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Leedy, Fifty Years Of Drum Progress, Leedy Manufacturing Company

Leedy Manufacturing Company

No abstract provided.

I'Ve Got The Texas Blues, Author Unknown, Canterbury Publications (Los Angeles)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: photo of Irving Siegel playing an accordion; Publisher: Canterbury Publications (Los Angeles)

Gotta Be This Or That / Music By Sunny Skylar; Words By Sunny Skylar, Sunny Skylar, Harms Incorporated (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: photo of Benny Goodman; Publisher: Harms Incorporated (New York)

The Changing Attitudes Toward Consonance And Dissonance In Various Historical Periods, Edith H. Carter

Graduate Thesis Collection

The problem of consonance and dissonance has intrigued and baffled theorists since the days of Pythagoras. There are many aspects of the problem which have never been satisfactorily explained. All are agreed, however, that consonances are those relations of pitch which can be expressed in small numbers. Why this should be so, no one has been able to decide definitely, at least up until Helmholtz wrote his Sensations of Tone. It is also self-evident that consonance is a restful and dissonance a restless sound, that dissonance demands resolution into consonance and that the two are necessary to each other, in …

The Darktown Strutters' Ball / Words By Shelton Brooks, Shelton Brooks, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

No abstract provided.

1944 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event program from 1944 contains information about the seventh annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Ursinus College. It lists the performers and conductor as well as the order of each piece of music.

Volume 62, Number 12 (December 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dawn on the Horizon

Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves

Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)

Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge

How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)

Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Music as a Living, Human Element

New York's First Opera

What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words

Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)

Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music

Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …

Volume 62, Number 11 (November 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Blessings at Thanksgiving

Does Practice Make Perfect?

What Is the Purpose of Music Study? (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Punctuation Enhances Musical Beauty: A Plea for Better Punctuation in Music, a Most Vital Part of Phrasing Often Disregarded by Young Piano Students

Theodore Presser as a Teacher

Masterpieces in the Jungle: The Saga of USO-Camp Show Unit 264

Meet Destiny With Your Head Up!

Curing the Mistake Habit: How to Help the Child to Help Himself in Weeding His Musical Garden

How to Plan Programs That Succeed: Judgment and Experience Bring Lasting Results

Get Your Vowels Right!

Setting Industry to Music …

Volume 62, Number 10 (October 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Spheres

Beware of Discordant Voices

Music American Doughboys Hear in India

Compleat Musical Home: What Your Household Must Have to Secure Ideal Musical Results

Fifty Years of Settlement Music: Important Anniversary of the Creation of a Valuable Movement

Childhood and Youth of Edvard Grieg: A Musical Playlet for Young Folks

The Winnah

Physical Coördination in Singing (interview with Maria Kurenko)

Creating a Durable Musical Memory

Musical Fathers and Sons

Technic of the Month—Finale, from Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 6, by Franz Liszt

Volume 62, Number 09 (September 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dependable Technic

Basic Beethoven: Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Remarkable Biography Still the Most Consulted Book In Its Class

Philosophy of Musicianship (interview with Fritz Kreisler)

Music in War Torn Normandy

Selecting Music to Fit the Hall: Should Music Designed for a Small Room Be Played in a Great Auditorium?

Aloha Oe and Its Famous Composer: How Hawaii's Queen Wrote One of the Most Popular of All Songs

Musician's Bible: Bach's Well-tempered Clavichord and What It Has Meant to Musical Art

How Can I Raise My Income: A Nation-Wide Symposium with Contributions from Practical American Teachers

It Came in a Dream: Great …

Volume 62, Number 08 (August 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mind's Ear

Why Music Study Is a Priceless Investment

Keep Jazz Within Its Limits! (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Greatest Show On Earth Grew Out of Music (interview with Mrs. Charles Ringling)

Vital Use of Drudgery

Building Character Through Music

Music in the Chinese Theater

Coöperative Pupil's Recital Plan Which Succeeded

Protect your Precious Musical Instruments

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Musical Ideas Come First

Practice With Your Brains!

Technic of the Month—Prelude in F-sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 13, by Frédéric Chopin

An Experiment In Teaching Sight Reading By Shaped Notes, Coralie Runyon

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to make an attempt to apply in the elementary grades of the public schools the principle of shaped notes with the purpose of fostering sight reading.

Volume 62, Number 07 (July 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Plant Morale

Jane, the Adult Beginner

How Music Helps the Salvation Army (interview with Evangeline Booth)

When the Great Day Comes: A Plan for a Peace Day Celebration (An Editorial)

Story of The American Debussy (Charles T. Griffes)

Passing of a Distinguished Editor and Musicologist

American Music for American Orchestras: A Renowned Conductor Tells What Kind of Music He Seeks from American Composers

Let Phrasing Solve Your Difficulties, Part 2

General Wanted a Wedding March

Master Lesson on a Fascinating Bach Prelude

Technic of the Month—Prelude in B Minor, Op. 28, No. 6, by Frédéric Chopin

49th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 49th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 16, 1944.

Volume 62, Number 06 (June 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Where Airy Voices Lead

Untapped Reservoirs of Musical Treasures: The Secret of the Second Wind with Notable Citations for the Life of Antonio Stradivari

Music in the South American Way (interview with Xavier Cugat)

Music Launches the Henry Grady

Divide and Conquer

Counting Can Be Fun!

Ear Scenery: The Theory and Practice of Sound Effects

Rolled Chords

Let Phrasing Solve Your Difficulties: Musician or Woodpecker? Which are You?

United Nations Piano Recital

Let Us Sing in English! (interview with Florence Easton)

Simplifying the Approach to Harmony

Guitar and Its Traditions (interview with Andres Segovia)

Technic of the Month—Prelude in G …

Volume 62, Number 05 (May 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Your Musical By-Product

Musical Twilight in Europe

Amazing, Little-Known American Musical Development (interview with Archer Gibson)

How to Improve the Enunciation of Choir Singers

May Day in Eisenach: A Little Visit to the Home of Bach

Million New Potential Music Students

Masters and Matrimony: When Wives Are Helpmates, and When They Are Not

Why Many Piano Pupils Never Pass the Fourth Grade

Porker Changes Musician's Career

How Taps Was First Blown

Purposeful Practice

Claudio Monteverdi—Father of the Opera

Joy in Early Violin Study (interview with Samuel Gardner)

Technic of the Month—Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 28, No. 10, by Frédéric …

Volume 62, Number 04 (April 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

De Gustibus non est Disputandum

Great Mr. Handel Enters the Films

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

Piano Practice Game That Is Fun

Great Pipe Organs in American Mansions (interview with Archer Gibson)

Great Mr. Handel Now in the Films: Scenes from the English Technicolor Success, Courtesy of Midfilm, Inc.

Building Musicianship (interview with David and Clara Damrosch Mannes)

Rolling Her Way to Triumph: How a Girl with a Gift Arrived by the Wheel-Chair Route (interview with Ethelwynne Kingsbury)

Reaching Fame the Hard Way (interview with Jan Peerce)

Music Should be Fun for Children: How Music Parties Made Practicing a Joy

So …

Campus Lights 1944, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 62, Number 03 (March 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Birth of a New Era

Make Haste Slowly!: A Conference with The Nightingale of the Air (interview with Jean Dickenson)

Everlasting Quest for an Ideal (interview with Leonard Pennario)

Sir Walter Scott's Influence on Music

Young Conductor (interview with George Szell)

American Musical Firsts

Great Yesterdays in Music (interview with Edgar Stillman Kelley)

Getting Ahead Through Competition

Building Public Musical Taste (interview with Erno Rapee)

Are You Drilling Parrots or Training Musicians?

Fundamentals at the Piano (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

Technic of the Month—Prelude in G Major, Op. 28, No. 9, by Frédéric Chopin

Tchaikovsky's Wit