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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 2-1-1951 Volume 69, Number 02 (February 1951) John Briggs Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Briggs, John. "Volume 69, Number 02 (February 1951)." , (1951). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/143 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. 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Since then he has toured widely as a solo recitalist, and has appeared .with the leading orchestras of this country. He JOHN BRIGGS, Editor - PIANO COURSE has also given four European tours since 1945. His book, "Keys Dorothy F. Garretson, Managing Editor Charles J. Reed Art D' to the Keyboard," has appeared in six countries. Mr. Foldes is The course thai combines studenl and teocher appeal. Devised to J. Cleee McKray, .Music Editor ' lrfCIQr shall I buy?" sustain slu~e~Is' interest and enthusiasm. Smooth step-by-step advance- now a U. S. citizen. ment, combining the elements of piano technic with melody. Harold Berkley Maurice Dumesntl Etiubeth A. Gest Guy Maier K:ITIW. Gehrkens Alexander McCurdy Wilfrid Pelletier William D. Herelli Development of rhythmic pot- ELISABETH SCHUMANN Michael Aaron PIANO PRIMER - James Francis Cooke. Editor Emeritlls (Strauss: "Morgen"-A Master terns through hondclopping _ Easy-ta-understond diagrams _ Attractive Lesson, p. 26), is authoritative as an interpreter of Strauss' songs, rhymes and melodies plus lorge Noles. Illustrations... .60 having toured Europe and America in recital with the composer GRADE ONE - In the very firsl lesson the student actually begins to at the piano. Mme. Schumann, a native of Merseburg, Germany, ploy. Simple, Direct, Modern Approach 10 a solid foundation in piano playing _ __._ 1.00 made her operatic debut in Hamburg, sang one season at the GRADE TWO - Easy Arrangements of Classics - Original Melodic Vol. 69 No.2 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 1951 Metropolitan and was for twenty years a shining light of the Material - Pedal Studies Music Canslruction _ Minor and Chromatic Vienna State Opera. An outspoken opponent of Nazism, she left Sca Ies _._ " , , ,. .__, . .__.., , _.._ _.. .. ___ __. _..... 1.00 FE.'lTVIIES Austria when the Nazis came in. Mme. Schumann now divides GRADE THREE - Original Descripfive Pieces which "sound difficult" but PAGE her time between her apartment in New York City and her son's in keeping with third grade - Original Etudes _ Sight Reading, etc 1.00 THOUGHTS AT 70 ..••.............................. Erne.t Blotla 9 home in England. GRA.D~ . FOUR - Forms of Compositions - Speciol Study of Sonota For~ MUSIC TEACHING AS A PROFES ION ....•......... Si,mund Spaeth II - . DlmJn,sh~d Seventh and Dominanl Seventh Chords and Arpeggios JEANIE WAS A LUCKY GIRL ..............•.......... rUarion lIart 12 Recilol Material _ , , , .', , _, _ _.. 1.00 THE ORIGIN OF THE FUGUE ............•............. Kurt Stone 14 REINALD WERRENRATH ("Singing Can Be Simple," p. 16), Michae.1 Aaron ADULT PIANO COURSE - The odult opproach IT'S ALL DONE WITH MUSCLES! , ,,4,.lIor F&lde. 15 is one of America's outstanding recitalists. Both his parents were to th~ p.lano ", rapidly and confidently, through basic principles to melodic SINGING CAN BE SIMPLE Rell1l1ld JPerrel1,ath 16 singers; his father, Charles Werrenrath, was a famous oratorio material In loqiccl, step-wise manner 1.00 THAT INEVITABLE SYMPHONY DEFICIT ,J. L. MClrris 17 tenor and a close friend of Counod. Reinald Werrenrath was REBUILDING A FAMOUS VIOLIN ....... , , on W MICHAEL AARON PIANO TECHNIC born in Brooklyn, and studied with his father, Carl Dufit, Frank King Clark, Dr. Arthur Mees and Percy Rector Stephens. He sang DEt· J'lUT~IE1\'TS one season at the Metropolitan, but for the most pa~t made his MUSICAL lUISCELLANY Nicola,Sloninukr 4 career in solo recitals. He is now teaching in New York City.