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Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1921-1922, Sherwood Music School

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The 1921-1922 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, and tuition information.

Volume 39, Number 01 (January 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Unseen Influences in Musical Composition and Interpretation (interview with Cyril Scott)

How to Check Up a Child's Progress

Written Lesson in Music

Why Does My Back Get Tired When I Practice?

Intensive Left-Hand Practice

Handicapped Players

What are the Best Kind of Playing Fingers

Adelina Patti: Queen of the Opera of the Last Century

Use Up-to-Date Beginner's Books

How Would You Answer These Self-Searching Questions?

When You Practice

One Note: Some of the Fascinating Curiosities of Acoustics

How Can I Find Out Whether My Child is Musical?

Rhythmic Knack

Peep Behind the Scenes

De Gustibus Est Disputandum, I Say: Matters …

I'M Just Wild About Harry / Music By Eubie Blake; Words By Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, M. Witmark And Sons (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of a well dressed African American male asking a fawning African American female to dance; description reads fox-trot novelty song from the sensational musical comedy success Shuffle Along; Publisher: M. Witmark and Sons (New York)

Wang-Wang-Blues / Words By Gus Mueller, Buster Johnson, And Henry Busse, Gus Mueller, Buster Johnson, Henry Busse, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: photograph of Van and Schenk; Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

My Mommy Knows / Words By Harry De Costa And M.K. Jerome, Harry De Costa, M. K. Jerome, Waterson Berlin And Snyder Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

No abstract provided.

Cry Baby Blues / Music By Geo W. Meyer; Words By Joe Young And Sam M Lewis, Geo W. Meyer, Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis, Irving Berlin Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

No abstract provided.

Aunt Hagar's Blues / Words By W.C. Handy, W. C. Handy, Richmond-Robbins Music Publishers (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: photo of Isham Jones and his Orchestra; [note: photo shows a tuba being used for the bass line]; Publisher: Richmond-Robbins Music Publishers (New York)

12th Street Rag / Words By Euday L. Bowman, Euday L. Bowman, J. W. Jenkins Sons (Kansas City)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of a Caucasian couple dancing on 12th street; Publisher: J. W. Jenkins Sons (Kansas City)

I'M Just Wild About Harry / Music By Eubie Blake; Words By Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, M. Witmark And Sons (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawings of various peoples legs; Publisher: M. Witmark and Sons (New York)

Love Will Find A Way, Author Unknown, M. Witmark And Sons (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

No abstract provided.

Coal Black Mammy / Music By Ivy St. Helier; Words By Laddie Cliff, Ivy St. Helier, Laddie Cliff, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: illustration of a peaceful Cotton Field (see #182); Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Swanee River Moon / Words By H Pitman Clark, H Pitman Clark, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: moon trees and the river; Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

All By Myself / Words By Irving Berlin, Irving Berlin, Irving Berlin Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of a woman reading a book near the window.; Publisher: Irving Berlin Inc. (New York)

Only A Smile / Music By J.S. Zamesnik; Words By Eldred Edson, J. S. Zamesnik, Eldred Edson, Sam Fox Pub. Co. (Cleveland)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Key of G. Cover: a drawing of a woman's portrait; Publisher: Sam Fox Pub. Co. (Cleveland)

I'Ve Got My Habits On / Music By Jimmie Durante; Words By Chris Smith And Bob Schafer, Jimmie Durante, Chris Smith, Bob Schafer, Goodman And Rose Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of African American male musicians; photo inset of singer Patricola; Publisher: Goodman and Rose Inc. (New York)

Coal Black Mammy / Music By Ivy St. Helier; Words By Laddie Cliff, Ivy St. Helier, Laddie Cliff, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of a peaceful scene with ducks flying over a cotton field; text at the top reads the international fox trot success (see 340); Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

(Ta De Da Da De Dum) Dangerous Blues / Music By Billie Brown; Words By Anna Welker Brown, Billie Brown, Anna Welker Brown, J. W. Jenkins Sons (Kansas City)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of well-dressed Caucasians dancing on the wings of flying airplanes, as a Pan-like satyr figure plays saxophone; Publisher: J. W. Jenkins Sons (Kansas City)

Bring Back My Blushing Rose / Music By Rudolf Friml; Words By Gene Buck, Rudolf Friml, Gene Buck, Harms Incorporated (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of a woman with a bird; from Ziegfeld Follies of 1921; Publisher: Harms Incorporated (New York)

[The] Lincoln Who Lives, Alma Stanley, Ruth Mason Rice, The Ladies Home Journal

ALLM: Civil War Sheet Music Collection

80.7568.675 – “[The] Lincoln Who Lives”: Alma Stanley: Ruth Mason Rice: Published in The Ladies’ Home Journal: 1921: Voice Solo.

I Like It, Aileen Stanly, Charles N. Grant, Irving Berlin Inc.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman in a diamond shaped border with the words Aileen Stanly



First line of song: Mary Greene seventeen Mother's only child

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Home Again Blues", "Rosie Make It Rosy For Me', and "Drowsy Head"

Standard Edition

Sincerely Aileen Stanly

First line of chorus: I'm gonna do it if I like it and I like it

Arranged by Charles N. Grant

Moderato

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Irving Berlin Inc., New York

My Sunny Tennessee, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Herman Ruby, Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of a man on the right and a lady in the middle dancing. Also includes a pair of carnival masks.

First line of song: When the shades of night are falling, Tennessee, I hear you calling;

First line of chorus: I wanna be in Tennessee in my Dixie paradise,

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Little Min-nee-ha! ha!

By Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Herman Ruby

As sung by Eddie Cantor in Lee & J. J. Shubert's Production The Midnight Rounders of 1921

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Waterson Berlin & Snyder …

When Francis Dances With Me, Benny Ryan, Sol (Violinsky) Ginsberg, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A couple dancing on the left with another man standing on the right with a path of flowers in between.

First line of some: Katie O' Conner from Tenth Avenue, was dancing with Francis her beau,

First line of chorus: When Francis dances with me, Hully Gee, I'm as gay as can be,

Tempo di Valse

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Swanee River Moon"

Words by Benny Ryan

Music by Violinsky

"Say, fellers, dis song is de real goods for a waltz." Yours Katie O'Connor

"Benny Ryan scratched off de woids, and me friend Violinsky knocked …

Say It With Music, Irving Berlin, Hassard Short, Charles N. Grant, Irving Berlin Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover : A picture of a open ballerina music box

First line of song: Music is a language lovers understand

First line of chorus: Say it with music, beautiful music

Moderato con espressione

Sam H. Harris presents Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue

Words & Music by Irving Berlin

Staged by Hassard Short

Includes sheet music samples from the song "In A Cozy Kitchenette Apartment"

Arranged by Charles N. Grant

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Irving Berling Inc, New York

Song Of Love, Dorothy Donnelly, Sigmund Romberg, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: Once on a time, In a kingdom by the sea

First line of chorus: You are my song of love, melody immortal

From the Musical Play "Blossom Time"

Lyric by Dorothy Donnelly

Music by Sigmund Romberg Adapted from Melodies of Franz Schubert & Heinrich Berte

Feist Art Series

From the Operetta "Blossom Time"

Duet

1 score, (8p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Leo Feist Inc., New York

Call Me Back, Pal O' Mine, Lawrence Perricone, Harold Dixon, Dixon-Lane Music Pub. Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a man's side profile in a rectangular frame with the words "Yours Sincerely Harold Dixon"

First line of song: I am thinking today of a pal far away that I left in the days long ago

First line of chorus: Call me back Pal O' mine let me dream once again

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Wishing For You", "When All The World Forgets You There's A Mother Waiting Still", and "Mammy Land"

Moderately with expression

Marimba Waltz Song

Words by Lawrence Perricone

Music by Harold Dixon

Male Quartette version included

To M. …

Wabash Blues, Dave Ringle, Fred Meinken, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A group of nine men wearing tuxes that look like they are in a orchestra each holding a different instrument.

First line of song: Nearly broken hearted since the day that I once started from my Wabash home, Indiana's sweet and it's a place that's hard to beat but then I longed to roam

First line of chorus: Oh, those Wabash Blues, I know I got my dues, A lonesome soul am I

Moderato

Standard Edition

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Swanee River Moon"

Featured with Enormous Success by Isham Jones Famous Orchestra

Words by Dave …

My Carolina Rose, Wendell W. Hall, Forster Music Publisher Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman with a pinup hairstyle with a flower tucked into it, wearing a dress with a ruffle trim around the shoulders with a big train and a bouquet of flowers in her hand

First line of song: There's a rose in the heart of the South land, little flow'r I long to see

First line of chorus: She has those dreamy eyes of blue, A smile beyond compare

Moderato with Expression

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Mellow Moon", "Missouri", "Moon River", and "On The Alamo"

By Wendell W. Hall, "The Singing Xylophonist" …

In Bluebird Land, W. R. Williams, Albert E. Short, Will Rossiter

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front Cover: A picture of two birds. One on a tree branch and the other on a tree stump.

First line of song: Although today the clouds are grey, dreary the skies of blue

First line of chorus: Blue birds, don't you hear them call?

Valse Andante

Includes sheet music samples from the songs " Love Days", "Don't You Remember The Time?"

Lyric by W.R. Williams

Music by Albert E. Short

Musical Director Riviera Theatre Chicago ILL.

p a tempo

Chorus: p_mf a tempo

Includes chorus in Fox-Trot Tempo

1 score, (6p), 32x24 cm

Published by Will Rossiter, Chicago

Volume 38, Number 12 (December 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Self Study in the Art of Singing (interview with Mme. Amelita Galli-Gurci)

Harsh Chords in the Bass and What To Do With Them

Rubinstein, Master of Tone

Environment and the Child's Musical Life

Ten-Toned Scales

Harmonious Blacksmith

Revolutionary Etude: A Christmas Story of Music and the Great Unrest

Getting Results in Pianoforte Study

Doing too Much for Students

Like Flying to a Bird

Schubert and Schubart

Bringing Out the Master's Meaning

Some Interesting Things to Know About Playing Scales, Chords and Arpeggios

Marking Accidentals

Apple-pie-ano

Christmas Festival of Peace, Music and Good Cheer

Practical Exercises in Weight Playing

How to …

Volume 38, Number 11 (November 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Liszt to Leschetizky: Forty Years with Great Pianists

Unmusical Fugue

Chart for Remembering Key Signatures

Music and the Home

Practical Exercises in Modern Phrasing

Tonal Perception

Don't Be Fooled by Applause

How Can I Study the Art of Instrumentation?

Preparedness: The Secret of Speed

Getting Results in Pianoforte Study: Some Modern Ways of Reaching the Goal Through New Artistic Means

Musical Misnomers

Lessons We Dread

Early Hours for Practice

Passing on the Credit

Some Tricky Musical Signs, Ties, Slurs and Accidentals

Planning Practice to Get Best Results

Why are Sharps Harder than Flats

Effective Finger Exercises

Fingers versus Brains …