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Cummings Guest House Register Pages 023 And 024, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

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Cummings Guest House Register Pages 025 And 026, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

44th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 44th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 16, 1939.

Volume 57, Number 06 (June 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Now That Commencement Is Here?

Learning How to Help Yourself (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Yes There is a Musical Market

Radio Flashes

Pianist, Know Your Fingers: A New Approach to Piano Technic

Democracy of Radio (interview with Stephen West)

Mother Goose, Mus. Doc.: A Dramatic Piano Recital

Vital Inner Structure of Music: Is Counterpoint the Dry Bones of the Tone Art?

Some Tuneful Towns in the United States

Astonishing New Instrument

Beethoven's Best Clothes (an Anecdote)

Musical Radical Reforms

Great Master's Principles of Composition: Balakirev's Clear and Practical Ideas Upon Musical Structure

New Lights on Giuseppe Verdi as Seen in …

A Study In The Adaptability Of Text Book Content In Meeting Present Rural School Pupil Achievement In Music, Otto Weigel

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The problem of this thesis is this: the writer believes that the present level of achievement of rural school pupils is somewhat below what it should be to successfully master materials in the ordinary music textbooks as now written and adapted in this state. He believes that study of this problem will be beneficial in the matter of writing future materials or in rearranging the program in music for rural school pupils.

Volume 57, Number 05 (May 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Quest for Ideals

New York World's Fair Music Festival

Staccato Star

Building and Use of a Vocal Instrument (interview with Kerstin Thorborg)

Bach's Musical Helpmate: A Graphic Picture of Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Notenbüch

World's Largest Carillon: Dedicated to Stephen Foster

My Old Kentucky Home: An Eighty-five Year Old Folk Song and Something of Its History

Threshold of Music: The Art of Musical Voyaging: Modulation

Ten Remarkable Years Before the Mike (interview with Virginia Rea)

Schumann's Hints to Young Musicians

Music Study Means Music Study (interview with Mischa Elman)

Forward March of Music

Campus Lights 1939, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 57, Number 04 (April 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums! (from Handel's Judas Maccabeus)

Renaissance of the Band (Interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

What Do Bands Mean to America? (interview with Fred A. Holtz)

And the Band Won

New Concepts in Present Day Music (interview with Paul Whiteman)

America's Oldest Civic Band: One Hundred and Ten Years of Activity; and Still Flourishing

Sing With Your Heart (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Recent Record Releases

Tooting a Horn for Fifty Years (interview with B.A. Rolfe)

Eight Years Abroad With a Jazz Band

American Bandmaster Speaks—A Symposium

March of the Grail Knights: From Richard Wagner's Parsifal as …

Volume 57, Number 03 (March 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Quirks

Victor Herbert as I Knew Him: Memories of The Man and His Music

Simplicity as a Background for Art (interview with Guiomar Novaes)

Radio Flashes

Adult Piano Beginner: What Should be Done to Make the Hands Supple (interview with Isidor Philipp)

Hand and the Keyboard

William Mason—An American Master: High Lights in the World's Famous Piano Methods

Good Singing Must be Natural (interview with Bruna Castagna)

Recent Record Releases

Unknown Victor Herbert: Intimate Pictures of the Life of a Widely Loved Composer

Lazy Hand

Scrambling Pupil

Romance of Annie Laurie: The Story Behind One of the Most Famous …

Volume 57, Number 02 (February 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the Arts

Smart Attire for Concert and Recital (interview with Elizabeth Hawes)

Why Music Is the Most Popular of the Fine Arts

Let's Go to the Music Hall: How They Put on the Show in the World's Largest Theater

How to Play Notes

Music's Debt to Shakespeare

Recent Record Releases

Musical Foresight-Hindsight

Mystic Dances of the Far East

Music Elects a Governor

Threshold of Music: Linking Chords into Sentences—And Punctuating Them

Meaning of Musical Ornamentation: The Psychology Behind These Interesting Tonal Decorations in Music

Etude's Courses in Culture

Magnificent New The Mikado in Technicolor: A Cinema Presentation from …

Volume 57, Number 01 (January 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Epic of Attainment

Amazing Musical World of To-day (interview with Walter Gieseking)

Going Through the Book

Moonlight Sonata: Fact, Fiction and Fancy

How to Abolish Fear Before Audiences: The Meaning of Mike-Fright

Men of the Orchestra: A Visit with the Individuals Who Produce the Music (interview with Mishel Piastro)

Spelling of Musical Notation: Musical Orthography Made Clear

Earning a Living Through Singing

Astonishing Invention of Musical Interest

New European Sound Reproducing Invention

Etude in C-sharp Minor by Chopin

Etude's Courses in Culture

Quest for Harmony in Decoration

Forward March of Music

Aids to Sight Reading

Another Use for Reward …

Violin Course: Grade 7, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Exercises, number 701 through 753

My Prayer / Music By George Boulanger; Words By Jimmy Kennedy, George Boulanger, Jimmy Kennedy, Shapiro Bernstein And Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: photo of Jimmy Dorsey; Publisher: Shapiro Bernstein and Co. (New York)

Ragged Rachel / Words By Dorothy Miller Dunlap, Dorothy Miller Dunlap, Theodor Presser Co. (Philadelphia)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: drawing of an African American girl dancing; this is part of a series called Animated Tunes, in which each bar of music is accompanied by a drawing of a character, designed to show movement - the animations are by Alice Pratt; description reads Pickaninny Dance; Publisher: Theodor Presser Co. (Philadelphia)

Short'nin' Bread / Words By Fred K. Huffer, Fred K. Huffer, Calumet Music Co. (Chicago)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: drawing of an African American woman holding shortening bread, as two children jump in anticipation; Publisher: Calumet Music Co. (Chicago)

Tears From My Inkwell / Music By Harry Warren; Words By Mort Dixon, Harry Warren, Mort Dixon, M. Witmark And Sons (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: photo of Red Norvo; Publisher: M. Witmark and Sons (New York)

Wid A Banjo On My Knee / Words By Kenneth Bradford, Kenneth Bradford, Oliver Ditson Co. (Philadelphia)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: drawing of an African American male playing banjo and singing to an African American female; Publisher: Oliver Ditson Co. (Philadelphia)

The Minstrel Man / Words By Bernie Frost, Bernie Frost

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: drawing of a comedian made up in blackface; Publisher: Boston Music Co. (Boston)

Violin Course: Grade 6, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade , Advanced B: Exercises, number 601 through 656

Violin Course: Grade 5, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 5, Advanced A: Exercises, number 501 through 556

Violin Course: Grade 8, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Exercises, number 801 through 853

Violin Course: Grade 8, Studies, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Studies, number 801 through 870

Violin Course: Grade 6, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 6, Advanced B: Lessons and Tests, number 101 through 120

Violin Course: Grade 7, Studies, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Studies, number 701 through 770

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1939-1940, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1939-1940 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, images of student and campus life, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, and biographical information about and images of faculty.

Violin Course: Grade 5, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 5, Advanced A: Lessons and Tests, number 81 through 100

The Minstrel Man, Author Unknown, Boston Music Co. (Boston)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: drawing of a man in blackface (see 442); Publisher: Boston Music Co. (Boston)

Cast Of L’Orpheon’S Production Of L’Amour A Bord, (H.M.S Pinafore) Photograph, Franco-American Collection

Franco-American Music Traditions Exhibit

The operetta was translated from English to French by J.B Couture and presented by Le Club Musicale Literaire. The English version appealed to couture, but there was no French translation. He worked on the translation for a year and a half.

L to R: Yvonne Reny, Jeanne Hebert, Charlotte Michaud, Zephirine Poulin, Leciennce Lavoie, Harmonia Halle, Rosilda Halle, Yvonne Halle, Yvette Couture Hasham, Irma Ferland, Bernadette Desjardins, Marie Guilbeault.

Franco-American Heritage Collection; copy print by Jere DeWaters.

Educational Qualifications And Personality Characteristics Of The Grade Teacher Who Teaches Music, Harriett J. Wright

Graduate Thesis Collection

The purpose of this thesis on the educational qualifications and the personality characteristics of the grade teacher is to ascertain whether or not the teacher is given adequate preparation for teaching music in her classroom.  The research seems to indicate that comparatively little music training is given students preparing to teach in elementary grades.  It is the author's desire that this thesis will bring to the attention of those in charge of teacher training curricula, the need for additional work in the field of music.

The Effect Of Music On Mental Deficiency, Russell E. Goucher

Graduate Thesis Collection

In this research we are concerning ourselves with the problem of the validity of tests. What is accomplished in measuring ones intelligence and how does this effect his study of music? Is there a connection between music and the other subjects in his curriculum? If there is a connection and tests are of great value to us then we are justified in saying that a child can study music because he has a high "I. Q." But then what of the many children with a low "I. Q.?" Couldn't music be of benefit to them? Perhaps in many cases music …