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School Catalog, Siegel-Myers Correspondence School Of Music

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

The catalog for the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music detailing information about the School, its instructors, classes offered, and the nature of the correspondence courses.

Lesson Book: Grand Opera, Rubinkam I. Nathaniel

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Music Lesson Book for the correspondence courses offered through the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music.
Lessons and Examinations: Grand Opera, number 1 through 10

Alma, George V. Hobart, Jean Briquet, Jerome H. Remick & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman with a furry hat holding a purse standing, leaning on a chair with the words Lottie Kendall. There is images of plants on each side and a portrait of a man in the upper left corner.

First line of song: Why are the men bold? Why do they stare at me?

First line of chorus: Alma, sweet Alma, Oh! where do you live?

Moderato

Lyrics by George V. Hobart

Music by Jean Briquet

Joseph Weber presents the sensational musical play "Alma Where Do You Live?" From the German of Adolf Philipp

English Version …

The Lotus, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The 1910 yearbook for Rhode Island School of Design, called The Lotus, included hand drawn illustrations, student-submitted entries, descriptions of each department in the school, lists of students and faculty, descriptions of popular social events, and advertisements. Also included was a calendar of events for the school year. Poems and short stories were also in this yearbook.

My, What A Funny Little World This Is! / Words By Lewis And Benett, Lewis And Benett

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: a contemplative man ; photo inset of Carrie Reynolds; Publisher: Jos. W. Stern and Co. (New York)

Volume 27, Number 11 (November 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Educational Influence of the Opera

On Memorizing Piano Music

Story of the Polonaise

What the Early Church Did for Music

Chopin as Extemporizer

Learning the Bass Clef Notes

How to Expand the Hand Without Injury

Short, Practical Lessons in Theory—The Dominant Seventh Chord

Teacher's Success Depends Upon the Pupil's Success

Mr. George A. Burdett's Work as a Composer

Why Hugo Wolf Failed as a Teacher

Some Fundamental Principles of Advertising for the Musician

Care of the Pianoforte in the Home

How to Form a Musical Library

Volume 27, Number 04 (April 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

At the Grave of Beethoven

What Musical Europe is Thinking and Doing

How Fortunes Are Wasted on a Vocal Education (interview with Marcella Sembrich)

Theodore Leschetizsky on Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with Theodore Leschetizsky)

Story of the Waltz: How the Most Fascinating of Dances Has Influenced the Great Composers

Lessons from the Life of Beethoven

How to Study a New Piece (interview with Schelling, Ernest)

Story of Musical Prodigies: How Some Very Remarkable Children Have Afterwards Become Great Musicians and How Others Have Been Injured by Excessive Work in Their Childhood

Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata: Balestrieri's Famous Painting Described

Short Practical …

Volume 27, Number 03 (March 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Musical Europe is Thinking and Doing

Touch—the Great Essential (interview with M. Ossip Gabrilowitsch)

How to Cultivate Sight-Reading

Sub-conscious Mind in Piano Playing

Musical Europe of Yesterday and Musical America of To-day: Reflections Upon the Study of Music and Pianoforte Playing as Taught in Europe Twenty-Five Years Ago and as Taught in America Now

Scarlatti's Unique Fingering

Interesting Stories of Chopin's Career

Chopin's Taste in Music

Mathematics of Melody

How Music Brightens the Home

Bellini, the Genius of Stricken Sicily

Easy Way to Teach Musical History

Conquering of Fear

Use of the Sound Reproducing Machine in Vocal Instruction and …

Volume 27, Number 02 (February 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Review of European Musical Articles

Masters and Their Methods

Mozart's Lack of Commercial Instinct

On the Quantity of Work to be Given a Pupil

Rossini's Remarkable Industry

Opportunities for Young Oratorio Singers

Useless Musical Exercises

Robert Schumann's Carnaval

Optimism in Teaching

What is an Ear for Music?

How Mendelssohn Wrote a Famous Work

Beethoven's Woodland Walks

Young Artist's Treasure Box: Aphorisms by Poets, Philosophers and Artists

Volume 26, Number 12 (December 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tschaikowski's Appreciation of Grieg

How to Play My Best Know Pieces

Schumann's Industry as a Piano Student

Schubert's Love of Nature

Secret of Public Appearance

Wagner's Phenomenal Imagination

Training of a Concert Pianist, Part 1

We Shoot at a Flying Mark

Paying for Lessons

With Anton Rubinstein in the Class-Room

Teaching the Scales and Arpeggios

Securing Arm Control at the Keyboard

Lesson with Dr. Hans von Bülow

Make Every Movement Count

Question of Equipment

Musical Comedy of Errors

How Chopin Played

Dvorak on Why Bohemia is Musical

What Teachers and Pupils Could Do for American Music

Getting the Most Out …

Russian Nuptials, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

No abstract provided.

Volume 26, Number 11 (November 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Invention of the Nocturne

Stephen Heller—His Life and Works

From Rubinstein's Note-Book

Superstititions of Concert Pianists

Effective Piano Practice

American Students Should Study in America

What the Masters of Music Have Accomplished in Old Age: Remarkable Instances of Musical Activity and Intellectual Fecundity Late in Life

Musical Atmosphere in America

What Constitutes Beauty in Piano Playing

Classical Music as a Basis of Pianoforte Instruction

Handel's Youth

Volume 26, Number 05 (May 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Student Days in Weimar With Liszt: Reminiscences of an American Virtuoso and Teacher Who Won the Interest of the Greatest Master of the Keyboard

Extending the Compass of a Hand Without Injury

Securing Pupils

Helpful Ideas for the Younger Piano Teacher

Difficulties of Teachers in Small Towns

Leopold Godowsky on Natural Technic

Retaining the Loyalty of Old Pupils

Rise of the Virtuoso

Necessity of Credentials for Music Teachers

Some Essentials of Pianoforte Tone Production

Good Way to Teaach Odd Rhythms

Mothers as Assistant Teachers

Volume 26, Number 04 (April 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Newly Discovered Sketch by Mozart with its Musical Explanation

Sustained Finger Exercises

Co-öperation of Teacher and Student

Stimulating the Pupil's Ambition

Autobiography of a Rhapsody of Liszt

Suggestions Relating to Scale Fingering

Some Factors that Aid Good Teaching

Thirty-minute Lesson

Wagner's Witty Remarks on the Oratorio in England

Difficulties of the Young Music Teacher

What Should the Amateur Pianist be Taught of Harmony

Allow the Student to Develop His Own Ideas

Remodeling the Old Teacher's Work: How Great Tact Should be Used in Making Changes

Volume 26, Number 02 (February 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching Young Boys

Placate the Parent

Piano Duet Practice

Technic as It Should Be

Teachers' Auxiliary Work

What is Music?

So-Called Natural Piano Technic

Carl Heins

Musical Degrees in American Colleges

Why the Masters Died Poor

Brahms and Nikisch

Contrasted Character of Major and Minor Music

Volume 24, Number 08 (August 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Exercises for the Sight Reading Class

Reminiscences of Celebrated Singers (interview with Giovanni Sbriglia)

Significance of Bach to Modern Music

Public Taste in Music as Shown by Summer Orchestra Programs

Teaching of the Minor Scales

Bach Awakening

Aphorisms from the Manuscript of the Late C.H. Richter

Story of Johann and Joseph Strauss

Pupils' Rhythmical Problems

Volume 24, Number 07 (July 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Edouard Risler and His Playing of Beethoven's Sonatas

Suggestions for Chord Playing

Soirée at Richard Wagner's

What Does the Layman Hear in Music?

Making of an Artist: The View of Alfred Reisenauer

How an Opera Was Written

Schumann's Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12

Suggestions for Sight Reading Practice

Plea for Broad-Mindedness

Value of Imagination

Modern Virtuoso

Selection of Teaching Music

Volume 24, Number 05 (May 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chorus Conducting and Music Festival Organization: Talks with Mr. Emil Mollenhauer and Mr. George W. Stewart

Who Shall Select the Pupils' Music

Monument to Stephen Heller

Self-Control

Sigismond Stojowski and His Views on Piano Study

Evolution of the Leschetizky Method

Some of the Elements of a Good Teacher

Program Novelties for Music Clubs

More Extensive Pianoforte Repertoire

Necessity of Theoretical and Historical Study to the Pianist

Reading at Sight: Some Practical Suggestions

How Improvements in the Piano Affected Composition

How the Great Musicians Practice

Mozart's Manner of Composing

Volume 24, Number 01 (January 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

George Frederick Handel: The Making of Great Man in Music

Handel's Place in Musical History

Instrumental Music of Handel

Handel's Oratorios To-day

Handel Miscellany

Longevity of Musical Compositions

Vincent d'Indy

Two Ways of Teaching the Piano

Music Teaching and General Education

Practical Ideas Applied to the Teaching of Children

Story of the Water Music

Volume 23, Number 11 (November 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Carl Baermann: Some Characteristics of His Art and His Playing

Men and Things of the Day in Music

Music in the University of California

Mme. Wanda Landowska

How May a Child's Musical Talent be Determined!

Music Teachers and Pupils: A Study in Influences

Why Does a Composer Compose?

Realism in Music

On Traits and Characteristics of Students

Methods and their Use

True Musical Understanding: Is it the Result of Rule and Measure?

Useful Gymnastic Exercises for Musicians

Volume 23, Number 10 (October 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Concert Hall of the Paris Conservatoire

Making of Tone Color Effects on the Piano

Liszt as a Pianoforte Writer

Hints for Inexperienced Teachers

Music and Life

Opportune Bending of the Musical Twig: A Few Suggestions in Elementary Piano Teaching

Young Music Teacher

Foundation of Sight Reading

Estimate of Johann Sebastian Bach

Gounod and Faust

Mission of Music in the Public Schools

Essentials of Success

Music Lessons the Soldiers Taught

Volume 23, Number 09 (September 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Music Festival in America: Its Tendency to Promote a Musical Atmosphere

Emancipation of the Musician

Sense of Musical Beauty

On the Necessity of Better Music in Teaching

Ways and Means for the Development of Music in Small Towns

Music Teaching as a Profession and a Business

Modern Idea of Business System Applied to the Musical Life

Volume 23, Number 07 (July 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Study of Musical Conditions in the Southern States

Sir Edward Elgar

Practical Application of the Rudiments of Harmony to the Study of the Piano

Interpretation of Music Upon the Piano

Influence of the Music Teacher Upon the Pupil

On the Essence of the Beautiful in Piano-Playing

Volume 18, Number 05 (May 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Studio Experience: Professional Courtesy

Greatest Difficulty for the Piano

Pertinent Points for Earnest Students

Remoteness of Things

Scharwenka Anecdote

How to Handle Stubborn Pupils

Too High Aims

Franz Peter Schubert

Chronological Summary of Schubert's Works

Schubert's Rank as a Composer and His Influence on the Romantic School

Sadness of Schubert's Life

Schubert and the German Lied

Schubertiana

Man Schubert

Schubert's Orchestral Compositions

On Schubert in Relation to Harmony, Melody, and Rhythm

Few Aphorisms on Schubert by Robert Schumann

Franz Schubert and His Pianoforte Compositions

Discipline via Affection

Characteristics of Schubert's Genius

Listen and Learn

Nervous System and Its Influence Upon …

Volume 18, Number 03 (March 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fourth-Finger Question

Musical Nuggets

Success in Music

Music Sketches

In My Music Room

Sixty-Minute Lesson

Apt Illustration

St. Cecilia

What St. Cecilia Represents in Music

St. Cecilia in Art and Poetry

Apotheosis of St. Cecilia

To the Would-Be Musician

Chord-Playing

Real Value of Recommendations

What Method Do You Teach?

Something About the Popular Music of To-day

Nature's Course with the Child

Individual Who is a Problem

Pupil's Personal Responsibility

Honor to Whom Honor is Due

Aesthetic Versus Structural Analysis

Schumann's Sayings

Turning Music Pages

Why We Are Not More Musical

Advice to the Student of Harmony

Volume 17, Number 11 (November 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Biographical Study

Do-Nothing

Many Methods: A Plea for Liberalism

Musical Items

Evil of Forcing Development

On Studying Sonatas

Unmusical People

Art of Interesting Pupils

Sophie Menter and Cécile Chaminade

Pitch Battle

Ideals for Piano Teachers

Scales Again: The Importance of Metronome and Accent

Too Much Thud!

How to Interest Children

Growth

Talk to Students

Choosing Music as a Profession

Blasts from The Ram's Horn

How to Become a Composer

Suggestions to Students Going Abroad

Who are Faddists?

Personality of the Opera Chorus

Suggestion to Pupils: Obedience

Best Way to Form a Good Teaching Connection

Voice Machine

Necessary Part of a …

Volume 17, Number 02 (February 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Should the Last Note under a Slurred Group be Played Staccato

One Step Toward Success

Playing for Parents

Self-Playing Pianos

Story of Paderewski's Minuet

Beethoven's American Biographer

American in Music

Covering Ground

On the Revival of Mozart's Works

Musical Millennium

Interesting Incident

On the Expediency of Playing Without Looking at the Keyboard

Nervous Pupils

Comments by Emil Liebling

Some Common Faults

Teachers and Pupils

Word of Encouragement to Young Pianists

How to Treat Pupils Who Have Previously Studied with Another Teacher (Symposium)

Foundation Teaching

Street-Organ as a Musical Educator

Am I a Good Teacher? How Can I Improve?

The Invasion …

Volume 17, Number 01 (January 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Forms of Musical Memory

Training of Musical Listeners

Comments by Emil Liebling

Piano for Everybody

Playing Duets with Other Instruments

Problems

Struggle for a Public Career

Let Your Moderation be Known

Speed of Thought

Plea for Simplicity

Charity That is Kind

Some Thoughts by Busoni on Piano Playing

What One Man Did

Word to Aspiring Composers

Should the Last Note under a Slurred Group be Played Staccato

Uncharitableness Among Musicians

Common Sense in Piano Teaching

Blasts from the Ram's Horn, for Musicians

Frederic Francois Chopin

Critical Estimate of Chopin's Pianoforte Compositions

Harping on One String

Count Zichy and the Cultivation …

Volume 16, Number 12 (December 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Comments by Emil Liebling

Danger of Premature Introduction of Classical Music

Some Thoughts on Teaching the Pianoforte

Great Players and Great Teachers

Don'ts

Symposium: Is the Teaching Season Growing Shorter?

Origin of the Baton

Critical Comment

Factors in a Teacher's Success

Behind the Scenes in Art-Life

Violins and Girls

Hearing Music as a Factor in Musical Education

Attempting the Impossible

Technic and Emotion

Sin Against Good Taste

Writing of the Requiem: The Story of Mozart's Masterpiece

Originality Impossible

Good Advice

Nervousness Before Appearing in Public

Methods and Results

Eclecticism in Music

Home Influence on Pupils

Memorizing is Such Hard Work …

Volume 14, Number 10 (October 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Girl and the Piano

Ole Bull's First Great Success

Composer of The Maiden's Prayer

Plea for Professional Ethics

Scales—Sooner or Later?

An Artist's Love Affair

To the Pianist

Hitch Your Wagon to a Star

Teacher's Experience

Fifty Per Cent Off

Chopin's Birth

Pianoforte Pupil

Timely Word

Lunacy Among Men of Genius

Unteachable Pupils

Studio Illustration

How to Listen to Music

Concerning Late Methods

Leschetizky-Rubinstein

Necessity of a Standard of Attainment for Teachers of Music

Why and How

How to Interest Your Teacher

Emotional Affinity of a Student and Her Music

Results of Diligent Study

Description of Vesper Chimes: A …