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Lj'ILE your Sheet Music on TH r its longest edge, classi¬ [E ] ETUD] E fied between guide cards for quickest finding. As easily referred to as the leaves ot a book. Sheet Music Section OCTOBER, 1915 YQL. XXXIII No. 10 shown has capacity for about 3000 sheets. Two sets of Alphabetical Guide Cards The whole vocal apparatus is floated, as it were, in one of’the segregate Vocal and Instru¬ most wonderful divisions of the nervous system. This is particularly mental selections under alpha¬ Seal Scandanavia betical division. true of the larynx. There is a reason, then, for relaxation if it be Disk Record Section only to let these nerves which convey the singer’s thought to his Fkom the polar volcanos of Iceland to the modern cities of Copen¬ files forty 10 in., and. forty voice have unhampered sway. In all but the most stolid and phleg¬ 12 in. Records in individual hagen, Christiania or Bergen, seems an infinite distance to span with matic persons, the slightest emotion is wired instantly to the voice. “Yes, It's a Steinway” pockets, separately indexed, bonds of common culture. Yet it is in America (if Iceland may be so any record may be played The lump that mysteriously rises in our throats when we are moved and returned without hand¬ considered a part of this continent) that the Norse language is by grief is nothing but a nervous reflex. ISN’T there supreme satisfaction in being able to say that of the piano in your home? ling other records. preserved to its greatest purity and the strongest Scandinavian Would you have the same feeling about any other piano? Player Roll Section ac¬ Thus it is that some artists have realized how multitudes are “It’s a Steinway.” Nothing more need be said. Everybody knows you have characteristic is most forcefully illustrated. In all the art of these commodates about forty affected by vocal intonations through the voice. Any one who ever chosen wisely; you have given to your home the very best that money can buy. You Standard Player Rolls. Northern countries, one feels the vigorous sturdiness, the simple piety will never even think of changing this piano for any other. As the years go by the . heard the great Henry Ward Beecher knew this. His voice followed words “It’s a Steinway” will mean more and more to you, and thousands of times, as Get Catalog “K”—shows these and the clear-brained judgment of the craftsmen. How better is you continue to enjoy through life the companionship of that noble instrument, abso¬ sections with top and bases. Quar¬ this epitomized than upon that desolate island so near to the top of lus thought with marvelous subtleness. Sarah Bernhardt in the tered Oak or Genuine Mahogany. All lutely without a peer, you will say to yourself: “How glad I am I paid the few extra the world. There, thousands of miles away from the home land mid last act of L’Aiglon tore our sympathies for the poor little eaglet dollars and got a Steinway.” sections look alike when doors are fields of ice and lava surrounded by the roaring ocean, is a monu¬ although her face and body were motionless. It was the magic of Catalog upon request and mention of this magazine. ment to Scandinavian sturdiness which deserves the admiration of the Bernhart’s voice. In vaudeville, Harry Lauder, Albert Chevalier and STEINWAY & SONS, STEINWAY HALL world. Illiteracy is less in Iceland than in the United States. The Irene Franklin have an appealing lilt which in no small measure The standards of morality are especially high. .These strong, brave, accounts for their success. Chavalier’s interpretation of My Old 107-109 EAST FOURTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK Dutch was a masterpiece in tears. Tamagno can sing Otello’s tragic New York Office, - 7S John St. flaxen-haired people of the far North who visited the shores of Amer¬ ica five hundred years before the arrival of Columbus, reveal the true Morte through the horn of a talking-machine and we are all sent significance of the word Scandinavian. No modern civilized race to shivering with the terror of it. Yet Tamagno has been at rest for a has shown such intellectual and physical endurance amid such for- decade. David Bispham’s Danny Deever, Mary Garden’s Jongleur biding surroundings as have the stalwart Scandinavians in bleak Maurei’s Falstaff, Ruffo’s Figaro all show this gift in wonderful Iceland. measure. Why do the vocal teachers make so little of it and prate so LATEST AND BEST The introduction of vigorous Scandinavian blood in America has everlastingly about insignificant technical details. been a most fortunate circumstance for our country. No people have brought more brawn, brains, character, initiative or sincerity of purpose to America than have the wonderful Scandinavians. Lost Opportunities BEGINNER'S BOOK From the days of Jenny Lind, Ole Bull and Christine Nilsson, America has had ever increasing cause to thank Scandinavia for its SCHOOL OF THE PIANOFORTE 4 MONG people who love good music, musical contributions to our national educational advance. Our com¬ The editor of The Etude has an unpleasant memory of a w^° have a cultivated knowledge mon bond has been made even stronger through the works of Grieg, youthful experience which may be turned to the profit of some By Theodore Presser Price 75 Cents of it, the BALDWIN PIANO is Gade, Svendsen, Sjogren, Sibelius, Sinding and Olsen as well as the readers now. As a boy he sets upon studying with the late Raphael A modern elementary work for young piano students, recognized everywhere as the best. In literary masterpieces of Ibsen, Bjomsen and Selma Lagerlof. There¬ J os city. Mr. Joseffy made an appointment, and the future editor of from the beginning up to, but not including, the scales such an atmosphere it is happily at home and with fore in this Scandinavian issue of The Etude, let us hail our friends Ihe Etude, then thirteen or fourteen years of age, worked dili¬ every day endears itself more and more to its from the Norse countries with the Scandinavian greeting which gently for several weeks polishing up the questionable places in the owners. Chopm B flat minor Scherzo, the inevitable Minute Waltz and the ' thing made plain, step by step. Clearness rings forth at so many festivities “Seal Scandinavia!” Sweden Schubert-Tausig Marche Militaire. The day for the fateful examina¬ of Notation, special large notes. Reading, Writing and Note Spelling The same is true of the Denmark, Norway—yes, and Finland, too, because of the strong Exercises. Review Questions on the Lessons. Duets for Teacher and tion came around and the timid youth marched boldly right up to Scandinavian heritage in all Finns—we hail thee! Long fife and Pupil. New and Interesting Musical Material. Everything attractive. the door of Mr. Joseffy’s studio. Once there, he could not even No dry exercises. great prosperity for Scandinavian musical art in the old world and “Halimrin ittmumln” in the new. • pring himself to knock for entrance. He would have given any¬ Mr. Theodore Presser was for many years a successful, practi¬ thing for some magic specific to straighten his backbone. In plain cal piano teacher. The preparation of this work has been for him wkh X^l U"ifica.‘jon ?f lhe artistic piano tr ®carcd stlff” According1y he decided to walk around a veritable labor of love, embodying the best results of his long per¬ the block to get up his courage. One pilgrimage resulted in another sonal experience, aided and Supplemented by his exhaustive knowl¬ Thinking in the Voice edge of educational musical literature, and his further knowledge went W ^ attemPts he ignominiously turned and of the needs and demands of the busy modern teacher gained by rrPCcUnothe -»** » • p ~ ,a^ *hat is written about voice teaching and vocal study years of personal contact as a publisher. The opportunity was gone never to return. If taken then it 'C1y 1 kc given forth about the one thing without which large This book is equally well adapted for the young teacher and for or a SvXSf"* the f^se of either a piano success rarely comes—thinking in the voice. The human voice is “f* h"e fcd ‘” "“-rapid progress, which came only “ft maturer years There are opportunities galore for most everyone the experienced professional. It contains everything necessary for superior to that of other creatures in that it is a medium for thought. starting out a beginner in the right way. It does not exploit any —rz on all sides but many of them are lost because of a simple cas^ of The parrot echos what it has heard but there is no thought in its special methods or systems, but is based upon common sense. evaporated determination. " Write for catalogs irritating squawks. The thrush, the robin, the linnet all sing: beauti¬ fully but the song, if it has a meaning at all, can be interpreted only ^hlsr lnstanc.e.is particularly appropriate at this time when some foolish musicians are lacking in the decision to make needed In the short time it has been on the market the ^to|ialitarin|Jrawi (fompanjj by the mate Ringing on a nearby bough. Likewise, tie-re is a beauty success of BEGINNER’S BOOK has been phenomenal advances. They hear timid business men warning each other “to go Manufacturers m the well-trained human voice apart from thought. A sweet clear easily and they accordingly let opportunitief slip out of their Chicago New York soprano singing the interesting coloratura exercises of Nava, Pan- Louisville Denver San Francisco ofka, Panseron or even the simple Concone, is a lovely thing to hear JilSr j HI th+t m°.re °°nfident’ P°sitive> optimistic THEO. PRESSER CO., Philadelphia, Pa. rivals. _ Just at this season, there is vast need for strong, earnest but not until thought comes into the voice does it touch the possi¬ bilities of human greatness. X;hclS ?S. the P"‘ “He Please mention THE ETUDE when addressing advertisers. 701 702 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 703 It will soon be seven years now since I was sitting Student Days with Edvard Grieg A Wonderful Exhibition of Sight Reading afternoon visiting with an old mutual friend in "Then I witnessed the most phenomenal exhibition Skodsborg, Denmark. We were expecting Grieg and Personal Recollections of the Great Norwegian Master by of sight reading of my entire life, Liszt not only per¬ his wife the next day and I was giving up my rooms the American Piano Virtuoso formed the piano part with incredible bravour and to them which had been theirs on previous occasions, Arthur Shattuck finish, but filled in the orchestral parfs simultaneously, and taking adjoining ones on the same corridor. ]„ whenever the opportunity permitted, at the same time the midst of planning a little fete in honor of the much- So much has already been written about Norway’s turning to the left and to the right, commenting on its looked-forward-to arrival, a servant entered with » famous composer that it would seem fatuous for me to qualities to his guests as it progressed.” This was the telegram from Madame Grieg, which l.ore the sad attempt to add anything new, unless it be a few occasion of the famous A Minor Concerto’s first news of her husband’s sudden death. It read simply: souvenirs of my personal acquaintance with him. It triumph, at which time Grieg was given an ovation and “After short suffering, Edvard parsed away peace, was at Troldhaugen, his charming villa overlooking a an encouragement that meant much to him. In speak¬ fully this night.—Nina.” fjord near Bergen, that I had this honor, which I con¬ ing of the Concerto, -Grieg said: “To play the second It was a shock to everybody. The country was thrust serve as one of the precious memories of my life. movement according to the way'I* intended it should be into a dark gloom. When the news reached Johann At the entrance to the grounds, long before one came played, one must have seen a summer night in Norway.” Svendscn, that noble soul wept and remarked that it within sight of the house, a small wooden sign met In effect, one could hardly imagine a more fitting would be his turn next, and alas! it was. Grieg. Svcnd- one's eye, announcing Edvard Grieg’s desire not to be inspiration for revealing its poetry and variety of color disturbed before four o’clock in the afternoon. To a sen and Sinding have long constituted the three repre¬ than the Land of the Midnight sun. few intimate friends it was also known that in an attic, sentative composers of Norway, in fact, of Scandi¬ Then he sat down and played it for me in a manner off in a separate wing of the villa, which could only be navia. Now Christian Sinding stands alone, and his I shall not soon forget. Grieg was not a great pianist, reached by a ladder, another sign was placed before an country is only just waking up to the appreciation „f for his physical power was limited, but lie was a poet enormous stack of manuscripts. This sign read: his real and great genius. Excessive modesty ami and could sing on the piano as few have ever done, "Kjaere Tyv, Tag hvad De vil, men rbre ikkc mine retirement have kept him from being idolized as Grieq and when he did get a brilliant effect in fortissimo, it Manuskripter, de ere intet for Dig og alt fof mig.” was, but his day has at last arrived, and now all Scan¬ (Dear Thief: Take what you wish, but touch not my was done with high wrists, a little trick he said he dinavia bows down to him. manuscripts,—they are nothing to you and .everything borrowed from Liszt, who used it generously. Grieg will always he gratefully remembered by a!! the young artists who received from him encourage- Grieg's Appearance Grieg in His Home Land [Editorial Note.—The English' version of the drama of ment and an artistic start, of which I am proud to have up the wedding. Ase tells him that if he does she will In Scandinavia Grieg was worshiped and called the Introduction Peer Gynt, in the excellent translation of William Archer, Grieg was a man of very small stature, and his head come in for a generous share. published by Charles Scribner'S Sons, occupies two hundred follow and prevent him. Peer laughs at her and, taking Hans Christian Andersen of the piano. Well I remem¬ seemed disproportionately massive for the frail and In Peer Gyiit we find the most famous musical pro¬ and seventy-eight pages. It must, therefore, be clear to the the frail old woman in his arms, he wades across the somewhat bent shoulders which supported it. ber how the people invariably rushed to the windows reader, that in tile following, while giving a clear outline of duction of Scandinavia, as well as its most famous the story and all of the most dramatic episodes, the text lias swift mill stream and perches her upon the mill house His health was anything but robust, in fact, the when he passed through the streets of Bergen. At the literary masterpiece. Its presentation on the stage calls been greatly curtailed. A dramatic reading of the whole roof, so that she cannot escape. Then he goes out with latter years of his life were associated with much suf¬ Symphony concerts in that city, Grieg’s presence was The Modern University-Trained would be altogether impracticable in most eases. The mean¬ for fifty-two speaking parts and a large number of ing is involved and the context continually broken bv philo¬ the exasperating taunt: fering, one of his lungs being quite gone. also an event. He and his wife always had their places Composer other actors, as well as scenic settings of a highly sophical dissertations, as in the second half of Goethe’s It mattered little where he happened to be, or in whose in the first row of the balcony, directly opposite the Faust. In the stage version of Kichard Mansfield huge cuts “Well, good-bye, mother dear; royal presence he found himself, directly he felt fatigue elaborate and costly character; therefore few oppor¬ were made from beginning to end. The vast labor demanded Patience, I’ll be back ere long. stage and after the performance of one of his works, Tiik old days when the university-trained composer coming on, he would quietly rise and excuse himself to tunities to view the work may be had in the theatre. in the presentation of. this masterpieco was believed to have Careful now, don’t kick and sprawl.” it. was the custom of the entire audience to rise, turn been the cause of the death cf our groat American actor. In was a pedantic individual in everlasting dread of The drama was written in 1867, while Ibsen was upon Her Majesty "This” or to Her Royal Highness "That,” towards their adored composer and applaud, to which the following the introduction is to he reed as a part of the saying simply that he must go and rest. It was always writing consecutive fifths seem to have passed. At all a voluntary artistic exile in Italy. It was not pro¬ program. The headings and the names of the musical num¬ mark of loyalty Grieg always bowed his acknowledg¬ understood and considered highly pardonable. events there is nothing pedantic about the following duced, however, until nine years later, when it was bers as set up in black-face type may be copied for a printed IV ment with stately dignity. Grieg’s love for bis country program if desired.) However, in spite of the disadvantages of an unsound remarks of ..Granville Bantock, Professor of Musical given at Christiania in February, 1876. After a short Peer at the Wedding was no less remarkable, and he strove to imbue much Pronounce Peer, pair; GyntJ gint (hard sound of g); body, Grieg’s mind was one of extraordinary brilliancy tiie University of Birmingham, England. Speaking and successful run, all the scenery and costumes were Peer quickly makes his way to the beautiful Nor¬ of its Northern, color and rugged grandeur into his Ase, Oh-seh; Mads Moens, Maass Moo-en; Solveig, and his big and magnetic personality was impressive to recently of the music course at that most wideawake destroyed by fire and the play was not revived until 1892. wegian farm of Ingrid’s father. He finds everything music. He would tell with pride of the first perform-’ Sohl-wyg (long sound of y); Ingrid, Een-grecd. all who came in.contact with him. institution, he said: It was next acted in Paris without scenery in 1896 and ance in Copenhagen of his string quartet, when Niels in readiness for the wedding festivities. The master- Grieg was one of the most fascinating raconteurs I “The candidate must produce good modem work, in Vienna in 1902. Its first performance in English cook is strutting -about and the cookmaids are running have ever had the pleasure to know. When in the right Gade came forward to felicitate him. Gade said : human work, music that expresses some phase of took place in Chicago, at the Grand Opera House, II hither and thither from building to building. Peer mood, he would revel by the hour in reminiscences of "It is not bad, my friend, but it has one unpardon¬ human feeling. A candidate who included a fugue in October 29, 1906, with the renowned actor, Richard Music. Gynt lies upon his back, looking up to the clouds while the famous old days at Weimar, then the center and able fault, and that is, that it is too Norwegian,’’ where¬ bis composition would incur some risk of being focus of everything musical and literary. One day Mansfield, in the title role. Morning Mood (Morgenstimmung) From the First Peer he builds castles in his fancy. This, then, is the day upon Grieg replied: “Meister, I could not wish for a ploughed (English for plucked). We shall not value when I had finished playing his concerto for him, he During his lifetime Ibsen had great difficulty in Gynt Suite, Opus 46, No. I dream of the wild Peer Gynt, as he apostrophizes greater compliment; my next quartet shall be still canons that go backwards, or that play equally well told me with animation of how it was first received by disclaiming a deliberate intention to satirize Norwegian Edvard Grieg himself: with the music upside down. We want to produce Liszt. Grieg had stopped off character in Peer Gynt. Notwithstanding the author’s This is arranged as a piano solo, but may lie oibtained for “Peer Gynt, he rides first and many follow him. at Weimar on his way South musicians who will emulate protests it is still believed that he hoped to employ this piano duet, in which form it is most attractive, Sibelius and Strauss and here as a kind of overture to the reading. His steed is gold-shod and crested with silver; to make Liszt a short visit. play as a means fof reforming certain traits which were Himself, he has gauntlets and sabre and scabbard. He was very young at that Debussy, whom I regard as thought to be keeping Norway back. Henrik Jaeger, being the best orchestral His cloak, it is long and the lining is silken. lime and Liszt had already the noted Norwegian writer, saw in Peer Gynt “a vis¬ III writers now living.” Full brave is, the company riding behind him. taken a lively interest in him. ionary who goes about dreaming with his eyes open,” Peer and the Reindeer This iconoclastic professor None of them, though, sits on his charger so stoutly One of the first questions while to Richard Mansfield Peer Gynt was a hero who of music, who is one of the It is midsummer, and the day is burning hot. Peer as Peer Gynt. Liszt asked after a warm transcended nationality—"Peer Gynt is Every Man.” greeting was what Grieg had foremost of English com¬ Gynt, strong, active and twenty, with his frail, little All the world hails him as Kaiser Peer Gynt. In similar vein George Bernard Shaw wrote, “Peer lately been writing. The lat¬ posers now living, suffered mother, Ase, comes through the woods to the roadway Peer Gynt goes a-riding over the ocean. Gynt is everybody’s hero. He has the same effect upon ter replied that he had just the usual neglect at the be¬ which leads by their hillside farm. A refreshing stream England’s king is on the seashore to meet him; the imagination that Hamlet, Faust and Mozart’s Don completed a piano concerto, ginning at his career, but rushes down from the white-helmeted mountain tops England’s maidens and England’s nobles and Juan have.” But one must study the work itself to dis¬ which he had sent the week apparently it did not cause and gurgles through the wheel of the old mill on the England’s emperor, rise from their banquet cover how it towers to the height of Shakespeare in previous to his publishers in him the bitterness and dis¬ other side of the road. Peer is holding forth to his When they see Peer Gynt approaching. Leipzig. Liszt was at once appointment which Wagner parts and again foreshadows the mysticism of Maeter¬ mother about a wonderful reindeer he has just killed, Hail Peer Gynt!” all enthusiasm and de¬ felt when his works were linck as well as the farcical materialism of George hut Ase, knowing the flighty, whimsical character of But his dream of empire is shortly brought to ridicule manded that the manuscript ignored. Granville Bantock Bernard Shaw. Mansfield found the performance of her boy, charges him with lying. Peer tries to console when the villagers begin to jeer at him as a tramp. The be sent for without delay, says he composes to nlccsc Peer Gynt a huge intellectual and physical strain, and her, saying: drinking commences and Peer Gynt is soon in his cups. that it might arrive in time himself: “The impulse to that after he had played many of the greatest Shakes- All' the maidens scorn to dance with him. Peer Gynt for a soiree he was giving create- is upon me. and I perean roles. He wrote regarding it: “I cannot act “Darling pretty little mother, you are right is in distress, but no less than the bridegroom, who has on the following evening. write to gratify myself. Peer Gynt one other time. It takes one’s iife blood, In every ivord,—don’t be cross, be happy.” discovered that Ingrid has locked herself in her room, Imperative messages were When I have written my this Peer Gynt. I dig a spadeful of earth for my perhaps as a joke but more likely to avoid an unwanted dispatched requesting that But Peer is off again with another lie in a moment. work I have done with it. I grave every time I play the part.” This time he tells her that Aslak, the Blacksmith, has marriage. the printing be' stopped and do not want to hear it. What It was natural that Edvard Grieg, the greatest of beaten him. In shame and rage at his defeat she A country couple arrives with their pretty daughter, the score shipped on, an in¬ I do desire is to liegin to Scandinavian musicians, should have been requisitioned replies: and Peer Gynt begins to make love to her. She tells terruption which seemed enjoy myself by writing to prepare the music for the greatest Scandinavian him her name is Solveig, but she refuses to dance with rather unreasonable and something else.” Shame and shame! I spit upon you; which they scarcely expected drama. Strangely enough, both Grieg and Ibsen were Such a worthless sot as that. Peer Gynt when she finds that Peer has been drinking. to see accomplished. How¬ partly of Scotch origin. Ibsen in a letter indicated very Such a brawler, such a sodden He tries to scare her by playing upon her innocent The first hymn mentioned but superstitious peasant mind. He says: ever, the next evening, when in the annals of Christianity, definitely the kind of music he wanted, even suggesting Dram-sponge,—to have beaten you” the program was well under says Grove’s Dictionary'. 's that American, French and German melodies be “I can turn myself into a troll. way, and after all hope Again Ase sees that her son has been lying, and she that sung by our Lord, and employed in Act IV, which pictures Peer Gynt’s gad- I’ll come in my fairy form to your bedside at midnight had been renounced, a mes¬ refuses to be quieted, telling Peer that he has thrown His Apostles, immediately diTig about all over the world. Ibsen also insisted that senger appeared bearing the away his chances by failing to accept in marriage after the institution of the the royalty of 400 Speciesthaler be divided between If you should hear some one hissing and spitting, precious parcel. It was Ingrid, the daughter of a rich neighbor. Peer’s rival Holy Eucharist. There is ®rieg and himself. Grieg was thirty-one years old You mustn’t imagine it’s only the cat. promptly unwrapped and Mail Moens, has won the girl and is to be married to some ground for believing when the music was written. As Ibsen had gone to old It is me, lass. I’ll drain your blood in a cup placed on the rack and Liszt, her on the morrow. Peer laughs and tells his mother that this may have been the Norwegian folklore for his theme, so Grieg went to the And your little sister. I’ll eat her up.” seating himself at the piano, that he longs for bigger things. He shouts: series of the Psalms called folk-songs for his atmosphere, and Peer Gynt became surrounded by the illustrious Hallel (cxiii to cxviii of the “I will be king, I will be EMPEROR!” company, plunged forth into his most famous work. The entire score of Peer Gynt kuthorized Version). This Ase replies scornfully: the first movement with wedding testivlues was never published. The music is limited to the two u‘’s u "'as used in the Second Peer Gynt Suites, of which the first is very popular. atnazing dash and assurance, rne oest Known of” the Sc a ri d i na via if wed din?-’’ n HvSwi I'"" “Oh. God comfort me, he’s losing Maroh of Sodermann. 'J his interesting picture was secured through the kind offl™ J Vl.dy the Temple, at all greaf festi- and Grieg said: Apart from Sotveig’s Song, little is ever heard of the All the wits he ever had.” toward Ingrid J tUrnS “S thought! American pianist, who has toured the Scandinavian countries repeatedly offices of Mr. Arthur Shattuck, the gifted va^s» and consequently at Second Suite. Aslak, the Smith, enters with a crowd of drunker that of the Passover. Peer then threatens to go to Ingrid’s house and break youths and makes ready to thrash Peer. In the excite 704 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 70S They come with the darkness, they knock and w* ‘Open, Peer Gynt, we’re as nimble as thoughts are, merit Peer disappears, and his old mother Ase arrives VII to scold her son. However, when she finds that Peer The Troll-King’s Daughter ’Neath- the bedstead we II bustle. We rake in the ashes, is about to be attacked by Aslak, all of Ase’s motherly As his mother leaves the scene Peer enters fully Down the chimney we hustle like Urey-eyed drag,,,; instincts arrive and she threatens the mighty black¬ realizing his dangerous position. Yet he says Hee-hee! Think you staples and planks n i smith with: Can shut out cantankerous hobgoblin thoughtsr "Ay, just try if you dare. Ase and I "Yonder sail two brown eagles; With peer js the lovely Solveig, who has comt t0 We have teeth and claws. I shall fly, too. . join him there. Peer Gynt is sincere in his trust in The Development of the Romantic Folk-Songs Where is he? My boy—Peer.” I shall wash my hands in the keenest winds. Solveig and he tells her, Just then the bridegroom rushes breathlessly in, I’ll fly high,” pointing to the hillside and shouting: "Take away all the nails and bars. of Scandinavia There is no need for locks against hobgoblin thoughts Written Especially for The Etude by the Most Eminent Scandinavian Music Critic “Just fancy—Peer Cynt—” Once you dare live with me here. Gynt, returns in glory: "Have they taken his life? shrieks Ase. Blessed from all ill this hut will be, Gerhard Schjelderup "No—bu-bu-but l-l-l-look! There on the hillside!” "Peer Gynt, thou art come of great things O thou bright and pure one.” And great things shall come of thee. gasps the bridegroom. But even there with Solveig the evil spirits haunt hi® Thb crowd turns back aghast. Struggling up the Leaping forward in his mad frenzy, he stumbles, his and bring back the curse of his wicked past. Fearing steep rocks is Peer Gynt with the bride Ingrid in his head crashes into a rock and poor Peer falls senseless that Solveig cannot save him from them, he rattan;, arms. The blacksmith, wild with rage, roars: on the ground. Darkness covers the scene and there comes to Peer as in a dream a woman clad in deepest "Where the slope rises sheerest he’s clambering up¬ forest green. She tells him that she is the daughter of ward like a goat.” the king of the Dovre-Trolls, a race of ugly hobgoblins, XI The bridegroom whimpers: "He's shouldered her, gnomes and imps that live down deep under the moun¬ Music The folk-song is a delicate flower, thriving only in mother, like I would a pig.” tain in a haunted cave. the masters. The real folk-song remained arrested in wed in its pristine form. In most localities, however, Solveig’s Song from the Second Peer Gynt Suite the silence of the woodland, on lonesome meadow or in "Would God you might fall, you scoundrel!” shouts "Do you know my father?” she asks. “His name is its development. the populace, though living its own, original life and Opus 55 No. 4 deep valley, on stormy shores or in the sunshine of King Brose.” It found a more favorable soil in the vast expanses possessing a culture grounded in its own soil, kept a Ase. But when she sees him slipping, the mother heart Edvard Grieg deserted plateaus. Its need is solitude, and it blossoms "Do you know my mother?” says the lying Peer, of Russia and other Slavic countries where a sparse continued connection with the outer world, an inter¬ in her calls out in terror: This should bi sung. The number may be secured sepu- most generously in sparsely settled places, favorable to second suite Is not employed. population, great primeval forests, solitude! and a course always difficult, hut never entirely interrupted. "Take care of your footing, dearest Peer:’ “Her name is Queen Ase.” ately If the ontii the development of originality. wealth of feeling and inspiration, especially in music Russia as well as the great countries of centralized "When my father is angry, the mountains are torn,” The extreme of isolation, however, is unfavorable to Peer Gynt is making good his promise and breaks up and poetry, gave a subsoil for the richest growth of culture have to some extent influenced northern folk¬ boasts the green-clad woman. XII folk-song. Iceland and the Fero Islands, in the Middle his rival’s wedding. folk-art. The northern countries present similar con¬ lore and art. Workers, soldiers, merchants, itinerant "The hills reel, when by chance my mother falls Ages under a rich epoch of culture and then for cen¬ Pser's Farewell to His Mother ditions. gipsies, and in some localities the socially dominant a-scolding," answers Peer. turies almost cut' off from European influences, see V Haunted with the spirits of his own misdeeds, Peer Only in Denmark a premature, dry, brain-culture class, the latter in constant touch with European their folk-songs and folk-dances unchanged and Music "Have you other garments besides those rags?” rushes back to the hut of his mother, hoping to find prevented the further development of a rich folk-art culture, brought to bear new and enlivening impres¬ she asks. unadvanced. Most interesting as are the Icelandic of the Middle Ages. The fruitfulness of the soil, the Ingrid’s Lament. From the Second Peer Gynt Suite, Opus sanctuary there. As he reaches the little room in tfe Songs to the student of ancient sions from the outer world. The spirit of the age thus "Ho, you should see my Sunday clothes,” replies 55, No. 2 evening, he finds it lighted only by a glimmering hearth verse and song, the folk-art of these transfused was sufficiently active, Peer. Edvard Grieg. fire. The old cat lies sleeping on a chair. Ase is in countries nevertheless remains where without being detrimental to unique¬ I£ desired, this musical number may be omitted when "Ah, Peer, now I see that you and I are well mated.” bed writhing about restlessly in great pain, but always it was in the dim Middle Ages. ness and originality. Even the folk¬ giving the reading. "We fit like the hair and the comb,” says Peer. waiting for her beloved Peer. She moans, The other northern countries, how¬ song received constant stimulation Then the woman in green calls over the hillside for ever, in constant touch with the outer from general European influences, in "Oh, Lord, my God, isn’t he coming, a way which was seldom disadvan¬ VI her bridal steed. Behold ! a huge pig comes dashing in. world, have continued to be impreg¬ The time drags so drearily on. tageous. , Peer Gynt’s Faithless Love His saddle is an old hempen bag and his reins are nated with new ideas, and particu¬ coarse rope. Peer and the Troll King’s daughter seat I haven’t a moment to lose note. larly Finland, Sweden and Norway, The material for a characterization The drunken Peer and Ingrid find themselves alone themselves on the pig’s back and ride away to the hall Oh me, if / only were certain that have brought the folk-song to a'height of the folk-songs of the various north on a narrow path high up in the mountains on the fol¬ of the mountain king. I’d not been too strict with him." which is seldom attained except in countries is so large as to admit of lowing morning. Peer, half-demented, half-sane and Slavic countries. but an outline in this short sketch. always fickle, soon tires of poor Ingrid and tells her he Peer enters and his mother greets him. although she proposes to leave her. Ingrid is frantic, but Peer in his VIII knows that her reckless son has taken his life in his The Wonderful Origin of Folk Song Denmark’s Contributions to Folk-Music dementia proclaims: Music hands in daring to come back. She says pathetically, As long as European culture did Even Denmark offers us a wealth "Devil take all recollections. In the Hall of the Mountain King “Alas, Peer, the end is nearing. not signify a one-sided development of wonderful old songs. As already Devil take the tribe of women, First Peer Gynt Suite, Opus 46, No. 4 I have but a short time left." of the intellect, it no doubt assisted stated, in this country the oldest liter¬ . All but one—” Edvard Grieg the folk-song toward its unfoldment. ature is also the most—yes, the only— Peer replies with sadness not untouched with selfish- valuable asset. In a purely creative When the unhappy Ingrid asks who that one is Peer This Is especially effective when played as a piano duet, After the era of enlightenment up to but may be obtained as a solo, also as a violin solo. tells her brusquely that it is not she, and bids her be our day it has unfortunately had a musical sense the Danes have never fatal influence on the developing been especially prominent, and ex¬ off to her father. Hardly have they left the scene when Just look, here I am trying to get away from trouble IX power of the folk-soul. Everywhere ternal influences gradually became so Ase, accompanied by Solveig and her father and her I thought at least that I’d'be free here.” Peer Gynt and the Mountain King the advance of culture now spells powerful that the further growth of mother, arrive. Ase, with her heart cemented to that Peer then curses himself for his mother’s ruin, but death to individualistic folk-art. The the folk-song was smothered in its of her wayward son, is there to protect him from the Peer Gynt finds himself in a huge underground hall she replies: charming visions of popular fancy are inception. All the more important are villagers, who are out armed with clubs and guns to surrounded by goblins, elves, gnomes and hideous imps. scorned and laughed at as supersti¬ the old Danish folk-ballads, the so-, put an end to 'Peer. Seated on the throne in the centre of the great cave is tion. Elfs, nymphs, gnomes, trolls, called Raempeviser (Stalward Songs). the King himself, an awe-inspiring old man with huge mat the i °le Olsen. Lammers. Cappelen. Halvorsen. Frau Grieg. Svendsen Sindintr "Oh, my Peer, my poor lost lamb!’’ pixies and wise 'men of the mountains These all have a distinctly epic char¬ ears, long gnarled beard and great black-rimmed eye¬ Dearest Peer, you know you’d been drinking, and i Frau Gmur-Harloff. Frau Agathe Grondahl. Grieg. Schjelderup. Frau Erika die Niesscn. Holler. are exterminated without pity, to be A Group of Distinguished Scandinavians acter, and great expansiveness. Some shrieks the agonized mother, and Solveig’s father says, glasses. The imps and the witches want to do away no one knows what he does. replaced by the three R’s and political contain up to thirty verses, all sung tragically, with Peer, but the King fancies him and offers him his And besides. Peer, you’d been riding the reindeer, practices in the name of “enlighten¬ tm, ...togtoto to. (Tto tothe same simple melody. As "You may well say lost.” kingdom if Peer will marry his daughter. Peer hesi¬ bio wonder your head was turned.” ment.” ■ tbeme courtesy ofor thetne publishers, John Lane & Co. S to the age of these Stalward Songs, tates, and the King curses him. The goblins and Peer realizes that the end is near, and to make We f°rget■ that a deeP appreciationiTT oft nature, a woe-wide- dense popular,population, the.... too uuacclose cu.mecuonconnection wimwith omerother indigenous all over the north, it Then Ase tells of her son’s virtues, how clever her gnomes lay hold upon poor Peer and get ready to tear drawn, .. _o,_. J difficult to make definite statements. Many of the Peer is, how little Peer had nestled in her arms when o mother s death less terrible he lets his wild imagi e pantheismintneism created these fairy-like figures countries, were unsuited to the rlel.Vutedelicate folk-song.foil-..- On poetical moll him to pieces, when the palace of the mountain king as well as the repulsive figures. With no indemnify¬ poetical motives are old as the hills, the property of the ♦"he was a baby, while his father was drinking and roar¬ o°n run ,r?to romances of the wonderful castle t the reoulsive fi™ W.thv™ the other hand, the three remaining northern countries who£ Am crumbles to the ground. Peer escapes, haunted by ing counter-service, dry pedants are destroying the ing through the street. Her faith in Peer is infinite. Ase is approaching. Ase moans, were as if specially created for a rich unfolding of this t„ .w. “7“and already““ knownm,uwu tolo ancient India. voices and supernatural beings, who struggle to carry- holiest gift of the people, its power of creation. With¬ She exclaims: poor Peer back. There is the music of church bells The special musical talent of the populace found from m,aj0.n.ty ProbabIy date makes me s° mi and tired." out nourishment, imagination must fail, and on the dry here the most favorable conditions. Tli..o }... ‘ twe^^ an(anai thirteenthimrteentti centuries,centuries. “He can ride through the air on a buck!’’ and a congregation singing psalms in the distance. One soil of realism our soul no longer finds the cool, crystal- of the spirits cries out: c is the wonderful castle before us," answ Sombrous, mysterious fir forests, dreamy lakes, glis- fhis is especially“““. true of those describing historical clear springs which have quenched its thirst of yore. "You are mad, woman,” sneers Solveig’s mother. . Peer; the drive will soon be over." tening glaciers and high turrets, the ever-complaining, happenings. In our time of “mental enlightenment” there is in truth "Never a deed is too great for him. You shall see, "He has escaped. ever-threatening surf, the turbulent waterfalls; in the The melodies also are at times ancient, and since He was too strong, Ase breathes confidently and whispers, more sinning against the people than in the dark t if he lives so long,” insists Ase. south, smiling forests of beech, and a rich .soil, where throughout the north they show a dose relationship There were women behind him.” of the most ruthless feuds and the most gruesome and "Best if you saw him on the gallows hanging,” warns 7 UC baCk ,hc" °"d close *»v old eyes and t> the joy of life throve unrestricted as of old. Add the approaching also the Slavic types, we are naturally oil to you, my darling Peer." ' devastating plagues! Solveig’s father. twilight poetry of the summer nights, the constant day, reminded of the time when division between the Slavic At every point where the cultivation of the intellect, ' X and Germanic peoples had not yet taken place. But The heart-broken Ase keeps up the search for her of cold, practical wisdom, advances the folk-song dies and'at the’ door^Saim Pcier Wi'h '' son until she is worn with exhaustion. Still she Peer and Solveig ■"oner'T'ZXT** ^ f °lk'S°n§ dieS S^b^h? tridtighl sun, oT inThe’ slmi-lsTufh/of even without this daring theory there seems no difficulty persists. Peer Gynt next travels to the snow-covered pine for¬ in explaining by means of the intimate intercourse s°y y°". Master Saint Peter? u various monsters ot between the old melodies. It is likely also that the "If he’s stuck in the swamp we must drag him out. ests of the north. He lives in a little log hut, over the Shall mother not enter in? We hope that a reaction, already apparent, against !he °? door of which may be seen the antlers of a reindeer excessive brain culture, will help to save what is left glory, i virgin strength and b‘urgy of the Christian Church with’ its Gregorian If he’s taken by the trolls, you may search a long time. I tell you. As dusk comes on, Peer is fashioning a huge wooden of the old folk-art and revivify its creative power. We must ring the church bells for him.” you find such ait honest old soul.” The northern countries can boast of but few inhabi- tu^n bar to the door, to keep out the imps and hobgoblins Folk song will not live, either, in countries which rants. i\orwav and Sweden „„„ r < ,. « - —* tciwm nonnern Solveig meanwhile reveals that she loves Peer, and 1 that haunt him at night, passes'" n Pp*r S w,ld rbapsod''es h:s mother’s s[ have e.o^d a hight0^ art Thus in Germany and . than the-N °7Way aBd Sw6den are ZuSfar larger national element. The “ancient Olaf°W series,'"whRhseries> which thetlm begs his mother to tell her more about the young "Bars I must fix me; bars that can fasten outlaw, saying: mutters, half k’SSeS ^ c,osing cyflids the urelt 7 7 PTwhen the influence of of seven a«d one-half millions. Finland is even more SC'e.nt'fic dlscoverer’ G. Reiss, found among The door against troll folk, and men and women. survfvef be? ■ 7 d°mmant- Pure folk-song mea§er in its Population. $ ** S.ta*e a^ives, seem to verify this. Between td “You will tire telling about him Bars I must fix me; bars that can shut out -v v. guttub ui me Long before I shall tire of hearing.” All the cantankerous little hobgoblins. For ahyTr days 1 ihank von; caned^oSc^S^ as l/ ^ a dreamy’ imaginative tdt °f ** ^ ‘^re ,he oca tings ana all the lullabys!" popular melodies in more nr W b Te r 6 re,Sna everywhere. 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But in all his phases he appears to me a real “meets the 6ye,” or, better said, “meets the ea genius, occupying a wholly unique and precious niche melodious sounds from them in and, in reality, make you furnish it free of expense to The Future of Scandinavian Music them. Beware of the social “beatl” And now, back to your studio' Having formed a By Herman Sandby nucleus of a few pupils, work with them with all your ^nd yet, he is so popular with the general public, tha might, without measuring your lessons either by the clock Norway has its Grieg and Finland its Sibelius ; but or by their number. Bring those few pupils as soon as one often hears the street boys, whistling his soup Denmark and Sweden are still waiting for such inter¬ Jens Veimand, a peasant song is played by the han possible to the point where they can creditably par¬ preters of their national music as shall make an epoch organs to the great delight of Carl Nielsen himself ticipate in an entertainment—each pupil according to in their musical history. Before Grieg, the wealth of who was the first to call my attention to this. his stage of advancement. What of it, if it does inci¬ Norwegian folk tunes was almost unappreciated. They In Sibelius, we have the whole of Finland. Strange], dentally please their vanity or that of their parents? had been used at home, but not extensively or artfully enough, in his Finlandia, he has created original theme; You are in the beginning of your career, and if you are enough to make the world open its ears! When Grieg so folk-like in character, that they are often taken to become a musical power in your town it is plain returned from his study period in Germany, and met that, first of all, you must gain a following. A general again his former teacher, the Danish composer, Niels to be folk songs. This and the delightful collection does not mean much without soldiers, and the relations W. Gade, he asked, “What shall I write now ?”■—Gade of melodies, his Sibeliana, are enough in themselves between you and your following are not of such a harsh told him to write the national music of Norway, and to impress the world with the character of Finnish folk kind; they are based upon common ideals. Grieg felt this to be an inspiration. It is not to de¬ music. His wonderful symphonies in their broad, in. Be not afraid of competitors. As long as they do not tract from Grieg’s genius to say that nearly all his pressionistic sweep, not only paint the wild beauties of the resort to underhanded methods to harm you, regard them works are built upon folk tunes. On the contrary, it country, but sing in deep and heart-rending tones, the as co-workers in the cause of good music. At a table 'is a proof of his genius, that these themes had to wait love and woe of his people. His wealth of fresh color, set for five there is always food enough for a sixth for Grieg, before they could get such a setting as would vigorous rhythm, and the mystic atmosphere which one. Establish friendly relations with those colleagues prove them to be the rare gems they are. And here in its impelling mood, transcends the conventional whom, musically and socially, you deem worthy of one should not forget that the work of collecting and form, suggest to us the great possibilities of a North¬ respect. Never bother about the others. ern school of music, which would be ultra-modern Niels W. Gade Musical Evenings without losing its national and melodic charm. Gade’s Youth and Education Johann Severin Svendsen Prior to the appearance of Gade in the musical I notice that I, inadvertently, replied to your third Just think what a Norwegian Sibelius could do with Gade was born at Copenhagen February 22, 1817. His Although Svendsen was born three years before firmament there had, of course, been Scandinavian question together with \he first one when I spoke Norwegian folk music? The genius of Grieg, so in¬ father was a maker of mtisical iristrumeiits, who had Grieg (September 30, 1830, at Christiania, Norway), it musicians of unquestioned ability and worth, hut none of a secretary and of fees. So, there remains only tense and truthful in his piano compositions, did not as his sole ambition that of having his son become a was not until many years later that he enjoyed any of was known to the great world of music with similar the second one to be answered; how to hold and in¬ extend to the same extent in his orchestral composi¬ great master. Accordingly, Gade was given as severe a the international fame that came Grieg’s way in com¬ crease your clientele. Taking your professional ability tions, which are much too few. Svendsen had great distinction. A. F. Lindblad, born in 1801, near Stock- drill as could be provided. His early teachers insisted paratively early days. This was not in any wajt due to as a fixed factor, the question is in some measure a orchestral gifts, and might have done mor upon enormous amounts of work and the boy was lack of home advantages or encouragement, as Svend- 'matter of personality, and depends upon your tact and way; if his busy life as a conductor in Copenhagen and overburdened with harassing discipline. Under these sen’s father was the leader of a popular military hand. disposition. To a large degree,' however, it depends his ill health, had not prevented him from giving us conditions he made little real progress as he lacked Indeed the boy made his first essays at composition also upon the ethical view you hold of your profession. all that he could and should have doone as a composer. that animating self-interest without which success is when he was only eleven years of age. Shortly after If you confine yourself to the giving of your lessons He often expressed this regret himself. The other impossible. the age of fifteen he became an armyibandmaster. While and let musical matters in your town go as they please, modern composers of Norway, such as Sinding, Schjel- Gade’s later teachers are known only to Scandinavian in the army he made the mistake of trying to ledrn avery some other teacher that holds higher views will, with¬ derup, Agathe Grondahl, Ejvind Alnes, Ole Olsen, circles. Wexschall, Berggreen and Weyse were all men great many instruments. It is said that he was able to out any effort, attract your pupils in spite of your Ivar Holter, and many others, are all distinctly nati¬ of large reputation in Denmark but their chief fame play well upon the violin and the flute hs well as the estimable ability. Your livelihood is the first duty to clarinet. onal in character; and prophecy that the national now rests upon the fact that they taught Gade. Gade’s yourself, to be sure; but it is not the only one. Being The army proved too uninteresting for the youthful music of Norway is far from exhausted; and may yet father-in-law, Peter Hartmann, and his brother-in- a musician, not only by profession but also by heart, yield a rare and glorious harvest. musician and ere long we find him playing in a theatre law, Emil Hartmann, helped him immensely! in his you must recognize your duties toward music, itself; Denmark is producing not less; and among living orchestra and in a dancing school, even going so far work although the latter was in a sense a pupil of Gade. toward the spread of musical culture in your com¬ composers of note, arc Lange-Miiller, Otto Mailing, as to arrange some of the Kreutzer and the Paganini In his youth Gade had the good fortune to become a munity. Exert your influence in this direction. Ar¬ Louis Glass, and Hakon Bdrreson, differing widely in studies for dancing purposes. This again proved too range for lectures illustrated at’ the piano, free to your style and feeling from the Norwegian composers! of member of the Royal Orchestra of Denmark and thence confining and we next find him wandering as an itiner¬ pupils and their parents. I f they prove attractive, you this generation. It is this fact, which leads me to be¬ on his interest in music increased. In 1841 he won ant musician over Sweden and Germany. King Charles may later on repeat them publicly for a moderate fee. lieve that the future music of Scandinavia is bound to an important prize awarded by the Copenhagen XV heard of his talent and provided sufficient funds Establish regular musical evenings in your studio with be of a national character. These small nations, closely Musical Union with his Nacklange von Ossian. One for the young musician’s further education. He studied a violinist and ’cellist. Do it for the highly instructive related in blood, are so individual in their expression, of the judges was Louis Spohr. Mendelssohn, who, assidiously for a considerable time and made the error and fascinating pleasure of playing chamber music. that their music differs just as much as the green slop¬ like Schumann, was always appreciative of young talent, of straining his hand so badly that he was forced to Make these evenings entirely private at first. The time ing planes of Denmark, contrast with the granite took a great interest in Gade’s youthful work and had give up the violin for composition. Accordingly he went will soon come when invitations to these private meet¬ it presented at the Gewandhaus concerts. The over¬ to Leipsic, where Reinecke, Richter, Hauptmann and ings will be asked -for, and after awhile these demands plateaus of Norway. Their nationality expresses the David took him in hand. will increase so as to justify you in making these pri¬ natural characteristics of the country. To a Norwe¬ ture attracted wide attention in Germany and in Gade’s vate meetings public in the form of a course of cham¬ gian, Sweden with its deep lakes and rich forests, home country. The result was that the Kifig awarded His work at Leipsic must have been especially thor¬ ber music concerts. Look out for the conductorship seems romantic and mystical; but not as transcendent the young man an important stipend which made it ough, as he received the medal of honor upon gradu¬ of a choral society; if there should be none, create and glorious as his own marvelous country, while possible for him to travel abroad. In 1843 Gade went ation. Thereafter he went to France, Scotland, Den¬ Denmark, called by the vikings, “the little green mark and Norway. In Paris he made many friends and one. In short, do everything you can think cf to de¬ Herman Sandby. to Leipsic, where he brought out his C minor symphony velop—and if necessary, to create—a musical atmos¬ cradle, often is accused by the sturdy mountaineer and a choral work entitled Comala. played with a leading orchestra. Leaving Paris at the phere in your city. Through such efforts you will, writing down folk tunes by Halvorsen, ranks next to as being to soft, and a little sentimental. Where the Pleased with his success in Germany Gade went to that of Grieg. almost unknown to yourself, become the central figure national characteristics are so uppermost in three Italy to live for nearly a year. Mendelssohn 'at that in the musical life of your community, and this point The first notable Danish composers were Hartmann small peoples which arc really one ami the same family, time found his activities divided between -Berlin and and Gade, Both were national and lyric in quality; once reached, you need not worry over the holding their art is likely to bear the stamp of this nationality. Frankfort and needed an assistant-conductor. To and made a slight use of the folk song; but not to the and increasing of your clientele. You will, musically, An-d why should it not?-Tn Scandinavia, the people this important post Gade was invited. Between the own. the town. Look broadly upon your noble pro¬ extent which Grieg has done. The same can be said as a whole are so music loving, that Christiania. Stock¬ of the Swedish composers, Lindblad best known for years of 1846 and 1848 he was the principal conductor fession and rest assured that it will make its returns holm, and Copenhagen, each has its own national opera Niels W. Gade. his songs; and Soderman who during his last period of the orchestra. Thereafter he returned to Copen¬ to you commensurate with the breadth of your views. combined w.tli a symphony orchestra. They do not hagen and devoted the remainder of his life-to the And now—success to you and all good wishes from developed an original treatment of the Swedish folk need to holm; Hans Christian Lutnby, born in 1810, and known song for four voices, and also wrote the national ate the Germans; they need only go to musical upbuilding of his own country. It may thus . Constantin von Sternberg. the hearts of their own people to hear the as “the Dannish Lanner;” Peter E. Hartmann, born be seen that Gade was at the height of his early works, The Wedding at Ufasa and The Peasant Wed¬ in 1805, who was to become the teacher and then the ding. In these works, he created a distinctively Swe¬ , ie utttre ! They have already contributed their share career (1843) when Grieg waS born. However the o the world; and the deeper they realize that their father-in-law of Gade, are mentioned in modern Ger¬ later Scandinavian composers are revered it must be dish style both as to rhythm and color. He was suc¬ man works of limited contents. Apart from these one wealth and genius lies in their folk music, and a na- remembered that to Ghde and to Denmark must be Points that Lead to Musical Progress ceeded by Halstrom, Wennerberg, Soderberg, and Emil might mention Gade’s immediate contemporaries, Half- 1011a art based upon this, the sooner will thev earn given the glory of bringing the northern countries into Sjogren who were all typically Swedish without resort¬ dan Kjerulf, Jwar Hallstrom (1826-1901) and a few ing to the direct use of their folk music. the recognition of the world! the great musical hall of fame. Pupils’* that might well be observed by 01 others. Kjerulf is known to us by his entrancing One might be led to ask if the folk music of Swe¬ the road to musical progress. Some of these hints are here melody, Last Night, but few of his other songs have 1861, Gade received the appointment of Royal Capell- reprinted for the benefit of our readers.—Editor of The den and Denmark is as great as that of Norway?— Etude.] thpCHUI^ANN bad an uncanny gift for distinguishing survived. — -*■ Copenhagen, and ^the distinction of Rfiyal^ Pro¬ We know that each of these countries has produced wroin music- This is how the man who fessor. In 1876, he visited England and conducted bis Do not look constantly to the end of your studies; This condition is surprising when we remember that Zion and his Crusaders, at the Birmingham Festival. He some perfect melodies. I, myself, have taken some of heralrlp*? , “Hats off, gentlemen, a Genius!” the Scandinavian countries entertained a high spirit of died at Copenhagen, December 21. 1890. look more to the daily steps that you take. Do your the best known and arranged them for piano, and vio¬ The time-worn witticism of speaking! of Gade as “Mrs. daily duty as well as you can, for then you will, at “We irc n0 rn- °f J0han"es Brahms; culture in literature and science for many years before Mendelssohn,” inferring that Gade is a kind of effeminate lin, and ’cello, with piano accompaniment. But viewed man w °w llvmS ln a very musical age. A young music became a recognized achievement of the north¬ Mendelssohn, is ill deserved. There is much in the music the end of the year, have cause to feel satisfied with as a whole it is a question whether the variety of of the Danish composer that is distinctive and original. your progress. deenlv wbEPneareci hcre who has impressed us most ern countries. Yet one may well look for poetry from rhythm, boldness of intervals, and temperamental fresh¬ Ilis friendship for Mendelssohn was long and sincere. In¬ To attempt to do in one day what should be done quite cnnl t Wonderf“> music, and who will, I am the land of the powerful Sagas,—tales that still stand deed, Gade, together with David Moscheles and Hauptmann, ness of the Norwegian songs, dances and marches do world ” Tlncec ’ niake a great sensation in the musical big and strong beside the literature of all peoples. • were among the pall bearers at Mendelssohn’s funeral. in two crowds your work and over-taxes your strength. not excel those of Sweden and Denmark • and ' are Gade’s works have the atmosphere of Mendelssohn and This is sure to lead to bad results. Neglect, therefore, loachim , a,1etter of t,lc same date to the violinist Denmark, however, was separated by only a few miles Schumann alike, but still retain their own individuality. therefore more valuable as the basis of modern music. younger T aS°.Wrote: "> ^ think that if I were of territory from the great centers of musical activity While there are here and there suggestions of Scandinavian none of your daily duties. themes his music is in no sense impregnated with the essence Perhaps not; perhaps we are only waiting for the Dan- in Germany. Copenhagen is nearer to Berlin than No matter how gifted your teacher may be, remember isn and the Swedish “Grieg.” eagle^who ha? ’fl ln<1'tC 3 few Pol-vmeters on the young of the northern countries, as is that of Grieg and Sibelius. dorfsn° fl°'rn acr°ss from the Alps to Dussel- Buffalo is to New York and Chicago is much further Indeed, hut for his occasional use of Scandinavian idioms, that you yourself must labor hard- to attaih success. In Denmark, Carl Nielsen is recognized as the great¬ he might he aligned with the German composers. Have regular practice hours’ and never deviate from splendid river ewh£' i? might be comPared *° * from New York than Vienna is from Copenhagen. Yet Of Gade's sixty-four numbered works, the best known are est living Danish composer. His greater works such when ’ llke Niagara, is at its grandest at the very time that- we find the musical celebrity of his cantatas. The Erl King’s Daughter, The Message of your plan of work unless there is good cause for it. as the symphonies, The Four Temperaments and the Spring (Erilhlingshotschaft) and The Crusaders. His Sym¬ Never practice listlessly; always have your whole hearino- thp rmg down from the heights as a waterfall, Scandinavia confined to Gade and a few men of lesser phonies and instruments 1 works, such as Hamlet, Michael Symfoma Espansiva are very modern, realistic and reputation, the great lights of musical Europe—Wag¬ Angelo and In the Highlands are rarely heard. Of his mind and heart in your work. Know what you do, and bmterflies 6 Zd " its Waves* * banks courted by piano works those most in demand are the Aquarelles and philosophic m character. His choral and orchestral Well T thtoi- r fCcorriPanied by nightingales’ songs, ner, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn why you do it. Always hear yourself while practicing. work. The Hymn to Love, a work of great beauty and Arahesqi'es. The trio in F for violin, ’cello and piano is Watch the tones you produce. write revplat' doban.nes 717 716 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE time of the Franco-Prussian war he was unfortunate in East and the dynamic power of the West which char receiving an excellent offer to become conductor of one acterizes his race. Although Finland is commonly re. of the great German orchestras, only to find that the ferred to as a Scandinavian country, the folk songs 0f Finland have comparatively little in common with those thewar* f°rCed t0 discontinue in consequence of of other Scandinavian countries. Sibelius has drawn In the meantime he had been composing steadily and much inspiration from the Kalcvala, the mythical Siga. his symphony in D attracted wide attention when first of the Finns. Often sombre and sometimes gloomy i„ given at a Gewandhaus concert (1870). Svendsen next atmosphere, his works are strong to the point uj Interesting Phases of Scandinavian Music visited America, not for musical purposes however, but violence. But it is not the violence of the brute, but Collected from Various Sources principally to renew the acquaintance with an American rather that of the unseen, unheard, unwelcomed hand lady he had met in Paris and whom he subsequently of relentless fate. In this he has no rival. Not even married. Returning to Germany he met Richard the powerful Slavic writers compare with him in Musical Accomplishment in Norway - As Norway has no regular opera (1900), and no musical composer and writer; Bernard H. Crusell, Wagner and formed a firm friendship with the great portraying tragic moments in tones. rFinland has Its Sibelius and Denmark Its Gade. Sweden permanently organized concert orchestra in constant Johan E. Nordblom, Adolph Lindblad, and many German composer. Svendsen indeed was in thorough Two of Sibelius’ works The Swan of Ttwitch and -1 ~~:.. . hi, momnriMi of .Tennv i.lnd ami Christine Ntlssen. practice, musical life has, in a great measure, taken others. Special mention must he made of the much uli, __y belongs the honor < t having produced the sympathy with Wagner and his followers especially the Lemminkainen’s Home faring were given in Giicago •weatest number and most eminent ui ovuuuiuuvmu luu. the form of occasional concerts. The most famous beloved and spiritual-minded Prince Gustavus, a brother Franz Liszt, and this may account for the fact that of under the baton of that guardian angel of musical posers. Grieg. Svendsen Sinding, Olsen, Kjerulf, to name artist in this domain was the great violin king, Ole of King Oscar II, one of the most highly gifted musi¬ only a few, have made the strangely beautiful music of the all the Scandinavian composers of note he probably pioneers, Theodore Thomas, as early as 1901. Since hard Northern lands of snow and lee an Integral part of Bull (1810-80), whose life and labors are so world- cal composers among the sons of Sweden. Cunnar shows the least touch of the Scandinavian atmosphere. then Sibelius has made two visits to America (1913. the world's musical repertoire. The following data con¬ Wennerberg (1817-1901) ecclesiastical minister and cerning the musical societies and musicians or Norway Is renowned. Norway has also had renowned concert In 1872 he became conductor of the Christiania 1914), whither he came through the splendid initative an abbreviation of data printed in the official account of virtuosi in the pianists and composers, Thomas Thellef- provincial governor lately deceased, whose happy and Musical Association with which he was associated for of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stoekel to take part in the Norway's musical and other activities published at the time of the Paris Exhibition in 1000. The names of most all sen (1823-74) and Edmund Neupert (1S42-88) and the jovial student songs, set to most appropriate melodies, most of the better part of his later life, although he Litchfield County Choral Union Festival in the music the musicians mentioned In this article will he found jn flutist Oluf Svensen (1832-88). In the foremost ranks made him one of the most admired and popular of often toured far from his native city. In 1874 the shed at Norfolk, Connecticut. the Concise Biographical Dictionary of Scandinavian of living concert executants stands Agathe Backer- Swedish composers and musicians, may not he very Norwegian Government recognised his genius and Sibelius has become popular in America through his sicians published on page 707.—Editor os* The E-run Grondahl (1C47), as talented a pianist as she is gifted familiar to English-speaking people, but he is well afforded him sufficient support to enable him to go on tone poems and symphonies as well as his deservedly “The development of the Norwegian art-music has as a composer. The greatest male pianist at the present known to the Swedes as poet, musician and composer, with his composition. It also enabled him to travel popular pianoforte compositions, the best known ot been slow. The first institution of any importance in time (1300) is Martin Knutzen, who is also a conductor and he well deserved his honored place on the roll of abroad in quest, of new inspiration and new ideas. this development was that of the publicly appointed the Swedish Academy. •Leipsic, Munich, Kome, Paris and London were all town musicians, who probably from the beginning of of. choral and sacred concerts. Among singers may be visited and the effect upon Svendsen’s output was very Christian Sinding the 17th century had the sole right to the perform¬ mentioned Ingeborg Oselio-Bjornson and Ellen Gul- The most celebrated and world-renowned Swede in bransen. The name of Christian Sinding is one closely the world of song is Jenny Lind Goldschmidt. Hardly notable. The position of court conductor to Copen¬ Sinding’s long residence in Denmark has led many to ance of music, beyond that of organists and singers connected with the concert life of Norway. He is one hagen was offered to Svendsen in 1883. He died in regard him as a Dane, hut he is in reality a Norwegian, in the churches. As a rule, of course, the town less renowned was Christine Nilsson. “The great love Copenhagen June 14, 1911. of the true geniuses of the younger generation. With as he was born January 11, 1856, at Kongberg. After musicians were very indifferent performers; hut several and admiration felt by the people of Europe and Grieg and Svendsen represent two quite opposite his many kindling ideas, his deep musical earnestness his initial studies at home he went to Leipsic, where he of them in the poorly developed condition of that time America for song and music was enhanced by these manifestations of Scandinavian musical genius. Svend¬ and his bold personal force of expression, Sinding has became the pupil of Reinecke (1874-1877). Having a have exercised quite a beneficial influence, especially highly gifted Swedish singers, and the accomplishment sen aspired to be thoroughly cosmopolitan in all his made for himself in a short time a place among the Royal Scholarship he was enabled to continue his after it had been decided in 1780 that these posts of such results makes them worthy of a place in works, while Grieg sought to breathe the folk music of great musicians of the country. Christian Sinding. studies at Dresden, Munich, and then at Berlin. All in should by preference he filled with members of the history.” Norway. Yet, both men were intimate friends and Norway having no regular opera of its own, it has all he is one of the most thoroughly drilled of the royal orchestra in Denmark, which was then united The Royal Opera at Stockholm has always been of worked together in many fields of musical activity. generally been foreigners who have attempted to satisfy activities to Stockholm, where he is an organist of the Scandinavian composers. For a time he lived in Chris¬ with Norway. A few organists from this time were great social importance, though for many years it was Of Svendsen’s best known works his symphonic in¬ also very eminent men, and of late years several of the longing of the people for operatic performances. troduction to Sigurd Slembe, his concertos for violin Yohannes-kyrka. He is not famed for compositions in tiania as a teacher and as an organist, but later removed A number of foreign operatic companies have appeared largely under French and German influence. It was larger forms but rather for pieces of high artistic finish to Copenhagen. the first musicians of the country have shed lustre here, however, that Jenny Lind, among others, received and for 'cello, his symphony in D and his chamber upon the humble position of organist. Among these in Norway in the course of time. In addition to this,. and exquisite content. The best known of these are Sinding’s work is all marked by high artistic concep¬ her first training. She was admitted to the school con¬ ■ music compositions all deserve the serious attention of may he mentioned L. M. Lindeman, who founded in Norwegian artists have occasionally cultivated this musical historians. His Rhapsodie Norwegienne, the Auf der Wanderschafc Opus IS (two books) Fan- tions of balance, style, and melodic beauty. The artistic nected with the theater as a little child of ten years Christiania “the only Academy of Music and Organ branch of art themselves, and operatic performances Romance, Opus 26 (for violin), as well as his Winter tasistycke (six numbers) Eroticon and Humoresque. atmosphere of his own home life may have in a measure School in the country”; O. Winter-Hjelm, Johannes have frequently been given in the Christiania Theater, old, and an arrangement was effected whereby the and his Polonaise, Opus 12, are well known. accounted for this. One brother is a poet of renown Haarklou, M. A. Udbye, and Erika Nissen—a lady erected !n 1837. In 1874, with Norwegian and Swedish school advanced the money needed for her education. Jean Sibelius and the .other is one of the foremost sculptors of Scan¬ more famous as a concert pianist than as an organist performers, a permanent operatic company was formed, “During the last twenty-five years,” says Mrs, Johan Gustav Sjogren dinavia. Sinding is an admirable pianist but in later which gave quite brilliant artistic results, but yielded Edmond Wodehouse in Grove’s Dictionary, “a change ■ Wnhe" M),Eric' King of Sweden, subdued Finland years has given practically all of his ambitions to com¬ The first regular musical institutions in the country Johan Gustav Sjogren (pronounced Shay-gren) was in the middle of the twelfth century, his first move such small proceeds that after the burning down of the has come over Swedish music. The genius of Berlioz, position. His recently produced opera was very favor¬ were private companies. In 1809 the Musical Lyceum born at Stockholm, Sweden, June 6th, 18S3. Many was to send the Bishop of Upsal to preach Christianity was founded in Christiania, and among its first leaders theater in 1877 it had to be discontinued. The con¬ Liszt and Wagner has dominated the talents of the ably received and he has the distinction of having writ¬ critics class him as the greatest of the Swedish com¬ to the pagans that then inhabited the rugged country was the highly-gifted composer and violinist Waldemar ductor of the theater at that time was Johan Hennum living representatives of Swedish romanticism. Of the ten two of the most widely performed pieces of the posers of modern times. He has employed folk mate¬ of marshes and lakes. For over five centuries Finland Thrane. After the dissolution of the Lyceum, the (1836-94). Under his successor, Per Winge (born youngest school of song-writers, Vilhelm Stenhammar, was thereafter a province pf Sweden The inter¬ hour—Fruhhngsrauschcn and the delightful song rial in his works, but they are not so representative on ♦ Philharmonic Society was formed in 1847. One of its 1858), opera has also been cultivated with great success. born 1871, stands pre-eminent. * * * In W. Peterson- course between the people of Sweden and those of Syhtn’s Song. He has written a violin concerto that the whole as are the works of Grieg. His early studies first leaders was the clever pianist and thorough Berger’s Swedish songs the tender, melancholy national Finland naturally resulted in making the Finns a race has been very popular with performers upon that instru- Swedish Musical Developments were conducted at the Conservatoire at Stockholm, but theorist and composer, Carl Arnold (1794-1873), who, tone is reflected. Hugo Alfven, Tor Aulin and E. Aker- strongly Scandinavian in type. In 1721 Peter the ment. There is also a pianoforte concerto which de¬ lus principal work was done at Berlin, where he was on the whole, has done much towards the advancement The Swedish historian, Neander N. Cronholm, in his berg belong also, with others, to this group.” Sweden serves to be better known. His symphony in D minor a pupil of those stern German schoolmasters, Haupt SrUn3 BMP- I?arn °Tf F!n1and t0 the Russ'an Empire of Norwegian music. The society existed for 20 History of Sweden, devotes a chapter to music in has not yet produced a composer of the international and in 1809 Finland became a part of the land of the has been played by numerous orchestras since its com¬ and Kiel. When he was thirty he made an extensive years, and was succeeded by the Musical Union Sweden, in which lie says, “Sweden has always been a fame of Grieg, Gade or Sibelius, but there are many Czar. Nevertheless, the Scandinavian feeling expressed position in 1890, and his chamber music and piano tour ot Europe visiting Paris, Munich, Venice and (Musikforeningen), which is still the only permanent musical country. Her earliest literature was poetry; younger composers who show promise of enriching the in Finnish nationalism is still said to be very strong pieces are of such high character that he will unques¬ Vienna. Since 1891, however, he has confined his concert company in Christiania (1900). The Musical her earliest history was written in rhyme; her early world with some of the boundless wealth stored up in The country of Sibelius is therefore one which mav tionably rank among the immortals of Scandinavia. laws were drawn up in verse and in that shape com¬ the. golden treasury of Swedish folk-music. properly be classed with the Scandinavian countries Union, whose object it is to perform concert music of all kinds, was founded in 1871 by the co-operation of mitted to memory. When victory had been gained in although under Russian rule. It is from the standpoint the famous Norwegian musician, Edvard Grieg, who battle, then the hard who could best sing the deeds of Early Musical Influences in Denmark YetPOtPhe m01!’ ! °p e'h3lf th£ Size of New York City valor and heroism was the man to win the . highest Vet the meeting of Russian and Scandinavian culture was afterwards joined by his friend, Johan Svendsen. During the Elizabethan period, when England was has proved works of large and ™[e These two talented men, with their strong, warm approval of the grim old Vikings. Hence we have pre¬ in, the zenith of its musical glory, many English Education and progress, often under huge difficulties interest in the musical art of their country, obtained, served in the Elder Edda words of wisdom expressed musicians visited the court of Denmark. Professor has marked the recent history of Finland although during the time that they conducted, quite brilliant in beautiful, poetic language. These strains were sung Dr. Angul Hammerich, of the Copenhagen University, a university was established in “the country of a results, in spite of the very insufficient material upon by the people, who committed them to memory from in a paper read before the International Musical So¬ thousand lakes” very shortly after the first Puritan which they had to work. Since then the Musical Union childhood, singing them in seclusion as well as in ciety in London, 1911, reminds us that at this period pilgrimages to America. Puritan has been conducted by Ole Olsen, Johan Selmer and company.” English music flourished under peculiarly favorable Understanding these significant facts about Finland Iver Holter. In the history of Swedish music the first place is conditions—“the bare mention of names of such masters As Grieg’s part in Norwegian music has been fre¬ assigned to the singing society of the students of as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Morley, % ZStS£**~ quently dealt with elsewhere in The Etude, there is Upsala University. The foundation of this society was Thomas Weelkes, John Dowland, John Willbye, John Jean Sibelius was born on December 8 1865 at no need to go into it here. But “Grieg’s history,” says laid during the years 1625 to 1630 under the leadership Bennett and many others sounds like the fan fa r» of Tavastehus, a tiny city in southwest Finland. As in the official report, “cannot he written without mention¬ and direction of Jonas Columbus, Professor of Poetry trumpets in our ears.” Christian IV engaged the fore¬ the case of Schumann, Handel, and others, he was first ing two earlier pioneers in the domain of national art, and Music at the University of Upsala. The students most of these—John Dowland—for the Royal Chapel destined for the law. However, he became a pupil of namely Kjerulf and Nordraak.” Haldane Kjerulf loved music and songs, and cultivated them with energy in Copenhagen. “The Danish King most assuredly Wegehus at the Helsingfors Conservatory.? AfteJ (1815-67) was the first great pioneer of national music. and zest. The greatest influence on the musical culture must have been well pleased with Dowland, for he paid graduation he went to Berlin, where he studied with His youth and time of development were passed during of Sweden was exerted by the talented musical genius, him royally, giving.him a salary of 500 Daler annually,” a period of fermentation that began between 1830 and Becker, and then to Vienna where he came under the J. C. X. Haffner (1759-1833), who prepared most says Dr. Hammerich. “This was an unprecedented 1840. His musical feeling found expression chiefly in instruction of the noted master Goldmark. He also excellent music for the Church Hymn Book; music price for those times, placing the English artist on a romances, of which he composed about one hundred. had instruction from Fuchs and Bargiel. His gen us which came home to every member of the community. financial footing with the Admiral of the Realm, who In his Norwegian songs we find in bud the national He wrote and collected many musical compositions in received the same salary.” Quite a number of English feeling which has burst into full bloom in Grieg. Yet connection with the folk-lore of the common people. artists were engaged following the great lutenist, and more closely does the national tone ring out in Kjerulf’s Abraham Mankel has lately added new tunes to the nearest inheritor, Rikard Nordraak (1842-66). In the Danish musicians were also sent to England to study hymns of the Church Hymn Book. under English masters. all too few years of his life, he had not, indeed, the Fortunately he has been enabled to continue his work Outside of Upsala University, many musicians and opportunity of creating any really great work, hut he In later years Denmark has repaid her early debt to at composition so that in middle life he is already composers have adorned the pages of Sweden’s musical musical England. Queen Alexandria, as all the world was nevertheless one of the most gifted pcrsohalities history, such as J. H. Roman (1694-1758), H. F. John¬ recognized as a master. While his first works have knows, was a Danish princess before she married the that Norwegian art has ever fostered. He was a man son (1717-79), the genial Krause (1756-92) ; the evidences of his German training it must he Prince of Wales—afterwards King Edward VII. She with a bold, fresh way of looking at things, strong renowned and in maffy ways accomplished musician and membered that even under so'WL ■ e" has exerted great influence on the music of England artistic instincts, an untiring love of work, and deep composer, L. Hjortsberg (1772-1843); Bellman, the Goldmark, he was found an unfuly pupil “„ °-nty as and recognition was made of this fact when one of national feeling. He had decided influence upon his poet and composer, and Professor E. Geijer, poet and follow paths of his own finding Hislatt l° the leading English universities conferred on her the friend Grieg’s artistic views, and is the connecting link composer who with Afzelius did so much to save from Johan Gustav Sjo6ren. marked not only by the folk-music of his native^and degree of Doctor of Music. King Edward was no between Kjerulf and Grieg, in the chain of Norwegian oblivion the songs and music of the people. Mention but by that wonderful blending of the mysticism 0f the doubt influenced by her when he founded the Roval musical art. must also be made of Ivar Hallstrom, a productive Jean Sibelius. College of Music in 1883. * 719 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE Three Etude Prize Winners OTTO MERZ LAURA REMICK COPP GEORGE DUDLEY MARTIN The brilliant composition, While known to Etude Born at Scranton, Pa. j„ The Surf (Le Ressac) with readers for her charming and 1881, Mr. George Dudley which Mr. Merz has secured instructive articles, Miss Copp Martin has remained true to the Third Prize in Class 1 has not previously appeared his native city, leaving it only (Concert Pieces for Piano before us as a composer. As to go to Philadelphia for a Solo) of The Etode Prize winner of the third prize while to study piano win, Contest is a very excellent in Class 4 (Easy Teaching Constantin von Sternberg and selection in which solidity of Pieces) with her delightful composition with Dr. Hugh writing exists side by .side Gaily Tripping she makes a A. Clarke, Professor of Music with melodious fancy. Otto gracious entry into the music at the University of Pennsyl¬ Merz was born November 30, section of The Etude. She vania. Previous to this he 1877, of German parents in was born in Illinois, but comes had studied piano with Silas what was then Allegheny • of an old Eastern family. Rosser of Scranton and with City, but is now the North Music study began early in Dr. Alfred Woolcr. Side of Pittsburgh, Pa. At life, Miss Copp’S mother be¬ Mr. Martin has a decided the age of seven lie com¬ ing an excellent pianist. talent for writing pieces of menced the study of the vio¬ Laura Reuick Copp Later came study in Chicago the salon type—pieces that under Eugene Eager. Other lin and harmony under E. R. are attractive and melodious teachers in America have been George W. Proctor in Kappeler of Pittsburgh. To this was added piano and at the same time devoid of the banalities of so- study when he was twelve years old. Until his twenty- Boston, r.nd Mrs. Eannie Bloomficld-Zeisler. A few years ago,.Miss Copp went to Vienna and became a called “popular music.” It is quite in keeping with second year Mr. Merz devo'cd himself to teaching, but poetic justice, therefore, that he should have won a gradually has turned his attention more toward orches¬ pupil of Theodore Lesclietizky. prize—the second—in the 3rd Class (Pieces in Dance tral playing, composition, arranging and editing. Miss Copp studied theory of music and composition form) of The Etule Prize Contest Virions of ihe In this field he has been very successful, arranging at the New England Conservatory of Music, and under Dance is a valse which will appeal to many with its songs and other pieces for orchestra and military band. Adolf Weidig of Chicago. She also studied singing gracefulness and spirit. Mr. Martin has written a He has scored two complete musical comedies, and under Mme. Ragna Limie. Pier general education was not neglected, and after graduating from Hall number of pieces of this type among which may be has frequently had commissions for work of this, kind Ferry Seminary, Lake Forest, Ill., she went to Smith College. from John Philip Sousa. As a composer Otto Merz noted the valses Eros, Little Lovers, Sweet Souvenir Gaily Tripping is one of a little set of teaching pieces is already known to Etude readers, having been winner and Pittoresque, and the airs de ballet. La Ballerina, so suitable for their purpose that it is not surprising Coquettcrie, IVood Nymphs; also To a Portrait, of a second prize in a previous contest with his to learn that Miss Copp has been very successful in Polacca Brillantc. Felicitations March, and the song One Day / Gathered her work as a' teacher. Roses. Educational Notes on Etude Music By Preston Ware Orem RUSTf-E of spring—c. sinding. IN VIENNESE STYLE-H. AILBOUT. IHfc. FOUR HAND NUMBERS. This is the most popular pianoforte composition of The Vienna waltzes have always been famous for a a famous contemporary Scandinavian composer. It is certain piquant character and movement peculiar to The two movements from Grieg’s "Peer Gynt Suite" a favorite recital number. It will require careful themselves. They are like no other waltzes and they AsPs Death and A ultra’s Dance, call for little' comment. practice in order to make it go well. The left hand serve in a measure to reflect the gay and volatile o o these pieces have become very popular con¬ melody must sing out strongly and the accompaniment temperament of the Viennese populace. Mr. Ailbout’s cert numbers. Although originally for orchestra they must go very steadily. In a few passages where the waltz is a very clever example of this type of com- sound exceedingly well in the four hand arrangements. rhythmic problem of seven against eight is to he found, pos.tion It must not be played in strict time and it When used in connection with the Peer Gynt reading it we would suggest that this be not figured out mathe¬ should be taken throughout with a great deal of freedom. Grade 3%. will add to the effect if the triangle be used to mark the matically, but that the parts for each hand be practiced time in Anitra s Dance. separately until they go well in exact time and then finally put together. Grade 7. WHY?—E. KROHN. SHEPHERD GIRL’S SUNDAY (VIOLIN AND My?, is a very graceful and interesting drawing PIANO)—OLE BULL CRESCENDO!—P. LASSON room piece. Its title should suggest the pleading character of its interpretation. It is a good example This melody, supposedly from an old folk song, used Copyright 1915 by Theo Presser Co British Copyright Secured This fine composition is the work of another modern to be a favorite of the violinist Oie Bull by whom it Scandinavian writer. It is exactly what is implied by Grade6 3S%gmS ^ ^ appHed t0 pianoforte paying. its title a crescendo. The eloquent theme is worked up ST"gCd' ^ h3S 3PPCa-d various arrangements! - a song, as a piano solo, etc., but in all t!ic WHY? gradually to a tremendous climax. This must he care¬ NORWEGIAN HUNTERS’ MARCH—W. P. MERO. fully managed by the player and will take considerable Diatonic1611*! gCneral harmonic scheme is similar, SONG WITHOUT WORDS ERNST KROHN practice. Grade 5. This cheerful and interesting march movement is certain L CS °f themselves to a Andante affetuoso m m J-72 based on a number of old folk themes which in former the Scania658 °f harmonic treatment of which all times used to be sung while on the march. Grade 3. CUPID’S DART—L. DANNENBERG. S-SSWKT Gri,B h “ Cupid’s Dart is a striking bit of ballet music by a DRIFTING AND DREAMING—C, W. KERN contemporary American writer. This composition fills A very pretty easy teaching piece with two con¬ march in E (PIPE ORGAN) R. BARRETT. a two-fold function. Tt makes an effective piano solo tras ed themes. The first theme should be played lazily for recital or drawing room purposes and it is also a as though drifting along. The second theme should very ablT writer .dlgn,fle<* march movement by a splendid number for fancy dancing. We have heard be taken at a brisker pace, suggesting the troubled and it does not sound ^ ^ °rgan ahso]"'x'* it used for this latter purpose with telling effect. As visions of the dreamer. Grade 2%. Piano niece or J , d ,an arrangement from a a piano solo it will afford excellent practice in double so often employedTn orgln P’eCC' i^ kC>’ °f E ’S n0t INDIAN REVEI—P. BROUNOFF. notes, in the staccato touch, ahd in the-broad singing very brilliant. The player iff ?'* neverthc,css style. It will prove useful as a study in interpretation. Mr. Brounoff excels in characteristic pieces of various Grade 5. effect; w’S Pa»tiCU,Iarly f°£d of 0rientaI and Indian effects. Indian Revel is an effective example. Grade 3. ve on organs of any size. VALSE BRUNE—G. N. BENSON. TRUMPETER OF THE GUARD-G. HORVATH. THE VOCAL NUMBERS. This is a taking recital number in the “running” style. Waltzes of this type, based on the continuous A bright little military march based on familiar love R°*e|he,ley’f effective figure of eighth notes, must be played very steadily and trumpet themes, well worked out musically. Mr at a rapid pace in order to attain the best effect. A Horvath has been very successful with his various teaching pieces and invariably has somethin^ new tn light and scintillating touch is required. Grade 4. say. Grade 2%. ° attractive and cSacter"t° » an suitable for encore ^rpo£ ^ wH1 pr0VC 1 T THE ETUDE 720 THE ETUDE 3 4 5 4 4 ? 1 1 •i 4 2 1 If—» dim. fr^rr if ^-*—* *-^ z — - - 2 4 5 2 4 DRIFTING AND DREAMING Andante m. m. J = 4 / 1 ^ ! i j,—| 1 - ' h—n_^ ■==L I'fjr =f _ Ur V. ^ 4 .j ^ f±r~T: 3 5 4 3 5 % L-e-1— j,— Piumosso J =63 5 4 3 Copyright 1915 by Theo.Presser Co. International Copyright Secured British Copyright Secured 1 722 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE Prize Composition THE SURF Etude Contest LE RESSAC ETUDE DE CONCERT OTTO MERz British Copyright Secured ^ From here go back to ^ and play to A; then go to B. THE ETUDE 785 INDIAN REVEL iil Sgglpllliii mm J7T3J J 1 THE ETUDE 727 THE ETUDE VISIONS OF THE DANCE GEORGE DUDLEY MARTIN 8"-Vi 8- Copyright 1915 by Theo. Presser Co. British Copyright Secured THE ETUDE 729 TZH THE ETl'DE ASE’S DEATH ASE’S DEATH ASES TOD EDVARD GRIEG, Op. 46. No.2 ASES TOD EDVARD GRIEG, Op. 46, No. 2 JL_ Andante doloroSo M.M.J=48 Primo Andante doloroso M. M. J = 48 Secondo , ANITRA’S DANCE ANITRA’S DANCE Tempo'di Mazurka M. M. 160 EDVARD GRIEG, Op.46, No.3 A. 132H2 *3232 5- i.5, 3- r4 5- ) r\ /TN ^ i *l*gi 1 3 2 a) Play 8.11 the trills in the i —L' 781 THE ETUDE 732 THE ETUDE RUSTLE OF SPRING- fruhlingsrauschen. Christian Sinding ,Op.32 ,No.3. jp erase. K. f ~#f .. ^ ' b»*- : 1 --^ Hp —r^== .} : - ytf- Ef Biiijilim ElCCUCSsS BSMacsaca if rri ■ p pr1 1 ■ ^ 3 J- __-'"' ^ •" ---- * THE ETUDE THE ETUDE CRESCENDO I PER 1 CUPID’S DART NOVELLETTE Allegretto (tempo rubato) m. m.J = 96 LOUIS DANNENBERG Allegretto Sf A j, i . g - ■5 -5 ■# * accel. 7 V i a tempo ~_— accel. f ,{ T T ^ cJ V A 4± ititP-mPm „—" i\ k s 4 ^ ^ ' 3 ' 1 t 1 J Li 1 0 0 molto Andante sost. rail. a tempo rit___ accel. -**» 0 n ">s* ^-- 40* 7 p r accel. a tempoz==— \ ra//. —■-; a tempo .. £ f leggiero e A-^^' 1 4B3SSST 4^o.. last time to Coda -0- 5 ^±M 2 , > 1 * Z*p 7^k". f*-"”*' ' egualmente 5 cresc strepitoso rim* fj ■* P '1 r , scintillante ^ A pi^n^endo _~ MS * -ttS *r^~p- itf tf ■ jf _ ^ f _ U ITT# 1 r~0 - 1 r 0 -.1 _ ML Copyright 1915 by Theo. Presser Co. British Copyright Secured, 1 739 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 738 Allegretto quasi primo tempo Mol to mono mosso Allegro con brio m.m.J.= 84 VALSE BRUNE ^ 3 " dP-ik ffrfvA ' f i.t hilt > .m ^l-ub| ivp- ■fTT^ rrtn7^i —\-Fr F'f-W-f- TPI^ L—U r --.. #-*- Pm # *- f-=r # » f r - * r r lCl unfit* m w U j-f-g w Copyright 1915 by Thep. Presser C< British Copyright Seen' THE ETUDE 741 the etude 740 5 ffi g- • f. |J: A A i i* f ^ „ ^ ^ f * s •f.^rrl pfpf k l f—a5-F m ' 1 A —-".2 ^ "* u > ^ ^ n TRUMPETERS OF THE GUARD Tempo di Marcia m.m. J=iao GEZA HORVATH 3 ■DM 3 2/—. — ^ 4 .paa eS^ pSj p ~/JXlFine% h* a 8 TRIO 5 “ 6 8 4 -5 8 3 < t T >„-; 5 Nte^ •r^Tnir^ 3 i* J^P m 1 W p B§ m 2J 2 3 jjpjste fe|p Up* Pi P P : ^ ^ y, jt«p =rf= J|| -X_M=ZZ=g^ :l^Tl =^H ■■=j - J 1 -H 1J I- 5 *1 5 1"-J- 1 r J--¥ 5 3 2 ^ 13 Trip '— -j- isgsp pp D.C. P w - ' f f • 8<> J * y Ei*J¥i it, , r ^ From here go to the beginning and play to Fine-, then,play Trio. Copyright 1915 byTheo. Presser Co. International Copyright Secured THE ETUDE 743 Gt.open Diap. SHEPHERD GIRL’S SUNDAY Edited by Frederick Hahn SAETERJENTENS SONDAG Adagio M.M. J =72 0LE BULL THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 745 744 TWO LITTLE BROWN EYES rit. a tempo You will fling Sum-mer a - cross my dark day, Brown eyes, Brc >wn eyes, lin - ger a - w hile, A ■ ,! J 1 . -~iy~rr7ru1 m- 1 m1- J 1 ,i H <0 p 5* ^ J ■ [ —«-m j —&0 - - —75 r LB' ■ ’ P T 1 ^ 1 -- - ffi: — fl g P ,4Jt—t-LJe—W—«—---&' r r f k 1Y V r1 [ Efrbhfr -m- j -j 1 i * a i . cresc. cresc. wd accel. f ' P =E a • 1 P" If Pi f= Hr r r- §-[——1—L 4 - P1 -1. 1 M 'T..r 1-f'T ~F= *■■ ‘.r ■ * - v Send me just one bit of a smile, And from my heart it shall nev- er de - part, J-it, f tig ' F Y g j i ■j/---.; H—i -tl> |* B~"~: g;q -P ill cresc. eft ’ accel. ^- r r ■— \ ?-- -M r F. r.J 4= 1 r—- r. /►, i , m//. /7S br'own /T\ Two lit ” tilC) true lit tie | 1 k YiLjJj 1 j 1 j —^ i-L it } L? : uEPi| 5 fPL rv p * = P -rfr'- ; j>. s. < A 1 colla voce a tempo -Y+- i| w- 1 /T\ iHm yy MY HEART’S DESIRE THE ETUDE 747 THE ETUDE poco rit. 746 Richard Mansfield and Hans von Biilow When Hans von Biilow, the celebrated Von Billow recognized that this was a German pianist, first came to Boston he new sort of critic. He was not a little [ICH-#*BACH stayed at a house in Beacon street in a interested. He immediately seated him¬ room immediately beneath that occuped self at the keyboard and explained the by Richard Mansfield. At that time fine points of each passage, at once an¬ VlfltmQuality PIANOS Mansfield was not even connected with swering the eager questions of the young the stage. His mother, the distinguished interviewer. As time went on, Mansfield singer, Mme. Rudersdorff, also lived in himself became more and more absorbed. ^layer Pianos Eoston, but Richard Mansfield had cham¬ The conversation soon drifted to other bers of his own in Beacon street, where works of Beethoven and from that to a he lived the life of a fashionable young discussion on music generally. Presently gentleman—when funds permitted. One von Biilow turned and faced hifc inter¬ of his sources of livelihood was his work locutor; eying him shrewdly. “Young as music critic on an obscure Boston man,” he said, “you know more about newspaper now defunct. He did not care music than you led me to think.” very much for this work, for although at “No tpore than I have picked up at his mother’s home he came in contact home,” answered the future actor. with many of the world’s greatest musi¬ , “You have picked up a great deal,” ob¬ cians, and although he was himself gifted served von Biilow. “Yours must be a musically, he did not feel that he was destined for a musical career. very musical home.” Von Biilow’s first Boston concert was “My mother is Madame Rudersdorff,” announced for Monday; October 18, 1875, admitted Mansfield. and Mansfield was not a little disturbed “Madame Rudersdorff,” exclaimed the to find that he was expected to “criticise” pianist. “Madame Rudersdorff your the master’s playing. With a humility mother! I had no idea she was in Bos¬ rarely found among music Critics he ton. Take me to her instantly!” He realized that he was not in a position to rapidly put on his overcoat, seized his hat comment upon a von Biilow playing and cane and led the way downstairs. Beethoven. Learning, however, that the Boston, as everybody knows, is a city virtuoso was in the same house with him of winding streets. There was a short he determined upon an unusual course. cut available to Mme. Rudersdorff’s from With this in view, he paid a visit to von the top of Beacon street to the corner Biilow. of Boylston and Tremont, and then “Her von Biilow,” said Mansfield, “I straight across the north end of the Com¬ am music critic on one of the Boston ideal mon. Mansfield, however, led his com¬ ing to everyone newspapers and I find I am expecte'd to the technical attend your concert to-morrow night and panion a long circuitous route which took them past the State House, past the front ability to play to write a criticism on your performance. the world's To me it seems absurd that I should be windows of some of Boston’s most aris¬ most wonderful expected to sit in judgment on a master- tocratic inhabitants, and from thence music, the Kranich pianist like yourself performing a work through the fashionable shopping district & Bach Player of such a composer as Beethoven. I am which at that hour was crowded with Piano offers greater artistic possibili¬ obliged to-write something, however, and people. How much longer the journey ties and more permanent I would like to do it in a way that would would have continued is not known, for enjoyment than any other do justice to you and to myself. Won’t suddenly von Biilow grew suspicious. player piano, or any othe you be good enough to tell me something “Young man,” he thundered, “you are form of musical instrument. about the concerto and your views as to showing me off. Take me to your mother its interpretation?” instantly.” Our Golden Anniversary Booklet wijl help you to understand JUBILEE PLAYER why the Kranich & Bach is musically pre-eminent. Mailed Price, $700 on request. Typography of Programs F. 0. B. NEW YORK KRANICH & BACH By Edwin H. Pierce 233-243 East 23d ,Street NEW YORK CITY There lies on my desk a recital pro¬ Two Songs by Schubert gram, in which are several instances of Miss Smith-Jones, soprano. carelessness. Happening to know that the 5. The use of unsuitable type, or of too player is a musician of solid attainments many different fonts of type in the same and quite wide reputation, I feel that he program. General blurring or mussiness’ A MASTERLY INTERPRETATION is perhaps merely the victim of misplaced, of effect, arising from unskillful press conhdence in an ignorant printer, but work. '■ere he an entire stranger to me, the im¬ pression upon me would be a very 6. Careless use of punctuation. In the bad one. program to which I have alluded there SCHUBERT’S One should learn to prepare copy for a occurs a line like this : Printed program most carefully. Prelude and Fugue, in G. min. J. S. Bach. FAMOUS SONG Among the more common blunders to The comma after “Fugue,” and the , , observed in many programs are the period after “G” are both incorrect, and DER WANDERER allowing: even the word “minor” would look better The misspelling of a composer's if not abbreviated. Made expressly for THE ETUDE “arae4as “Rubenstein” for Rubinstein. The tendency to-day, among those who by 4 The misspelling of musical terms, or know, is to use fewer punctuation marks ? najnes of instruments, as “violincello” than formerly. For example: of violoncello, under the false supposi- MR. DAVID BISPHAM n10.11.. ^la*: the word is derived from Prelude and Fugue in G minor Bach 3. The use of an obsolete or discredited is now considered slightly better form than WILL APPEAR IN THE ISSUE OF THE ETUDE orm of a word, as “clarionet” for Prelude and Fugue in G minor. Bach. clarinet. FOR NOVEMBER, 1915 4. Arbitrary change of order in the There is a growing sentiment against the much abused custom of soliciting ourse of a program, one line reading, -i) Mr. Bispham icauersan unusual opportun *°r instance: business advertisements and printing them Beethoven Sonata Opus 13 on a concert program. It savors too & friends'Interest! at>d the next strongly of a crude commercialism. Please mention THE ETUDE when addressing our advertisers. ' THE ETUDE 749 748 THE ETUDE SCHILLING’S LATEST PUBLICATIONS ^Tbe Upper Tenor Tones and How Every Tew A Perfect Dramatic Prose Reading of Peer Gynt Complexion {Continued frdm Page 704) Department for Singers es and How Every Soprano Gives that deli¬ , ■( ,.„nrPrn cer who had haunted him on the ship » Editor for October, the Noted Voice Specialist fixed High Chest to be deceived again. Her chi striving to lay hold of the little boat now. cately clear and XIII to get his jewels, h>s_ opals^and his gtnjgglcg wildly h grjsp g, SO cents, refined com¬ Music. • OTTO TORNEY SIMON ‘Training. Invaluable to Singers, s of String In- plexion which purse of gold. She begs him coyly, the upturned keel, but misses it, and ample copies, 10c. The Death of Ase from the First Peer every woman Peer’s hapless life is saved. akers. Published Gynt Suite, Opus 46 No. 2 been used from desires. Keeps "Give me that ring upon your finger.” and found unfail- ttaway skin Edvard Grieg. XXI. developing a fine Jtr' •' troubles. S This may he obtained arranged for piano Peer hands it to her, saying Peer Gynt’s Salvation solo, piano duet, violin solo and string quartet. . , , . Gouraud’s For• string quartet h is especially effective. ^ Swet Anitra, the whole of Returning to his home village, un¬ wuere a string qu;- --- known and forgotten, save as a legend, Breath-Control, the Basic Act of Singing the violin solo is slightly preferable the worthless trash.” piano solo and piano duet arrangements, Peer linds the people of the town auction- Educational Music Books of so desired the music pni.v he commenced pWy- _ OrientalCreaml Anitra dances for Peer and he i de- jng off his old belongings. Still haunted The application of effective breath- singing is largely dependent on physique, tion in the upper chest cavity. For SPECIAL OFFER: A liberal ing very softly Rare Value lirious with joy. by his evil spirits, that constantly taunt control in singing is the “keystone to the for if these muscles are weak the dia¬ pathological reasons, also, this process is trial bottle-enough for 10 him with his weaknesses and his errors, arch” upon which all correct technique Indispensable to Teacher and Pupil days’ use will be sent on re- ■ phragm quickly collapses, the air rushes to be avoided, as it may result in serious Peer longs to meet Solveig once more. : ceipt of 10c, stamps or coin. I XIV XVII and all greater vocal art depend. To ex¬ outward, and sustained singing becomes and injurious prolapse of vital organs. At Druggists and Department Stores | When he secs her in her humble home plain this, and how such correct action impossible. Effective breath-control is- Necessary, correct and complete infla¬ Vol. 3 and 4 (Elen I Peer Gynt Abroad Music. Bullock’s Modern M TBRD^T.^HOPKINSJc cson j he exclaims remorsefully, may be obtained, has always been the therefore the result of correctly and tion involves the following action: The After his mother’s death Peer Gynt, Anitra’s Dance from the First Peer Pupin’s Practice of tl most sought for truth among students of definitely applied muscle-action which re¬ true to his love for adventure, rushes oil Gynt Suite Opus 46, No. 3 lower ribs in the back and sides are well a "There, ah—there, was my empire? singing, and to-day it is as eagerly sought to the coast . o.L Morocco. There we sec sults in breath-economy. The body extended as an essential factor in flatten¬ for as in the past. The desired char¬ should always be master of the breath ing the diaphragm. At the same moment him a handsome, middle-aged gentleman, accompaniment. Solveig stands at the door dressed for acteristic of a basic tone in singing is and of the tone.. ihe lower abdomen, as-additional support, dressed in the fashion of the day and church. Peer notes the Psalm Book in one of steadiness, equal weight, evenness, bearing gold-rimmed eye-glasses at the XVIII her hand, and flinging himself at her feet To “breathe naturally” is a precept that is drawn inward and upward into the and of control in any dynamic, the result does not originate with the thinker or ex- arch of the diaphragm, and held there. Keep your Studio end of a long chain. He is entertaining Peer Gynt in the Tempest he says, a cosmopolitan party of adventurers of proportionately equal emission each Now comes the physical act of stringency Once in the possession of Peer’s jewels dinner which iS spread on matting "Hast thou doom for a sinnert moment the breath passes outward over of muscles upon which breath control Sweet and Clean steam and his purse, Anitra mounts an Arab ground. In the distance is seen a Then speak it forth.” the vocal cords. Is the process of ob¬ el’.arger and dashes away over the desert. and economy depend. Call this act by yacht flying the Norwegian flag and the Solveig, the faithful, cries out gently, taining smoothness of the tone and the Peer curses his fate and all women. what name you will. The "locking of American flag. Peer Gynt has been in "He is here. Oh, Cod, be praised." cautilena of the phrase a psychological the diaphragm" may be well chosen as Dudley Buck the United States and has made a great ’The hussy; she was on .the very verge of act, is it a natural condition, is it the a name. It is a process as if one, with fortune. He boasts,' however, that he is "Cry out all vty sins and trespasses,” DUNTLEY Turning my head clean topsy-turvy. result of relaxation, is it the result of suddenness, outwardly and upwardly, t cosmopolitan. urges Peer. Ah, women, they are a worthless ere effort, is it the result of applied effort? tenses the muscles simultaneously tinder "In nought has thou sinned," weeps the TEACHER OF SINGING These are vital questions for the singer. the breast-bone and across the upper- ELECTRIC "By birth I am a Norwegian, Peer sails aboard a huge ship for the tr™t'"g1 S„°'vei?: Progress will be impossible until these middle back. Clench the fingers vigor¬ The long Northern night begins to But cosmopolitan in spirit. North Sea. There he finds himself in T1’e !onK questions are answered and the correct break into day. Shafts of sunlight ously into the palm of the hand and it Fall Term commences September 13th CLEANER For fortune such as I have enjoyed the midst of a wild tempest. Standing on r*;a , ° . . , , solution applied. However, there is a will give you a similar muscular activity. 1 have to thank America. the perilous deck at night Peer discovers asce"d Mj over ,he dark m,8£ of ^ definite answer—the solution is exact, and It is the feeling of stringency or tense¬ Opera Classes November 1st Attach to ordinary lamp locket. My amply furnished library that another passenger is waiting at his £°rd’ Solv^ murmurs t0 the toed progress will be immediate from the first ness of muscles. The diaphragm is now • It does not katter but removes the to Germany’s later schools. Peer, .. .. . side. No one sees the mysterious being appreciation of this basic act. The in¬ well extended and should be muscularly Aeolian Hall, New York City dirt from Carpets, Rugs, Draperies, From France again 1 get my waistcoats, jjUt peer_ Can this strange passenger be . . . Upholstered Goods and Polished My manners, and my spice of wit. death? ‘Thou has been in my faith, tn my hofe, strument of the human voice is part of a and at the same time easily held, as the floors.- physical organism. With a limited final inflation of the upper chest takes Cah be used as a blower for cleaning From England an industrious hand "What crazy creature is he?” asks the 1,1 ml> love> aU ihe timc” And keen sense for my own advantage, trembling Peer of the boatswain. monotony it serves also the purpose of NEW VOCAL MUSIC any musical instrument. conventional speech. In a nature aroused When ordering ask for special piano The Jew has taught me how to watt. «jr see no one but yourse}f" cries the 1,1 ,/lv !oz'c °h’ lhcrc’ Me ml’ When this has been done the breath “ON SALE” nozzle. Some taste for idle fancy boatswain through the storm. ' ‘ hidf mef whispers Peer, burying his face to greater warmth it may express with' is ready for controlled exit, and may be Operates on either director alter¬ I have received from Italy, "Then” shrieks Peer, "who went down ,n her ,aP increased tonal color and intensity the applied to the sustained tone. It will fewsmair^akag™seornewmu°icONrSALEnduring nating current. And one time in perilous pass that companion-way just now?” The sun towers gloriously over the exalted sentiments of the spoken word. flow outward, evenly, unrestrainedly, Write for prices and Information. To eke the measure of my days “No one but the'ship's dog,” sneers the hi,,s and a ncw day is thcirs- The morB‘ Between emotional speech and the automatically. DUNTLEY PRODUCTS SALES CO., I had recourse to Swedish steel.” cabin boy. ing music of the birds breaks the silence next step there is a time of pulsating Remember that the “locking of the tal^car^w^^tqp'the6aendlng^riy tfme.^Tboiwimds 732 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, III. Amid the deafening roar and turmoil and the clear sweet voice of Solveig is silence, for here an impressive art is diaphragm” does not mean its fixity, but they say ^it is most convenSeM to°have 8 or loTew Peer then tells his German, French, of the storm the ship founders in the sea. heard singing to the tired wanderer at born, an art that envelops the word with such a gradual shrinkage upward as to compositions coming along from time to time. We - - ' • ‘ * her feet. a gossamer of charm and lightness, that Otto Torney Simon. be almost imperceptible. As lon| as in this way; Tny or^lHoVsponsible pSs.™” dream to be Emperor of the World. XXII. colors it with innumerable richer tints of Initial Napkin Holder [Among tbe first masters ol Otto Torney there is this extension of the diaphragm THEO. PRESSER CO., Philadelphia, Pa. s is the very late deeper significance or that throws it Simon was Asger Namerik, the distinguished 5 - This he plans to become through the Music. the necessary breath for the new phrase itis might of gold. It has been his boyhood Music, under a spell of gloom as sombre as that Scandinavian composer of Copenhagen, Den¬ Solveig’s Song, mark. In his early student years he went to can always be taken easily and without ibie. ambition and is still his goal. Peer lays Peer Gynt’s Return Home of the deepest night—the art of singing. London, where he lived with Emil Behnke, ELOCUTION Second Peer Gynt Suite Opus 55, No. 4 restraint from the upper strata of the the his plans to conquer the universe and all Second Peer Gynt Suite Opus 55, No. 3 Music transfigures the word. A new the voluminous writer on the voice in its his friends gladly agree with him, but the Edvard Grieg Edvard Grieg. and added significance illuminhs what has scientific and art aspects. Later he collab¬ lungs. Without its extension the “re¬ orated with Marehesi in Paris, and also vis¬ covery” of the breath means “high aap- moment Jiis tack is turned they scheme _ " s should be played as a violin solo toe. heretofore been pedantic and conven¬ ited Italy, investigating the work and meth¬ .atr£ to steal his yacht and make away with his it may be Emitted If desired! a p 1110 duet but tional, and an inner slumbering spirit of ods of different studios. For the past twenty- chest” breathing, which is pernicious and two summers Mr. Simon has spent abroad, unsatisfactory. imily from baby to grandpa. fortune. the word is thus aroused. seeking the great things in musical art where 2Sc When Peer Gynt returns he finds them jjx Love and the Woman Musician Every teacher and student of the voice he could tind them. Besides conducting his Solid Sterling Silver ■ 7Sc gone. As lie watches the swiftly depart- Peer Gynt in the Open Sea should know something of its physiologi¬ vocal classes in Washington, D. C., for the Drink in the Tone Two-thirds actual I No teacher of the violin to-day occu* gold quoted on request >"g yacht he prays frantically that some- j lifeboat cal action. It is a matter of intelligence organization, the “Motet Choral Society," has So much for the physical side of sing¬ Prices in 10 and 14 kt r the shore Peer finds pies a more prominent place than Otto THE GEORGIAN COMPANY,- ---- Inc. thing may happen to stop her. A flash .. 1( . __ ,*.'7.. i’,cs a morc prominent piace u.«.. v..- and breadth to have this knowledge. written much on musical subjects, and has ing. After the "locking of the dia¬ Jewelers and Silversmiths of fire springs into the air from the °^P?! w'th ,the *hlPs cook- Scvcik. "’hose monumental pedagogical lectured before the Fine Arts societies of phragm,” and not before, or without its SALEM, MASS. yacht and in a moment all that is seen on ™eway*S S£’ke the b°at and she turns works have made him a sort of Czerny different cities.-—Editor or The Etude.] Broader Principles action, should we apply the psychological D. A. CLIPPINGER the water is a cloud of smoke. The ariSeS a.n.d among violinists. He lias produced sow pert. The “natural” breath is the breath AUTHOR OF The broader principles of voice-pro¬ suggestions. Now the critical judgment yacht has gone to the bottom. ® ot*le.r side of the most successful violinists of the of unpreparedness, is the breath of re¬ duction are well understood. These in¬ and correction of tone may and should Systematic Voice Training wlee°0Th h6ad eT.erfS ‘hrough tke d^y," and "sincrthese"britTani"ptipfls ar laxed muscles, resulting in the quick, be the psychological one. And one of Your Music Is Torn! waves, ihe men for £tFpossf*sion of both sexes, the following remarks of clude the vibration of the tiny vocal And Other Books on the Voice XV upward collapse of the diaphragm, and, the basic psychological suggestions is the of the craft, both knowing that it will n “ Sevcik’s are significant, and should at- hands in the larynx, caused by the out¬ The Solution of the HEAD VOICE Music. as such, is inadequate for sustained sing¬ precept of a great maestro: “Drink in keep up two. The cook screams : tract the attention of those who concern ward flow of the air passing over them, 414-415 KIMBALL HALL, CHICAGO, ILL. Arabian Dance from the Second Peer ing. To project tone through the sing¬ the tone.” In other words, if there is themselves with feminism and art: the elementary tone resulting therefrom, Multum-in-Parvo Binding Tape Gynt Suite, Opus 55, No. 2 "O, kind sir, spare me, ing-voice, so that it may fill immense the impression in the production of a B.ynrd roll or white linen or 10-yard “Girls don’t drink too much or smoke and its subsequent reinforcement in the reUofpaper, SB cent, each, postpaid. This is most effective when done In duet Think of my little ones at home!” resonating cavities, such as the chest, the space and satisfy acoustical laws, has tone that it is being drawn towards you, form hut may be omitted entirely from this inordinately, therefore they keep their and . not pushed outwardly from you, F. W. WODELL reading if desired. bodies in .better condition. Besides, look throat, the mouth, and the sinuses or primarily to do with vigorous and ap¬ SPECIALIZES IN Peer chuckles and answers: there exists the true breath-economy, re¬ what patience women have compared to hollow-bones of the face. plied body activity. Voice Production and Singing in English XVI The act of filling the lungs for artistic Inadequate, partial and unsatisfactory sulting from the right relationship of men! Perhaps at first a woman does pressure and resisting muscles. (Oratorio and Concert) Theo. Presser Co., Philadelphia, Pa. “I need my life far more than you. purposes requires an unusual enlarge¬ inflation occurs: Peer Gynt at the Arab Camp not put as much expression and feelitjfj In singing, after adjusting the physi¬ For I am alone and childless still?’’ ment of the chest-space, and this is 606 Pierce Building, Copley Square, BOSTON His faithless friends gone. Peer noi into her playing as a man, but wait ti“ If the upper part of the chest is ex¬ accomplished principally through the cal, we think the psychological. wanders to an Arab camp, where we nes «Let 00 ” Kmc 1 „ ske fal,s in love! Then the soul comes- panded without the requisite diaphragm descent of the diaphragm, a fibrous The sensation of stringency of the find him in the tent of an Arab chief o action; or, lived and I ZmyoZl” ^ W Howev"’ some remain as CoW U!?*m dome-shaped muscle extending through breathing muscles should remain during ----„ . an oasis in the desert. x..In the garb6a.u ofur a "Quick,” shouts Peer GW cve.r: Men’ too, have often no idea 0 If the diaphragm is abnormally ex¬ the center of the body and on which the the act of singing or speaking. Faulty E. PRESS0N MILLER and of prophet he is surrounded by a bevy of and sink, you drag us both down” "V°U fee lng’ and imagine that if they put tended, shown by the protruding lower Arranging Correction Mss. ■ungs rest. Such action is assisted by conditions of the closed throat, the firmly TEACHER OF • SPECIALTY girls, among whom is Anitra. They hail The cook sinks savinc the T a tremo1° theY Have done all that abdomen. In the latter case there will the intercostal muscles between the lower held larynx, the rigid chin, are all the him as “The Unerring One.” Peer, of Prayer, and Peer clambers ™ .t, s necessary. Kubelik lacked expression a always be difficulty in “recovering” the results of voice-production with this A. W. BORST, Presser Bldg., Phila., Pa. ^rse! Zh>.11. in "lovelove with Anitra,Anifr, nnlvonly nnJ ^ 1™"* VP 0,1 the W first, blit it Came to him 3S hegreW ribs, to which the diaphragm is attached SINGING only to discover that the ghostly passen- older.’’ breath quickly for the following phrase, essential body-activity incomplete or mis¬ at the back and sides. 826 Carnegie Hall New York City One may readily understand then, that and of renewing the breath to comple¬ understood THE ETUDE 751 750 THE ETUDE more sonorous upper-chest tones will re. and other muscles placed lower in the voice to its approximately original Two Important Physical Ex¬ gain their normal quality. back. These names also need not be The Restoration of the quality and freshness? The restorative ercises for the Singer Famous Singers Fraise It may be laid down as a rule that cor¬ remembered, but the muscles should be NATURALLY E£lr! Forced Voice principle is a definite one. The chest cavity has a distinct influ¬ rect resonance adjustment will result in located and exercised. Place the backs of r> TVTJO MENTHOL CANDY The desired quality of a tone in sing¬ The first consideration is rest for tired ence on the resonance of vocal tone, and e I absolutely know normal muscle activity of the vocal organ. the fingers of each hand across the Upper H/lN O COUGH DROPS ing should be one of aesthetic beauty. It and strained muscles. The practice of the liberal exercise of the muscles that Straij In the male voice similar changes of middle back, under the arms somewhat is a quality that is not always recognized singing should entirely cease for some register exist, namely the upper ami enclose it will add to the vibrance and Let LUDEN’S guard your voice at each side. Now tense the muscles — keep nasal passages clear, by the pupil, whose standards of criti¬ weeks, and the speaking voice should be lower-chest tones, and the highest tones timbre of the voice in singing. In the re¬ under the fingers, press outward and and throat healthy. No cism and judgment are undeveloped. To gently and carefully used. All thought of the voice known as the "covered” or inforcement cavities of the mouth, the sidewards, and alternately tense and relax narcotics: no color- produce and cultivate this basic tone of of fulness and sonority of tone should “mixed” voice. These registers are all nose, and the sinuses of the face, the> I ing. Have many uses. aesthetic beauty throughout the entire be abandoned. The problem will be to subject to deterioration if forced beyond physical formation is fixed. A moderate’ ten times. As the pressure is made, the YVM. H LUDEN GEO. CHADWICK STOCK compass of the voice is a matter of eliminate the chest quality where alone their legitimate limits. chest-enlargement, however, above the chest will also open frontwards, and the Teacher of Singing ILI Mann'acturing Confectioner the pure medium voice should exist. normal, may be made by the exercise of diameter of the chest will be increased. y !!>e Studios: 152 Temple St., New Haven, Conn. scientific knowledge and keen musical The upper tones of the male voice are, READING. PA. certain muscles, and this increase of space Keep the shoulders well hack, the lower Phones 4504—5851 perception which are found in the skilled Under this treatment, in its first stages, when rightly developed, of sombre beauty, and successful masters of singing of the injured tones of the lower-medium sonorous and of rich tonal color. To and activity of muscles is not only abdomen drawn inward, and do this to-day. In the old Italian school the voice will be weak, wavering and un¬ sing these with the open quality is a significant in the formation of the lower series a number of times daily. By daily training was one of empiricism alone, certain. usual fault but a most unwise act, for tones of the voice, but also in the higher practice an unusual development of these based on the keen and intuitive sense for What is the further corrective process ? it leads, as in other register-forcing, to registers. The struggle of a singer, with muscles will take place, and the act of the tone of beauty. The success of this It will be to work downward from the a section of the voice, the tones of which flat and undeveloped upper chest, to pro¬ singing will be one of greater control THE EDUCATION OF THE DOSSERT school in producing great singers through highest tone of the injured register to become more and more pinched, metallic duce her upper tones, is a vision of dis¬ and the voice become more vibrant and immense routine is recorded. Its in¬ the lowest. And the reason for this and unmusical, resulting eventually in tress that is not infrequently seen by an sonorous. VOCAL STUDIOS numerable failures through incompetent lies in the fact that the forcing process the uselessness of the vocal organ to re¬ audience. Reaching upward with the MUSIC TEACHER MR. & MRS. FRANK G. DOSSERT teaching are not noted. Since the inven¬ not having exceeded probably three or flect a beautiful art. head, facial grimaces, and other contor¬ ormerly of Paris—Now in New York tion of the laryngoscope, by Garcia, four semi-tones upwards would leave the tions and rigidity of muscles is a usual Thomas Tapper’s Latest and Most Helpful Book - PRICE, $1.50 scientific investigation has been added as highest tones unimpaired and normal. accompanying condition. The “psycho¬ The Equipment of the Singer Suite 1204-1205 Carnegie Hall a valuable adjunct to the intuition and With this quality as a model, the tones “Poise” and How It May Be logical” tone will not promptly respond “Have I the qualifications and the gifts The movement for a more thorough education of the music teacher Residence Studio fine sense of hearing of the musician. below should be gradually colored, grad¬ Quickly and Surely Gained to the will with such physical defects. to become a successful singer?” is a is national in its scope. 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There should be the glow of health. at all, this name may be as good as any duction of the chest register be given come uncontrolled and ineffectual for appearance in the decollete gown is not There should be keen intelligence, an other,-so we will call them registers of with a light weight and color, so as to Erasable Silicate Folding Music Slate.price 40 cents voice-emission. Unfortunately it is this what they wish. For the singer, also, acute musical and rhythmical sense, and Liberal Discounts to the Profession the voice. . blend more easily with the lower- very diaphragm-control in singing that is there is a desired development of this especial- gifts of imagination and spirit. THEO. PRESSER CO., 1712 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Bfoadly speaking, the voice may be medium register. For after all this is necessary. So, if there be a definite way space that encloses the apex of each The musical sense is generally shown in divided into chest, medium, and head to be remembered, that the object of to guard against diaphragm-collapse that lung, and the manner of doing this will the predisposition for musical tone, the register, with sub-divisions of upper- training by registers, is register adjust¬ may happen when a singer meets the up¬ now be explained. Across the upper appreciation of its essential beauty, and chest tones and upper-medium tones. You don’t have to HUNT for your Music ment as to weight and tonal color, so as turned faces of an expectant audience, back there is a muscle. called the the ability to distinguish musical intervals. This is the point to remember, namely, or Records—you simply go and GF.T the to make a homogeneous instrument, and this will be the direct means for gaining “Trapezius” muscle. We need not re¬ In the feeling for rhythm there should selection you want, if your Music and that each register will have a distinctive not the separation of the voice into dis¬ poise and will give the requisite ease and member the name, but the essential is to exist that finer appreciation of metrical Records are kept in the efficient quality and resonance, and also its tinct sections. confidence of presentation. locate it and exercise it. Place the pulse and nuance that will give the cor¬ definite limits. If one register is car¬ TINDALE WAY The same principle of working down¬ The remedy exists, is definite, and is fingers of the right hand on the back of rect and satisfying dramatic inflection to ried beyond its legitimate boundary into wards should be applied to any forced easily applicable before the entrance to the left shoulder, just between. the tip syllable, word or phrase, subordinating in T'mdale Music and Record Cabinets the next higher, the blight of forcing -register of the female voice. the stage or platform. of the shoulder and the neck. Now, enable you to have the same con¬ and deterioration of the voice will result. dynamical stress the unessential to the Hugh A. Clarke,Mus- d°c- At B natural, third line, treble clef, It is simply the application, before en¬ tense this muscle under the finger-tips, venience and efficiency in the home A register forced Upwards into the next essential. In technical study there should the upper-medium tones begin.- The tering the concert room, of those prin¬ press outward and upward ten times, and be a special cleverness for assimilating that the progressive business man higher series of tones has the influence demands in his office. vowels in this register should all be ciples of breathing that have already In Harmony, Counterpoint of a parasitic plant, it gradually absorbs alternately relax. If the fingers of the and co-ordinating all the different pro¬ darkened and given greater sonority than been suggested in the article on “Breath- are made in all kinds of woods and with and Composition and destroys. So important is register- other hand are lightly placed on the front cesses, physical and psychological, that ics. Sold on cash or monthly payments, those below. Too frequently the vowel control.” They include the gentle exten¬ of the chest opposite the tension, muscu¬ are necessary in the formation of tone. cent on approval if desired. Write for 4618 CHESTER AVE., PHILADELPHIA, PA. adjustment for the development of tonal color of the upper and lower medium sion of the diaphragm, which movement Record Cabinet Catalot No. IX or Music Cabinet Catalog No. 1Y beauty that one may say, that country in lar activity and protuberance will also be In interpretation also, judgment, selection tones are erroneously reversed, the lower, may be felt under the breast-bone and felt here. At first, little activity of the and a finer taste should be ever present. TINDALE CABINET COMPANY ?itt°3«hullsdtln^ 81®1“ which its principle is best understood by unnatural depression of the larynx] across the upper-middle back, with the “Trapezius” muscle will be noticed, but Emotion should be tempered by the in¬ and practiced, will be known as the land being given abnormal darkening of vowel STUDY HARMONY lower abdomen at the same time drawn gradually its action will increase and it tellect. The singer should aim to be of the most beautiful voices.- color, while the upper is superficially inward and upward, the “locking" of thfe will become rounded and firm. As it de¬ more than the virtuoso; he should be¬ In the female voice, one usual instance thin and white. A sombre coloring of the diaphragm, and the completion of the act velops the hollows in front will fill out. come the artist. In the virtuoso one class system prepared by^h^Tirector^f UeNew of forcing, especially noticeable, however, lower-medium, through larynx pressure, England Conservatory of Music, Boston. of breathing by filling the upper chest. The exercise should be varied by tensing finds rather the facile gift for execution; in the contralto, is the transgression of is conducive to deviation of normal pitch’ this law through the faulty action of the Now, keeping the diaphragm welt ex¬ in a similar .manner the “Trapezius” in the artist the imaginative element is when the upper-medium production is tended, the air in the upper strata of the upper-chest register. The vibrations of reached. muscle under the right shoulder. The especially dominant. Virtuosity is ob¬ chest should be exhaled and renewed, fingers of the left hand should lightly jective, vain, ostentatious, while art is the upper-chest quality should cease at So, also, in the head tones of the rcposefully and quietly a number of times, rest at this locality. During this exercise subjective, shrinking, sincere. B natural, on the first line, treble clef. female voice, the flute-like quality should WALTER L. BOGERT and this action should continue until the the extreme lower abdomen should be So then, if the student of singing has The mechanism of the voice will, how¬ be encouraged. This should begin on THE NILES BRYANT SCHOOL OF PIANO TUNING President National Association Teachers of Singing. act of singing is begun. This is the state drawn well inward, and the line of the a love for music and the beautiful in art, PresidemtofN.Y. State Music Teachers’ Ass’n, 19l3. ever, permit this quality to be carried a F sharp, fifth line. From this tone and 235 ART INSTITUTE BATTLE CREEK, MICH.. U. S. A. of readiness for singing, and its effect diaphragm-circumference extended. Its if he has a voice of vibration and quality number of semi-tones higher, though not above, the sombre quality of the vowel on the steadiness, ease and control of relation to correct carriage, the easy and that will often carry without bigness, if TEACHER OFSINGING without a sacrifice of tonal beauty. To should be eliminated and the lio-ht preserve the voice, a change of method quality used. tone will be immediate. The instrument graceful poise of the head, and to general he has a strong body, glowing health, a No. 114 West 72nd St., NEW YORK CITY will become necessary. of.singing is now in a sensitive state of health is direct and important. Where any register has been forced fine sense of tone and rhythm, if he has ZABEL BROTHERS adjustment. If this adjustment be made therefore, begin at a tone where the mentality .and imagination, and added to Remedies before facing an audience, the quality of blight has not reached and work down¬ Another Exercise these indomitable will industry and per¬ MUSIC PRINTERS and ENGRAVERS poise will not be found lacking, especially The important question is, what reme¬ wards. By this means the limpid head- Another exercise of great value in in¬ severance, let him aspire to be an artist, Send for Itemized Price List and Samples L4-WWalnutSt.,PMla.,Pa dies should be applied to rejuvenate the when needed in the first few trying for these are the qualifications that will tones, the resonant medium, and the creasing the extent of chest-space is the COLUMBIA AVE. AND RANDOLPH ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Please mention THE ETUDE when addressing moments of public performance. development of the “Serratus Magnus” bring him success. Please mention THE ETUDE when addressing our advertisers! “ 753 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 752 snowbeds are discerned by knowledge always making. He may have the The voice best fitted for the precentor borne of daily study and experience— vision of a Wagner, but if he is in- part is the baritone, as his gamut in¬ 50 must it be with the conductor. Al- capable of rectifying the impure and cludes the extreme notes of the ordi¬ GUILMANT though some readers may assume that tight utterance of his choristers, his nary hymns. Austin Organs Department for Organists and Choirmasters no technically deficient man would un- dream will end to a great measure in One of the troubles of congregational dertake the conductorship of any' choir, smoke. He must find a panacea for all singing is the unrhythmic, non-pulsat¬ ORGAN SCHOOL Edited by Noted Specialists jt may readily be believed that such is ills of vocal speech, and oftentimes ing phrases. For example take the not the case. Experience teaches * us dispense gratis during the rehearsals Doxology or “Old Hundred” as it is Dr. William C. Carl HE two great ex¬ termed in some hymnals. This tradi¬ T that very often choirs are led by ]lls hard earned and dearly purchased Director position organs very technically inefficient leaders. The nowledge. tional choral, when sung by some con¬ gregations, is as highly attenuated as —at the Pari Amer¬ word technical covers a fairly wide „ the matter of get- from the people and should be returned area. It not only includes the theor.et- Give of Your Knowledge molasses taffy. ican, San Francisco Another fault is the speed and ex¬ More difficult still « the matte S that afl highest art is necessarily ical side of musical structure, covering Many singers join the choir with the How Can I Improve the ting rid of an old chon member who tor to^, responding tQ ^ ceeding high pitch of some of the and at San Diego, are embellishments, musical terms and ld,ca °‘ being musically and vocally edu- Musical Part of the Service ? years untold has sung there b he work artistic needs which all men have ' hymns. This is particularly the case in AUSTINS and are be¬ musical forms, but also a thorough ad- ^ted> and some ^ses it is their only realize that now she is spoiling Tt is clear that our choristers al¬ the Episcopal Church. As an illustra¬ ing heard daily by quaintance with the laws of harmony. eof obtainmg musical knowledge, By Roland Diggle of the whole choir. I say she, as in this tion take hymn 404, “I Heard the Sound ready stand well within the threshold of This knowledge of’the laws of writ- eir P®"10™ circumstances make thousands. case “the female of the species is more this “collective, social Art.” What a of Voices." The effect of the congre¬ A number of inter¬ pity, then, that they cannot be induced ing educates the mental faculty to hear bil;t 6 N^L bT^VaVg”e°the gation straining for the upper G’s and the “chording and modulations with- . ‘ u 1 M L ule at tempo allegro is far from satisfactory. esting church organs to make their way even further into that OU the assistance of an instrument, knowledge arnTw'd ° ^ Some of the defects in- congregational organ with a feeling that the service has successful way o radiant, infinite and civilizing domain. two to four manual This can be developed to a wonderful ^°W'dfe ,^d Tde experience. Choirs singing can be remedied by the organ¬ not gone as well as they would like. Pafor- . , • for yoUr choir, r r .• are made up of sensible people who Write for full particulars. now under construc¬ ist. First, clean phrasing and positive What the real trouble was it would be In c ® sjc should be devo- New catalogue now ready. tion at the factory. The Main Qualifications of the is&s'r? ssinss at pulsation, eliminating the methodistical hard to say. You may have played your *ada “ I am afraid, especially longa pausa. Second, by playing in organ numbers in better style than usual. jio ’ ,, { J the music js chosen Successful Conductors fheir L7 appreciate “nTaS lack of development in these things, r / ..1 « / 1 strict time without droning or dragging School reopens Address all inquiries to The choir may have sung exceptionally in *ra^“er P ’ the other By Clifford Higgin or untoward accclcrandos. Third, by well. At the same time there has been draw crowds from them, m this particular direction is one of the greater is the efficiency of the whole. employing organ registration and re¬ that unsatisfactory feeling of something “lurc e musical service is, October 5th. great causes of the flattening of the B cheerfull dispensin advic nouncing orchestral solo stops, so that lacking. If you are in the “rut” deep Jhe question after a musical, service .* Great conductors they say are born, Austin Organ Co. intonation and general sbvenhness of and showing ®pal ingtJest individ’ the assembled people will be led in¬ enough you let it go at that and jog <“ . <.d;d it help you?” Cer- yet with all the inherent gifts of genius 44 West 12th St., New York HARTFORD - - CONN. the rendering Every chord must b,e ually as we,f as collectively; there stead of diverted. Fourth, by putting along until, with a start, you suddenly . ,g that’all the mus;c should be there is required the inevitable hard practiced until it is firm, and if the springs up a natural respect and appre. hymns and chants into singable keys. realize that your choir and ^rmtatmn sp.r;tually helpful> either vocai or instru- work to achieve greatness. Laziness choralists are allowed in rehe. rsal to c;at;on for you amongst tije whole Many of our hymns are absolutely un¬ seT p!stuer’esanewy°These few words are mental. Taken as an ideal the unaccom- and genius rarely go hand in hand, and sing the various harmonies continually choi who wjn sacrificegmore than vocal for that reason. CARL BARCKHOFF seek pastures new. n panied voice of the worshipper wou.d (rom my personal experience and asso- in anything but pure ‘chording, the think; and work wkh untiri zealyf°0“ Rehearsals for congregational. sing¬ Church Organs BUILDER OF conductor will have toHiay the pr.ee of the success of yourself and t* SQcie ing are to be commended. Organist, thev ran to imorove things of most worship; this is the rule in cal ceiebr,ties they -t.ll work, work, his.negligence or ignorance at the con- J choir and congregation will profit by it. Church Organs In the first place an organist should nearly all parts of the Russian Church. work> and teli you that it must always test day of reckoning. Better than all, however, is the judi¬ seek the “mood” of the service. This But for those who are working amid be ^ cious selection of hymns. Use hymns AND can only be done by co-operation be- present conditions of music m . ’ In dealing with the subject of con- Extensive Knowledge Required Congregational Singing that the congregation can sing and omit - • mi • . nAmAtflinrr rllffpfPtVl IlCCCSS£irily 111" Self Playing Instruments An acquaintance with the choral lit¬ those that have ornate passages and Hook & Hastings Col operation will bring about splendid re- volved. It i: the r i of genius, but from the m erature of different nations is of valu¬ By Harvey B. Gaul obligato notes. Over 3000 Barckhoff organs in use ■ suits though, of course, it will sometimes to fit ourselves, and to arrange o ““"r ith ordjnary gifts, who is generally m The marvel is, that like our knowl¬ which testify to their Superiority able assistance to the choral conductor. mean compromise on both sides. But for the highest 8*^“^ Charge of a good ordinary choir. My The library of a progressive choir or How shall \ : achieve congregational edge and neglect of the germ theory, and Durability in Construction, Hv wnrWinp- 'tn^pihpr better re- edification. The choir is primarily tnere ...... Workmanship and Sweetness of Tone choral society covers a very extensive singing? Every one agrees that it conditions are not worse than they are. suit' can bT achfey d Not onTy can to lead the congregation in the singing, des.re .s to ass.st the individual tto We know so much and practice so lit¬ “Molt of the leading organs field. The works comprise composi- the thing above all others that’should the United States are amherns be selected t<; fit in with the It is their place, then, to lead them in the loves choral music, possesses the keen tle. Probably congregational singing tions by the composers of different na- be accomplished, but no one is quite operated by the ‘Orgoblo.’ sermon and rest of the service, but the fullest and heartiest way they can. Noth- sense of poetic conception, and realizes will survive in spite of natural and tions who generally set to music poems sur? that the other person's method wiil Over 9,000 equipments in organ numbers can also be appropriate, ing helps a service more than good con- that he has the requisite dynamic essen- artificial obstacles. and legends written by the most promi- accomplish the result, and they have no Write for booklet.” Who, if he knew that the sermon was gregational singing of the hymns, but tials to inspire and control others, ide in size, from to be on the Peace of God, would play your choir must lead. Don’t tell them nent m,en of literature of their own hesitation in saying so. -4 to 60 H. P. the War March of the Priests as a post- to save their voices for the anthem, the The Value of Competition nationality. It may be argued that the Congregational singing cannot be English translations of the original text achieved by two three or four.part The Organ Power Co., lude? It is such things as this that mar hymns are far more important. In no The finest training ground in the The Oracle in the Organ Loft HARTFORD, CONN. HUTCHINGS ; always found underneath, yet an otherwise well-rendered service. There way can you improve the service more world is the competition arena. Acon- , , singing. If it is to be done ai. an « A. C. FOSTER, 218 Tren. .... is nothing like five minutes’ quiet music than by having them sung well; especially ductor never thoroughly realizes his t be admitte t at a grea many o wjjj bave to be done ^y unison singing, G. W. WESTERFIELD, 264 Virg these are very unsatisfactory, not only . ... , , T. City, N. J. ORGAN as a preparation for morning and eve- see that the diction at.d phrasing is as many deficiencies until lie puts his ideas JAMES TOPP, 410 Steinway Hall ning service. Try and interest the con- perfect as you would want it in the and handiwork in competition with in respect to the musical phrasing, but ?' evcry one sin?!,lg ,the melody- Xt also as regards the portraying of the ls Preposterous to imagine a congrega- By Charles W. Landon COMPANY gregation in the music you play, either by anthem. other members of the profess ’ correct idea and meaning of the poet. *>on singing its hymns and chants in publishing the titles on the service list I have little to say about the anthem; ordinary concert work I have rarely or by placing a list of the pieces to be it is usually well rendered, but as the In some particular cases the literary to" Parts- We have an assemblage of Teach choir-singers to take breath by BOSTON NEW YORK heard the same thoroughness and atten¬ played near the door, where it can be rest of the service has suffered for it, sense and significance is so twisted out from two hundred to six hundred peo- cutting short the note they are singing Steere Organs tion to minute details that characterizes of shape in an attempt to meet the pie. After a fashion these good folk so as to begin the next phrase with a Plant at Waltham, Mass. seen by those coming in. You will be it usually falls flat. Bailey Hall, Cornell University surprised how soon they will be inter- Here then are a few hints which, if the performances of the experienced musical phrasing, that the idea which have been endowed with voices which prompt attack. Dedicated, October 8, 1914 ested in what you play, and what a dif- taken, will lead to an improved service, contest organizations. The conductor first fired the composer’s mind as he at least are fit to talk with. Here and Make each choir-singer feel that if the Springfield Auditorium, now building ference in the number of listeners you I am well aware that the average choir it altogether to blame for this, and pondered over the poem, and which . there—hit or miss a man is guilty of anthem is to go at its best he must “lead will have. Your reputation as a player member does not like practicing the the responsibility must, to a large ex- caused him to pen the music is no bass work. Once in a while, though and not drag.” Never must he “hang will go up, with advantages that are ob- hymns or the routine part of the service, tent, be borne by his choir, in com- longer in evidence. If this is so we usually not so often, another man at- onto” some other singer as this tends NEW ORGAN MUSIC vious. Of course it means you will have but it is a very poor chorister who only petition singing there is a feeling all must fail to realize, in a great measure, tempts a barbershop or college glee to drawl out the time and slow down the to practice, but this will do you good, condescends to attend practices when the round that nothing but the bc't has any the starting point of a musical inspira- club tenor. Hither and yon a well- whole choir in spite of the leader’s efforts “ON SALE” and the congregation will be spared the music to be practiced meets with his chance of success and there is such at- tion, and cannot satisfactorily under- meaning but misguided soul composes to keep up the movement. rambling, alleged-improvization which so approval. Personally, I would rather be tention to details and a realization of stand the sequence of ideas and planes an aho in thirds and sixths with the When the choir-master has a certain Have your name entered for the receiv¬ The Hall Organ Co. many organists perpetuate Sunday after without his services no matter how good nt.rsona, in,v 'tit it the tost of emotion that naturally follow the melody. The balance of the congrega- effect in mind it is perfectly proper for New Haven, Conn. ing of a few small packages of new music Sunday as a prelude. a voice he had. ‘ , . 1 . • . . , -vail- trains of thought of that inspired be- tion—you may fill in the number ac- him privately to ask the organist to use ON SALE during the professional season, ginning. It may possibly be argued cording to your statistical imagination certain stops to bring out this effect. Now as to your choir, I conclude it is A little more time and concentration, w°rkman8,»P 18 8ecurcd from theaV Modern no guarantee as to amount to be kept; a voluntary one. Nevertheless a volun- a slightly heightened sense of personal a“ e material. • that very few conductors can read or —sings the soprano part and does it Short anthems are easier and sooner PIPE ORGANS discount the best obtainable; the only re¬ tary singer, once a member, should be responsibility, a little deeper reflection The first essential necessary in ac0 speak the various languages repre- acceptably. It is utterly absurd to con¬ learned than long ones. Usually they also sponsibility the small amount of postage; just as amenable to rules as if he were on the nature, purpose and scope of the ductor is :l qualified personal cquipOO sented in the library of music to-day, sider this as part singing, when it is please the congregation better. returns of unused music to be made once paid. I have had to deal with such noble art with which they arc concerned i°r dle work- The Swiss Guides yet, though that is so, it is 'not impos- only a hixjeous suggestion. The solu- A singer generally knows if he makes each year; a postal card will stop the choirs for many years and have always and our choristers will soon achieve a conduct the climbers of the wonderful sible to seek practical advice and hear tion of the whole matter lies in the con- a mistake; let him correct himself. If —ESTEY CHURCH ORGANS-, sending anytime. Thousands.of teachers insisted on this rule being rigidly kept, greatly enhanced efficiency and self- yet dangerous Alps know every inch of from the lips of an experienced linguist gregation confining itself to the. air. It he again makes the mistake do not call Estey standard maintained. receive piano music from us in this'way. It has often been hard at first, and I respect. ' the way every crevasse and glacier is a translation not always perhaps in is the province of the pastor to explain him down personally but make the criti¬ Maximum facilities. have once or twice lost good voices but One of the fundamental principles of located with familiarit v. and all the dan- poetic metre, but in blank verse, that this to the congregation. Most clergy- cism general. Highest grade of product. THEO. PRESSER CO., Philadelphia, Pa. m the end tt has proven worth while. Wagner s doctrine was, that Art has come gerous points and insidious shift** gives a true illumination of the foreign men deplore the lack of so-called It often happens that the minister Examine stop action and wonderful reedless text and reveals the central thought “hearty singing,” but few are willing to selects a hymn that fits the. subject of Oboe, Saxophone, Clarinet, etc. around which the whole polyphony of take an inflatory step in the matter, his sermon that is unfamiliar to the con¬ ESTEY ORGAN CO., Brattleboro, Vermont, U. S. A GJnnUy gduniluf (Church iituair musical language is woven. Jt is so difficult to produce results gregation, or to a tune not adapted to A Training School for Organists, The Organ Department prepared by the Rev. Hugh A. Henry ior the October issue If the starting point or foundation is with a born chosen leader that it is al- congregational use. This defeats his own Choirmasters and Choristers not truly conceived our edifice, though most hopeless to expect concentrated purpose of encouraging the congregation Headquarters, 90 Trinity Place. New York has been postponed to the November issue. Father Henry is the Principal ol the perfectly symmetrical, might possibly effort without a man at the vocal helm, to join in with the hymns. It is the choir¬ FELIX LAMOND, Director MOLLER PIPE ORGANS Catholic High School of Phtladelphta and ,s recognized as one of the greatest authorities he of Tudor design, when in reality it If a church cannot afford a choir, let master’s duty to point out1 that he will Over two thousand in use. Strictly Dallv training in the Liturgy and Music of the should be Jacobean. it procure a precentor or conductor. get a better effect when all sing a hymn high grade. Gold Medals and Diplomas upon Catholic Church Music m America. His department i t is very interesting. A thorough knowledge of the voice He will.be able to hold things together, than when only a few do, even though at Six International Expositions. Specifi¬ 90 Trinity Place, N rk City. is imperative for every choral conduc- The organist may be indispensable at it is not possible to find a hymn suitable cations and Estimates on request. Write ‘or. He must be capable of correcting the keyboard, hut as organist-precentor for all to sing that is intimately related for catalogs. all the faults that careless singers arc —this hyphenated person is a mistake. to his sermon. M. P. MOLLER, Hagerstown, Maryland Please mention 1 THE ETUDE 755 754 THE ETUDE OF INTEREST TO The Value of Transposition VIOLINISTS By Harvey B. Gaul This Advertisement changed monthly. or Hiles’ March of the Crusaders, set BEFORE AND DURING THE WAR -this is not so of newer and more mod¬ It is a curious thing, and one which in the, key of G', touches so many upptr em instruments, we are glad to say-are has been much commented on hy singers G’s, that it finally becomes “screamy." j. varying in pitch. The organ builders FOR STRINGS and musicians of ability, how many gops much better in the key of F. pcJ seeking for brilliancy were wont to u - organists there are who have failed to Barnby’s King all Glorious in C, instead WITH THE RESULT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO the organs, to what is now an unsinga ■ study transposition. It would not be of D, and observe the di(Terence—y0llr pitch. What is your organist going to SUPPLY THE VIOLINISTS a rash venture to say that half of the singers will appreciate it also. So you WITH THE BEST QUALITIES OF do if he presides over one of these oh incumbents upon the organ bench to-day might go on ad infinitum. Of course, instruments? Why, if he ,s unable to STRINGS are incapable of correctly transposing that sound, and have the necessary durability. transpose, many of the compositions used many anthems are published in easy compositions. The strange part is, they keys, C, F, and G, so that the rural, as SEND FOR OUR NEW PRICE LIST (E) will sound thin and squeaky, and greatly ind send sample strings of the sizes required, and The Cupid Grand think they can get along without this well as some of our urban organists, may ifter a trial become one of our Regular Customers. indispensable knowledge. One cannot be mar his service. _ _ use them. Scandinavian Violin Music HUEU5T GEMUNDEK 8! SONS The first small grand piano ever made was the a thorough musician nor even a compe¬ There are many conditions which an product of Sohmer. That was over twenty- The arias from oratorios, such as have tent organist unless one knows some¬ organist has to bear in mind. Such as nine years ago. In this over a quarter of a his singers, the quality and range of their been composed by- Handel, Mendelssohn, century we have been constantly striving to thing about this art, and the student who Molique and A. R. Gaul are much too The people «f the Scandinavian coun¬ worshipped as a demi-god, could be dis¬ immensely popular with his American has neglected this study has wronged and individual voices—ditto their peculiarities perfect this type of instrument. The result is high, having been written for concert tries, Finland, Norway, Sweden and covered in his conceptions and interpre¬ audiences, hut possess little permanent a piano without an equal among diminutive deprived himself of what is not only a lie must think of his congregation—ot soloists. To be accessible for church Denmark, with the neighboring islands, tations. musical value, and are now forgotten. grands in which tone is in no manner sacrificed benefit, but a source of pleasure. the service in hand, whether it is a festi ROOT VIOLINS use, many of them should be lowered a have always been noted for their intense Ole Bull was undoubtedly a genius, a ror more than fifty to architectural requirements. Length 5ft. 4", Many, many Times there are composi¬ val, requiring brilliancy and life, 01 tone or two. Handel’s Come unto me, love of the violin. It is difficult to find man of extraordinary magnetism, and width 4ft. 5//—price $675. Terms arranged. tions which arise which, if they were whether it is an Ember or solemn feast, Christian Sinding Send for illustrated catalog and full information. written in B flat, is much more comfort¬ a cottage of even the humblest peasant in intense individuality. He was of the transposed a whole or semi-tone, would calling for music that is dignified and ably sung in A flat, also his But Thou these countries hut what there is a violitl stuff of which great poets, orators, and Few Scandinavian composers have ma le give the service uniformity and greatly grave. All these things call for his at¬ didst not leave His soul in Hell, in A, hanging on the wall, on which he delights great artists in every line of human en¬ more noteworthy contributions to ti c enhance its rendition. Take some of our tention and knowledge of which key will directly carry out the idea of the service. should be lowered to a A flat. Both of to play the beautiful Scandinavian folk¬ deavor are made. He could thrill, excite, literature of the violin in many differe”: hymn tunes, for example; they are these are from the Mcssiah. Mendel¬ songs, for which this region of the wrongly keyed, they are either too high Many of our best-known anthems and play on the heart strings of his forms than the great Norwegian com sohn’s It is enough, from Elijah, and mystic north is famous. or vice versa. The Episcopalian hymns should be treated with transposition—for audiences, as it has been given to very poser, Christian Sinding, born in Kongs- some others of his arias must be lowered 315 Fifth Avenue are too high, while the Gospel hymns example, Farrant’s Lord, for thy tender It is a well-known fact that the geo¬ few musicians to do, and his concert berg, Norway, in 1856. Sinding came of a tone to make them possible for church bang far too low. The same is true of mercies' sake, written in F, is greatly graphical position and scenery of a coun¬ tours were more like the progress of a a family of artists, his two brothers, New York, N. Y. use. chants, and some responses. Some organs improved, if used in the key of G flat; try have a powerful effect on the great political or military hero than Stephen, sculptor, and Otto, painter, creations of its poets and musicians, and those of a simple violinist. Not only did achieving much fame. In his native home the Scandinavian countries are no excep¬ his performances profoundly interest and and afterwards at the Leipzig Conserva¬ Points to Remember in Organ Playing tion. Here we find mountains, fjords, affect musicians arid musical people, but tory, Christian Sinding made an exhaus¬ waterfalls, crags, washed by the ocean, a even the common people, workmen, the Diet and By Charles W. Landon tive study of the violin, piano, musical NEW VIOLIN MUSIC “ON SALE” coast broken by innumerable bays, and boys of the street and domestic servants, theory and composition. He was strongly Have your name entered for the receiving of a Sometimes when a passage is written and two foot stops, or an octave rower requires careful practice to make such much scenery of a weird, mysterious knew when he arrived in town for a con¬ influenced hy the works of Richard Wag¬ few small packages of new musifc ON SALE during arrangements evenly and smoothly. the professional season, no guarantee as to amount Digestion in octaves it is better to draw out an with the eight foot stop. This, however, character. Then the position of the cert, and frequently attended it. During ner, and although many of his composi¬ to be kept; discount is the best obtainable; the only- extra four-foot stop and play the pas¬ needs much private experimenting and I?o not play Home, Sweet Home at a Scandinavian peninsula, so far to the his long concert tours in the United tions are of a cosmopolitan character, responsibility the small amount of postage; returns funeral. The home has been made deso¬ of unused music to be made once each year; a postal Indigestion—and the ills it leads to—are so sage in single notes with a true legato, practice so as to secure the tone color north, gives them an extremely short States his name was a household word, others possess a distinct Norwegian flavor. frequent, and cause so much needless pain and best adapted to the content of the music late, and to play this piece is an act of winter’s day, and an extremely long sum¬ and was probably as familiar to the great Sinding is noted for his contempt for Thousands of teachers receive piano music from suffering, that Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has than to try it in a semi-staccato in actual to be played. Do not forget that tone- cruelty; yet I have heard it done, and mer’s day. All these things seem to have mass of the people as that of the presi¬ the pedantic rules of harmony and com¬ have 8 or 10 new compositions coming along from written a book, telling how these discomforts many times at that. and dangers may be avoided. Dr. Kellogg b the It is poor taste to use the Vox Celeste color must always be appropriate. a deep effect on the imagination of dent of the United States. position, and shocked the professors at The organist can learn to adapt piano greatestliving authority on diet and digestion. or Vox Angelica and the tremolo stops If your organ lias no Quintadina stop, the composers of this region, and their the Leipzig Conservatory by disregarding music to his instrument with practice. music partakes of the weird, wild charac¬ For nearly forty years he has been Superin¬ very frequently. These stops should be an imitation can be made with the twelve them. He does not hesitate to use con¬ THEO. PRESSER CO., Philadelphia, Pa. tendent of the great Battle Creek Sanitarium, He must remember that the piano de¬ ter which marks the scenery of their reserved for melodies of unusual sweet¬ foot stop combined with a sufficient secutive fifths in his compositions, and to where he has had opportunity to observe, pends, for its effect to a large extent country. For the Norwegian peasant, a disregard any other rules of strict theo¬ treat and prescribe for thousands of cases of ness. Especially is this true of the tre¬ amount of eight-foot pitch to mostly upon the sustaining pedal, and when such spirit dwells in every mountain waterfall, rists which stood in the way of express¬ indigestion and other more serious ills to molo, which should not be used in har¬ cover the fact that it is out of pitch. A passages are transcribed for organ the and a band of fairies in every mountain ing in his compositions what he felt was which indigestion leads. What Dr. Kellogg monies louder than J> or mp. The “Vox” soft four-foot tone may be added to. help NOW READY tells you in his book is, therefore, the result pedal effect must be replaced by sustained valley, and there is a vein of the super¬ necessary in portraying his ideas. stops should be used only in thin and get a better effect. THE CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN of experience. He deals with facts—not chords. This often involves omitting natural and the mystic running through For the violin Sinding has written- his spare harmonies. It is good pedal practice to couple the By CECIL BURLEIGH. Op. 25. Price $3.00 theory. His book is called “Colon Hygiene.” many notes in tire piano music. Songs the compositions of every Scandinavian violin concerto Op. 45 in A major, son¬ In it, he tells of digestive disorders, their With a cultivated taste, one can about two-foot stops of the manual to the pedals and violin music can also be well adapted composer, whose education in other causes and the natural methods of relief atas, suites and many solo pieces 6f a CLAYTON F. SUMMY CO. double the tonal color effects on his or¬ and play a two part arrangement of such with practice. A working knowledge of countries has not robbed him of the miscellaneous character. He has also which may be applied in your own home. gan by playing one or two octaves higher pieces as The Sweet By-and-bye, Home, Nearly 400 pages, with many illustrations, harmony is necessary, and it is often power of writing according to the true written some excellent chamber music. diet tables and instructions for exercise, rest with the eight and sixteen foot stops, or Sweet Home, etc. Three and four-part necessary to condense the music with in characteristics of his native land. The violin concerto is one of the few one or two. octaves lower with the four and sleep. Price only $2. Order to-day. harmony can be given in some places. It fewer octaves and to discard many notes. concerti in the literature of the violin You take no risk. If not entirely satisfied, which forms a continuous whole. The he direction of Glen return the book at once for prompt refund. The “Paganini of the North” Send order and remittance to Nature-Organ Programs different movements are incomplete in 1 While the Sandinavian countries have themselves, one movement leading to the By Harvey B. Gaul produced many violinists of notable next by connecting passages. The work Good Health Publishing Co. abilities, the name of Ole Bull, the “Paga¬ is scored with orchestral accompaniment, With all the recitals in the field October, an Autumn Meditation, Ash- 3910 West Main Street, Battle Creek, Michigan Johnston’s Eventide, Vincent’s Sunset nini of the North,” as he was called, but can be obtained with piano accom¬ | The Elite mained for a Down East organist to in¬ mall, Brewer’s Autumn Sketch, and Spin¬ Melody, and any number of Vcsperalcs, comes at once to mind, as the one world- paniment. It contains many peculiar rhyth¬ vent a new one. He discovered the ney’s Harvest Home. an occasional Angelus, and legions of famous violin virtuoso to whom these mic effects and has many stirring cli¬ Ilafavorita recital known as a Nature Program. His For Summer we have few selections, Twilight Meditations, including Shacklev’s countries have given birth. The Etude maxes. It is a work which possesses The Boys’ idea was excellent and his selections com¬ probably because it is vacation time and BOYS’ MAGAZINE not long ago published an extended re¬ more interest for the musician than for mendable. It seemed to the writer that the composer, like the coal man, is rest¬ Tivilight Song, view of the life and career of this the general public, and while it will never Magazine-Free other organists might avail themselves ing and not working. Lcmare’s Summer For sure enough Nature painting as ! 31. X. SC1I0EMKG IS famous violinist. His life story, as writ¬ become popular in the same sense as the Send to-day for a FREE of his idea without trespassing on his Sketches are charming morceaux, and relished hy the Barbizon School and our sample copy of THE ten hy his American wife, Mrs. Sara C. Mendelssohn, or the Bruch concerto in territory, so the following list was pre¬ Johnstone’s Midsummer Caprice is cap¬ own Hudson River School we have two Ole Bull. BOYS’ MAGAZINE, the Bull, posseses the most absorbing inter¬ G minor, yet it must he classed as among pared: If hy any chance, however, the tivating in treatment. For the other bona-fide storm scenes. Of course there Original Plaque by C. H. Batley. OUR “SPECIAL” est for the violinist, and for the student the most notable of the late, modern reader does not care to give a Nature months the somewhat meretricious cycle are other storm centers, as at Ocean 9Cr I® Tested Lengths, program, maybe the pieces below will of the development of the violin art in violin concerti. This concerto has been °fffim°nths by Tschaikowsky will have to Grove and at every motion-picture show ZiJ’-Silk Violin E, forZDL AUGUST enable him to make seasonable selections the Scandinavian countries. Every violin Of the compositions of Ole Bull, few played in public by many famous vio¬ where there is a thirty-two foot stop and student should be familiar with this work. have survived. He wrote a concerto for linists. Sen J for Violin and Cello Catalogue THIS EDITION 115.000 instead of playing Spring Songs in Sep¬ For flower pieces, to quote the still-life a vox humana, but the real, genuine Ole Bull was horn in Bergen in Nor¬ the violin, which is never heard at the Having made a deep study of the tech¬ tember and Autumn Leaves in April. Not painters, we have Bonnet’s exquisite IJcd MUSICIANS SUPPLY CO. weather-beaten storms arc Lemmons' way in 1810, the son of a physician. He present day, and many miscellaneous nic of both the violin and piano, Bind¬ that these pieces cannot be played at any des Chrysanthemums. In passing, this Fantasia, The Storm, and Lcfcbure- pieces. Three of his compositions which ing’s compositions for these instruments time, but like oysters, they are better delightful group of pieces is to be com¬ was intended for the ' ministry, but his = Bennett Organ Co. Wcly’s piece of the same title. If y°0 were published during his lifetime were a show great excellence, and he was very appreciated when in season. mended for recital purposes whether they overwhelming passion for the violin ORGAN BUILDERS In the department allotted for Spring are weary of the disturbance of the ele¬ would not be denied, and he gave his Nocturne, Prayer of the Madonna, and fond of writing in that form. Two of VIOLIN INSTRUCTION are included m a Nature program or not Bravura Variations. Ill his concerts he ROCK ISLAND - - ILLINOIS we find the following vernal compositions ments why not take Beethoven’s Pastoral entire life to it, visiting on his various his best sonatas are the one in E major, Also, we have MacDowell’s genius-given frequently made a sensational popular The organs we build are as near perfection full of the year’s awakening: Water Lily anci his naive To a Wild Symphony, at least it is passive. Dethier’s concert tours most of the civilized coun¬ Op. 27, and the other in C major. The LEOPOLD AUER The Brook is a happy inspiration. It is a success with his Polacca guerriera. His sonata in E is noted for its beautiful Dethier’s Priiitaniere Pcnsee is an at¬ Rose. Both of these make delightful tries of the world, and spending maqy (Teacher of Elman, Zimbalist, Parfow, Eddy Brown] years in the United States, where he be¬ Adagio Religioso Op. 1 (grade six in dif¬ melodies, which are worked out in a Sole authorized exponent tractive mosaic. Brewer’s Spring Time transcriptions. masterpiece of virtuoso writing. VICTOR KUZDO, 060 West End Ave., New York Oftj has a pleasant lilt. Both are full of ef¬ Dudley Buck’s tone poem. The Coast, came a great national musical hero. Ole ficulty) is an effective composition for masterly manner. Two of his best com¬ For time pictures Grieg has furnished Once a week in Philadelphia popular audiences. A number of his positions for violin and piano are the fective passages. Grieg’s To Spring and h.s hardy perennial, Morning Mood from Schubert’s Am Mcer. and Hoffman’s^ Bull has been called a “self-taught” Mendelssohn’s Spring Song are too well shorter compositions are also available. two suites, one iti A minor, Op. 10, in GEO. KILGEN & SON Peer Gynt with happy solo-stop effects Nightingale Sings, all offer organ effects. violinist, hut this is only partially true, known to receive further comment. as he studied for some years in his youth Ole Bull made his home in the United classical form, and another in F major, • 10 Days Free Trial Pipe Organ Builders We have also Elgar’s Chanson de Ma in If one desires to imitate Nature a la In 'the way of Fall works we have and Guilmant s Matin orchestra, the organ offers many oppor¬ with various teachers. It is true, how- States for a number of years, and for his more modern in style, and containing Brewer’s Indian Summer, a piece full of tunities. Most of the above pieces in ever, in a sense that every composition American audiences he composed a num¬ great difficulties for both the piano and October glow. Johnston’s Autumn with r£,i sti ££,Tc*r mt their genre catch capitally the mode and which he played was marked by his own ber of compositions, such as Niagara, violin. bM‘liS§L5s its interesting melody, Tschaikowsky’s spirit of the subject, and for recital use Peculiar temperament and individuality, Solitude of the Prairies, To the Memory Sinding has also written many inter¬ would get popular approval. and very little outside influence, except of Washington, etc. These pieces, which esting compositions for the violin and possibly that of Paganini, whom Ole Bull are program music pure and simple, were piano of a miscellaneous character, such THE ETUDE 757 756 THE ETUDE The Origin of the Violin Bow sonatas, Grieg wrote a sonata for ’cello as the Romania in E minor, Op. 30, In 1874 he returned andl settled ^ Chns and piano, Op. 36, and a string quartet in We of the present generation, having the hollow wing-case to produce the which is popular with violinists. Of his tiania. He succeeded Svendsen as c G minor, Op. 27, which is an effective the bow in its most perfect form, are familiar chirping sound. Naturally the chamber music, the Quintet in E Minor, ductor of the Musical Society, * uch composition. Some of his most popular apt to take its existence for granted; we strings are absent, but here is to be found for piano and string quartet, is probably by Edvard Grieg. La er e curved piano and other compositions have also the best known, and has had many per- interested in military music, and _ ^ do not think that there must have been a perfect example of the excitation of been transcribed for the violin and piano. formances in the best known musical the government of pwW*1 period when no such thing was known, frictional vibration. Whether this was Hans Sitt, the well-known violinist, has countries of the world. Sinding has nection. His compositions include three and consequently fail to appreciate the actually what suggested the bow is ten many notable works for the or- operas, symphonies, tone poems, s°r ™ade, effective arrangement of one of difficulties in the way of its discovery or another matter. For my own part, while chestra, including symphonies, suites and excellent piano pieces an wo Grieg famous short compositions, invention. With some other instruments admitting that in ' close observation of works of a miscellaneous character. His string orchesti To Spring. Another excellent arrange¬ it is different. For wind instruments we nature our early forefathers were prob¬ orchestral technic is of the finest char¬ ment is that of Sol Marcosson. The Peer have a prototype in the human voice, and ably supreme, I prefer to- think that the Violin Music in Finland acter, and the violin parts of these works Gynt Suite No. i has been arranged for one may reasonably suppose that the innate concept of the bow was latent in are noted for their florid and complex While Finland is now part of Russia, violin and piano, as well as the Berceuse trumpet class was evolved by slow process the human mind and only waited some it is really Scandinavian in feeling. It character. in G, Op. 38, and many of the Norwegian from the simple action of placing the fortunate accident of observation to start has been greatly influenced by Sweden, Soft, Flexible, dances. it into being. I am aware, however that and especially by Swedish violin music. hands on either side of the mouth to Cool, Rubber Rest The Composer of a Famous “Romance” Otto Andersson, President of the Gade and the Dances augment a shout. The harp may have this is a highly unscientific positiofl to take up. To the Norwegian composer, Johan Swedish Folklore Society, contributed an Niels William Gade, the Danish com¬ been suggested by the twanging of a Severin Svendsen, the literature of the WILLIAMS’ PATENT interesting paper to the International poser, wrote a number of effective com¬ bow string as an arrow left the archer’s That there should be so little in the violin is indebted for one of its bright¬ Music Society in London, 1911, on ‘ Vio¬ positions for the violin. Gade was the hand, and a seventeenth century play¬ way of adequate record concerning the est ornaments, his famous Romance in linists and Dance Tunes Among the wright fancifully attributed the invention development of this indispensable adjunct G, Op. 26. This beautiful piece, which most eminent of all Danish composers. Soft Rubber Violin Chin Rest Swedish Population of Finland Towards of string instruments to the finding of of the violin is not a matter of great is in the repertoire of every serious vio¬ He was a friend and disciple of Mendels¬ 10 „s soft as the palm of your hand and the Middle of the Nineteenth Century.” a “dead horse’s head.” Here of course wonderment, for, as has elsewhere been Elman, Parlow, Sevcifk, Spalding, Hart- is linist, has been published in many differ¬ sohn, and in music occupies a p e and neticr chafes. Recommended by physi- eminent of the country violin- would be found a complete resonance- shown, the earlier bowed instruments man and other noted virtuosos use and n ent editions in America and Europe, and of the period under mention,” he midwf between the classical and roman- endorse this rest because of its genuine cians. , chamber and possibly some dried and were of such primitive construction, and is the best known and most popular com¬ ‘enjoyed a very great considera- Pc schools. He wrote eighty symphonies, superiority—both in comfort and quality. At Your Dealer PIANOS stretched sinews—quite sufficient to sug¬ consequently so weak in tone, that they When you have experienced the delightful Any good music store should have these position for the violin ever writtentten byoy a They were known°and appreciated severalcantatasandmanyotherworks.lt Scandinavian composer, originally everywbere Even in the smaller towns chamber music he wrote an octet, sextet gest lute-like instruments to -men of were totally unsuited to the purposes of satisfaction of a cool, soft, flexible rest chin rests. Try one today! If you have written for violin and orchestra, but can genius such as must have formed a much ceremonial or pageantry; two subjects against your chin you will understand why difficulty in getting one, send — music—excepting chamber music, which and quintet for strings, and a trio called this rest has become so popular. direct to us. be obtained with piano accompaniment. larger proportion of the world's popula¬ which form prominent features in ancient *125 A Scientific - ... was well cultivated at that time—was Novelettcn for piano and strings, and No irritation, no effort, it grips easily, The price, postpaid, is . it is usually ranked about grade fifth often rformed by country musicians the popular trio in F for violin, ’cello tion in prehistoric times than is the case pictorial representations. And if we come to what we fondly term “more civilized” in point of difficulty, but requires a con- c from the neighboring villages, and piano. He is well known to lovers to-day; for brilliant as our great men times, we find' such crude drawings of The R. S. Williams & Son Co., Ltd. Toronto, Canada Piano Builder summate artist to brmg out its full beau- About these performers, who could so of sonatas for the violin and of art and science are, there are few who early viols and kindred instruments that les, although its technic is not beyond amaze tfae peasants by tbeir skill, hig two sonatas in A and D can be called originators in the simplest The piano maker today who would we must not be surprised if we find that create an instrument fit for an artist, the advanced amateur, who can play the , multitude of tales and traditions arcse. ,atter sonata js a pardcular]“ woj meaning of the word. Kreutzer Etudes really well. The work, c .f;„pe such an apparently unimportant detail as must have spent years in study, not one of the finest of Gade’s compositions Thus, then, we have wind instruments, the bow should receive still more per¬ only of the practical details of piano with its noble haunting introduction fol- had karned‘bis art M u.c u, in fact, and it deserves to be heard far harps and lutes; but the bow eludes us. functory treatment at the hands of the construction, but also of those scien¬ lowed by an allegro of striking_ rhythm, of ^ gea sometimes that the Devil had more frequently than it is. He also If we are determined to find a suggestion with true Norwegian characteristics, is ht bim the tunes. * And the artist. We must also remember that the tific principles governing Sound. in nature we must turn to certain insects dreamy and dramatic by turns, and works „greatrpa). skillsWi11 anf1and musicalm,K;„ taste which they wrote a violin concerto in D minor, Op. word “fiddlesticks” is still applied to any¬ One reason why Charles HaddorfE splendid climax Its beauties £ their , ; 56, which contains passages of great of the cricket and grasshopper tribe. thing that is beneath contempt in its utter Mastering the Scales and Arpeggios were earlyrlv rprncrni7.pnrecognized bynv the preatgreat vio¬vio- . . . .. „ Many of these, in particular the locusts, builds such supremely good pianos is be observed in those few performers beauty, but is not often heard outside the lack of importance.—Henry Saint- A Complete Daily Practice Manual from the First Steps to Highest linist, Joseph Joachim, who was very are thorough fiddlers, using their long George in The Bow, its History, Manu¬ his thorough scholarship, the result of „ i i mamingmaining iromfrom trialthat time who aare still Scandinavian countries. This concerto is Attainment. Everything Fully Written Out. Abundant Explanations. many years of study and practical ap¬ fond of playing it, and who had much bm also and particularly the quite difficult and is intended for vir- hind-leg as a bow across the edge of facture and Use. do with making it popular in Europe. plication in both Europe and America. melodies noted down.” The n famous tuoso violinists. By JAMES FRANCIS COOKE PRICE, $1.25 It is truly said of this Romance that tbe composer of Finland is Jean Sibelius, Gade’s compositions for the violin show A transcendent richness of tone, its effectiveness depends solely on the Whose career is fully treated elsewhere good knowledge of the instrument, and ORIGINAL FEATURES CONTAINED IN NO OTHER WORK combined with purity, sustaining power ability of the interpreter. The mediocre in this issue. Sibelius has long been re¬ Norwegian String Instruments and sweetness—a firm, delicately re¬ violinist can get little effect are marked by fluency and effectiveness, garded as one of the foremost composers 2^'preparatory G;vcs full sponsive action—the most satisfactory while the great artist can make no doubt caused by the fact that Gade A large proportion of the Norwegian nary violin. The scroll is generally a ription for the formation of all scales, major a] , , . , - . , .of the day. Carl Flesch did much to ploying writing exercises and ingenious ! checkers which any teacher may make at 1 of the world’s piano materials used in the last degree thrilling and dramatic. , , . , studied the violin thoroughly in his boy¬ national music has arisen from the use dragon’s head and the body is richly or¬ construction—and workmanship thor¬ 5 , .... b , , . make his beautiful violin concerto popu- Theme successfulsuccessiui rendition oiof such a piece ,...... ,. , 1 1 hood.. days, and soon mamgained admission to of, or under the impression obtained namented with ivory, mother-of-pearl and “PtTonality Exercises. f A new. prac thoroughly tested series of simple keyboard ex ough in every department—these are has been well compared to a heap of ’ . lftfcr the royal orchestra as a viiolinist. and his Valse Triste bids fair to become from the national instruments especially carvings. Beneath the four upper strings characteristics of every HADDORFF gold lying in a forest, free to all who One of the foremost living Danish as popular with violinists as it is with the “langeleik” (an old kind of zither) which are tuned very variously, and un¬ Piano,whether grand,upright or player. can carry away whatever amount their gogical principles malres the study of fingering very simple. orchestral conductors and pianists. musicians is Herman Sandby, first 'cellist and the "Hardanger violin,” both of der the fingerboard there are four, some¬ Velocity Exercises. A system of developing the greatest possible velocity in scale study leading to strength is capable of. The dwarf can' of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. a rate of 1000 notes a minute. which have played an important part in times more, sympathetic strings of fine The Story of the Scale. Complete history of the carry away very little, while the giant The Violin Music of Edvard Grieg Sandby is strongly under the influence of Complete Arpeggios. All chords explained. Sp( can carry away a fortune. Svendsen’s the musical life of the country people. steel wire. The mention of the name of Edvard Danish national feeling, has composed a The “langeleik” has a long, flat body By the aid of this instrument, the coun¬ .thing that is regarded as “Standard” by the leading Conservatories Romance should be faithfully studied by Hagerup GrS, "the" ighty Norwegian, Danish opera and made some excellent every advanced violin student, for it is - with sound holes and seven or more try people make their improvised musical sed by Rosenthal, Bachaus, Gabrillowitsch, Liebling, Katharine Goodson and the “Chopin of the North,” as Hans Von arrangements of Danish folk-songs. He one of the world’s master compositions, strings, which are struck with a plectrum. impressions of nature, interspersed with Billow delighted to call him, at once calls Has been very successful as a concert it any time in the teaching year. Self and not of excessive technical difficulty. The tone is w^ak, and as the possibility descriptive sketches of midsummer - with rughout. the. mind of the violinist of the Grieg artist here and abroad. An account oiof ovenasenSvendsen’s 5 career will beue f_• . of developing modulations is almost en¬ the dawn of morning and the glow of found on the M»,„ Study Pago of “,h«o C”'i„ F To sum up; the violinist and violin tirely excluded, the effect is somewhat evening, “hulder’s sang,” thrush’s trill or THEO. PRESSER CO., 1712 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. ... - . Op.-8; student will find in the violin composi- this issue. ------’ in j . wp monotonous. the ringing of marriage bells.—Govern¬ Qn 4S*n “u ^ 'n ^ m'nor’ Hons otof Scandinavian composers a mine Ole Olsen The “Hardanger violin” is higher and ment Report on Norway, prepared for the w’ritten forThe vinreateSt/0nataS °f beautiful and characteristic works, al- Paris Exhibition of 1900. 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Besides managing his The sonatas are of about the cVtV. i ‘ ~ ' i much sound advice can be given in book Co., Boston, Mass. Price, $1.00 net. THEO. PRESSER CO., Philadelphia, Pa. —■*•**,h'»«a».,y ,„d °uiy „ ,:sthS' e a good to form, and the fact that this work is issued Apart from being one of the foremost do them justice; They are There is no more music in a false as part of the famous “Strad Library” is violinists of the world, Fritz Kreisler is posed marches, waltzes and country corrp'rchension^s^nw-11^ & mature. musical violin string than there is in a cracked guarantee of its essential pedagogical also a soldier. At the outbreak of the The Latest and Best Word in Voice Building L,u»c cl,; 11 nio’c cPmPrchension is necessary to give them hell. Many violin students keep false value. We cannot help thinking, however, war he rejoined his regiment, and served '"zt strings on their violins because they hate 1 that the country student would get a bet¬ as a lieutenant in the Austrian army, until notsss to be wondered that at the age of . n.eg b,. ”e’ and other works ; a Cossack obligingly wounded him in a THE VOCAL INSTRUCTOR to throw an unbroken string away, but ter idea of violin playing from this book By EDMUND J. MYER PRICE, $1.00 seven Ole himself could play the organ extenSlvel>' ''trussed elsewhere in t..„ it is false economy. False lengths may it there were diagrams or photographs way that incapacitated him for further A practical, common-sense system, based upon nature’s laws or demands, for the study and de¬ quite creditably, and that his first com- lssue’ no extended account of his career be found even in using strings of the giving such indispensable information as military service without interfering with velopment of the singing voice—pnnciple following principle m logical sequence. This book is position, a charming little polka, was - necessary here. It is of interest to nnest au- linest quality, even among the so-called the correct holding of the bow, proper use his bowing arm. No more graphic story composed when, lie was five years old. note> however, that it was largely due to rh, tb-^-cessary physical exercises, and the nerv- -u-.v--°?- SySi-m Y.basei?- ' strings. A false length sometimes of the left hand in shifting, etc. These of the fighting has been written than that y and vocally. The beginner, the more After studying with various excellent iff* advice of the violinist, Ole Bull wlm 1 ’ S r,nBs* A *a. , here related, and throughout the tale of rial and information of the highest value teachers in Hammerfest. Trondhjem and recognized the genius ,,f G- becomes true bj changing it end mr cm things cannot be explained half so easily blood and slaughter the personality of the for self-instruction, it will prove indisp Tromsh, he went to Leipzig, where he that Grieg’s parents were induced t w °n tbe v'obn> and niany players adopt this as they can be seen. The book gives in¬ tation, the-book is copiously great violinist stands out. Besides being b”okThandiomTyerpC'?et d“ “d ^b' "C ximc tia ftlinilpupil nfof FpfdilianrlFerdinand David (the/Ftua mn-vio- +!ip>the future rv<*greatnni. composer c^cw,,® UietllOd whcil <3i StHllg ptOVCS fftlSC, 300 ternal evidence of having been written by linist),t V Carl T?Reinecke pitlprlrp and Oscar T^oulPaul, iniicinalmusical *‘ career. Besidesi> • i . . the plan sometimes succeeds, hut not one more skilled as a practical teacher a great artist one feels that he is a THEO. PRESSER CO., 1712-14 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. his violir always. than as an author, and in order to bene- humane and chivalrous soldier. Please mention THE ETUDE when addressing our advertisers. THE ETUDE 7S9 758 THE ETUDE Musical Dyspepsia and How New Anthem to Avoid It Collection The announcement of a new anthem col¬ lection to lie added to our popular series of choir books will be most welcome to E. H. Pierce Publisher’s Notes the many organists and choir masters who Department for Children have made use of the preceding volumes A Department of Information Regarding New of tlie series to such good advantage. The Edited by Jo-Shipley Watson Nearly every professional musician, new volume will be fully up to the stand¬ and many1 amateurs as well, have suf¬ Educational Musical Works ard in all respects. It will contain a v -- fered at some time in their life from a cer¬ splendid assortment of anthems suitable tain weariness and distaste for the sound for general use and all well within the capabilities of the average chorus or , ciate her. We . should, girls, because we of music. It is not so commonly those talented, but you are capable and can do Our Progressive" President quartet choir. Some of the best and most The Magnifying Glass stand for musical uplift.” (."The word, who are practicing a regular number of popular composers are represented. The your work. Think more of your (The following address was delivered NEW WORKS. card, supplied free by this house, in the Delia was troubled with a malady so again!” Rachel whispers audibly.) "She's hours daily, nor those who are teaching a special introductory price will be 15 eents opportunity and less of your skill, and at the opening of “The Girl’s All-Round- post-office or the post box, and have the large, so terrifying that it was about to our opportunity, girls, let’s make her an large class every week, but is most apt Advance of Publication Offers— postpaid. above all else think more of your friends music or books actually delivered to you, ruin her small young self. Delia was be¬ the-Year Club.”) honorary member!” {President sits down lo be those who, possibly in addition to in a great many cases more quickly than and less of yourself. You know, friend¬ October, 1915 E Artistic tween fourteen and fifteen, and if you “Now, girls, come to order please. hot and breathless.) the above, fill in their spare time with if purchased in your own city, and far ship is apt to get out of repair when you more quickly than if the most likely thing Vocal Album know anything about the malady you (The Chairman raps the table and looks desultory playing on their instrument. Anthem Collection, New will know that it is more violent just at are too busy with yourself. Come, Delia, over the room bristling with hair rib¬ Artistic Vocal Album.. . .. to occur does occur, that is, that the local This work is a high class collection of Those who feel constrained to stay in Characteristic Studies for the vocal solos intended for the more experi¬ this time. It had seized upon Delia’s let me help you crawl from under the dealer has not the desired music in stock, bons.) “Are You a Shut-In? ” their studios through the greater part of ' Pianoforte—E. s. Morrison_ and reorders it from one of the few houses enced singer. The work will contain the youthfulriess and fed upon it until she magnifying glass.” Miss Keith patted Child s Own Book of Great Mu¬ “Everything we know about or read The average music student is a veri¬ the day, in order to meet possible new¬ sicians—Thos. Tapper. Six bi- On rrving publications of all composers such very best and elevated class of vocal solos. was miserable by daylight and by dark, the fair head before her. “Come out on about has had a little beginning. The table shut-in. At home when he prac¬ comers, and not having many pupils suf¬ price complete. ' as we do. The album will be fully worth ten times for even the night could not cover up the top and be comfortable, for no one is lingle biography.] "Vat we are now asking for it, and those tiny seed that grows the corn, the springs tices he shuts himself in the parlor and fer from enforced idleness, are particu¬ Chopin’. To the above features of promptness shivers of Self-Consciousness that poor watching you.” that make the rivers, the drops of fain Chopin’s Preludes’ . and completeness of stock must be men¬ of our readers who are ambitious along does it behind closed doors. I don't larly liable to this unfortunate condition. Etudes Melodiques — George" L. Delia suffered. that makes the storm, the letters that tioned otiier advantages in mail order vocal lines will find something very at¬ know just why, because he can’t play a Spaulding. music buying from the Theodore Presser tractive in this forthcoming vocal album. To be quite exact, I will quote Delia’s Amy and the Broken-Backed-Book make the books we read; you see what Limit Studio Hours Etudes-Poesies for ’ the " Pianoforte thing for you ten minutes afterwards. —E. Haberbier, Op. 53 and Op. 59 Company: Not most essential, but quite Our special advance price is 35 cents. very words: “Miss Keith,” she said, “I I mean girls, all, everything in the world, “Would you believe that Amy got up When he goes to his lessons he is shut Probably the best arrangement is to Franz Liszt Album for the Piano- important, the best discounts and terms fed exactly as though I were sitting had a small start. obtainable. Perhaps of greater impor¬ Studies and Songs: during her practice period five times in in with his teacher, and while she broods limit one’s studio hours to a certain ad¬ Greatest Love —’ Cantata — H.’ W. under a magnifying glass,” And in her the half hour?” groaned the Broken- “Take our music; none of us knew a over his fearful • hand position he slides Petrie. tance, an “On Sale” system which for A Graded Sight-Singing Course vertised time each day (except by special Hew to Play Well-Known ’ Piano liberality and originality is not equalled, mind that’s just where Delia was sitting; Backed-Book. thing about notes when we started and from one mistake to the other with as for Public Schools and Classes. appointment), and to fill in the rest of the Solos—Charles W. Wilkinson... but upon which all other systems have but other people- never saw the glass, “Well she did and she wasn’t the least I guess the most of us don’t know much little effort as falling rain. When at last Mermaid — Cantata — Fannie Snow By Thos. Tapper though Delia described it as very large time with some other useful employment Knowlton. been based. mite ashamed of it either! The Dear- about them now. (Looks at Rachel.) At he goes off to the city to take lessons he Musical Sketches—Elise Polka An order is the best trial. Catalogues Here is a new work that will be wel¬ and very thick; consequently they never or wholesome recreation. There is noth¬ Darling-Piano sat there calmly blinking least some of us couldn’t read those nice is shut in his hall-bedroom, and, of Note Spelling Book—Adele Sutor.. and information will be cheerfully sent, comed by all teachers looking for a prac¬ ing better for a musician, both as regards tical, interesting and at the same time in¬ knew Delia suffered. They called her his thirty-six black eyes, he was listening duets Mrs. Lowther loaned us. course, no one but the janitor is con¬ Old Favorites Album... however. All we ask is an opportunity his health and spirits and his business Pandora, An Operetta)—C. E. Le expensive course of study for beginners “a shy girl,” “a timid creature" and for¬ intently to the infuriated Broken-Backed- “Just think how we went to teacher cerned about his music. He takes lessons Massena. to prove our worth to the musical educa¬ got her the next minute. prosperity, than to mingle freely in good Part Songs for Men’s Voices_" tional interests of the country. in vocal music. The work provides the Book. without even a sheet of music in our as he did at home, shut-in with his city needed material for actual sight-reading I suppose you, as well as Delia, have society, but here, unfortunately, many of Pipe Organ Gems—Chas. W. Landon “How would it look to the pastor, if hands and now see what we have become, professor in a studio where the walls arc School of Bowing for the Violin, purposes and is so simple as to be useful us are handicapped, because the evening formed the habit of measuring yourself during his call she got up and looked at girls, members of a music club, the only deadened and the doors are double. Then Op. 2, Part 1—O. Fevcik. The Mermaid—Cantata. as a supplement to the primer of any hours, which by custom are the ones de¬ School of Violin Technics. Part 1— against your more talented friends. Delia the clock five times? Wouldn’t he say one of its kind in our town, and I’m sure in after years he wonders why he is al¬ By Fannie Snow Knowlton authorized course. We confidently predict has sought out all of her shortcomings, to himself, ‘she’s an ill-mannered child, we are all working for some sort of a ways nervous, why he can’t concentrate, voted to social intercourse, are with us Secular Part Songs for Mixed Voices This is a brilliant secular cantata for a wide and successful adoption of this all of her limitations and placed them in why he can’t hold his music in his head, largely used for rehearsals, recital giving, Standard Students’ Album. women’s voices, chiefly in four part har¬ supplementary series of sight-readers. unpardonably rude, disrespectful and musical uplift.” {"Fudge!" Rachel mur¬ Studies for the Left Hand Alone, a row before her sharp brown eyes. This murs* “she copied that word.”) why he is so uncomfortable, and why and even private teaching. Our leisure mony. The vocal writing is very interest¬ When completed there will be six books; shameless.’ Well I think he would say Op. 1103—Arnoldo Sartorio.... at present we are soliciting advance of is what she says: “I can’t do as well as isn’t he as good as James, who never even Studies and Songs—-Thomas Tap- ing and telling throughout, and the piano just that, for I know the pastor.” “Then think of our club, girls, with time seems to come at the wrong end of publication orders for the earlier books at Edythe,” “I’m not as gifted as Celia,” “I only three members at the start, and now left his home town. The difference is accompaniment is ornate and effective. Again the Dear-Darling-Piano blinked the day. The time required for performance is less 12 cents each, and we can also state that won't play before Esther,” and then Miss his thirty-six black eyes. we have twelve active members and fif¬ this: James got out in the little town and It is an excellent thing to have a than half an hour. This work is especially the regular price on reorders for school Keith shudders and sighs, because she “Here I am,” said the Broken-Backed- teen associate, members, all of us paying played in the band, lie took part in the hobby, entirely outside of music. I know suitable for the larger women’s clubs. It use will lie surprisingly small, considering a nickel a-piece. Count how many nickels chorus and when the school orchestra the useful character of the work. knows Delia’s real self and she loathes Book working himself into a frenzy of two successful vocal teachers, one an will dignify any program. The special in¬ the magnifying glass of Self-Conscicus- “With my leaves torn, my back shattered; that makes altogether and you will have was formed he was in it. He pumped troductory price in advance of publication In a sense, the series of “Studies and Italian, the other a native of New Eng¬ Returns and Settlement but what’s left of me is at her service, an idea of what I mean by little begin- for the church organist, and the last 1 is 20 cents postpaid. Songs” is an answer to the hundreds of land, who take great pleasure in their inquiries we have received from teachers “If there is any cure,” said little Miss I hold the best in piano literature; charm¬ heard of James he was playing the big for “On Sale” Music gardens, and devote four or five morn¬ for material of this character for class Keith to herself, “I must find it or Delia ing duets she could play with her mother, “If our club is not a living image of a new organ. To those patrons who have not yet Pandora—Operetta. ings of each week to horticultural pur- and school work. will consume herself before my eyes.” little dances and sonatinas, the most beau¬ little beginning I’d like to know what is ! You see he was one of that doing kind made their returns and settlement for last season’s supplies we want now to say: By Le Massena tiful little things from Beethoven and (Thumps the table with a book.) of boys. If you are studying music don’t “Delia, dear,” said Miss Keith, coax- Don’t delay the matter longer. This cantata is for young people. Not Secular Part Songs “And, girls {shakes the box of nickels). ingly, “let’s work.together to smash your Schumann and some from Chopin. She’s be a shut-in, join ten or twelve other One of these same men has still an¬ In the event that supplies still on hand exactly juvenile, it is a little above the for Mixed Voices magnifying glass—shall we?” not worthy of them, that I know.” what are we to do with all this money? boys and girls and begin something; play other and more unusual avocation—he is from last season’s shipments are suitable average children’s cantata. We would We are continuing during the current “Oh, Miss Keith,” answered the mourn¬ “Oh say now,” chimed in the Dear- Somebody move something or other. Are four hands, try an easy symphony; get an amateur maker of fireworks, and on for this season’s work, arrangements may say that young people from 15 to 18 years month the special introductory offer on ful Delia, “I’m so unhappy. I tried to Darling-Piano, “She is, though! Amy we to spend it in selfish vanity?” (“Make a violin and add a ’cello; these instru¬ the night of the Fourth of July he ex¬ be made to retain them, but in such case of age should be the proper age for the this new volume which is now in course of play last night over at Esther’s, and I is a good little girl, she’d been a bit yourself clear” comes from the back of ments, with the piano, will furnish end¬ hibits the products of his skill for the it is necessary for patrons to comply with performance of this cantata. The story is compilation. This book win be suitable the requirements which will be fully ex¬ taken from Hawthorne’s “The Paradise of believe I made a million mistakes.” misguided perhaps 1” “You take an easy the room). “Or are we to do a noble up¬ less pleasure and open up new possibili¬ enjoyment of his friends and neighbors. for general use by choral societies, glee “I fear your magnifying glass must position, she’s spoiled,” and the Broken- lifting act? (Shakes the box again) and plained on inquiry. Children,” and is a most interesting plot. clubs, school choruses, etc. It will contain ties. The writer, in former years, found great The music is sparkling and most interest¬ have worked .overtime, Delia,” Miss Backed Book tossed over his torn leaves. purchase; some book on music for our When “On Sale” music is retained a selections of all styles, representing the Don’t think you have to gather an refreshment and pleasure in designing ing. There is nothing flippant or unin¬ Keith laughed. “Take these men. Bach, Beethoven, town library. second season our “New Music On Sale” work of composers of various schools, in¬ audience to hear you; ensemble playing and building canoes and small sailboats. packages sent out once each month during teresting in any part of it. It is easy to cluding many novelties and pieces to be “When you are all hands and feet and Schumann, Mendelssohn and the rest of “Now girls what is your wish? {Waits is not for show-off. It's chief purpose the seven busiest months of the season fur¬ be staged and has five principal characters, found in no other similar collections. The for a response.) People differ so greatly, however, both bulging with self-consciousness and fear; them. Here they are before her, and for a shut-in is the opportunity it gives nish fine material for freshening the car¬ with choruses for boys and girls., It is selections will be chiefly of intermediate in their tastes and in the limitations of say this to yourself—it is something she rises from her stool five times in “Mary says use it for picture show of getting in touch with other boys and ried over selection. divided into three acts and the story is difficulty. The special introductory price Sydney Smith said: 'You are not of the thirty minutes to stare at the face of a money. (Points a finger at Mary) Fie girls. their environment, that it is impossible In any event, don’t delay arranging laid in Greece in the Golden Age. We can in advance of publication is 15 cents post¬ least consequence; nobody is looking at to give any suggestions applicable to all. speak for this cantata a most successful paid. stupid clock.” on such a base use of funds!” And this getting together is so stimu¬ settlement of last season’s “On Sale” ac¬ you, nobody is thinking of you; make However, it may be truly said that any count beyond this month. future. We hope to have it out within a “Perhaps she needs inspiration or a “Ethel wants a picnic at the grove.” lating for listening. So many of us for¬ yourself comfortable.’ ” very short time, and during the process Part Songs for new teacher.” The Dear-Darling-Biano (Shakes■ her head at Ethel). “Selfish get our ears; we listen with our eyes diversion or side line in which one is “But I’m not comfortable,” sighed smiled an engulfing smt’e.. of its being in press, our special price will Men’s Voices materialism! Esther thinks we should instead. genuinely interested is far better than Mail Order be 30 cents postpaid. Delia, “when I make so many mistakes.” “Inspiration! Fudge!'’ snapped the gymnastics or the like, done consciously i his new volume will be similar in style go in a body to the Aerdome. Girls! One of my pupils sits and peers at the Music Supplies “Perhaps they were not even listening B roken- Backed-Book. and scope to our very successful collec¬ girls! I’m ashamed of you! For pleas¬ music when she makes a mistake as for the sake of “exercise.” Teachers and schools throughout the to you, Delia,” and Miss Keith looked at “But I say, now, there’s something in ure, profit, uplift or just for fun? Say. Of course, it is hardly necessary to The Greatest Love—Cantata. tions for women’s voices. It will contain though a note had slipped it's place, then entire country are not aware of the con¬ the offended Delia. “Anyway you are a the inspiration business!” grinned the By H. W. Petrie glees and part songs for men’s voices suit¬ which of these four things did we decide she says. “That don’t look right.” What add, that no hobby or side line should venience and promptness with which able either for quartet or chorus work and normal girl of the average kind; you Dear-Darling-Piano, showing all of his to found our club upon? Wasn’t it for ever be allowed to encroach on one’s pro¬ she should say is, “That doesn't sound their orders for sheet music and music Those who are seeking something attrac¬ chiefly m four part harmony. The pieces must—simply must form the habit of fifty-two white teeth. profit and uplift? Come, girls, let’s buy books can be supplied by mail order un¬ tive for concerted work will find some¬ right.” 1 think music is never so joy- fessional duties. will be in all styles and chiefly of inter¬ going in and out without making a fuss; Just then Amy stepped into the room, less they have given this system a trial. thing new and attractive in this cantata a good dollar and thirty-five cent book giving as when some one is listening mediate difficulty—one of the best books you must work without attracting atten¬ she saw the shining Fifty-two white teeth for our library and then let’s solicit the Rest Before the Recital The distance covered by the mail in which is suitable for Easter or for any for the permanent repertoire of any men’s with you. I like to have all the boys and tion. Make yourself comfortable, for no of the Dear-Darling-Piano. big grown-up women’s clubs for more Experience has shown that when one twenty-four hours is almost unbelievable. general occasion. The text of this work is club. The special price in advance of pub¬ girls around me, and if I were sending An order sent from nearby towns one by It. Bronner, and is well chosen. The one is watching you. I doubt if Esther “Whew! Looks as though he was books for that shelf, and I’ll ask the ■s to make a public performance in the lication will be 15 cents postpaid. a little one to his first lesson this is what night often reaches the buyer the next text is taken from the Bible. There is a herself heard your mistakes the other going to bite,” shudders Amy. Mayor myself if we girls can’t have a evening, or conduct an important re¬ I should say to the teacher, “Teach this night. An order shipped on Monday great variety of solos and concerted work Polko’s evening.” “If you do it to-morrow I will,” snarls musical magazine in the reading room hearsal, a reasonable degree of absolute Delia smiled a knowing smile. little one to listen.” Now you take it night can be returned filled' on Wednes¬ occupying about forty minifies for per¬ Musical Sketches the Dear-Darling-Piano. “I’ll bite your I counted five magazines on dress and idleness during the day is a great help. formance. The work is not beyond the “You have tools,’’ said Miss Keith, tak¬ from me as the most truthful truth, that day morning to a radius of 400 miles, and 11ds book has become a classic in musi fingers off!” not one on music. a few hours more at each end will take comprehension. of the average choir or ing Delia’s hand. “Tools like these can shut-ins rarely listen, they just ding- Looking over and trying out a pile of cal circles. -Gifted with the story-teller’s “Oh, dear!” and Amy looks at her ten “And, oh say, girls, let’s see if we can’t care of a radius of 600 miles from Phila¬ audience. The special features are the do much valuable work. They may not dong ; so don’t on any account lie a shut- new music, in order to select pieces for charm and a familiarity with the lives of soiled fingers. “I guess I’ll wash my get Florence Fleissen, who has just come delphia. lovely melody and the charm of the har¬ the masters this talented German woman be so bright and shiny as Edith’s and in, stir around a bit. see what you can pupils or for one’s own repertoire, is a hands,” says Amy to herself. back from New York, you know, to ad- There are very few general stocks of monies. Besides this there is a devotional produced Sketches which have stood the Celia’s, neither are they so dull as fask as delightful as it is necessary, hut spirit which pervades the entire work. “No you won’t,” hisses the Broken- dress our club on ‘How to Practice’ or find in your own town; perhaps it is sheet music anywhere in the country to¬ test of time. The English text of the Rachel’s; they are your tools, your very >s particularly wearying to the nerves, day sufficient to take care of the needs The work is also not lacking in dramatic Backed-Book. “You don’t need a hand Music Study ,n New York,’ or something there at your very door step. Aunt coming edition is exact and yet retains the own, and in the whole world there are and should be reserved for the summer of the average school and teacher. This import. It will make a most excellent wash, or a drink, or a new piece, or like that. ( Miss Fleissen says she thinks Molly may be just pining to read four- fluency and interest of the oriebiated none like them. First of all, you are to inspiration, or a new teacher. What you holidays, or some other less busy season, means houses like ours are called upon second part of an evening concert. We original. By taking advantage of our ad¬ our towns awfully stupid after New hands with you; she won’t ask to be¬ think of your work and less of what you need is a bit of cobbler’s wax to hold in this, as in all things, the musician to fill the orders of the dealers for all heartily recommend the work to our vance of publication offer Etude readers York> and she feels she is not annre- cause she doesn’t want to interfere with their miscellaneous necessities. How much readers. Our special advance price is 35 think you can do. Perhaps you are not 'you on the piano stool!” should learn how best to conserve his may secure this hook at a very greatly re¬ ctated here. Let’s show her we appre¬ your teacher. Go up and ask her-be a better it is to drop a self-addressed postal doing boy or girl. own nervous energy. duced rate. The work is one of 345 pages, THE ETUDE 761 THE ETUDE 760 to have more and more of this classical work is nothing short of monumental, Standard Students’ study where the artistic is blended with Others have written excellent bowing ex- has sixteen illustrations, and is attrac¬ Album for the Pianoforte the useful. We will say that this volume ercises, but it has been left to Sevcik to contains not only Op. 53 but also Op. 59. gather all known forms of bowing and to tively bound in red cloth covers lettered We are continuing during the current For Nervous Women with gold. The sketches themselves give month the special offer on this new col¬ In most all of the other editions Op. 59 develop them exhaustively. It is with some very interesting pictures of musical ,s omitted. Our special advance price for great pleasure that we present the first Horsford’s Acid Phosphate quiets lection. It will prove a valuable addition both Opuses is 20 cents. life in the last century. One entitled A to our series of pianoforte collections, book of this work to our readers. The the nerves, relieves nausea and head¬ Melody, for instance, has to do with the printed from especially large plates. The book has been edited and revised by Mr. ache, and induces refreshing sleep. well-nigh forgotten composers, Cherubini “SAFETY FIRST” Frederick Hahn. Mr. Hahn, himself a selections in this volume will be of the --- -Characteristic Studies for the Best of all tonics for debility and and Boieldieu. Another called Violetta is —rimAim: FRYSINGER—Music MSS. Piannfnrto P c M„xxixx,« former pupil of Sevcik, is one of the fore¬ type frequently described as semi-classical. corrected. University School of Music, Lin- VianOIOrte—LJy K. S. Morrison loss of appetite. a pretty story of the life of Mozart and All the pieces in addition to their musical most violin teachers in the country, and Haydn. The advance of publication price Ln. Neb. __ There is always room for a good ne ______|_ IN BUYING interest will be of real educational value; his excellent editing is the result largely which is continued for this month is SO "ThkTk^—Educational, Scientific Literary, study-book for early intermediate grade of his*Experience wfih’SevSk in the studio only the best composers will be repre¬ Bargains. Catalogue. Higene s, T-2441 Post, use. Mr. Morrison’s new set of charac- and in the practical work of teaching. He sented. The special introductory price in NOT one buyer in a thousand ever has a advance of publication will be 20 cents -—- __ teristic studies is a collection of gems, and has included valuable additional instruc- Four Indispensable Magazines SKINXER COURSE OJ’ MVSIC—For each of the studies a little piece in itself, tions as to “how to practice,” etc., that chance to make the investigation as to the postpaid. H6 W. Canfieid yet each one brings out some special point Sk has not previously published. It at One-Half Regular Price merchant’s reliability that the publisher Ave ’-m pianoforte technic. This is such a book is not too much to say that the present We have just completed arrangements Studies in Time, Rhythm whereby we are able to present to our has. The responsible publisher must do all in his and Expression. Lansdowne, Pa. special price in advance of publication is existing editions. Our special advance of readers THE BIGGEST MAGAZINE 20 cents postpaid. publication price on this first book of the BARGAIN ever offered—four well-known power to protect the interests of the readers of By Sydney Steihneimer COME SOW— Beaut'ful sacred solo, magazines at exactly one-half the regular This set of studies is one that will solo duet and chorus. Price, 25 cents, Sevcik School of Bowing is 20 cents. ires’s L. Cradit, Quenemo, Kansas. Popular ETUDE subscription price. his publication. benefit any pupil who is beyond the third We will send The Etude, Mothers or fourth grade. 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Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other with the well-known studies by Strenbbog, OF LEARNING This will be the last month that this security holders, holding _ , . . - ... Note Spelling Book. Op. 53. It is of about the same style and work for the organ will be on special offer. _®“°"nt of bonds’ mortgages. or °th' By Adele Sutor “I SAW IT IN THE ETUDE” score, but in more modem style. Most of The aim of the author has been to present None. This new work is now almost ready and the studies are in characteristic vein, and material for the organ within the grasp of ‘ (S’gned) Theo. Pbessek. copies will he ready for distribution in a each one has an appropriate title. In this the average organist, and everything can _ Sworn and subscribed before me this 131 very short time, but the special offer will book pleasure and profit are combined in be played on a two-manual organ. There 8 f (Signed) ’ Jas. D. Winchbll. Prices are $7.50 for the Vacuum Cle; be continued during the current month. about equal proportions. The special ad¬ GREENSBORO COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, is nothing extravagant in the whole set (My commission expires January 21, 1917 two hundred and eighty-eight pages in the Chopin’s Etudes (without brush) and ?9.00 for the Vac. Miss Sutor’s Note Spelling Book is one of vance price for introductory purposes only Greensboro, N. C. Chartered 1838. Confers the of pieces. They are chosen for the musi- Form 3526. Sweeper (with brush). Slightly higher in the best ever offered. It is complete in book which makes the average lesson over for pianoforte is 20 cents postpaid. degree of A.B. in the literary department and B.M. cal interest and all difficulties have been West, South and in Canada. Carpet Sw two pages in length. It will serve to make Richard Mansfield and Ambition era $2.75 to *5.75. Sold by dealers ev all respects and has been gotten out with and superior edition of Chopin’s avoided. There are no difficult pedal pas¬ where. Booklet on request. the utmost care. For teaching notation deservedly meritorious works-“ popular. Among these are for* instance Etades be added to the Presser Col- Studies for Left Hand—Op. 1103. sages and no complicated rhythms. Many The memorable verse of Longfel¬ for young students nothing bettter has . .. xv,_f. . xv c,_.1,_m.i.j:. lection. The work 1- of these pieces might be known to our or¬ Handel’s Chaconne in G, Sinding’s Melodie edited by Constantin By Arnoldo Sartorio low’s— ever been offered. The special price in Sternberg, who has made of thi§ task Houghton, N. Y- ganists, but they are all in a new dress advance of publication will be 15 cents Mignonne, Debussy’s Arabesques, Skaho’s As the name indicates, these studies are HOUGHTON SEMINARY, Mi 1 Rapids, Mich. Elegie,jcJieoie. -cvrensKyArensky’s s utLe Couaou,lvucuu. cyCyril i u otuuScott'- a a labor. , , of. love. His. editing' is of, the most, . and many have been specially arranged The heights by great reached and postpaid. intended for the cultivation of the left Special opportunity for instr Our special advance price Lotus Land, MacDowell’s To a Wild Hose. Peaking and minute character and i voice. Total expense for boar kept - ■ ‘ Puck, Rachmaninoffs Prelude, as addltlon hp has a snla"d''’ “ 3200 per year. Apply for cata Were not attained by sudden flight, Child’s Own Book of Great wcu as the better known works of Chopin, - . ... , But they while their companions slept ■ ■ • — — - - There are plenty of most interesting pas- WINTHR0P NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL Musicians. By Thomas Tapper t Uv* OnrlnrH mrl TWthnven The ad- practice, etc. These will prove almost in- . , * - • . Schradieck’s School of Were toiling ^upward in the night, V- nee of nuhlication nricJ is 50 cents valuable. This should prove a most popu- suPes ln rhythm and melody that sustain Rock Hill,. S. C., a school for the The first book of this series of children’s COLLEGE, Violin Technics, Part 1. biographies is on the market and it has TW hool ris beercarcfum edded and edition of this standard work. The the pupil’s interest. Those who have been has a significance which apparently does broiln-ht to date bv E e" Tliusher special introductory price in advance of usmK Sartorio s studies in the past will Edited by F. Hahn met with universal success. This was a brought up-to-date by E. E. Hipsher. pJuHication wiu b/2£ cents postpaid. not be disappointed in this last set. It is : occur to those who quote it foregone conclusion with us. We knew Schradieck has long been known as one f Th h teil and labor while that something of this kind was needed Wagner onc °* the most interesting of the series of the most eminent of European violin , at Homo Npw Frnn7-T iwt of studies we have been publishing of this teachers that ever settled in the United others sleep often suffer from an mor- and those that have had an opportunity at Home JN anz LlSZt most interesting writer. He is one of the to examine the first book are enthusiastic States. He studied first with the great dmate discontent. For them there is no We have bought from another publisher AlDum lor tile l ianotorte few writers that take the place of Czernv. Belgian masters under Leonard in Brus- rest, no happiness. Every new height at- about it. This is a child’s own hook of ail the remaining copies of Gautier’s clever a splendid new collection for the ad- His works embody everything of Czerny's, biography. The material for the biog¬ sels and later at Leipzig. Further ex- tained is but the platform on which to and interesting chapters shedding so much yanced pianist containing original com- with the addition of modern ideas and raphy is found in the pages of the small perienee in Moscow and as a concert build higher. This thought has been well hook. The pictures are on a separate light on Wagner’s private life during the positions by Liszt, and also some of the his own individuality. While these studies Standard violinist brought him prominently to the expresse(i by Richard Mansfield, himself sheet, which the child is to cut out and period of his exile in Switzerland when standard transcriptions. This volume has are not entirely for the left hand alone, many of his famous works were for a long been prepared with the utmost care and the left hand receives the greatest part of front. His work as a ^ac,a victim of discontent—the very force place in the proper place. He or she then is his best C0P.r* °. ne been Maudes that drove him to the top. Paul Wilstach writes a short sketch of the composer and while in process of development and per- with every effort to make the contents as the attention.. Our special advance price siens his or her name, after which the fection. Every admirer of Wagner, the interesting and comprehensive as possible, is but 20 cents, Compositions Powell and others ha?dlv less distinguished, in his biography of Mansfield (published composer, will be glad to get an intimate jt differs in this respect from many of the book is stitched. A binding needle and a Schradieck’s School of Technics is in three by Scribner’s) quotes some remarks of cord are included in the book. This proves view of Wagner, the man, surrounded by other Liszt albums. It will be a hand- „ . , . parts, dealing respectively with finger dex- the great actor’s, the significance of which his family in his retirement at Tribschen. some volume printed from special plates FtUdeS-PoeSleS for the most interesting to the child. While the For the Piano terity, double-stops, and different bowing will not be lost upon those who remem- special offer on the first book is withdrawn The book has 257 pages with several The special introductory price in advance Pianoforte—Op. 53 ar.d Op. 59. exercises. We are now offering the first ber that Mansfield was a musician of no illustrations and was catalogued to sell for 0f publication is 20 cents postpaid Vol. I—First Grade Vol. II—Second Grade and this book cannot be purchased at the $3.50, but we shall close out the remaining part, dealing with finger technics in all mean attainments and the son of the special offer price, yet the complete set seventy-five copies at 75 cents each post- n, , This volume of poetical studies belongs Vol. Ill-Third Grade Vol. lV-Fourth Grade positions. Edifed by ^re_e™ , ® great singer, Madame Rudersdorff. can be purchased at the same rate, and to a class that is quite rare. There are Vol. V—Fifth Grade Vol. VI—Sixth Grade of the foremost American teachers ot the ’ paid if cash is sent with the order; if Hid ravontes violin, the present offering will doubtless Contented he was not, says Wilstach ; that is the entire set of six biographies for charged, the postage will be added to the Album not very many studies of this kind Vol. VII—Seventh Grade be of the utmost value to innumerable he could not be. His ambition was al- 40 cents. The next book that will appear bill. This is a genuine book bargain for extant. We are frequently asked what on the market will be Mozart and This is positively the last month that this we have to take after Heller studies. We violin students and teachers. The advance ways reaching out. Years afterward he lovers of good musical literature. PRICE 50 CENTS EACH that book can now be purchased for 10 ?ffiF™riteS\A-lbUm w,iU be sP^ial wmdll unquestionably saysuv thatt these studies l this work is 20 said to the writer, during a lull in a dress 'cents, but the one that has been with¬ Chopin’s Preludes hfnds tbc°h nAS C°T ntC and iS in the of Haberbier can'follow in the s rehearsal: ‘This responsibility and fatigue drawn, that is Bach, cannot be had at the for the Pianoforte and tiU be L ^f u t,me’ as SteI,hen Heller, and we will say that is overwhelming.. See that bright, care¬ special price except in the entire set. This new volume in the Presser Col¬ issue coLes out^^+Mc** !]f,°re thp'lext a'>yone who is finished with thee studies Sevcik’s School of Bowing, free, contented young fiddler there. He lection is now ready but the special tL last^Lth ofStb^ cW^ibeI°SltlVf2y Can follow with Chopin’s studies. There Book I. Edited by F. Hahn only plays a second violin, yet he is How to Play Well-Known Piano Each volume is intended to be used With the troductory offer will be continued during workco„“of^very old favor^f' Thev I™*"8 J* corresponding grade of Mathews’ Standard Graded The success of such violinists as Kubelik, happy. I can’t understand it. If I played Solos. By Charles W. Wilkinson the current month. It is impossible to might be called by-gone favorites They Thev°apr^flnte^Pret e Characteristics of Beethoven, as Expressed Through His Letters about with me the whole summer, and it -With respect to h when he has finally mode of fingering, and plays in right and when he is sufficiently ; all, is the first object, of art .’-(To l Carl) master. Get a written receipt from him; off I hear none of the high notes ingers.”—(T o And this should be done for every person who pays money for another.”-(To Carl, j MQ^EY^ PLEASURE! » b Sept. 14, 18240 ’ Leabarjan Perforato ; else.”— (To Carl a Oct 6, 1802.) . d in need of a class lib e those whom we desi tear us.”- (To Carl, t Kindergarten m1vv!'k,m. happiness”—(To his broil “Educ?ff' 6' T\ V happens to be Sunday, so I will We you something out of the Bible, the only true path to all that is good and right. Farewell!"-(To his nephew, Carl.) “Art! Who comprehends it? With shall I discuss this mighty God- The Etude by Otto Tor ^SSi ■ * . . I carried your letter 'Archduke Rudolph' ’^9-) The ETUDE takes pride in calling the attention of the readers of the voice department to This department is the result of a vast amount of reading in __ ,• J the great number of excellent things in store for them. Mr. William Shakespeare, Mme. old books likely to contain passages of interest to our readers We c 'P°rary maSaz,nes and in new a YvonneDeTrevilles, Mr. Perley Dunn Aldrich, Mr. H. W. Greene, Mr. George Frederick LEARN RAGTIME/”! don of the field in o», reading. Haven’t you .otne.MngZt yl have "’“"TT " * Z Stock, Mr. S. Camillo Engel, and many other voice teachers and singers of note will like to see in print again to help others? Send it to us and if SaVed that y°U to reprint it. What we regularly print in The Musical Digest will”* Z'^ ^ ^ 0nly t0° * * have interesting articles in the future departments they have consented to edit. __digest will guide you as to what we want. J 765 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE The Festival Idea in America Thanksgiving Music In a thought-provoking paper read be¬ hear good.music so frequently that con¬ We have selected tl..iga list ,of fore the International Music Society in cert-going becomes a habit. Standard and some new anthems and solossole for Thanksgiving Services. We* have a London, 1911, Professor A. A. Stanley, “Chamber concerts, recitals and choral large stock of anthems of all ►ublishers of the University of Michigan, pointed concerts should :be heard frequently, so Citable for all occasions, any B ho nlfiased to send oi out some of the good things and the bad that a community may become familiar that arise from the giving of music fes¬ with the characteristics of various schools Anthems forThanksgiving Day tivals. “The festival idea,” he said, of composition, and be in a position to And God Said Let the Earth, which has now become thoroughly accli¬ exercise judgment,, or at least think on Simper ...$0.1 matized in the United States, has its bad the subject. Then the festival has a Awake, My Soul, to Sound His and its good side, and neither can be right to be. The festival makes possible A Praise. Harry Hale Pike.i Come and Worship the Lord, Schoe- overlooked in a candid discussion of its in smaller communities the performance value as a means of musical education of works which, could not be thought of and inspiration. If a festival is an under ordinary circumstances. Through Earth’s the Lord’s, The, J. W. annual, biennial or triennial gorging, to it may be heard the most celebrated artists Lermau .15 be followed by acute musical dyspepsia both native and foreign. By a proper Great is the Lord (New), A. J. Boex .15 arrangement of programs, musical works They will be found especially v Hallelujah, “Messiah,” Handel...^ .08 and a more or less extended period of Q. From what are the 6. ..ilmuets of book._f Heavens are Telling, The, “Crea¬ musical starvation, it has no true value of various styles may be shown in rela¬ are commonly ble if you wish to give short talks on i Beethoven taken, the ones lational type of program, r- « — tion,” Haydn.06 and should be discouraged. If,‘ on the tion to one another. By reason of the printed•yrwinu/ together?iiuyx>viw t They ” VlOt from rranglng such a program. How Excellent is Thy Loving Kind¬ sonatas. Pleasq itemize these minuets as to ness (New), E. S. Barnes...... 15 other hand, it is a part of a compre¬ enthusiasm created by mere force of exact source.—L. C. B. _ q What is meant by the chord of the I Will Magnify Thee, De Reef.10 hensive scheme of musical education, its numbers, the festival can aid in the estab¬ A. Regarding tlie 6 Minuets of Beethoven Neapolitan Sixth? A friend of mine sa ' It Is A Good Thing To Give Thanks, value cannot be overestimated. Nothing lishment of a vigorous musical life in - pubUshed together to the yeai . “barber■shop”_ chord; winy, Patty Stair.15 1796, under the title of Sia, Minuets for the Let the Righteous be Glad, C. Darn- can take the place of steady, continuous the city or state, not by itself, but in Piano by Ludwig van Beethoven and were and _ well-directed musical effort. The conjunction with the other musical influ¬ originally published by Artarla & Co., \ it™, s for orehes- The Neapolitan sixth Is a minor third Lotd is My Strength, The (New), ences suggested from outside.” Beethoven has twelve ' Mj'" and sixth upon the subdominant degree in T. D. Williams.15 public should be given an opportunity to tra, but these are twelve umt,. minor. The following (*) is a Neapolitan Lord of the Harvest, Thee We Hail, and are composed just about the r'a'nd“the sixth In A minor and the kind of passage in F. H. Brackett.15 They first“‘o'- appeared“l'v'.-It In March 171 which it Iia often employed: others appeared in TSovember l<9o. it is s Lord Eeigueth, The (New), T. D. Wil¬ mised that these six minuets were originally liams ..12 a part of the twelve minuets for orchestra, Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord, Quacks and Fakes in Music Teaching but they never have appeared as orchestral Simper .08 compositions and this is the only form in Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord, which they are published. After the publication by Artaria they 0 Be Joyful in the Lord, Jubilate By Francesco Berger republished, in 1802, by J. Cappi, and have Deo in F, Berthold Tours.06 since appeared in various editions. See Not 0 Be Joyful in the Lord, Bruce Similar frauds obtain in the teaching tebohm’s themati-e catalogue of Beethieditions The slang term “barber shop chord" is one The following is an extract from an Italian, French, German, Spanish works (page 150) for the O Lord How Manifold, Albert Ham. article in the London Musical Opinion, of singing, Lie flat oil your back and clue to frequently applied In England and in some 0 Lord, How Manifold Are Thy ciue parts of America, to the Neapolitan and breathe as deeply as you can, says one other sixth chords of a like character. In Worke, Joseph Barnby. from the pen of a Well-known London 0 Lord, How Manifold are Thy teacher. teacher. Stand erect afid breathe quite, LANGUAGE-PHONE METHOD Q. What is known of the musician called the days when gentlemen spmit much Works, W. H. Eastham. and Rosenthal’s Practical Lingnistry ^ Turlogh O’Carolan who went hy the name «thenT barbers in order to have tl .. 0 Praise the Lord, Bruce Steane. . . The teaching of music has always been naturally, says another. Produce your write elaborately coiffured it was sometimes the II professor pronounce the language, over and of "the Irish Handel?” Did he eve, custom to regale them with a little min- Our Country (Festival Choral the favorite hunting-ground of quacks, voice from the back of the head, says anything of real musical merit?—L. V last strelsy. Perhaps the term arose from tbs. March). Geo. E. Whiting. .... A ^7 talking machine (if you prefer). Our records ■ O'Carolan, or Cardan, was ti ■ Praise the Lord, Te Servants, J. M. humbugs and impdstors. There are al¬ one; produce it from between your lips, and the grea strels The “Neapolitan sixth" is a term also veiled says another. Fling your head back and ounty in some mystery, but it probably came from Crament . ways plenty of people ready to believe 2 West 45th St.,N. 7. He was borr Praise the Lord, 0 Jerusalem (Har¬ open your mouth as widely as possible, Meath,arearn, andana theretu«w is sem . ,,.6C called its early useby wuthoHaJtnltan composes vest), C. Darnton . that the methods which in the past have Carolan’stown in that county. He studied As many barbers a Praise Ye the Father, Gounod. produced the greatest singers and the says one; do not throw your head back harp at 12 years of age, I""1, "- Praise the Lord, A. W. Lansing. . PAPA or MAMA came a very great artist on this instrument, greatest instrumentalists are, if not ab¬ and beware of opening the mouth too Praise Ye the Lord (From Cantata his greatness consisting more in his impro- solutely wrong, at any rate insufficient much, says another. Do not vocalize on visational powers and his wonderful union of Q. Is there any general rule hy which “Nain”), Homer A. Norris_ poetry and tones. Even great musicians one may determine the proper notes upon Rejoice in the Lord, A. Berridgc. . . for the requirements of to-day, and-that the Italian ah but on the English cc; which to begin a trill? Also is there a have paid tribute to his wonderful gifts in Rejoice, the Lord is King, Berwald. Mr. This and Mr. That must be great vocalize always on oo; sing as loudly this direction. general rule governing the employment of Sing to the Lord of the Harvest, Cardan became blind t 16 years of age. the omission of the turn at the F. H. Brackett. men because they teach on “a new sys¬ as you can; do not shout. Add to these through attack" ’ ofJ smallpox.•' He himself close of a trill?—A. To Thee, 0 Lord, Our Hearts We discrepant directions the lure set forth souieiimos »aid that his eyes had been trans- A. There are quite definite rules on each Raise, W. Benvald. tem” of their own discovery. They are LITTLE FOLKS, Dept. E, Salem, Mas. ferred into his ears by this calamity. 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The Musical Record (London). teenth, where musical instruction held a prominent making an exception to the usual routine of grading. beginning in 1870, in such roles as Marguerite, Mignon, valuable workers in our field may be mentioned Mrs. cia ly in those qualities which seem to touch so graphi¬ place, and profound respect was taught for the divine For example, it is often found desirable to give a Ophelia, Elsa and Lucia. She also delighted in present¬ Anna Smith Behrens, soprano, arid Mrs. Valborg cally the great forces of Nature. M art, there were Swedish as well as Moravian teachers. pupil a somewhat advanced piece in order to arouse his ing concert-goers with songs of the North, which she Hovind Stub, mezzo soprano, both from Norway and interest and ambition and incite him to work, while 1 kave,sa!.d there is more iri music than “meets the had learned to cherish as a child at home. She and eye, and hihted later on that philosophers of lon- How Liszt Encouraged Saint-Saens no longer living. Herman Sandby, one of the most with an over-confident pupil, a propensity to hurry Some Nineteenth Century Artists Jenny Lind had been decorated by the Crown of past ages knew this to be so; and yet until quite noted of Danish composers, is the solo ’cellist of the may be overcome—penalized as it were—by selecting a said STaW Liszt in Paris in 1854.” Saint-Saens has Little was known of the music of Norway, in the Sweden and so was Sigrid Arnoldson, who came here recently science was blind to the fact that in those famous Philadelphia Orchestra. Olaf Jensen, the gifted piece of a grade a trifle lower than his actual attain¬ probablvV W.as1thcn a y°unS fellow of eighteen. I United States, until 1843, the year Ole Bull made his from Stockholm, in 1804 and attained considerable philosophers there was also something more than “me?*! Danish pianist, and his wife Mme. Jensen, a well known ments justify. In general, all technical studies may be SeSer? T? *,Wn at the house of my teacher, initial appearance here. The genius of this interesting popularity as a singer. the eye” in fact, there was a tendency in many Norwegian sojorano, are likewise residents of Phila- somewhat in advance of the actual grade in order to once cIm t 11mpreSsi0D was s° Powerful that I a. man for patriotism even exceeding his genius for his With the first important German opera company that scientists to regard certain of these ancient philosophers stimulate the pupil to do his best, but for recreation beloved violin, he was not slow in introducing here reached us, in 1862, came Bertha Johansen, daughter of as stupendous intellects and fools at the same time, thus two yTarsPlateer i ^ °f P1^"* AboW purposes and for concert playing, pieces well within the the spirit of Norway in song and story. During his a Danish clergyman of distinction, in Copenhagen, a manifesting a logic which was certainly of a strange him mv first r 1 W h,m again ln Paris- phyed.to pupil’s ability must be insisted upon. many visits to our shores, which he continued to make gifted woman who had conquered many obstacle! before order. -This, however, is now falling out of fashion ~ Pri’ciS,dXcnT"nd r *"* V, *«<• * until the last year of his life, he familiarized concert- It is the teacher’s mission to instill high aims and critical moment nf ' T 1 n,et h,m ,n Germany at a she could take her place on the operatic and concert and as science becomes less and less material we mar --uiuicsiras. inese led to the lofty ideals into his class, and this is easily done if due a long time at m career- 1 had been working for goers with the Norwegian melodies which he played stage. She had. spared no pains to reach the heights not be thought wholly unscientific in quoting the follow inauguration of musical festivals and competitive meets consideration is shown to the pupil’s likes and dislikes—, singly and interwoven with his own compositions. at which she aimed. She made a peculiarly strong mg extract from “Isis Unveiled”: “From the remotest encouragement from'th™" f DW,/<'’ -vct without much from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coasts wherever Nor¬ his preferences. The youngest child has certain prefer¬ fnlt „vigL t jn tllose about me. I began to doubt, The impression his music created in the minds of impression as Fidelio in .Beethoven’s opera of that ages the philosophers have maintained the singular felt exhausted, wegians, Danes, Swedes and Finns had settled. Phila¬ ences which should be viewed as forming a part of his plan. ’ s determined finally to bury m those who knew him, especially in the early years of his name. She was a rare interpreter of German song .power of music oyer certain diseases, especially "f the delphia held the first of these festivals, in 1887 in the character, and no teacher should thwart or stifle them, appearances here, is expressed by numerous writers of as well as of German opera, and although she did not nervous class Kircher recommends it, having exper wouldn’t™!? of? entCred into tke breach. *** Old Swedes Church, and it was the result of a move¬ for if this is done, progress must be retarded and the me, and said- glving UP the opera, encouraged prose and verse. Upon hearing of Ole Bull’s death, specialize in Scandinavian music, both her presence and enced its goed effects on himself, anfl he gives an e’M? ment set afoot in 1885 by the Philadelphia “Scan- pupil’s interest is likely to wane. Longfellow said in a letter to a friend; “It seems her song had a strong Northern flavor. rate description of the instrument he employed ft wa! ‘ performed ’"a °Pera an<1 1 undertake » dinayian Quartet Club.” This initial festival, in which • And that is how Samson < t Dclila scarcely possible that I shall see that radiant face no The Wagnerian soloist Olive Fremstad, honored as s first given c more.” 123 singers, representing eight societies from Phila¬ German soil, at Weimar.” Briinhilde, Kundry, Isolde and in other noted roles, delphia, New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Perth Amboy, 712 THE ETUDE THE ETUDE 713 Available Scandinavian Music N. J., New Britain, Conn., and Chicago, was followed, toured Norwav in 1905, and also played at the , A lash Yukon Exposition, Seattle. The mixed "M; ago, with its KTDDB readers seeking material for recitals of Scan