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Quick Reference List of VICTOR and BLUEBIRD RECORDS This list in conjunction with the Victor and Bluebird Catalogues contains all Victor and Bluebird records released up to and including June, mi (For records released during ensuing months, see monthly supplements) Quick Reference Booklet of Victor and Bluebird Records INDEX AND INFORMATION ON METHOD OF LISTING All records in this Quick Reference Booklet are conveniently listed by Title and Artist in alphabetical order in two separate sections. They are as follows: Victor Red Seal and Black Label Section, page 3 Bluebird Records, page 25 Thus, in seeking a particular selection, should you know either the Title or the Artist, the record can be quickly located by looking under the correct alphabetical category in the proper section. Musical Masterpiece Albums are listed alphabetically in a separate section beginning on page 13. Vocal Masterpiece Albums by Famous Artists are listed alphabetically in a separate section beginning on page 14. Victor Musical Smart Set Albums are listed alphabetically in a separate section beginning on page 15. Victor and Bluebird Records from Current Musical Shows and Motion Pictures are listed alphabetically in a separate section beginning on page 32. Victor and Bluebird French Records are listed alphabetically in a separate section on page 31. Victor and Bluebird Records Schedule of List Prices Red Seal Records Each Black Label Records Each 2100's & 2200's Ifl-inr.h $1.00 27000's 10-inch $ .75 4549*1 10-inch 1.00 36000's ...12-inch 1.00 13000's . 12-inch 1.35 120000's 10-inch .75 12-inch 1.35 130000's 12-inch 1.00 10-inch 1.00 216000's 10-inch .75 11-8100's 12-inch 1.35 V-700's & V-800's ...10-inch .75 Bluebird Records Each B-1200's 10-inch $ .50 B-4600's & B-4700's 10-inch .50 B-8700's 10-inch .50 B-8800's & B-8900's 10-inch .50 B-11000's 10-inch .50 V.R.—Denotes Vocal Refrain. Victor Red Seal and Black Label Records Alma Mia (from "Floridante") (Handel) Richard Crooks 2175 Abbott, Bud, and Lou Costello, with Aloha Oe (V.R.) Ray Andrade's Orch. 27655 "The Sportsmen" and Orch., cond. by Always In My Heart—F.T. (V.R.) Lou Bring — Laugh, Laugh, Laugh, 27737 Jan Savitt's Orch. 27809 Abide With Me Helen Traubel 2187 Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) Absent Minded Moon—F.T. (V.R.) Charles Magnante 27491 Artie Shaw's Orch. 27779 Amaryllis Victor Salon Orch. 27557 Accordion a la Mode Charles Magnante America Victor Military Band 27850 Album P-74 (27489-27492) American Fantasy Price, $3.50 Victor Symphony Orch. 36409 Accordion Polka B. Kryger[s Orch. V-809 American Patrol—F.T. Adagio — from Sonata in E Major Glenn Miller's Orch. 27873 (Handel, Op. 2, No. 8) Amnions, Albert, and Pete Johnson Spalding—Primrose—Benoist 18241 (Two Piano Boogie Woogie with Adagio (Handel) Emanuel Feuermann 18154 Drums)—Eight To the Bar, P-69 (From Organ Concerto in G Minor) (27504-27507) Addio a Napoli (Farewell to Naples) Among My Souvenirs (Leslie- Nicholls) (Cottrau) Caruso 2212 Collins H. Driggs 27651 Adeste Fideles Helen Traubel 2186 Among the Living (Malotte) Igor Gorin 4554 Adieu du Matin, L' (Pessard) Crooks 2176 Amour — Beguine (V.R.) Adieux, Les —- See Sonata No. 26 Wayne King's Orch. 27797 (Beethoven) Andalucia (The Breeze and I) Adios, Mariquita Linda (In Spanish) Paige's Young Americans 36411 Pedro Vargas 27456 Anderson, Marian, Contralto — Carry Agnus Dei (from Mass in C Minor) Me Back to Old Virginny, 18314 — (Mozart, K. 427) Great Songs of Faith, M-850 (18324- Pelletier-Montreal Festivals Orch. 18512 18326) — My Old Kentucky Home, 18314 with Les Disciples de Massenet Andrade, Ray, and His Orchestra — Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life South Sea Serenades P-97 (27652-27655) (Young—Herbert) Driggs 27650 Andre Musette Orchestra — Bubbling Alda — Celeste Aida Gigli 18221 Over, V-799 — Drugstore Cowboy, Aida — O Patria Mia Bampton 18221 V-801 — Fly a Kite, V-789 — Hiccup Air (from "Comus") (Preach Not Me —Polka, V-792 — Hop and Skip—Polka, Your Musty Rules) (Arne) Crooks 2175 V-800 — In the Barracks, V-789 — Alceste — Aria and Recitative and Aria Jumping Beans—Polka, V-800 — Oh, (Gluck) (In French) Rose Bampton 18218 Daisy—Polka, V-792 — Right on the Alice Blue Gown (Tierney- McCarthy) Spot—Polka, V-794 — Rush Hour. Collins H. Driggs 27649 V-802 — Scissor Grinder, V-799 — Shoe- Alice Blue Gown—Waltz King's Orch. 27453 maker's Serenade—Polka, V-794 — Allah's Holiday Victor Mixed Chorus 27632 Tattooed Lady, V-802 — Toy, Toy Allegro (Handel) Emanuel Feuermann 18154 Toyland, V-801 (From Organ Concerto in G Minor) And the Band Played On—Waltz All God's Chillun Got Wings Collins H. Driggs 27582 "Fats" Waller 27460 An Eriskay Love Lilt All Through the Night Lew White 27469 The Trapp Family Choir 2207 All Through the Night—Vocadance Angeline—F.T. (V.R.) Lannv Ross 27807 Wayne King's Orch. 27837 All dance records are in Fox Trot Tempo, unless otherwise indicated. VR stands for vocal refrain. [ page three ] Angels of Mercy Barry Wood & Bampton, Rose, Soprano — Aida — Lyn Murray Singers 27708 O Patria Mia, 18221 — Alceste — Aria Anniversary Waltz, The—Waltz & Recitative and Aria, 18218 — Cene- King's Orch. 27741 rentola, 18217 — Semiramide-Bel raggio Anthology of English "Lyric Verse" lusinghier, 18217 (With Musical Bridges) Barcarolle—See "Tales of Hoffman" Cornelia Otis Skinner Bard of Armagh, The Lanny Ross 27674 Album M-810 (18111-18113) Barrel House Boogie Price, $4.80 Pete Johnson and Albert Amnions 27504 Arabesque No. 1, in E Major (Debussy) Basin Street Blues (Piano solo) Jos6 Iturbi 18237 "Fats" Waller 27767 Arabesque No. 2, in G Major (Debussy) Bat, The (J. Strauss)— Jos6 Iturbi 18237 See Fledennaus, Die Are You Sticking ?—F.T. Battistini, Mattia, Baritone — Ernani Duke Ellington's Orch. 27804 Oh, Sommo Carlo (Verdi), 18144 Aria Popolare del Paese di Ath (Organ) Battle of Kershenetz Joseph Bonnet 18213 Koussevitzky—Boston Sym. Orch. 18410 Arioso — Parts 1 & 2 (From Church B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra — Cond. by Cantata No. 156) (Bach—Stokowski) Sir Adrian Boult — Concerto No. 3 Stokowski—NBC Sym. Orch. 18498 in E Flat Major (Mozart), 13782, 13783 Arms For the Love of America Cosi Fan Tutte—Overture, 18084 Barry Wood — Al Goodman's Orch. Beale Street Blues Dixieland Jazz Group 27543 & Ray Block's Choir 36404 Beautiful Lady (from "Pink Lady") Army Joins Vic Oliver Vic Oliver 120961 (Organ) Dick Leibert 27721 Around and Around She Goes—Waltz Bechet, Sidney, and his New Orleans (V.R.) Skinnay Ennis' Orch. 27735 Feetwarmers — Limehouse Blues, 27600 Arrau, Claudio, Pianist — Sonata No. 1 — Oh! Lady Be Good!, 27707 — Rose in C Major (Weber), DM-884 (18524- Room, 27707 — Texas Moaner, 27600 18526) — Sonata No. 5 in G Major, Begin the Beguine—Beguine and No. 17 in D Major (Mozart), Arturo's Cubano Rhythm 27732 DM-842 (18282-18284) Begin the Beguine Artie Shaw — Artie Shaw and his Orch. Parker—Victor Mixed Chorus 27743 Album P-85 (27546-27549) Begin the Beguine—(V.R.) Kaye's Orch. 27725 Price, $3.50 Begin the Beguine—F.T. Shaw's Orch. 27546 Arturos, Arturo, and his Cubano Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Rhythm — Cubano Rhythms, P-105 Young Charms (27730-27733) Paige's Young Americans 36412 Askey, Arthur, Comedian — Come and Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Have a Drink at the "Victory Arms", Young Charms Frank Munn 27756 120963 — Marching with the Foreign Bells of San Raquel—F.T. (V.R.) Legion, 120963 — Stuttering Sergeant, Jarrett's Orch. 27612 120962 — Thanks for Dropping In, Mr. Benabe—Modo Negro Rhumba (V.R.) Hess, 120962 Cugat's Orch. 27583 As We Walk Into the Sunset—Vocadance Benoist, Andre, Pianist — See Spalding Lanny Ross 27669 Berceuse ("Jocelyn") (Organ) As We Walk Into the Sunset—F.T. Dick Leibert 27727 (V.R.) Savitt's Top Hatters 27573 Beyond the Blue Horizon—F.T. At Dawning (Organ) Dick Leibert 27726 Shaw's Orch. 27641 At the Fountain Emanuel Feuermann 2166 Biggs, E. Power, Organist — Jesu, Joy, Attila — Dagli immortali vertici (Verdi) ot Man's Desiring (Bach), 18292 — Lo, Igor Gorin 18402 How a Rose E'er Blooming (Brahms, Auld Lang Syne Victor Male Chorus 27680 Op. 122), 18292 Aunt Hagar's Blues Birth of the Blues Dixieland Jazz Group Dixieland Jazz Group 27544 of NBC's Chamber Music Society Aupres de ma Blonde Band of H.M. of Lower Basin Street Canadian Grenadiers Guards 216605 Cond. Henry Levine Autumn Nocturne—F.T. (V.R.) Album P-82 (27542-27545) Reichman's Orch. 27773 Price, $3.50 Ave Maria (Gounod) (Organ) Bjoerling, Jussi, Tenor — Faust—Salut, Dick Leibert 27729 demeure, 13790 — Martha—M'appari, Ave Maria (No. 2) (Schipa) Tito Schipa 18068 13790 Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart, K. 618) 18300 Blackberry Quadrille Pelletier—Montreal Festivals Orch. Woodhull's Old Tyrae Masters 36403 with Les Disciples de Massenet Ay-Ay-Ay—Bolero (V.R.) Madriguera's Orch. 27537 BLACK LABEL ALBUMS Ay, Ay, Ay! (In Spanish) Pedro Vargas 27454 A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) B Ernest Chappell — Eustace Wyatt — Lew White Babin, Victor, Pianist — see Vronsky Automatic Album DG-29 (36414-36417) and Babin Price, $4.50 Baby Mine Bea Wain 27736 Individual Records 36405-36408 Bach Goes to Town—F.T. (Comments) Golden Pages of Melody Laval's Ten 27624 Raymond Paige's Young Americans Bach to Boogie—F.T. Clinton's Orch. 27510 Album G-30 (36410-36413) Back Bay Shuffle—F.T. Shaw's Orch. 27547 Price, $4.50 Back Stage At the Ballet—F.T.
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    UDC 781+784.3 Wang Tie NATIONAL PERFORMING TRADITION AS A BASIS OF OPERA CREATIVE WORK OF G. VERDI The article under consideration deals with the national and performing sources, with the emphasis on issues of history and theory of vocal performance and vocal pedagogy as the basis of operatic poetry by G. Verdi. Verdis musical drama appears as a result of the development of the opera of Italy in the nineteenth century, which justifies and forms a new performing school requiring additional professional qualities from the singers. Keywords: opera, Verdi's musical drama, performing school, vocal pedagogy, performing style. Appeal to the national-performing sources of opera poetic manner of G. Verdi makes it necessary to go beyond the limits of historical musicological works, turn to studies devoted to the problems of history, theory and methodology of vocal performance and vocal pedagogy [1; 4; 5; 6; 10]. The generalization of a number of provisions of these studies makes it possible to suggest the following series of statements, which is the key to the relevance and demand for the research line is under consideration in the article. The formation of the national Italian vocal school, which is more closely connected with the bel canto's historical style, was preceded by a long developmental path that culminated in the occurence of a new genre – an opera that absorbed all the best that has accumulated over the centuries in folk, church and secular musical art. The flexibility of the melody, the dynamic and rhythmic variety of folk songs (lament, tarantella, siciliana, lyric) anticipated the vocal basis of Italian academic singing.
  • Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947) James Francis Cooke

    Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947) James Francis Cooke

    Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 8-1-1947 Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947)." , (1947). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/181 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. XUQfr JNftr o 10 I s vation Army Band, has retired, after an AARON COPLAND’S Third Symphony unbroken record of sixty-four years’ serv- and Ernest Bloch’s Second Quartet have ice as Bandmaster in the Salvation Army. won the Award of the Music Critics Cir- cle of New York as the outstanding music American orchestral and chamber THE SALZBURG FESTI- BEGINNERS heard for the first time in New York VAL, which opened on PIANO during the past season. YOUNG July 31, witnessed an im- FOB portant break with tra- JOHN ALDEN CARPEN- dition when on August TER, widely known con- 6 the world premiere of KEYBOARD TOWN temporary American Gottfried von Einem’s composer, has been opera, “Danton’s Tod,” By Louise Robyn awarded the 1947 Gold was produced.