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Ua94/7/2 Mildred Fox Scrapbook, Mildred Fox

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Mildred Kerr Fox during her senior year at College High and her freshman year at Western Kentucky University. Includes recital programs, Bowling Green Junior Music Club programs, clippings, photographs, College High reunion materials, ticket stubs, dance cards, party programs and mementos.

Leedy Catalog 45, Leedy Manufacturing Company

Leedy Manufacturing Company

No abstract provided.

Experimental Studies In Junior High School Monotonism, Lina Baldauf Knight

Graduate Thesis Collection

The individual who lacks the use of his voice as a musical instrument lacks the natural, fundamental medium of musical expression. Not only does he lack the means for the closest and most direct relationship with music, but also there is a serious danger that, as a result, his whole range of musical appreciation will be impaired and finally obliterated. This is likely to occur because he does not have at his command and under his control this power which he so definitely needs. Children who are thus handicapped are often designated by the use of the word monotone.

A Survey Of Post School Opportunities For Participation In Instrumental Music Organizations In Central California, Frederick Elmer Auch

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The possibility of making music a more secure source of income for the professional musician does not seem to offer much hold for the future of music. However, the possibility of making music more a part of the life of the people through amateur participation offers a possibility for further growth of music which may help to make music a truly worthwhile part of our culture.

It is the purpose of this thesis to examine the field of post school instrumental music. Post school instrumental music, for the purposes of this thesis, shall be defined as music, for the purposes …

A Survey Of Music Education In The Smaller High Schools Of California And A Program Of Music Courses, Carol C. Carter

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the author's privilege to begin teaching in a small secondary school. There, it is his firm belief, is the place for most beginning teachers to commence their life's work.

It is here that one finds problems in curricula and procedures that he would probably never dream of during his theoretical training.

There one would be asked to teach many subjects other than the one he has chosen in his major field. This should not prove to be a hardship but a blessing in that one would have develop initiative and in many other ways round out his personality. …

1940 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Flyer, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event flyer from 1940 advertises the third annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Ursinus College. It lists the featured soloists as well as the admission price.

1940 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event program from 1940 contains information about the third 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 58, Number 12 (December 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Promissory Notes

Light That Shineth in Darkness

Carols for the Feast of Christmas

Music as an Avocation (interview with Mrs. Vincent Astor)

Bill of Musical Rights

Christmas Music in the Little Town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Unusual Customs in the Bustling Industrial City that Make Music a Religion, and Religion, Music

Radio Staff Pianist: What It Takes, and What He Makes

What Is Behind the Popular Song (interview with Eddie Cantor)

For Unto Us a Child Is Born: The Story of Handel's The Messiah

Musician Decorates for Christmas

Christ Reigns To-Day: A Hymn of Christian Faith

Quick Work! Remarkable Feats in …

Volume 58, Number 11 (November 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Scoring a Success

Middle Years

Great Painters and the Art of Music

Practicing on a Mental Keyboard

Vocal Training from a Famous Master (interview with Zinka Milanov)

What the Pianist of Tomorrow Must Possess (interview with Sigismond Stojowski)

Mystery of Sound Effects in the Radio Studio

Christmas Piano and the Nineteenth Hole

Clear and Distinct Piano Playing

Demand for Unusual Song Programs (interview with Eva Gauthier)

Radio Help Music Pronunciation

Practical Antidotes for Stage Fright

Master Lesson—Bird As Prophet, Op. 82, No. 7 by Robert Schumann

Mauro Giuliani

Why Copying of Copyrighted Music by Hand or Otherwise is Illegal

Volume 58, Number 10 (October 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Neighbor Policy

Armies of Singing Men

Take Time to Take Time

Good Singing is Natural (interview with Jussi Bjoerling)

Romance in Songs

How Ferruccio Busoni Taught (interview with Egon Petri)

Who Wrote That?

Basis of Violin Playing Today

What Shall I Sing? (interview with Eva Gauthier)

Getting a Start in a Small Town

Dissecting the Chromatic Scale

Dr. E.E. Hipsher Retires

Helps Toward Sight Reading

Sign That Paid

Getting Laughter Through Music: An Important Description of Works in Which Composers Have Stiven to Make Fun with Tones

Volume 58, Number 09 (September 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Permanent Wealth in Music Study

Conservatory in the Home

Opportunities for Opera Singers (interview with Edward Johnson)

Great Bells and Little Bells: A Story of Carillons

Requirements of Rhythm Playing (interview with Fred Waring)

Contralto of the String Family (interview with Emanuel Feuermann)

Kings of the Keyboard—Liszt and Rubinstein: A Vivid Picture of Great Moments in Late Victorian Days

Make Progress by Making Friends

Story of the Mystic Stick: The Part Played by the Baton in Musical History

Rotary Exercises Develop Piano Playing

Greatest of the Garcias: The Romance of Maria Malibran—The Great Prima Donna to Visit America

How to …

Volume 58, Number 08 (August 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Significant Musical Advance

Music and the World's Great Hour

Part Work and Part Play

Mental Approach to Singing (interview with Jessica Dragonette)

Music All Around the Fair

Story Book Recital

Hill Billy and River Songs at Their Source: Notes of an Active Collector in Discovering American Folk Songs

Music Can Work Miracles: Why Singing in the Bath tub is Good for Your Ego

Protecting Your Piano Investment: Milions and Millions of Dollars are Invested in Pianos in America, Yet Few Know How to Protect Their Instruments

Sound Track of Yesterday and Today

Miraculous Case of Blind Tom: The Enigma of …

Volume 58, Number 07 (July 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Champions

America's Pioneer A Cappella Choir of Youth

Music of the Walt Disney Cartoons (interview with Paul J. Smith)

Operatic Nomads in Opera Land: Do You Want to Sing in Opera in Italy? Here is How They Begin

Aeolian Harp—and How to Make It

Was Herbert Spencer Right?

Polka Again

Love of Music and How It Is Cultivated

First American Pianist: A New Orleans Prodigy—First American to Appear in European Concerts

Fate Was Their Fortune: How Destiny Remade The Lives of Famous Musicians

Napoleon Helps a Yankee Town

Their Toughest Spot: Getting the Right Start

Behind the Scenes in Radio …

45th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 45th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 14, 1940.

Volume 58, Number 06 (June 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sure Fiddler at Seventeen

Agreeable Succession of Sounds

Road of Glory: A Spiritual Pageant in the Deep South That Rivals Green Pastures

Your Community Should Have a Public Music Library (interview with Dorothy Lawton)

Truth About the Mysterious Death of Peter Ilyich Tsychaikowsky

Invitation to Mr. Paderewski's Eightieth Birthday Party: A Birthday Cake with a Million Candles

Beethoven, the Eccentric

William C. Steere of Worcester, Massachusetts

Teaching Phrasing Through Rests

Stamp of Approval

Toscanini, Man and Legend

What Good Is the Middle Pedal?

Sumer Is I-Cumen In: How a Teacher Solved the Problem of Keeping Busy Through the Summer, by …

An Evaluation Of Music Education Courses, George M. Small

Graduate Thesis Collection

One of the ever-pressing needs in the field of education, and in all phases of life, is constant revaluation of preparation for the task of building a better citizenship.  Each individual should develop his talents and abilities to the highest degree in order to be able to contribute to this task of uplifting society.

1940 Festival De La Bonne Chanson Program, L'Association Des Vigilants

Festival de la Bonne Chanson

Program booklet from the May 19, 1940 Festival de la Bonne Chanson in Lewiston, Maine.

Volume 58, Number 05 (May 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Youth Cries, Wake Up America!

New Thing Came and They Would Not See

New Insights to the Mastery of Debussy: Three Striking Period Pictures

Breaking into Radio

Mr. Bach of 1940

Composers and Their Mothers

German Masters

Our Musical Presidents

How to Make Pupils' Recitals Fascinating: Stage Etiquette for Every Performing Musician

When Music is King: A Week When a Nation Turns Musical

Odyssey of Oscar Levant (interview with Levant, Oscar)

Volume 58, Number 04 (April 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Folk Songs

Time and Tune

Music Educators Constantly Progressing

Don't Fear Your Limitations (interview with Jarmila Novotná)

When J.P. Morgan Sang

By the Beautiful Blue Danube: The Story of the Most Popular Waltz Ever Written)

Amusing Musical Episodes

Renaissance of A Cappella Singing (interview with Baroness Georg Von Trapp)

Mr. Mathews' Treasure Box: How a Famous American Music Educator Preserved Musical Facts

How to Capitalize Music Memory

Using Imagination in Teaching

Musical Askit Baskit

Gaining Keyboard Velocity Through Touch Control

Liszt, the Patron Saint of Music

The Broadsheet April 1940, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The Broadsheet was a student publication which ran through the mid-1930s. Printed in the style of the broadsheet, the paper was a single sheet published weekly with brief descriptions of current news. The issue of April 1940 mentioned the Beaux Arts Ball coming up in May 1940. The theme of the Ball was Let's Go Hollywood. Social events, scholarships, RISD commencement activities, student exhibitions and RISD student club news.

Volume 58, Number 03 (March 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cultural Olympics

Relief Through Change

Down to Mexico: The Picturesque Music of Our Sister Republic on the South

Heart of the Blues (interview with W.C. Handy)

Accompanists are Born, Not Made (interview with Coenrad V. Bos)

Irishman the Grandfather of Russian Music: The Singular Story of John Field, Pianist and Composer

Family Musical Museum: A Remarkable Swiss Group Which Has Attracted Wide Attention

How Much Musical Talent Has My Child? A Musical Intelligence Test for Children Which Any Musical Mother May Give at Home

Music—An Avocation for Men: A Soldier Talks to Boys About Men and Music

How the Oratorio …

The Broadsheet March 1940, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The Broadsheet was a student publication which ran through the mid-1930s. Printed in the style of the broadsheet, the paper was a single sheet published weekly with brief descriptions of current news. The issue of March 1940 mentioned the purchase of a farm in Foster, RI for RISD student fellowship. Other events for RISD students on campus were also included.

Campus Lights 1940, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 58, Number 02 (February 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Debutante: How a Youthful Prima Donna Triumphed at Thirteen

Keystone of Our Nation

Ageless Tunes: Why Victor Herbert's Melodies Never Became Chestnuts

There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding: The Story of a Song that Earned Three Million Dollars (interviewh with Zo Elliott)

Amusing Musical Episodes

Discovering the Riches in Old Music (interview with Wanda Landowska)

Social Art: Eight Hands—Forty Fingers

Medallions of Russian Masters of Yesteryear (interview with Plotnikoff, Eugene)

How to Get and to Hold Pupils

Harpist and His Problems (interview with Marcel Grandjany)

Master Lesson—Chopin's Mazurka, Op. 24, No. 4 in B-flat Minor

Volume 58, Number 01 (January 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Have You Youth Concerts in Your Community?

Music and the Dawn of a New Day

Making of a Name (interview with Arthur Judson)

Wartime Musical London, Paris and Brussels

Begin the Year with Music

Creating a Character in Opera (interview with Friedrich Schorr)

Dreams of Old Musical Vienna: How Musical History Was Made Over Cups of Coffee

Musical Triumphs in Motion Pictures: A History of the Art, from Jazz Singer to Today1

Current Films with Worth While Music

Making Five Finger Piano Technic Vital: A Highly Instructive Article for Younger Teachers

Training the Hands for Definite Goals

Why Not a …

A Ten-Cent History Of "Music In Worship", Charles Buttz Titus

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1940-1941, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1940-1941 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.

Three Children With Instruments Photograph, Franco-American Collection

Franco-American Music Traditions Exhibit

c. 1940

Sylvia And Rosaire Roy, Wcou Photograph, Franco-American Collection

Franco-American Music Traditions Exhibit

Sylvia Roy, born in Stratford Center, Canada, has played the piano since she was seven years old and is mostly self-taught having learned by listening to other family members. Sylvia and Rosaire performed around the state doing popular music, jigs, waltzes, and jitterbug styles at weddings, anniversaries, social functions, and for 13 years, at the American Legion in Lisbon. Sylvia continues to perform for private and public occasions.

L to R: Julie Vallee, Rosaire Labbe, Sylvia Roy (seated), Albert Cyr, Rosaire Roy.

Courtesy of Sylvia Roy; copy print by Jere DeWaters.

My! My! / Music By Jimmy Mchugh; Words By Frank Loesser, Jimmy Mchugh, Frank Loesser, Famous Music Corporation (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

No abstract provided.