Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 7-1-1954 Volume 72, Number 07 (July 1954) Guy McCoy 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 McCoy, Guy. "Volume 72, Number 07 (July 1954)." , (1954). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/105 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Id for th Piano Hlld. So." o ra in Canada May W"ls Johnstone The Credit of the u ic Teacher Ja •• s Francis Co Ice I th al tto False? Po· for the Church Organi I.. ."" W. CI.Ie.y • • T 0 T n E EDITOR Organ Articles therefore, was accustomed to read- Sir: I have been impressed and ing multiple staves, but I still had inspired by several recent articles to struggle with those pedals. in the ETUDE written by, or Whatever Illy shortcomings as about, organists of enviable stat- an organist may be, I have very ure, working in large city churches definite and fervent convictions as with magnificent instruments, and to the responsibilities and oppor- performing music of unquestion- tunities involved. First of all, the able quality. I have been inspired organ is a means by wh ieh the ._- and impressed, and yet a little de- spiritual experiences may be en- _•. ""'"{ft' -,,~ pressed also, because such circum- riched-our first responsibility as • stances seem so far removed from organists is to create, insofar as ~- - See.·· my own, and I feel that there must we are able, an atmosphere of be many others like me. worship, to give continuity to the Beat yo~ cart ~ .. Perhaps we have no right to call service. Perhaps we are best com- A ,;;;::... ourselves organists-c-those of us plimented when we are not com- who serve, as I do, a congregation plimented at all-when the wor- of several hundred people in a shippers are not conscious of the A Beat you \ small town. Certainly we cannot music. I am the first to admit, can hear! call ourselves organists in the though, that I was very, very grate- sense that that is the profession in ful when I heard in a roundabout which we earn our livelihood-at way one Sunday that someone had least in material terms-as any said it had been worth coming to' ~tlmtr Bob Jones University believes salary which might be involved is, church to hear the music! That of necessity, nominal in nature, should make any organist eager to that the purpose of education and we sandwich our church work work harder. Here again, I would should not be primarily to train in as best we can with that by mention the "quality" of the mu- METRONOMA which we earn our daily bread. sic-most of the people in my com- Electric Tempo Indicator young people to make a living- The instruments we play are-with munity, and surely in others like with the Flash Boton they should be taught how to live. the possible exception of some of it, while generally well-educated the newer electronic ones-limited and progressive, are not on inti- World's most dependable time beat! Selmer Metronoma by size and probably by age. I mate terms with Bach and his like gives you correct tempos two ways ... (1) by a sound Bob Jones University graduates play an ancient tracker action or- and do not readily associate it heat that can be set loud or soft, and (2) by a sight beat gan (and I should add that I do so with a personal religious exper i- through a visihle, flashing light. Easily set for tempos happily, as its tone quality is such ence. I feel that it is far better are successful in their business or from 40 to 208-Largo to Presto-with a twist of the that we would be most unwilling to play music more obviously diaL profession. They never have trou- to exchange it for an electronic melodic and I play those much- ble making a living because along instrument, the only substitute we maligned arrangements of hymns In playing with a band or orchestra, you are expected could likely alford). Nor could I if the arrangement is one that em- to follow the beat of the conductor's baton-not the with the academic and cultural call myself an organist in the phasizes the beauty of harmony, sound of the bass drum or other members of the group. training of Bob Jones University, sense that I am a trained organ and is not just a lot of arpeggio- The Metronoma, 'with its flashing visual beat, helps you player. On the contrary, I'm a filled "variations"-and the con- learn to do this. Simply turn the sound beat volume as they have been taught a Scriptur- transplanted pianist, acquiring gregation appreciates them. low as possible and follow the visible flasher. Get it now al and Christian philosophy of most of my knowledge of organ . An organist is, I feel, Christian -Metronoma is your biggest tempo bargain! through reading and that time- first and organist second, and has THEY HAVE LEARNED HOW TO MEET self-sacrifice, self-discipline, and honored tutor, experience. almost unlimited opportunity to loyalty to Jesus Christ. I play in the church of which I intensify the influence of his EMERGENCIES SUCCESSFULLY. am a member, and I do so, as I'm church. I am blessed with a music- CAN'T WEAR OUT-can't radio to any tcmpo-40 to 208 sure do many other "organists" minded pastor, and together we slow down. The beat is always beats per minute. steady, accurate at any tempo. in countless towns and communi- plan the services, trying to inject IDEAL for use by ... NO MOVING PARTS-it uses Music students and teachers in ties, gladly and humbly. I began into them impact and unity and the thyratron "heart beat" sight reading practice. playing regularly when my pred- inspiration. Our volunteer choir tube developed for radar. Ex- clusive design (U. S. Patent Instrumental groups ecessor suddenly became ill and is mostly young people, and we try No. 2,522,492). for a sight-beat plus sound- beat. ~~t,.~. resigned, and being the most likely hard to set up a music program VOLUME CONTROL-make Vocal groups and church choirs prospect available, I agreed to that will be both challenging and the beat as loud or soft as you for quick, visible tempo like, or vary from sharp to guidance. make what pretense I could at be- enjoyable, and will give them op- mellow. Dancing instructors ing an organist, considering it portunity to use and develop their NO CLUMSY ADJUSTING- 10 provide a basic beat in OB JONES UNIVE SI Y hoth a duty and a privilege. The talents and fill our services with no set screws. Dial it like your class. experience has been, and is, rich, beautiful, vital music. We try to enlightening and challenging- make the services varied and in- GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA and, sometimes, frustrating. I'm a teresting-while aware that much On Sale at Better Music Stores capable pianist and fortunately of what the worshipper may derive Distributed Exclusively by Music, speech, and art without additional cost above had had four years' experience ac- from a service depends on his regular academic tuition. companying choral groups and, (Continued on Page 3) ~tlmtr Academy and seventh and eighth grades DEPT. E.71, ELKHART, INDIANA in connection. ETUDE-JULY [0';4 1 Letters to the Editor easy piauo music $3.50 A YEAR GRETl:HAl\!Il\!OFF: (Continued from Page 1) the music olaua.:iue . $1.75 Album of Andrucha, 10 pieces ETUDE IrConcerning Interpretation" own attitude. we don't expect him to Album of Nina, 10 pieces 1.50 Editorial and Business Offices, Bryn Mawr, Pa, overlook weaknesses that we might Sir: The article, "Concerning In- terpretation," by Paul Badura- Children's Book, 15 pieces .50 have avoided. Needless to say, since our per- Skoda in the May 1954 ETUDE, A Child's Day, 10 pieces 1.00 Founded 1883 bJ THEODORE PRESSER J ames Francis Cooke, Editor EmeritUJ forming personnel is mostly young was very interesting. (Editor. 1907.1949) I am studying piano, and I found Dew Drops, 9 pieces 1.25 and limited in experience and train- Guy McCoy, Managing Editor ing, not all of our efforts are out- that this article did more for me Glass Beads, 12 pieces 1.00 George Rochberg, Music Editor standing successes. Many times we than a lot of articles I have read. I find that Mr. Badura-Skoda 1n the Meadows, 10 pieces 1.00 are downright mediocre, and therein Karl W. Gehrkens lies one of the greatest. pitfalls of knows what he's talking about and I-iaroJd Berkley Maurice Dumesnil Paul N. Elbin Send for Ihe new 1954 AMP Piano Calalogue William D. Hevelli any work connected with a church- expresses his point very clearly. I Elizabeth A. Ge8t Guy Maier Alexander McCurdy Nicolas Slonimsky we are aware of our shortcomings agree with him when he.