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FOUR NEW YORK SINGERS, three men one woman, are announced as the P I A and N 0 winners of this season’s Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air. Regina Res- MUSI c Wil- nik, soprano; Morton Bowe, tenor; Favorites baritone; and Hugh These IN liam Hargrove, All baritone, were the four se- Thompson, H E E T lected from seven finalists who survived a twenty-week competition. Each received Opera O R M a contract with the Metropolitan are in GROUP Company, a cash, award of one thousand ECONOMY Priced at dollars, and a silver plaque. A fifth con- PRESSED Raffaelli, of Chicago, re- testant, Angelo SOLOS Grade THREE— >t- scholarship ONE — ceived a five-hundred-dollar PIANO SOLOS—Grade Title and Cat. No. A. Pacher This Page Gives award, with the Metropolitan taking first Composer 1 J. and ‘ No Title 464 Austrian Song. Op. 69; Mary E. Walsh Beethoven • • a Portion of option on his services. Symphony . 1. «» Black Hawk Waltz v "ill Only 1183 AUeeretto. From 7th 15293 Lohengnn. Surprise Symphony. 5615 Bridal Chorus. From Weiner 1183 Andante. From oseph Haydn Richard the Many Constantly j P. W. Orem Merkel THERE. AND EVERYWHERE (Simplified). - q HERE. _ . L6.r. L. opau;un.Spaulding6 THE ANNUAL FESTI- 6459 Buzzing Bumble Bee, l 3350 Frederic Chopin Demanded Classical, Daniel Rowe Etude. Arr. Hans Harthan.:.. Contented Bird, The . 14692 Butterfly VAL of American Music, 8400 >V. Rolfe Birds. Alleluia des Oiseaux^ and Ele- IN THE MUSICAL WORLD Birthday Waltz 3693 Carolling of the MicheuI Standard 25 16366 Daddy’s Spaulding held in April by the 7040 Daisy Chains •••••• i Solos CENTS ^ Bugbee ^Waltz. Op. mentary Piano Wedding. 120 ' 9629 Dance of the Fairy Queen - Spaulding 6599 Fairy L v/„ Beethoven Eastman School of Mu- l Farewell to the Piano Included 6460 Ding Dong Bell £ Spaulding 2006 Gustav Lante and Duets Rochester, New Poppies 2673 A COPY sic at DELL 16379 Dreaming ;.Ora Hart Weddle FESTIVAL was held at North ROBIN HOOD 5074 in the "Presser’s York, was highlighted A BACH 23968 (On Numbers in This 27-30 and CONCERTS will inaugu- 328 Humming Song. Op. 68; 3 5065 Fur Elise. Op. 173 Texas State College on April R Schumann ^ van Beethoven Economy Group.” Group Teacherk Enjoy All by a number of world Choral. Op. 68; „ fjewitt 16134 Gertrude s Dream the direction of Wilfred rate its fifteenth season D . . A. Jungmann Same Examination 5-7 under the Little Fisherman Op. H7 ...... premieres. Works thus May 23978 Jolly ' L Spaulding 381 Hetmweh. Stephen Heller Privileges, Discount, with the •• • and in June 19, 46, 1 . .. . Com- concerts were presented, on 5789 Jolly Raindrops. L Spaulding 1126a Little Tarantelle. Op. Ask for the Charge Burrill C. Bain. Ten of Flowers G Chorus. From Tannhause Account Conveni- honored were 6631 Just a Bunch Bugbee 14041 March and . er list these 2Sc of the most first of a series of twen- L. A. R Wti„ plete of ence ; Extended to Gardner which were performed some 9632 May Day Waltz Arr. Low Them Phillips’ “Declaratives,” _ Bugbee J- Dance L A — van Beethoven Numbers. on Any Other Read well-liked works of the ty-eight concerts cover- 9631 Maypole 7977 Menuet in G, No. 2 r Kinkel voices and interesting and Op. 68; Publications of the Theo- for women’s seven 354 Melody. 1 R. Schumann 5941 a guaranty fund covering Various choral groups and ing a period of 2 9 2 - dor© Presser Co.) Bergsma c been made for great master. Soldiers March. Op. 68, Mozart 12119 Nocturne* in .'^Si m'p^ified. Op. ; small orchestra; William W^A . u man n con- weeks. brilliant array 2355 Nlinuet. Frorn Don Juan L ndS and Pt° Pl" ° P the next three years. Mr. Krueger’s symphony orchestra were the partici- A 18216 ' 2”; Elliott Carter’s a Kittens / S' McLy^Bubeck "String Quartet, No. 6572 Playful r Margstein 19363 d r o p tract has been renewed for the same program included several of world-famous artists ' ^y^ the 1”; Gardner Read’s pants and 3170 Playing Tag Rowe PU S C 7 "Symphony No. Gladys DanieI 2283 ' •• Richard Weiner increase in the suites; some will appear as conduc- 9835 Signs of SpringL Wright TrLns F Spindier . ^ Moore’s period and a substantial of the French and English Swarthout _ Louise Flight”; and Douglass Small Bears N Well-Tempered Clavichord J. S Bach "Night 19685 Three r T q nfill idin £ 6694 Prelude No. 1. From also is being planned organ works tors and soloists. The number of symphonic number of concerts of the most popular of the 5787 2720 PTi S0ng r PIANO SOLOS—Grade FOUR AND A HALF “In Memoriam.” A will in charge .v.-;v-Kfch8tfK ^ Richard W.t ner season. of the piano majority of the concerts be 24010 nsrjger^:.:: W T Baltzer previously for each and chorales; a number tavLanie 11889 Falling Waters . J. L. Truax works by Gardner Reed have Mitro- 361 Pure as Snow. Edelweiss. Op. 31 ip"’ a of three noted conductors—Dmitri 7344 Sonata. No. 1 in C W. A. Mozart with out- concertos; and the closing concert was Grade AND A HALF Remember Me been given public performances ONE 5073 . . Minne- PIANO SOLOS— Handrock 23721 Song of the Alps . T. P. Ryder BAND, on June 14, forces, of poulos, musical director of the 1937 Scherzino. Op. 64; 2 .M- THE GOLDMAN performance by the combined Gavotte, A standing success. George 23485 Dainty " ifT^mlnn 19563 Sextette. From Lucia di Lammermoor. twenty-seventh season on the apolis Symphony Orchestra; r opens its the “St. Matthew Passion.” L a C1°V' ' Gaetano Donizetti 22262 NLomsiwriiht Arr. A. Garland PIANO SOLOS—Grade FIVE famous conductor t TL G. D. Wilson Central Park, New York. The Szell, internationally 19688 ?r Robert Nolan Kerr 4946 Shepherd Boy, The. Op. 4 SASHA CULBERTSON, violinist and Mall in 24011 M«rch Gustav tan** 3045 Cavatina. Op. 85 . Raff Opera Company; 308 Thine Own. Op. 54 sixty concerts are again the gift of the organized in of the Metropolitan 24871 Marigold^. . . Op. Convent Bells, Reverie Henry Bollman brother of the noted con- SCRIABIN CIRCLE, s Steinheimer 536 Traumerei. Op. 15; 7. Little Romance. 8840 teacher, and THE widely-known n e R Schumann Crescendo Per Lasson Guggenheim Foun- and Vladimir Golschmann, 8172 '. '. '. 7021 Daniel '. '. '. Hart Weddle Ely Culbertson, and York, has just completed its . Ora authority, ?«nHm^ Thf Moiart 138; 9 Stephen Heller tract bridge 1934 in New 23337 Mildred Adair 2402 Turkish Rondo. From Sonata in A W. A. 1663 Curious Story. Op been for the past conductor of the St. Louis Symphony of thJpines Fischer minor w. A Mozart York City. He dation, as they have 22786 Henri van Gael 6628 Wayside Rose. Op. 177 Otto 7353 Fantasia in D died on April 16 in New 10th season. include Voice of the Heart Kmkel Marche de Concert. Op 19 H A. Wollenhaupt years. Orchestra. Soloists to appear 3854 6652 Whisperings of Love. Valse Sentimentale C 4678 Grande in this country on December 29, thirteen Founder and Director, Katherine 68; 10. Arr. Hartl. R Schumann was born The 562 Will-o’-the-Wisp * Jungmann 7715 Joyous Peasant. Op A Artur Rubinstein, Rudolf Serkin, Jascha Minuet. From Symphony E-flat was sent, at the age of nine, Heyman, who for the past three PIANO SOLOS—Grade TWO 73S7 1893, and Ruth Nathan Milstein, Gregor Piati- (Mozart) Julius Schulhoff his MORIZ ROSENTHAL, Vienna-born pi- public appear- Heifetz, . made . . . ^Beethoven Conservatory. He from . . L. kept Sonata, Op. 26 . to the Rostov years has been 1560 Andante. From SOLOS Grade THREE AND A HALF 7356 Moment Musical. Op. 94; 6 one gorsky, Alec Templeton, Luboshutz and PIANO — and in 1920 anist, now eighty-one years old, and celebrated the decade 9420 Mozart 357 Nocturne in E-fiat. Op. 9; 2 Frederic Chopin debut in Vienna at fourteen, ances by ill health, Three Compositions of Mozart, The.. . tV-A. Ballet Music. From Rosamunde. Arr. F. L. pupils of Liszt, re- Nemenoff, Zadel Skolovsky, Bronislaw 3623 First Wier Dortch 14477 Robin’s Departure Leander Fisher place in New of the last remaining the same time a Giant and the Elf A.leen Hatch Franz Schubert his American debut took of the Circle and at Jan 22812 Romance. Op. 44; 1 Anton Rubinstein citizen. At Huberman, Gladys Swarthout, and Serenade Hexnnch Engel 8632 Barcarolle. From Les Contes d’Hoff- 3040 in cently became an American playing each 4187 Gondolier's Waves A. P. Wyman York City. He appeared frequently stage of her recovery, by at Fairies C mann. Trans. H. Engelmann Jacques Offenbach 19321 Silvery 7110 Haunt of the .H .Goo. Wm Warren the conclusion of the ceremonies in New Peerce. - wold of the Brook, The Since 1930 season. • • Green • • 6996 Song of years. meetings of the 13530 Holy Night, Peaceful Night M 13326 Dream of the Shepherdess. Op. 45 Aug. Labitzky concert for a number of the three Rhapsodie No. 2 Goo. Wm. Warren one of a group . F. o’Shanter where he was 24404 Hungarian Dance Tune. From 6336 Largo. From Xerxes. Arr. Theo. Presser. G. Handel 3483 Tam he had devoted his time to teaching and York City, Sweet 2 Stephen Heller 4, 336 Hunting Song. Op. 68; 7 _ 25139 Madonna, La A. S. 380 Tarantelle. Op 85; of two hundred and ninety who took the HOWARD HANSON’S “Symphony No. T. Badarxewska 1441 Twittering of Birds R. BUlema writing. Dmitri r Phan ° P 5072 Maiden’s Prayer, The THE EIGHTH SYMPHONY of Pulitzer Prize of '. .' Richards simply, 34” has the . ! ..Carl Brinley he remarked won fn°C°ver .“.‘.I ! ... WHhelXn 5785 Military March. Op. 51; 1. Arr. P. W. 7321 Warblings at Eve naturalization oath, Op. 6496 Wyman its Western Hemi- d le Orem .Franz Schubert 7546 Woodland Echoes. Op. 34 A. P. Shostakovich had dollars for a distinguished 3654 an Ganschlls “It is wonderful.” five hundred ...... Carl MUSICAL 3978 In the TwiUg^t. Op. 123 4692 Three Favorite Preludes. Op. 28; 7 in A; THE WALTER W. NAUMBURG sphere premiere when it was performed per- 10 Roben Schumann musical composition. This work was 1098 Joyous Peasant. Op. 68; Op. 28; 20 in C minor; and Op. 20; 6 in B this year is cele- 12 Robert Schumann FOUNDATION, which on April 1 by the New York Philhar- 4023 Knight Rupert. Op. 68; minor Frederic Chopi PIANO SOLOS—Crade six PAULENA CARTER, twelve-year-old pi- formed by the Symphony Orches- 5 anniversary, has Little Piece. Op. 68; _ . 6590 Twilight. Reverie T. Guy its twentieth Orchestra, conducted 346 J. 9247 Cuckoo, The. Op. 34; 2 ... A Arensky brating monic-Symphony 1943. Dr. Hanson, Wild Horseman. Op. 68; 8 Robert Schumann anist, and Pfc. Robert Jamieson, violon- tra on December 3, Sart°"° 23384 Grande Polka dc Concert Homer N. Bartlett announced the winners of its annual au- Rodzinski. It was broadcast by Military March. Op. 229; 3 A~ Liszt instru- by Artur director of the Eastman School 3480 2326 Hark, Hark, the Lark (Schubert) Franx cellist, are the winners in the who is 3135 Morning Prayer. Op. 130; 1 PIANO SOLOS—Grade FOUR Handel ditions. They are Jeanne Therrien, pian- Columbia Broadcasting System to an Sidney Steinheimer 1670 Harmonious Blacksmith G. F the Angeles Phil- the of Music at Rochester, New York, is 8602 My Old Kentucky Home 1884 Allegretto Smith Carlton, mental division of Los Brillante. Op. 36. .... G. Ludovic 736 Harpc Eolicnne, La Sydney ist, of Houston, Texas; Jean estimated fifteen million listeners. 3692 Orange Blossoms. Valse 13970 Alpine Glow, Idyl Theodor Oesten Franz Bendel harmonic Young Artists Competition; widely known as a composer, conductor, • • ,«• Spencer 1143 In the Gondola 448 Orvetta Waltz • 19602 Coronation March. From The Prophet G. Meyerbeer soprano, of Des Moines, Iowa; and Carol Carl WilhelmJ: Kern 2156 Morceau Caraqtsristique. Etude being a $500 War Bond and and teacher. He has written a number 6499 Red Roses. Waltz 1329 Consolation. Songs Without Words Wollenhaupt Indianapolis, Indiana. the award ... . Schubert 1 H. A Brice, contralto, of Rosamunde Air. From Op. 142; 3 Franz A-flat. Op. 22; LEWISOHN STADIUM CONCERTS works, including four symphon- 2456 Robert Schumann No. 9. Op. 30; 3 / p Wyman an appearance with the orchestra under THE of large Siciliano. Op. 68; 11 7557 Music Among the Pines will presented next season in 385 Beethoven 6603 Dead March. From Saul G. F. Handel Frederic Chopin They be City will open their twenty- “Merrymount,” produced Sonatina in F, No. 2 L. van 334 Polonaise. Op. 40; 1 (Military) Alfred Wallenstein. The winner of the in New York ies, one opera, 412 9978 Edelweiss Glide. Waltz F. E. Vanderbeck Franz Liszt recitals. Miss Brice is the first in No. 1 • L - van Beethoven 3856 Serenade, La (Schubert) New York when Fritz 411 Sonatina G, 364 Fifth Nocturne. Op. 52 Ignace Leybach composition contest, conducted at the seventh season on June 19, at the Metropolitan in 1933, and many tf> the Evemng Star. From Tann- 25650 Solfeggietto. For Left Hand Alone. Miss Carl- 2696 Song 15290 Harp at Midnight, The V. B Aubert Em. Bach Negro to be so honored. Both the soloist and Sir appeared hauser Richard Wagne Arr. W. M. Felton K Ph same time, is Eldon Davis Rathbun, of Kreisler will be symphonic poems. He has 7549 Heavenward March c. Kin kef Mason are pupils of the well- Spinning Song. Op. 14; 4 Albert Ellmenreich 7476 Spring Dawn. Maxurka Caprice William ton and Miss Brice will conduct the New guest con- 1398 17881 Love’s Reproaches. Romance sans Paroles L. Schatz St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. The Thomas Beecham frequently with orchestras as Morning. Op. 47; 4 . . Stephen Heller 1337 Without Words 1110 Sunday 940 Melody in F. Op. 1 Spring Song. Songs known voice authority, Francis Rogers. Song W. Carl Wilhelm Kern 3; Anfon Rubinstein Felix Mendelssohn jointly by the York Philharmonic-Symphony Orches- ductor, often directing his own works. 6497 Sunset Glow. W 5112 Monastery Bells No. 30. Ed. C. Cady contest was sponsored Valsette. Theme from Lefebure Wely 24374 Time Flies! 25178 Moonlight on the Hudson Associ- tra. This will be the first appearance of Arr. W. P. Mero Frederic Chopin G. D Wilson Southern California Symphony Minute Waltz. 19962 Musical Box, The. PATRIOTIC SONG CONTEST, spon- Op. 19 Emanuel Liebich PIANO SOLOS—Crade SEVEN THE station, KFI; and the Los both Mr. Kreisler and Sir Thomas at KOLISCH, founder of the 5119 Mountain Stream RsB ation; radio RUDOLF Sydney Smith . . J- the National Federation HALF 13748 Springtime. 13161 Fileuae, La. Etude sored jointly by these concerts. his interpre- PIANO SOLOS—Grade TWO AND A New Op. 44 Gustav Lante j. S. Bach Angeles Daily News. Kolisch Quartet, famous for 1673 Fugue in C minor. For 3 Voices Broad- Sonata, Op. 9852 Pizzicati From Sylvia ... Leo Delibes Sc hubeH of Music Clubs and the National 4053 Andante. From Kreutzer 7354 Impromptu. Op. 90; 4 Franx tation of contemporary music, has been Emperor Concerto; 13679 Priests March. From Athalia Felix Mendelssohn produced no “win- 47- Theme. From 944 Invention in E minor. No 7. Three Voices J l casting Company, has L. van Beethoven 23270 Robin s Return, The Gojtacnwc /* appointed to the faculty of the State Melody. From Violin Sonata in C minor. Leander Fish 2239 La.t Hope C M. entries THREE AMERICAN d Hoff- 7993 Sextette. From Lucia di Lammermoor. ner.” None of the eight thousand 19560 Barcarolle. From Les Copter 3029 Love Dream. Nocturne. No. will be hon- University of Wisconsin, at Madison, as mann. Arr. A. Garland.. ..Jacques Offenbach - A En n Gaetano Donirett 3 Liadow the opinion of the judges, 13418 Song”4J!vWithout?u»“SWords. 11905 Music Box, The. Op 32 submitted, in the Leader Arr. W. P. Mero eo s Bizet Romance sans Paroles l Kowalski their works Associate Professor and New 8879 Carmen March. 2 J^t 8906 Salut a'Peith. Marche Hongroime Henri K requirements of the ompetitionS ored when ' • ‘ • fully lived up to the c, Folded Wings. Lullaby R R F°rman j L. Streabboi Arte Quartet, the resident 6850 \ i 966 Tremolo. Reverie. Op.a 885 Turkish March. From Ruins of Athens. **hnven are given first perform- : of the Pro • • • - • • • - * t *on 31 . . . ••••••••• W . for of the Frogs -J- J- H . Rosellen Reetno However, four were chosen Frolic . van contest. 5100 1329a Venetian Boat Song. Songs Arr. 'A. Rubinstein E of the University of Wis- Hark' Hark' The Lark! Arr. H. Harthan ..Franz Schubert Without ances in Australia this string quartet 13965 Words. No. 12. Op. 30; honorable mention and these four songs Heather Rose. Op. 78; 3 Gustav L'ange 6 Fe//i will charge also of all 359 2838 Waltz in Octaves. COMPOSITION CONTEST open to summer by Eugene Or- consin. He have . L. Kertk Op. 33 ... Crade EICHT A 22657 Hickory Sticks l ei??* PIANO SOLOS— were given their first public performance Protiwmsky 1126 Water Sprites. Op. 45; 2 Chopin nationality is music activities at the Summer Hans . Frederic all composers of American is con- jflE chamber 23711 In Old Vienna Style Stephen Heller” 3873 Etude. Op. 25; 9 10 over the mandy. who to 24782 Wayside Chapel. ' sung on May - • Rdbmstein • were • Op. Morning • • • • • R R Forma 42 G Anton when they Pub- July 3 to 7779 June 2196 Wedding D Mil,h°n 1169 Kammcnoi Ostrow Lisn announced by Independent Music duct series of concerts Music Institute, to be held March. Op. 51; 1. Simplified. A. March. From Midsummer Franx feature of National a ,8U8a 12942 Military ^ , , 13722 On Wings (Mendelssohn) Red Network as a Franz Schubert h Dr of Song Mason lishers. A cash award of five hundred September 16, at Black Mountain Col- Sartorio Felix Mendelssoh n 6651 Silver Spring William the in Melbourne, Sydney, Greenwald Frederic Chopin 923 W^? Op i 2 ;*?. V. Beethoven Music Week. They were part of the composer of the 14015 Minute Waltz. Arr. M. Schumann 7334 Sonata, L. van dollars will be given a lege near Asheville, North Carolina. F. Flaxington Harker Op. 13 (Pathetique) Brisbane, and Adelaide. 12189 Peasant’s Song, The “Serenade to America” program and the winning composition and also publication |a”mr Playful Rondo C. W. Greene -<= r. Ormandy will ap- 5919 conducted by Dr. Frank work will be assured, with royal- D Sack Waltz, The John A. Metcalf orchestra was of the GUNZBOURG, of Detroit, 15291 Sidney Steinheimer pear as America’s first “lend-lease mu- DR. MARK 12916 Soldier’s Song, The Black. ties on sales and fees for public perform- E • Rothleder recently celebrated the fortieth anni- 4193 Summer Idyl G the composer. The closing sical artist,” on an official mission for Impromptu, Op. ance going to 25354 Visions. From Fantasie The versary of his career as a , by re- Frederic Chopi date is September 15, and all details may the Office of War Information. 66. Arr. F. d’ Albert THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, from Independent Music Pub- are the symphonic peating the program he played at his 1943-44 be secured works to be premiered Theodore encouraged by the success of its in- PIANO SOLOS—Grade THREE Presser Co. lishers, 205 East Forty-second Street, poem, Bataan, by Harl McDonald; The debut in in 1903. The program (Amaryllis) Henry Ghys DIRECT-MAIL season under its new director and con- Liszt, 554 Air, Roi Louis XIII SERVICE ON EVERYTHING New York 17, N. Y. White Peacock, by Charles Tomlinson cluded the “Sonata in B minor” of From 7th Symphony L. van Beethoven IN MUSIC PUBLICATIONS Kreuger, has made plans 25270 Allegretto. ductor, Karl the “Six Grand Studies,” by Paga- Andante. From Surprise Symphony Joseph Haydn Griffes; and the Adagio for Strings, by and 25415 for an expansion of its programs for the 1712 CHESTNUT STREET. Samuel Barber. nini-Liszt. P H I L A D E L P H I A I. P A new season. To this end, provision has WITH MUSIC” 313 JUNE, 1944 "FORWARD MARCH Editorial

for the Zn Iw 3UE jinn® m msdcs majqjajadm SoUaU 1 “Where Jk ani 'WaaMdU PUBLISHED MONTHLY "J By Theodore Presser Co., Philadelphia, pa. RUBANK SOLOIST FOLIOS EDITORIAL and ADVISORY STAFF a verse by Fitzgerald, is one of the Each collection includes a fine selection of solos, both transcriptions chances of be- collections DR. JAMES FRANCIS COOKE. Editor HAT are your widely known of all and original works, which were included because of their proven most Guy McCoy and Ava Yeargain, Aisittant Editon immortal ? In the popularity in sheet music form. Many of them have been used time coming of verse. Dr. Rob Roy Peery, Editor, and time again on various local. State and National Contests. Muiic Staton immortality is Harold public mind, musical immortals seem some- Medium difficulty. Berkley Edna Fort Elizabeth Gest N Clitlord Page W The Pietro Deiro Dr. Hcnry^S. ...Fry George C. Kritk Peter II «h Reed with notoriety of other Published for CLARINET, Dr. Nicholas very much mixed up different from those CORNET, TRUMPET, SAXOPHONE, TROM- Douty Karl W. Gehrkens Dr. Guy Maier William I) Revelli what BONE, BARITONE, HORN fEb or F, BASS (Eb or BBb) swastika and XYLO- and fame. You may paint a spheres. They have lived in an ex- PHONE. Each folio, complete with Piano $1.00. FOUNDED 188} BY THEODORE PRESSES - Monument; and, on the Washington alted, rapturous, spiritual atmos- police if the District of Columbia phere, overwhelmed with their own RUBANK RADIO COLLECTIONS dramatic arrest you in sufficiently inspirations, so that they seem apart MODERN GEMS (Contents j^or une IV4-4- become notorious ^ 7 fashion, you will from the rest of the world. Just why Includes light classical and semi-popular numbers of moderately easy overnight and be forgotten in a fort- should descend upon difficulty such as Dark Eyes-Home on the Range-Deep River-- VOLUME LXII, No. ft . PRICE 2.» CENT' immortality derry Air-Carry Me Back to Old Virginny-Cradle Song-Serenade-etc. night. So notoriety is the opposite of the humble, simple WORLD OF MUSIC Franz Schubert, 313 very hard immortality. If you work son of a Viennese teacher, and evade POPULAR CLASSICS EDITORIAL well upon some worth-while contemporary "Where Airy Voices Lead" and very the hundreds of his Contains splendid easy-medium concert arrangements of the following: 315 be- Song project for many years, you may probably worked of India— Humoresque—Souvenir—Salute D'Amour-Elegy-Cava- MUSIC AND CULTURE musicians, who tina-The Swan-Melody in F-Traum der Sennerin-Serenade But immor- from Les Untapped Reservoirs of come deservedly famous. to attain it, is one of the Millions d'Arlequin,—etc. Musical Treasures Doran even harder e 0Uth American Way is something TTscen«v® Xavier < uoat 3tt tality, ah, immortality inscrutable mysteries. Sometimes Published for CLARINET, CORNET, TRUMPET, SAXOPHONE, TROM- Ro BONE, BARITONE, Rolled chords:::::::;:;;: •• y *» mere fame. HORN (Eb or F), BASS , quite different from otherwise un- (Eb or BBb) and XYLO- 3 one song will make an PHONE. Each Let Phrasing Solve collection, complete with Piano .50. Your Difficulties Florence $ / ird 321 When a famous composer becomes known man immortal. When Claude MUSIC IN THE HOME it seems that he has joined The Radio immortal Joseph Rouget de l’Isle wrote Music at a Time of World Crisis „ RUBANK PUBLICATIONS The Etude Music Lovers tan 322 gifts with higher forces Rhine, are Bookshelf . . his great the Cad uin 323 War Song of the Army of distributed by all music things that are MUSIC AND STUDY that enable him to do he was an unknown officer in the dealers and jobbers. The Teacher’s Round Table . r- beyond the reach of ordinary man. Later, this 738 S. CAMPBELL AVE. r at Strasbourg. CHICAGO 1 2, ILLINOIS A United Nations 321 garrison Piano Recital. .. «,*! ” Lt Chitlv- u 325 Beethoven Let 1 what Us Sing in English That is precisely anthem in defiance of tyranny, when About "Tone Placing" Florence Ea. , » 326 r Chopin and Wagner and every of soldiers What Do You Know about C ,c." 327 and sung in by a group Schubert? . . p ’, ¥! • • • r Oh, Those ^ ^a,/ * Stvi, >i 328 Pedals'” composer of consequence has done. came to be known as Tone, the Glory of Ro“° F i / 329 of Marseilles, a Fine Chorus.' . Human Values Car° 1 ” Pl " :u® Dr. James Kemble, in his engrossing That Count in Music Education°n n Marseillaise, and immortality The Daniel L Martin- 131 The Violinist’s Forum book, “Idols and Invalids” (Double- Questions and Answers Harold Berkle; .133 descended upon its author and com- Simplifying the Knr ‘ W Gehrkens 334 gives us Nan Approach to ' Harmony Doran and Company), " day, to be sev- Ralph :::5 Flotow, who lived The and Its Traditions Ritchc PERHAPS SOME DAY YOU. TOO. LIKE JOAN OF ARC, poser. Technic of the Month—Preludere .Andres Segovia a very clear idea of the difference Ude in G major. Op. 28 ANGEL VOICES and was a very industrious by Freddric . No. MAY HEAR enty-one Chopin. ®: . . fame and immortality. He Merriman Dr. Guy Maier 357 between composer, wrote twenty operas and MUSIC says in his chapter on the Persian “Martha, made Classic many ballets. One, and Contemporary Selections Brave poet, Omar Khayyam: “Fame is of each -MEZZO-SOPRANO Heroes of Bataan immortal. Leoncavello, Mascagni, and Ponchielli, Paso Arrogante Frank Grey 337 making. Immortality is the whim of pos- him Gay Francisca a man’s own honest through one opera. WINNER OF THE COVETED Humming Bird Vallejo 338 despite his busy life, gained immortality Valse Debutante Franz Koehler 339 which lasts but a generation. A man NATIONAL terity. Fame is a flower Sometimes its visits are FEDERATION ‘ Ja™ cs passage. OF Prelude F. Chopin, * F rancis Cooke 341 is a bird of Opus 28 No V Vw.-Vk(With V of hard climbing Inspiration ’ Lesson the labor MUSIC CLUBS Rondo a Capriccio by Dr. Guy Maier) 342 gathers it, like edelweiss, only by with YOUNG ARTISTS others it stays a lifetime, as Meadow Frolic van Beethoven from pitifully short. With 1943 AWARD. Opus 129 345 and the achievement of real heights. He then wears it in his All Hail the Power of William Scher 346 Jesus' Name on a different Chopin and Wagner. MISS MERRIMAN buttonhole until it dies. Immortality grows IS ENJOYING iATT ' by men which makes PRONOUNCED SUCCESS Here Comes the Band (Piano Clarence Kohlmann) 347 is something instinctive in most IN Duet! decorative thing, or it may be There Focal R°‘ /e 348 tree. The tree may be a come to Radio and Instrumental Compositions hope for immortality. The thought that we Recital Opera O Perfect Love merely by its freakishness. them (High Voice) noxious; it may hold the eye to all Intermezzo **" Louise E. years and may do nothing make FEATURED (Organ) Stairs 350 into live our little span of REGULARLY EACH At Dawning James H. of course, fame will eventually blossom WEEK OVER THE RED NETWORK (Violin and Piano) Rogers 351 Sometimes, the writing on the sands of 1 labors more permanent than l ONAL BROADCAST,NG have plucked and our CO - IN HER immortality; however, very often men REPERTOIRE * «*« *'"> 352 but with it all we must SHE |NCLUDES Delightful Pieces is always humiliating ; forToZglTay^ of their life s woik the seashore, The Laughing Brook gathered immortality not by the labor miracle the fact that immortality is a kind of Song of the Pines __ Louise Godfrey Ogle 354 bear in mind Come To " activities by the way- In leisure ; Me ’ their My ’.’ • • • accident, during Dreams Soldiers’ March Mildred Ada ir but by million. If we did Song by ... nooertp 355 can come to only one in a hundred GUSTAV KLEMM (Key of Db, Range Glistening Glider Schumann, Opus 68, No. idle hobbies.” which Eb to Eb) 5Q 2 355 personal peculiarities, eccentricities, or Elizabeth side of of the machineiy of Published by OLIVER DITSON CO L Hopson 356 not know this and accept it as part THE JUNIOR ETUDE explain that Omar Khayyam, The Sweetest Dr. Kemble then goes on to unhappy. Perhaps in a life of Story Ever Ges ‘ 368 destiny, we might all be very Told in Khorassan, Persia, Song by R. M. STULTS MISCELLANEOUS 1015 A. D., at Nishapur (3 Keys-High, Med., & Low) born about hovers nearer. But this is by no 50 Music Launches great industry, immortality Published the “Henry Grady” lived to the age of one by OLIVER DITSON CO. was in his day a very famous man. He who Divide and Conquer 318 means always the case. We all know of one composer Home Over The Counting Can Be Fun' Arthur L. Clark 318 his long life he became a dis- Hill hundred and five years, and in yet his songs have Song by Music Brings Joy to the Coal Adeline Curry 318 indifferent, lazy, and dissolute, and PHILIP JAMES (2 Keys-High & Low) 'Fields of wealth, was 50 Vale Chaminade 332 tinguished mathematician and astronomer, a man Published literature that he may safely be by THEODORE PRESSER CO. A Novel Idea 332 been so long a part of the for Buying . ’ New Anthems. V- ; v, ;; government officer, and a medical Voice Questions George A. Holleman 332 of high social position, a produce them. By The Waters of Answered called immortal. He never seemed to work to Minnetonka Organ and Choir Dr Nicholas Douty 359 of his Song by Questions Answered practitioner. He was easily the most famous Persian THURLOW LIEURANCE (2 Keys-High Violin Dr Henr S. Fry in an ash heap. & Low) 60 Questions Answered y 361 They just appeared like flowers growing Published Harold has vanished, while by THEODORE PRESSER CO Berkley 363 day, yet fame that came in his own time those is certain. No one can induce or compel Entered as second-class mutter his play One thing Mighty Lak’ A Rose January l(] irra m *i a d n m , immortal for the poetry he wrote in under the Act March ?. ^^tla., Pa., he remains an of 1879 cCobyrieh’tr/ iQAA^l n the production of a work likely Song by ETHELBERT U. S. W 1944, by Theodore Presser conditions which go toward NEVIN (4 Keys-High, Med., A. and Great Britain W Co., for into exquisite English Med.-Low, & Law) .50 time. The “Rubaiyat,” as translated (Continued on Page 367) Published by THE JOHN CHURCH CO THEODORE PRESSER CO. • T712 CHESTNUT STREET • PHILADELPHIA 1. PA. < uatemala Paraguay, - Mexico, Nicaragua, Republic of Hondur^ Cn^ n u’ ?, L® &>. ’i nw 314 E 315 'FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC JUNE, 1944 the etude — ”

year. Being proud of his age, he inscribed it, along with Music and CuMure year, in the later models. How a man with Music and Culture the failing Many musicians, who look upon Francis Xavier Cugat (pro- unsteady hands could do skilled of the popular rage for eyesight and precision nounce it Koo-got j as a product work at seventy, eighty, and ninety, has been the won- Latin-American rhythms, do not know that Cugat himself is movement. His musical antecedents der of succeeding craftsmen who claimed he had a largely responsible for this born classical lines are sound and distinguished. He was secret. Well, he did, but it is a simple one. it’s the along the age of six he January 10, 1900, at Barcelona, . At secret of the second wind. the age of started studying violin at the Conservatory. At ’ one passion was to make perfect went to Cuba violins, twelve he commenced giving concerts. His family in the South American Way end he dedicated almost every in Havana. Cuba has honored Music Untapped Reservoirs and to that waking and part of his youth was spent Merit of the Cuban Red moment of his life. How many people today give him with the Order of Honor and Commander. their work such devotion? With unfailing energy Cross, with the rank of to emulate his great compatriot, Sarasate, with labored day after day, rarely stepping out of With ambitions From a Conference he his orchestras under the as a violin virtuoso, he appeared with house; wearing a white woolen cap in winter, a cotton famous conductor, Tullio Serafin. Coming to America, he Treasure and a white leather apron which of Musical one in summer, he violinist-teacher, Franz studied in New York with the eminent off except on retiring. The town Berlin with Willy seldom took of Cre- Kneisel, for four years. Later he studied in auier mona where he lived underwent three sieges in his Hess and became a close friend of Enrico Caruso (with whom X, Pablo Casals. He then con- The Secret of the Second Wind time, but he didn’t stir from his bench to see what the he appeared as violin soloist) and America as a violinist and as a conduc- Widely Acclaimed Leader of shooting was about. In the evenings he would pause certized in Europe and appearance was with the tor. In the concert field Cugat's last Latin-American Music a few moments in his doorway to watch the setting Symphony With Notable Citations from the Life of Antonio Stradivari Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, playing the Espagnole," by Laio. Then for a time he became a cartoonist across the way. still in great on the Los Angeles "Times." His cartoons are SECURED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY WYTHE WOOD The world beat a path to his door: royalty, noblemen, demand and he has running contracts with two famous syndi- This virtuosos, who bought his instruments and at good cates. He possesses fifteen thousand original sketches. color he has added to prices. At times he would fall in love with an instru- accounts, in a measure, tor the artistic of his Year Itj fanciful, silk-ruffled costumes, and the paraphernalia This Wholly Unique Musician Earns $500,000 a &t)oron ment and refuse to part with it. Such a one is the the Some of the Reasons Why orchestral groups. “Messie.” Over two hundred years old, it still looks . Mr. Cugat then began fa realize the far-reaching possibilities as fresh as the day it was completed. decided to of the ingratiating music of Latin America and Stradivarius was sculptor, designer, artist, chemist, he formed a devote his life to its popular exposition. Accordingly, craftsman, rolled into one. He made everythin!; about an orchestra which has been widely featured in leading hotels, they really require the services of an expert. The tips NOTED voice teacher once made this challenging Getting through this trouble area is the secret of a violin, even the hinges on the cases. No detail the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, where it has notably the palms of any noteworthy achievement. extensive and successful of the fingers grip the claves tightly and statement. “I can do more with a student of You simply condition escaped him. And as soon as one violin was completed, played for twelve years. This, with appearances in hands are made hollow or curved, so that they . gifts capacity to push through yourself, by step, work theaters, concerts at Carnegie Hall, the A average and the step to on higher energy levels. he vowed he would make a better one. How can one tours in (the Camel resonance chamber. This en- to his second wind, than I can with’ a brilliantly gifted Country people coming to the city eventually accustom the movies, and on national radio broadcasts form a kind of human miss accomplishment if he applies such a formula as one of the best-known con- strike together, to student who does not have that capacity.” Albert themselves to its faster tempo. Whoever that Caravan program), has made him ables the player, when the sticks dreamed this? comments upon ductors in the high-class popular field. His sharp, acute, clicking sound which estab- Spalding put it another way. He said that his early our war production miracle was possible? But we produce a enlightening . Editor's Note. Latin-American music are very lishes the basic rhythm of the rumba and other playing facility might have been a serious handicap had to make a mighty effort, and we did. At coun- Age No Barrier had he not been jolted into the realization that it try fairs a big attraction used to Latin-American dances. be a farmer carry- People would like to have us believe that we become would not take the place of hard work. Many noted ing a full-grown bull on his shoulders. This feat less useful as we grow older. Often we hesitate to take K^-y^HE INFECTIOUS and ingratiating character Various Instruments musicians agree that the one whose attainments in didn’t seem at all unusual to the farmer. He began up some new study or skill because of this preconceived of the music of the Latin-American countries music are great is invariably the one who has learned when the animal was small “Next come the maracas. These are made of gourds, and carried him every notion that we are too old. Science does not accept JL captured the world. It has called has literally are thoroughly the secret of the second wind. day afterwards. long before found in tropical countries. They first the commonly held verdict ( Continued on Page 367) attention, on one hand, to the fact that Years ago William James, father of modem psy- James says, “The plain fact re- dried filled with coarse sand, pebbles, dried beans, Teutonic, French, Scandinavian, and we had a British, world chology, said: “Men habitually use only a small part mains that men the world over States and and sometimes lead shot. They look for all the Italian, and Russian culture in the United of the power which they actually possess.” One reason possess amounts of energy-resource oversized baby rattles. The musician holds one in Canada, which we are only too inclined to think was like for this, according to the Harvard professor, is that which only very exceptional indi- each hand and shakes them in rhythm with the dance the beginning of all things- musical on this side of the we seldom push through the first layer of fatigue to viduals push to their extremes of movements. A steady down-beat is used with the left Atlantic, the Spanish Conquistadores and missionaries our second wind and a fresh supply of energy. Before use. But the very same while right hand is used for the up-beat or individual, had planted the seeds of the art which has become hand, the we get to the second wind, not to mention the third pushing his energies to their ex- the counter-beat. For a dreamy or “beguine” number, so strongly rooted south of the Rio Grande that it or fourth, our minds report on one of a number of tremes, in maracas filled with sand, which gives may a vast number of deserves equal recognition as a cultural achievement. the player uses feeling tones. We may be bored or discouraged, but whereas, for the more cases keep the pace up day after “These activities have followed two natural lines— a subdued, swishing sound; mostly just tired. Since James’ time, scientific evidence maracas are filled with pebbles. day and find no reaction of a bad the first being the development of an extensive litera- boisterous rumba, the has cropped up to document that statement. fastened sort as long as decent hygienic ture of folk melodies in the various South American “The bongo consists of two small drums Significantly, experiments conducted at the famed conditions are preserved. His more countries; and the second being the creation of nu- Harvard Fatigue Laboratory all boil down to the point active rate of energizing does not merous schools of musical composition, in which com- that ninety per cent of our weariness is caused by wreck him; but the organism posers with more advanced technics, indicating the the mind. Members of the laboratory staff conclude, adapts itself, and as the rate of influence of European training, have produced works “ formerly called fatigue, is better waste augments, the rate which have commanded the international attention described as boredom.” of repair also augments. of musical artists. These include such composers as For instance, students at Columbia University were Carlos Chavez of Mexico, Hector Villa-Lobos of Brazil, kept awake for nearly a week under the stimulus of a CUGAT and many, many other men of great gifts and finely XAVIER constant parade of interesting tasks. On the other The Genius Supreme developed skill. Those who are not familiar with music hand, a stay-awake marathon in Chicago, which made James’ idea finds exemplification countries often make the mistake themselves with percussion instruments only, so that participants interested, in Latin-American no provision for keeping the in a number of examples from of beating out the of thinking that it is more or less restricted to folk the background is merely that lasted only three days. Of course, boredom is not the music history. Witness Antonio hand; music and grand opera. They do not realize that great rhythm upon almost anything that comes to only cause of fatigue. But it’s the commonest trip-up Stradivarius. “Ah, a great genius,” performers and great orchestras even tin pans and improvised drums. Many of the second wind. singers and great on the way to that you say. But that does not fully have been receive overwhelming receptions in Latin America and percussion instruments in my orchestra explain Stradivarius, as I shall Of course, as time The Second Wind at- also are given fees in the leading metropolitan centers, evolved from such primitive origins. tempt to show. refinements have which are often the highest some of them ever receive. has gone on, melodic and harmonic Just what is this phenomenon of the second wind, As a boy, Stradivarius had no come in, but somehow these do not ring true if there anyway? You encounter it daily in your work as a schooling, and was very poor. He An Art Unique is not an incessant background of the primitive in- student or teacher. After you’ve warmed up to prac- whittled boxes and sold them to struments. perhaps along nicely for a while “Personally, my interest has been in presenting tice or study, you go swell the family earnings. His to be a one intriguing folksong types “Just as the castanets of Andalusia seem until you run into the first layer of fatigue. Then the music developed from the consuming ambition was to make Sequidilla of Seville, so the rhyth- which may be definitely described as intoxicating. natural part of the going gets harder. Muscles and mind begin to rebel, “boxes that sing.” He was three Negroid, Indian, mic instruments of Latin America form an integral and you slow up. The production curve in factories This music is influenced by Iberian, years making the first violin which background for Latin-American music. I think that mid-morning afternoon. and other native factors in a way that has created dips the' lowest around and he signed. At his peak of with produc- and crude there is no music in the world that compares invariably push through this “drag,” it a kind of art wholly unique. In its very raw But you as tion he could make a violin in elemental two frenzy of the Negro Latin-American music for combining the often called, and eventually find yourself on another state some of it approaches the is weeks, but that was years later, higher development of an Voodoo dancers, as well as the war dances of the impulses of man with that energy level and almost as fresh as when you began. when his skill and craftsmanship art. Russian music, Hungarian-Gypsy music, and some This phenomenon is so commonplace that you sel- American Indians. had increased and he had accus- the primitive, but seen or heard such a group Spanish-Gypsy music are quite near dom give it a second thought. But it is fundamental. tomed himself “Perhaps you never have to working on high- do not touch Latin-American music in this respect. applies to anything, big or small, which you under- of highly emotionalized singers and dancers in a South It er energy levels. used in my orchestra American country. The music sometimes seems to be “The percussion instruments take: some new study, things you want to accomplish, He worked with painstaking care spasms of include the usual types played by the beruffled mu- your ultimate goal in life. There’s the fresh and the result of almost uncontrollable nervous often and built his reputation gradually. bands beneath the Rio Again, it may be very sensuous, very sicians found in most rumba eager start, the onset of fatigue, doubt, discouragement, His best a riotous type. period was between sixty claves, which are two hardwood insinuating, and very dreamy. Naturally, rhythm is Grande. They include frustration—a whole train of mental bugaboos—and and seventy, at a time in life when rosewood or ebony. One of Twentieth-Century Fox in downing them, paramount, and these are rhythms that can only be sticks, usually made of Courtesy if you succeed you reach a surge most men retire, although he made the sticks is held in each hand of the performer. Al- CARMEN MIRANDA. "THE BRAZILIAN ," of new energy. ANTONIO STRADIVARI understood and reproduced after years of contact with fine violins up to his ninety-third are easy to play, IN ONE OF HER FAVORITE ROLES On his labels he used the Latin such groups the singers accompany though one might think that these form of his name. Antonius Stradivarius natives. In many 316 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’’ MARCH WITH MUSIC 317 THE ETUDE JUNE, 1944 "FORWARD ' :

Music and Culture Divide and Conquer for ofout SB or ««>. Music and Culture metal 01 w a thin piece of ° shuffling Military a so ft, the Oldest Tricks of Strategists Is notches. This P One of saw-toothed more melodious the slower or Enemy and Conquer Him Piecemeal sound and is used m to Divide the knees. jaw- together and held firmly between the player’s more than toe is really nothing taller than the other a kind LyMkur CLrl One drum is larger and What native X is now bone of an ass. a Scenery” of tenor drum. The bongo, which by the way “Ear first came across is made rhythmic sounds, jth its MASTER an intricate passage in a new turned out by North American manufacturers, dried w E found that the J reducing the of the most difficult donkey and 0 piece of music by difficulties to with only the top head. It is one distinctive kind made a very terms. clarify play. The player uses loose teeth, their simplest We involved Practice of Sound Effects of all rhythmic instruments to produce ** resuit The Theory and However, it does W subdividing, and knows. by overcome and the palm of the hand and no dium- one rhythmic problems - the fingers be secured in any patterns which the seemingly cannot stumbling blocks by working on the simple, com- stick. There are dozens of rhythm tuate: the nical and Is used ,t° c®"' must have a very off a rattling sound parts which combine to produce that partic- player must know, but above all he insistfthat the jaw ponent The players laughingly portion is an intense musical keen- down-beat. ular difficulty. As each tiny conquered, the sensitive nervous system and a louder tone. a female ass produces easier. Eventually, we perform e bone of cowbell remain der becomes the l^ode ness . a large is nothing more than r with both “The sencerro successfully, although at first the whole ap- ^ “The timbales are a pair of flatter drums gauchos, or South passage its origin to the to a standard and possibly owes peared to be utterly beyond our powers of assimilation. a bottom and a top. They are fastened was made of wood^ cowboys. Formerly it interesting because it is so or sits while playing them. American The principle is univer- and the player either stands sonorous tones. Now the audience that it is dawn of a new day. The tramp produced very beautiful worth-while technological or of Shakespeare’s day, when in the scale and have a deepei which sally applicable. No social INCE THE STAGE sets They are pitched lower announced of feet, to the accompaniment of fife and drum, bells are used. ever conceived in its entirety. But “setting” consisted of placards that tone than the bongo. metal development was these tell facts, and far richer second part in the next theater has steadily the stage for a military parade. Both of (This will be followed by a indulge in the nerve-wracking habit of try- the locale of the action, the “The guido (pronounce it ‘wee-dough’) is a long, most of us S mood or atmosphere; you still do not uncolored by problems like the visual realism. The well-pro- gourd with notches cut in its outer issue.) ing to solve all at once, future of advanced toward greater day marks a declaration squash-shaped audience not merely know whether the dawning symphonic music, or our personal status after the war. play of today gives the duced atmosphere of war or the signing of a peace treaty; whether the frightening, and persistent contempla- dialogue, but the complete m Complexity is action and or out of it. The estab- themselves. parade carries men to battle apparently insoluble problem, with all its the personages find tion of an which lishing of this atmosphere constitutes the fixing of or of pirates, or of jungle ramifications, is a sure path to anything but success. enter a world of kings, problem that We stage. The mood, which is the most complicated break down one big musical problem merely by raising our eyes to a set That is why we folk sound-effects technicians have to solve. visual realism far beyond any- little problems with which we are able to “movies” have carried into many links Surprisingly enough, music, as such, plays but a capable of doing, establishing cope. When next you dissect an ornery bit of passage thing the stage is regulations estab- that reach into the limited part in sound effects. Radio REAL EFFECTS ON RECORDS that you are applying a principle fun- background, setting, and mood work, remember of music; that is to say, if it is scored future. When radio became lish music as Many sounds cannot be duplicated and successful living, and Indeed to life itself. past and look ahead to the per- damental to was (rather than written into a script) it must be then the studio relies upon the expert in- pastime, however, visual realism the national and is thus lifted out of the troduction of these as reflected on records. Shakespeare s placards formed by a musician, worse off than in the days of Something had it was nonexistent. audiences to sonages on either side of a tavern to be done to allow Cun! per- ^ the door opens Countinq Can Be continue receiving the complete door. On the stage, accus- creaks. Maestro Toscanini, Wish- ceptions to which they were , and radio audience the tomed, and that something was ing to give his possible tonal accuracy, de- found in sound effects. greatest Mr. Fred G. Knopfke, manded that the operatic door be TOP being a music teacher for a minute and put According to for the NBC, put on the program—in this case, to pupil’s place. The child learns Head of Sound Effects yourself in the Thus, a business of sound effects is a duplicate the absent scenery. S that a quarter note gets one count, a half note, the (from the NBC deal more than producing door was -requisitioned two, and whole, four, if the meter is four-four. But great The noises are sound-effects department’s stock of -eight, and you have another appropriate noises. change the meter to six doors, the result of painstaking large doors, small doors, house matter entirely. As Bobble exclaimed last week when merely research into the repro- room doors, screen doors, jail doors, piece in six-eight rhythm. "For Pete's scientific he had a new doors, new doors, creaking doors, you duction of mood. old sake, just when I get four-four meter straight, to be played squeaking doors, and just plain dotted notes, “Suppose a scene is on me!" . . . Then go Into switch things hospital,” doors) a sound-effects man was in the maternity ward of a , and you are headed for real trouble. and begins; “how are you sent to Studio 8-H to creak, accord- short, rhythmic Mr. Knopfke I made a set of cards on which were mind baton cues of Toscanini. to place this in the listener’s ing to the patterns such as the following: without telling him in so many Musical Instruments for Ex. 1 words? In a story, the scene would movie, Sound Effects be described; in a play or a * plainly shown. How When music is treated as a sepa- 4 0 d 4 4 4- 8 JT3 J \ J b it would be not about radio? First a study must be rate department which does reveal- sound effects, mu- placed made of the most usual and often mix with Any number of pupils may play. The cards are commonly associated sical instruments are called upon to draws a card, shows ing sounds face down on a table. Each pupil those certain impressions. The card with such a locale; then produce it to the group, then tells how many counts the sounds must be duplicated. In the piano, for instance, is wonderfully only; missed card is slipped gets. He gets one try a upon the sound helpful in making spooky sounds. If marked with an end, we might hit back into the pile. Difficult cards are nervously lid is opened, several keys of the expectant father’s THIS IS WHAT YOU HEAR a piano points instead of one. The children X and count two of his walking up and depressed, and a voice speaks into drumming fingers, various devices for imitating storms, marching men. battles, are delighted when they get hard ones! When all cards Sound effect experts with sounding down the corridor, and finally "what have you." the piano box and over the cards, the and have been drawn, the players count their s echoes and ghostly voices the sound of a new-born infant board, odd of points being the one having the highest number Naturally, many other to float out. Normally, this is done as a Hallowe’en first cry. effects. Sometimes interesting niceties seem winner. scene itself, it is domain of sound use are to be found in the actual trick—but the sound-effects department makes fine Shades of sounds arise as to which is which. A chime on a doorbell is a Another is called RATIONING. < real sounds bu game to reproduce not only it in ghost-story scripts, dream sequences, conver- canned our business sound effect and is made by a member of the sound- of O. P. A.!) I products, exist, Music Launches the “Henry Grady” cut pictures of food and believable sounds. direc- sations in “Shangri-la-like” locales that do not cards. convincing effects department who reads his bell-chiming goods, cereals, and so forth, and pasted them on scenes. Tell Facts script. If, however, the script calls and other spooky similar to How Sounds tions from a typed by “Henry Grady” (named sr minai muAiiu-oyiiipiiuny Under each picture is a pattern of notes Under-water sounds are rendered more lifelike HEN the Liberty Ship, urcnestra sound that would for playing a tune on a doorbell—such as Here Comes above. Those “Thus, it might happen that a the greatest editors and orators John Orosky—seven years flutist with those found on the cards in the game the the use of a kettle-drum. The drum is upended, after one of the Sousa's E The scene or situation might be the Bride, for instance, in celebrating a wedding— are the “points" required various items. genuinely arise in a given right side of the drum-head, of the South) slipped down the ways at Bruns- John Kouba—many years double-bass player with for the fail constitutes music, which actor speaks against the as majority of listeners; or might tuneful succession of chimes W children where I serve unfamiliar to the picks his words from the left workers York come to the grocery store up wick, Georgia, an unusual orchestra of from Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra uj score by a musician! and the microphone halves, sound, to arouse a sufficiently strong must be played from Construction Beecham, Stokowski, clerk, and give (quarter notes, in its own right as the microphone to pick up, in addi- the huge shipyards of the J. A. Jones and Toscanini me “money” for of Toscanini’s concerts, the large thun- side. This allows articles recognition. The whirr of a motor, During one for the occasion. Christos Leo Trigger—many years sixteenths, drawn on slips of paper) for the association of reverberations that have passed through the in- Company, Inc., played trumpet player with Vi ride in a bus— was required. There was discussion as to tion, exac is certainly present when we der-drum Juilliard graduate, held the Herbert’s Orchestra which they wish to buy. They must give me the example, verted drum and that impart the sound of rolling Vrionides, Greek-born with too whether its drum characteristics made it a musical pickles, the whirr of a motor alone is bound up instruments, organized. All of the players Benjamin Sacks ' amount. jar of but except for such uses of musical baton of the orchestra he —many years tympani player One five-year -old picked up a factories, whether its thunder qualities listed it water. But, other associations (lathes, tool-rooms, instrument, or the plant and almost all are over the leading American orchestras calmly studied the pattern many pro-music music itself must be kept away from sound effects. are employed at paint a strong picture of as a sound-effect machine. In the end, the idea of their Louis and the like) to allow it to observes, “the musician’s draft age. The following will give some Newmark—many years violinist with forei the moment came, a “And yet,” Mr. Knopfke Ex. 2 to be coupled with other bus champions won out, and, when orchestras a bus. It would have his sense of timing and dramatic val- proficiency searched out touched the thunder-drum. keenness of ear, noises which, in turn, would have to be drummer the best Consoli—five years oboist with the Metro- William Storzack—many years violist with the sound- ues, and his attention to detail, form about Leonardo lea rm j j But in another of Toscanini’s concerts, studied.” Opera Orchestra orchestras s0 and all-Verdi basic preparation for work in sound effects. Actually, politan and handed had played to define time effects department shared the honors. In the me two half notes! She According to Mr. Knopfke, it is simpler of the Klaubauf—five years violinist with the Vienna These are a few of the members of Quartet from there is no formal training for it. A knowledge John this extr many games that perfectly familiar- of a rooster concert, the Maestro presented the dinary shipyard the patterns were and setting through sound. The crow on Page 366) Philharmonic orchestra, which has thing is sung by per- physics of sound is valuable, ( Continued been gi Remember teaches that a on a church bell tells “Rigoletto” which, in the opera itself, violin virtuoso regular “Pop” concerts —modem pedagogy followed by the chime of five Bomulo Ribera—Spanish-born to inspire their fellow woi makes learned willingly usually sticks. And it certainly A, Kalhoff—for five years violoncellist with the who are fabricating ships to bring victory 319 B to the A life much MARCH WITH MUSIC” more pleasant! JUNE, 1944 "FORWARD "FORWARD MARCH 318 WITH MUSIC THE ETUDE — ^ —

Music and Culture the melody-note E with slightly „ telv striking iess preceding A, and being careful force than the not to accent on the melody note measures con- Music and Culture produce a false of the instance, the fore-phrase of only two motives, or smaller phrases. And rolled chord. tains six or even seven note of a choid deserves a these important groups that When the top strong it is to the treatment of assumes more importance and is commonly applies. stress, this note con- the word “phrasing” if it is thought of as these small phrases is the seauently strengthened occurring The most common of the reader will refer to10 is why the legato style is so onnn the accent.accent, Ifn ^ Liszt'sLiszt’s legato form, and that to 12), the think first, then, of the Liebestraum (Measures 9 most forceful necessary to the pianist. Let us passage would be as indicated as a group of notes joined together by Chords rendition of this in small phrase Rolled silence. the use of grace notes may serve legato, and separated from all other groups by Ex. 5, in which to island in a sea of silence. And the silence, clarify the idea. It is like an group from its neighboring there is evidence that a rolled chord should or the separation of the When to effect, as in the final two first point to observe in learning produce a pizzicato chords groups, is the the islands of sound Valse-Bluette by Drigo, a completely relaxed arm, phrase. The distances between of short as ). (Bartley hands to the right, together silences are often small, sometimes as by Jirumy 2 with rotation of both with the — case of a long pedal, where touch of the damper pedal, cannot fail to pro- the shortest breath. (In the a mere effect of the desired. A chord of this is not broken by silence, the duce the orchestral effect type the sound provide the proper must be given by the quality of attack must be rolled swiftly to piquancy. phrase-limit to mdud manipulated so as an jj release ) produce pedal should fail to be roll chords to when . is used to HE PROBLEM of how to The matter of pM Ei.B In all the following examples, the slur all the notes of the chord. musical effect is one that requires to the rig the phrase, unless the the most at (b) in relation show the beginning and end of on the part to strike the bass notes * deft handling and great discretion of the pianist 3$’ stated. Silences must occur at each end of T should be left to the discretion contrary is are hand, of the performer. There are certain chords that with the melody time required for these silences must be These notes could conceivably come the slur. The bottom up to the highest member, student slur. Shorten the rolled from the is easier for a from the last note under the note of each rolled chord. If it taken which both hands start with the lowest (b) and others in hand (unrolled) chords as at last note! there are rolled to strike the left member simultaneously. Likewise, by all means smallest phrase or motive accented note, the teacher should It is obvious that the gently, produce a delicate, on the chords that, when played of two notes. The study of the two-note Nocturne in minor has must consist also chords that, because of the The trio section of Chopin’s C of harp-like effect; and vitality when rolled too three-note phrase leads to the understanding ^Chords tend to lose their points marked (a) and stretch demanded from the hand, are obviously variety of rolled chords. At in undue stated that, in general, a a the longer groups. that slowly. It may therefore be chord should be struck for rolling. Then there are those chords 7. the right-hand designed slowly unless it is the last Example If the first step in musical treatment of a composi- chord should not be rolled note in the left hand, need to be fairly wrenched. out simultaneously with the highest phrase or motive, in which case the writing tion is to recognize the limits of each rolled to produce chord of a composition, for catching the lowest Let us consider the chord that is of the always being on the lookout individual notes, instead of the indication called a sentimental style. The first of the in the damper pedal. Notes trail- what might be the last chords member of the chord RECITAL rolled sign, will doubtless be used, as in COSTUME (Ex. 1) is an example of the “broken roll,” beat often sound inappropriate and A illustration pr Nocturne in G minor, ing after the PUPILS AT to of An den Fruhling (Grieg) LEONARD'S since the wavy line is not continuous from staff Be the chord a broken or unbroken chord, MISS (Chopin). ludicrous. OF lowest tone in each Op. 37, No. 1 at times. GROUP staff. In the broken roll, the the melody note should be brought out all R Rolled chords frequently cover more than the natural is started at the same time. hand (first two span of the hand, as illustrated in Ex. 3 lowest Ex.7 chords). Here it is highly important that the Ex.3 Let Phrasing Solve Your Difficulties

Musician or Woodpecker? Which Are You? playing accompaniments containing Furthermore, in WOODPECKER’S EFFECTS are not with- to the soloist if the HE At A, in order that the chord may be rolled smoothly, rolled chords, it is often a help musicianship. His so out some of the qualities of note as it is a practice of rolling the chord counting evenly and rapidly for every present accompanist makes is a drum- note (in these cases the root of the chord) be Thus, strong point, of course, is rhythm. He in producing the effect desired. At that the top note occurs directly on the accent. T assist played may in the damper pedal; otherwise an incomplete har- excellence, but he is no colorist. He has only B~ltorence cjCeonard notes bewcen soloist and mer par by B, however, since there is an uneven number of the rhythm tends to be kept steady qualify monic effect will result. In the above illustration of the one style of tone-making. If his tones differ in it will be impractical to try to count accompanist. in each hand, unbroken roll, evenness of spacing between the substance on which continuous, amore it is because of a difference in played. The most satisfactory re- rolled chord is not necessarily used for a con as each member is notes of each chord can often be secured by counting A copper ball which caps the peak of are is a he hammers. The emphases. For, whether sult will be produced if the tones of each chord effect. In Country Gardens by Grainger, there with used with two different the second step is to find its rapidly (in this case 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) as each note is ornament often seems to delight his ear The word “phrase” can be in each hand chords which a roof composition, it does not come to rolled in such a way that the top note passage in which the left hand has rolled in both cases it means the it is a short or long played. brilliant tone, while the muffled resounding of a applications in music, but this time- ex- its place the emphases, to is struck at the same instant. As soon as are to be "violently wrenched," as the composer sense” as we say life until we know where to A short roll consisting of only two notes is perhaps is more likely to offer food for his grouping of notes together “to make — used. each hollow tree trunk following examples, la has been mastered, the pedal may be it, the top note of make the “high lights.” In the spacing the most difficult to execute artistically. The opening presses undoubtedly so that of the spoken language. A sentence, in music, is made that the palate. sighing phrases. 'They Although the dolce marking (implying of these chords clicks with the right-hand unrolled fore-phrase and an after-phrase. and lb are diminuendo phrases, measure of Ich Liebe Dich (Grieg) falls into this As far as his “touch” is concerned, all he can do is to of two phrases: a are to be played gently) is found in the above begin on a strong beat and end on a weaker one. This chords category. chord. is once and always And the simplest musical sentence must have these hammer harder or less hard. He at to illustration, the best interpretation would demand that effect is found sighing motive is one which Bach used many times Another example of the “wrenched” performer; therefore, his musicianship is two parts. We cannot say in music: “Thou hearest the highest note of each right-hand in a staccato a favorite phrasing with the a slight stress on the in the first movement of Tchaikovsky's "Concerto old,” and stop there. That would express grief. It was such Ex. 4 limited. immortal chants of given. The arms should float after each chord chords School who used it, however, with varied chord be B-flat minor" in a series of diminished seventh be incomplete. A full, well-balanced statement either Mannheim — If and the harp-like effect thus be evident. Jph-b ! that it came to be known as the “Mann- is struck, — in the early cadenza-like passage; Musicians Require Legato spoken or expressed musically would be: meanings— right hand is rolled outward, the melody will then heim sigh.” It is found in all the composers from the ® daffodils, weep to see you haste away pp a) his first care “Fair we tend to have just the proper stress. In playing chords The artist at the piano knows that Mozart, Chopin, and Liszt to Ravel and Debussy, and of piano so soon: (fore-phrase) this sort, relaxation of the entire arm must take must be to create a legato. And the teacher of As yet the early-rising sun has not attained Ex.l M knows that his pupils must learn first of all to play place. (after-phrase) of is easy enough his noon.” Ex. 2 ( Amaryllis by Ghys) is another illustration legato. When this is acquired, staccato isn’t Music does not admit of unanswered questions. (Or the broken roll, but instead of copying it from the to obtain. But why is legato so important? Why at least it does not contain them in form, though it original, the grace notes will serve to show how the At (a) it will be found highly advisable to “accumu- the woodpecker’s method good enough? Why not may, since the time of Richard Strauss, conclude a rolled chords should be executed. late” the two notes in each hand (of course simultan- just strike one note after another until you come to a sentence with a questioning chord.) Music requires the eously striking the G in the bass clef with the B in the rest? well balancing of one group or phrase by another group. If treble), playing the chord gently and rather deliber- It would seem that Liszt, Grieg, and Brahms, as The adult beginner hears the answer to this ques- for of the fore-phrase is a question, the after-phrase must as most modern composers, have not often written tion, though she cannot explain it, when she says that fore- b) many it; contain the answer. Many persons think a the pianist whose reach is limited. Consequently some passage: “It sounds different when you play a) a) a) b) b) b) phrase which ends on the dominant chord asks a ques- PP of the chords present in the works of these composers, mine just doesn’t sound like anything.” of ne- tion, and such a phrase is always balanced by one although not marked as rolled chords, must of young pupils hear it when they say: “Your pupils have J made. are which ends on the tonic chord. Fore-phrase and after- r__ cessity be rolled because of the difficult demands a touch that ‘flows’ somehow.” You yourself refer to the grouping of measures to tinglingly of the importance of legato in musical phrase, then, aware of expression that it should never be form a sentence. it is so full above example, the purpose of the rolled effect when you hear a great artist—and it must be a In the of the neglected. The intensity of contrast between the two sen- the strangely Thus we come to understand the meaning be assumed to be that of producing great one—set forth, as an example, of the com- chords may application. But the other notes must be varied to suit the feeling certain piquancy. Therefore, which flow with such sharp con- word “phrase” in its larger timent, coupled with a’ syncopated phrasings occurs. meaning, as applied to shorter groups, provides im- position in which it principal note (melody note) will flict and such intense emotion in the seventh Varia- the stress on the obviously have its emphasis on the second portant material for study and it is often neglected. In Ex. 1 must necessary. tion, I, and the fifth, ninth, and tenth Variations, be all the more Book falls on the stronger beat of the the large phrase is made up of several note, since that note all the members within the II, of the Brahms -Paganini “Variations.” For most cases, marked (a) , Book At points smaller groups are measure. This motive, also, is susceptible of many be “accumulated” (held depends on the treatment of the phrase, smaller groups of notes. These reach of the hand might better musicianship Three-note phrases (and all longer or, make the distinction clearer, shades of meaning. somewhat more satisfactory effect is thus and the effect of the phrase depends on legato, as one called phrases, also; to down) as a derive their high ( Continued on Page 362) Although, ideally, Ex. as indicated, they are called motives. In the Haydn “Sonata,” for phrases) This “feeling" of the keys is a good habit 9 should sound of its chief elements. secured. most of preserve good stead, especially if the its climactic quality could be to form and comes in 321 if it were played on Page 366) MARCH WITH MUSIC’’ in ( Continued JUNE, 1944 "FORWARD 320 THE ETUDE , ‘ A

Music In the Home Illustrated Stories of the Operas each one Music in the Home Four booklets lay on your reviewer’s table, drawings. The drawings the story of an opera told in but are resemble the comic strips seen in newspapers, The demand very well done and appropriately edited. Etude almost incredible. “Captain The Crisis for cartoons of this kind is month. It is estimated of World Marvel” sells one million a Time of coimcs, representing ap- Music at a that thirty million copies Radio of our proximately one-fifth of the total population the U. S. and country, are published each month in were equally as impressive but this different persons. Bookshelf doubtedly writer that each book is read by about eight Music Lover’s tune-in on all. Mutual broadcast was unable to a spe- Now a publisher has adapted the principle to grand Sunrise Service from Camp Endicott, “go for” such cial Easter Davis- opera. That adults, as well as children Island (7 to 8 A.M., EWT), part of the cartoonists orc^an ville Rhode which material is one of the reasons why book here our privilege to hear. Seven thousand Seabees At Christmas your reviewer Any it was nave fabulous incomes. reviewed may service. The music was participated in that supplied presented a story of the life of Christ, done in this be secured from MUSIC hundred-piece band, the two hundred-voice amazed his Sunday School THE ETUDE by the fashion, to a child who MAGAZINE at the thirty-flve-piece concert orchestra that could choir, and the of the teacher with an astonishing array of facts price given plus array of talent surely demonstrated in months of ordinary reading. postage. MISTAKEN IMPRESSION among camp. All this how not have been acquired HERE IS a music means to those in service. Among the mu- introduction to opera, these paperbound booklets channels are domin- much As an radio listeners that the air only practical and interesting. sicians participating were many who had recently (octavo size) should prove ated by war news and propaganda. Naturally, in T returned from active service on fronts all over the these impressions prevail, Operas” times of national emergency, should be seen as well “Illustrated Stories of the propaganda world. Events like this as heard, — — for the news is often too vital to avoid and (“Alda”—“Carmen” “Faust” “Rigoletto”) brings us to the subject of television, which has instrument of warfare both on the home which each is an essential in radio studios from Pages: 16 pages weapon radio has been under discussion coast to front and abroad. How formidable a Price: 25 cents per volume JJ. 'Ylflerecktli Ciuhman the coast of late. been during this war will not be known until after Publishers: Bally Publishing Company !„J The London papers have predicted that a scheme for peace has long been settled. Future wars may make covering eighty-five per cent of Britain’s greater and more far-reaching use of radio, for the old television Tchaikovsky the sword has homes will be in operation nine months after the Broadway musicians, trained saying that the pen is mightier than sic has come from jazz. Perhaps with termination of the war. Although the range of televi- comprehensive Objective of the orchestra, have taken been proved on more than one occasion. A new, finely documented, and very Music Theory Made in the advanced technique future wars will be limited to approximate! thirty-five miles, bi- memories of Wagner, Rimsky- judicious use of radio in the years to come, sion story of Tchaikovsky’s life is Herbert Weinstock’s visually understandable book jazz themes, and with will be able A very simple and it of radio does not cease with the people of the British Isles to visualize four hundred Debussy, et al, have dressed up can be avoided. The miracle ography of the Russian master. Nearly musical theory is “Fundamentals Korsakoff, Albeniz, of the proposed opening upon the elements of that come for it is only here that the power as well as hear with the advent inches by it covers a of really very lovely things its aural phenomena, pages in length (format 9 6), Theory,” by Rohner and Howerton. The little for the carnival television lotions besides the of Music miracle begins. Aladdin rubbed his lamp to of about thirteen other not hitherto surveyed in any of ap- “over the air.” of the great deal of ground many fresh, common-sense angles to us . accomplished Trammel, president of the work has that we find in materialize the genii, but nothing was B B C. main station. Niles author, with the cooperation of is a preamble to saying work in English. The proach which teachers will appreciate. One significant All this with radio. What predicts similar devel- “Jazz,” the most concise until he directed the genii, and so National Broadcasting Company, Soviet Government, has gone back to original clef in an ele- Robert Goffin’s recent book, the is the introduction of the me- He says, in part thing subject your re- has to say by way of this earth-embracing opments after the war In this country much highly interesting and approved illuminating discussion of the man sources and secured mentary book of this type, and this is to be and the destinies of all mankind firm foundation for the ultimate televi- The writer, until the war, was a dium may very well control —"A deep and striking material. the interest in orchestral music viewer has yet seen. man’s because the increase in authority on “rats tomorrow. It is no sentimental observation that achievement has already been laid. Even though emotional nature, his love in Belgian criminal lawyer, an sion Tchaikovsky’s peculiar very desirable. There is plenty of space famous relations of makes this poetry, and feels promulgation of music may help to better the outlines of the structure ie vet appear above methods in musical composition, his un- book eels,” the author of prose and only affairs, his the book for working out theory examples. The and that peace on earth, solid democracy.” It is a very different countries and maintain the surface, past-war television lue been given a special tests. that jazz is the “music of also includes valuable blank-sheets for widely hoped for. Tire power net- book, which is far good will to men, that is base to build on." The necessity h>r competing entertaining and well-documented radio companies are to say about many of music is far reaching, and the works owning and operating outlet in strategic cities, “Fundamentals of Music Theory” more than your reviewer would care this fact. origination Howerton dissect the subject. Goflin knows his fully aware of he regards as vital, for "Without urh key By Traugott Rohner and George other attempts to someone say radio is dominated by United When you hear points, the present network system In the Pages: 48 jazz! propaganda, you can offer a few statis- war news and States could not have evolved successfully on a sound Price: 50', (1943) of 9,329 hours ‘ Jazz tical facts. Out of the year’s total CARLOS CHAVEZ basis for television Publisher: Gamble Hinged Music Co. economic basis . , . The economic time, Goflin Columbia Broadcasting System network Conductor of the By Robert of the Founder and broadcasting on a national scale must eventually de- hours were given over to the broadcasting of Mexican Symphony Orchestra Pages: 254 3,514 pend upon the Interconnection oi stations. There music, 2,472 hours were given over to the programming great to the Metropolitan Price: $2.50 in the establishment of this From the Congo under discussion these must be no lagging Publishers: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. of drama—the news, very much after clarinets and the special summer series of this organization were new service of sound and sight, he further states, Trumpets shriek and trombones blare, totalled only 1,454 hours of time. Programs fea- days, made in cooperation with Station XEOY. Radio Mil, what every broad- drums rumble, and cymbals clash. hours, and the war; what England plana Is saxophones moan, turing variety and comedy totalled only 879 fantastic Mutual’s Mexican affiliate. The concerts will originate State hopes to realize of Jazz jitters on in the same n programs of light casting concern in the United The march It’s a Touchdow sports only 97 hours. To be sure, the at the begin- from Mexico City. when the time permits. rhythms that set the world a-dancing dominate all others, but this is understandable. has a way of getting into everything, and music Looking back over some of the events of the past of Easter, and that have kept it jumping Music over to To return to our democratic observance ning of the century games in if half of the music broadcasts were given gets into music. Modem football Yet, it strikes us that Easter performance gutta-percha ball ever since. everything few months, Sunday brought where else world of today co ild a up and down like a music, find that only approximately one-sixth in the days are placed in a spectacular setting in which light we us unusual broadcasts which will be Passion tunes and taps stemming these some remembered of Bach's impressive "St. Matthew Terpsichore, intoxicated with of of the time was given over to dance music, and clas- deeply college bands “put on a show” that is the glory by many for years to come. Over the Columbia network Easter of Africa, apparently landed in New the have been performance a it was on from the jungles series sical music totalled well over a third of the broadcast- heard in youth and the pride of fathers and mothers. A we heard a Solemn High Mass from Keesler Field, who con- where original groups of players started out Sunday this year? The exiled Bruno Walter, Orleans, presenting six complete ing time. - then the world. of “Six Football Programs, Mississippi (7 to 7:30 A. M., EWT). The fifty-voice performed this wor to fascinate the American public and The surprise element dominates in radio today, for ducted this music, could not have shows for football, baseball or any other outdoor func- soldier choir of Keesler Field was most impressive hon- original clever Negro performers certainly never plans for radio programs are in in the would he have been The opening, a although some long-range Europe of today. Nor enter the tion, with two optional fanfares, a formal supplying the music and liturgical responses to when e that their cafe dance music would the other hand, cannot the ored as he broadcast of March 19, thought are sure still in order, the majority, on was in the publication of a formal closing,” has just appeared and we altar ceremony. debut as a symphony halls or bring about the be publicized as far ahead as in normal times. celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his thousands of youngsters, from nine to ninety, Then there was the special Sunrise of books upon Negro music of this type. that for 1944 is Service from Philharmonic- .notable library The summer season of radio broadcasting conductor by directing the New York will enjoy this hugely. Camp Robert Smalls, Illinois (8:15 to 8:30 Smith, old vaudeville and Chautauqua trouper, number of standard programs A.M., EWT) of Beethovens Clay packed with at hand; during May a Symphony' in a notable performance as an insur- The book is very clear, practical, and an all-Negro event, since this camp is the training who knew the map of the winter season have been displaced and this proved the free will color upon color and of the "Ninth Symphony.” These events tables, insisted that fine suggestions which add school for Negro officers and seamen at the U. S. Naval powei ance salesman knows his actuarial will find more of these features dropped from of the offered life. The useful work provides month Training Station air in America; these events honky-tonks of western mining lively action to college on the Great Lakes. A large choir n' ies Jazz was born in the the airways. Predictions for coming events cannot be weapons against voiced by our en healthy outlet for youthful enthusiasms, sang spirituals, as only the tyranny word had a very vulgar connotation. a necessary season of 1944 Negroes can sing them. These ^ j towns and that the made, but this we know—the summer When events place, one Is remind too much stupid regimentation. There are Negro hymns were heard against like these take these days, the honor of fathering Jazz without broadcasting of good music. One of a background of an W1S1 However, in will be rich in the the ephemerality of radio, and we inevitably it explanatory charts galore. original narrative poem which _ taken from its Negro creators. Gradually programs for the summer, which prom- expressed the spirit of e is never the symphony a more permanent form of such performances, small army of musicians evening Easter and the brotherhood of man. No one who heard TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1863 became a specialty and a Programs” ises to be of unusual interest, is the Sunday radio “Six Football the choir haps, someday in the not too distant future. ' developed Jazz in extraordi- that touching spiritual, f (white and black) have Paul Painter broadcasts of the Mexican Symphony Orchestra (9 to Were You recordings By Jack Savage and There?, could forget make It possible for listeners to acquire Debussy wrote his Golliwog’s Cake orchestra was engaged by Mutual this Easter- morning broadcast are nary fashion. When Pages: 53 10 P. M., EWT) . This usual business ideas, his introspective personality, The Easter Sunrise Services cherished broadcasts. opened the eyes of many musicians to the Cleveland Symphony from Hyde Park , a Walk, he $1.50 to replace the concerts of the in Orciic shown in stronger relief than ever before to our knowl- Price: London, heard from 9:15 to The New York Philharmonic-Symphony of jazz rhythms and took the snooty curse winter months at the 9:30 A.m', EWT over ^ of fascination Publisher: Gamble Hinged Music Company Orchestra, heard through the musi edge. For instance, there is an incredible account Mutual, was also an impressive event announces the engagement of four noted from the plebeian Jazz. The result has been that many concerts of the Mexican Symphony will which illustrated re Rubinstein (brother of Anton) all but same time. The as orchestra s how Nikolai are * * * * the cooperation between two Allies. guest conductors during the -_. gone to the nether extreme, and our ears by Carlos Chavez, founder and organizer Three Chaplains of n Tchaikovsky concertos. have be conducted subscription begins repudiated one of the famous cross between a dog the U. S. Army assisted the Right Rev. Geoffrey season of 1944-45. which calloused with sounds which are a orchestra. Guest conductors will Fisher ’ musical and write of the sixteen-year-old Rodz This is a “key” book for the well-organized “with every child given a chance to read Bishop of London, and an American October. During the rest periods of Dr. Artur fight and a boiler factory. That, however, does not dis- featured during the series. In the past, such Army Band played musical illiteracy will disappear, also be the musicians library. It is finely illustrated. and joyous mu- the tone language, Beecham, Leopold Stokow- the processional and national hymns. regular conductor, the following pute the fact that much exhilarating noted leaders as Sir Thomas Stra" and the world of musical literature will become an There were many other similar lead the orchestra Pierre Monteux, Igor Goossens, and Jose Iturbi have conducted programs which un- — “Tchaikovsky” circle. With every child ski, Eugene George open book to a greatly widened Szell, and Leonard Bernstein. . Mexican Symphony Orchestra. Chavez, the regular or By Herbert Weinstock to the gems of good music, preference the For Symphony listening daily to United States concert the summer season, the NBC Pages: 386 conductor, is well known o ^ for the beautiful in music will follow as dawn follows of chestra has been placed under the leadership goers; he has appeared as guest conductor with many Price: $5.00 night —Dr. Hollis Dann Frank be heard major American symphony orchestras. His work as Black. Many noted soloists will Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf the concerts equally well known. Arrangements for which Dr. Black has planned. 323 a composer is e MARCH WITH MUSIC” Hugh Thompson, the (Continued on P°9 JUNE, 1944 'FORWARD "FORWARD MARCH WITH 322 MUSIC” the ETUDE 3 — 4 ” —— ———

Music and Study he WRITER’S piano students gave a recital Music and Study Nations year which was called “The United last more Piano Recital.” It undoubtedly received a T we other program enthusiastic response than any our hope it may be of as- Finger Conditioners have ever presented. It is Table sistance to other teachers. Can you suggest any special exercises may vary. Recital Round Synopsis: The number of characters Nations Piano suitable for getting our fingers into playing Teacher’s United The simple interior. A after protracted absence from the A condition Russian, piano? There must be many people like Costumes: American, Chinese, myself who have been unable to do any I have taken the names of all the boys French. piano practice during the summer months, in hour. town with the idea of starting a boys' class Length of program: one who find their muscles stiffened and unre- by Conducted classes, according to age levels. Can flag is in the center sponsive when they attempt the music that or you Stage Setting: The United States word a sheet to give to the teachers to was played with ease last spring. I spent be side are the flags of the United Na- Ji. Chiiliofm out by the boys? Since you are back and on each l„j Wlarif the summer on a beautiful island in the filled a man, front and the micro- to know the language piano is placed center Gulf of Georgia in British Columbia, came you ought of mas- tions. The world-globe light near it. refreshed in mind, but with fingers culine appeal. phone is at one side with a back Uncle A. M. S., Washington 4. I have two other boys of boogie- boy of ten dressed as stiffened from disuse.— i aier Characters: A brilliant age with only one goal—to woogie dispense the script and announces each number; Here are ten “finger conditioners” cal- Q means procured by hard work Sam who reads with and scout; the Rhythm Band of the culated to limber up even the stiffest play to their fellow teen-agers. I tried the the bugler; a cub Doc. Approach" and School mixed vocal ensemble; digits! All should be practiced single- Mus. Wagness "Adult gave them Training School; a High Sharon Pease' "Boogie-Woogie" books, and in costume. handed first, then hands together in the and pian’o students Noted Pianist everything Is fine so long as athletics stay costumes, a sailor girl and boy slow-fast method recommended by this Costumes: Cub scout in the background. What more can I do for U.S.A.! Chinese child, two Russian peasant girls, vail in the good old (bless I. S. B.. Minnesota. costumes one Hymn, Caisson Song, page. “Old-fashioned” Educator them?— March, Marine’s • King Music Cotton Liberty . . and French doll costume. Uncle Sam and Piano Solo The Spirit of ’em) may prefer to practice the exercises Betsy Ross, a Stars and Stripes Forever. in I have quoted so much of your splen- (Americans) are dressed m and Uncle Sam: The gaiety of is illustrated holding down the fingers not in use. Uncle Sam’s own children Band—King Cotton March did letter simply to show how pre- accessories. The Rhythm Rhythm The French Doll Dance. Others may prefer to hold the unused white with red and blue Hymn would for to Marine’s Doll— sumptuous It be me try to attractive picture in red and white Ballet Dancer—The French (or used!) fingers high in the air; still Band makes an Caisson Song decorative box answer your questions. You are such an (Here Uncle Sam lifts the lid of a others may want to work with close fin- capes and red caps. Stars and Stripes Forever enterprising, vital, ndept. and resource- French doll dances out.) you practice rotational groups, The present. thee and the gers. ... No matter how 10. Five fingers in Time: Uncle Sam: My country ’tis of in an old Russian ful teacher that there is no point to my Uncle Sam: Baga Yaga is a witch them, Rotation toward fifth finger. Sweet land of liberty, (a) pretending that I can help you in your legend. 121314151413 etc. PROGRAM I sing, fingers, Of thee the road. fingers, . . Bugler “High low work with those boys So, right • Baga Yaga’s on fine Call to Assembly fathers died, slow fingers,” Land where my toad Past fingers, now, I confess my Inadequacy; but I can- the radio announcer, enters.) Ugly, warty as a (Uncle Sam, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, Ex. 8 thrill Uncle Sam thunder, loudly crashing, Correspondents with this Depart- not resist sharing the of your letter Uncle Sam: (At each appearance side Voice like they are guaranteed to do the trick for limit Letters From every mountain flashing ment are requested to at the right like lightning, wildly 'Words. with Round Tablers! The methods you enters from the right and stands Eyes you! All are, of course, to be practiced to One Hundred and Fifty Let freedom ring! her mortar-vessel are using to meet the boy problems are retires at the end of each Adler May she in rapid impulses of gradually increasing side of the stage. He Arranged by etc. right Piano Solo—America ..... her beating pestle, models for the rest of us to follow. If we announcement and sits in state at the Madame Chiang May she lose length. Uncle Sam: China is the land of that sweeps her track hundred I S. B.'s, we’d ladies and gentle- Break the broom position is used had a few more the U. S. flag): Welcome, in the United States. Since the five finger of Kai Shek, a recent visitor nevermore come back! (b) Rotation toward thumb find a huge army of boys on our hands our United Nations program! The E tein May she throughout: men, to Solo China Doll .••••••• ?® Bennett-Bentley 545352515253 etc. Franklin Delano Piano Solo Baga Yaga .... all playing the piano eagerly and joy- President of the United States, plays, Yo Ho for the Piano knows no Uncle Sam: Our sailor girl Sam: Our jaunty sailor boy pictures a Ex.l Ex. fully! Roosevelt, has said: “Because music Uncle Sea, by Seuel-Holst . . , by Lowen- , r\ Briny _ in Ship Ahoy sing- it recognizes no sailor’s dance at sea I'm afraid you II Just have to take language, because . Seuel-Holst barriers of Solo-Yo Ho for the Briny Sea . intercommunication, be- Piano stein. ing lessons to keep up with that ten- impediment to free Americans all love a parade! stein We • • • L Uncle Sam: Ahoy . . . . all piano universal tongue, music can Hirschberg Piano Solo Ship way, . the . year-old. (And, by cause it speaks a Americans on Parade . of Rach-°^f“ Piano Solo Russia is the native land to be vividly aware of that common por- Uncle Sam: teachers, including myself, ought make us all more bit of American history is composer day Uncle Sam: A the famous pianist and lessons. Boy- is ours and which shall one of Old maninoff, compelled to take vocal dignity which Betsy Ross and the making girl plays one great trayed by died recently. A Russian peasant we need voice placement!) £y this the nations of the world in who Be Boys how unite Glory. Boys Will . „ Cossacks by Rebe. sure you have lound that the brotherhood.” lf The time I'm Betsy Ross Minuet • Keoe after the Piano Solo Cossacks • finger numbers only are given interesting challenge to meet. number on our program Piano Solo The I have an harm to his voice; The opening • • * ; boy is not doing any Uncle Sam: Solo Old Glory • number depicts a first examples. One of my boy students, ten years of age. Bless America, by Piano Uncle Sam: The following 4. Three fingers in triplets at any rate, don’t worry on that score. this evening is a duet, God star-spangled banner decided after two seasons of lessons to Uncle Sam: And the 1. Single fingers in repeated-note im- has storm at sea. 231 213 This 1. definite pieces in mind American girls. it wave terminate the drudgery of practice. No, I have no two Oh, long may • of 4, 8, and 16. Practice Berlin Antarctic Seas ...... pulses 1, 2, 3, . . - Irving Piano Solo 342 324 summer he visited relatives in Indiana, beside those you suggest. You might try Piano Duet—God Bless America land of the free depress other keys O’er the of our American girls plays the each finger separately; 435 and met a vocal teacher who gave him a six-year-old soldier boy will Uncle Sam: One 453 the boys on my own short Fossil Parade, Uncle Sam: Our And the home of the brave! Engelmann. lightly or hold fingers silently at key-top songbook and a few instructions on singing, Sawyer. Anthem. Russian Dance by which, with "variations" makes an end- play The Bugle March, by boys will play the National Engelmann position. as well as advice on developing his voice. Sawyer Two American Russian Dance ••• Ex. 5 Bugle March Banner ... Piano Solo While he was with this teacher he was not lessly profitable study in hand and finger Piano Solo—The Duet The Star-Spangled ensemble from the to you the Piano Wallis Uncle Sam: A mixed vocal required to practice at home: so. when he nnd in various Uncle Sam: We now introduce Arranged by independence, in rhythm will conclude the program. got back to Minnesota and the piano, he the Training School repre- Training School kinds of staccato. Here are a few varia- Rhythm Band of (Uncle Sam stands at attention.) (Continued on Page 360) decided piano and practice are just not in in the kinder- They will sing To Fossil Uncle Sam’s children of liberty always pre- his future. I have tried to explain how tions I use in the left hand of the senting Uncle Sam: May the spirit grade. They will play: King much piano skill and knowledge would Parade: the original, slow. Ixjogie" bass: garten and first help him, and his parents have agreed to 5. Three fingers starting on middle fin- allow me to teach him to accompany him- ger of group self. But does it seem wise to have him Ex.l 2123 2321 develop his voice on just a few memories? 3234 3432 Perhaps I shall have to take voice lessons! etc. 4345 4543 Now for questions: 6. Three fingers in rotational groups accenting final tone. 1. He has had for his piano instruction of 4, and 2. Trills in impulses 1, 2, 8, book, Mary Bacon Mason's “Boy Music” (a) Rotation toward fifth finger because of the good 16 trills. stunts and theory it can also be played in these and other contains. I bought him another book 121 545 of ways: pieces in the key of C, which was used 232 434 Ex. 6 for 1213 transposition. Besides this he has had pop- 343 323 ular war marches written I eto. 2324 in easy playing 454 212 3435 style by me. I also procured a song-sheet from the Cub Scouts of which he is a mem- ber, and together we wrote easy arrange- Ex. ments of the pieces. rVTN (b) toward What now shall I get A rotation thumb for material? He has not completed either book, and I can get plenty of interesting 4 3 pieces with technical 3 Ex. 7 nuts to crack—but 3231 do you have definite pieces in mind? He 4342 needs wrist staccato, arpeggios, I eto. and I have > to work with 5453 him for good tone production — since he listens more i — to his ifL-iur r rrrr fH r r j -[_ 1_^^| p ^ voice than to the piano. He dislikes counting t) etc.. because he declares it muddles 7. Four-finger groups him. But I have in- ed tha he memorize the left hand and 432123 123432 riSn t han>, a separatelv t0 ?et phrasing and groups: Note that the 543234 234543 finDPr8 n namiCS 3. Three-finger and counting to suit me. 2.2 ShallSh JwI column of figures is always the 8. Five-finger groups rewrite the accompaniments second are grad eS 111 and lth of the first groupings. 54321234 12345432 ^tre!?he - ™ w octav-e reverse stretches occasionally? Do you 8bo'^ 3212 9. Five-finger groups starting mind have in By the combine the 1232 on third a songbook easy enough"! time your boys I thru 1 (4 ,, RECITAL 4323 finger of getting Ada Richter’s with the right of the piece in A UNITED NATIONS 2343 'Foster s Songf” hand 3. Because this part in a happy performance 3454 5434 32123454 34543212 young bov fppic u fast tempo, they will have tough Many of the writer's pupils taking gang does not approve of his pian^work! 372) 325 (Continued on Page WITH MUSIC’’ "FORWARD MARCH WITH "FORWARD MARCH 324 MUSIC the etude JUNE, 1944 “ ! — — -

Music and Study or MANY YEARS the term give them the same chances; we have been a per- don’t no pla,. “tone placement” has them to work! used shibboleth among ¥ for F sistently the only “placing thought neces- Music Study ourselves in and “We need to exert three separate teachers. Students have been told chan voice sary will be the vowel and pitch order to develop an English language nels in art to “place the tone forward.” Many as for jj thought, accurately held in mind English-speaking audiences. First, the audience have, with individual varia- u rp itsplf teachers tones are attacked. When a more should demand what might be called its advised more specific “place- ‘right of tions, somber tone is thought appropriate musical representation the right to know ments” — “dans le masque” (in the what's About tone Placing (to express sorrow, deep tenderness, story! If going on in song or audiences insisted face) “against the front teeth”; upon ; or any mood where the “dark” tone English! hearing young American artists sing in English, “against the hard palate”; “in the nasal mental Let Us Sing in half is indicated) a consistent be won at the forehead between the the battle would outset. But-what cavity”; “at the responsiveness to the mood will au- on. would these young artists sing? That brings us eyes”; and so tomatically bring about a physical to thec . j Jncn Hon tlio f rtf orlormnlo . the results of such ad- Irrespective of luj /okn C.. lAJlfcox adjustment of the vowel-forming An Interview with improve their monitions to students to J and resonating tracts which will for Adequate Translations 1. be interest- Need voice production, it should minimize influence of the hard sur- against ing to determine whether or not the “One of the arguments singing in English faces sufficiently to give the desired is placement” may be sus- orence good translations exist. Well, idea 2.of “tone color. Here, again, the problem 5L that so few then—let tone U3 light of such facts about better ones! To do this, we must tained in the not to attempt any localized Soprano develop be very sure is World-Renowned the functional behavior of the human what constitutes a good song (or aria) source of the “placing” of tone, but merely, under correct condi- of translation In this attempt detected at almost any distance from the Opera vocal mechanism as are now known. support, to Donna of the Metropolitan secret here is that the music must not be distance is spanned by tions of release and balanced breath Formerly Prima The tampered to an analysis of vocal vibrating impulse, provided that to apply the principles of logic pitch and hold the appropriate with through altered breath-marks, accentuation, functions as a conductor of vibra- accurately think or set down a few facts about which some element that processes, let us first emotional concept. note-values. And that, of course, is difficult! tory energy, to realize how untenable is this local Take,' for there can hardly be any controversy: WEST instance, the opening of Brahms’ Standchen: theory of tone “placement.” SECVRED EXPRESSLY FOR THE ETUDE BY STEPHEN All vocal tone, regardless of pitch, volume, or sensation complete exposi- Interesting Revelations ‘Der steht ueber dein larynx when the vocal bands To attempt in this brief article any Mond Berge quality,3. begins in the tion of the physical and acoustical phenomena involved Singers and teachers who still cling to the belief So recht fuer verliebte l.eut'; (or “lips” or “folds”) are set in motion by the breath matter of tone “placement” or control would be that head cavities are major resonators of tone, and Im Garten riesselt ein Brunnen, and caused to produce periodic “sound waves.’ in this spontaneously. They know the whole picture that it is desirable to “get the tone out of the Easton retired rings out first and most from the larynx into futile. The reader who wishes to get FEW SEASONS BACK, Florence Und StiUe weit und breit . . As these waves emerge think of no valid reason why books and reports of scientific throat” and “place it in the head,” should give some from the Metropolitan Opera Association, in the what’s going on. I can (laryngeal pharynx), the air always con- may study the available “The first thing for -translator the throat Russell’s aware, personal, participative enjoy- to do is not Oscar Russell, Douglas Stanley, Ortman open-minded study to the report of G. Oscar plenitude of her powers, in order to devote her- this same kind of within the throat is stimulated into sym- research by G. A a strict, scholarly version tained Academy of to attempt tliat study he will research, sponsored by the American multitude ment should be denied our music lovers. duplicates “oral and Bartholomew, et al. Through this self to study, private music-making, and the pathetic vibrations. Since the so-called Carnegie course, that the per- the order, meter, and rhyme of tin- poem He must facts which will clearly reveal the Teachers of Singing and financed by the of musical interests that are her hobbies. During the “The standard argument is, of pharynx” and “naso pharynx” are in fact only become aware of in the combine the meaning, feeling, und color of -placing” theory and at the same Foundation; and to an article by Wilmer T. Bartholo- formance is artistically more valid if it is given the lines with no dividing fallacy of the “tone season of 1943, Mme. Easton emerged from her re- higher areas in the throat tube, Peabody Conservatory mind, is with the flow of the musical line and the time clarify the paradox between vocal laws and peda- mew, Department of Research, tirement to present a single recital, in New York City. language in which it is written. This, to my musical save imaginary lines, and since the mouth barriers laws Baltimore, which was printed in the Journal requires qualifying. The phrase. Word order and rhyme w ill turn out to gogic devices which seem to contradict those of Music, It was no ordinary recital, in more senses than one; only partially true—at least, it be cavity is connected with the throat by an open quite beside induce desirable results. of the Acoustical Society of America in April, 1940. performance is artisti- the point, therefore merely an “elbow” of the and yet and it grew out of the hobbies that have been occupy- archway and is examined many eminent singers with the If this is done. of Dr. Russell Easton. cally valid only in so far This is “tube,” it is inevitable that any agitation ing Mme. main Important Facts specially devised “sonometer” which recorded my singmg translation involve aid of a For years this distinguished English-born as it is understood. Com- air in the lower throat must immediately many explaining vocal phenomena vibratory energy in throat, mouth, and head areas. come of these lines; within these cavities. I will go no further in soprano has held the conviction that English is just prehensibility must all the air contained these singers the than to set down a few explanatory facts: This revealed consistently that In all especially first! Now, I am perfectly know through study of the laws of physics as good a language for singing as any other— ‘The moon is over the We passages resonator, and that no appreciable pulsations 1. Vibratory sensations in the nasal throat was the main ready to admit that an and acoustics that whenever periodic for English-speaking audiences. In order to demon- lull -top, sounds of m, n, and volume was contributed by the head cavities. (Dr. communicated to a body of when sustaining the humming strate the validity of her belief, Mme. Easton presented all-French performance Just (sound waves) are right for young .ng are due to the fact that the nostrils, rather Russell made it clear, however, that these head cavities partially confined air, there results sympathetic a recital of classic Lieder (Schubert, Schumann, of French opera, sung by folks in love; for such and thus play their important amplifies (or than the mouth, become the “vent” are quality regulators, entirely in English. And, in order to have French artists in excel- vibration in that body of air which Brahms) The fountain murmurs the sound waves, condensed in these part in voice production.) original sound waves generated by sounds; thus, precisely^the sort of English texts she desired for her lent French diction, is resonates) the that in the garden, relatively small passages, create a local sensation Mr. Bartholomew’s research convinced him experiment, Mme. Easton made the translations herself. the ideal to those who the vibrator. nothing in — Arui silence far and because of friction against the walls of those pas- “nose and head passages add practically The experiment of an all-English Lieder program understand French! It is sounds yet are of paramount wide.' The Tone Established sageways. The tone body of the humming the way of useful resonance, was sensationally successful. Critics “admitted” that far from ideal to those remains the neutral vowel uh, formed and resonated importance in securing indirectly a proper setting of not attempt to then, that when the vocal bands vibrate is fit it is well sung, in intelli- who are actually debar- It doe It follows, have per- English for song—when in the pharynx. The reason why employment of the throat resonators.” He continues: “We English a series of rhythmic sound waves and gent and meaningful translation; and audience re- red from comprehension reproduce an and thus create a tone of experiment several times of getting an ex- the connect- these nasal prefixes often helps to produce formed the equivalent of a German these waves contact the contained air in action swept Mme. Easton with grateful thanks for by reason of the French greater freedom and beauty is mainly that in form- perienced singer who can control the back of the passage, the ensuing sympathetic — but it ‘sings.’ It ing throat-mouth the “telling me a story I could follow” “letting me under- language ! If the English- poem ing them the tongue, soft palate, and pillars of throat muscularly to sing a good quality tone with entire body of air will result in am- — back the sense, the vibration of this cutting out stand what it’s all about” “giving me a chance to speaking audience is to gives wave the fauces are released from tension caused by the velum opened, and then with it closed, plification (resonation) of the original sound combine music and words”—“making the pleasure just derive full value from mood. Hie color and swallowing muscles, thus freeing the head resonance. When the throat setting is kept large involuntary process of amplification, antagonistic Ettjde German pattern. By this cannot be surely dis- doubly comprehensible.” The has asked Mme. vocal music of any sort, meaning of the having throat. Result: stronger fundamental and corre- and constant, the resulting tones the tone generated within the larynx—already . ex- Easton to express her views on the value of English as it must understand the lines, but it does not spondingly stronger upper partials or overtones. tinguished by competent listeners. . . Repeated characteristics conforming to the men- vowel and pitch prefix. although the attempt to feel head a singing language, and to suggest means of improving text which represents concern itself with word- The tone This is especially true of the ng periments show that tal concept of the singer—attains volume. tone markedly . . its use in song. half the performance order or rhyme. It does 2. Surfaces of cavities and passages wherein tone resonance frequently improves the has been established. through which it emerges, have a the actual resonating of sound in the head cavities value. Thus, my first ar- not need to! The com- understanding of the physics is resonated, and First the Audience The most rudimentary sur- physical produc- Consider gument in of definite effect upon quality. Soft, membranous is of little importance, if any, in the favor of sing- prehensible oneness convince one that the singer could not of sound should are in contact quality. The tingling sensation sometimes “When I began my own career, I had no notion that ing in English concerns music more place faces with which sound waves tion of good words and possibly move this tone from the throat and dampen the high partials; hard surfaces stimulate felt in the head cavities during singing should be con- English could be a problem! I was a member of an the audience—for whose than compensates for above the resonator; nor can he sepa- it at some point brilliancy of tone result of good production than as a operatic stock company that gave opera in English, all benefit, after of high partials. Since sparkle and sidered more as a all, the that. The point is, part of that tone from the whole vibrating body rate a high partials, and be- contributing cause.” over England. Our company was but one of several singing is done, of the depend upon stimulated and that the listener “place” it in head cavities, front course, of air, and roof of mouth) and such, and there was sufficient interest for all of them whose interest with resonator into cause the hard palate (front and pa- is familiar any area removed from the who mouth, or in stimulation, widening of the The Main Resonator to carry opera to large towns and small. I sang Mar- tronage makes are passing. teeth provide such public German will far prefer which sound waves from the vibrators orifice will add brilliancy; while the oral the scientists who have demonstrated guerite, Mignon, Elsa, and Elisabeth in English, and singing possible. the mouth When even tire German original ; the followed the opera as Regulated and laryngeal pharynx (having membranous lin- in their laboratory research that the throat is the English-speaking audience "In second place, then, in- The Tone translation is not correct bal- the cavities are ings) will contribute mellowness. In main resonator of vocal tone ; that head the integral whole of music, plus drama, which is the let us consider the factual soundness of this analy- sing- tended for him, and does Despite the obvious “depth” and that tone cannot be for opera. Later on I sang Isolde quality ance a tone will have both mellow not important resonators; and only sensible reason ers — particularly the the singers and voice teachers know that the compete with sis, all “ring.” Too much wide mouth without bal- in spite of all this they concede that it in German! At the time I not controlled a high “placed”—when in English before I sang young singers. Our Amer- FLORENCE EASTON volume of vocal tone may be regulated or But for and will result in a metallic, piercing tone; resonance may often help the I didn’t realize its value. Celebrated prima German poem. Often the ancing depth the thought of head appeared in such a company, ican artists are at a dis- donna of many considerable extent by mental concepts. world-famous has no to a will result in a dull tone. The tone is not -placing” ad- appreciate the manifold opera the listener who or ng too little singer to produce a free tone, the “tone Only later have I come to tinct disadvantage be- companies employment of nasal consonant prefixes m, n, the “placed” against the roof of the mouth to get this then, They should not continue of it. of what free mellow tone. herents may ask why, advantages that grew out cause of the fetish that inkling prove efficient for. inducing a and means-- “ring.” It is merely contact with the hard surfaces, “First of all, the audience was completely satisfied. requires text reasoning would accept this result as a to “adhere.” them to sing in at least German Superficial over them in their exit three foreign lan- singers as the sound waves pass as pedagogical It came to hear an entertainment composed of equal guages before who must depend upon expression of the of the “tone-placing” theory. Proponents Well, they should continue to use— a they have really learned the justification the mouth-vent, which stimulates the high it how to sine face translation of them do from helps student to improve parts of words and music, and understood both. opera at all! to know whether it’s sad! a “placing” might argue—as many device—any imagery that a In no other country in funny or — of tone gives the “ring.” buoyant, smiling the world does thfo dis into partials and A di- Nothing will make me believe that the audience that phenomenon that gives him understandable meaning, without use of such nasal consonants directs tone his tone production if it proves more efficient than exist. In France, Italy, that the attitude will automatically induce the widening of (anri 1t torting additions it out of the teacher understands only one-half of the operatic combination speak of these countries the accent-values of the music, is an nasal cavities of the head and takes rections which conform to the facts. But the only in their musical the front-mouth area favorable to a ringing tone, and hearty enjoyment that stim- sieffifi source translate singer is often conscious of a know when he is employ- gets the same sincere and cance) the audience heard opera of enjoyment. And that is what a throat. The fact that the should know the facts, and in the“g feeling no those listeners who get both halves. For proof could follow, is meant to be. vibration -sensation in the facial mask, while imagery. Knowing the facts, his intelligence will ulates and the native artist sang ing witness the comparative re- language operaTnP the In must lower throat, is accepted as proof of devices which of this, you have only to he knew how to use. making translations, the musical line sensation in the keep him from persisting in the use of NaturaUy resonance sensa- Italian and American sections of a diction, the pace. song, on 5 “placement.” Such acceptance of localized assist, the student in actions of the interpretation, all came easier In my translation of the Brahms head will interfere with, rather than to him- he coffid directed to the area audience listening to an Italian-language go ahead naturally, ™ the third this direc- tions as proof that tone has been And persistent attempt cosmopolitan without stopping line offered initial difficulties in mastering correct vocal habits. 8 to ddra rhi in much con- Barber of Seville”; certainly the around ay tion; liters^ where the sensations are felt has resulted certain performance of “The linguistic stumbling blocks 7m Garten riesselt ein Brunnen ...” A to “place” tone in any localized spot is pretty If therp ^ regarding the singing tone. One has Americans enjoy the music, the singing, the pantomime translation garden nun- fusion of thought localized, constrained tone. would be impossible—'In the sensations may be to lead to all this, follow the fun, only to remember that vibratory —but the Italians, who enjoy our artists as they do in Europe,’ murs a musica one reason for f fountain’— since that would defeat jokes, and the story also. Naturally, their laughter all too evident-we adap- 327 the don’t work in the accentuation as well as English idiom. Thus, the WITH MUSIC” same way; we JUNE, 1944 "FORWARD MARCH tation keeps the on Pago "FORWARD mood and ( Continued 326 MARCH WITH MUSIC” THE ETUDE .

Music and Study u yr-v H, THOSE PEDALS!” Music and Study silently f 1 This is the exclamation that is uttered sits down at V 3 by nearly every music student who of this great in- an organ console to begin the study Most students strument The reason for this is obvious. have who approach the study of the organ, previously piano. Under ideal con- Schubert? gained some knowledge of the About had at least three years of piano You Know ditions, they have What Do thing about the manu- Pedals!' study Therefore, the chief new “Oh, Those there are two or more of them. als of an organ is that particularly the latter, But the stops and the pedals, Died a Pauper feeling of confusion, almost The Story of a Man Who give rise in the student to a of panic. Millions to Posterity the Pedals 3. but Lett How to Find LJ NJfo m.uLJ know is how we ever are The first thing we want to Mus. Doc.. F.A.G.D. with our feet. The very going to find those pedal keys ability consciously to feel or sense first essential is the and heels. A first glance the pedal keys with our toes 1933 there are white and REQUEST FROM THE ETUDE OF OCTOBER, at the pedal keyboard, to see that REPRODUCED BY Biographer that the eye Schubert's Must Famous black keys, as on the manuals, is all ordinarily should be allowed. “Why then, are there lights over the pedal board?” “In order to find the student asks. The answer is, pedals and mechanical acces- This is the last article by the renowned Austrian music critic the various expression these may be located urgan c-ompa and biographer, Paul Stefan, who died at the age of sixty- sories; though, after a time, even ESSSSpSSgggissued by the M. P. MoHer y organists, gg£ series of tributes to American three in New York City, on November 12, 1943. Dr. Stefan without looking.” was violently anti-Nazi. He came to America in 1941 after many dramatic escapes from the invaders whom he had angered by his vitriolic attacks upon Hitler. His degree of Doctor of sensing the pedals To illustrate these two principles— Philosophy was from the University of Y ienna. He studied music us take the and the lateral motion of the feet—let with Arnold Schoenberg. Of his twelve best-known books, following pedal passage: "Schubert" is his most famous. It is published in this country and in Spanish translation in South America. Over two hundred Ex.l thousand copies have been sold. Dr. Stefan and his wife fled from their Viennese home in 1938 ( a few days prior to the arrival of German troops) to Zurich, Switzerland. Thence they went to France where he arranged musical and political programs for the French State Radio. one with the The first thing to do is to find both C’s— These included special broadcasts to the stricken people of the lower end of the pedal clavier (very Austria. Later they made attempts to escape the Germans by left toe at FRANZ SCHUBERT in the middle of the pedal clavier irossing the Pyrenees. The first time they were arrested: the easy) and the other gap between A-sharp second time they spied a sentinel and abandoned the attempt; This idealistic oil portrait was made —by placing the right toe in the sensed with the third time they walked for hours over the mountains and by tha Hungarian artist. M. Sandar. and C-sharp, this gap being very easily be found and finally got to Lisbon and then to America. Dr. Stefan was a the toe. Both of these pedal keys should founder of the International Society for Contemporary Music. starting to play both feet should be in position before friend of passage should art works—was dragged from a half -mad the exercises. It is obvious that this his younger days. He had gunrded it in uncanny be played with alternate toes. no > makes the left fashion. Even Schubert's first hi rapher Let us consider first, the notes with only heard of it. from to E. The mention of It and evidently had never foot. We note that there is a skip C play Yes, and another entire Symphony is missing today! operation in playing these two notes is first to Then O INTO the average group of business men and In 1928, amid the noise of the centenary observance the C with a firm, but not too heavy, stroke. to be a sensing it but not de- ask them who Franz Schubert was and they of Schubert's death, a person, who proved we let the foot pass to the D, thor- variously, “He psychopath, claimed found It. Unfortunately, for a second, until we are G will probably answer, was the to have pressing it, perhaps this Rosamunds contact of the toe with the song composer.” . . . “He was the one who wrote the proved to be a swindle. The exquisite oughly conscious of the consciously for ‘Unfinished Symphony,’ ”... “He was the hero of Entr'acte and Ballet music first produced December key Now we pass to the E, sensing it DEATH until us do this a the operetta, ‘Blossom Time’ (in England, it is known MASK OF SCHUBERT 28, 1823 at the Theatre an der Wien, was lost just an instant, then depressing it. Let .” fashion: as ‘Lilac Time’) They have no real conception or This mask was made immediately it was discovered by Sir George Grove and Sir Arthur few times, somewhat after this knowledge of his great importance in the life of today. after his passing. Sullivan (1867) on a trip to Vienna, forty-four years to They do not realize that many of the most beautiful after it was first heard. In 1830. Diabelli started Ex. 8 melodies that they hear over the radio and in the songs, the greatest Shubert in a font of musical melody to pou publish the posthumous works of movie theater, probably first sprung into existence from the mind of any man. series. By 1850, there were no less than fifty parts. in Schubert’s imagination while he sat in a little wine With the and issue condescending superiority that the peopli Other publishers continued to “discover” garden at Griinzing on the outskirts of Vienna. of held in A-Flat sensed but not played, toward the eloquent Austrians, the’ Schubert's works until 1875, when his Mass The small note D is the one used to tap him on the shoulder indicates the sensing of this key and call him “littli was issued. and the grace note E A Distorted Picture master” that can be (Masterlein) “Little Master” indeed! Schu before depressing it. This is a principle picture that has been painted of Schubert for bert is recognized example: The now as one of the very greates A Perpetual Spring applied to any skip, for literary, stage, and movie purposes is often greatly examples of real musical genius. It Schuberts infer that he was always mis- The real is not at all unlikely that more of distorted. One might Schubert was no timid bachelor in Ex. 3 his low important works published after his deat erably in love, after the romantic European pattern. affairs. He was frequently shy toward were women but hi than Thematic everlastingly bungling and awkward. In did not fear them. during his lifetime. (See Nottebohm's He was The truth was that he one wi seem Catalogue.) fault, as “Blossom Time,” he is made to fall in love with three ingly impelled by a force This was partly Schubert's which unrelentingly wouia com of his contemporaries that Schubert charming “sweet young things” in succession. Later pelled him to compose. He just had claimed between the G and the C are to compose an< drawer ana Here the three notes him enamored with the alluring Countess, in in some mysterious write a work and then lock it in a we find manner, he seemed ' motion from the first to to sense tha never was h sensed consciously in the the moving picture which is partly based upon the he would have only thirty-one think of it again. His creative impulse instant before years of precious o another. second. The C also is sensed for an tim, that great deal tageously used in going from one pedal to the popular operetta. One often wonders if the public in which to deliver his message of a perpetual spring, in that a instructors rigorously con- said to pass one to mankind This eav Some present-day organ pedal keys in passing playing. In the first example we are years, Schubert the overflow This includes also the sensing of realizes that in thirty-one short found him scant time even to hear his was lost. . placing the toe in the gap be- pedals. own works performe. demn the practice of measurement of distance. We pedal; in the last we pass three vast number of compositions, It is inordinate:? over a skip, rather than time to write such a and, indeed, many of the possible that Schubert suffered black keys to find C or B, and F is slow process and beautiful things that h tween the groups of organists becoming confused It might be objected that this a This could not have left from one The hear a great deal about many of them immortal. so composed and put down on paper or two experiences with women. This writer is old-fashioned enough playing. Of course remained only ® or E. in any octave. another of different could not be used in rapid pedal fi came (if tn in going from one pedal clavier to very much time for affairs of the heart. his imagination as Fate never very early in his life. The second that as a starting point this method should be, slow; but permitted him to to hold the opinion This will be more easily we know that all practice is, or his biographers, in recording the facts of them played. hea were indeed duration. A B* other. dimensions and measurements. Some of Many were never published a second) was of short involves less physical and mental effort than any constant repetition of the ex- durtag s by lifting the foot it will be found that reveal the very charming per- lifetime, w of the soprano obviated by sensing the pedals, than his life, have failed to and others were concealed Viennese middle class sang the starting point.” To me it is the easiest way with which the inter- in manuscriptmammta I say, “as a striking the pedal key so many inches ercise increases the rapidity of the man who, in face of great adversity, which were lost. in his first when he and haphazardly sonality Mass, which was performed of finding the pedals at the beginning of a perform- sensed until, like all playing SchuDem from the previous one. vening pedals may be managed to keep a blithe spirit and a joyous heart. Schubert’s powerful and seventeen. Evidently love with for the beginning of a away involves beautiful “C Maior

Music and Study ACHIEVEMENTS of any musical organiza- tightness at the back of the neck or in HE the thm * successful though they may be, are not muscles. Listen carefully to the tone, which tion, should w themselves, but a means to an end Music and Study and effortless. A light, flute-like an end in flowing, quality shoni! T with the humanistic cultivation of human Next sing a descending scale as: a means result of true music education beings as the ideal objective today. What has this to do with the justification of music America? Certainly music as it now Count in the schools of Human Values That Chorus business enterprise, and is not a of a Fine exists in our schools Tone, the Glory costly programs functioning vet it is one of the most with enormous sums of in our educational systems, money being invested yearly in musical equipment, instruction. Moreover, in normal times facilities, and Education orchestras, choruses Music large organizations, bands, and in i, C.J Pm, to competition and fes- m traveled some distances have well as mone- tival centers, with the blessing (moral as Continue by transposing upward by semitones the school authorities. Be tary) of the community and IN THE MAY ETIIDE sure that the starting tone is always free, relaxed, never THIS IS A SECOND SECTION OF THE SPLENDID ARTICLE and Despite these materialistic gains, school music flute-like quality. of light, has been a self-supporting project. Why then, does it ^baniet c£. 'Il/urlino or three attempts the low bij After two basses will find in our educational institutions? continue to exist and they can easily sing to G. Baritones will probably well justify its existence by its Acting Band Conductor chest or lo , be school band might qualities commonly called A registers or able to extend this two or three tones. Tenors military precision, or Release of the Upper Tones ) can color, glamour, and Minnesota (mixed), and head or lg display of Instructor of Music, University of middle or intermediate sing high C, and in many concert of a well- the frequently cases reach F perhaps by its gridiron demonstrations and NE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS employed in different parts of (light). They are beyond. Again, be sure the starting tone is free, again, are entailed certain ex- trained voice is the ability to use it in its light, performances. But here, range and differ in quality. and floating. This is most important. music, instruments, uniforms, and main- entirety, from its lowest range to its highest in part penses for O register is used in the lower of /ust,tying the mus,c program chest or low first keep the light potent force; for, presented on the subject break, without a definite The Crescendo: At quality throughout tenance. School music must be a theses lectures, and articles have been an even scale, without a tones. Many papers concerned produces deep, sonorous, full educational systems great our nation. The majority of the discussions and change of quality (two or even three distinct voices) of the range and the passage. After this has been done several times and although it has cost the as deducted in the public schools of quality as either an independent educational sub/ect intermediate voice is a mixed financial gain—and with the values of the music program and without strain or throat effort (muscular singing) The middle or the singer is thoroughly familial with it, crescendo sums of money with practically no themselves chiefly educational program. and richness of the low in losses continues undaunted, or as an integrating agency of the total The young man whose voice has changed has added with much of the fullness slightly on each descending tone order to blend into frequently financial —it enlightening lightness and less heavy lower tones. educational authorities, administrators, Martina, we are presented with a mast interesting and to his boy-voice a new voice of an octave or more. tones, but with increased the heavier quality of the Always practice recognized by In the fallowing article by Mr. are all becoming more and as containing meaningful, of the music education program. We Frequently he has considerable difficulty in joining quality. slowly. If the starting pitch is low for the tenors, have music educators, and parents viewpoint on the humanistic values veritably differ greatly in quality, with the or upper voice is much lighter and more wherever comfortable. lifelike values—human values. Human values mod concerned with these voices which so The head them enter JL" Stt «S the heavy, sonorous quality of the existence of music in our schools. But what result that he confines his singing to his heavy or brilliant, with none of The Scale: Next apply to a complete ascending scale justify * - ** — «• °"d they function? How much chest tones, with consequent short range and no top the low tones. beginning on G, first line bass tuff, tenors entering are these values? How do . Note. these eventually realized Editor’s or high tones. When he attempts to sing beyond the The task of the singer is to so blend or merge wherever comfortable. The starting tone this time are they worth? normal range of this new voice, he applies throat qualities so that no sharp line of demarcation, or and rich, like the low should be full, round, tones of Opportunity pitch, register or abrupt change of A Challenge and an effort, resulting in strained singing, flattened apparent change of the piano. This quality cannot be carried very far, all who love music and believe with passionate con- cultural develop- poor tone quality, and throat fatigue. quality, is heard. however, or the singer will begin to use throat effort To contribution music has made, to the to playing a wind instrument, general health can- Frequently voice will stop or break when such very low tone on viction in the richness and worth of its mission or from human value—without his Blending of the Registers: Play a the tone will be harsh and uifiy, as well as flat. ment of these individuals! A and political benefited. There are. also those advocates are If experienced this most tone mankind, the era of social, economic, and not but be methods used. he has the piano. Observe how heavy and sonorous the experience) who a doubt. is a they are not without practical situation, psychological difficulty is change through which civilization is passing (and out>-with justification— many embarrassing a is. Play an octave higher and the tone will be lighter therapeutic values. It has been pointed by opportunity. Forces beyond our con- maintain that music has definite added to the vocal confusion already present, and fear in quality but still warm and resonant. Proceed by challenge and an educators that one of the most striking and essential for us complacently to go of so-called “high tones” enters an already difficult octaves. The tone loses heaviness and fullness, but trol have made it impossible Morale characteristics of music is that it is a social art. Says our Music and results. he says, “I as we have in the past. We must re-examine vitally interested in situation with disastrous Then gains brilliance and clarity. Ch<»»t or heavy Rtent pushed. pret this in two ways. It is social in the sense of of material and the shambles of war, the radiant will vanish. of life. Anything in education or in music gleaming through to some- intonation problems wcic u udc nit. lung, Heavy smugs or me rower Key- for the sake an overt act of utterance relating something or B, de- its healing qualities. Our gallant At the pitch A — first space, bass staff— not serve the ends of better and fuller glow of music, with audience is How often are contraltos heard who sing only with board for the middle section, he could apply tension, which does body. The solo playing or singing to an or lighter Forces crave music. They are con- tones, change voices completely pending on the individual voice, blond into a living in deserves its place. Music study is val- men of the Armed oratory. ap- heavy chest and who stretch them till the desired pitch was attained. no way comparable to a certain quality of When The In the case one to singing in the face of adversities, marching above C, third space, treble staff, lapsing into thin, quality and continue till about A. fifth line. uable only insofar as a mastery of it enables tinuously front of a band, or playing an quality, however, would be unsatisfactory, and if he this is pearing as soloist in in tenors, stronger, the rhythmic beats of music. Yes, piping tones comparable to a man’s falsetto! These of low basses it may be a little lower, and live more richly and wholesomely; to be a vigorously to say, really lifelike continued the tension for additional tones, eventually incidental solo in a band, let us a a lighter individual; to suc- for morale, esprit de corps; but it goes deeper singers have no middle voice and no top. higher, when the singer must again blend into better, happier, more cooperative music created. The soloist is well aware of the strain would become too great and the string would then, music social situation is treble staff, of being human. that it is music for health. Truly Many young tenor voices are either lost or ruined snap. quality. From here on to D or E, first line ceed more fully in the great business than — his situation; his audience, fellow-bandsmen, all com- daily health program, but it as the and should be re- pertinent part of our because they do not know how to release the upper In similar may be necessary to blend on every tone, If it fails in this, it fails completely is a to spell social approval, the most potent force manner, the singer can apply muscular or of war. bine between education. it is an invisible but potent weapon tones. Young baritones and basses are frequently use- difficult spot in all voices, especially male, is jected as a detriment to true music even more beings. throat tension, pushing or forcing the voice on the victorious influencing human every staff, in terms of any will be a contributing factor in less above middle C because of the same difficulty. A, fifth line, and E above. From above the bass We cannot define the educated man Music is anxious for social approval, tone, until nature warns him by voice stoppage D Our soloist, then, or tone is or of skills he ought culmination of our present conflict. break that incorrect blend on practically every tone, being sure the list of things he ought to know, busily prepares for his performance. His proud usage is present, with resultant of the cultural values. and Anticipating Needs is worth anything at all Our next consideration is that voice damage a light, high quality or head tone. to possess. No knowledge mother is concerned, warns him about slumping, about and decrease of range. If persisted in years that the par- and it. skill, whether been observed during recent All of these difficulties can be remedied. For this the By removing all tight neck merely for the sake of having No It has foot, or keeping his feet far apart lange becomes so small as to allow the interference from more awake leaning on one singing ol upper intrinsically desirable. ticipants in musical activities are usually purpose, a careful explanation to the young singer only the most limited throat muscles, the singer will be able to sing mental or manual, is in itself and, oh, yes, the shined shoes. repertoire. To remedy this evi place in opportunities in their environment. usually is greatly appreciated, since it enables him to they No subject, however esteemed its traditional to other cultural and enable the singer to so tones as easily and freely as lower ones, though blend his tones that nc attrac- of student who in adult life first what he is trying to do, and then that the of schooling or however artificially Here you find the type A Subtle Development understand muscular (throat) effort will be much lighter in quality. It is essential the scheme is present, ' to the followinr in itself enjoy the better things that life has aids in discovering how to secure the desired rad1 5 plausible its claims may seem, has, will seek and conductor’s chief concern? him procedure is tone be will f? tive and What is the band suggested: kept very light. Daily practice ^". students today, all over the This all. All such things are wortn offer. Thousands of music want results. Purse the lips gently develop resonance upper tones. or for itself, any value at “Johnny, hold your horn up! Are you sure you as if whistling, using the and fullness in the they concerts by major symphony Registers: Most automobiles have three speeds: low vowe no possessing and worth mastering only insofar as country, are attending forget that I hold the oo, as in soon. Sing on A, is a matter of growth development and must to play this by memory? Don’t fifth line, bass staff • and Use women to live stronger, orchestras. ., Yes, or first, intermediate or second, and high or third—for very finding enable boys, girls, men, and A , at Letter I, while you play your cadenza.” light quality of tone, even though be hurried. At first there may be difficulty in will illustrate the band it may sount lives; only insofar as Perhaps the following incident adaptation to the terrain over which the car is travel- very if more satisfying, more worthy all of this goes into a performance, but what is really thin or almost falsetto. or securing this light quality of tone, especially training: Recently in a his car in spiritual qualities. Let us cultural values of musical ing. Every good driver should handle such ir usea singer some to®' they release human and happening to Johnny through all this confusion? The m group work, develop with has used only heavy chest tones for girls of high school age unnecessary wear, men's voice more salient values attributed to record shop several boys and the respon- a manner as to avoid undue heating first, having the and employ e®- examine some of the answer is simple. He is developing poise, sopranos and altos listen this part of the voice has not been the purchase of records. One boy of the engine, and heavy gas consumption. Conse- careful! re music education. were contemplating performing for an au- Later the same procedure little succeed in sibility of standing on a stage may be followed with patience on his part will usually value derived whether to buy Toscanini’s recording of quently, he strives to get into “high” as quickly as wome Unquestionably the most important was debating dience. Will this and similar experiences avail him alone, and finally with the full discovering by choir. it. life is con- “First Symphony” or that conducted possible, thereby securing greater speed, flexibility, and nrore from musical experience as far as our daily Brahms’ for adult life as a worthy Sustain the tone for several After anything as he prepares counts, very the foregoing is thoroughly developed, physical. Another was arguing with his friends about smoother performance, with less wear, heating and lightly an cerned is that of health—both mental and Stokowski. society? Unquestionably so! He has de- absolutely free of tension or volume, or secured Beethoven Sym- member of effort. Move the rather fuller tones, may be religion, general well- treatment of certain passages in a gas consumption. hea r Next to our love of God and the confidence and leadership which make for a frequently from side to side application the students were veloped to be sure there of the breath. At all times keep our daily endeavors. There was no question that these He does not continue in any one speed longer than is n nr being is our chief pursuit in phony. useful citizen. cage well expanded. very light at instrumental) and orchestras. What a great satisfactory, or until the car can no longer perform The tone will be Musical participation (vocal as well as members of school bands the disciplinary value of but We need not elaborate on in a short time volume will develop naturally deep breath- well, but changes or shifts as need arises. These makes for correct posture and rhythmical musical experiences. We are well aware, of this value. II easily as coordination is secured. small measure to changes or shifts are always in advance or anticipa- with the breath ing, which certainly contribute in no Music education, sincerely conducted, involves a rigid Each where salutary effects tion of actual necessity. This adaptation by the driver band, individual must discover for himself health. But even farther reaching in its student realizes this from the moment orchestra ° discipline. A needs to relieve tlir stimuli of music. If a ORCHESTRA to conditions is comparable to satisfactory handling of blend into a lighter quality to are the mental and emotional BAND and he produces a sound on his instrument. Posture, hold- pressure, As a living, as well as correct Edited by William O. Revelli the human voice by the singer. and CHORUS as no two voices are exactly alike. sense of wholesomeness in ing the instrument, placement of the tongue, mouth- part of the voice produced the vary * breathing, results from singing A register is that with Edited by William pitches suggested may be used but may posture and rhythmical the same mechanism. All changed voices have three D. R. velll individual the suL 331 voices. Be sure that whenever "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” has to Pd9e JUNE, 1944 make the tone come, ( Continued on 330 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC THE ETVDE - i • .

/ Music and Study “After the war commenced, transportation was i of w we attempted a Choir one players, fifty-two boasted possible, so Camp at Bluefield Conm! Music and Study la y eighteen miles away. This the premiere • College, summer hearsal for U d states to cartin' the smallest city m .t 1942 was most successful. Thirty-five boys Curls that it was compareditPperform- and L, The Little Finger The Study and Teaching of Thirds orchestra, and and had classes in directing, have a symphony were enrolled voice pupil Oh caga an! a fourteen-year-old The Etude I read piece, fingering; watching the director attentively, ar- Cincinnati and entire 1 I have In a recent issue of with those of model choir. The group engaged in folk 3' left-hand fourth fin- ances y. _ lwavs curls his on the study of thirds riving so forth, all make sponsor annually, in m some remarks at rehearsals on time, and schools of the area hour every evening, and rolled of his hand except when Violinist’s Forum should ap- The for an out for the palm, The impressed me. I much ta ger into which for well-disciplined performer. might raise the of the best singers eafl reminded him of it a We with about 1,200 exercises at 6:15 every morning. using it. I have preciate further suggestions on the appli- music festival eleven morning John Burke! he is has any trans- organized of times, but he does not im- principle to younger and question whether this type of discipline and the a cappella choir, former member of the choir and a hundreds cation of the jng part, a graduate in other ways he is a good H. M., Illinois, fer value to other daily obligations. Experience has of prove, though less advanced students.— Westminster Choir College, was in charge of there any special exercises I a group the in rfndeAt Are does. find school musicians ofE years, Conducted by proved that it We most states: “For a number help of three him? I have been teaching I am very glad to have another oppor- ^Mr. Ko°epler struction, with the assistants. At the lrf eive prompt, attentive, and exacting in other school ac- members of the cho end years, hut this is the first time the study and teach- varying from five to twenty two weeks the boys and girls gave an nearly five tunity of discussing with the of excellent this fault. tivities. held in connection ac have met with for it is a subject deserving taken to Summer Camp of themselves, singing an entire I play ing of thirds, to count program advisable for a teacher to Need we mention the special discipline pertinent by Dr. John Fm y 0f 9 Is it of a good deal of thought. The sugges- Master’s Summer School memory. The concert was pupil to improve his mtona- dis- songs from repeated in along with a the wearing of the uniform? And what about the Westminster Choir College, ' two ^Jdarolcl dderhlee tions in the December, 1943, issue of The son, of nearby towns. During the two weeks, the campers tl0n? cipline essential for drilling the smart, precise gridiron in Northfleld, M at- should the right elbow be v for the benefit of the ad- Jersey. These camps were either recital; a concert s How high Etude were tended an organ by a very at the frog? I was or parade band? boys' school close by^ Th when one is playing vanced player who was not satisfied with chusetts, or Mt. Herman, a concert given by a singer, but I notice and one o«l pianist; and a a voice to keep it quite low, This leads finally to our last human value, the boys and girls who atten major taught and Prominent Teacher his control of rapid thirds, and only a inspiration gained by All in all, it violinists do not play this way is the at Concord College. was a program most which is by no means useless or meaningless. It entire group whe of teaching it. devoted to the influenced the morale of the if I am right in short paragraph was camp which any camp might well be proud.” 1T wonaerwonder Conductor value of codperativeness. That a musical organization _Mlgs y M M ._ Colorado. and taught the campers returned to Bluefield. means by which they can best be to depends on the loyal cooperation of its members in the earlier stages of study. Yet it is Certainly some good fairy must have achieve success is well understood by all. Members of 1 the young student who should have the watching over you! The habit of a band all contribute to the general performance. At- been finger downwards is most careful instructions in this branch out by the di- curling the fourth a tention is needed to details pointed and per- practicable, the teacher may improvise of violin technic. A rapid passage in of the most widespread rector. Some performers are asked to subdue their pupil one accompaniment on his violin— requires a completely automatic on April 18, 1944. She was a of Lecouppey, student-faults, and rare indeed simple thirds playing, since others have something more important sistent of absorb too Savard, Marsick, and Benjamin Godard. In addi- to which, however, will probably and subconscious technical control, and Vale Chaminade be the teacher who has not had to say at that moment. Some are asked to watch the must attention or he may play tion to over two hundred piano pieces and numer- years. much of his — it is in the early stages of study that the reminded to play cer- deal with it in five baton, while other members are she wrote the ballet-symphonie, an octave above or below the pupil. The essentials of this control can most easily ous beautiful songs is difficult to overcome be- band is comparable The habit sparingly, tain notes in a certain manner. A symphonie lyrique, “Les latter expedient is good, if used be acquired. “Callirhoe”; the Ama- the early stages of study, the to a large machine with its distinctive, essential parts, cause, in other clearly and zones”; a Concertstiick for piano with orchestra; handicap for each can hear the A scale in thirds presents three sepa- small, some student is not aware of any some moving slowly, some rapidly, some hear at once when he goes difficulties: and other works. Her melodic gifts were fresh, may know that it the pupil can rate though closely allied needing more attention than others, but arising from it. He large, some out of tune. (1) the correct placing of the fingers in original, and endowed with rare charm. She might be corrected, he may even have it all functioning according to plan, each contributing should certain type of violin in- be called a master musical lapidary whose tonal playing easy pas- There is a the same position; (2) the change of finished product. in mind when he is to the realization of the structor who habitually plays in unison position on the same pair of strings; and jewels have become a permanent part of the liter- but as soon as anything occurs Truly then, we can justify the existence of music in sages, do it in order to knew her limitations attention, with his pupils. He may (3) the change of position in crossing the has been, and ature of music. She and that calls for a little extra the schools of America. Music always the lesson hour more pleasant, to strings. If these three difficulties are tried to waste her ability upon works of fourth finger—and he make the development never down will go that question will be answered in THE ETUDE always will be, a powerful factor in No the mental activity necessary in studied and mastered separately, thirds large dimensions. Like Benvenuto Cellini she rec- unconscious of the fact that unless accompanied by the full name avoid of personality personality en- will be quite and enrichment the —a address the inquirer. Only and explanation, or to give him- little real trouble to the intelli- ognized and appreciated the beautnul and embel- and of criticism need give vital and meaningful tools, to be used it has happened. or pseudonym given, will be published interest- hanced with self a little practice. It may be gent student. lished it with a skill that will give permanence to only one way for you to cor- during progress through life. Music—the universal There is i _but is it teaching? first problem can be studied as pretentious works of must make your pupil ng The the language of human emotions, the gift her creations when more rect the fault: you language, MME. CECILE CHAMINADE 3. At the commencement of a downbow as the pupil has acquired a fair ac- composers are long forgotten. She was a of that particular finger. soon Creator to mankind contributes to life itself pompous very conscious level of the — This picture is taken from a moving pic- at the frog, the elbow should be curacy and facility in the first position Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; and Queen Vic- First you must make sure that he clearly with its human values. ture film made at Tamaris, France (on with the frog; so that a line drawn from when he can play the later studies of her the Diamond Jubilee what a handicap a curled- — shores of the Mediterranean) by the toria bestowed upon understands to the the the elbow, through the wrist, Wohlfahrt, “Op. 45, Book One,” for ex- in 1897. She toured America in 1908. Her finger will be when he wants to Editor of The Etude and is believed to Medal down is approximately to knuckles of the hand, ample. He should be given exercises of be the last portrait of the composer. most popular composition, The Scurf Dance, sold play at a faster tempo. Demonstrate parallel to the floor. This is an essential the following nature in various combi- over a million copies. Her last and extremely him the impossibility of getting the fin- in the modern school of bowing, thirds firm grip, in a element nations of major and minor and ME. Cecile-(Louise-Stephanie) Chamin- beautiful composition, Romanze Apixissionata, was ger into place, with a free Music Brings Joy to the and is largely responsible for the on each pair of strings: for The eItude Music Magazine. She was a passage of rapid sixteenths. Then tell ade, virtuoso pianist and composer, was written tone-production of most modern violin- extolled that for the next two or three weeks bom at Paris, August 8, 1857 and died at valued contributor to this magazine and him M one ists. Coal Fields in Europe. you are going to concentrate on that Monte Carlo. This was reported by the Paris radio the publication repeatedly to musicians thought German school, which domi- everything else He will find that it takes some The old point to the exclusion of greater part the finger on or over the ap- nated violin playing for the except good intonation. Have him prac- to keep EMANDS from coal miners and their families shifts. nineteenth century, insisted upon difficulty propriate string while making the of the music has led recently to a strange tice only studies that have no for good invent and the low-held elbow, and seemingly made either right or left hand, us- In addition, you should and interesting quest among the mountains of for him in immobilize the upper arm D one or two simple exercises in every effort to ing the fourth finger in preference to the write out West Virginia. From many attics there are being repeatedly much as possible. I have tried in vain possible. You should which the fourth finger is as down old wood, reed, and stringed instru- open string wherever of this idea; dragged strings; as, for to find a logical explanation also write out some scales for him on used on neighboring ments, long discarded, a few of which were once A Novel Idea for Buying New Anthems books of the period instance: the authoritative Later, when these can be played accu- used in the symphony orchestras of Europe. They are the following model: saying that the content themselves with rately and without hesitation, the fol- placed in of school being repaired and the hands Ex.l Ex. 3 elbow is correct, and leave it at that. l (jeorcfe J~lo((e low lowing exercises can be introduced: children, in order that these young people may be- if Nowadays, however, most violinists real- provide the talent to keep alive come musicians and ize that a freely moving upper arm— Ex. 5 the symphony orchestra which was formed in Blue- implies a higher elbow—not only NE OF THE most serious problems our choir several sets of tickets and the names of prospective which field about three years ago. at more beautiful quality of has had to face was how to finance the pur- purchasers. He was also given several tickets priced Stubborn though the habit often is, encourages a provide music in the heart of the con- The effort to good chase of anthems. was to it but also is essential to a good O new The music budget of the fifty cents each for individual sale. His duty this kind of practice should overcome tone centering about Bluefield recently third. mining section was church allowed little mem- will trol of the bow in the lower more than the combined salaries explain to his prospect that we were inviting the within a few weeks—and your pupil the attention of the Bituminous Coal In- brought to of the organist and choir director, to the facility of an upbow is being taken to the hence if any new bers of the church to donate a complete anthem be delighted by the increased When E. E. Koepler, Chairman of the Music stitute by W. music was to be bought the or in the elbow should begin to rise as money had to be raised by choir, which would be presented in his name his left-hand technic. frog, Committee of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, a special program. For years Eac middle of the bow is passed; an annual concert had memorial. 2. No, it is not a good idea for a teacher soon as the largely responsible for organizing a campaign memory of a loved one as a living who was been given by the choir this, tone should continue to rise until, at but after the expenses had copy would In return for to play in unison with a pupil. His and it in which coal operators, educators, miners and their be inscribed accordingly. and arm been deducted there was little left for music. comph* the pupil’s, making it al- the end of the stroke, the hand The con- the choir would present to him a set of ten will dominate families are cooperating to find instruments enough gregation looked position described above. On upon these concerts as a necessary could bring most impossible for him to hear what the are in the mentary tickets to the concert so that he the ascending scale, the fourth finger be practiced, off and on, to equip children of Bluefield and Mercer County who evil, little On the first half of the stroke These should had interest in them, and consequently he is doing. And sometimes, if he is the downbow, they his family and friends. further incentive, be- latter accurately have musical talent. were never As a should be held down until a moment almost entirely from the until the second one can be a financial success. anthem giving all his attention to the pupil, he should be taken would be assured that when his fore it ..next string; legato, at a tempo of Bluefield is a city of 20,600 people. Its industries are Three years on the Sunday has to be used on the that when the middle of the played in eighths, ago we inaugurated a new idea which ih does not even hear himself! shoulder, so shipping of coal. The Pocahontas was to be sung, special notice would be made descending, it should be moved into posi- about = 60. mining and the Coal has not only packed is reached, the relative positions of J the auditorium but has added over presen e There are only two circumstances in bow center, normally church bulletin that the anthem had been tion above the next lower string as soon this time the pupil is probably fa- Field, of which it is the employs 26,000 one hundred new anthems aid the forearm, the wrist, and the hand are By to our library. Best of it may be useful: 1. As an in thirty-five per cent all by him. as it is lifted. Make sure that the pupil, which with the third position and can miners, of which about are foreign it has were at the beginning of the miliar made the congregation feel that it is concei rhythmic fault; and 2. As an as they essentially Needless the before correcting a is born or of foreign extraction, thirty-five per cent part to say, we made certain that he leaves your studio, fully un- make single-note shifts with ease. He a of the choir and gives its support. anthe encouragement to enhance the expres- stroke. thirty-five whites. was a success, the new derstands how the scales should be prac- for another series of exer- colored, and per cent native Many This is what did: musically. As soon as For these reasons, the low-held elbow nqw ready we at sion of a passage. Even in these cases it whites are “hillbilly” musicians. could be worked singing them ticed. cises. They should be given in the fol- of the native The jrixdi;, an excellent, up we began is not to be recommended, and I would . an-aecuiar concert program i not be used very often. w< worship services, proper recogni If the lad can play in the third posi- should order, and each mastered before foreign-born have brought from Europe their native arranged. This program was making sure that suggest that you remodel your own bow- lowing as diverse as possible wee ' of developing a pupil’s wit was given After a few tion, after a week or so the scales can The best means to the next: love of music. groups to please any taste. the donors in the bulletin. ing on more modern lines. If you do, you proceeding We invited a guest artist him accompanied at the members they too c0 be extended to include the shift; for ex- ear is to have The musical abilities of the various groups were be with us, who was only of the church were asking if will play with much greater ease, and Ex.7 too glad to help us and wl These piano at least every other lesson, for this not ample : united about three years ago to form the Bluefield in her own right present the choir with a new anthem. will certainly produce a more elo- was a drawing card. r * the correct pitch of you This orchestra quests were which we P not only gives him Symphony Orchestra. was made up of We then had our tickets held until the next concert, Ex. 2 quent tone. This re-vamping of your printed, twice as • also familiarizes him with wives, other employees of many sented netted twice the notes, but miners and their the coal there were available seats. on the same basis, and which bowing may require a little effort on your About two-thirds of the the harmonic foundation of the music he companies, land companies, and instructors and stu- tickets many new anthems worth it. (.Continued on Page 372) were printed as before. . part, but the results will be “COMPLIMENTARY,” and d playing. If the use of a piano is not dents in the public schools. The orchestra had seventy- sen- One of our sing to a Pa ^ is rated into sets of ten. Each choir main objectives was to , member was give e house, for we felt Continued on PaS 333 that people ( "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 332 "FORWARD MARCH WITH JUNE, 1944 MUSIC’’ the etude 3 87 ; :

Music and Study STUDY of beginning harmony can be made hope for is to hold your own he fain interesting than it usually is. Students, in the expectation that 'Vel1 more Music whenen , ones, often fail to make any and Study u V you‘ U the good mustered out you willm be 4te even able to T harmonic knowledge. This is of their for several hours a day Ce nractical use without in connection the w there is little direct between ence and thus build up both N because your m four-part, hymn-tune harmony exercise Are Piano 1 eacIters Licensed anical and your musical ech” traditional ability musical compositions which the student en- Good luck to you, and may 3® and the in Michigan? vou a^ his daily playing and listening experience. continue to find comfort ays counters in and satk- f to add tenor, alto, and soprano Approach stacti pupil may learn Simplifying the Q. Will you please tell me if the bill in playing the piano! on A or he may learn to add the providing that no person can take private above a figured bass; pupils unless certified by the State Board below a given soprano. He may even Answers three lower voices of Education was passed by the General Questions and Piano Teaching avoiding that thorn in the side of the har- Assembly at Lansing?—M. R. E. as a Career succeed in purist parallel fifths. And yet, this painfully I read monic — A. Upon receipt of your inquiry I wrote Q your Question his to Harmony and An. knowledge may not increase understand- column every month, and Wer acquired to my friend, Dr. Earl Moore, for in- Conducted by I have w of music in the least, and prob- to write you for some 1 and appreciation replies, “I haven’t information'In*'!!:' ing formation, and he eighth grade this he stimulate his creative instinct at all. year we are u‘ ably will not anything about it." Dr. Moore is career m heard books on what we g relationship between the theoretical and would uS“t This lack of Director of the School of Music of the be. I am making my book on piano £ u° is even more apparent to the instrument- ing and I would like some the practical Fdilckey University of Michigan, so he would know information*" typical L, FdaU QelirLenS Do you know of to the vocalist. Below (Ex. 1) is a Karl W- any . alist than if any such scheme were in operation. _ pamph^fc t could obtain for my book, 1 the type of material encountered by the and if so ,, u sample of Attempts at certification have been made can I get them? How i^ere next (Ex. 2) Due. many piano elementary harmony student; while the by a number of States, and if you are in- Mus. are there in the United States? ^ elementary instrumental music. teaching becoming c is typical of terested I advise you to write to Miss Edith Professor Emeritus more or less lmn™* „ This and what are are Theatre Building, “Music Notation and Terminology.” the prospects“for know that any chords, other than tonic, which Lucille Robbins, Liberty a pian° poser is guided by his feeling for rhythmic balance in something to do outside College teacher?—P. I. necessary harmonic Lincoln, Nebraska. Miss Robbins has been will give them Oberlin Ex.l needed and in introduced preceding this point of a deciding where a chord change is class, and you will need to provide A. I advise and are not part of the for some years Chairman of the Council of you to write to consonance. change are purely ornamental the Music Editor, Webster's New Mr c M alternating dissonance with set of books for sight-singing during Tremaine, following (Ex. 5) shows the appli- of State Presidents which is maintained National Bureau for four-part vocal writing is basic harmony. The Sight-Sing- the Ad The understanding of Associa- class hour. “Supplementary International Dictionary vancement of of this method. The only bad spot occurs on the by the Music Teachers National Music, Rockefeller to well-rounded musical education. But cation satisfactory book for Center essential a tion as one of its functional activities, ing Exercises,” is a New York City. tone marked (*). A new basic chord must be chosen He will probably be good voice writing is complicated and difficult—much this purpose. able and she is therefore in close touch with to supply you with some simple piano style. Hymn- at that point. familiar with free literature more difficult to teach than as certification, As your students become all sorts of matters such and also with some of the late, rather than early, scales, statistics that tune composition should come State associations, and so forth. notation you can then teach them you want. My own guess is that in a course of study in harmony. chords, and intervals—by sound, sight, piano teachers as a class are probably should first be taught to scan each meas- and keyboard. This will lead naturally not doing The pupil as well during wartime, but ure and choose a chord which fits the important tones. More Information About the into the invention of melodies, and be- that they will have a great burst of taught from the beginning that, while fore long they will be adding chords to business as He should be Dulcimer soon as the war is over. tones have also a harmonic function, their melodies. Dictation is a natural ac- Certainly the some melody interest In the fol- sight-singing, and with- in music is growing steadily, and many tones have only a melodic function. One of our readers has been kind companiment of pupil working by ear can now arrive at the fol- even in the is obviously the C A few months you will find yourself midst of war, some teachers lowing (Ex. 3) the basic harmony enough to provide us with additional in- in a lowing improvement (Ex. 6) report is merely melodic in func- formation about the dulcimer, and we teaching a course in integrated theory that they have more pupils than major chord; the D-sharp manner. By which ever and that they are able tion. are glad to add to what was said in the in the most approved to charge Ex. 6 larger fees that the main dif- July, 1943 issue the following, which is time you may find yourself making a because there is so much At first glance one might think Ex. is merely the fact quoted literally from a letter signed book of your own—if someone else hasn’t money in circulation at this time. If ference between the two examples there the second is a R.S.T.: “There are apparently two dif- done it by that time! The material sug- is a piano teachers’ association in that the first is in four parts, while accompaniment. But ferent instruments called the dulcimer. gested may be procured from the pub- your nearest large city, you might get single melody with rhythmic that. In the vocal style the D-sharp might be One is the old dulcimer which is listed lishers of The Etude. one of its officers to tell you what the there is a more significant difference than In more advanced for the in reference books. There is also the situation is basic harmony is used. harmonized by some embellishing chord, but the there. second example, only this into a little musical phrase the useful. Now, to make so-called dulcimer which was used a In practical harmony there are really two classes beginner the following basic treatment is more Can One Play Without the student need only apply some uniform rhythmic pat- number of years ago in Pennsylvania, of chords: basic, or necessary chords; and ornamental, Orch ids for the F.ditor a Fine tern to the basic chords (Ex. 7) Tennessee, Kentucky, and other localities. Middle Finger? and or embellishing chords. The composer may use only I got hold of one of these instruments rhythmic figuration for Ex. LUUiu you duviac me in ctii uisiiul- I rilmte to Presser basic harmony, depending on No Theodore sometime back, and in making an in- tion in special fingering on the piano for question will be answered in THE ETUDE or embellish the har- unless ac the necessary variety, he may girl lost the middle finger of com banted by the full name vestigation at that time I found that a who has Many times has it been my wish to ex- The and address of the inquirer. Only initials, by a judicious use of ornamental chords. right hand? I wondering espe- mony her am or pseudonym press appreciation and admiration for not Mr. John Jacob Niles, Boot Hill, Rural given, will be published. however, is apt to turn out cially about the wisdom of practicing only your scholarly answers to those seek- average harmony student, Route 7, Lexington, Kentucky, probably scales, arpeggios, and exercises with the ing kinds of chords are aged very well solutions to make things look rea- an exercise in which the two right hand as well as the left. by beginning on the sec- knows more about these instruments sonable, but that rare ability to place your hopelessly confused indeed, in which all chords are This girl is doing good work with the ond finger, as from 2-1-2 -4-1 -2-4 — than anyone else in the country. The D-flat, own personality in mutual understanding for developing a feeling for form is violin, having studied under excellent used as if they were of equal importance. The net A good exercise and so on. Or, if all black and sympathy. dulcimers made in this country were ap- notes are used piano, play a simple melody teachers for about nine years. While she result is that the student, while acquiring a certain to have the pupil, at the as from G-flat, use the same In the very earliest days of The Etude parently practically all homemade in- does not wish to specialize in piano, there fingering! in hand while the left hand strikes the as I was a small boy of seven years, and my facility in voice-leading and a certain cleverness with the right will be very definite uses for it in her from C. A few simple accompaniment patterns, such as the struments and varied considerably in de- father was principal of the high school in variety into a limited tonic chord over and over again as the phrase is being life plans. Her work, so far, has covered As you cramming a lot of harmonic pupil as models as soon strings, can see, it is necessary alway: also sang following, can be given the sign, number of and so on. The only two years on this instrument, Wilkes-Barre. Pennsylvania. He cadence, phras- tonic chord will probably sound possible but to use space, is usually lacking in feeling for played. The the fourth finger professionally i remember his seventh, and sub -dominant instrument X have is tuned in open fifths, she is making very good progress; while where the thirc and well measures. But even- as the tonic, dominant ing, unity, form. for several beats, even for several is usually used, remark: "Presser is a great man. and his balance, and discover other forms starting with A. Some of the instru- her instructor is widely read and traveled, and the fifth finger foi chord will chords are learned. The pupil can just tually a point will be reached where the tonic she seems to have no knowledge of any the fourth. In time foresight will carry on You have observation and analysis of ments, I understand, can be tuned start- the performer wil been point where of accompaniment by helpful literature on this subject.—E. L. M. cause that a part of this ideal has Tracing the Faults become unbearable to the ear. That is the easily read in fingerings, compositions. ing fifth higher, with D. However, the 4 for 3, and ; ably younger Walter simple, published a met. even as the directly traceable to the basic harmony needs to change. The pupil will A. Since there is for 4, and father, The faults mentioned above are strings on the particular instrument I no music edited espe- will undoubtedly develop con- Damrosch has carried on for his the method by which the student works—the method long for this and I have cially for cases such as this, it is up to siderable facility in playing the piano. Leopold.—B. E. G. Ex. have are too of the the teacher to solve each which he is forced to adopt by the very nature found it necessary to start with A.” problem as best hymn-tune style. The common practice is to go along, Thank you very much, R.S.T. he can. It is altogether possible to learn About Playing Trills An Army Tlandmasler Asks melody tone. to play the piano quite well In spite of note by note, choosing a chord for each this handicap. The most Q- I have great The student tries to think of several chords which important thing trouble executing trills, For Information and since entering choose the one Introductory Theory Course will be to develop sufficient flexibility of the armed Services mv contain the given tone. He then tries to SHARE YOUR Etude An trill is worse than Q. The sixteenth measure of the “Mid- thumb and wrist to get the thumb under ever. I can trill better which gives the best voice-leading with the chords Ieft hand than summer Night’s Overture has in- I writing to ask if you will be with my right. and Dream" If Q. am the fifth finger in ascending tak- immediately preceding and immediately following. passages, ha e ver practiced trigued me time, and I am so kind as to give me some advice re- S E ^ "5 trills with my for some left hand. to avoid instead of under the fourth as is usually About five years ing the liberty of stating my curiosity- some forbidden progression appears, he tries garding a textbook to be used in a class ago 1 got a Paper limitations are so book of trill the viola in Elements of Music to be given to stu- done, and to get the fifth finger studies but I never Why at that particular spot does it by making an inversion. over the got\ny- note second year of high school. r n r the speed th in the orchestral score play just one dents in the thumb in descending passages instead ^ were meant^o The final outcome of such an effort is usually an severe that it is only with diffi- of be ppiayed.raved 1T enjoy have been The course will meet five times a week, The Etude and espe- and then remain out again? We the fourth finger over the thumb. cially the Army uninteresting succession of chords a hopeless jumble and in connection with two years of Har- Questions and Answers’’ p?L using this number in one of the — very page note culty that we can print enough mony or two of Appreciation of Music, By all means, practice scales and ar- much.—E. F. bands, and the arranger gives this one in which secondary harmonies are used where primary one unit of college entrance with you will receive peggios with the right hand as well to the oboe. I studied conducting harmonies are needed; dissonance occurs at the wrong as T 111 both 0 Etude to fill the credit. The course is to include scales, key ° rapid ’y and evenlj many years ago and am coming back copies of The formation and with the left. Fingerings for scales will takestake extremeA places, rhythmically speaking; and the melodically signatures, intervals, chord nervous and my old teacher for advice.—R V. H- rhythm and meter, transposi- have to be adapted but will, in musculai unimportant as much harmonic stress demand. Make your inversion, general, control, and it notes may have fast-growing The use of piano-style, basic harmony will prove may very well be that Maurice tion, melody writing, sight-singing, dicta- follow set patterns. Finger the C major thf A. I have asked my friend as the principal tones. M. hard work you are doing more interesting to the pupil because it is more directly tion, and so forth.— C. scale 1-2-4-1 -2-4-5-1 with your righi Kessler, orchestral con- one Etude “work double” by shar- ; and so on; the C- an experienced In most practical compositions there is only practice in arm is interfering an related to his everyday needs. After much you will able to sharp major scale, with this, A. I doubt whether be 2-4-1-2-4-5-1-2, and trilling. yom ductor, for his opinion about basic chord to each measure. Often there is only one harmonies SLTifIf yov U are very it witWsome less fortunate the use of this style, the more complicated textbook that covers all the so forth. Other scales right-handed voi purpose of ing find any one will follow’ this are he states that to him the change of harmony in an entire phrase. It is not intelligently used, and probably using the nex can be correctly understood and that you want to include in your general pattern. right hand anc off the the things arm more single viola note is to start necessary that every melody tone be contained in music lover. writing can be done artistically with a than the left-which &n four-part voice There ought to be such a book, Triad arpeggios from the may b « it were, course. white keys section with “ping,” as underlying certain points the rhythm - 0 C a harmony. At proper feeling for the interplay of basic harmony the present I will apparent] but there just isn’t. For have to be fingered 1-2-4-1-2-4-1, in- y trill bet- that he logical and effective, may even though the ter withwRh thetheTftleft r thinks it demand a change of harmony with ornamental effects. have your students get stead of the usual 1-2-3-1-2-3-1, hand. Under b> suggest that you and so ditions armv con don’t think single note played melody notes change. The experienced com- it is difficult the may not “Fundamentals of Music” or forth. From black keys they to improved effec either my can be man- technic and one oboe would produce the same 335 probably the best you "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’’ car ( Page 367) JUNE, "FORWARD Continued on 1944 334 MARCH WITH MUSIC THE ETUDE Music and Study BRAVE HEROES OF BATAAN written upon first of the enemy and made unthinkable sacrifices. It is » timely bravura tribute to Americans who bore the brunt desnite the 1 section 1 ’ those on the lower staves are held with the pedal. The second lification, the notes on the upper staff being played while of the subject, should not be played like afuneral march. Grade 3|. nPrimness The Guitar and Its Tradition

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peop/e dieI not ^ ^ ^ ^ Q, plunk . plunk . plunr fhaf conno , te for play, ng or . The guitar is a string d ins, rumen,, ™ crossTreed of e ^ g in shape, except that i, is violoncello in size, and similar to them Jre between the violin and the somZh resonance It has sir sin: (of gut, large round hole in the cover for flat in floor and cover and has a h.mself to comment on ,ts fingers. The Etude has ashed Mr. Segov.a and is played by the not steeli Note. relation to modern music.—Edito* s ANDRES SEGOVIA hisforv. tradition, and uses in

^IIE TRADITION of the guitar is extremely old, «/ | and when I speak of its tradition, I mean its JL purely musical tradition. The ‘popular’ guitar, music for only the skin of the artist's sensitive finger tips! playing of folk-airs, accompaniments, bano and Alonso de Mudarra writing noble used for the guitar playing is that tone not be an exaggera- “Another difficulty of of dances and the like, bears about the same relation to this instrument. Indeed, it may development of polyphonic quality. The instrument has, of course, no pedals. The the classical tradition as the piano played in the tion to say that much of the natural poly- task of the pedals, which is to prolong tonal vibra- amusement center of some Western pioneer town instrumental music (as opposed to the from this old tions, thus making the sound more lasting and more (where traditional melodies are sung) might bear to phony of the orchestra) stems directly tradition of the binding, must be achieved entirely by the fingers. In the musical development of the piano of Beethoven guitar. And, of course, the classic more widely circulated other words, the natural tone of the guitar is one of or the clavichord of Bach. In other words, the in- guitar is much older and much ( on Page 365) with which the guitar is brief duration; the art of the Continued strument is the same, but the uses to which it is put than the lighter forms divide its history into separate and very different very often popularly associated. chapters. “The question naturally arises: “The classical guitar, then, is solely a musical in- if the guitar is so old and so musi- strument and it dates back to the oldest classic times. cal and so lovely, why is it not The name itself comes from the Greek, kithara; and better known and more widely either the guitar as we know it, or some ancestor built played? The answer is a complex along similar lines, was known since the days of one. In first place, the guitar is Pericles. It was brought into Europe by the Spanish, difficult to play well. Certainly, I who got it from the Moors. Prom Spain, it was carried realize that the same is true of all over Europe; and though it easily became popular every instrument—it is not easy to in each country it entered, the guitar has retained a produce a beautiful, balanced, ar- peculiarly Spanish cast of personality. That does not tistic effect on a violin or a piano, mean that music of other lands cannot be performed either. But apart from this general upon it; still, it seems to me that the personality of kind of difficulty, which roots into the guitar and the personality of the Spaniard have the impossibility of perfection, a a sort of predestined affinity. In my own case, I like special sort of technic must be de- to say that I formed my affection for the guitar before veloped in guitar playing. That, I was born, and came to earth only in order to find perhaps, is due to the fact that the and play it! guitar shares the nature of two instruments and requires a mastery A Tradition of Its Own of two techniques. The left hand “The real nature of the guitar is best realized when manipulates the strings, as in one understands that, in the fourteenth and fifteenth violin playing, finding its own centuries, it and the organ were the only polyphonic tonalities and producing intona- instruments known. The Greek kithara developed a tions. The right hand is responsible tradition of its own as it traveled from land to land; for the polyphonic effects, for tone the tradition of the lute, or lute-type of instrument. quality, for expression—in a word, We find Bach writing directly for the lute ( die Laute ) for sounding forth the tones that in the seventeenth century—but fully two hundred the left hand has produced and years earlier the lute-type developed in Spain as la for investing them with musical vihuela. It is this instrument, the vihuela, that is the soul and meaning besides. The direct ancestor of our present-day guitar. Indeed, the right hand, then, shares the prop- transition between the vihuela and the guitar was erties of harp playing. Thus, the almost imperceptible, both instruments being found combined techniques required for at the same time. The difference is that the older any satisfactory approach to guitar form has double strings, while the modern guitar has playing make the instrument a single strings. In rural Spain, the guitar is even now bit more difficult even than either sake of old tradition. still called la vihuela. for the of the other two alone. I may add “The earliest formal composers wrote directly for here that the guitar strings are the lute or vihuela (or guitar). In 1535 we find Don never plucked with an instrument at about the same epoch, Valderra- between soul GIRL WITH GUITAR Luis Milan and, — and sound there is From a painting by Jose Huerta 337 "FORWARD TUNE 1944 336 MARCH WITH MUSIC” THE ETUDf a

PASO ARROGANTE dancing at a court function. The * ”1 suggestsano-crpsts hid'hidalgos rhvthm steps > anandd Pasom usu urrugurutiarrogante, reunyreally meansiiicuus “arrogantarruguin uuuwdance” uror more literally,literally,'“arrogantarrogant ^ ^ splendidly marke . ra should be strictly obtained, without being rigid. The Spanish flavor is FRANCISCA VALLEJO

GAY HUMMING BIRD to sound as much as possible like note must be clear, but the long phrases must be made Here is a tine test of your speed and articulation. Every ime. , pianissimo passage until it is like a breath ot spring the little prismatic, winged beauty in flight. Work with the C. FRANZ KOEHLER As fast as you can play it — —« — — — - — J T— —

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Prelude in G Major, Dp. 28, No. 3

jyu 'Jrederic Giopin

he FAMILIAR G Major Prelude a) r-^- makes an excellent foil for the F ^ — ffTT Major Prelude presented in the 18 8 « 1 T 8 3 £ 8 3 V Etude. The wise student will study April 1 § the Major’s both at the same time, for G gaily in the sunshine, left hand, spinning balance wheel for the softly is an ideal purring right hand of No. 23. Like the F Major Prelude, the G Major should be thoroughly practiced with separate hands. Don’t make the common mistake of neglecting the right hand, for left must be it sets the pace for the and taught to sing richly and ardently, yet leisurely. Just for fun, try playing this right hand with simple “tango” accom- pattern: paniment, and you will quickly sense its Also in “off beats” to smooth out warm, carefree, Latin flavor, thus:

Finally play in “perpetual motion,” avoiding all accents except at the turn of each measure’s wheel, where the E and D are stressed sharply to give fresh, whirling emphasis, thus:

. even Ever find yourself not-the-best company . . maybe business on the blue side, jittery? War-time worries, problems? Then you should know about the best pick- the up in the world, one that never lets you down! It’s directions must be followed The above yourself. thrill and satisfaction of creating music also in practicing Measures 28-31, right hand alone, and hands together. Be sure ritard in modern, to make a short but convincing Perhaps you wonder how you ful organ tones pattern and diminuendo as this unison styled to fit into can play beautiful music if, compact form, spins off into the air (Measure 31). others, you have your living room no matter Play the first of the two final chords like many sharply Because the mezzo forte and in time, like had no training, or have “let what its size. then immediately plucked harp strings; musicgo.” Here’s the an- Hammond Organ creates ’ chord your start arpeggiating the last “echo music, as you musical tones the marvelous very slowly and softly, thus: swer! Organ Chopin has inserted many rests during orchestra-rich, vivid- electronic way, it requires a these Ex.5 know, is the progress of the melody ; to play four feet square. separate articulations without loss of ly expressive, dramatic. Well, space only line, touches Organs aren’t use some such contrasting it’s those very qualities of the Hammond as are indicated above. Note the sugges- we organ which, even in the hands available now, of course, tions for dynamics which I have made. are busy with war work. But And have you noticed those triple-dotted of an amateur, make the sim- try this fine half notes? Rare, aren’t they? Can you plest music rich and satisfy- you can hear and “figure ’em out?” . . many vibrant, sustained instrument now . Meas- ing. The Emphasize the contrast between Prelude, re- soft pedal often in the beau- Hammond dealers have ures 16-19, (.forte) and Measures 20-26 Use notes of the organ make pedal very sparingly—since purpose. (piano) brief poco ritard is but damper to play. served one for this .... A work lies be- tiful music easy im- practically all the passage recommended in Measure 25, with an advise Come on, try it —and plan for C. For best results I Also, the Hammond Organ mediate a tempo in Measure 26. low middle your foot-work to brief touches rich, color- yours when Victory is won. Here are a few pointers for that diffi- confining brings you these pedal on the first and third cult left hand: of damper measure. . . . If m Keep quiet quarters of each hand and arm completely hke times, monthly magazine about organ music for the about pedal in compositions Free—Write for your subscription to hammond at all times; as much doubt 18, Illinois curve finger tips than Instrument Company, 2929 N. Western Ave., Chicago Prelude, always use less rather home. Hammond as possible: avoid the “trick” fingerings this given in some editions; if you prefer, use and sparkle below; soft fourth finger (seventh note of Sunshine on G above; such is measure) laughter, cool fragrance ORGAN instead of fifth. Practice in the HAMMOND of the G Major Prelude. following fast impulses: the mood * * * * MORE THAN 1000 HAMMOND ORGANS ARE there w ill be jw war.” When music and courtesy are better understood, DOING WAR DUTY WITH THE ARMY, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS —Confucius (551-478 B. C.) 35 7 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’’ JUNE, 1944 ! ! ! ” ?

the to be away from the pedal clavier vious exercise. We also sense G would be helpful also. These Let Us Sing in English! played with the left foot before we de- would be compara- .. the left tively simple for the student press it. We depress the G with to work of sensing the out for himself, but a few (i foot and we are conscious suggestions TEACHERS! Continued from Page 326) Voice Olestiuns PIANO F and G with the right; then we play may be of assistance. m 1. on chair, the G. This gives us somewhat this im- Sit a with both feet the sense on (which is what the listener And you’d the floor in a natural position. say those words normally. : wants pression Keeping to find out about) at the same heel the floor, But if you use them in singing, the the on raise the toe DRILLS Ex. 5 as SPEED «) time that it follows the musical line with possible chances are you’d say ‘Motherrrr’—or high as and replace it. Do JntwcrJ ip DR. NICHOLAS DOUTY strictest this accuracy, it can happen that eight or ten times with ‘Our Farrtherr, Who art in Heavvennn,’ the right toe- a word which occupies one eighth-note for Teaching Beginners believing this to be good diction. It is then proceed in the same manner in the original, with needs two sixteenths in left toe; then not! It is one of those artificial exagger- the with both toes. questions will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full name the translation, but that in let take the last measure we no wise dis- Now us in initials, Sight Reading ations that makes English unpleasant to 2. Proceed the same manner with and address of the inquirer. Only or pseudonym given, will be published. turbs musical line or three forms: accent. played, in the following heel, keeping hear in singing. It isn’t the fault of the the the toe on the floor (right foot, then left, then both). Cards, Keyboard Finder and English language Complete Set of 32 Can Be Beautiful 3. Combine both Instructions — Only 50^ “I once corrected the ‘Heav-venn’ error these exercises by al- Book of “Finally, then, the singer ternately raising and lowering who gets a by advising the young singer to accent the heel Drill No. 1 Upper Lip use of the voice is a special one. almost im- chance to sing in English and the toe. Singer With a Contracted For stressing visual and provides the first syllable and then to add an in- possible to be learned by reading books and easily and quickly learned by tiny tots, Can you give me an answer to my in- SIGHT-PLAYING accuracy himself with adequate and musical trans- significant 4. Thdke three exercises now may Q listening to singers alone. You should become these Speed Drill Caras. ‘vun’ as second syllable; but be problem? I draw my upper lip down or beginners of any age, with In Part “A” the left foot finds the A dividual lations, must learn how to sing in done in a standing position. It Also I cannot get acquainted with an experienced singing teach- quicker for class or individual English I was met with the objection, ‘But you will be and tighten it when I sing. Makes teaching easier and I by first finding the B, which is now low and lower er who will personally demonstrate to you have heard it said that English is a don’t found that the weight of the body on loud tone on my medium instruction. say Hea-VUN’! No, of course you a how to control the breath, how to form vow- easy to do, since it is to the left of the without forcing. I do not open my ‘hard’ or ‘ugly’ language in which to sing. the feet will make the exercises tones don’t. Because you touch the final sylla- more singers. Do you think els and consonants, how to focus your voice, of 32 cards with in the previous exercise. Going from mouth as ivide as some EASY TO USE— Speed Drills consist This is far from true. With its rich C difficult; also, we shall hardly and all the other things necessary to success in- ble easily, lightly, unaccentedly, whether be able would be better if I dropped my lower jaw easy-to-follow instructions for their use. On the to the with the left foot in- it all complete and heritance of both Latin A E to raise the toe as high as as a singer. This will be a long and not at cor- and Saxon ele- you say or sing it. we did in more —D. H. of the note on the staff which The young student an easy process, and you must persevere in it each card is a picture volves no new action; going from the sitting ments, it can be as lovely as either of its the position. the key on the piano keyboard. Thus, innocently enough misunderstood my ad- creep into for years. If your tones are all of good quality responds with C-sharp to the E with the right foot A. Little errors of production the written ancestors—provided it is treated 5. Another very good exercise is your range is long enough. A knowledge of student learns through his eyes, rather than with vice through the common failing of over- to singing unobserved. Usually when one’s the might be done in either of the following one’s Italian will enable you to sing in and position of each note. Drill No. 2 the same dignity and care that stand with arms either at the side, ex- called to them the remedy sug- French and or spoken word, the location the sing- emphasizing the thing you concentrate attention is For instant recognition ways (the small notes, as before, repre- Watch the those languages earlier than other students of ing student bestows tended horizontally on a level with itself. Sing before a mirror of keyboard positions upon his Italian or upon. No one should sing the gests Singing in choruses will improve Speed Drills are an advanced ‘Hea-VUN!’ senting the pedal keys sensed but not and see that you do not pull it your age. AN ADVANCED STEP— German texts shoulders, or extended upward. upper lip Neither should he sing On the sound thin your feeling for ensemble, but it should not aiding the student to quickly identify the note on ‘Heav-vennn.’ He played). The toes only are employed: down. If you do. the tone will step in “For one thing, count of "one,” rise up on the toes, be indulged in too much until you have a piano. These handy cards English vowels must be should begin by saying the word, quite and contracted. the staff with the key on the bringing the heels yourself well-defined understanding of the fundamen- keyboard posi- pronounced clearly and correctly. from the floor. On 2. If you had told us more about stress visual accuracy, recognition of the This naturally. If he pronounces it the use of the voice. Make correctly been better able to help you. tal technique of and muscular is not always simple, count "two,” bend the knees, allowing the we might have tions, producing rapid visual, mental because many he will find it haste slowly and avoid the Big Tone until you to sound like ‘Hea-\un Are you soprano or contralto, and what is vowels body to sink. On count “three,” straighten are several years older, and, to use your own coordination. in English (nearly all, in fact!) (or Hea-v’n the natural range of your voice? ) , the second syllable said your age and the knees, bringing expression, your voice is “fully developed,” tend to become dipthongs. We do not the body upward, As you descend the scale it seems as if you do vivid mental pictures. This very lightly indeed. If he transposes is not at present. Your THE LARGE NOTES make this with sufficient firm- which it certainly say the clear a-a-a and on count “four,” lower the heels. not approximate thi cords all ... children like Speed that one finds in natural will tell you how much time to give feature is important, but best of sound into his singing, his dic- Of the two ways, I prefer the former, Therefore, the tone becomes weaker and teacher French, While this is primarily an exercise for ness. much to songs. should be used at the first lesson, and the Drill No. 3 German, or Italian; we trail off tion will breathy. Your teacher to exercises and how Drills. They improve—and his hearers will as it is in the scale of A. However, there probably somewhat stressing rapidity strengthening the knees, it will a set for daily home practice. For into a faint a-a-a-e-e. Thus, in casual be found explain this fully to you. pupil should have have the pleasure of listening to natural, is no hard and fast rule as should playing the keys to which keys very useful also in fixed position for or Classical Latin? speech, late becomes laaeet. In singing, strengthening the 3. There should not be a The Question 0f Church a re- pleasing English! one senses in passing “Seven SIGHT-PLAYING is becoming more and more of from white keys ankles. the jaw or any of the muscles concerned in Q. Having recently heard Dubois’ however, it must not! The ‘art’ is students at the very start, should to “We need to black, or from black and consonant formation. They should Last Words” performed in Latin, I was re- quirement of pianists, and to sing in English, there’s no to white. One undesirable vowel foundation minimize the slight introduction tendency in pedal to the question pronunciation. Is to attain it. Speed Drills will lay the of the question Part “B’’ could be done thus: assume the position most comfortable minded of the of be trained about that! If real, deep-rooted, playing, especially Venite instead ee sound, and to the playing of rapid production of the vowel sound you are sing- it correct, for instance, to sing for proficient sight playing. bring out the consonant personal interest in, and love for, vocal passages with should be thoroughly explained Wenite, or to say Cruchifige instead of directly after aa. alternate toes, is to make ing. This, too, of the The vowels, how- Ex.8 spelled “ Crucifige ”? Drills may be obtained music is to continue, it must grow out the entire thigh to you by your teacher. Krukifigay, the word being GET YOURS TODAY — Speed ever, never offer the move from the hip Latin differ- pub- difficulty of the of audience When are the sounds of modern from your local music dealer, or send direct to us, the enjoyment—and nobody can joint. To obviate this, consonants in let the student Fixed or the ent from those of classical Latin?—J. O. with instructions, only 50c. word endings! As a rule, get Getting a Job in Radio, the lishers. Complete set of 32 cards full pleasure from something that he take an exercise like the “First Pedal English-speaking singers (this is Movable DO No. espe- only half of Drill 4 understands! By demanding Study,” by Yon, or the one to ob- If you were to sing a setting of one cially true of following: Q. What are the possibilities for A. For stressing rapid vis- students) tend to sing their singing or a portion of Caesar's City Mo. in English, our audiences can The ieft foot simply passes over the tain choral work here in New York, in radio the “Odes” of Horace JENKINS MUSIC COMPANY, Kansas 6, ual, mental and muscu- native tongue War,” it would very differently from the I had three years’ voice “Commentaries on the Gallic lar coordination promote great good to the cause of intervenii. g black key. Following is Ex. 10 or in church ? have music. a correct to pronounce all the way they speak it. Suppose you opened training and sight-singing, seven years’ piano, be consistent and And the singer himself can help the method of playing Part “C”: manner. Caesar's famous the door and a course in theory. words in the classic and found your soldier-brother cause by singing so clearly would be pronounced and beauti- 2. What is the better method of sight-sing- message to the Romans there, home on a furlough. You’d call fully Weekee,” even though in English, that the demand to hear Ex.9 ing, the stationary or the movable Do?—M. T. “Waynee, Weenie, EMSUT S. DEAN FINNEY “Veni, Vidi. Viki.’ The ter- out, ‘Heavens! Mother, Father—come!’ it will increase!’’ it is spelled presents popular in Rome would This he should practice at a quite slow A. In every great city there are many man- rible punishment so criminals and not to TWO NEW SONGS tempo agers who specialize in finding positions for have been to “krukify” IN VOLK EVE,” at first, trying to sense the mo- by the twelfth or thir- “A SMILE aspiring young singers with voice, talent, and “crucify” them*. But I HOLD VOL” al- and “MAY We build, strengthen the vocal organs- tion of the ankle joint rather than the century, A. D., Latin had become ARRANGEMENTS sound. sci- personality. Any of the great music publishers teenth WITH PIANO not with singing lessons—but by _ Enough examples exercise- . now have been given language, and its hard sounds 15c each postpaid entifically correct silent and vocal whole thigh. This sensation can be will be able to give you such a list. Write for most a dead guarantee complete satisfaction French, Ital- dealer or send direct to and absolutely no to show how to proceed from white key see softened in its derivatives, Ask your with results. Write for Voice Book, FREE. Sent to helped at first on an audition with one or two of them and were parent. by placing a hand others. There- FINNEY one under 17 years old unless signed by . to white key, ian, Spanish. Roumanian, and EMMIT S. DEAN from black key to white what luck you have. SANDY, TEX. PERFECT VOICE INSTITUTE. Studio 558-A.B4 E. Lake St. .CHICAGO 1 each thigh and trying to keep the thighs present custom to sing the lit- BOX 8o4 BIG key, and from 2. The question of the fixed or the movable fore it is the “Oh, Those Pedals!’ white key to black key. from even the words of the moving. He should be very careful, Do is authorities. urgy of the church, In the latter in dispute among many before instances, the method is using the soft sound of C and G however, not to make any of these mus- Make yourself a good musician and you will Mass, sound the same for I, and preserving the Loving Friends about THE ETUDE and ask them to give both feet. have no trouble in reading music. the vowels E and Tell your Music ( Continued from Page 329) cles tense; relaxation of the pedal-play- into W. Thus one It will be instead of turning it you the privilege of sending in their subscriptions. found that these passages ing SV Maria and Venite, mechanism is just as important as sings Ave Maria, not Awe , are perhaps more difficult than The Baritone Voice Once More Latin often takes Ask for Catalog of Rewards for subscriptions you send those that of the playing for the not Wenite. “GN” in church found at mechanism Q. I am seventeen, but owing to office work English Ny, tervening the beginning of most instruc- Italian sound similar to the ETUDE 1712 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. pedals. In this way, one counts with both feet piano, which is in a munitions plant I not have much time the THE as written. While the right tion books stressed so much these do becoming Anyus Dei. These sounds pedals for the organ. These to with Agnus Dei rather than measures distances foot remains over the C, prin- days. The be practice, although I occupy myself pleasant to listen to, the left foot ciples, tempo gradually should are easier to sing, more subconsciously, the foot however, can be applied to the chorus work in operas and in church. I have sounds modem moving lightly is playing the first note; then, while increased during the period, and are nearer to similar m the exercises in practice had no training in singing, but I have had and pro- and rapidly. any good organ “method” classicists and the college right foot plays its C, the left senses also in the course practice quite piano, theory, tongues. The Masterpieces of Piano Music the or beginner’s of several a complete grounding in like the he ^en they In the examples given in the foregoing, book, such as “Graded and fessors may rave, but, intervening pedals as before until it periods. In other words, it would be orchestration. Aided by a knowledge of will point to the Materials for the Pipe rave in vain. The singers has been termed the library of Piano the time values of the small notes are Organ,” by James French and Italian. I would like to know the under reaches its next note; then, of course, better not to try to regular figure of Arturo Toscamm H. Rogers, or take the best the lim- commanding Music in one volume. The more than only approximate. “The Organ,” by Sir John manner to practice singing with all the words of The speed with which the right foot releases its at tempo at the first whose masterful direction C the in- Stainer. period, but to grow up ited time I have at my disposal, an hour or they were 200 selections by great composers con- we pass over the intermediate are pronounced as if pedals stant the left foot is depressed, to it. two a day. low to the liturgy and so So far, we My range lies from the G tained in its 536 pages, comprise 53 should be consistent have made use only of two Italian. with the ability to on through the exercise. the Notice octaves above, although I can include a Classic, 75 Modern, 38 Light, 25 Sacred toe of each foot in that the foregoing paragraph sense them consciously. the working out of top A. I should like the best procedure for May we again Let us take a passage in which both refers to playing only the use of and 29 Operatic Compositions. This vol- our exercises. Of course, with exercises with an estimate how much time called observe that this speed is increased feet we know that of ^ Q° RecenttyT'discouCTed a little song of move: the toes. The up of the to pieces. ume is truly a source constant enjoy- the heel is used and down motion spend in preparation before studying Pontet, published by the with practice? almost as much as for Tat by Henry entertainment to the pianist the heel, on the 2. At approximately age can it be said Tit to ment and toe in pedal playing. other hand, can hardly be what Company. I am interested This plan may be followed It is used chiefly that the developed? Oliver Ditson who delights in good music. through Ex. made, without thigh. baritone voice is fully about the composer of this 4 . however, in some motion of the know something the exercise (Ex. connection with the toe —F. A. C. nothing m For sale at your favorite music counter or sent 1), taking the notes of Nevertheless, little song but could find, the same foot, it is well to try to sense charming are POSTPAID upon receipt of price. Money re- in pairs at first; either preceding Four others of his songs that is, from C to E, it or as the local library. funded if volume does not meet with your ap- following much motion of the ankle joint as A. The second question is the more im- Tit for Tat. it. In this cover of the copy of Illustrated E to G, and to C; then, with the case the toe is listed on the proval (NOT SOLD IN CANADA). G possible, portant, so we answer it first. There is no some in- usually—but not even when playing alternate be kind enough to give me folder with contents cheerfully sent upon right foot, starting with the fifth always—on a black approximate baritone voice Will you meas- Here, again, both feet should key heel and toe in age at which the this composer?—Mrs. E. H. request. be placed A notable exception with the same foot, as (or formation about ure, from to D, to to this rule is any other voice) may be said to be fully B D G, and G down in position at the same time, found the Nilson and the m the Bach studies. developed. It all depends upon the individual. MUMIL PUBLISHING CO., INC. to B in the last instance passing Toccata in F, which Pontet, the composer of quite a — four gaps will help. Now let us will be It is said At seventeen well A Henry 1140 Broadway, New York, N. Y. get the habit shown later. that “there is nothing new some boys are young men, songs, was bom in pedals. After this, first This gives rise to of popular Irish the four measures of sensing a note the ne- under developed mentally and physically. Others, on number Enclosed find $ for which send post- ahead. That is, while cessity of the sun.” Perhaps some of our in 1835. After a successful acquiring strength the Ireland of Piano Music. should be taken with the left foot alone, the left and flex- contrary, are still adolescent, with weak Sin, 1902. paid Masterpieces foot plays the C, we are con- ibility advanced players foregoing died in London, England m of the ankle who read the voices yourself career, he Paper ( ) Cloth straight through, and the last four joint. and slender bodies. Examine published under ( ) with scious of sensing the E with the suggestions of his compositions are right For work on the think that they have used and see to which class you belong before you Some notably a the right foot alone in the same manner, pedal clavier I name of N. Piccolomimi, Name — toe. Let us play the E, and while doing know them many times. start serious study. the pen of no better exercises The ideas have come entitled Ora pro Nobis. Perhaps always sensing the in than the 2. sacred song pedals between. so we are conscious of passing second to You are unusually well prepared mu- the charm- S treet — — the B “ me in my work of playing and teach- most famous of his songs are 6 h StUdieS sically. Few boys of your age have grounded the Now the whole exercise may be played and A with the left in Peda l ing, Tit for Tat, and the foot, as in the pre- ’ and I pass oneunc you mention, Citv & State. liningPlaying, tby L.r °t\Nilson. them along for what they themselves in piano, orchestration, ing , rp ho Ttmlcpn Some exercises theory, and (.Continued on Page 360) and all these things will be very useful to you 358 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC your later life. However, the study of the THE ETUDE "FORW'ARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” 359 JUNE, 1944 ,— — — ”

.. — sung at will, a fine text will never be Tone, the (Trufthinq juhje. One, CLASSIFIED ADS Glory of a colorlessly sung. J&ejfote. signifi- IMPORTANT TO The conductor must know the ETUDE READERS Organ and UUESTIdif "FINGER EXERCISER and DEVELOPER singer must un- M b &si “MAGIC text, the ;,i n Fine Chorus cance of the No Special ; SALE: Used Vocalion, Offers NOW Two Manual derstand it, feel it, and then express it. Chapel Style, Reed Organ with Clavier, eC ! c J er and Decorative If he has nothing to say he should not The publishers of , S,yT Pipes. THE ETUDE is the only BoxR„ KCA c/oP THE ( Continued from Page 330) regretfu|| This appliance ETUDE be inflicted on the public. Only through v announce that for reasons beyond meaning of the their developer that can be used sincerity can the real control there will be no POlt SALE: Hendrich Jacobez, Amster- special Introduc ^4mu>ereJ Ly HENRY S. FRY, Mus. Doc. 1 V 1 I,n he relieves the tension by blending into text be released and reach and touch of- Wr te West skie Music tory or Trial Offer (three Issues on your own piano and House,Hon!.i 328? 9 e B « 5 c! A for 35J) Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. a lighter quality. the listener. this year; nor will there be the usual fers a distinct advantage Most dynamics are variances in amount An- „*'#« SALE: STEINWAY niversary Offer at this time. No questions will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full CONCERT of tone. The crescendo and diminuendo over other methods featur- ABSOLUTELY LIKE NEW. SUB- This decision has been name and address of the inquirer. Only initials, or pseudonym given, will be pub- reached of neces- fT/NTIAL DISCOUNT. Joseph Holstad, may be short—of a few bars’ duration in fairness to all friends 337 sity lished. Naturally, and advertisers, we can express no opinions key- Oak Grove, Minneapolis, Minn. because governmental restrictions ing resistance from a or built up slowly through a long phrase on as to the relative qualities of various organs. “Oh, Those Pedals!" paper consumption make it elastic resist- WANTED: or section. All crescendos must be built impossible board. The Hammond Organ or Orga- for us to take on such an tro.n. state model, up by action of increased call serial number, age, con- the breath. Be sure the 0Continued from Page 358) the hand (see dition and price in first letter. for copies as special offers ance ABOVE Address rib cage and waist are well expanded would create. to the Chaplain, U. S. Naval Air Station, at This cut) immediately improves Ottumwa, Iowa. all times, the control of the dynamic situation, created by the are worth. To show their usefulness in paper coming largely from the shortage as a result of the lightness, abdominal War, is be- the touch, giving SINGING MADE EASY—Book one pedal passages from organ compositions dol- muscles. coming steadily more critical. lar. Eastern Studios, Chambersburg, of Thus tar “All Men Must Die,” by tween the keys ease Pa. How an advanced grade of difficulty, I Q. In the Choral, and pallet of an organ, but speed, brilliancy and often do choirs and soloists sing we have not found it necessary Beginners in the invention submit the following examples. The first to accept Bach, as published in “ Bach for of the electro-pneumatic lever entire ' CORRECTLY programs with the same tonal regular subscriptions on a Playing. is only the melody carried must be ascribed to Barker.” Barker installed in playing. MADE VIOLINS have per- is preferential Organ fect tone without age; from the Bach Toccata in F: sixteenth notes electric synchronizing color, a procedure as unsatisfactory and basis. However, as a solo, the eighth and action in the Church of St. Augustin, THE MAGIC DEVELOPER proves this through the aid we may soon be forced of electrical written on the treble clef being played with Paris, in 1867. According to Grove’s “Diction- devices. Malconstructed instruments disappointing as an entire painting or to this extremity and, cor- we therefore sug- hand together with those on the bass ary of Music and Musicians,” Barker’s English rected. V. L. Schwenk, Richmond, Illinois exhibition the left done in drab gray which gest to our right hand sustain the melody patents for introducing the electric "It really performs miracles — ETUDE friends, who have clef, or does the system Many Users have said: would be meaningless playing the eighth and sixteenth were taken out in January 1868, which is the and uninteresting! perhaps been waiting for notes while MUSIC WRITTEN TO YVORDS; classic, these special "\ already Tonal notes at the same time?—O. L. same year that Hilboume Lewis Roosevelt have only used it two weeks and popular or sacred. For particulars write color comes only through the offers, that they send in their subscrip- patented the electric action in this country. the results are marvelous.”—Bloomington, III. Dortha Goode Peters, 2202 S. Calhoun, feeling and imagination i ort of the singer tions at the regular rates Choral Prelude, ‘‘All Men Must Die.” Grove states that Hope-Jones’s electro-pneu- Wayne, Ind. without delay. A. The "Your Magic Finger Developer is superb. I aided by the conductor. If the singer you refer, may be played on another matic organs were usually provided with has (The regular subscription price to which am very pleased at the progress I am mak- of $2.50 Double Touch, and are of the opinion that neither, he still may sing, but will The small notes show the pedal keys manual as a solo, or on the same manual, in we ing.”—Madison, N. Y. never per year or $4.00 for two which years.) Orders which case the accompanying notes can be Hope-Jones is credited with the finding of that express any real meaning. If are sensed; again, the time-value ”lt truly is magic, having performed miracles these qual- will be filled Touch. also believe that Hope- as promptly as possible, played with whichever hand is most con- Second We ities are absent in the conductor, notation of these is only approximate. for my playing. Everybody is amazed and IMPROVE YOUR he may contingent upon venient. We have played the number from Jones is responsible for the introduction of the PLAYING Notice our ability to supply surprised at the speed with which I can play be a good technician or workman, but that the left foot senses the C “The Liturgical Year” (Edited by Riemen- present form of stop-key, although other forms copies. The understanding scales, arpeggios, double notes and oc- cooperation of stop-keys were used in this country prior . Finger Rings for all fingers and will never inspire his group. at the very beginning. This passage is schneider) which, in the reading matter, sug- All singing taves.”—Wheeling, W. Va. readily of ETUDE subscribers will help melody being played as a solo on a to the coming of Hope-Jones. We do not know thumb with attached elastic is an expression of also a good study for alternate toes, greatly in gests the emotion and the tone al- who introduced the heavy tremulant in this ”1 really am sold on the Finger Developer. hooked on wrist strap. d , 0 our effort to serve the best different manual. Qulcl1 resu ‘ ,s effort color employed though opinions differ as interests of of the fin- SffiSSd°'ne ^ S "V must coordinate with the to whether or country, but according to Grove’s work, “the It is excellent for the development D ranlOUS ‘ P anists ' tcachera “nd a“iden;s. the musical public in (adjustable), to which No obhga$L not it these trying tremulant is happily much less in vogue in gers and I will continue to use it religously.” . Wrist Strap meaning of the text. should be played in that manner. days. I am a sixteen-year-old boy and started Broadwell Q elastics Studios, Dept. 64-F Covina, this country (England) than on the continent, — Steubenville, Ohio. ^ arm elastic and finger ring California Qualities the Another passage is from the THE ETUDE is on outstanding taking piano lessons eight years ago. As we B of text: What are some opening musical think attached. in the country, I have been taking les- where its abuse is simply offensive.” We ”1 am very happy to have the Magic Finger are of the qualities of the Finale in bargain at the live or emotions in the texts B-flat by Cesar Franck: regular price and its pub- that Hope-Jones was at one time connected sons only when convenient, there being no Developer and from the few times I tried the Elastic with adjustment to per- of a well-planned program? lishers will continue- pipe or- with The Wurlitzer Company, mentioned in to Arm There may to provide for its music teacher near I want to study exerciser I can see that it is going be a ^ LEARN ^ mit the proper tension. "SWING" MUSIC be joy, reverence, host of gan. I can get the lessons, but have only a your inquiry. great benefit to me.”— New York City. C C Se sublimity, worship, awe, loyal readers the exceptional ?5n 5rSSemS,|‘„Y^o?? reed for practice. Would it be possible dignity, hatred, anger, value in organ embe'lishmenta^OgTjraUo^is^blue rtot^s^whol^tonef. fear, revenge’ sor- the many inspiring editorial a thirty-year-old reed etc.' to accomplish much if I could secure a two- Q. Our church has row, gaiety, tenderness, love; features and pedal made by Duets, the love of and the fascinating or without pedals organ with two manuals trios, quartettes and ensembles—special choruses musical manual reed organ with modulating to other the mother Company, which is evidently no beys—suspensions—anticipations for her child, the love of the compositions, that has that would not require electricity? the NOTE CORRECT You Need A "Magic'' made it the Why intS—C°I<>r effects—swingy backgrounds— existence. The organ is in need of Writ^today Heavenly Father for His longer in own, idyllic love, world's leading musical it of publication for would repairs and it is also necessary that be POSITION ARMS ELMER B. FUCHS unrequited love (as in A. A reed organ without pedals playing at once—Saving 335 East 19th St. many madrigals) 41 yeors. pumped by hand. The committee would like 1. It will improve your Brooklyn 26, N. Y. scarcely produce satisfactory results in pipe and FINGERS pastoral simplicity, the force the opinion of some representative of a com- and beauty organ study. It is possible to secure a two- time. the organ so that of nature, and many others. manual reed organ where electricity would pany, who might examine addition a not pedal prac- we may ascertain whether the of The Only Finger De- It is frequently difficult be required, but the resultant possibilities in the technical for the singer motor and the making of the repairs would be 2. Opens up new to tice would not be satisfactory without power PIANO TEACHERS! express his emotions, or This involves the use of both warranted. Can you suggest means to secure veloper that produces rather re- heel and of some kind. Our suggestion is that you try field that usually only artists attain. toe in ? lease them, at will. The passing from one key to not re- the information desired G. M. F. DO YOU EARN $5,000 following pro- to another Schools— secure a pedal piano, which would "Resistance" from YEARLY? cedure is helpful: with the same foot. Colleges quire power, and on which you could secure On the vowel oh or That is, in' going You are undoubtedly right in assuming idea is a basic patent never used You should ... if not, ah, A. 3. The Magic write us at once. sing from pedal practice. We are sending you informa- mention is no longer in ABOVE the hand and the scale of C, either ascending the F to the D with the left that the firm you Get in the BIG or foot, tion as to available instruments by mail. MONEY teaching popu- descending we pass existence. We are sending you information by until recent years. lar music (swing). or both. Ask the choir to ex- and sense the E-natural and the strengthens the fin- Have your own school. mail which may lead to your securing the press in their D with the toe, happen to be c^ANAUGH p,ANO tone the reverence and then change to the heel CONVERSE COLLEGE Q. How did the pipe organ information you wish. . schools iJxrnat Bacon, "3R gers musically with Price $10-00 475 Fifth Avenue exaltation In passing Dean, Spartans burg 8. C. used in the service the Church? Can you New York 17, N. Y. they think should be expressed from the D to the F at the of in end of tell me something of the origin of the pipe enclosing the suggested specifica- improved tone effect. a song sung before the very this measure, the toe will Q. I am throne sense organ? Did the popular theater organ, elec- is thinking ORDER EARLY! SUPPLY LIMITED of God. the E-natural and tions of a pipe organ our church the F, it being prac- KNOX Department of Music tric action, second touch, circular console, and church building seats about Galesburg, Illinois of installing. Our CARNEGIE Next, sing it tically in position heavy tremolos originate in the United is three the Magic Finger Developer by actual test. HALL 1st Performance to express great anger; for the E-natural, James MacC. Weddell. Chairman here three hundred. The cost of the organ A 3-day trial offer lets you prove COLLEGE States? responsible then fear, joy, while the heel depresses Catalogue sent upon request. I know that Wurlitzer is dollars, and the chimes four hundred by Maria Safonoff, April sorrow, tenderness, hatred, the D. A little’ thousand 10, 1944 for much of the progress of the theater organ. changes, if any, gaiety, love, study of this position and twenty-five dollars. What and so on. if undirected’ will make it easily What Manufactured and Sold by GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK, Gr. l-40d year did all this take place?—C. C. would you suggest, and do you think the price the group will almost without understood. CONSERVATORY KHAZAN DANCE, Gr. 3-4-60d exception OF MUSIC all right? A. C. S. evidence considerable Wada E. Miller, Pres- A. We shall endeavor to give you general in- Both piano solos by capacity for color- CHAS. T. MARSH. Ltd. Vladimir Heifetz formation In suggests a unified in- Order ful singing and tempo adjustment. „ Courses leading to in answer to your questions. A. Your specification from Theodore Presser us" and B. literature VANCOUVER, D. C. f CAN. Co. , Mus. Ed. degrees. Bates “The Organ its Lahee, we sets of pipes, including a 895 E. 64th AYE. Send for free , t and Masters” by of seven In some e rument dramatic studios ' 1“ the heart find: the numerals v»i£5 ri the Shenandoah “The next point of general historical in- Pedal stop. We will make suggestions Biographical Note valley, Dayton, Virginia. Durdon “one,” “two,” and so forth terest is the time at which the organ was first specification, which does not indicate are used in ; to the used in public and this is Great Fifteenth. A Twelfth, the same manner instead of comP°ser, religious services, ie source of the a vowel This teacher—Dr. Hollo T Break Bulletins said to have been in the time of Pope Vitalian 2/3' might be included in the Great manual, Our Monthly is good practice b th ere and abr“ original arrange- BUY WAR BONDS AND and enables the ad I., about small but bring you BUY WAR BONDS AND singer a°t tl; A. D. 666, though there are indica- Swell organ, we suggest a e co„so.e s t the ments for building up extra to release his emotions f°r tions that a Violin Diapason, PIANISTS! readily, even WS many ™-P°sl'tions A United it was used in this manner some -ight Cornopean and tioruses of popular hit-tunes with novel breaks, tricky STAMPS FOR rn„ t Nations Piano two effects, riding the melody, VICTORY though the word used p hundred years earlier, in the churches of hich can also be used at 4' pitch (if 85 pipes ass figures, boogie woogie suggests nothing. dime for sample copy. STAMPS FOR VICTORY » Spain.” This indicates a Clarion and an Octave in tc. Send a If this can that the organ may e included) for Kimball Hall, Chirago 4. Illinois be done, and any 4' HRISTENSEN STUDIOS, 7S2 tonal color have been used also suggest that the Recital in Spain during the fifth cen- Le Swell organ. We tury. include an additional 3de According to the MacMillan Encyclo- ops marked “61 notes” hlS flrSt PUbllc a pedia 73 notes, eight? PP«>rance at°ag of Music and Musicians: “During the •tave of pipes at the top and made (. Continued from Page 325) first years of the 4' couplers will not be effective When Dr. Christian era. the compass, therwise the Maitland reached thirteen size, and keyboard. formal study nehe hpm.Degai mechanism of the organ appears to i them throughout the of orean niann i-™L have only one 16' stop, oo-P^ition under advanced but little; the principles of The pedal stops include dvid D. Wood Thee, O the SStadPhn Country by Eichberg. tvtesibius who lived about 500 B. C. were in hich should be loud enough to balance Mixed general strictly enough for use with the Vocal Ensemble—To Thee, O adhered to. The organ was eavy organ, or soft .introduced 16' stop would be an Country £or the purpose of assisting in con- >ft stops. An additional Eichberg secured gregational singing in the church during the ivantage, and a soft stop might be Uncle Sam: May the people of the centur the Swell Stopped Diapason 97 y- bY Pope- Vitalian at Rome.” y making in si We the set to include the Thorough Action United Nations cultivate a bond of doubt that the popular theater organ ipes, and extending ngmated used on both Swell improvisation friendship in the United States. Much of its >ft 16' stop, which can be land s . drew Dr Mai+ which will last forever! interest in 1920 Anri ac a evelop nent organs. The Pedal Bourdon sug- of 1 was due, probably, to Robert id Pedal Frederick W. Dr Any ingenious the De " loud side, Delightful in Flavor Schlieder h? trL? teacher who secures °* ,* ones be made on the 6-^ a^roac * an. Englishman who came to this ssted would then intensive study ^ fo1 . of extemnnS? usual rhythm will untpr in we also suggest the in- tion, giving CO, POsi orchestra instruments 1903. He and. we believe, J. H. l this department successful recitals ?n°Fnin ai a j 4' and Swell to Switzerland. England and find no difficulty ^ompton (mentioned in “The Recent Revolu- uding of Great to Pedal in preparing original tion in Organ-building” 4’ balance the 4' couplers included, parts” for their with by George L. Miller) edal to use in connection e )robab grades of chimes exist (some being ,. ^y ifferent honw-ecHiy’ the PhikuielDhia^M ,^ responsible for the development the Sousa marches, as arrangements the theater selected) and you do not with the degree—Doctor d m the organ. In reference to Electric tore carefully

notes at the sure that when the arm swings a diminuendo modeling, growing contin- shall be smooth, that the down be released every joint is soft and movable— ually weaker; or they can have the cre- close of each phrase shall wrist’ Therefore, elbow, and shoulder. Even the Violin Let Phrasing Solve scendo modeling, always growing stronger. with just the right expression. hand Questions we make is should feel loose, down to the finger But they can also have crescendo- the quality of tone which tip flowing This joint should be firm but not diminuendo emphases; or the opposite, vitally important. It must be of stiff difference be- Test for the looseness by suddenly Your Difficulties diminuendo-crescendo, which is not often quality. There is a wide push- ing on any joint. For an found. tween merely connecting the notes and a exercise, place intense legato the five, fingers on C-D-E-F-G. Let ,cr ( Continued from Page 321) Even if we are content with these two true legato. The most the -Jnsu HAROLD BERKLEY the pupil swing the wrist down-up, points only, the limiting of the phrase usually cannot be developed before down-up is reached. several times on each finger, with lights from the strong beat (see Ex. and the placing of emphases, we are still fifth or even the sixth grade the No questions will be answered in THE ETUDE unless accompanied by the full name achieved sensation of the arm being seaweed, and address the inquirer. initials, will be published . 1, second and third phrases), but also, better off than the woodpecker; for he But a fine connection can be the of Only or pseudonym given, finger tip attached to the rock, if they cover more than one meas- can limit the phrase only by breaking the and also the ear can be trained in per- the wave swinging the arm up and down— ure, from the strong measure. For there rhythm. If a phrase or motive is com- ceiving artistic effects. not ijojakini sidewise until the free by ij. P. are strong and weak measures, just as posed of staccato notes or chords, as his To lay the foundation for the flowing — coordination of all joints is easily German there are strong and weak beats. There are, we must see that the silences be- tone, do not discard as wrong the down- the felt and under- appears many times in the Century catalogue. Violin Lessons by Mail? son) on the market, most of them of time you see this name you may be sure would be worth of the arm at the wrist, stood. When this is satisfactory, swing Each Miss M. G., California.—I am sorry to say origin, if genuine, your violin are exceptions to the placing of emphasis tween the phrases are more marked, ward swing piece is melodic, is well written, and that the that I know of no correspondence course in from three hundred to five hundred dollars, ac- once in a way -@

“Chief of these is JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC= the task of devising for which Rolled Chords sounds there is no known orig- inal to copy for ERNEST HUTCHESON, President ... instance, the cry Page 320) or noise, of a dinosaur in a prehistoric ( Continued, from f-^ubfidlied and Genuine Musical Interest scene. one ^ust TWO IMPORTANT VOLUMES of Intense Historical Value No knows how that beast JUILLIARD SUMMER sounded—whether it gave forth a peepy SCHOOL one of the following ways: SONGS OF squeak or a gigantic bellow, or neither The America GEORGE A. WEDGE, Director reconstruct what Evolution of Songs of Early We we believe to be a EARLY AMERICA Ex.10 (1620-1830) plausible noise, but it is always a prob- Piano Music Compiled and arranged by ELIE SIEGMEISTER July 3 to August 1944 lem to work in the dark. Then, too, 11, there By CURT are sounds which SACHS songs for solo voice are known to only a A volume of 16 significant comparative few—as, for An exhaustive and authoritative compilation ot and mixed chorus, that tell us much about the Instruction in all example, the branches of music and music education piano our sounds of certain pieces of machinery music from its earliest inception through thoughts and feelings of fhose who founded

the 17th Century. . most im- One-week "refresher" courses in repertoire . . Arranged chronologically. American Democracy. . . . One of the and teaching aids used in Arctic expeditions. We ourselves . . . An invaluable collection. portant collections of early American works. have no idea of what they sound like Special program for high school students and neither has the general listening Price $1.00 Each In Liszt’s Concerto Etude in D-flat public—but there are enough experts to Catalog on request there is a series of difficult reaches for check up on us if we go wrong. There- On Sale at all Music Stores or Direct from the right hand, in which case it would fore, we must guide ourselves by expert advice before EDWARD B. MARKS MUSIC CORPORATION 120 Claremont Avenue Room 122 New York 27, N. Y. doubtless be more advantageous for the we put such a sound on the lower member of one of these chords air, and it is not always easy to find Year After Year for Fifty Years Presenting the Finest in Music to be struck simultaneously with the left the guidance' we need. R. C. A. BUILDING • RADIO CITY • NEW YORK hand, as illustrated below. Special Problems

Ex. 11 “Recently, for example, a play-script Written letting our settled people give up trying in those RICHARD McCLANAHAN that dealt with certain phases cepted, conventional device for as long as we live seems to be Most XL of the Questions & Answers 801 Steinway Bldg., N. Y. C. in a car. If radio re- conviction to the contrary. troubled periods (and we all have them) De war, called for a mechanism used in con- you know you're place. of a modern Professor Thorndike decided to find when we seem to be getting no nection with submarine detection. There flected the actual sound of an endless ;Paul INTENSIVE engine, which is just abo'ut noth- out when we do our best work. He studied Life takes on the aspect Continued from Page 334) 5-WEEKS exists such a mechanism, but, for ob- motor ( UNIVERSITY getting an aural the achievement record of three hundred treadmill. If we give up trying, we con- SUMMER COURSE FOR PIANISTS vious reasons, its name, nature, appear- ing at all, you’d be B if we CHICAGO no association thirty-one of the greatest men in history, cede defeat. On the other hand, JUNE 13 to JULY 14 ance, and sounds must be kept secret. reflection of truth, but I can see how you would feel You wouldn’t know what the including great composers. What he can bridge the gap, generally we find all, and THE SCHOOL OF * * Also, there are enough people acquainted of ideas. “burst” from the group achievement on the other side. about having just a single The with the mechanism sound was meant to represent. Sound called the “masterpiece age” of Musical Technic. Essentials of Piano (through manufac- wind instrument, with the rest of the Technic treated as Musical Aristotle’s principle— averaged forty-seven and a half years. a Vocabulary. The turing and using it) to know if effects work on we went passage sounding an entirely different Hlusic Language of Music. The teaching of Musical a believable impossibility is much Among one special group of one hun- wrong in duplicating its sound Prom a that is the Expression. Teaching Materials and Reper- the master- color. If in your arrangement it detailed study of similar more convincing than an incredible truth. dred nineteen great men, tory—12 Lecture-Classes. mechanisms that carry the passage on after Offers accredited courses in Piano, Normal, everyday sounds, like the piece age was fifty-two. Remember that clarinets Private lessons by used in pre-war time, the nature of advise you Voice, Violin, appointment the one oboe note, I should Organ, Public School rattling of teacups or the breaking of these are mean averages. Some men make This course also at Wilmington School of which is no longer secret, we put to- clarinets play the single Music, Theory, achievement at sixty, to try having the and Orchestral In- Music, Wilmington, Del., June 14 & 15, gether a sound eggshells, are easily enough produced; their greatest that seemed at least as the rest of the passage. 21 & 22, and 28 & 29. taken seventy or later. Beethoven did Airy Voices note as well struments. suitable enough not to the cups and the shells are simply others at Where be proved wrong. entirely legitimate to make slight Then down from their pigeonholes on the his best work in the last twenty-five It is we telephoned to a nearby Naval sort in an arrangement, Further particulars upon request. despite the growing changes of this Confers degrees of B.M., A.B., Base to ask one officers carefully cataloged shelves of sound-ef- years of his life, of the there to even though you would probably not feel rolled Into the studio, handicap of deafness. His last, the “Ninth Lead and M.M. listen to our ‘mechanism’ and tell us if fects materials, doing it in an original score. you hear is a towering peak. Verdi like Distinguished Faculty it was right or wrong. He listened—but and rattled. But the next time Symphony,” Let the performer constantly ask whirr of a “Alda” at fifty-eight. Eliel Saar- him- could not tell us about our rightness or the call of a dinosaur, the wrote Continued from Page 315) up the ( self if he has enhanced the beauty of wrongness!” secret engine of war, the calling of a inen, of Michigan, did not take the chord the roll- until fifty-two, and at sixty be- FINE ARTS Address Registrar by rolling it properly, and at Another problem confronting the ex- voice in a dream sequence, or piano COLLEGE OF for Bulletin Immortality. They all times try to ing of distant thunder, just remember came proficient in the art. to bring its creator achieve the special effect perts who devise our ear-scenery is the SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY DePAUL the miracle of spring, UNIVERSITY OBERLIN intended by the composer. curious that the most careful scientific research just happen, like one of judging between what is cyclones, earth- SCHOOL OF scene sunset, rainbows, leading to Degrees MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC true and what seems true. Suppose a has been devoted to setting the Fame at Last the Nine Major Courses visit the un- Master of Music Hoorn 401, 64 East Lake and establishing a mood by ear. the quakes. They seemingly of Bachelor of Music and Street A Division of Oberlin College scene carries our hero and heroine as Then again, how many people miss worthy as well as the worthy. Yet, we Chicago, Illinois far as the achievement because they Piano Violin Music Education Thorough instruction in all branches subway. The listeners must mark of real prepares of music ... 46 specialist teachers should say that he who best Composition know at once whether enter the sub- soon! They are unable to Organ Cello . . they . too excellent equipment . . . give up concerts is more Training by world-famous himself to receive these visits Voice Harp Piano Teacher musicians and organ- way or pass it; whether both of them push through the drag, which may last izations . . . weekly student recitals them. Alas, they come to for Fritz liable to have ... these reasons Oberlin attracts Ear Scenery enter; how it ‘looks’ and feels in the for years. We are thinking here of Summer Session — July 3-August 12 serious and talented students. De- Reservoirs of unprepared and unable to Untapped at many who are Regular Fall Term Starts September 6. grees: Mus.B., School Mus. B.. A.B. subway. It would spoil the realism of Kreisler. If Kreisler had given up The DUNNING COURSE OF MUSIC STUDY with music major. them. The poet, Write for catalog. the been unknown take advantage of scene to allow them to talk about it thirty-six he would have Send for Bulletin E and THE CARRICK CREATIVE COURSE Frank H. Shaw, Director ( Continued from Page 319) Thomas Gray (1716-1771), during his mature Harold L. Butter, Dean Box 564 Oberlin, Ohio —people do not go about remarking, ‘Oh, Musical Treasures to the world today. Although a Summer Normal Classes conducted by life produced many pretentious College of Fine Arts could not fill the active now we are in the subway!'—and yet artist at that time, he SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Normal Teachers in all states 1750 that he pro- but not essential. General alertness is (Continued from Page 316) works; hut it was in the scene must be painted by ear. What concert hall in either America Syracuse 10, N. Y. For dates and other information address important, smallest which he evidently as well as a good background command the fee duced a poem of The Dean sound -effects experts do is to pipe in or Europe, and did not Of Dunning, Mrs. lean Warren Carrick of general information that that our ability to learn decreases with very little; indeed, since he would warn echoes violinist. thought 940 S.E. 68th Ave., Portland, Oregon MILLIKIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC that reverberate about the voices age. of a fifth-rate a man not to use steam whistles referred to it as a thing to which he “had in a as they go down into the subway, thus was Kreisler many years in DECATUR, ILLINOIS Childhood, is supposed to Not only scene that took place before the discovery for instance, seemed at last put an end.” The “thing” was “An \ establishing a change of plane and level. gaining recognition, but ill luck 1/ Offers thoro training in music. Courses leading to of steam. A dramatic be the time to learn languages. Professor Elegy Written in a Country Church- Bachelor of Music sense and keenness twelve or fifteen Degree. Diploma and Certifi- Now, in actual truth, such a descent into out to dog him. He appeared \ in piano, Voice, Violin, of ear are Edward L. Thorndike wanted to find upon that, Gray’s immortal- / cate Organ, Public School among the best qualifications failed to attract yard”; and Saint Mary -of -the -Woods Music Methods and Music Kindergarten more constricted space would cut out times in London, but Methods for the work. if this were really so. He set three groups ity depends. \ echoes or the press. Then came / Bulletin sent and deaden the voices—echoes either the public COLLEGE free upon request “Some to work for the same hours and under No mystery of life can enthrall man years ago it was still necessary an appearance with Conservatory of Music for girls. Courses in Applied W. ST. CLARE, MINTURN, Director and reverberations could assert them- his big opportunity— / \ Music, Theory, and Public School to devise the same teachers learning Esperanto. He like that of immortality. No one knows Music, leading to and invent effects to represent selves Philharmonic Orchestra, degrees of B.A. and B.S. with a major in Music only in large halls with arches the London various chose this unusual language, since none whence it comes or when it may appear. \ Education. Piano, voice, organ, harp, violin, other sounds; today, however, so many “Concerto.” This / CONSERVATORY instruments; or surfaces that reflect sound waves. The playing the Beethoven composition, harmony. Beautiful, well- of of the group knew the first thing about Certainly it is a part of the infinite, equipped buildings, the normally required sounds of au- spacious campus. All sports have sound-effects men are fully aware of seemed to assure the presence / OF MUSIC \ Catalogue. Box 14. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. it. aged respec- it ever to you? been duplicated and recorded, The three groups were night divine scheme. Will come that the this; yet the use of the echo suggests a critics at least. The big BALDWIN-WALLACE tively: twenty to twenty-five, twenty -six dience and knows? Perhaps some day, like / \ actual pioneer stage may be said lie the con- Who 78th Year to believable is ac- on the night of CONSERVATORY change in level, and to thirty-four, to fifty- arrived. But too, hear the angel OF MUSIC behind us. It is still necessary, and thirty-five Joan of Arc, you, may of dramatic art however, cepted as a Boer War terminated. The next / A complete school music, \ BEREA, OHIO (suburb of Cleveland) convention. seven. difference cert the Keats: lead to degrees. to analyze all scenes for He found no appreciable voices. Remember the words of and dancing. Courses IX the various at Mafeking completely at any time. flK)iene TReaire ^ Affiliated with a first class A similar convention do with surrender Special students may enter Liberal Arts College. has to day the \ 1 Star making. Students seeking professional engagements sounds they contain; in the progress made in any group. He ne’er is crowned / coached by Stage, Screen, Radio and presented Four and five year courses leading to degrees. Faculty td determine which concert was not in pro- the sound of an automobile. The most filled the papers. The ductions for showing to B’way-Hollywood Talent Scouts and of Artist Teachers. Send for catalogue or informa- of those sounds Not satisfied, he pitted the oldest group With immortality, who fears REGISTRATION—September 8 and 9 \ public. B’way also Summer Stock. Spring course opening. tion to: are the most likely to / SEC' 1780 recent models have succeeded in cutting mentioned. Y SHUBERT, BROADWAY, N. Y. stimulate against the eighteen-year -olds of high even to folloio Write for catalog ALBERT RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Dean, Berea, Ohio the desired association of slow and diffi- out motor-hum almost entirely; and the Kreisler had the same / Ave. Cincinnati 19, Ohio \ ideas; and to reproduce intelligence. The oldsters made twice as Where airy voices lead. 2650 Highland them most be- difference while getting his compositions pub- in motor-hum intensity much progress younger learners, cult time A Revealing New Book in Two Parts lievably. Often the writer of as the twenty- the play, running and while in stopping finally got an offer of or the the act of notwithstanding the fact that the latter lished. He PARAGON OF RHYTHMIC COUNTING THE MANNESi radio script, suggests certain de- European pub- is negligible. Yet when you take a ride five dollars each from a JASPER DEETER. Director COLLEGE FOR ALL sired sound effects. were accustomed to study and the others SHORTER RHYTHMS In many cases he Later he gave six Founded by Alfred Shorter in a car in radio, you hear the motor were lisher, but refused it. HEDGEROW • PARAGON OF HARMONIZING MUSIC SCHOOL suggests merely the mood he not. Again he pitted the older wants, and humming (among other conventional his brother Hugo, and told Movement, interpre- ROME, GEORGIA applied to Study with Artist Teochers. group against I.Q. from pieces to Complete courses lead- leaves it to the producer to children of high to Institutional Member of the National Association ing to Artist’s determine motor cash them as needed Summer tation and expres- Diploma or Teacher's Certificate. Special sounds, such as wind-rush and the nine re- Hugo he might of Schools of Music. Excellent faculty. Moderate FOUR KINDS OF HARMONIZATIONS courses for children. Class the means of setting to eleven; with this astonishing and individual instruction. this mood; then studies. This Hugo sion for Vocal Mu- tuition fee covers all music and academic courses. Violin, viola, cello, harp, piano, voice, wind instru- contact of the tires against the surface his violoncello Send for explanatory circular the sound effects sult: the young children learned the finance Courses Well equipped Fine Arts Building. ments. Opera, Conducting, Chamber Music Depts. Write: men are called in to numbers finally sicians and Students. EFFA ELLIS PERFIELD do of the road!) and when your ride ends, and some Kreisler • • • Catalogue and illustrated bulletin. DAVID & CLARA MANNES, the job! Sometimes language the most slowly of all. did, 103 East 86th St. (Park Ave.) New York City Directors we are faced with these is the 157 EAST 74th STRLET NEW YORK you hear the marked slowing-down of in print. One of Moylan, Pa. July 10 to Aug. 19 WILBUR H. ROWAND, Director of Music 21, N. Y. interesting problems. The chief factor that keeps us from appeared the engine. It isn’t real, but it’s the ae- Caprice Viennois. learning and growing in skill and stature famed 366 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC march with music 367 ETUDE JUNE " FORWARD THE , 1944 : ,,

Junior Etude JUILLIARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC Contest Ernest Hutcheson, President Exude will award three at- you The junior enter on upper left corner of your Courses for Piano Teachers prizes each month for the neatest paper, and Season in Music tractive put your address on upper The or essays and for answers right and best stories corner of your paper. Contest is open to all boys and Write on to puzzles. one side of paper only. Do BERNICE FROST by f^aul Aouyuet eighteen years of age. not use girls under typewriters and do not have any- eighteen years at the Class A, fifteen to of one copy your work for you. twelve to fifteen; Class C, Essay must “ e; Class' B, contain not over one hun- 1~ ERE it is June, Uncle John,” “And then, what about winter?” ag JUILLIARD SUMMER SCHOOL y under twelve years. dred and fifty words and must be re- r“| said Bobby, “and you know asked Bobby, wanting to make George A. Wedge, Director the Names of prize winners will appear on ceived at the Junior Etude Office, 1712 what that means. That calendar complete. future issue of The Etude. Chestnut 11th, this page in a Street, Philadelphia (1), Pa., July 3rd to August 1944 means is “Winter brings its will summer here.” compositions, The thirty next best contributors re- by the 22nd of June. Results of contest is too, Bobby. Debussy mention. will appear 120 Claremont Avenue New York, N. Y. “Yes, Bobby, I guess everybody has a delightful ceive honorable in September. Subject for always glad to see summer coming” piece in his set called “The Children’s Put your name, age and class in which this month’s essay, “The Violin.” answered Uncle John. “And have you Corner,” in which he depicts snow- ELIZABETH A.GEST ever noticed that the changing sea- flakes; it is called The Snoio is Danc- My First Lesson sons have inspired composers to ing. Tchaikovsky wrote an entire (Prize Winner in Class C) I STUDY? write some of their loveliest music? opera called “The Snow Maiden.” WHERE SHALL GO TO To Grieg I will always remember my first Tchaikovsky set You’ll see it some time.” I guess composed a of pieces time I had a metal clarinet lesson, for at that he called The Seasons. Perhaps the “I hope so. And now what to me by my public school by jborothy about clarinet loaned t^abner (-Aye It) told if I did well I would re- best known of these is the barcarolle spring music? I like spring teacher. I was because did well that day (New York City) ceive a wooden one. Yes, I Private Teachers {Western) Private Teachers called June.” it means summer is almost here.” nine (JUNE ANNIVERSARY ACROSTIC) and acquired my new possession. I was “Miss Brown said that is going to “Every one likes spring, I years old at that time and was very proud £-ndless fiords think,” and mountains peaked score. I am now eleven and am MARIA CARRERAS be my next piece!” exclaimed answered Uncle John. “Spring, of my instrument H. FREDERICK DAVIS Bobby. when teacher is in the with snow still very happy about it. My Renowned Pianist H-eart melodies in “Peer Gynt Suite,” Teacher of Many Successful Singers Uncle John continued: “The happy the snow melts and the early flowers Goldman Band and I am lucky to have such "INTERPRETATIVE AUTHORITY" .D-escribe the land Grieg’s music G-entility Beginners Accepted Herald-Tribune in Solveig’s Song, so sweet, experienced teacher. When I graduate from All Branches of Singing Taught. — N. Y. days of summer have suggested so peep out, seems to be a source an City. Utah helps us know; of high school band. Studio: 606 Templeton Bldg Salt Lake concerting pianists. it-ich his chords and such a thrill to here I hope to be in the Teacher of successful many pieces with flower titles, inspiration to 3-0316 (or 4-5746) for appointment F-aliant, such composers. Grieg’s To Carl Wolf (Age 11). Phone Accepts talented students. hardy peasants haunt his play— Write for Free Circular as New York York City Tel. Bu 8-0311 MacDowell’s To a Wild Rose and Spring is very well known So is Juniors of Apollo, Pennsylvania 169 E. 78th St., New notes I practice some of Grieg’s things To a Water Lily. And Sinding’s Rustle Spring. Dawn Walker; Thomas Slonaker; Kenneth .A-nd sometimes when we think of Mendels- HADLEY (Inez Barbour) folk-tunes tell of every day Jacqueline Bortz; Nancy Crawford; O'BRIEN LIVERETTE MRS. HENRY of flowers we often think of bees and sohn called one of his songs Bash; LUCIA fishing boats. without Puzzle Square Marilyn Kinkle; Linda Barclay; Beverly Dod- Soprano F-ven though this mighty man is VOICE butterflies, too. Of all the butterfly words May Breeze. And a more son; Eleanor Bash; Barbara Coleman; Mar- .R-ugged, lofty, mod- E. of Singing, Oratorio, Concert, just like Norway’s gone, by Mendes Graduate of Samoiloff's Teacher's Course Authority on the Art pieces Grieg’s is ern one that garet Brackin. repertoire. Will accept a limited shore the best known. many music students Reasonable terms. Recital and general G-rieg’s music, number of talented students. , great and fine, lives 2-1030 EX 1141 \ . Then there is the etude play is Palmgren’s * * * * Phone NO like of Lavallee May Night.” STUDIO D-eep its waters in his music ever on. Los Angeles, Calif. THE HENRY HADLEY called 616 N. Normandie Ave. York City the Butterfly. And, of course, “Do you know, Uncle John, I never 15 W. 67th Street New First Lesson By Appointment Only. Sus. 7-0100 you have heard Schumann’s set of realized before that we really have * * * * My pieces EDNA GUNNAR PETERSON English and Music called “Papillons.” That is the a complete musical calendar. I’m go- (Prize Winner in Class A) EDITH SYRENE LISTER French for butterfly, ing to * * * Concert Pianist Artist Teacher AUTHENTIC VOICE PRODUCTION you know.” learn a piece for each season I had auditioned for my new teacher, and in — 905 Hall, New York City “I I had been terrible, even though Los Angeles, Calif. Carnegie by Cjerlrucle Cjreenbalyb heard them played in a concert as it comes along. There is so much my opinion, 229 So. Harvard Elvd. 'lAJallc rather FE. 2597 Collaborator and Associate Teacher with the late W. once,” 1 had only sung a simple song. It is said Bobby, “but I did not to choose from!” * * * * Warren Shaw and Endorsed by Dr. Floyd S. Muckey Lewis terrifying, when you have had little or no was having his music les- an example Music Studio. Lancaster, Pa. on the board: bare- think they sounded like butterflies.”' training, and you are suddenly taken to a Wednesday: Troup son. “My new scale is G-sharp minor, as a pros- SAMOILOFF Thursday: 309 Presser Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. bear, here-hear, blue-blew. This gave “Well, you see, Bob,” Uncle former Metropolitan Opera singer LAZAR S. John Across: 1, a musical instrument; 2, given a song to sing. I had harmonic form,” he said, “but I don’t Lewis idea, pective pupil and Voice teacher of famous singers (FRANK) (ERNESTO) an and he raised his explained, “Schumann did Discord that the not in- a volume; night birds; otherwise. been looking forward to this but now to professional engagements know what that funny x is.” hand 3, 4, lump From rudiments LA FORGE-BERUMEN STUDIOS and remarked, “I think that is tend to describe the ‘flight time had come I was petrified and a huge Beginners accepted. Special teachers' courses of a but- Initials spell musical in- “That is the same But there was noth- his Studios. Voice Piano a double-sharp,” explained like writing in music, because terfly in his by Haney onolue was dancing in my throat. Dr. Samoiloff will teach all summer at — we music. He used the for tue those have studied with Mr. La Forge are: word strument. ing to do about it! Write for catalogue—Special rates Among who Miss Brown. “It raises a tone one have to spell Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Crooks, correctly in music, too.” butterflies more in a poetic the teacher proved to be a wonderful duration. sense, Well, and Mme. Matzenauer. whole-step.” “Lewis, will the lofty prima donna I had Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. you please explain that meaning that each number person and not 610 So. Van Ness MOO Park Ave., Corner 89th St., New York in the set studio “So that visualized. She told me to come to her Atwater 9-7470 would make the seventh to the class?” said the teacher, is a dainty trifle. Prize Winners for Hidden Tel. and As a matter of fact, house the following Friday, and note, at the opera F, raised a whole-step to G,” Lewis went to the terror of my piano and struck Schumann, in his ‘Papillons,’ depicts Instrument Puzzle in March having gotten the complete out ELIZABETH SIMPSON RICHARD McCLANAHAN said Lewis. “Why can’t they write at the audition, I made a success of my G G, explaining that sometimes it is G a gay carnival scene.” system, Representative TOBIAS MATTHAY Class A. Seymour Bernstein (Age 16) then I have worked hard, Author of "Basic Pianoforte Technique" then instead of F double-sharp?” first lesson. Since Private lessons, class lessons in Fundamentals and sometimes F-double sharp. Then what to love my Artists. “To a about bees? You men- New Jersey made progress, and have come Teacher of TecrShers. Coach of Young Lecture-demonstrations for teachers “Because that would not be anything I do. Pupils Prepared for Concert Work. Class Courses good musician it would be funny to use tioned bees in summer, lessons better than 801 Steinway Bldg., New York City you know.” Class B. Pianistic Interpretation,. Normal writing or spelling. Lucy Ruple (Age 12), Mich- Mary Strachen (Age 16), in iechnique, Remember, a one when the other is intended, “Oh, yes, I nearly for Piano Teachers. just forgot the bees. igan. New York Methods scale follows the alphabet San Francisco; JAMES MORRISON and no like this sentence (and he wrote on Well, I know you have heard 609 Sutter St., the Class C. Mary Lou Bukowski (Age 11) 2833 Webster St., Berkeley, Cal. letter can be repeated or omitted in the board as — Flight TEACHER OF VOICE he spoke) ‘The wind of the Bumblebee, by Rimsky- New York the octave. and Artistic Interpretation. G is in this scale as G- blue around hear threw the bear Korsakoff on the radio. Perfect vocal technic ” Remember? (Mid-West) sharp, so you have to write Prize Winner in Class B: Private Teachers STUDIO: III WEST 82nd ST. F double- trees.’ We heard it last Sunday afternoon. sharp,” Miss Brown told him. “Wheel” Red Cross ans Bear, Missouri. NEW YORK CITY exclaimed Jim. “That’s a And there is a buzzing violin piece Afgh Bonnie The next day in school the class phoney. I frequently Knitted L. YORK never knew you had to heard on violinists’ pro- or woolen goods squares have re- DR. FRANCIS EDWARD E. TREUMANN was having cently been received from the following, some Advance Piano Interpretation and the Theory work homonyms and syno- spell in music, too!” grams, called L’Abeille Concert Pianist Artist-Teacher (The Bee). of whom sent large numbers of squares: required for the degrees of Mus. Bach., and Mus. — nyms and the teacher Letter Box Recommended by Emil Von Sauer, Moritz Moszkowski had written “You bet you do,” answered Lewis. Strange as it may seem, Priscilla Huprich; Mona Guardipee; Margaret MOS this was CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC and Josef Hofmann. Hassall; to letters care of Junior ‘ DETROIT written June Howland; Nancy Stephens; (Send answers Suite 57th St. at 7th Ave. by a Franz Schubert, a vio- Dolores Detroit, Mich. Studio, Carnegie Hall, 837, Preston; Gladys M. Jakey; Etude) City linist Stein; Joy Tel. Columbus 5-4357 New York in , who is DeWeese now. said not to : Marie Olson; Mary Rolfe :ar Junior Etude: , . Summer Master Class—June to Sept.—Apply rvM . Serenade D Neil; reading the Junior Etude and de- be related to the great Joan Seibold; Maureen Wiltz; Agnes I was just Franz Peter tell you how much I enjoy (Dog belongs to Mrs. McDaniel inunerman; Jean Sessions; Moegling; led to write and EVANGELINE LEHMAN, Mus. Doc. WATERS Schubert.” Mary in our high school band CRYSTAL ary Boron; Shirley I play the flute if t)UL V. BinJL Amarillo, Texas) Givens; Carole Rogers; and also the piano. I would be Composer and Vocal Coach Teacher of Voice “That’s Jane Jackson; d orchestra, funny,” said Bob, Carol Hoobler; George Bechtel; from anyone who enjoys music. some of the most famous “but arold id to hear Dr. Lehman has coached Radio, Screen, Concert A mockingbird sings all night long, Bingham; Jeanne Hilde- by Or, then again, -perhaps this is then I know three fellows Weave; Ross singers of the Paris Grand Opera. Appointment named What’s that discord on the keys? Jacqueline Watson; Virginia Leeper; correspondence. Opera, Pedagogy In our old cottonwood! His evening serenade, Bill Smith. What David p about autumn Park (3) 405 E. 54th St. New York City must be giving mu- Stop that racket, if you please! Studio: 167 Elmhurst Ave., Highland He lessons to .To tell us that he’s thankful for sic?” he asked. (Detroit), Michigan Tel. Vo. 5-1362 Oh, what would our teacher say His downy, baby brood. •The tall tree’s friendly shade! Of course. When the trees color If she heard Hidden up the way you play! Honorable Mention for and the frost gets into the air, Well, dear me! Excuse it please! Puzzle: inspiration seems to come Instrument to com- It’s just my doggie on the keys! NOTICE posers. MacDowell aine **oss; Mai: Helen Barnette; Ruth C. Briggs; has a short com- Spw u Rosemary Bruhl; Jeam Palmer h ba Miriam Glesner; Dorothy best possible condition position called L : Elaine Schrank; Mary Jeanette Abdalla; In an effort to insure subscribers receiving their copies in the Autumn. rS r Czech; Carol Chaminade arole Vincic; Christine - Yvonne the ’ Brooks; rolled copies, Weliin £ Carma Rerie; Moody and to eliminate the danger of damage in removing wrappers from has one by this g: obert Colleen Kisch; Elaine Schrank; title, also. And in !? *L Martin; Emily Baird Pit Hartman; The Etude are experimenting with a new method of mailing. Most of our Answers to Hidden Instrument Mar 4 Goodman Margaret Wisney; Mary publishers of the set of ; Ruth Sciarro; Barth: Dorothy Szinyava; pieces by Tchaikovsky Masspv^ subscribers (not all) will receive their copies of this issue unwrapped with merely a we Bollin; Greenhoe; Sally Nall; Patsy Ann Johnson; mentioned, berppi^’ Donald Ross H address. there is one for Puzzle: V^gHiia Wylegal; Rose Ann Urycki; Lorraine label pasted on the cover indicating the name and every WTrri Johnson; Susan Cadou; Patricia n Ollie Mefford; whether this change is working to the best interests of sub- : Fischer; that may know month, the one for y ydia Jane Bartlett; Mary Lc Duda- Charles David So we November called Pender^ 1? +t . Alice U ocarina; 2, tuba, 3, oboe; fife; Fischer May; Daniel Jaska; Mary scribers, it is hoped that all will feel free to advise us just how the new method appeals 4, - Wilma Jean W; Barbara Troika (sleigh ride) is Patrici^'T^t^ Day; particularly Da iel Ann Strickland; Mary Louise copies are being received in satisfactory condition. 5, piccolo; 6, spinet; harmonica; Roberts- Emory Dowell; 1 Smith; to them and whether well known.” 7, fw'lorei ce * Machi; Mercedes Clark; Ruby Earle Betsv } Armstrong; Bruce Dan Dolores 8, piano; 9, cornet; y Carson;r’a Daniel E. Dowell. 10, drum. Louise Lawton; Ann Mott. Graham; Barbara Russ; 368 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC” MUSIC" 369 THE ETUDE JUNE, 1944 "FORWARD MARCH WITH — . , . ! V

CONCERT TRANSCRIPTIONS OF SECOND PIANO P MORE ART—by Robert T. Re„. The illustrated Modern teaching procedures include Piano, book is attractively and THE COVER FOR THIS MONTH—The FAVORITE HYMNS, for by Clarence ford-to Tuneful Tasks-by John practice in modulating as part Thompson among its contents are La Golondrina; month of June (traditionally of the As a result of the great in- —One of favored for Kohlmann— the greatest needs in piano La Paloma; Tu Maramba; Carmela; keyboard harmony taught almost from Concert Transcrip- Tu weddings) turns many singers, organists, shown in the teaching is the opportunity the first lessons. This work should terest for students Cielito Lindo; and El Choelo. and pianists to planning for their re- prove of Favorite Hymns and innumera- to do ensemble assistance tions playing. Thus the pro- Before publication, a single copy of Solos of much to teachers Piano quested participation in wedding cere- for use for a companion book, the gressive teacher ble requests must turn to the ma- Our Latin-American Neighbors may be with more advanced students and those monies. Oddly enough all of the favorite publisher is happy to offer More Concert terials for two-, four reserved of more mature years. For the hands to fill for the special Advance of Pub- selections played sung in connection self-help of Favorite Hymns this and Transcriptions by gap in the training of their pupils. lication cash price of 40 cents, postpaid. student it will prove invaluable as with wedding ceremonies today are prod- PUBLISHER’S NOTES all same popular arranger, Clarence Mr. Benford’s Second Piano Part exercises are to be worked out the to John ucts of 19th and 20th century composers. right at Given a new brilliance, but Thompson’s Tuneful the keyboard. The Kohlmann. Tasks ideally meets ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION OFFERS Interest to all Music Lovers supplementary pages The two favorite wedding marches came A Monthly Bulletin of retaining the reverent quality of the this requirement, and also giving modulations to all still contributes WITHDRAWN—This month two books into use about 1850, the majority of intervals, prob- and original hymns, these will be equally as more interesting and worth ably will earn this book a permanent while ma- that have enjoyed extraordinary advance vocal selections are by contemporary terial to Country useful for supplying accompaniments for the easy two piano literature. Love of place in the library of many a musician sales are about ready for delivery to those composers. The two most favored hymns, for prelude, offertory, or post- Mr. Benford has singing, purposely written who ordered copies. Each is a publication Voice Prior to publication, a single copy * O Perfect Love and The That of as for home enjoyment. Included these second piano * Practical Keyboard Modulation may lude, parts in the same of the type that appeals to many because Breathed O’er Eden, are texts that were be contents are such well loved grade as the Tuneful for delivery in the list of Tasks so that parts of the fine music included, and the pi- COUNTRY written in 1883 and 1857 respectively. ordered when published at SONGS OF MY TWENTY PIANO DUET TRANSCRIPTIONS as O Love That Wilt Not Let Me may be changed between the special Advance of hymns the two play- anists and organists who are awaiting The bright and cheerful Wedding Kohl- Publication cash IN EASY ARRANGEMENTS FOR PIANO SOLO OF FAVORITE HYMNS, by Clarence Beneath the Cross of Jesus; Softly ers. This feature offers an une price, 50 cents, Go; opportunity their copies no doubt will be delighted Pr., 75c. March by Mendelssohn is used in part (j- 1944 postpaid. Compiled and Arr. by ADA RICHTER transcriptions of Clar- is Calling; for mann—The hymn and Tenderly Jesus Fairest pupils to become proficient sight to know that soon they will be received. on the cover of this issue. This is one have proven so popular readers. in the first and second grades ence Kohlmann REVERENTIAL ANTHEMS by William Lord Jesus: Lead On, O King Eternal. Both the original compositions As is customary, this note will serve as OUNG Americans of thrilled with this book of the numbers written by Mendelssohn ADVANCE OF PUBLICATION pleasure to many Y of piano study will be and have given so much Baines—As a composer of music All completely edited with fingering, and the second piano parts are interest- notice withdrawal of the spe- arrangements of 46 songs as special for for the a of the clever easy-to-play piano incidental music Shake- is a ptano beginners will thousands of people that there now church, William Baines and pedal markings, these ing from the standpoint of thematic price. of the USA. Likewise grown-up has enjoyed a dynamic, ma- cial Advance of Publication cash with included speare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. OFFERS piano duet form. It, enjoy these readily played presentations demand for some in conspicuous success. In view are well within the capabilities terial, and they display unique rhythmic of be obtained numbers are included, of this, we hymns Copies the books may texts All the favorite patriotic Mendelssohn had written the overture to pleasure to Forever The Ma - All of the books in this list are in therefore, gives us genuine have been encouraged of grades three or four. and melodic characteristics. de- dealer, for ex- embracing The Stars and Slopes ; to prepare this of students These from your local music or, others. ' Beautiful and Midsummer Night’s in 1826 America , the ; A Dream preparation for publication. The announce this book by Mr. Kohl- rines Hymn ; new special collection of anthems from his Prior to the date of publication a lightful, easy, numbers are worthy of amination, direct from the publishers. when he was only 17 years of age, and low Advance Offer Cash Prices ap- mann, Twenty Piano Duet Transcrip- reserved the spe- pen. While it will be made up chiefly of single copy may be at presentation on any recital program. Gems of Masterworks for the Organ, With it was in 1843 that Mendelssohn wrote ply only to orders placed NOW. tions of Favorite Hymns. This is not a this composer’s more established favor- cial Advance of Publication cash price A single copy of the Second Piano Hammond Organ Registration, Compiled Composer Gr. Price Delivery postpaid will be made Cof. No. Title some dozen so other pieces, ( ) solo a new or including duplicate of either but ites, this book also of 45 cents, postpaid. Parts may be ordered at the special Paul Tonner, is a two- when the books are published. will include works Ad- and Arranged by Allegro con Brio (Victory Theme from 27235 50.40 the famous Wedding March to complete collection of hymns arranged for one Symphony No. 5) Beethoven-Peery 3'/2 Paragraphs describing each pub- composed especially for it, a point which vance of Publication cash price of 35 staff organ book containing arrangements (With Six Other Well-Known the incidental music to accompany the piano, four hands. SECOND PI \NO PART— to the Fifteen cents, 2348 America lication appear on these pages will establish it a compilation of real A postpaid. Those placing their or- well within the playing capabilities of Melodies) Arr. Rickaby 1 full The contents are all favorites and in- Inventions BACII, by Ruggero Grand Triumphal March presentation of the play. interest. Two-Part of ders now may be assured of receiving the average church, lodge, or home or- 16840 America— clude well -loved as: When Rolfe 5 .60 The picture of the young miss render- Album of Marches for the Organ 60 such hymns Vene—The Bach Two-Part Inventions this volume as soon as it is released from ganist. It will be appreciated especially 27360 American Patrol. March Finger Fun Adler .20 Morning Gilds the Skies; Abide With Me; The general usefulness 4 .4U ing music for the wedding procession of of the book still remain a prerequisite to artistic the press. Meacham-Levme More Concert Transcriptions of Favorite by the player whose organ training has Simplified The King of Love My Shepherd Is; In should and will appeal to choir directors 30864 American Patrol. March. her dolls was made available to The Hymns Kohlmann .45 piano playing. Mr. Vene has added fur- Meacham-Schaum 2'/l • 4U limited, or the pianist whose in- A rr Nutcracker Suite Piano Duet the Cross Christ Glory; Nearer, at large, since been .60 Etude by the Harold M. Lambert Photo- — of I My the content has been made ther interest in these compositions by FINGER FUN for the Little Piano Beginner, 15374 America Aroused. March ... Schelling 4 Tschaikowsky-Felton 1.00 in organ playing has been Militaire. Rolfe .43 God, To Thee; Rock Ages; Perfect up with the struction 14739 America First. Marche 2'h graphic Studios, of Philadelphia, Pa. of O average volunteer choir in second piano part to each of Myra Adler Miss Adler’s studies .4U . writing by new Our Latin-American Neighbors. . . Richter .40 a — Strickland 3'/j variety. As in 16861 America Victorious. March . Love; others. largely of the self-help Piano Pieces for Pleasure Williams .60 and mind. Incidentally, there is little in the Invent tons. In doing this, he has quick success, their 15344 American National Anthems. The Star these are destined for for Organ Book the pedal Practical Keyboard Modulation Peery .50 The hymns are all arranged in singable way of solo work. Presser’s Two -Staff Spangled Banner and America USING THE SUMMER ADVANTAGEOUSLY Anthems for Christ- not only given the pianist excellent study musical attractiveness combined with Sfulfs .25 Read This and Sing!—Student’s Book the same staff as Arr. 3 keys and the book may therefore be used mas, Easter, and Lent notes are printed on March —The summertime just naturally Dengler .25 make up part of material, but has made a worthy con- their educational value will make them 19112 American Patriotic Medley seems Price, $1.00. Martin 3 .oo Read This and Sing!—Teacher’s Manual with equal facility for piano duet playing the material in this excellent book, and those for the left hand. to invite everyone look after tribution to the better music for two- outstanding among early grade study Supremacy. March .. Phelps 3 .35 to physical Dengler 1.00 Operas, Compiled 19556 American or to accompany singing in Church, Sun- add to its usefulness Themes from the Great Felton 3 .4U Reverential at practically any pianos, four materials for the piano. They comprise 14870 Color Guard, The. March benefits, and yet it also offers splendid Anthems Baines .25 hands. 3'/ day School, or the by Henry Levine, is the third 5677 Comrades in Arms. Two-Step . . Hayes 2 Second Piano Part to Bach's Fifteen Two- home. time of the year. work have dis- and Arranged opportunities for those In this arrangement the first piano the best easy technical we 26230 Crash On! Artillery. Coast Artillery who would im- Part Inventions Vene .35 series which al- Advance orders are now being accepted Prior to publication, a single copy of book published in this Marching Song .... Hewitt-Osborne 4 .50 Second Piano Part to Tuneful plays the original Invention. The second covered for a long time, since each of prove themselves in other directions Thompson's 1 .25 for one copy of this book at the special Mr. Baines’ Reverential ready has given piano players Themes 27454 Flag of My Country Stairs Tasks Benford .35 Anthems may be piano part adheres strictly to the har- the twelve units has been planned within Navy. March as well. Everyone interested in music (JC) Glory of the Yankee Twenty Piano Duet Transcriptions of Advance of Publication cash price of 60 ordered at the Great Concertos and Themes Sousa 3 .50 the special Advance of Pub- monic, melodic rhythmic style of limit of five notes for the sake of good from Favorite Hymns Kohlmann .60 and a March could widen personal musical horizons cents, postpaid. The sale, however, is lim- lication Symphonies. As in its 30860 Hail to the Spirit of Liberty. cash price of 25 cents, postpaid. introduce common time has from the Great .50 enlarge Bach. There is no attempt to hand position. Only Sousa A and would enjoyment of music ited to the United States and its pos- Levine has chosen for new material of melodic or contrapuntal been indicated, only the key of C has predecessors, Mr. 16501 Hats Off to the Flag. March through planning now a definite pro- All teachers finding themselves with sessions. PIANO PIECES FOR PLEASURE, by John melodies from Spaulding 3 .40 character distract from utilized, all exercises are pre- this book the most popular gram of summertime reading prac- M. 'Williams which might been and 6818 Independence Day. Military March and extra time during the summer through —It is with particular pride presenting them Cadman *35 Bach’s original idea. sented in the treble and bass clefs. the most popular operas, 2'Jl ticing. READ that we Spaulding 2 .25 shortened teaching schedules owe it to THIS AND SING! —For Voice Students announce the forthcoming pub- piano arrangements 11825 Independence Day This book will include the original As a feature of special importance to in not-too-lengthy Eagle. March Sousa 3 .50 Music teachers will find it profitable Chorus lication of (JC) Invincible themselves and to their future pupils to and Choir Singers, by Clyde R. an important new book by the 3'/2 .50 the notation in this little both players and those who listen 30044 Liberty Bell, The. March ^Sousa and beneficial Bach music in score (the original Inven- young students, which .50 to organize special summer Dengler Thirty eminently successful Bell, The. March . Sousa-Peery 3 give some attention during the summer — -six weeks of vocal study, educator, Mr. John different op- 30761 Liberty tion appears over the Second Piano Part) book will be of large size, so that there will’ enjoy. About a dozen Marine Corps Reserves. March. Ge/be/ 3 .50 study classes. There could be daytime to adding to their personal repertoires designed especially for Junior and M. Williams. Readers of these columns 23403 Senior to clear represented. Price, 75 cents. 27356 Marines’ Hymn, The (From the Halls classes This is a “must” for the library of every will be no difficulty with regard eras will be for children and evening classes and to brush their High School age levels, but need no introduction to the famous “Year of Montezuma) (With Words) up own technical adaptable for be entertaining for adults readily conducted for the study by Year” active piano teacher as well as the rep- reading. Also there will Arr. Carleton 1 Vl *30 accomplishments. grade school use, are provided in this series of instruction books by Klohr 3 .50 ertory prepared with a (JC) Men of Valor of music history or theoretical of the professional two piano team. rhymes for each study, .40 subjects. Any teachers wanting suggestions as little volume. It is the outgrowth of Dr. this author, as well as the supplementary 8952 No Surrender. March Morrison 3 well. The exercises 2'/ Young Picture A single copy may be ordered while view to instruction as 15215 On the Old Camp Ground. Arr. Rolfe 2 -30 Such books as Polks’ to materials for summer classes or for Dengler’s wide experience with young books for children and older beginners. . .Kern .50 Intervals 8235 Our Army and Navy. March. . 3 History of Music this work is in preparation. The Advance will cover: Diatonic Succession; by Dr. James Francis their self-study voices. Practically every As the title is Flag Ad/er 2 .25 own efforts are welcome conceivable vo- indicates, this book a Notes; and 27154 Our of Publication cash price is 35 cents, to the Fifth; Repeated for Reference Our Glorious Union Forever. 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Of special interest to the instructor are newly made especially is and engraved re- Words) Spaulding 1 .25 Thomas Tapper are ideal for giving come from the press, you now may the Teacher’s Manual, which expands for this book with Mr. Williams’ well- HANDBOOK OF 14070 Patriotic America Spenser 2 .25 the Finger Fun at the youngsters pleasurable times together in material ALBUM OF MARCHES FOR THE ORGAN- serve a single copy of 15101 Patriotic Day Crammond 2 .35 NUTCRACKER SUITE by P. I. Tschaikowsky, in the student’s book lesson by known thoroughness for details of edit- .40 of Publication cash price 25485 Pride of the Nation, The. March . Grey 3 gaining knowledge of things musical. For arranged Piano Duet 'William lesson, It is quite evident the advance special Advance for by M. and provides supplementary ma- ing, phrasing, and fingering. The very from MUSICAL TERMS 19367 Pride of the Regiment. 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here! I’m released more quickly than the quarter 3. You’ve certainly “got” me you in A Novel Idea for Let Phrasing Solve note of the second measure. If the. final afraid that I can only discourage boys into note is long, usually it should be played your efforts to organize young you will with the down-swing, and gently released music clubs. Honestly, I think Buying New ‘ Your Difficulties' with the upward movement. have nothing but heartbreaking work end Certain tones should be “lifted out” and unsatisfactory results in the unless all the boys are studying piano Anthems ( lightly with the whole arm while the AmeaicA's Continued from, Page 362) most way to go College sensible UqusuaL wrist and hand remain level. This is with you. The only ( Page often the case in the work of the ad- about this is to persuade your school Continued from 332) groups Legato vanced grades, though it is effective in music supervisor to organize such a concert more if space is at the less rapid groups, especially where in your town. This is certainly his job; enjoy a To apply this use of the arm to the premium. With this in mind we . . after sent much feeling is required. you would, of course, assist him . longer groups, the student may begin at complimentary tickets to neighborhood The advanced student should learn to all, don’t you think you already have a the end of the first grade, or in the sec- musicians and play both slow and rapid phrases with full-time job now—of teaching piano choirs and asked our ond grade, the “flowing” legato. Now the be sure that all tickets intense pressure-legato. In this legato without gratuitously adding more grief donors to were wrist is swung down only once for a response was the power comes from the shoulder, not to it? used. The most gratifying. group of several notes, and the arm leans from the finger, and not from any freely 4. You are doing everything possible We are now getting ready for our next on each finger in turn, as the wrist is . . in the Spring and are looking swinging impulse of the arm. The fingers for your Boogie-Woogers. . Have you concert swung upward. As: and hand transmit a pressure from the used the Whitefield “Boogie-Woogie” forward to the greatest success of all. book? And have you fed the boys good, Who knows, maybe it will be the means Ex. 2 shoulder while they move close to the keys. Though they are always held under simDle arrangements of the Rhapsody in of providing our choir members with control, they must be ready to yield at Blue, The Man I Love, Blues in the new robes. any moment, and must move with so Night, White Christmas, and many sensitive a coordination that shoulder others which are now available? and fingers seem to be one skillful tool.

Staccato and Portato Phrases If the motives are staccato or portato, The Violinist’s Forum the final note may be made effective by Radio Music at ( Continued from Page 333) a forward thrust, especially if it is ac- Often the student makes the three- cented. But even here the arm must re- a Time of note “waves” instinctively, especially in main supple. Usually the forward move- such groups as C-E-G, E-G-C, the forms ment is preferable to the backward or so common in accompaniments. But this outward movement, for it gives the last World Crisis stage of the development must be care- note a more agreeable tone and, besides,

fully watched, so that (1) the wrist will the arm can be better controlled than ( Continued from Page 322) be swung down intentionally and at the when moving outward. right moment; not accidentally nor pro- The phrase, then, is not merely a group young baritone soloist of Mutual’s Music miscuously; (2) there is no “bobbing” up of notes; it is a group of notes with for Remembrance (heard Fridays from and down during the wave-group, for graded intensity of tone and expression, The second and third of these will need 4:30 to 5 P.M. and Saturdays from 8 to this will destroy the legato; and (3) the and, in the majority of cases, with flow- the most attention, and the pupil should 8:30 P.M., EWT) recently won a Metro- wrist begins to rise at once, after the dip ing legato. be allowed all the time he needs to mas- politan Opera contract. The twenty- is made. Until the teacher is quite fa- The sense of phrasing is a matter of ter them. During this time, the student eight-year-old singer has been heard on Bui Bal College miliar with the effects of this use of the intensely personal musicianship. It is is probably becoming accustomed to the many WOR-Mutual programs since the floml arm-wave, it is well to experiment be- one of the qualities which makes the fifthj position; at the proper moment, end of December. He was signed by Mu- forehand, in order to be able to show the readings of one master, whether conduc- therefore, the teacher may extend these tual’s New York station WOR after student precisely where the dip of the tor, pianist, or violinist, satisfying beyond exercises to include that position. having been heard as a Metropolitan Uail well eilaMlulted wrist should be made. our own anticipations, while those of When the foregoing can be played Opera auditioner on December 12. As soon as the wave-forms can be another seem not only mediocre, but even easily and accurately—and not a day Thompson, a son of Oscar Thompson, made easily with contact-playing—that untrue2. to the composer. Though it must earlier—the student should take up the the eminent music critic of the New York acadenuc and cultural AiewAcindLi. is, with finger on the key when the wrist be founded on knowledge, it must not third series. As follows: Sun, has sung with the Chicago, San is swung down—then the student may be mere intellectual measurement of Carlo, and Chautauqua Opera companies be allowed to use a natural, free move- effect. The musicianship of Toscanini is and with many music festivals. A prod- ment of the fingers also in rapid pas- based on the certainty of knowledge uct of the Juilliard Graduate School of Credits are accepted by leading colleges, universi- sages for the better articulation of the knowledge of chords, of rhythmic figures, Music in New York, this young baritone tones, ties, and graduate schools in all sections of America. and for “sparkle.” It seems hardly of the balance of measures, but it is is one of the most gifted singers of our necessary to remark that exercises for combined with that intuition which every times. His musicianship commands re- thorough and intelligent development of musician should seek to cultivate, the spect. Thompson should establish himself Bob Jones College, which stands without apology for the "old time finger-playing should constantly be used. feeling for the sense of the music itself. as one of the most valuable younger re- The swing of the arm must be gradual, cruits to radio. Columbia’s invitation religion" and for the absolute authority of the Bible, has had an increase not sudden, in these waves, and must be to Music, which is Wednesdays heard in enrollment of fifty last years. so controlled that the tones are even in per cent in the two from 11:30 to midnight, EWT, is a pro- quantity. The objective—a smoothly flow- gram which offers a stimulating answer ing group of notes must always be kept The Bob Jones College affords splendid opportunities for high — The Teacher’s Round to those music lovers who from time to Academy in mind. After this, complete scales in various time wish for the opportunity to hear a school training especially valuable to young men soon to enter upon military The technic of the climax of the keys should be studied. In this last series greater number of unusual fare on or- phrase, light, be properly Bervice. the high must Table of exercises, the important thing is that chestral programs in the concert hall. managed. If the finger strikes hard in the pupil have each pair of fingers in More than seventeen per cent of its order to play forte, or if the hand swings (Continued from Page 324) position over the strings on which they programs this past year has been de- Bob Jones College offers a wide variety of courses leading to Bachelor of Arts suddenly in the middle of a" phrase, or are to play. Other exercises, such as voted to world or American premieres even for the final note, the smooth flow I ond Bachelor of Science degrees, and in the Graduate School of Religion courses fascinating assignments! Also, require changing position with the same pair of of compositions by worthy composers. of the legato will be destroyed. This is students to transpose the Fossil piece fingers, can be introduced at the teacher’s Most of the programs have presented leading to the Master of Arts and the Doc tor of Philosophy degrees, and in the Grad- a common fault with amateurs. The in- several other keys, also to play into and discretion. distinguished soloists. Bernard Herr- uate the of Arts and the Master of Fine crease in power must be made by leaning it with hands crossed—left hand playing I should like to emphasize again that mann has conducted the greater part School of Fine Arts courses leading to Master more strongly with elastic muscles (not its part in the treble, right hand in the the best and quickest results will be ob- of these concerts, but among the guest Arts degrees in music and speech. stiff pressure) by means of the swinging bass. tained only if the pupil practices each conductors have been Sir Thomas arm. The intensity of the pressure-legato Now that your ten-year -old’s hands exercise on each pair of strings and Beecham, Darius Milhaud, and Paul is for this grade. larger, it hurt Voice, are offered without addi- not are growing won’t him to with all possible combinations of inter- Hindemith. Some of the works which piano, violin, pipe organ, art, and speech The technic of the final note is im- stretch an occasional octave here and vals. This method of study will take have been given world premieres in this tional cost tuition. portant, for the expression of this last certainly would not bother above regular academic there. I any time, possibly two or three years, but the series during the past year have been note can color the whole phrase. If it is longer to rewrite pieces for him on ac- inevitable result will be the attainment Shostakovich’s “Second Piano Sonata,” a short note it may be left, at the end count of his stretch. Yes, any of the Ada of complete technical control by the time the “First Symphony” of Richard Arnell, For detailed information write wave, with a gentle, floating Richter books of simple of the move- song arrange- the pupil meets passages of thirds in his Herrmann’s “Welles Raises Kane Suite” ment as the wrist rises. Examples la and ments are excellent, “Songs of Coun- My studies or solos. Moreover, this practicing and his “Fantasticks,” and Ketterling’s lb be played thus. Or it may be try,” “Melody Joys,” “Play and Sing,” will may have two important by-products: “Johnny Appleseed.” Among American and left with a sudden upward and so on. There are also several DR. JONES, JR. played— — good the pupil’s ear will be trained to greater premieres on the programs were Rubbra’s BOB (not too high!), as in the Ex. 1. volumes of easy March arrangements to accuracy, spring and his left-hand position un- “Third Symphony,” Delius’ “Songs of The eighth note should, of course, be be had; any of them will do for the lad. questionably will become excellent. Sunset,” and Lambert’s ‘Horoscope.” BOB JONES COLLEGE CLEVELAND. TENNESSEE 372 "FORWARD MARCH WITH MUSIC’’ THE ETUDE

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