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~ : I KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW, l>EClJl\IBER, 18S7. 441 MUSIC BOOKS FUELIS:::S:ED BY . OLIVER DITSON co. BOSTON., JY.[..A::SS. I ~ NEW PIANO gQLLEGTION$ CHOIR LEADERS · Music Books for Young and Old. I! OF EMINENT MERIT. are invited to make the ensuing season their most No nicer book has appeared for a longtime than The New CLASSICAL PIANIST ($l.OO) just out, con- successful. one, by adopting one of D~tson & Co.'s tains a truly ndmirable selection from the best works of the books, wh1ch are most carefully compiled, and con best modern piano composers, such as Jensen, Bargiel, Ruben- tain the newest works of the best composers. Songs and Games for tbe Little Ones. stein, Selss, Hollander, Godard, Llszt, Etc.; in all 42 pieces by A"'E"IOAN ANTuE" BOO"' 3. d'ffi1 t t i . al iety and keep ~ "' ,.. ~ ~. ($1,25 or $12.00 per dozen.) . o eren mas ers, g vmg a very unusu. var • · Johnson, Abbey and Tenney, Pleases everybody. Large By GERTRUDE WALKER AND HARRIET S. JENKS. lllg up the interest of the player from begmning to end. Me- sales. Order with Ditson & Co.'s imprint. <'Hnm Difficulty. "ESSLE"'S SAC"ED SELECTI.ONS 136 of the sweetest of sweet songs for the Kindergarten or D"' "' "" • ($1.50 or $13.50 per Primary School. Large handsome pages ; a1~e print. Price, Piano Classics. ($1.00.) dozen.) Very large and varied collection. 82.00. Has had an exceptional success, which it well deserves. JEHOVAH'S :P:BAISE, (100 or $9.00 per dozen.) By L. 0. JINGLE BELLS 30 Cents. 83.00 per dozen, LEWIS. Young People's Classics. For Piano. ($1.00.) Emerson, a new Church Music Book of the best character. One of the very prettiest and easiest of Easy pieces in excellent taste. Many New Anthems and Metrical Tunes. Christmas Operettas. Just out. Other well known books with good Anthem CoUections are:- Fairy Fingers. ($1.00.) ~~g~on~a~~~~gt~~:ri~!~;~:~~~~(~~~t~' 8L~~i~'~ LAUD AMUS . :fr~~a~~!r~:~ijs_' ~~ 1 ~~i:nRI~~- ~~dc~~t~: By Becht, is not new, but a favorite book with. teachers VOX LAUDIS; and the SHEPARD CHURCH COL- RITTER, of Vassar College. Refined and Superior collection. (for the first easy pieces.) LECTION. Price ot each, 81.00 or $9.00 per dozen. Male Choira or Quartets will find good music in 8 Cents. New Christmas service Schumann's Album. ($1.25.) OLD SWEET STORY • for Sunday Schools, bright and in- Good, bri!lf, fairly easy pieces. AME:BICAN MALE CHOIR. (Sl.OO or $9.00 per dozen), and in spiring, as is BIRTHDAY OF OUR LORD. 8 Cents. Dow's Sacred Quartette for Male Voices, 82.00 Cloth, Also a Christmas service, S end for List of Christmas A simple and easy "beginners, " book is 81.75 Boards. Carols. Bellak's Analytical Method for Piano. 75c. Also send for lists of our 3000 Octave pieces, costing 75 Cents. Is a great success. 1!\J 5 and 10 cents each. LEONARD'S MASS IN E. Many good Piano Pieces in a year are given in Ditson & Easy and good music. Co.' s MONTHLY MUSICAL RECORD ($1.00), in addition Any Book Mailed for Retail Price. $1.00. New and extra good col- I to valuable lists of new music, good reading, and a large Oliver Ditson & Oo. Boston. CLASSICAL PIANIST ' lection. 42 pieces. 35 first-rate com quantity of good songs. posers. • C. H. DITSON & Co ., J. E. DITSON & Co., i BOOKS MAILED FOR RETAIL PRICE. 1226 Chestnut St., Philo.. ANY BOOK MAILED FOR RETAIL PRICE. 867 Broadway, New Yotk. ,I ' I ESTABLISHED 18152. THE MISSOURI I I i ! THE S~ITH I SAFE DEPOSIT C!L I American Organ and Piano Co. EQUITABLE BUILDINC, I MANUFACTURERS OF 6th and Locust Sts., ST. LOUIS, MO. I' ------------------------ Absolutely: Burglar and Fire-Proof Safes to I PIANOS rent at from $10.00 per annum upwards. -· I AND I Renters have all the privileges of the Read ing Rooms, Coupon Rooms, Etc. Silverware, Bric-a-Brac and Valuables of ORGANS. any description can be stored for any length of time in our Vaults at very low rates. Premises open to inspection from 9 a. m. Our Instruments have a world-wide repu until 4:30 p. m. tation, and are second to none in Tone, Touch, Workmanship or Design. An absolute war ---------------------~- I• ranty with every instrument. OFFICERS. JAM.E~ J. HOYT, President. Catalogues and prices on application. HENRY G. MARQUAND, 1st Vice-Pres't. J. 8. KENDRICK, Secretary. G. D. CAPEN, Treas. and2d Vice-Pres't. EDw. A. SMrrH, Sup't of Safes. The Smith American Organ and Piano Co. DIRECTORS. LOUIS FITZGERALD, HENRY G. MARQUAND, HENRY B. HYDE, GEo. D. CAPEN, GEo. W.ALLEN, D. K. FERGUSON, BOSTON, IISS., or KIBSAS CITY, MO. HENRY C. HAARSTICK, JAMES J. HOYT, WILLIAM NICHOLS. 442 KUNKEL'S MUSICAL REVIEW, DECEMBER, 1887. ONE PRICE NEW ENGLAND PIANOS Are Noted for their Fine Tone ... and Superior Finish. JOEL SWOPE & BRO. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE TO No. 3tt North Fourth Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. THE LARGEST RETAIL SHOE HOUSE NEW ENGLAND PIANO CO. --IN-- 82 G-EORG-E STREET, -----A1VJ:ERJ:CA.. ------c.-. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. Special Attention given to Orders outside of the City. BosToN, MAss. Illustrated Catalogue sent FREE on Application. BRIGGS PIANOS. THE DIFFERENCE Merchant tallors take men individually and in their 1imited capacity, measure them, show them a few samples, ask a deposit on the transaction to secure themselves, at the same time offering no security to the custo mer, and finally deliver goods when they get ready. We also make garments to order, but we size up mankind in one gigantic bulk. We know our clients well; we study their pecu liarities, their size and their idiosyncrasies, and WE NEVER GIVE A MISFIT. When we take our order at the commence ment of the season to clothe the male com munity we buy enough material to clothe a whole county, and we make it up in the most approved fashion, so that when our customers come to us for their outfits they get custom-made apparel ready for imme diate wear. ANY WELL - BALANCED MIND 'J...lJte BBIGGS PIANOS are manufactured in the most thorough tnanner and . are offered at as LOW PBIOES as can grasp the fact immediately that by 1 coming to us direct an immense saving of will ensure a really good instrument. money is gained-and just as good a. result All our Pianos are fully warranted for Five Years. effected as by patronizing high-priced mer· chant tailors. 0. 0. BRIGGS & 00. Warerooms and Factory: F• .w I HUMPHREY & CO., No. 5 Appleton St., opp. 440 Tremont, BOSTON. N. E. Cor. Broadway and Pine. ------- ---- --- Vol. X. DECEMBER, 1887. No. 12. A CHAT ABOUT MEYERBEER. and" Le Prophete," but when Meyerbeer invaded used in Holomon's Temple. Certain brnaments, the Opera Comique he produced more rapidly, the and especially the beautiful engraving near the EYERBEER would never tell anybody ''North :::>tar'' dating from 1854, and '' Dinorah '' opening of the large end of the instrument, form how old he was. The musical dictiOn· 1859. The "North Star," however was onlv the ing a turreted border around its edge, are the most aries give 1791, 1793, 1794 and 1796 as the amplification of his "Feldlager in Schlesien 7' and convincing proofs for this position. When Titus date of his birth; 1794 is the correct one, his" Vi~lka," written for Jenny Lind, the greatest Vespasianus, the youthful Roman general, subju at least the one chosen by his friend~y of all his Alices in "Robert." One of his biogra· gated Judea and destroyed its Temple, he took the biographers. This would make him 70 phers declares that the motif of the famous" Sliad· renowned tables, the seven· branch candlestick, the at the time of his death. ow Song" in Dinorah was heard by Meyerbeer at "Sacred Books," and the trumpets to Rome, where The composer himself invariably tried Ems, sung by a young peasant girl. He noted it they were, with other trophies of victory, carried to make people believe he was younger by several down and tried in vain to find out where she had in procession through the city in honor of the con years, and even Mr. Blaze de Bury could not worm learned it. She told him her mother knew, and queror. Upon the arch of Titus these things were the secret from him. Meyerbeer called on the dame, but she in turn in sculptured and may be seen in Rome in a fau state Had Meyerbeer devoted himself exclusively to formed that her grandmother used to whistle it I of preservation to·day. The" Sacred Books" the the piano he would have been the rival of Liszt. When Rossini heard the :first bars of this fasci victor presented to Josephus Flavius, the Jewish His technique, touch and mastery of the instru· nating melody hummed, he immediately finished historian. Afterward, when Titus became Em ment were phenomenal. .!fortunately for music, the melodic phrase, although he had never heard it. peror of Rome, the instruments and "tables of he became a composer. Nurtured in Germany, The sly old fox knew how his friend Meyerbeer shrew bread," by decree of the Senate and Council with German ideas, half Weberized and wholly would treat the second phrase. Meyerbeer de of Rome, were placed in the great temple of Jupi independent, young, ardent and wealthy, he went tested Halevy's music and was jealous of the suc ter.