the well to be able to accompany himself other syllables that contain the primary considered the subjective influence upon position is memorized more easily than and threatens the cadenza on the other. trill. The trill, as taught by some, is a whenever occasion demands. vowel sounds. the mind of the student. That a fine the last, because by each experience the It carries with it no sign as to how it is very rapid play of the voice on two tones The singer who has not studied musical mental stimulus results from such con- mind is better able to grasp the intimate related to the text, and, with one notable in perfect rhythm. For example, one It is of great benefit to a pupil to be theory labors under a great disadvantage. centration cannot be denied. Each new relation that must exist between author exception, t fails to announce any sign heat in common time allows eight thirty- present at the lessons of other pupils. The composer is better understood and Thereby he sometimes gains more from demand made and met by the memory and composer, who combine to give the indications s to how it should he treated. second notes in the time assigned to it: interpreted by one who has a knowledge observation than he does from his own FREEDOM IN BREATHING carries with it a broadening of all the ;n- This exception is found in Nav; thus,the speed of the trill is governed hr of his technic. recitations. faculties that combine in perfected mu¬ He made a supreme effort to crystallize the tempo of the movement. The shake Voice control is an all-important factor in sical character. is a much more independent and brilliant true voice culture and it all depends largely Since memorizing is clearly an advan¬ upon whether the breathing is interrupted. function. The singer gains by practice tage, it is only fair to our readers to dis¬ Music and Matrimony Among Singers cuss the best means or manner of accom¬ The “Shock of the Glottis” great proficiency and speed, and feels at CAMP COMPLETE BELT liberty to vibrate the tone between the plishing it. It has been the problem of By Erik Schaefer “Most easily adjusted belt in the world” In his work. Choral Technique and In- “This synchronizati. two pitches without regard for rhythm. many teachers, especially in the piano terpretation, Dr. Henry Coward tells - - of the two fac¬ field. I recall the shock I experienced tors—breath and vocal cords—seems such The effect is freer and better, especially This new scientific garment is so constructed that “when the artistic attack is mastered Despite the general belief that music happiness until the death of Grisi. Six as to permit an absolutely free and unham¬ where the shake occurs on long noW on looking at a score that a very promi¬ it means the attainment of that consum¬ a formidable thing, and the term ‘shock and matrimony do not go together, the daughters were born to them, but only pered use of the muscles controlling the nent New York piano teacher had marked mation desired by all singers—the true of the glottis’ appears so fearsome, that under the signs ad lib. or hold. Tb-ftt" history of music records many cases three achieved maturity. Mario liked breathing. It yirids to every motion; adjusts for a pupil, who was to memorize it for ‘shock of the glottis’—the coup de la it strikes a kind of terror into many fore, the two forms should be drtatnJ where the two have gone amicably in nothing better than to be with his wife itself to every position or proportion, ade¬ a public appearance. Over one group of quately supporting the body and flowing glotte of Garcia. This term, open as it mmds. But there is no need to feel classified as the trill and the shake, the harness. In most cases, however, happi¬ and children, and Grisi’s devotion to him four or eight measures was written three former being rhythmical so far as the the greatest comfort and freedom as well as to misinterpretation, is not a happy de¬ alarmed. The ‘shock of the glottis’ comes ness is achieved where two musicians of and to her children, as well as her quick hundred; over another of greater diffi- scription of the vocal action it describes, number of notes sung in a given riot * giving^ to the figure the smart graceful lines naturally and subconsciously to most peo¬ opposite types marry. Robert Schumann, wit, are displayed in a well-known anec¬ culty five hundred, and thus throughout a5 there ig not> Qr need nQt be a shock concerned, and the shake, which may R -— *-'v- “ ple. Like thei man.. who was astonisheddMDIIISIlnl to the composer, and Clara Schumann, the dote. One day while walking in the the composition each phrase used where the tempo demands are t* Price $5.00, Fitted to Your Measure : understand the term. It merely learr| that he had been talking proseprost 'pianistic interpreter of his work, are the park in London she met a distinguished period it was designated how many times means that at the moment of the same, but with no restrictions as to his life, many singers will he equally 'deal example. At first thought, it nobleman of her acquaintance, who it must be played through, the expecta- passing through the larynx to make a prised to know that everv nnte whirl 7'!"". number of vibrations of the voice on would seem extremely unlikely that two stopped and passed the time of day with tion being that by the many repetitions sound by means of the vocal cords, these have snno- n,RRv, same two notes during that time. e sung, which was struck perfectly singers could ‘ along. Yet one of the her. “And these, Madame,” he sug¬ the notes would be so fixed in the sub- cords are firmly stretched at the right Most teachers will urge that the t™ S. H. CAMP & CO. conscious mind and the fingers of the tension, and the note struck is exactly the gWt-WasSUng with shock of the happiest of m5** marriages on record gested, pointing to the children, “are glottis. Some persons possess this accom- should be practiced and perfected W1#* 373 Fifth Avenue, New York pupil that if he would begin the piece it pitch required without any adjustment be¬ the singer attempts the shake. The ** 's that of Mario/ the tenor, and Grisi, your little grisettes.” would play itself. I was almost \ ing necessary, as there would be if the lessness, have letir 77"f7 lnrfmgh care* perience of those who have taughi » the soprano. They divided their time be- “Ah no,” responded Mme. Mario vinced that after such treatment the pupil e were struck half or a quarter of a a small percental ^1*°™ embellishment with the above differ**®' tweeh London and Paris, where they promptly. “They are my little marion¬ tone sharp were idolized, and lived in complete ettes!” would only have to play a few of the in Tri'instrikingP7 rCnotes7tage accurately.” h3Ve ^at difficulty tion have found the reverse to ** *** ter course. Many who attempt d* 813 THE ETUDE 812 THE ETUDE

The Foundation for a Career ror Big Fur Book There is no superficial value to tech- crowded with fugitive and evasive subtle- nical study along vocal lines, if the work ties? Indeed, of the first importance is is wisely directed and a clearly defined the selection of a guide through this, by purpose the motive. By “technical study” far the most important period of voca The Music Lover’s Digest we mean gaining a mastery of the tools study, namely, the formative and technical, the singer must employ as a professional. has been often said by those with By “having the work wisely directed” we narrow views of the vocal profession that mean following unreservedly the instruc- tj,e teacher of beginners which, in a vivid tions of one who has knowledge and ex- sense> means the technic of the art, is for- perience, and by “a clearly defined pur- gotten or not accredited with his share of pose the motive” w the definite lbe pupji>s success; that once the technic understanding of the conditions, giftsf*° jjjjand is perfected and the student passes into aims that have prompted one to enter the hands of a coach or a teacher of in¬ upon the study of singing. terpretation, the world acclaims him as a The Slowest Way the Quickest pupil of his last teacher. One must not descend to being influ- .Technical study in singing, if properly enced such considerationSi for such Beauty pursued, comprehends a most exacting the facts. Any one with deft regime. The ultimate success of a stu¬ I Each morning a better ap¬ fingers who is a quick sight reader and dent is a certain indication of the faith¬ pearance. A purer and fulness with which he has followed such alert to musical effects can become a sat¬ greater Beauty. A softer a regime. If the student has become a isfactory coach. The teachers are rare and more pleasing skin. To who can safely place a voice with a sure A New Booklet by Mr. Stock great singer, he has made great sacrifices I obtain this use ti his devotion to technic; He has prac- knowledge of its needs and possibilities, Helpful Suggestions ticed the various scale and'arpeggio forms and_‘hen; ^be judi Gouraud’s to Young Singers indefatigably for from two to four years. exercises, develop it to the limit of those possibilities, at the same time equipping “There is more information for students During that time he has interspersed his compressed into the few' pages of this scale practice with sustained tones in all the instrument with the technic necessary Oriental Cream ■brochure than any one vocal lesson could parts of his voice, in wide contrasts of to the meeting of all the demands that possibly contain.” A quarter in your letter It renders a wonderful stress, and has become master of all the an ideal professional career can exact. will bring it to you. Address j transparent, pearly-white embellishment intricacies. He has passed Such teachers care little for the whisper- I appearance to the skin in- _but many times through a few in£s of the uninitiated. It is to such an Geo. Chadwick Stock 1 stantly. Conceals facial OICE STUDIO: Y. M. C. A. BLDG. of the best books of studies written in instructor that the student should entrust the song form. In these he has made bis voice, and then with perfect obedience | blemishes. Healing and practical use of the control gained in his apply himself to the furtherance of the I purifying. In use 68 years. study of unmelodic exercises. From such teacher’s plans for his development, Sand 10c for (rial •!»a studies to songs is a free step into a field which has no difficulties for him, because Clearly Defined Purpose I FERD.T. HOPKINS & SON, N.Y.C. every demand they can possibly make of The finaj clause ;n our first sentence him, so far as the voice arid its control related tQ ,

mon than one realizes, but, under such ,11-/1, - circumstances, there seems to be no . to trust I NoYo cReady choice but to obey orders—and look Cven the gre _develop mannerisms and are hkeiy around for another position or for a Our Enlarged change of heart on the part of the chair¬ to run dry of ideas. These may be toler man of the music committee. ated if you hear a man only once or once Good Teeth There seems to be a good deal of dif¬ in a while, but where the performer ap ference of opinion as to the necessity for pears twice or oftener each week ; MAGAZINE a postlude. For my part, where the con¬ is danger in many directmns m * a Social Duty gregation is in the habit of visiting as probation. There is, on the other hand, of FASHION soon as the benediction is pronounced, I plenty of opportunity in each serv.ee for the improvization of skillful modulatmns should consider the postlude almost an The most unique and possibly the and introductions, and occasionally tnere The attractiveness of a ready insult, for it interferes with the social handsomest book of its kind pub- intercourse of the members of the con¬ is no better type of postlude than an i Betty’s Fingers smile, showing the flash of well- lished on this Continent. Newest gregation. Personally, I should refrain provization upon the closing hymn, Betty sat up very straight. To me she Thumb in a heavy voice. “People say “A fearful tone,” they said in one kept teeth—the atmosphere of it must be in the mood. I listened to designs in from playing the postlude if I found seemed to be playing with the muscles of when you have a fat bqdy you have a breath. dainty cleanness that goes with a improvization some time ago which was much more interest in the conversation her back. Her shoulders drooped and I fat mind, look at me.” Mr. Thumb lifted “Too sharp; it sounds like glass,” said supposed to be on a set theme and it wholesome mouth—the general than in the music. If the postlude is a Women’s, Misses’ could see that they were relaxed, the himself up by his knuckle joint. “I am the fifth, “I’m glad that my voice is soft part of the service, then the organist has consisted of the playing of the thematic good health and good spirits fingers rested lightly but firmly upon the so huge that she has to play me with a and pure.” a right to demand through the proper melody without harmonization or elabo¬ and Children’s tops of the keys, the knuckles were touch as light as air but in time I am “If I do wobble,” said ttje fourth “I do associated with regular care of channels that the congregation adopt the ration, and then straightway, with scarcely arched, the wrist was low, the thumb a modulatory chord, there followed a hoping to be as supple as a finger; it not shriek.” the teeth—all these are positive proper attitude toward it. A certain played upon its tip and I know that the Wagnerian or ultra-modern succession of has been the dream of my life to-be like “I shall be quite content to wait until amount of missionary work can be done ball of each finger felt the key. When reasons for using chords, which bore not the slightest rela¬ you.” Mr. Thumb stared earnestly at the my voice grows,” the fifth answered through the choir by getting its coopera¬ Fine she lifted her fingers to play I noticed tion to the melody and which could not, fourth finger. “Oh, I hope you don’t quietly. tion in the shape of remaining seated that she thought very earnestly about the Buy From Us and Save Money by any stretch of the imagination, have mean like me!” said the fourth finger “Model your voice after mine,” inter¬ while the postlude is going on; but, after kind of tone she expected to come out of grown out of it. Here was a case where this Christmas all, it is not likely that any marked the piano. “One, two, three,” she said, with a blush, see how strained and awk¬ rupted the third. certainly the performer had evolved an Wearing There is no article but what can be pur¬ change can come except through the co¬ then slowly and carefully each finger was ward I look now.” Here the fourth fin¬ “How conceited!” said Mr. Thumb COLGATE’S “improvization” carefully worked out, and chased cheaper at its source than it can operation of the pastor, and it is his busi¬ drawn back. Then, "One, two, three,” it ger drew back from the knuckle joint. under his breath, “We are all much too after it has passed through the hands of once was often enough to hear it. ness to say whether or not it is worth was surely and firmly dropped into place “Sometimes Betty haS to take her other young to stand up as models of tone.” -- RIBBON — middlemen. while including that musical number. Just For those who desire to continue study¬ Apparel and behind each fall of the finger was hand and straighten me up, only yester¬ “Let Betty decide what she shall make The Baird-North Co., being situated so with the prelude. Its length must he ing at the same time that they arc filling DENTOL CREAM the jewelry center of the world, eliminates this thought “I must draw the tone up day she said ‘Now stay there in the center of us,” murmured the second quite sub- determined by the attitude of the powers their positions as church organists, there all the profits of the middleman and sells This Magazine of Fashion is yours from the deepest point in the key-bed.” of the key and don’t wobble.’” that be, but whether or not their attitude is nothing much better than the Schneider Faithful attention to the twice- direct to you through its catalog. for the asking. Your name on our You see Betty’s teacher had said from the “Well I’m sure I should have cried,” “True,” said, Mr. Thumb “We are the is favorable, the prelude ought not be Exercises, Op. 67 and 48 (especially if the a-day Tooth Brush Drill is easily Buy Direct from the Workshop mailing list means that you will first lesson “Tone, tone 1” and Betty had said the third finger. machine and Betty is our engineer. No noticeably long, nor should it be so com¬ exercises are transposed as directed), the You Save One-Third "I did not cry,” answered the fourth, machine can run without oil and that is secured—with Ribbon Dental plicated that it serves simply to attract Rinck Organ School, first two books espe¬ receive all our publications as they learned from the first lesson that tone sifts and our 200 page catalog “I wobbled and wobbled until no one why we must obey her.” of Diamonds, Watches, attention. Its only excuse for being is to cially, and the Dudley Buck Studies in arc brought out. did not lie upon the top of the key; but Cream. The delicious flavor could hear my voice.” “Do you mean that practice is the oil?” .velties. Toiletware,'" 1 1 prepare the members of the congregation Pedal Phrasing. These presume a cer¬ was hidden deep down into the key-bed, makes its use a treat. Children “I am thankful for my strength,” said asked the second finger anxiously. for the service, and for that purpose tain amount of previous knowledge. If. Newcomb * Endicott Company she had been told many times that her the third finger, and then to show how “Practice is the oil,” answered Mr. use it willingly and faithfully. should be, in the main, quiet and medi¬ however, the organist wishes to begin at Dept. D DETROIT, MICHIGAN fingers were the tools to use in bringing alert and active it could. be the third Thumb wisely. tative, not to say worshipful. Just how a the beginning, there is nothing better on this tone to the surface and although finger drew back from the knuckle joint “One, two, three,” said Betty. Ribbon Dental Cream retards congregation justifies a short organ re¬ the market than Rogers’ Graded Mate¬ Betty was not more than ten years old and drew out a beautiful big tone. “Here she comes with the oil,” said the cital before the service I have not yet rials for Pipe Organ, for it covers the she had learned to find what all great the growth of decay-germs—yet “Ht>w lovely,” sighed Mr. Thumb. fifth and they all scrambled into their been able to discover. It would seem to subject concisely, and includes in a more artists seek. Tone. it is not over-medicated. Pre¬ “I can do that!” shouted the second places and worked hard for another be strictly a means of getting their logical form than any other of similar Betty had stopped for a fifteen minute finger. “I am freer than any of you, thirty minutes and the next day Betty’s scription for abnormal con¬ money’s worth out of the very much over¬ scope all the work that is necessary. rest period and this is what I overheard listen to this,” and the second finger teacher said: paid organist. The organ recital should Since playing the organ is best learned in the darkened parlor: “Oh, how tired ditions in the mouth is left to “You have improved wonderfully, my come on a week-day. by playing rather than by talking about it, I am!” sighed the fifth finger in a weak threw itself far back from the knuckle, the dentist. “One, two, three.” Bang! dear.” The fingers laughed knowingly A large proportion of the.people hold¬ there is no valid reason why the organist voice “I have been dropped upon that ‘B’ for they had done their very best for ing organ positions belong to the class “fifty miles from nowhere” should not be for ten minutes without a stop!” "Well “Dear me!” shrieked the others holding Ribbon Dental Cream cleanses their ears. Betty. which has had little or no opportunity able to develop into an artist. Of course, it’s a healthy sort of tired,” replied Mr. thoroughly—yet it has no for previous study, and the most im¬ he nseds to have his horizon widened and harmful grit to scratch the deli¬ portant matter before them is to devise to take every opportunity possible to hear ways and means by which the require¬ good music, but the actual work of learn¬ When Two Halves Do Not Make a Whole cate enamel of the teeth. ments of the service may be met, and at ing can be done just as well in a hamlet By Mathilde Bilbro the same time a reasonable amotlnt of as in a metropolis. The great philoso¬ the difference, because two half-tones to get a diminished third you drop the growth ensue. In order to bring about pher, Kant, they tell us, though he be¬ Tindale Cabinet Co. New York It was during a class lesson in theory, SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR THE this state of affairs, the organist must be and the questions concerned interval's— make a whole tone.” lower half of the apple interval . . Sold everywhere—or came perhaps the greatest force of his “But my dear,” replied Miss Brown, Yes? . . . Very good again. Then content to use for the services material generation iii his particular line and lived “Oh, those dreadful intervals 1” ex¬ a generous trial tube “Don’t you see that the two half-tones what have you left? A whole apple? A RAGTIME of comparative simplicity and technically to be far past the allotted three score and claimed thirteen-year-old Mary, “I’ll never sent for 4c in stamps do not belong to the same tone?” whole orange? No; simply the half of well within his comprehension. In most ten, yet never traveled more than a few get them straight!” REVIEW The young faces were all frankly un¬ each—two halves.” All the bright young cases, the service music and the study miles away from his native city. The The question had been, “how many A Monthly Magazine for Amateur and Pro¬ material must be two entirely distinct comprehending; then a happy thought faces were now alight with understand¬ fessional Pianists—Devoted to Ragtime and man’s development was intensive rather tones are there in a diminished third?” Popular Music—Covering the field of Vaude¬ things, for to study the organ seriously came to Miss Brown. ing. than extensive. I am firmly convinced and Mary had answered’wrongly, “One “Would any of you say” she asked, COLGATE & CO. ville and Picture Piano Playing—Edited requires a reasonable amount of tech¬ “Oh! 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Of course, the organist grows would you not?” _JandmSe those facilities at the beginning are no “Two half-tones,” said Celia, who pos¬ “Please ask me about the tones in some luxurious, lasting, refined nd delight. through the material of the service, but Giggling assent. “Ragtime Review” for on w;°rwh? M old~,f?,shioned reed organ sessed a good memory, but not particu¬ “Very well. Now suppose that the other interval, Miss Brown,—even a that is not enough. There are by this with foot power. We are too often de- time numerous collections of easy church larly brilliant deductive qualities. yvhole tone C-D is an apple, and the whole diminished seventh or an augmented sixth. cewed into beheving that it is impossible “Right, Celia. And why are there two tone D-E is an orange. 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Presser Bid?. Phil*- h rieaie mention TKE RTTTDF. wk*n *44r**a‘ tinned on page 832 ) onr advertiser* 819 818 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE Hackneyed Violin Pieces There are waves of fashion in making trying to play them, will likely be heard up programs of violin compositions for somewhat less within the next few years, OPERETTAS concert use, just as there are for dress or at least will be left principally to the and everything else. A composition will amateurs. Leading artists will not put FOR appear, and if it possesses great merit, them on their programs for a while, until will grow in popularity, like a surging they have become less hackneyed. All of wave, until no program seems complete these, compositions mentioned are master¬ without it. When it gets to this stage the pieces and will “come back” after a few AMATEURS more important artists will abandon it, years’ rest. Getting an Education in Violin Playing because it has become too common. It Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsodie, table in boarding houses, etc., and do all then recedes in popularity to some degree, for the piano, considered by many to be A correspondent writes The Etude the vicinity, was called to it, with the talists, rich in talent, but poor in purse, sorts of-jobs which do not take many THE PENNANT and is not heard so often. This stage result that in many cases he paid for the have been Erectly assisted to a his greatest work, suffered an eclipse of violin department: hours, and leave the student much time Lyric, by FRANK M. COLVILLE having been reached, the best artists com¬ child’s education himself, or else called tion It is not at all uncommon, even m popularity similar to these much played “I am a young man about twenty yekrs for practice. Of course, a life of this Music by OSCAR J. LEHRER mence to play it again, and it has another the. attention of some one h’igher in au¬ violin compositions. It was played so of age, and have been studying the violin Price, *1.00 wave of popularity. As an example, take thority, even to the king or emperor him¬ is willing to lend or give °utfr'gnhtofth^ kind has many disagreeable features, and much by concert pianists, that soon every indefinitely. I have studied the standard there are very few who have sufficient Pretty tunes, amusing situations, well the Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Dances) by amateur pianist in the country was drum¬ exercises of Kreutzer and Rode, and am self, with the same result. The pages of money necessary for the e^u.catl, . set up young men, bright girls in smart musical history are full of such instances, talented young violinist, and in self-denial to follow it, but the true mu¬ the great Spanish violinist, Sarasate, that ming at it. The artists then stopped now studying the Gavinies Etudes. I am frocks, a dance here and there, and a matchless rhapsody, depicting gypsy life. playing it. When they failed to hear it and literally hundreds of cases could be cities we often find rich men who have sical student, who is determined, is will- also beginning to play the Mendelssohn spirit of college "go” is the best descrip¬ This composition is one of the finest solo on every concert pianist’s program, the cited of where musicians'and composers of furnished such aid to scores. It our co» ing to put up with any kind of hardships tion of “The Pennant.” This is not one Concerto, and have studied concertos by amateurs then gave it a rest. Now it is the greatest eminence obtained their edu¬ respondent knows a man of this eha to rise to the top of his profession. 1 of the Insipid little pieces that smack violin pieces of its class, and is enor¬ Rode,. Viotti and others. . And now, I coming back into its old popularity, and cations through the help of members of the ter, he might negotiate a loan, sufficient have in mind an example of such grit in of the cantata when they are really de¬ mously effective with audiences. Following wish to tell you something that you may its composition and rendition by Sarasate is often heard on the programs of the not believe, but which is nevertheless nobility or of royalty itself. Many of the for his education, to be paid back out oi the case of a pupil in my own classes signed to be seen over the footlights. It at his concerts, this piece leaped into world best pianists. noblemen maintained orchestras and solo¬ his future earnings when he is earning This boy studied the ’cello; he went to is a real, practical piece for a short cast, true, and that is, that I am an unusually easily rehearsed and easily produced. It popularity, which continued for many Certain styles of violin music have their talented violinist, and probably if I had ists in their owri palaces or castles, and money from professional work. school, worked as a lamplighter, and were constantly on the outlook for young, Churches, societies, clubs, lodges, etc., may be adapted to suit almost any col¬ years. In America its greatest popular¬ waves of popularity, also, like that en¬ started when a young boy, I would have practiced three or four hours a day. lege locality, and la sure to take. ity dated from the visit of Sarasate, about joyed by the compositions of the early become as famous as Mischa Elman. talented musicians to augment their often furnish sufficient funds to educate After he had studied with me for three a quarter of a century ago. For years its Italian, French and German composers, Taking it for granted that I have unusual forces. They maintained a large force of a talented musical student, especially one years, arriving at a point where he could popularity grew, until practically no violin such as Pergolese, Martini, Viotti, LeClair, talent, what would you advise me to do, musicians, just as many of our wealthy who has frequently appeared before their play the Romberg concertos for 'cello, he program was complete without it. In the Tartini, Rameau, Gossee, Grazioli. Dit- under the following circumstances: I am American capitalists spend their money’ members as a performer. In fact, it is removed to a western city. There he got THE ISLE OF JEWELS past few years, while it has frequently tersdorf, Veracini, Gluck, Lully, Corelli, compelled to work for my living, and to maintain large racing stables of thor¬ not as hard as it would seem for the By GEO. L. SPAULDING a job as 'bus boy in a restaurant, hard, been heard, of course, it has not been Pugnani, Nardini, Vitali, and others. Of only get a few -hours for practice, and oughbred horses. It was this system struggling musical student to raise the Price, 50 cents played so much, especially by artists of late, composers and arrangers of violin this being the case I cannot see my way which a'dvanced the cause of. music in funds necessary to complete his education. disagreeable work, but which left him many hours to study his chosen instru¬ One of the best operettas for young the first rank, simply because it had been music have ransacked the entire literature clear to accomplishing my ambition? Europe in such a wonderful manner, for A benefit concert is often a good means people ever written. It Is by the authors ment. He studied in the conservatory of done to death by amateurs and unimpor¬ of the early violin composers in the hope Could you give me any advice under the the child,-or youth who showed signs of to get a start.towards a fund for an edu¬ of the very successful “Day In Fiower- tant professionals. It had become about of finding forgotten gems. Many valu¬ circumstances ? I will appreciate im¬ unusual talent was taken up and educated cation. If our correspondent is a popu¬ the city, played in the conservatory or¬ liom,” a work which it will unquestion¬ able compositions have been found in mensely anything that you tell me.” by the noble of the neighborhood. lar, hard working musical student, and chestra, and studied with leading ’cello ably equal, if Dot surpass, In popularity. as familiar to regular concert goers as teachers. He made extremely rapid prog¬ Yankee Doodle or Flome, Sweet Home, this manner, and have been added to the The Etude receives many letters like has obliged many people by playing for The "Isle of Jewels" Is suitable for pro¬ Generous Americans ress. and in a few years had mastered and so the best artists hunted for novel¬ modern repertoire of the violinist. Fritz the above, for there are thousands of tal¬ their benefit and pleasure, he will very duction at any season of the year. It most of the leading works in the litera¬ la easily rehearsed and staged, and can¬ ties, and gave the pieces which had been Kreisler, the famous violinist, has resur¬ ented, ambitious young violin students Something of this spirit of noblesse likely succeed in getting help, if he lets oblige on the part of the wealthy classes, his ambition be known. ture of the ’cello. He soon got to a point not, tall to Interest both audience and played to death a rest. Pieces like the rected and rearranged a number of gems all over this country, or all over the participants. The text Is witty and Humoresque by Dvorak, the Meditation in this manner, and Willy Burmeister, the world, for that matter, who are looking in regard to supporting the arts and sci¬ The other plan by which the student where he was able to do solo and orches¬ amusing and the music la full of sparkle from Thais, the Souvenir by Drdla and eminent German violinist, is the author forward to perfecting themselves in violin ences, has been rapidly developing within can finish his studies is by obtaining some tra work in chautattquas, summer resorts, and go. Several of the numbers are others, which have had such an enormous of a large number of arrangements for playing, as the supreme wish of their the past few years in our own country. employment, either musical or otherwise, etc. All this time he was practicing never perfect little gems, worthy a place In vogue that every one who knew how to violin and piano taken from the early lives, but who lack the funds. There is, Millions of dollars have been subscribed which will only take three or four days a less than four hours a day. and at the any light opera. As the characters per¬ play a couple of scales on the violin was violin classics. alas, an enormous amount of artistic tal¬ in the large cities for the support of sym¬ day, leaving the student the rest of the present time he has become a master of sonify various popular jewels, the oppor¬ ent, and even genius, for violin playing phony orchestras, prizes have been offered time for practice. In the larger cities, his instrument, and will shortly be able to tunities for picturesque staglDg can .readily be realized. going to waste in this world, because the for operas and other forms of composi¬ many students do collecting, work in res- obtain a position as 'cellist in a symphony orchestra, or possibly as solo ’cellist with possessors were not born in the proper tions, and many vocalists and instrumen¬ Attacking a Tone environment, were without means, or a traveling concert company. The way The “dig” is very perceptible in stac¬ failed to have the proper instruction, or has been long, hard, and disagreeable, but The most important instant in the life cato playing. In all other bowing it must even to own a violin in their youth. There he has finally “arrived.” Nothing can PANDORA of a tone is its commencement, and in be imperceptible to the ear, but neverthe¬ are millions of blocks of flawless, virgin Thumb-nail Sketches of the Great Violinists keep a student with grit of this character An Operetta commencing well lies the great secret of By C. E. La MASSENA marble bedded in the earth to every one down. Every large city contains scores good tone. To set the string in sufficient less there. In its absence, the tone com¬ mences weak and quavering, and it may which is quarried and fashioned into a The great violinists of the world have Johann Peter Salomon, an eighteenth of music students who are doing the same Price, *1.00 vibration to produce a clear note at all, a take some inches of bow before the vibra¬ beautiful statue. There are no doubt, at sprung from every sphere and walk of century violinist, had the distinction of thing. They are willing to work at the A brilliant operatic setting, suitable certain minimum amount of initial fric¬ for young people, of the old Grecian tions become regular and the tone pure. this very minute, thousands of men and life, from the cottages of the lowly and being born in Bonn, in the same house in hardest and most menial tasks to enable tion is necessary to produce the first myth as retold by Hawthorne. The In short notes, without' the primary women, working at all kinds of uncon¬ the stately mansions of the rich. which Beethoven was born. fhemselves to live, and to obtain sufficient vibration, and as the string starts from work Is divided Into three short acts, “dig” or grip, there may not be time for genial occupations, who, had they had the time to get through their musical studies Paganini was the son of Antonio Paga¬ Viotti, one of the most famous violin¬ seventeen musical numbers In all. By a state of virtual rest, or different speed the tone to purify, and they will be exe¬ proper opportunity, might have become Not a few musical students make their nini, a commercial broker of Genoa, Italy. ists of Italy, was the son. of a blacksmith, omitting the instrumental numbers It of motion from that desired, this first crably bad to the ear of an artist. There¬ the equal of any violinist now living. The way by teaching music, playing in hotels He was a delicate child and was a good who was also an amateur horn player. may be used as a cantata or one-act amount of initial friction must be greater fore, our advice to the student is to exag¬ opportunity never came, and their talent cafes, restaurants, theatres, etc, and many operetta. The choruses are almost en¬ violinist at the age of six. For some years he dropped violin playing than that which will be required immedi¬ gerate this primary grip, at first, until the lay dormant and undeveloped. an eminent musician has at one time in tirely in unison. The music Is sprightly Arcangelo Corelli was a native of Fusig- and became a wine merchant, only to re¬ ately afterwards, to sustain the vibration. hand learns just how much to apply in Now as to our correspondent’s individ¬ his life done such work. Work of this and tuneful throughout and easily nano, near Imola, in the territory of Bo¬ turn to his profession later on in Paris. Thus it will he seen that, to start any order to obtain the effect inaudibly. It ual case, which is that of so many others, character, if the student can get it. pays learned. The costumes, properties and logna. He owed much of his success to Kreutzer, the author of the famous sceneries are such as may be easily pre¬ tone, even the extreme pianissimo, a slight is a matter of common knowledge that to he has two ways in which to obtain a from $12 t6 $30 per week, and many a the fact of his early training under Bas- Forty Etudes, was the son of a musician pared. One of the best works of Its “dig” to the bow is absolutely necessary. play piano is difficult to the beginner. higher education in violin playing; one is music student gets a musical education by sani, a leading violinist of the day, and in the King’s Chapel at Versailles, in kind that we have seen. It must be understood that the motions Here, then, is one of the reasons; the to obtain the help of some wealthy patron, playing of this kind. Some students play Mattei Simonelli, a great instructor in France. He played a concerto with great which we are here analyzing are really pressure on the bow at the end of the or music lover, who will either give or in moving picture houses, and I have counterpoint. success in public at the age of thirteen. matters of extreme rapidity. This com¬ note is insufficient to start firmly the lend him the necessary funds to complete known of not a few who made their way his education; the other is to obtain mencing “dig” (the term is rough, but next, and the beginner has not the instinct Antonio Vivaldi was the son of a vio¬ Baillot was the son of a schoolmaster, by piano tuning. Of course, much of this some kind of employment which will A ROSE DREAM expressive) is little more than instantane-. to apply, without roughness, that infini¬ linist in Italy, and sought his fortune in who died when the violinist was twelve work is a soul-killing grind, like playing leave him a large part of the day for his A Fairy Operetta for Young People ous—just sufficient to “command” the tesimal “dig” which the artist uses auto¬ Germany. years of age, and who was educated by- for the movies, or for dances, or in cafes studies, not only furnishing his living In Two Scenes string. matically.—The Strad. friends. For many years he worked as a hut jobs of this kind can often be ob¬ expenses, but enough surplus to pay for Tartini was not only a famous violinist' Word, by GERTRUDE KNOX WILLIS private secretary before he was finally tained where the hours are not long, espe¬ his lessons as well. but also a writer of note on musical Music by MRS. R. R. FORMAN able to devote his whole time to music cially in theatres, where the performances The first plan, where the pupil is helped physics, and was the first to discover the Price, 50 cents Fake Old Fiddles, an Ancient Swindle by a wealthy patron, is one which has fact that in playing double stops their do not exceed two and one-half or three A delightful entertainment for any accuracy can be determined by' the pro¬ hours in length, and which leave the stu¬ aided thousands of artists, musicians,' four Caprices (one in each major group of young folks, between the ages It it hard to pick up a daily paper have priceless Cremonas, because they duction of a third sound, which appears dent enough time to do his educational of eight and fourteen. The plot allows sculptors, literary men, and other brain minor key) was violinist to Napoli without finding an account of where look into some crude, badly made old workers in all ages to perfect’themSelves when they are played in perfect tune. Bonaparte when the latter was First C practicing. for the participation of any number. fiddle and discover a dirty yellow label, The story is a pretty and original fairy swindlers have successfully worked wire¬ in their special arts. Especially has this sul of France, directly aftfer the Frei Of course, it would be better for the which hears the name of Stradivarius, Jean Marie LeClair, the famous French tale: and It is set to mnslc that Is ex¬ tapping schemes, fake poolroom bets, been the case in the musical development revolution. Beethoven wrote for R, student to have nothing to do but look Guamerius, Amati or one of the other violinist, began life as a dahcer at the ceedingly attractive. The necessary bogus stock deals, and green goods games, of Europe, owing to the existence of a the famous Violin Romance in F. after his studies .but the student, who has great masters of violin making. The ab¬ Rouen Theatre. He went to Turin as a scenery and costumes are such as cad by which people with more money than monarchial form of government and a ballet master, and had his attention turned Habeneck was the son of a musician to make his own way. cannot be a chooser, be easily provided. surdity of all this has been shown up so class pf the nobility in most of the coun¬ and simply has to take what he can get brains have lost sums often running into often in the musical and daily press that to violin playing by Somis. His rise from a Drench regimental band. He nl-i the thousands. No matter how many tries. The rulers and nobles possess that time was rapid. violin concertos in public at the aee for he cannot work in positions which one would suppose the public would get Mail order, solicited and filled to .11 pvt. of times these swindles are exposed, there wealth, education and leisure, and conse¬ ten, and in later years so pleased take too many hours a day. for this would •be country. Any of our work, sent on inspection wise to the real facts in the matter, but Our professions! discounts sro Tory libersl. always seems to be plenty of victims left quently have given much attention to Antonio Lolli was largely self taught, Empress Josephine that she granted 1 leave him no time for his studies. For it seems impossible to kill this supersti¬ music and the other arts. When a child and though a brilliant, showy player, was the student who is willing to pay the who seemingly have never heard of the tion on the subject of old labels, and forwS1Hn'thHe d'd mUCh toward bring gave evidence of unusual musical talent, somewhat of a charlatan. He was vain, forward the great orchestral works price, in the way of hard, disagreeable THEODORE PRESSER CO. schemes or the exposures. In the same many people pay three, four or even ten the attention of a nobleman, who lived in conceited and addicted to gambling. 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We recommend The King Cometh exercises, covering practically every de¬ PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK The Organ (New Edition). John Stainer .30 follows: “Giovani Paolo Magglni, Hreseln. use in their home studio windows you very highly to all organists and choir partment, including exercises in holding 701 Chatnot Stmt 290 Broadway 1699.” Maggini was one of the great classic The Young Violinist, Op. 10. By G. would surely want one. To have such a notes, independence of the fingers, thumb Italian violin makers, and made excellent in¬ GENERAL STUDY BOOK Wiehtt.30 directors. It is a work which will prove sign made privately would cost many pleasing to the singers and at the same crossing, scales of all kinds, equal develop¬ struments, possessing a deep rieh sombre By MATHILDE BILBR0 Price, SI cert Weil-Tempered Clavichord, Vol. I. By uany thousands of imita- Bach.30 times our price. One is printed in black time acceptable to the congregation. ment of the hands, octaves in various forms, arpeggios, double notes, etc. This is not much chance that A very useful book of studies and reciea- Young Folks' Musical Study Playlet. By on heavy white cardboard and is lettered There is plenty of work for all to do, but lions, well adapted to accompany or to sop Carol Sherman.40 is one of the best books for daily practice. piement any Instruction book or method. MUSIC STUDIO. none of it is difficult. The text is taken I he pieces are for both two and four bands. The other is printed in green on a rich It might be used for this purpose during from the Scriptures and the entire work several years. The book is of convenient "■ twaaaaaoi., duel Having given up pracil In the four hand numbers the teacher is buff cardboard and is labeled is dignified and churchly, yet written in for some years, your friend could not do be supposed to play the Sevan do part The Piano Instruction. size for ready handling. It has been one ter than practice very long notes, with sic pieces for two hands and the 1‘rimo parts melodious and singable style. It is of of the standard text books for many years, bowing, such as practicing the scales, com: of the duets are all In the treble Net Young Folks’ Musical In ordering state which lettering you just the right length to be used in church lUghout, this beingel rig a «»genuine Brat grade and .is destined to retain its popularity for ing from 16 to 32 slow counts to each not hook. Many Study Playlets desire. at regular or special musical services. r-Y CHIN REST OF SOFT He should also practice many bowing exr je little p.. The. special advance price is 20 cents many more. The special price in advance adding much t The special introductory price is 30 cents of publication is 20 cents, postpaid. cises like the Sevcik bowings, and thoso l,trl*a,eone°o,f*’ Up-to-date teachers know of the craze each. However, if you wish your name PLIABLE RUBBER THAT Kreutzer. Kreutzer, Fiorillo and Rode shou per copy, postpaid. ‘ be studied constantly from cover to cove for playlets of this type that is now spread lettered in the space we have left for that Violin DOES NOT CHAFE OR broadcast all over the country. The idea purpose enclose twenty-five cents in addi¬ steady practice on such a course would so, Strings bring .good results. Lists of books f, tion and send your name written dis¬ Album of Sacred AGITATE THE SKIN. of having historical events dramatized so Last season wc introduced to the violin FIRST GRADE STUDIES that children can recite them or act them, tinctly. Name and initials must not be Piano Music playing public a violin string which we over II letters in length. SOFT AS THE By L. A. BUQBEE Price. $I.N instead of merely reading them, is based This collection will contain music of a named the “Etude.” Since then we have A. L. M.—Judging by the list of stud upon the best psychology and the best quiet, devotional character, suitable for sold thousands of these strings, with cqn- and solo compositions you have studied, y The author of these studies has been Mty PALM OF YOUR HAND successful In writing for children, and the ne« pedagogy,. The main object is to raise the Elijah and Sunday evening gatherings, or religious stant re-orders from satisfied customers. have made rapid progress for the length book is fully op to the standard. It may be time you have been studying the violin used with pupils who have Just learned the interest, the attention, to a white heat. Messiah meetings of any kind. The volume could We are still offering this string at the USED BY ways provided that you play these works w« rhythms. These are genuine beginners We are now about to publish in book These two important oratorios will be also be used for church purposes. There same price as last season, notwithstanding ELMAN The matter hinges entirely on that point. studies, as they are all melodious and some the advance in the prices of other makes form dramatizations of the most inter¬ brought out in our own edition in a short is always more or less of a demand for what in characteristic vein, most of them of- strings. A new feature: We offer v0u SPALDING bearing appropriate titles that are calculated ring incidents in the lives of Bach, time. Our edition will be exactly the same quiet, tranquil music. This album will PARLOW to prove interesting and attractive to yooag as all editions, as far as the voice parts contain the latest in this line, and will be ihe choice of either gut or silk E strings, students. It Is well for teachers, Partin Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, are concerned, but the piano part, which is a very desirable addition to any pianist’s 15 cents each, or an assorted bundle of 30 HARTMANN larly in the early grades, to vary material Mozart, Schumann and Wagner. The strings at $3.00 net. the Act of Congress of as much as possible. This will prove *n condensed from the orchestra, will be collection. Our special price in advance AND OTHERS author, Carol Sherman, was a music We also call your attention to our August 24, 1912 excellent volume to add to the beginners somewhat less difficult than the editions by of publication, which is not even one-half teacher for twenty years. He has also Etude violin rorin, used and endorsed by produced his own plays on the profes¬ YV. T. Best and others. Our advance 'the price of the volume when published, PRICE $2— will be only 35 cents, postpaid. the profession. Single boxes, with chamois, sional stage. Consequently these little price for one sample copy of each of the 25 cents. In dozen lots $2.25 net. MUSICAL IDEAS FOR BEGINNERS works is 30 cents, that is 60 cents for the AT ANY GOOD DEALERS pieces are written so that they can be On The Pianoforte acted by little folks with or without any ' two, postpaid. Pictures from Storyland Melody and Technic MaS^Tdtto^A^e000^’ PMI“WW*. By MARION RALSTON Price. $1 H attempt at scenery or special costumes, or Op. 98. By Dick Slater 25 Studies for THE R. S. WILLIAMS Business Manager— None. valuable elomentarT work. The result they may be read in dialogue form in the Jousse’s To write simple music that is character¬ the Pianoforte Owhers~ Pre8ser Co’ Philadelphia dass without action. They will come as Catechism tonolilng a- *K APES istic and contains interesting musical ma¬ By C. Stamaty. Op. 37 & SONS CO., Limited 3 a blessing to teachers who need something What instruction book for beginners in terial is not an easy matter. Mr. Slater, Stamaty’s Op. 37 is one of the best sets 145 YONGE STREET ■hil?d%dhi'aPh'°- taken up to gillnFadVantage In'ronSetv* aew to freshen up their work. Plays of music study is there more useful than however, has been very happy along this of modern studies for the intermediate I "'V *“F elementary method. The matensi this kind have Iteen found to impress the TORONTO, CANADA Jousse’s Catechism? The book as it stands line. While this volume is within the grade. These studies are designed to hitlerr Fuller,Fuller PhiladelphiaPhii. .• tentlonbf^tL a,,rartlTe <-h»r»rt,r- child’s niind marvelously. Reading about is different in many respects from earlier grasp of the veriest beginner, yet at the promote technic and musicianship hand- terhnle and mustrlanshlp band in hand fro* a terrible accident in the newspaper docs editions; to quote the words of the preface same time the composer has something to in-hand. Every study has some distinctive Known bondholders m the vet's beginning. security holders, holding-mortgagees, , per cent and oth« not make one-hundredth of the impression _this edition “introduces the latest and say and says it in a very intelligent and technical or rhythmical feature, hut all securities”10”11* °* l,onds, mortgages! or oth upon you as that you would have received l-e«t ideas, and the explanations are made correct way. 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Composer Grade Every intelligent person knows that the cost of paper, engraving, Mr* c 1 OHIO, of the hands reaches the compass of an All good Advertising is good news, often 13994 Wee Willie Winkle,^ ^ octave. This may occur in the advanced, The 100% increased paper and other ink and labor has gone up so enormously that many worthy papers X Saw a Ship A-SatUng^ ^ have been forced to discontinue and others have been threatened witn second grade, or certainly at the beginning valuable news. A world of convenience, magazine manufacturing costs preclude of the third grade, hence an easy set of any possibility of a continuance of present suspension. By Perlee V. Jervis. 13996 Three Blind Mice, ^ K rn i 4. Trills and How They .Should Be I'lavcl studies is necessary for the beginning. opportunity and economy is brought to magazine clubbing prices and only through This gives us the alternative of raising the subscription price to $2.00 Bv James Francis Cooke. The Mouse and the Clock, None will be disappointed in this book. C. W. Kern 1 tjie most diligent effort have we been a year or economizing on space in The Etude itself. 5. First Stepan llie^Study of the Pedals. By Oar special price in advance of publica¬ your eyes through advertising. It is a enabled to secure the permission of cer¬ 14083 Little Soldiers.M. Paloverde 1 The subscription price will not be raised. To have done that would 6. Profitable Physical -- tion is IS cents, postpaid. 14087 The Summer Park, tain publishers to make the offers below have meant a tax of at least $100,000.00 upon our readers. Students. By Dr. W. R. C. Batson part of the present day education of the listed and appearing on page 763 of this 7. Passing the Dead I.Ine In Music study The quality of The Etude will likewise be kept at the same very high By Thomas Tapper. Advance of Publication Peer Gynt, A Dramatic Prose Iieadimr alert person who wants to know about In giving the great magazine-reading standard. There will be no curtailing in quality. The Etude will be Offers Withdrawn _Paloverde 1 1“ “ 1---of Richard Mansfield 14086 Becess Polka. .11. Paloverde 1 public this generous opportunity to save even better than ever, if possible. ronomp ('nrrcwr ti.- nL November 1st new things and new movements. dollars on its coming year’s periodical .. . 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Paloverde 2 Does this not make you want to read them? 14080 The Pretty Partner, Remember, these prices positively ex¬ not you. single copies contain the best of a $200 withdrawn from the special low price in M. Paloverde 2 pire November 10, 1916. lecture or a $5.00 lesson. advance of publication, and arc now for M. Paloverde 2 We ask in appreciation that all Etude friends will double their sale at regular professional rates, and The same principles of business responsi¬ efforts to secure new subscribers. You doubtless have at least half a therefore will lie sent subject to examina¬ dozen friends who ought to take The Etude. Won’t you spare a few Premium Reward e Lively Jumping Jack, e patten ' l $1.75 tion, returnable if unqsed. The following bility and square dealing which have made Spenser : .. i Save 75 ct». minutes to enlighten them upon the advantages of The Etude ? Send For Etude Workers 14005 Tie Bohemian Girl, us a list of their names and let us mail them a sample copy. We are works are now ready to deliver: n 244 THE ETUDE . Old “Jack Frost” has begun making Progressive Piano Student, by Theodore the high reputation of THE ETUDE are 1*2.00 confident that your greatly increased enthusiasm and appreciation will himself felt in most sections of the country 14033 Patriotic Prance.G. SpenB ' j Save $1.00 make this Presser. Price 75 cents. This is the second 114047 The Toy Windmill. D. Rowe 2 44 and it’s “Preparedness" that will ward off volume in Mr. Presser’s course known as employed in deciding whether the articles 13939 June Flowers.M. Loeb-Evans 2 44 the ravages of his advent. 14070 Patriotic America.G. Spenser 2 44 l *2.10 Another ETUDE Banner Year the School of the Pinno. Thousands of 14071 Patriotic Eussla.G. Spenser 244 1 Save 40 c to. For Etude workers we have arranged teachers have used the first book, the advertised in these columns are likely to 14091 May Time. . . . A. L. 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It has been many months in Two well-known volumes of standard 8 The Humming Top, The First Twelve Lessons Pleyel’s Duets well-groomed person. Pischna’s Sixty R. S MorriRon t *2.85 At the Pianoforte. ■ preparation. works added to the Presser Collection. For the Violin For TEN yearly subscriptions to Tut Harmony Book for Beginners, by Pres¬ Exercises 13964 Polonaise Op. 8 . )Save65. Etude, at $1.50 each, we will send vou, The first contains thirty-five little pieces By A. Diabelli. Op. 125 Ignaz Pleyel was for five years a pupil ton Ware Orem. Price $1.00. This work without octaves in the second grade. One We are continuing during the current [pi, - THE ETUDE .) ®3.00 ThisAius is oneuiie uiof theuie stanuarustandard teachingteaenmg o»of Franz*■ icinz. Josefoosei Haydn.Jnayun. He seems to postpaid, one of the Penna. Knitting Mills’ fills a demand that heretofore has not month the special introductory offer on 13968 V rith Graceful Steps, famous Ladles' or Misses’ “Norfolk” Knit of the most popular opus numbers of this P. Renard 3- ' j Save $1.50 works for elementary students. Its popu- have caught from that genial master been taken care of. It presents the most popular writer. The latter a standard the Sixty Exercises by Pischna. This is Coats, “Xotnir" Buttonholes, Bvron Collar 13960 Mistress Mine.. . C. Lindsay 3 THE ETUDE . • 1 Oft larity seems to be on the increase. Our something of the spirit of melody. At ground work of harmony in the plainest violin work used almost universally among one of the most famous of modern technic 13992 Gem from Martha, and Removable Knit Belt. Colors: Copen. possible manner—the first year’s work. books, possibly the best of all. This par¬ Flotow—M. A. Henry 3 new edition, which is to be added to the any rate, his duets have held popular teachers of the violin, has been delayed 14021 Fairy Dream. .E. K. Heyser 3 ... savesi.5u Presser Collection, is superior in all re- favor for many years, not merely became hagen v. Cardinal, Dark Grav. Sizes 34 to Child’s Own Book of Great Musicians, ticular work is designed for players •16. Retail price $7.30. by the editing, but we believe this excel¬ 14027 Brave Hearts.L. Renk 3 spects. This book, may be used to sup- they offer studies within the range of the by Thos. Tapper. Price 15 cents each. lent edition will well repay the long wait. rather more advanced. Intermediate stu¬ 14028 In Hungarian Style.L. Renk 3 THE ETUDE . 14030 The Merry Hunter. .L. Renk 3 *3.35 plement any Instruction book, or to fill most juvenile beginners, but also because This series of children’s biographies of dents use “The Little Pischna” (Der Kleine Engelmann Album 14031 The Dream Girl. . ,L. Renk 3 Modern Priscilla .) Save! out the first grade work in any graded they are genuinely melodious and happily Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Ten Melodic Studies Pischna), which serves as a splendid 14023 Dawn.A. Franz 3 course. The studies are interesting, and conceived. The new edition of th in h is For Four Hands Schubert and Handel is now completed. preparation for the larger work. Our new 14024 Fairy Song.A. Franz 3 1^3.25 Many thousands of these volumes have By Sartorio. Op. 1090 14035 Scene de Ballet, will prove of real practical value. The been carefully edited and revised and is This new work, which we are now aa- edition lias been prepared with the utmost ■ J. P. Ludebnehl 3 been sold. Simple ‘ and interesting in We take pleasure in announcing a new v offered to the public at a special ad- nouncing for the first time, will he wel¬ cure and after comparison with all other 14036 Guarding Old comed by tlie mnny admirers of the music language, including the feature of cutting set of studies by this very popular writer R. Ferber 3 ice of publication price of 15 cents. We have published a number of sets of editions. The editorial work has been done 14041 March & Chorus from Tann- ( *3.50 of Hans Engelmann. Our Engelmann out the illustrations and pasting them in hauser .J. LOw 3 I Save $2.50 the book, and binding the book. A modern studies by Mr. Sartorio in the past, and by Mr. Mauritz Leefson, who is himself a Album for Pianoforte Solo has lieen ex¬ specialist in pianoforte technic. It will be 14057 Sapphire .M. Savoni 3. Burrowes’ Godard Album ceedingly popular, and wc anticipate an interesting method. These volumes are all have been successful. This composer 14106 Valse Mignonne.A. L. Norris 3 the best possible edition of Pischna ob¬ 14115 The Ghost..G. N. Rickwell 3 Piano Primer For the Pianoforte equal popularity for the Four-Hand well worth examination by every teacher has a decided talent for writing studies which are very much to the point and tainable. The special price in advance of 13906 Retrospection ... .W. Rolfe 344 Burrowes’ Piano-Forte Primer has been A partial list of the eomnosition* Album. It will contain some of Engel- of children. Other volumes will follow. 14078 Spring Flowers. W. A. Smith 3 44 which, at the same time, are full of musi¬ publication is only 25 cents per copy, post¬ 13889 Home, Sweet Home, “^e most useful hook that can be Benjamin Godard to be f”und Tn nmnn’s best pieces, both those originally Standard First Grade Piano Pieces. SS^TLv-::::::::::::::: l $4.00 tht Price 50 cents. Printed from large plates, cal interest. This new set is well adapted paid. As the work is now ready for the M. Henry 4 placed in the hands of a pupil.” Our new volume will serve to give an idea of written for four hands and special for third grade work, but nevertheless it 13981 Fairy Harp..6. D. Martin 4 arrangements of some of his solo works. this collection will not only contain the press, this offer will probably be with¬ 13977 Cavalcade Militaire, acquisition of this primer makes a valu- the good things included therein- An is within the range of hands of limited t. Oehmler 4 See page 763 of this issue for additional offers. able addition to the Presser catalog. It is Matin, Second Mazurka T rr f We give a partial list of contents as fol¬ best material for student’s recreation, drawn after the current month. home playing and elementary recital work, span. It embodies scale, chord and ar¬ 14132 Fresh Life.F. Spindler 4 issued in the latest revised and improved Venetienne Barcarolle * Pan En r lows: Concert Polonaise, Parade Eerietr. peggio work in about equal proportion, 14128 Fair Ellen.C. Bohm 444 A Christmas but the quantity is unprecedented. Like The Young Violinist 13987 Menuet No. 2, edition; and it contains also additional Valse ChromatiaZ n a a CWan/' Over Hill and Dale, Melody of Love, In together with independence of the hands. Meyer-Helmund 5 Problem Solution materia! in the form pf Mohr’s “Home the greTtet oftu °f the Arena, Pare and Trie, When the every other StNcent volume in our ever- G. Wichtl. Op. 10 increasing series not a dry composition Hence it should prove exceedingly useful. 13998 Frivolity .S. Mazurette 5 “If, instead, of a gem, or even a RulesP.ules for MusicMusie Students.” The specialsneeial chamber music "rauTvobiml h'gh class Lights Are Love, Promenade Qavotte. and A new and revised edition of this ex¬ 13999 Concert Galop.S. Mazurette 5 will be found in this volume, no padding. The special introductory price in advance 14129 Un Fragment de Mendels¬ flower, you could cast the gift of price in advance of publication on this in the library of everv oiLi^ mu" other favorites. The special price of this of publication is 15 cents, postpaid. cellent standard work for beginners in music into the home of others, that Melodies in Difficult Keys for the Piano¬ sohn .C. A. Caspar 5 work is 10 cents, postpaid. book in advance of publication will be SO violin study will surely be welcomed. 13993 Marche Slave.Tschaikowsky 7 ‘ would be giving as the Angels cents, postpaid. forte, by M. Bilbro. Price 90 cents. This 14019 Fourth Barcarolle, give.’ publication is 20 cents, postpaid.' volume will familiarize the student with Bach’s Well-Tempered Wichtl has been dead for many years - „ ., ,, . . Child’s Own Book of Great the lesser known keys, especially the sharp Clavichord. Vol. 1 now, but his method survives because of Solve your Christmas problems early by vr„w c„rip„ Children’s Songs and Games placing orders now for subscriptions to AlUSICianS. INeW Series keys. Pleasing and melodious material of If there is any one work with which its inherent merits. He was born in tlle Pianoforte Ry.M. Greenwald intermediate grades. An original but The Etude to your best friends. It is a *-*ur friends will be delighted to every pianoforte student should be familiar, Bavaria, 1805, and after studying at 14037 Guarding Old Glory, While there have been a great many nevertheless necessary volume. _ it is Bach’s Weil-Tempered Clavichord, Munich became a distinguished violinist, R. Ferber 3 unique Christmas gift, bringing new zeal Ihat these fine “something to do’’ bio- This method is quite well „1 volumes of children's songs published, this to the musical home twelve times a year graphics will be continued in a second completion and most towai*d Melodious and Progressive Studies, by Volume I especially. The 24 Preludes and conductor of orchestras and opera, and 14056 Northern Song, Op. 68, one of Mr. Greenwald's will stand out as Greemcald. Price $1.25. A collection of No. 41_R. Schumann 3 and every issue will be welcomed and series beginning with Chopin. In the will be the last month tw „ th'S month Fugues in all keys, which comprise this composer. He composed operas, oratorios 14066 Facing the Foe, exception. First, it contains songs with second grade study pieces. Every number volume, should be played, not only as and elaborate orchestral and theatrical R. S. Morrison 3 treasured. Few gifts will convey as true senes there are now obtainable, at is offered for a copy at red11rJjP I’ ° rt 11 n * tv games, and the games form quite an im¬ has a special object. We predict great studies in polyphony and for technical works, as well as simnle teaching pieces, VIOLIN AND PIANO spirit of Christmas as The Etude. if a biographies of Handel, must be remembered thatthere - V portant part of the volume. The melodies, popularity for this volume. reasons, but also for their rare musical and the famous method. The Young 13812 Marguerite. .W. E. Haesche 3 Where specified, a neat gift card will *?ach’ Mozart, Mendelssohn Schubert and at all in purchasing this volume rl u'sk as a rule, occupy onlv two braces across 13961 Petite Berceuse . E. Schutt 4 Sacred Two-Part Songs. Price SO cents. value In short, they are indispensable in Violinist, which we are now offering to be sent to the recipient at a date insuring Notwithstanding the great been in print in the original Fe ? the page. The rest of the piece in most ' collection for women’s voices SONGS Christmas arrival advance in paper and printing costs we tion for manv years French edi- acquiring a real musical education. Our our patrons, includes many of the famous 12303 My True Love Lies ABleep, cases is taken up with delightful easy for use at all religious gatherings. We new edition of this work will be printed J. P. Scott 3 n,.r sueeisl nre bnlidsv are PrePareii to announce that we shall no less than 29 tdD- d h'\S Rone through Pleyel duets for two violins. It also in¬ 13814 Not For You. .W. W. Smith 3 give our customers the same opportunity pleasing, musical J* 18 ' ar‘ations or changes of the melody. Some know of no other work which will take from specially engraved plates. It has of the changes arc done verv artistically, care of the field as this does. Every cludes some simple violin pieces with 13975 My Bonnie Fair Maid, to buy these valuable books for children gressive method thn?tereSt!ng and pro- been prepared with the utmost care, but pianoforte accompaniment. In this way 1 ” irridge 3 One Subscription .$1.50 at the same special advance price as be- amined. We cannot

Nadine The Composer (Continuedfro, i page 7So) requisites for Face Powder ve opportunities for light intercourse. I rent pains—duite hot, and the smell of THE (/n Green Boxes Only) ike no inquiries into your past, Mulein,” vood fire! Even if the rain pattered s concluded with increasing venom, ‘‘but rar roof, it was so gay—and when the J must understand that this kind of thing a- white and gold \ Keeps the Complexion it Frankheim !”—the bony finger blue of the sky above ! MUSIC TEACHER At Home cated tl Why in I kept like this? I don t under- lias accordingly been started for the purpose Jm \ Beautiful For all reply Sarolta sprang to her feet, am miserable. If something doesn t business manual FOR MUSIC T»e deat>i has occured of Howard Elmore of establishing the orchestra as a permanent BTEACHERS, $1.00. This book .s acompcn- Parkhtirst organist and choirmaster of the institution. As an aid to the fund, a series Susanna Cocroft’s mW Spftandvelvety^eyi,; let down the window and flung the lovely happen oon, if Dr. Lotbnar does not send Madison Square^ Presbyterian Church, New of out-door opera performances has been bunch of fragrance and color into the night, for me .on, I shan’t be able to bear 1 past thirty-two years.’ Mr. given during the month of September, at She had never wanted .Johnny, nor his love- I sav to-day on a placard they are the City College Stadium. The operas have tokens; yet, as she cast this last one from going t< of prqmetl.eus. CUSSED account"wSSTTM. Lavallette, N. J., been performed by members of the Metropoli¬ Physical Culture her, it seemed as if she had been made to I don’t suppose thi the least use in my 10 tan Opera Company, of which Otto H. Kahn, r-p^ME.sTO who has subscribed heavily to the Civic Or¬ sacrifice something that was both good and asking to go to it. t they have allowed The Cupid Grand PUPIL’S LESSON BOOK/ Price lOc'eachi chestra, is Chairman. The works given In- for the Face strengthening to possess. —o w ‘ ,u' C ' least. graduation from Amherst in 1873 'in ilude Die Walkiire, Cavallerla Busticana and No, Sady, darling, I’m not dead, The first small grand piano ever made was the THe’sTANDARD LESSON RECORD. (35 abroad for study with Rheinberger, Richter I Pagliacci. will make the outline of your not writing. You records with stubs.) 25c. A practical method CHAPTER VII. ought not to scold me for product of Sohmer. That w and W. T. Best. He has passed a useful face, neck and chin graceful— „on V you and know how (or the teacher to keep a complete record of career as choirmaster, conductor, teacher, Retired Music Teachers are now rejoicing in “Hegemannsche riAUSj Fkankheim : too unhappy I liave been. Well, Schiitxchen, nine years ago. In this over a quarter of a iHi writer. He has also written relieve wrinkles, sagging muscles IPSSON AND PRACTICE RECORD. umcH a well organized social club. The Home is at things are a little better. Actually, actually, (Package of 25 cards.) 25c. 101 West Johnson Street, Germantown, and facial blemishes—make your Novembeb 3. I’ve been allowed to speak to a man ! In¬ century we have been constantly striving to Philadelphia. Pa. It possesses a magnificent THE STANDARD PRACTICE RECORD. skin clear and soft, your eyes Darling ; deed, I have been sent for, to speak to two perfect this type of instrument. The result is (Pad of 100 slips.) 15c. Furnishing a weekly An organization to be known as the Cleve¬ new building. hope you had the post-card announcing _ 1—what do you think of that? Of course. form upon which to record directions for prac- land Grand Opera Company has been formed bright. You can make your hair a piano without an equal among diminutive by Cora Stetson Butler, with the object of 1 1 T have your two dear the_ tnd the other three glossy and abundant — your letters. Forgive me, Sady. know I ought girls7~but—things better. I’ll begin at grands in which tone is in no manner sacrificed BILLs'aND3 RECEIPTS. (Package of 100.) providing opera for the Middle West. Many ■ notable opera singers have been encaged, to have written, but I cot *-11 the beginning. I sent for to the salon, to architectural requirements. Length 5ft. 4", ship and _ _ . __ hands smooth and white—your here to-day, and oh, my dear, you BLANK BILLS. (Large size 6x9, package of including the gifted and charming Yvonne de 1 and there was a i t, splendid giant of a Treville, Eleanor de ( oiganists. Especially bad is the condition of feet comfortable through definite ck fur-coat, a blonde width 4ft. 5"— price $675. Terms arranged. Belfast organists---“-“--i called upon -have just the MOSICTEACHERS’ DESK TABLET. directions which will take only prettiest curls and stand it. beard and tossed hair—I wonder if you've Send for illustrated catalog and lull information. (Package of 100 )^ to do for twenty - - .. ,. (.$100) What And they Madame said mst regard myself as a guessed? it was the tenor, Friedbelm Reiu- of New York especially foi _ others do .for fifty pounds ($250). Neither a few minutes at home each day. girl going back ichool. I never thought hardt. He is just like his portrait on the CtARKrSPHARMONY0TABLET.UPPad of caslon, and an interesting repertoire of of these salaries would appeal very much how true that was going .. „, _. __ 100 leaves ruled music paper. 7x10, 2Sc. operas selected including such works as to, a well trained American city organist, yet * postcard I send you, only not so inspired, of Mutton, Carmen. Faust, Siegfried, Tristan und in England and Ireland despite the low disgusting school I was to find myself in, course. But so kind-looking, and so kind too 1 STUDENT’S HARMONY TABLET. Pad of salaries the standard of musicianship is get¬ with Frau Hegemann for head-mistress. Isolde, etc. At present the head-quarters Liquid Silmerine I’ve quite lost my heart to him. Now, don’t BLANK^MUS I C° COPYPBOO KS. ’ is in Cleveland, and the towns visited from ting higher. Candidates for musical de She’s got an old sister, Frfiulein Schwank, be ridiculous, miss! He’s got a wife and Prices, 10c to 3Se. that centre will be Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and she’s Just a bad. icaffee with them next BUNK MUSIC PAPER. 12, 14 or 16 lines and Detroit. Guarantees in each of the four i pocket of week. and Vocal, size 14x22 inches, per quire, 40c. cities have been secured sufficient to make 315 Fifth Avenue the venture safe from the financial stand¬ pensive as well as difficult. It is bard to see he is Dr. Lothnar’s dearest friend ; (Portage 1 lc extra.) Octavo size. 7x11. 10 or what inducement there is for an Englishman o do, Sady, at is so the least scratchy of the old cats told me. 12 Staves. 25c per quire. Medium aize, point, all that remains being to secure ade¬ to become an organist. The evil seems to YOUR FUTURE worst of all. There are tl New York, N. Y. 9x12. 12 Slaves. 30c per quire. quate popular support. girls .They are like brothers together, and he is the BLANK MUSIC PAPER. lie very largely in the number of STUDY HARMONY s; I don’t care ...... ucu some- only man who is not afraid of the Master. 100 leaves 7x8j< with wide spacing. 25c. The Civic Orchesl a of New York, which organists who are willing practically to give and COMPOSITION r, though they a pretty, I will say that, You’ve no idea what a strange feeling it la. BUNK PROGRAM FORMS. For Concerts •essful summer season their services in return for the delight of pine young, uney aretco German and The power of the man, shut up In his Altseh- or Pupils' Recitals. SOc per hundred. playing the organ and directing a church by MAIL n? i’t think they like me. They are to have loss; quite away, and yet dominating every DIPLOMA FORM. 21 x 19. Price 15c. WE TEACH part, they think, in the new opera; mind in this little town. Even I feel it. LEAPN PIANO TUNING ELOCUTION don’t know what yet.' One of them— Frankheim Is Lothnar’s—the very air of the ^BY MAIL ^ ^ . s almost a peasant—sang in “Prome- place is full of him. Lothnar—his Opera Taught by a New Accurate Method Seeing and Hearing . ’ I believe they hate pie because House, his great schemes, his next work, the REWARD CARDS. Set o they’ re heard I am to be put before them, last music festival, his oddity, his genius. By Clara cld cats that match his tyranny, his greatnes’s—there is nothing At a recent discussion before the New they obstinately refused to go. How¬ Frau Hegemann and' hei sister.__ . Wearenever_ but that. The Grand-Duke himself Is not _WRITING PENS. Per dozen. 15c. allowed out by ourselves ; we are hardly to PROFESSIONAL OR VISITING CARDS. York State Teachers’ Music Association ever, we will obliterate this painful con¬ in it. He is only at Lothnar's beck and 50for35c, 100 for SOc, 500 for $1.50. Neatly The Merrill School o( Exprersion Prize Composition Contest talk to each other, undragoned by Frau H„ call like the rest of us.' printed in either Script, Old Engliah or Plain the importance of the seeing and hear¬ dition by dismissing it herewith.) or one of the old cals in question. I could Well, this is rambling away, isn't It? I ing faculties in relation to musical The third pupil was myself. I consti¬ The Joint Lutheran Committee on scream. Sometimes I think I’ll run away. RUBBER STAMP AND INK PAD. One celebration of the Four Hundredth An¬ It’s positively maddening. I keep asking line 30c, two lines 40c, three lines, 50c. achievement was discussed in a variety tuted the missing link in the doctor’s niversary of the Reformation is offering Frau H., “What am I to do-?”—“Yeu must spectacles. Uncommonly stolid I thought him, A bandy nrticle lor putting name and addrean of phases, the consensus of the maj'ority estimation and formed a solid, though wait, fraulein. Yon will be told in due time on orders to publishers; etc. It prevents errors. Your Music Is Torn! awards for suitable Festival Anthems. until I heard he was Herr Weliel, Lothnar's ROLL BLACKBOARDS. being that the latter is the more essen¬ rather prosaic cement between the two The awards are $75, $50 and $25. Two what you are to do.” “But my work?”— great conductor. Except Lotbnar himself accuracy with or wl extremes. Dvorak did not regard me “You can practice your singing in the kuowledgo 2l3 It., $1,801 2)4x3)4, $2.50; 3x4. $3.20. tial. To the writer, the eye and the ear grades of difficulty are requested. An¬ none but Webel has ever been allowed to CHART PAPER RULED. Price ^Oc a have always seemed like Adam and Eve as a very great genius, and although his thems must not exceed 16 octavo pages anything to. say to the Frankheim or- Easily Acquired by Spare-Hour Study —the masculine and the feminine. The paternal kindliness commanded him to of music. The time for submitting An¬ ” ' rqund eyes that stare °ucceu !• more certain than by b. MuItum-in-Parvo Binding Tape when I haven’t IISSED LESSON PLACARD. Printed in eye governs the intellect and the robust treat me amiably—he rarely neglected to thems closes February 1st. For sug¬ you’ll have to wait for, fraulein.” “And be¬ He hardly said anything two colors on n buff, gilt, beveled edge board, gested texts and particulars address at all, but just sat with his thumbs pressed size 6x9. Price 10c. The same printed in one senses, whereas the ear affects (and ef¬ warn me that if I had any intention of sides,” Working myself up into a fine together over his waistcoat and nodded, or color on paper, envelope aize, package of 100, H. R. GOLD, Sec’y, 925 Chestnut St., Philadelphia ’if I am epeeted to get shook his head, when spokei ixclnetVe advantage of It. ix. fects) the emotions in all their modifica- setting the World on fire with the mar¬ Transparent Adhesive Mending Tissue up my part in your stuffy salon, with every¬ Ion model and toola ncc-.!( 1 Herr lone. Diploma grouted. Ii ADHESIVE PARCHMENT PAPER. (Trans- vel of my composition, I was bound to body coming in and out--1” “You will be accompanied •t authorities. Money refuoueu ■■ not u Per^ package,^ postpaid^ ISc; the be mistaken. If your music dealer does not carry it, send to told, fraulein, what is expected of you, when In connection with these diverse nervous; bu except madame, no ... irds in a toll, postpaid^ 6c. On the occasion in question, Dvorak Theo. Presser Co., Philadelphia, Pa. New Publications for the time comes.”. _ accompanied theories I must relate an incident which And so It goes that befor YEAR BOOK FOR MUSIC TEACHERS. previous to putting the ear test into prac- ' Would you believe It? peasant girl PR£E,S^rn“^1ui".t.p:*L ' WU1 * •“* Daily Help. A booklet including blank pages happened “y’ars and y’yars ago,” while —she wouldn’t e I was studying composition under Dr. tice by placing the American, myself and Violin and Piano about Iphigenia 1 One thing I have secured, Niles Bryant School of Piano Tuning ruled for every basinets use of the profession, induding many other valuable features. Price Antonin Dvorak in New York, and the Hungarian, side by side with our Please Order by Number Only ■ though, and that is the words of "Prome¬ 8 1 5 Art Inst., Battle Creek, Mich., U. S.A. 10c. theus,” as Lothnar produced it—it’s stuck MANILLA WRAPPERS. 14i22, the beat ma- which has been an unfailing source of backs to the piano, delivered an optimis¬ up in every book and music shop with nirtiiro. tilla paper, per hundred, 50c. The best rope tic dissertation in which he prophesied 13512 Brounoff,’ Plato ,Prometheus. You remember, to site and workmanohip. Send for list. don’t you, Sady, how madame raved about MEDALS. Gold, Roman finish of substantial profited more by intuition than by tuition, beneath notice, and I was non est. The In Harmony, Counterpoint 13782 Gabriel-Marie. La Cinquantairie.' Air. him? I’m going to send you a couple of weight, engraved to order, net, postpaid, $5. doctor struck a note. “A flat,” pro¬ The same in silver, net, postpaid, $3. and had, in view of his phepomenal cre¬ and Composition them—I mean the postcards—and one of the claimed the American. The Hun¬ 13653 Gotlschalk, L.F.’ Op. 18.’ Fantaisie d’un new theatre, which is in the middle of the PUTINOTYPE PORTRA IT POST CARDS. ations, an abnormal estimate of the value 4618 CHESTER AVE., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Bolero.. Park. Of course I haven’t been allowed to 5c each, 50c per doxen, postpaid. This list of instinct. He invariably claimed that garian gesticulated wildly and fran¬ 13478 Greenwald, M. Priscilla Valse. 2 Violins includes almost every known musician of all and Piano. . see that yet: It is the resort of the Frank¬ times. A lint of over five hundred subjects no musician could hope to acquire great¬ tically expostulated, “No, no;—it is G tagatellc. Caprice heim fashion and the militar; flat—F sharp.” The doctor gave a grunt 12102 Haesche, Kamazur. Con- We trudge up and down the wet streets- MAELZEL METRONOMES. American maze, ness as a composer unless he had an un¬ Learn Harmony and Composition cert Mazurka . fiendish weather—with some old gorgoi no be!!, $2.50; with bell. $3.50. Trans¬ equivocally true ear and a most perfect of despair, then asked me, “What note 13812 Haesche, William E. Marguerite Waltz portation, 32c each, extra. Pocket Metro- 12987 Hahn, Frederick. Op. 12. Gavotte- our heels. The only thing that consoles perception of absolute pitch. During one did I play?”- Not to be outdone. I said is that it is Lothnar, Lothnar, Lothnar “G.” Poor Dvorak jumped to his feet every side. I went ini - MUSIC ‘ROLLS. Cowhide, smooth, 14)4 lesson, after having harangued his more 11866 Hewitt!'H? D.’ ’ March H6roique‘ inches, black, brown and wine, *1.10; 15)4 in rage, and instead of complimenting 11867 Hewitt, H. D. From the North shoelaces, and there v inches long. $1.42. Seal Grain. 15)4 inches, or less intimidated disciples on this sub¬ colors: black or brown, $1.42. Same, lines ject, he proceeded to demonstrate and the victor, contemptuously remarked, laurel-leaf hanging cro Md bound, $2.15. All postpaid. Send for list. “to ’prove” the entire invulnerability of “That Hungarian is right; the note was it; and the shopman MUSIC FOLIOS. Witfistrings for tying ends, 65c. The same with heavier board aides, leather his argument by selecting three specimen G flat.” The disappointed teacher prom¬ handle* carrying. 95c postpaid, net. enaded dejectedly up and down the room Music Cypograpby in all Its branches unser Dollar,’• he wa. ... MUSIC SATCHELS. Half sheet music size, pupils for his models. the Altschloss. Na—na, be train $1.60 to $3.00. Full sheet music size, $3 to Dvorak made the choice after his own for a few rounds, then dismissed us li HYMN AND TUNE BOOK PLATES body may approach him. Er componirt fa.” $4.50. Postpaid. Send for list. 11871 Parker, Hem ntranced, in ecsiasy, 7ior„ „„ heart. In his class were two young men with the weary comment, “Such a thing Romance “One says the new piece is to be gromartig MUSIC CABI NETS. $10 to $28. Send for list. Dudley T. Limerick 13730 Phelps, E. S said the other. “ Crossartig f" echoed the ,w,as Hkimiflcent. When i s MUSIC STANDS. 84c to $1.60, postpaid. _the one his pet pleasure, the other his can only happen in America! Unless”— 11925 Sartor io, Arn shoemaker, wagging his head. “My son, he he hesitated long enough to glare at me somehow he PLASTER PLAQUES. Made of hard plaster, pet aversion. The former was an un¬ - GOSPEL SONG PLATES— nette Dai is third flute, as perhaps the Gna Herr has with a whimsically malicious stare, “un¬ 11891 Seeboeck, W heard.” ... Siegfried, not”a Greek."* fra 4(4 x 6)4, provided with a ring for hang- afraid and vigorous American, who has 11892 Seeboeck, W lute revelation of power. Prometheus |* J5S* Following Composers: Bach, Beethoven, since vindicated the doctor’s good opin¬ less it were Berlin.” I had. the misfor¬ 13753 Svendsen, Jo my dear, Frau Hegemann plucked Chopin, Handel, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, me by the elbow, and told Titan—half a god ; and Reinhardt his v ' Rubinstein, Schubert. Schumann. Tschai- tune to have been horn in that unhappy Arr. Hai - appearance, the .- ’ ms v ion of him by becoming one of our not- . 12149 Tolhurst, H« coming to try and attract the attention of Titanic. Colossal! kowsky and Wagner. Postpaid, 50c each. able composers. The other was an in¬ city (which Dvorak hated cordially) ; strange gentlemen 1 And oh „„ IB at send free a copy of our catalogue, offensive, apologetic, extremely temper¬ but a considerate Fate had permitted me like to have bitten her, only that in7h°reaCh ott,er all o Jmhc Teachers’ Handbook" containing descrip- so that her very touch makes me shudder. ton oj above, and lists and prices on Busts, amental Hungarian, who was continually to escape from it at the innocent age POMPEIAN Schoolgirl 1 My dear, I am kept like an in¬ of three years. 13655 Woodruff, Edna L. Berceuse Creole... 3 60 “i’ 7°th,°ar "'»s 'behJnd" l ung_ pfe*’ Medals, PUch Pipes, Forks, getting on his teacher’s nerves. (Among □ live ail. fant, a prisoner, a Carmelite. Oh, our dear his private friends this Hungarian was And so to come hack to the' original Send for Presser’s Catalog of String Music free Paris days, our dear pretty home to¬ come incognito like ,n daily proclaiming his intention to commit proposition—which offers the better SALAD DRESSING THEO. PRESSER CO. gether! You and I used to feel like birds, used not we?—able to fly together wherever it finish this long let ter suicide unless his wonderful creative equipment for a musician—an all-absorb¬ 1712 Chestnut Street Philadelphia we lllced, and such a dear nest to go back l_to f0rth!." ",hat ‘“-morrow may .bring THEO. PRESSER CO. ideas would condescend to get down on ing, all-perceiving eye, or a faultless Sady, Sady, our teas, our little dinners—the 1712 Chestnut St - Philadelphia, Pa. aural capacity of the ear? Please mention THE ETUDE when addressing T° be cont*nue the smaller ^Schools and Colleges urally think of his most important work however, is taken from a collection of instrument«J f os •V,en, ® rak®8 ^0rt* _ _ NEW YORK CITY_ ^ For more than 77 years §£ wfl h^*ord P^es call^ ^ mostly above medium Y« Ae 1 j* f • .i l he Well-Tempered Clavichord:FT'S Haydn which were written for the Jrrincess ^ rr n. .. Ine OF THE CITY OF THESE TEACHERS ADVERTISING CLAUDE NEW YORK a leading factor in the The Creation and the quartets; Handel of England, whom Handel taught. Two c ^ ^altzes q 39 ^0J i 3’ Frank Damroseh, Director musical advancement of Th‘ Messiah; Mozart, Don Giovanni and hundred years will soon have passed smce • < £ - • «Awt ON OTHER PAGES OF THIS ISSUE INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL ART WARFORD AN ENDOWED SCHOOL OF MUSIC other operas, and Beethoven the sym- Handel wrote th.s royal ^ Tenor Teacher Philadelphia phonies and sonatas. It is the same with PuP‘h ‘he teachers are still using 1. - • Th . ? VOCAL TEACHERS The opportunities of the Institute are intended only for students of natural ability modern composers: Massenet suggests a lheir work at the present day. 0 P ch rr{J ,q P'J?’ Z with an earnest purpose to do serious work, and no others will be accepted. r°r „ EASTERN Ind fu“l tXmation address SECRETARY, 120 Claremont Avenue, New York. whole series of operatic scores^Saint- Amateurs who art. falomida^ed by the e 1425 Broadway, New York Saens Samson and Delilah, Brahms and wholesale body of Mozart s sonatas, or / w rh V V Re':, 7’ SiRTSB TAHMB, 133Orchard 8t., Newark, N. J. Dealers in Other Principal Cities Tschaikowsky massive symphonic works, who have no time to delve '"to the piano the WWitF, g^wn«fa0«. Y. M C. ▲- Bldg., N.w Haven, Pierne The Children’s Crusade, Dvorak *°1° scores of his operas or other larger Walt Up. JV, and the Song The National Conservatory of Music of America GRANBERRY PIANO SCHOOL Incorporated in 1885 and chartered in 1891 by Special Act of Congress. the New World Smmphony, and so on works, will be grateful for such little Word (JEANNETTE M. THURBER, Founder and Praaident) SCHOMACKER PIANO CO. gems as the Bagatelle, the Larghetto operatic transitions arc•too numerous ORGAN SCHOOLS down the line. Teachers’ Training Courses ARTISTIC FACULTY: Romualdo Sapio, Adele Margulies, Leopold Li ch t e nbe Leo, S A W ith f m t ■ 1 n U from the Clarinet Quintet, the Turkish to mention numbers in all his scores art 23 rd and Chestnut Streets A Wealth of Material-Bach Rondo and thc cel^rated Minuet from represented more or less ully m arrange- FAELTEN SYSTEM. Booklet Results.’ Mor.At™tmLS fndlGgraduatea,0than another American Conaervatory. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Anil yet, wonderful as are all these Don Giovanni Beethoven, too, the nients of varying difficulty. And this to SimiWlIT OMAN SCHOOL, 44 W. 12th St., New York CARNEGIE HALL - - NEW YORK Terms Moderate. Address Secretary, 126 and 128 West 79th St., New York City grandiose inspirations of the classic master of symphonic writing in the grand a large extent appl.es to the other great masters, the majority of music-lovers sty]ej jlas written beautiful miniatures. °P"atic composers, know the great composers best by the There are two adagios, one from Op. 2 French Composers ALBERT ROSS PARSONS shorter compositions they have created. one from Op. 13; there are two Andantes, The most celebrated among the mod- '^rXThe American Institute of Applied Music Spedal Notices Many live too far away from large cities the Andante celebre from Op. 14, and tne ern French composers have also done * /A\ O (METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF MUSIC) Students Qualified where symphonic music is played to have Andante favori in F.. major. These, their share in providing the piano with 212 West 59th Street New York City opportunities of becoming acquainted at together with the Funeral March and the lesser works of charm and value. Mai- Complete courses in Voice. Organ, Piano, Stringed Instruments, Public as Concert Pianists nriv./ *r y.is mu,Mo.tfrnl rnurisr ) Apply for personal instruction to = ANNOUNCEMENTS 'and 'Historical branches Steinway Hall, 109 E. 14th St. rst hand with the standard works. The slow movement from the Moonlight Sonata senet, the opera composer, gave us the School Music, Theorc- 1 —1 >-->— Albert Ross Parsons, 3let Seaton—October 2, 1916. Send for circulars and catalogue and Teachers : : st<“nwNy.w York efty. same applies to opera. But everyone is op. 26, might serve as examples of seri- brilliant Aragonaise from his ballet Lt JOHN B. CALVERT, D.D., Pres. KATE S. CHITTENDEN, Dean able to enjoy lovely music not too diffi- our numbers in the slower tempi. To Cid. and the elegiac melody Longing, Op. culL through the medium of the piano, these we may add quite a group of live- 10. Saint-Saens wrote the dainty First And, in addition to original compositions l;er numbers: The Bagatelles, literally Mazurka as well as his great operas, ora- BURROWES COURSE of music study we can get at the best in opera and sym- “trifles,” Op. 33, No. 4 and 6; and torios and piano concertos. Pierne wrote Kindergarten and Primary-Correspondence Personal Instruction phony in arrangements and transcriptions, best, known of all, the one called Fir his Chrildren’s Crusade for grown-ups VIRGIL PIANO CONSERVATORY vmrir n 1Vtph •--Ti— e musical literature of the piano is Elise, Op. 173, in A* minor; the Min- but he also composed hi- charming nthu*!a»tfcl^Mterr^om*teach*r**^SePCourarr*C*j^j^'JlJ^[AJR.0INE ^ BURRO AVES ItoTK $4000^3? lnMfriewnaiaChBeU°en miniatures of this kind. uets (in G, Op. 31, No. 3, Op. 49, No. Grandmother's Song for children to play The most efficient school in America fonte, Pa.___ Take Bach for instance: The Well-Tern- 2); the Polonaise from Op. 8, and, more on the piano. Who docs not know Ga- irri city’ °r->—■— WANTED—T-nrmHnn in .map br . Clavichord is a tremendous work, difficult, Rubinstein’s transcription of briel Marie’s La Cinquantaine or his Sere- Results tell TV with references, ™ny a pianist of average ability, the Turkish March from The Ruins of node Joyful, or Gounod’s Faust waltz, in Address L.M., care Etude._ who might shrink from acquiring the Athens. There also exists a group of the transcription ? We mention but a few 19 reasons why the • rlU eS and. FpguIes, complete, delights three very easy little piece.,—the Andante names at random. The same applies to ay'study. E. P., care The Etctde. 6 6 \ t0 ,^bl?b from the celebrated Kreutser Sonata for modern German and Russian composers. “Tek” excels the ARTHUR FRIEDHEIM Gounod wrote h.s celebrated Aye Maria. v!olin and ; a Melody {rom another FOR SALE—Music School _ __ Why the Piano Miniature is Valuable business; high class proposition in West*!K °rm e -7.'11 enjoy the, Lighter vioIin sonata (in c mlnor} and a rheme piano for practice. Canada; every investigation invited. ~ Even a necessarily brief survey makes " B- Cotn^f°™ arranged by Kullak or from the Emperor Cor.ccr/0-tran.cribed The Noted Pupil and l— fme of ,the fngle mattes and other for pian0j and published under one cover. clear that thc composer, classic or mod¬ UPRIGHT PIANO for sale. _indard dances taken from more extensive corn- ern, does not invariably cast his inspira¬ Conservatory, Greatest Interpreter of Very reasonable price fo. --1 grand New. costcash SHUIJ-sale, positions. Piano Miniatures of Other Classic and tion in the mold symphonic or operatic “Tek” and Also large c Romantic Composers LISZT ' Address Piano, and that even when he does ir Music Phila., Pa. Haydn and Handel has transferred his studio from Munich to New York City, Steinway Hall, where in the TT , , . There are hardly any Of the classic or vidual heads mav he loosened from the future he will instruct advanced pupils and teachers. A limited number of rree EUGAR’s “KING OLAF”—One hundred n' ^ ^ f“1 °f ' ^ roman‘m composers who have not written chaplet of Ins inspiration. Every- Scholarships will be given to pupils without jneans. All applications are to be made to copies of this interesting work, bound in melodic jewels. It is not necessary to beautiful music in miniature There is a poser has. his “chips,” musical ideas that A. M. VIRGIL, President secured for $25.0?"™*!,, f”?*'Tat”1 Pauf Purchase a Pia,no score of the whole delightful Alarm-Clock by the old clave- PAUL SYDOW, Manager 61 East 53rd Street, NEW YORK CITY are none the less beautiful for being 11 West 68th Street NEW YORK Addrese, E. v., 1726 Grand Ave., St. Pauli aurpnse Symphony in order to secure cinist Couperin, a fine Rondo i C by short, little themes, grave or gay, that _ the love!y Andante from it. A fine Lar Hummel, the pupil of Mozart, developed most easily ii YOUNG lady has taught piano for five go’ from 0Iie of the string quartets, — ” ’ years. Had good trai”1"" iano~ — for■ 'five g-411o from.. one.» of the• string• — quartets,— an Ploughboy by Dussek. C. M. von Web- mental song-forms Or again they' fer>1 piano music includes a occur in larger work, in such wise CARL V. LACHMUND, Pianist-Composer, Steinway Hall, New York wherfshe and other shorted compositions may also melod'y"" f rom^ObeToT ar'r^ed’Trkft HfovUv ™ * khoolof PiannPlayinj and Accompanying; supplementary studies: Harmony,counterpoint, reecomposi l THE NEW VIRGIL f SS&ir'S&S?M l.e,ad™?ef ^ had h* the Pianist’ H-de^ best hand Lne, and an Allum Lea,fe te say out'losYof 3S £ rfS "t The Etude. >eare known shorter works are practically all nothing of a very easy arrangement „f , As in painting, so ffl A" “LISZT’S METHODS AND TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATIONS” ^ p^rtV.^^ cour« with'Lim at Weimar. 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EXERCISES FOR DEVELOPING ACCU- fliiencc and Opportunity, by Thomas Tapper, For Advancing Players 1-itt. D. 208 pages. Bound in cloth. Dia¬ Lyon A HealyBaildlng, Chicago ing increased 6 lbs. In addition to this he Questions regarding Particular pieces, gram Illustrations Oliver Ditson Co. H. RAWLINS BAKER SsS BROWN acquired a store of physical and mental RACY IN PIANO PLAYING . . S4RT0RI0. op. 876 Price, $1.25 metronomic markings, etc., not tiseiy . Mr. Tapper's long familiarity with this £^£^9 the co-operation of his energy so great in comparison with his of interest to the greater number of Etude By GUSTAV L. BECKER Price, 80 Centi 'tl are named studies to the style of held makes him one of the leading American stomach than on any former self as to almost belie the fact that readers, will not be considered. How accurate is your aim at the key¬ authorities upon the subject. The work of lEEGHWOOD CINCINNATI!SOHOOLOF MUSIC board? How many notes do you miss? li stSassscac the music supervisor is a lucrative branch of (20 minutes of Philadelphia! you play a complicated passage and never *2 work. They begin In Grade III COLUMBIA Q. Is it essential to study harmony in »dta.^h Grade V. Each study exempll- the profession and there is quite naturally ij^Hj an “army moves on Another instance of what proper food fall to hit the right notes at the right time a decided interest in learning what is ex¬ combinations can do was that of a man one order to use the pedal correctly? In the right tempo? If you cannot yeU *“d important technical detail, worked pected of the supervisor and how one may combs:: ,’l>ana,K. A. M.. I'l certainly need some such practice book as fie! ■; « musical manner. Plenty of work danaT" hundred pounds over-weight whose only A. Yes and no. It may be safely said either hand throughout Ample op- become one. Mr. Tapper’s book is not a CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC other discomfort was rheumatism. This that Mr. Becker has prepared, giving special large one but it is comprehensive and suffi¬ -”tudents. 60 Teacllers the individual. Scien- that no one uses the pedal intelligently drills In “Keyboard gunnery,” as it might iS/ is Ven for the study of style cient. Some of the chapter heads are very FAELTEN DETROTT [ward Ave., Detroit, M Eugene Christian t;sts teU us that 90% man’s greatest pleasure in life was eating. indeed be called. There are copious descriptive infi phrasing. - suggestive of the excellent contents of the Though convinced of the necessity, he hesi¬ unless some knowledge of harmony has —i -riser a’*’*- *- They are: The Field of Labor; The of all sickness is trace¬ tated for months to go under treatment be¬ been acquired. This, however, may not _J wo HENRY Sri lieving he would be deprived of the pleas¬ o advanced players. able to the digestive tract. ures of the table. He finally, however, be a book of knowledge, but may, in some - , - Newer Problems; Studies decided to try it out. Not only did he begin case, be a knowledge picked up by the ING, STYLE AND MECHANISM Types of_ Mindedness. The book is designed MARTIN KNOT As Dr. Orison Swett Marden, the losing weight at once, quickly regaining his close observation of chords and pedal MASTERING THE SCALES AND For tbe Pianoforte noted writer, says, “the brain gets normal figure, all signs of rheumatism dis¬ signs in actual playing. It is always de¬ MOULTON: WESTERN ggagroaws appearing, but he found the new diet far ARPEGGIOS Ry F. SABATHIL. Op. 271 Price, $1.25 from an immense amount of credit which more delicious to the taste and afforded a sirable to have a good training in A Complete and Practical System from the ‘. „„„ set bv a well-known German writer Physical Training for Boys by much keener quality of enjoyment than his harmony if one hopes to pedal effectively. JSer. They may be compared in gen- --Bunker, D.~ C.,~ M. Ped." J Lortbrop, Lee & NEW YORK■ really should go to the stomach.” Most Elementary Steps lo Ibe Highest stvie and degree of difficulty to those Shepard Co., 170 pages, many half-tone VOICE old method of eating and he wrote Christian Illustrations, hound in cloth. Price $1.00. And it’s true—keep the digestive a letter to that effect. Velocity and Artistic Perfection ( H ter Op. 45; but they differ In being Q. Is there any definite rule as to the By JAMES FRANCIS COOKE Price, SI.2S Slddedlr more modern. They are Intended, This little book is a sensible, clearly writ¬ system in shape and brain vitality is Keter to supplement the studies of Heller, ten exposition of an important subject. NORMAL But perhaps the most interesting case that length of time which a pause should be This cigbty-two-page, full-size music book jo 47, or to replace them altogether, While not musical it contains exercises which assured. gives the greatest essentials of alt piano f --* Christian told me of was that of a multi¬ held? 'studies of gaVathU BV- .— I would be of great value to anyone who millionaire—a man 70 years old who had technic In complete logical, practical, i Sate pieces, each having a special title, realizes that the piano student must first of TRACT Food is the fuel of the human sys¬ A. No, it is entirely at the discretion of gresslve form. It contains all th ‘ but nevertheless each bring* ont some special all possess an extremely fine physical ma¬ MIDDLE WESTERN been traveling with his doctor for several scale and arpeggio material us... chine. All piano teachers know from ex¬ tem, yet some of the combinations years in a search for health. He was ex¬ the performer. Some players and teach¬ : conservatories of the world and detail ot technic. perience that the development of bodily VIRGIL' of food we put into our systems are tremely emaciated, had chronic constipation, ers hold the note for double its original ■RL _ --of additional mated. strength In general Improves the students GROFF-BRYANTil lumbago and rheumatism. For over twenty which makes it far more comprebenatve ai STYLE AND DEXTERITY faculties for higher technical training. Mr. as dangerous as dynamite, soggy wood years he had suffered with stomach and in¬ time length, but this’is an untrustworthy systematic thun any work of Its kind, written his book so that any virgil ragggn and a little coal would be in a furnace testinal trouble which in reality was super- mechanical mean? of avoiding the real ■nay be used l>y any teacher, with any sj By ARNOLDO SART0RI0. aciduous secretions in the stomach. The VIOLIN —and just about as effective. Is it problem. Price, $1.25 Two New Books on the Voice first menus given him were designed to re¬ Surely In nothing (unless it be theology) VON ENDEaf any wonder that the average life of move the causes of acidity, which was A new set of velocity studies, which theory and Q. In playing duets upon the piano Just stout the same grade of difficulty < there more diversity of oplnl --- man today is but 39 years—and that accomplished in about thirty days. And CONCENTRATED TECHNIC FOR THE ook 1 i uev practice than to the wavs and means of after this was done he seemed to undergo a which performer is supposed to take care CMruy's fsmous Op. inO. Book *• . 1 ■ teaching the voice, two new books upon theme diseases of the stomach, liver and complete rejuvenation. His eyesight, hear¬ PIANOFORTE ' .tt oMket °f standard tsubjecta

Department for Children {Continued from page Sir.) SPECIAL! THEODORE PRESSER COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Pen Portraits of Musicians IMPORTANT RECENT PUBLICATIONS Who are they? think?” wrote a lady from Domodossola, Great Offer to Teachers His head was strikingly like Beetho¬ ‘We saw---on all fours STUDENT’S BOOK SACRED TWO-PART SONGS ven’s, his brow was broad and his thick HARMONY BOOK FOR STANDARD FIRST GRADE with three children on his back, riding and Musicians SCHOOL OF THE PIANOFORTE For Women’s Voices hair thrown back. A peculiar droop of him for a horse.” At his death it was An ounce of nroof is worth a pound of promise. Making claims is easy—"making good” Li BEGINNERS PIANO PIECES B, THEO. PRESSER Price, 75 cents Price, 50 cents the eyelids gave an odd expression to his said that the last of the immortals had the real test of merit. Hundreds of Music Teachers and Successful Musicians claim that they By PRESTON WARE OREM Price, $1.00 have been greatly benefited by the Siegel-Myers Correspondence Courses. They write u» to To the thousands of gratified teachers Price, 50 cents A very useful collection for use in church face. The serene thoughtfulness of the been removed from the sparsely settled that effect and we cheerfully accept their enthusiastic statements as sincere and truthful. This book presents the groupd work of The largest and best collection of easiest or at religious meetings where a mixed andstudents who hare use^ Pres^ers^Be Harmony In the plainest possible manner choir cannot be had. This book contains forehead was strangely at variance with land of music. (Johannes Brahms.) You're welcome to these letters. We will send you as many as you care to read. But, after all, teaching pieces ever compiled. This volume we realize that this is merely -hearsay” evidence to many readers of this publication who have ^introduction. The Student's Bock is covering tlioroughlv the first year's work' is one of our series printed from special anthems and hymns, both original and ar- the lines about the mouth. It has been as yet no direct personal knowledge of what it really means—for example—to suitable for any student who lias dune the and affording ample preparation for ad¬ large plates. It contains a wealth or ranged, all for women’s voices in two-part said that no one ever drew from the piano vanced study according to any method. material, such pieces as will prove accept¬ harmony, with an accompaniment suitable His appearance was distinguished and Many original features and methods of pre¬ able alike to teacher and student. Every for organ or piano. The selections are all the sounds that he did. (Anton Rubin- sentation are to be found. This work is number is melodious, and each piece has easy or of moderate difficulty, melodious, prepossessing. He was tall, strong of Study Sherwood Piano Lessons r‘rr''rT\fstSt%IiBook'Jn,ak':.J' up’a some distinctive characteristics of its own. and singable throughout. Standard^aud work for which This volume may be used for teaching, for limb and broad shouldered. His com¬ recreation, or for recital purposes. All ot the°p1ec^rlareS to^be found in any other He was short in stature with a nervous plexion was dark, there was a touch of and Harmony Under the best composers of educational piano' " ial for second grade and third grade forte pieces are represented. The pieces are decisive manner. His head was un¬ grey in his black hair, his eyes were gray studv. Progress Is possli le only If the in all styles, dance forms, reveries, songs Rosenbecker and Protheroe Spupil is J^ept eontinuall3* STANDARD DUET PLAYERS’ usually large. His eyes were command¬ and piercing. He lived frugally and wen prepared with t i admirable v without words, nocturnes, etc; • If it were possible for Sherwood, pupil of Liszt, endorsed by Paderewski. Leschetisky ing and penetrating; his nose and chin thought honestly. He said “No composer Moszkowski, and other world famous artists, to come right into hnm* mnA /><»—-v.-* constant v ALBUM were prominent, and all observers agreed is worth his salt who is not at the same sonal instruction at nominal expense, you would eagerly and grt interesting THE MEN’S CLUB COLLECTION ARTISTIC VOCAL ALBUM Price, 50 cents for the opportunity. Yet that opportunity is yours today, in number Is a mu? al gem. Indispensable that the face was a most striking one. He time a man of wide culture.” (Giuseppe Sherwood to you—Sherwood, the Great Master at his best—th for tbe teacher a 1 student of to-day. GLEES AND PART SONGS Price, $1.00 An excellent all-round collection of four- npUtod A splendid collection of songs by modern hand pieces’-1ying chiefly in the third grade. conceived the world in terms of tone Verdi.) life's work as Teacher. Concert Pianist and Lecture! Compiled and Edited by C. C. ROBINSON This is one of the series of collections and he cared little for pictures, sculpture CHILD’S OWN BOOK OF GREAT Price, 50 cents printed from the special large plates. It is Sherwood Normal Piano Lessons and An indispensable collection for mens acuity dnd^all are about the best lot of fotfr-hand pieces ever or architecture except as stage accessories. His nose was prominent and high, his MUSICIANS quartet or chorus, containing program and gotten together. It will be found suited (Richard Wagner.) bps full, his personal appearance indi¬ University Extension Lectures On L’od B. Galloway, equally for recital use, practice in sight A ,erie» of Six Biographic, for Childron by numbers, adapted for ali purposes. The Ward-Steph- -y Coombs, Ilomer reading or for recreation. All the pieces cated great delicacy and sensibility, his the Art of Teaching Music Tho.. Tapper compiler is an experienced quartet singer ff, C. W. Cadman, are of bright and tuneful character, lying He had a fine board forehead, steady expression was animated and he is said gadi, Meiirl. Sehuhrfl. M.nd.U.ohn, .Schumann. Handel and glee club specialist. Every number is : Bot-owski, L. 1 lottsclialk, J. II. well under the hands and with plentv to a gem, and none of the pieces are to be Kowe Shelley and do for either player. None of the pieces eyes and a long flowing beard. His ex¬ to have had a peculiarly sweet smile. He td solid musical educa* Price, 15 cents each found in any other collection, some of them • collection is a. are difficult. _ pression was heroic and Jove-like. He fairly burned hitrtself out with the in¬ These give the Morion of the lives of the having been written especially for this book. gem, a worthy representation of II slody, phrasing, rhythm, Mluction, interpretation and THE BEGINNER’S was modest and good natured rather in¬ tense ardor of his labor. He was the eloping, atrengthening and lection. The present^vohime is^for^Hilg clined to stoutness, there was a merry - - , --y explained, illuatrated and £?‘Instead “of W ttFtiSSSXSi first to change the old order of operatic f> physical exercises .how how to STANDARD STUDENT’S HARMONY WRITING BOOK twinkle in his blue eyes and though he used in piano playing. preparation. _ representation. He was a cultivated man itself. Fa«t!» and Quotations are Included, By JOSEPH H. MOORE Price 25 cent. had no children of his own he loved to of the world as well as a musician. (Carl as well a* a plare for the rhlld's o\vn story CLASSIC ALBUM play with those of others “What do you Maria von Weber.) to be written. The child signs the hook Price, 50 cents YOU AND I -WARNING and thus actually nmk«-H its own hook. This is a volume made up of teaching Four-Hand Pieces for the Pianoforte te.ac,hers have written ua that they have been approached by agent, reore- and recital pieces, either classic or semi- By GEO. L. SPAULDING Price, 50 cents mentary harmony. This book is suitable at leastithat theY had the Sherwood lessons to offer. WilliinTH classic in character, all lying in the inter¬ for every piano student, and can be taken Dirertorf*the' piano ’T™3 “ mediate grades. It is a large and hand¬ up almost at tbe beginning, or at least when some volume, one of a series printed from e lie ip tho firs. _grade and the scale work begins. It also has a short A Scale Game t h a t* f o'TTver^0*years’made*Sherwood A”^ “l" *»£££ ANTHEM TREASURY extra large plates. This volume has real more difficult than catechism covering ail elementary informa¬ only fronTthia schoobmade Sherwood America', famous Plano Yeseher. can b. -cured educational value aside from the musical Eaeh duet has i a appropriate tes tion that the pupil should have at this time. Have the class sit in a circle. The varied by having the pupil play the scales A collection for General Worship interest of the pieces, and It may be used may be sung, ana us me rai* both in the primo and secondo parts, both leader says I can play C, D, E, F, G, A, instead of recite them. For young stu¬ Single Copy, 25 cents, prepaid in preparation for work in the larger clas¬ B, C. The first child says I can play A knowledge of Harmony la abaolutely sics. leading to the master pieces of the players ■mav sing if desired. Aside from this IN THE GREENWOOD dents of the first or second grade, triads $1.80 per dozen, not prepaid great composers. There are 48 pieces in all. feature (these little. duets are extremely ef¬ C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, and G, A, B, C, essential to round out your mualeal educa- fective. The parts for the two players are Characteristic Pieces in Lighter Vein may be used instead of scales, for in¬ HARMONY ~ i L add> w°«derlully to your equip¬ The newest and one of the very best of independent throughout, and they will afford D, E, F sharp, G. The second child says ment both aa Teacher and Performer, our highly successful series of anthem col¬ MAJOR AND MINOR the best possible practice in elementary en¬ for the Pianoforte, Four Hands stance: The first player says I can play ipreparednea,.” Wo offer you a ' lections. This book contains nineteen num¬ I can play C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C and couraeUof Weekly ‘ Harmony8 Leaaons ^aSal?'m.tDPnrerPh"'0d?”,,•'■ .W” off< r >™ •' bers, Including scriptural anthems and hj inn Studies, Exercises, and Preludes for semble playing. _ By MATHILDE BILBRO Price, 50 cent. G, A, B, C, D, E, F sharp,- G, and D, E, C, E, G. The second one says I can play anthems for general use, responses, etc nil the Pianoforte in all the Major Good easy duets are always in demand. of Intermediate difficulty and adapted eUhm and Minor Keys OLD FAVORITES These are original four-hand pieces, and F sharp, G, A, B, C sharp, D. Each player C, E, G and G, B, D. The third player they are not teacher and pupil duets. They adds a scale to those already recited and says I can play C, E, G and G, B, D and bwt’moderawrltc'ra’nre representedJnclud- By C. ROLLING Price, 75 cents Album of Pieces for the Pianoforte may be played by two students of almost “ ” Ilonmer. S*. G. Pens , .1. T. Wol- equal grade. None of tbe duets go beyond the game is continued until the circle of one of the most valuable study books Price, 25 cents D, F sharp, A. This is continued until with «“Pl® original work, d.velom VZlr « J, Patty (-- ... Bobli that has been published ^in a long time. second grade either in tbe primo or secondo fifths is completed. The game may be the circle of fifths is complete.—J. S. W. Camp, J. ft. Itobrrts. O. N. - . . In this volume many of the favorite old Stalls, E. M. Head. T. I>. Williams an oaeb^atudy being preceded by an appropri¬ tunes have-been., gathered together in new others. The nnthems In this book are all ate preparatory exercise containing hnr and effective arrangements. We refer espe¬ Teaches You To of cheerful and melodious character, with a .n_,nd arpeggios, and rut followfollowed cially to* some of the old dances, such as goodly proportion of praise anthems. by i prelude In the s A" *h“ “College Hornpipe,” “Fisher’s Hornpipe,- "BoboliL.., ion and Us nrioasiurmonie • four major and “Virginia Keel,” etc., and some patriotic “Pixie Dance,” Musicians and Birds ied, following theii beginnj of” sight reading. (A Game in Acrostics) • Rapidly, one of the eery greatest PANDORA 3., Harmonize Melc from the study of Harmony, THE LITTLE ARTIST The first letter of the following bird American Robin, Catbird, Hooded Warb¬ tt Ho tea a-hen for any rm AN OPERETTA traditional melodies, such as “Washing nvenient to play. ton's March," “The Plow Boy,” “The Span names will spell the name,of a composer. ler. To the fourth give Meadowlark, By C E LE MASSENA Price, $1.00 ish Patriot,” etc. It Is a volume which wil Miniatures for the Pianoforte Upon separate cards print the names of English Sparrow, A'ighthawk, Downy A brilliant operatic setting, suitable for GLEE SINGERS’ COLLECTION prove pleasing to both young and old. By FRANCES TERRY Price, 50 cent. young people, of the old Grecian "'y*11. ,a? ilng pieces lying in the birds: Cuckoo, Hummingbird, Oriole, Woodpecker, English Robin, Linnet, jggMy Endowed retold by Hawthorne. The work is dHdded FOR MIXED VOICES first grade, such pieces a _, and saw that the a • e 0011 rses r° TOY SHOP SKETCHES — - - after the student Phoebe, /ndigo Bird, Nuthatch. Give the ■Screech Owl, Snowbird, Ovenbird, Hawk, fud4nUdwhTcomjlere "I1.*10"’"'! ZX&J*] • omitting the instru- Price, 50 cents ATghtingale. paLdtnhte8^iS^e‘eJ31ar Ha^ooSv?.-"^10- numbers in ail. I Tuneful Melodies for Little Folk has mastered the rudiments and tbe pre¬ cards to the player. From them he will" mental numbers it may i»- uwu <- A compilation s by for the Pianoforte liminary finger work. The composer is As a prize pictures of the composers- operetta. The clioi , __ for all occasions. well known as a writer of educational get the name of Chopin. To another western University SchoolifMusTc to thLtstud!r0tth‘ bSthS’p'b,' .~t entirely in unison. The mupte is the best writers, may be used. The leader should play milar in size and scope to By J. H. ROGERS Price, 75 cent pieces for young players, and her work, is give Blackbird, Fobin, American Red¬ sprightly and tuneful throughout and easuy This I ' isfui" sacred collections and t of pieces for your invariably pleasing. The pieces in The learned. The costumes, properth _ and A most artistic short selections from these composers and hose for mt and women's voices respec- P^ersiigotten ' Little Artist are genuinely melodious start, Hermit, Thrush, Mockingbird, sceneries are such a -_, ...' ffigffij>asily pre- rompilation of exceptionally rated borders printed in tw throughout and are contrasted in style. tell something of their life history.— pared. The dialogue „ not lengthy, but It ively. It ' They are characteristic pieces rather than 5wallow. To the third give Bluebird, J. S. W. night _singable par“ ’ : _ Isi spt-sparkling and' - filing' throughout. difficulty - American composers,' is at Ms very best in dances. Their titles are as follows: “The No better v a be writing for the young. These pieces art Echoing Bugle,” “Little Southern Melody," GIVEN! S1X Regular Lessons— Sentaicm Withoutrr 1LI ; librr of a singing s valuable for teaching, yet at the same time “Who Knocks at the Door," “In a Rose THE GREATEST LOVE ciety or high school chorus. their melodious nature and characteristic Garden,” "Sailing.” a renny of Cost To You vein will appeal to young players. Tlic The Leading Tone Cantata for Easter or General Use titles of the several pieces are “Jolly Teddy lourses. VetThere^“S^v frier^2e7,JrenC^oSS ^7 thU> Publication we h.i THE LIGHT EVERLASTING ORGAN MELODIES nqu^n?M 8FS8S SouToSJ^^fon “to ESE&dSSSS™ 2 Wordsby R.BRONNER Music by H.W.PETRIE Bears," "Toy Soldiers’ March,” "Dance ol The class sits in a circle as before, the through the scales. For younger pupils CHURCH CANTATA the Toys," “Fairv Stories,” “Hobby Horse.' Gems from Classic and Modem leader points to anyone in the circle and the name of a folk emaining "mute.” ISa Publication are dolna Price, 75 cents “Punch and Judy Show.” "Dolly's Delight.’ ve have decided to make the ton owing 388 Whollttle realTse A fine new church cantata suitable for By J- R- GILLETTE Price, 50 cents Composers compiled and arranged says: Name the leading tone of C. The “Annie Laurie,” “Horn!, Sweet Home3’’ Performance by any quartette or chorus for the Pipe Organ one pointed to must name the correct tone “Old Black Toe” “Old pvul. , S ’,, choir. It is of just' about the right length A ROSE DREAM By C. W. LANDON Price, $1.00 for use at anv special musical service, oi n spirit. Al¬ OPERETTA FOR YOUNG FOLKS before the leader counts ten. If the etc.'aI£ *£» a^nSS theS£ it might be included in tbe program of am es in length A veritable mine of good things for tbe player fails he is counted out, and leaves or an advanced pupil plavs the rir ,InSrecidented >eciaI Offer! choral society. There are twelve mimbeis though only short musical By MRS. R. R. FORMAN Price, 50 cents busy practical organist. Not a dry or the circle. This may be continued J. S. W. P P P ys the air. “Ivided up between the four soloists an its text tho tedious number In the book. Some -of the the chorus. Tbe Easter story is told in This' operetta is hound to be popular; il life of Jesus Christ Shepherds greatest melodies ever written arranged as poetic language and the music is appropri¬ the Fields to tbe As simplic- preludes, postludes and offertories. All are ate throughout. It is all of the mo«. itv of the music the nun™ good.1 sparkling musie. an interesting plot of moderate difficulty, suited to the average |natyour^c°hU(i!i /eCl w melodious character, not difficult of rendi¬ -licate pas- player and adapted for two manual organs. tion, but brilliant in effect. This cantata i f^r\ which w All of the transcriptions are new and made >s sure to interest tbe choir and it nni especially for this book. A List of Composers with Omissions Prove pleasing to the congregate | demanded by innumerable choii (Who can fill in the blank spaces with 4- W.G A-S ] the correct letters? Try to do this with¬ MAIL ORDER SUPPLY HOUSE FOR ALL MUSIC AND MUSIC BOOKS 5. L-GV-NB- out looking up the name. In the follow¬ stock or publications sent on inspection for teaching purposes. Any of ing list the first and last letter of the 6. F — Z P — R. S. Kindly let US hear from vn, 0r**" ' Catalogues and guides for every classification in music sent upon request. name is given.) 7. 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