Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 4-1-1928 Volume 46, Number 04 (April 1928) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 46, Number 04 (April 1928)." , (1928). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/755 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. w l 7he Journal of the ^Musical Home Everywhere'vncnnP'TP ' PRICE 25 CENTS $2.00 A YEAR April, 1928 Three Far-Famed American Song Composers A Wide Variety of Song Material for Concert, Home and Studio Use - NEIDLINGER ^ O’HARA The range of each song is indicated with small and capital letters. The first letter is the lowest note in \\ WILLIAM HAROLD NEIDLING- 1 A LTHOUGH Geoffrey O’Hara the song and the second letter is the highest note. A W ER, vocalist and composer, was ** ?" was bom in Chatham, Ontario, small letter tells that the note is helow or above the bom in Brooklyn in the year 1863. He >4 j Canada (in 1882), nevertheless he is ac- staff and the CAPITAL letter tells that it is on a took up the study of music in a serious if cepted as an American, his works having line or in a space within the staff. way at an early age first with Dudley •mrc been produced, and most of his life spent, Buck and C. C. Muller in New York, \ in this country. His early musical edu- later going to London to study with E. ^ ^ cation—vocal and composition—was the Dannreuther. During this early period sasssssa^f sSSt 1712-1714 CHESTNUT STRE THEODORE PRESSER CO. PHILADELPHIA, PA. DAY; APRIL 1928 Page 255 the etude THE ETUDE Huge Professional We Delight Directory Qan Tou T5ell? » POPULAR MUSIC In .Aiding SYNCOPATION RAPID PIANO 1. What two great vocal forms came into existence in 1600? You to Find 2. Who were John Bull and Ole Bull ? 3. In what two operas is a celebrated “Mad Scene” to be COURSE Suitable found; and who were their composers? POPULAR MUSIC and- 4. Who has been mentioned as “The greatest American com¬ Music poser ever born in Ireland and educated in Germany? SYNCOPATION 5. (a) In what Italian opera is the famous song, La Donna e Shefte Rapid Course-Vol. 1—Price $1.00 in U. S. A. Mobile? (b) What do these words mean? For beginners with no knowledge of music or who have had little teaching. 6. 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Mansfield The classical symphonies and, to a term symphony' concerts came to be ap¬ certain extent, modern symphonies also, plied, although somewhat inaccurately, to are, in substance, sonatas for full or¬ any series of concerts at each of which chestra ; that is, they ' are compositions a symphony was performed, or even to each of which consists of three or four choral or miscellaneous concerts at which movements, contrasted in form and style the performance of a symphony was and scored for the instruments found in merely occasional. This use of the term the best orchestras existing at the time of was scarcely justifiable, and the expression their production. And, of course, as com¬ has now become more properly and per¬ pared with the movements of the ordinary sistently applied to concerts given by pianoforte sonata, those of the symphony celebrated and more or less permanent are considerably longer and much more musical institutions or societies, in Europe fully developed. and America, at which “the performance Gradually, as the performances of of symphonic works is the main object in symphonies increased in importance and view.” No musical movement has grown frequency, during the last century, the more rapidly in the last twenty-five years. Jytusical Appreciation and ^Musical Form . By Eutoka Heller Nickelsen ^ v Every child should know: formed. It is named “Melodic,'’ because it 1. That each major scale has a relative avoids the harsh augmented second. minor scale. 6. That by a combination of the Melodic 2. That number six (the sub-mediant) Minor ascending and the Harmonic de¬ of a major scale becomes the tonic for its scending, the mixed Minor scale is formed. relative minor. 7. That the “raised seventh” occurs very 3. That the Natural Minor scale has no frequently throughout any composition altered tones. written in the minor mode. 4. That by raising the seventh tone one- 8. By a glance when the tonic close of a half step both ascending and descending, composition is in a major or minor key. the Harmonic Minor scale is formed. 9. That any key signature represents two 5. That by raising the sixth and seventh keys, either that of a major key or its rela- tones one-half step in the ascending scale and by canceling the altered tones in the 10. That the Minor mode is used to ex¬ descending scale, the Melodic Minor scale is press mystery, distress and sorrow. Knowledge acquired by students through the study of this course an Inventory ' makes an excellent foundation for more serious study. 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