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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 …

Music Students In Academic Subjects, Harold E. Winslow

Graduate Thesis Collection

For some time music teachers in high schools have been told that students who maintain good grades in music are seldom good at anything else.  It was this challenge that prompted the present study - not with any idea of proving that music students are better or worse than students in any other academic subjects, but rather to ascertain just how music students stand in their own subjects.

Music In California State Institutions, David L. Harms

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The institutions included in this study are all maintained and controlled by the State of California. However, the music program is not outlined or prescribed by the State but is arranged by the administration of each institution. Consequently, one institution music program differs from another, and it was necessary to contact each institution in order to get the information included in this report.

Since very little material is available on this subject, it was necessary to obtain most of this information first hand. The methods employed were questionnaire and correspondence, direct interviews with superintendents and musical directors, and observation. An …

The Place Of Music-Drama In The Curriculum Of The American Colleges And Universities, Erwin Ruff

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

If America wishes to see the day when good music drama shall become her best and at the same time her most popular form of entertainment she must investigate the condition of music-drama as it is at present and then decide upon a future method of action to improve that condition.

In a small way, that may be blazing the trail, I have set about to follow the above suggestions. l have made an investigation of music-drama in America, with particular emphasis on music-drama in the colleges and the universities and, as a result, have a definite suggestion to make …

Volume 56, Number 12 (December 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Love (poem)

Her Christmas Piano

What Music Has Done for Me (interview with William Allen White)

Lessons with Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Piano Virtuoso and Conductor: An Apostle of Beauty in Piano Playing

Four Octave Practice Helps

Christmas in Many Lands: A Television Christmas Recital

Lady of the Court of Henry XV (portrait)

Threshold of Music: Natural Laws That Guide the Flow of Chords

What Now for Music Teachers? A Nationwide Symposium: Eminent Members of the Music Teachers' National Association, to be in Convention in Washington During the Present Month, Discuss an Important Subject in Advance

Overcoming a Musical Crisis

Let's …

Farmers' Alliance Songs Of The 1890'S - Nebraska Folklore, Federal Writers' Project

Special Collections

Compiled by the Federal Writers' Project in Nebraska

These Farmers' Alliance songs have been gleaned from the files of the Farmers' Alliance - the official organ of the Nebraska State Alliance. This weekly paper, published in the 1890's, was later known by a variety of titles. It was always liberal and strongly populistic in its views.

Volume 56, Number 11 (November 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony a Day

Apprentice Years of a Master (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)

Threshold of Music: A Stormy Seventh—And Some Even More Complex Chords

Awakening of Ebenezer Scrooge: A Playlet in Three Acts Adapted from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Stephen Foster of Tin Pan Alley in Other Days: The Magic Story of America's Most Loved Composer of Folk Songs

What Music in Sing Sing Prison Means in the Lives and Reclamation of Many Inmates

Three Notographs

Madrigals of the Days of Good Queen Bess: Polyphonhic Masterpieces of the Elizabethan Era Formerly Heard by Few But Now Heard by Millions Over …

Volume 56, Number 10 (October 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Maintaining Radio Interest

Conductor and His Orchestra (interview with John Barbirolli)

Hour of Charm: The Most Unusual Girls Orchestra of the Times (interview with Phil Spitalny)

Master as Seen by His Wife (interview with Aino Sibelius)

Threshold of Music: The Most Famous Chord in Music: The Dominant Seventh

Three Notes Against Two

Major John A. Warner: New York State's Notable Musical Police Superindentant

Training the Little Finger

Rhythm for Clearness

Caring for the Vocal Instrument (interview with Giovanni Martinelli)

Practice Is Playing

Some Two Thousand Year Old Wisdom on the Tone Art

Strike the Nail on the Head

Game of …

Ballads - Nebraska Folklore, Federal Writers' Project

Special Collections

Compiled by the Federal Writers' Project in Nebraska

"The ballads in this collection were sung in pioneer Nebraska. They have come from the people themselves, having been repeated by word of mouth from generation to generation...It is only from spontaneous folk singing that the ballads can be given color, atmosphere, and new themes, so many of which have been suggested within the past few years by such epic Nebraska events as the drouth, three-cent hogs, ten-cent corn, farm foreclosures and the Farm Holiday Movement."

Volume 56, Number 09 (September 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Marimba Supersedes Xylophone

How Can We Best Serve Our Students (interview with Geraldine Farrar)

About Pieces for Two Pianos: A Discussion of Musical Works Rapidly Rising in Popularity

Hymns in Teaching Harmony

Threshold of Music: When Four Notes Get Together—Seventh Chords

Modern Marimba and Its Relation to the Xyloophone (interview with Yoichi Hiraoka)

Do Not Cast the Old Aside

Chord Twins

Picturesque Prague—Home of Dvorák and Smetana

Transposing by Numbers

What Did Bach Mean: How Each of His Motives Construes a Thought

Hand and the Memory

Mazurka in F-sharp Minor of Chopin

Compactness With Comfort: Everyone Who Wants a Studio …

Songs About Nebraska - Nebraska Folklore, Federal Writers' Project

Special Collections

Compiled by the Federal Writers' Project in Nebraska

"The songs collected in this pamphlet are those that are sung the most or are best known by the people of the state. For each song we include a brief history and we have included the melody for those not sung to familiar airs. In each case permission to use the words and music has been granted us by the proper proprietor of the song or the holder of the copyright."

Volume 56, Number 08 (August 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mass Music and the Masses

Personal Recollections of Anton Rubinstein

Folk Tunes of England

Queen of American Pianists: Some Unpublished Memoirs of Madame Carreño (interview with Elizabeth Sterling)

Art of Ensemble Playing (interview with Adolf Busch)

Threshold of Music: The Seven-Storied House of Chords

Combine the Arts

World's Most Famous Song: The Story of Home, Sweet Home—The Song Immortal

When Your Child Won't Practice: Practical Suggestions to Parents of Children Who are Practice Problems

Yes, Teacher, You Are in Business: A Frank Discussion of the Teacher's Approach to a Clientele

New York Tour Attracts Music Lovers

America Demands Glamour: Edward …

Volume 56, Number 07 (July 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Piano and To-morrow

Passing of a Genius

Carve Out Your Own Career (interview with Ferde Grofé)

Righting the Left Hand

First Eighth Notes

Art Means Preparation (interview with Bidu Sayao)

Fatigue Demon

Radio Flashes

Women in Orchestras: Famous and Brilliant Conductors of the Fair Sex

Relaxation is Mental

Social Dancing and Its Music

Important Practical Helps for the Vocalist (interview with Isidore Luckstone)

Threshold of Music: Triads, and How They are Put Together

Making Two Part Inventions Interesting

Music and Dancing in Siam: Quaint and Curious Arts of a Far Eastern Kingdom

New Attractions Scheduled for Tour: International Music Festival …

43rd Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 43rd Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 19, 1938.