Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 8-1-1942 Volume 60, Number 08 (August 1942) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 60, Number 08 (August 1942)." , (1942). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/236 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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This book, with its fascinating method First Year Students into the given in the Lucerne presentation, carries the student well Continuing where the "Beginner’s Book" leaves concerts will be took over the direction and reorganiza- degree of Doctor of Music Junior Scholarship of toe Natiorial Fed- second grade. ___ off this book enables the pupil to progress rapidly By John Thompson Price, 75 cents Concert Hall, and in the park of Trieb- because the necessary technical studies on grace tion of the parent organization, which by the College of Music eration of IN LAND Cheerful tunes, in a variety of rhythmic patterns, Music Clubs. The scholarship, ADVENTURES MUSIC broken chords, arpeggios, syncopation, park marks the site LITTLE PLAYERS notes written by a noted pedagogical authority for use schen, nearby. The had been known as Pryor’s Silver Cornet of Cincinnati on June hand crossing, wrist motion, etc., are interspersed which comprises two hundred and fifty Instruction Book for Young People as supplementary material the instruction Piano Method for Very Young Beginners A Modern to first of the Villa Triebschen, where for sev- A by interest-sustaining material. book. Band. Followed then some thirty years 12. During a varied dollars In tuition fees, renewable an- Ella Ketterer Price, $1.00 eral years, from December 1865, Wagner By Robert Nolan Kerr Price. 50 cents By in which Pryor’s Band became inter- career of over forty years in music, Dr. nually on toe basis of merit, was won by An engaging and thoroughly fascinating pre- Interspersed throughout this book are attractive made his home and where he completed nationally known. 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