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Historical Analysis Of The German American Singing Societies In California, With An Evaluation, Anton Hubert Dorndorf

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Throughout Germany the singing society (usually a Maennerchor), is an important institution in the cultural life of every, hamlet, town, and city. During the middle of the nineteenth century, many such societies sprang up throughout America. California had a liberal share of these during the pioneer days. Some of these organizations have persisted until the present day. The function which they performed in enriching the lives of their members, and the contribution which they made to the life of the community seems to the investigator a valid reason for investigation into their background and history.

As far as the investigator …

Volume 72, Number 12 (December 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

World's Most Holy Hour—Poem

Challenge to America

Christmas Concerto

Minimum Instrumental Performance Requirements for Music Education Majors

Lillian Baldwin and the Cleveland Story

American Academy of Teachers of Singing

Orchestra Department

Important Rôle of the String Orchestra in School Music

Christmas with the Composers

Volume 72, Number 11 (November 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On Teaching Bach

With Chopin in Japan

Barber Shop Brotherhood

Waukesha's Plan Pays Off

First Step Is . . . Honesty (interview with Richard Tucker)

Story of MTNA, Part 2

School Orchestra Today: What Successful School Orchestra Teachers Believe

Make This a Happy Musical Thanksgiving (an editorial)

Practicing and Teaching (interview with Erica Morini)

Empiricism and Science in Teaching Voice Production

Volume 72, Number 10 (October 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Liszt's Treasures in Washington

How to Write Good Tunes

Dance Art Develops a Notation

Fascinating Ensemble of Flute and Organ

Story of MTNA

Results Count!

Is There an Italian Method? (interview with Fedora Barbieri)

Present Aims and Objectives in Choral Music

Ernest Bloch Sonata: A Descriptive Analysis

Volume 72, Number 09 (September 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Choral Problems and Choral Clinics (interview with Peter J. Wilhousky)

Music and the Mechanically Minded Student

Contemporary Musical Creation in Education

Recitals: To Have or Not to Have Them

Breaking a Boston Symphony Tradition

So Paderewski Played the Trombone! (an editorial)

Once in a Century Mid-Summer Idyll—Salzburg

London's Unique New Festival Hall

Volume 72, Number 08 (August 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Harpsichord To-Day (interview with Ralph Kirkpatrick)

How Important is Music?

Beethoven and Bubble Gum

Bells from Across the Seas

Rural Music: It's Not All Hillbilly

Magic of Leopold Auer (interview with Benno Rabinof)

Making Good as a Music Teacher (an editorial)

How to Sing More Fluently (interview with Crystal Waters)

San Francisco's New Musical Leader (interview with Enrique Jorda)

Volume 72, Number 06 (June 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Problems of the Concertmaster

Tarheel Orchestra Takes to the Road

Destiny and Genius

Boys' Choir of Morelia

Haydn: The Man Who Overcame Success

General Who Set Victory to Music

Music Eases the Work Load

So Your Child Has Musical Talent?

Music at Ocean Grove (interview with Walter D. Eddowes)

Summer Instrumental Music Program

Bayreuth—Today and Yesterday

A.G.O. Convenes What To Do About the Left-Handed Violin Beginner

Master Lesson on Bach's Fugue in C-Sharp Minor

Volume 72, Number 05 (May 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Concerning Interpretation (interview with Paul Badura-Skoda)

Key to Grieg's World: Bergen's First International Festival

Protecting the World's Most Valuable Musical Instrument (an editorial)

And Sweetly Trilled the Fipple Flute

Mr. Opera Takes a Curtain

Small Start (interview with Claramae Turner) Those Four-Year Olds Who Bang the Baldwin

Too Old? Don't You Believe It!

Campus Lights 1954, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 72, Number 02 (February 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Approach to Beethoven (interview with Claudio Arrau)

Music's Royal Heritage: From Early Times to the Present Royalty has Bestowed Many Favors and Much Assistance to Music and Musicians

Personal Reminiscences of Jacques Thibaud

Pre-Kindergarten School

Chopin's Influence on Modern Music

Preparing for an Operatic Career (interview with Camilla Williams)

Playing the Church Service

Music Comes to the Little Red School House: A Unique Arrangement Which Has Proved Its Worth in Bringing Music to Children Who Otherwise Would be Deprived of It

William Kapell—An Informal Sketch By His Teacher

Volume 72, Number 01 (January 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Albert Schweitzer, The Man and Musician Music and the Rose Parade

New Year of Musical Opportunities (an editorial)

Meet Miss Hebden—Canadian Ambassadress for Music

Making of a Conductor (interview with Dimitri Mitropoulos)

Advice from the Golden Age (interview with Giovanni Martinelli)

Pianist Finds Himself (interview with Seymour Lipkin)

Old Opera with New Ways

Choir with a Vision

New Life for Old Music

Master Lesson on Schubert's Moment Musical in A-Flat, Op. 94, No. 6

Ua94/7/2 Mary Grise Scrapbook, Mary Grise

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Mary Grise regarding events of her life as a high school student in 1953-1954. She participated in theatre, tennis, public speaking and musical events and competitions. The scrapbook contains clippings, mementos, programs and essays.

Concert Programs 1954-1955, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Department Of Music

Concert Recordings & Programs

This is the annual compilation of music programs from the Department of Music for the time period indicated

Volume 71, Number 10 (October 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Way of Life in Art (interview with Lauritz Melchior)

Revival at the Opéra

Century of Tradition

Piano Triumphs

Korea Concerto

Must You Sing? (Part 2)

Volume 71, Number 09 (September 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Preparation for Opera (interview with Licia Albanese)

What Can Technical Instruction Achieve?

Piano Art of Ferruccio Busoni

What the Junior Music Festival Can Do For Your State

Mental Practice (interview with Aldo Ciccolini)

Must You Sing?

Symphony of Bells: An Authoritative Discussion of a New Development in the Electronic Carillion Field

Place of the Non-Concertizing Artist in America's Music

Marketing the Music Manuscript

Volume 71, Number 08 (August 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Impressions of Bayreuth (interview with Astrid Varnay)

Bright Lantern: New Methods for Piano Teachers

Lully—Master Musician

Children Designed This Opera Production

Do's and Dont's for Parents

Making Friends Through Music (An editorial)

America's Rich Musical Heritage (interview with Annabel Morris Buchanan)

Mastering the Cello (interview with Aldo Parisot)

Music Therapy—A New Occupational Horizon

Faulty Rendering of Appogiaturas

Volume 71, Number 07 (July 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Road to Musicianship (interview with Mischa Elman)

Good Health is a Major Asset to the Vocal Artist (interview with David Poleri)

Pennies in the Tambourine (An editorial)

Well-Tempered Piano Tuner (interview with John H. Steinway)

Master of Masters—A Tribute to Arcangelo Corelli

That Cancelled Lesson

Career as a Mortuary Organist (interview with Gene Driskill)

Music Out of Old Mexico

Child is Father to the Man: An Authoritative Discussion of the Question When to Begin Vocal Instruction with Children

Democratic Process in Music: An Intelligent Discussion of the Pros and Cons of Group Instruction

Music of the Coronation Service

Volume 71, Number 06 (June 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Grand Manner in Piano Playing: A Tribute to Emil Sauer

Flutist's Technical Problems (interview with John Wummer)

Amazing Versatility of American Singers (interview with Blanche Thebom)

Edvard Grieg As I Knew Him (interview with Schak, Bull)

Creative Genius—Who Knows? Do You Put the Words Across? (interview with James Melton)

Pipe Organ Tone from an Electronic Organ

Listen to Yourself! (interview with Grant Johannesen)

Music to Live By

What Have You Got to Sell?

Know These Pianists?

Legends of Ancient Bells

Song Sharks Are at it Again

Campus Lights 1953, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 71, Number 02 (February 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Ability and Training (interview with Ezio Pinza)

Your Musical Dawn is at Hand (interview with Boris Goldovsky)

Security for Music Teachers (Editorial)

Midland Makes Its Own Music

Gershwin is Here to Stay

Healthy Habit of Doubting (interview with Jan Smeterlin)

Ten Years at Tanglewood

Who Are the World's Greatest Piano Teachers?

Back Stage with the Film Music Composer: Intereesting Highlights on the Complicated Technical Problems Involved in Producing Background Music for the Screen (interview with Dimitri Tiomkin)

Volume 71, Number 01 (January 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

America is Coming Alive Musically, Says the Widow of Edward A. MacDowell (interview with Marian Nevins MacDowell)

Sousa Marches On: Interesting and Exciting Facts Connected with the Production of the Spectacular Technicolor Film, The Stars and Stripes Forever, Based on the Life of America's Famous Band Leader

Just Supposin' (Editorial)

Musicians of Bali

Immortal Bohemian

Cadence Inflection or Speech Inflection in Musical Performance

Role of Parents in this Matter of Practicing

It Isn't Luck Alone (interview with Mildred Miller)

Oh Doctor, My Throat!

New World of Sound

Drama of Drums

Volume 71, Number 12 (December 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music at Christmas (Poem)

Performer—or Artist? (interview with Bidu Sayão)

Messiah Sunday (interview with Gordon Bachlund)

Backstage with the TV Scene Designer

Impressions of a Musical Journey to Africa

Ole Bull Returns to Pennsylvania

Rare Bit of Singing and Dancing

Much to Do About Conducting

What is Your Carol I.Q.?

Who Was this Christmas Outcast?

Concert Programs 1953-1954, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Department Of Music

Concert Recordings & Programs

This is the annual compilation of music programs from the Department of Music for the time period indicated

Volume 70, Number 10 (October 1952), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Young Conductor (interview with Thomas Schippers)

Denmark's Royalty Bows to the Ballet and Its Composers

Piano Study and the Schools

Language Problem in Singing (interview with Elena Nikolaidi)

Bread and Butter Music

Corner on Scales, Part 2

Building the Concert Program (interview with Eleanor Steber)

Music for the Making

Magic of the Harp

Choral Singing and the Solo Voice

Progress Chart—The Double Hit

Two Master Lessons—Sea Gardens (Cooke); Consolation in D-Flat (Liszt)

Volume 70, Number 08 (August 1952), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making of a Violinist (interview with Michael Rabin)

Piano Classes—More Work, But Worth It!

Municipal Band Extraordinary

Toy Symphony

To Those High School Juniors and Seniors, Why Not Music?

Wisdom from a Master Virtuoso

Building a Lending Library of Piano Music!

Let Them Sing!

Making the Organ Pay Dividends (interview with Richard Leibert)

Piano Lessons We All Enjoy Relaxation Through Music

Volume 70, Number 06 (June 1952), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Jean Sibelius—Master of Järvenpää

Music is an Indivisible Whole (interview with Nicole Henriot)

Choosing the Right Vocal Teacher

Contacts for Artist Students

Music at International Friendship Gardens

Casals' Approach to Teaching the Cello

I'll Take the Low Road Children Who Could Never Learn Music, But Did

Seventy Continuous Years in Music

Volume 70, Number 05 (May 1952), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hammer-Finger or Perfect Finger

Hear Yourself as Others Hear You (interview with Astrid Varnay) What Were They Doing, Daddy?

American Industry in Music

That New York Début Recital

Man—Handel

Disc-Jockeys and American Music (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Careers of Service in Sacred Song (interview with George Beverly Shea)

Theobald Böhm—A Tribute: How His Work Influenced the Development of the Modern Orchestra, and Widened the Scope of the Composer

Their Time Isn't Your Time

Improving Orchestral Musicianship (interview with Efrem Kurtz)

Campus Lights 1952, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 70, Number 01 (January 1952), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Modern Harp Technique: Gestures Have a Vital Part in Playing the Harp (interview with Carlos Salzedo)

Flexible Staff-Pianist: The Musical Handyman of the Broadcasting Studios—That's the Staff Pianist

Joys of Sonata Playing

Lost Music of Yesterday

New Idea in Music Education

Why Not Women in Orchestras?

Gentle Giant

Power of Concentration

Musical Cop

Music Education in Elementary Schools

So Your Child Won't Practice

Volume 70, Number 12 (December 1952), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Love (Poem)

Concert Artist and His Community (interview with Alfredo de St. Malo)

Play Carols All-American, Too

Sixty Years Since Gilmore

Music Appreciation—Family Style

New Approach to Voice Training

Music: America's Global Ambassador of Good Will

Economics for the Music Teacher

Nativity: Christmas Program for Pianist and Narrator, Singer and Chamber Singers

Little Ol' Lady with Music in Her Soul

Adventures of a Piano Teacher