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Public School Music, George Pomerantz Sr.

Bachelors’ Theses

Our public schools which attempted to include in their program every subject which may contribute to the development of human character or to the elevation of human happiness, did not until recently, include music. Music was looked upon as an art which should be taught to the gifted ones only and, therefore, should be taught privately. It is only recently that our educators are beginning to realize the important role music plays in human life. It has been only recently that music has been introduced as a subject into the public school. Even today there is a lot of discussion …

Volume 49, Number 03 (March 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Amazing Idiosyncrasies of Richard Wagner: Demi-God or Demi-Demon

Hearing Inwardly

Those Troublesome Grace Notes

Can You Tell?

Quicker Results Through Weight Playing

Does Radio Broadcasting Require a Special Technic?

Stockholm the Magnificent

Some Origins of the Harp

Simile, Segue and Sempre

Dynamics and Expression

Playing the Piano with the Minimum of Muscular Effort

How to Develop Technic

Grandma Fry Adds a New Stunt

Educating the New Musical Public

Are You Old Enough to Remember?

Volume 49, Number 02 (February 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When I Arrived in the Metropolis

Social Art of Music (editorial)

Leschetizky as I Knew Him

Music Study in Paris

Report Card for Piano Work

Musik der Zeit: An Editorial Discussion of Present Day Gargoyles of Dissonance

Putting the Spirit into Spirituals

Accompanist

How Dvorák Taught Composition

Tie and Slur Confusion

Young Pupil Meditates

Educating the New Musical Public

Musical Greeting

Reports for Music Pupils

Music Versus Noise

Relaxing the Shoulders

Transposing for the Uninitiated

Remembering the Pupil

Volume 49, Number 01 (January 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Ultimate Musical Choice

Musical Life in Festive Copenhagen

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 7

Educating the New Musical Public

Lepold Auer's Great Legacy to Art

Reflections on the Art of Piano Playing

Present Day Musical Films and How They are Made Possible

Airways of Music

Technic of Scale Playing

Marimba

Triumphant Advance of Music

Master Lesson on the Impromptu in A Flat, Opus 29, of Chopin

Game of Correcting Melodies

Minor Family

Light and Agile Thumb

Teaching Fundamentals to Young Students

Tchaikovsky's School Days

Accent in Scale …

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1931-1932, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1931-1932 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, an academic calendar, 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.

Rhyth-Mania / Music By Harold Arlen; Words By Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler, Mills Music Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: caricature drawings of well-dressed African Americans dancing; Publisher: Mills Music Inc. (New York)

Just Friends / Music By John Klenner; Words By Sam M. Lewis, John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis, Robbins Music Corporation (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: photo of Red McKenzie; Publisher: Robbins Music Corporation (New York)

A Lil Coon's Dilemma / Music By Pauline Winslow; Words By Enid Hey, Pauline Winslow, Enid Hey, Muse Publishing Co. (Brooklyn)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: drawing of a frightened African American girl and an on looking African American woman; description reads a humorous encore song; Publisher: Muse Publishing Co. (Brooklyn)

River, Stay Way From My Door / Music By Harry Woods; Words By Mort Dixon, Harry Woods, Mort Dixon, Shapiro Bernstein And Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: drawing of an African American male staring at a flooding river; photo inset of Billy Shaw; Publisher: Shapiro Bernstein and Co. (New York)

When It's Sleepy Time Down South / Words By Leon Rene, Otis Rene, And Clarence Muse, Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse, Freed And Powers (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: photograph of Miss Mildred Bailey; Publisher: Freed and Powers (New York)

Call Me Darling / Words By Bert Reisfeld, Mart Fryberg, And Rolf Marbot, Bert Reisfeld, Mart Fryberg, Rolf Marbot, Santly Bros., Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

[orig. German text (Sag mir Darling) translated by Dorothy Dick]; Publisher: Santly Bros., Inc. (New York)

Marta, Rambling Rose Of The Wildwood / Music By Moises Simons; Words By L. Wolfe Gilbert, Moises Simons, L. Wolfe Gilbert, Edward B. Marks Music Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: photo of a man (Arthur Tracy?); Publisher: Edward B. Marks Music Co. (New York)

Piano Course: Grade 8, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Compositions, number 801 through 860

Piano Course: Grade 8, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Lessons and Tests, number 141 through 160

That's Why Darkies Were Born / Words By Lev Brown And Ray Henderson, Lev Brown, Ray Henderson, De Sylvia Brown And Henderson (New York)

Sheet Music, 1930-1967

Cover: from George Whites Scandals; Publisher: De Sylvia Brown and Henderson (New York)

Er Lebe Hoch, Aloysius Thein S.M.

Musical Compositions about the Marianist Charism

Folk song adapted to the Marianist priests and brothers

John Milton's Conception Of Music, Lotys Benning

Graduate Thesis Collection

The nature of music has been defined as the uttering and arousing of emotions by successions and combinations of regulated sound, that of poetry as the representation or arousing of emotions by means of verbal signs arranged with musical regularity.  Thus it will be seen that the two arts, having the same purpose, are closely allied, and may be considered interdependent.

The Relation Of French Poetry And Painting To The Development Of French Impressionistic Music, Phyllis Elaine Threlfall

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

As far as the writer could find in her reading no one has ever written a finished study of this phase of Music, Art, and Literature. Of course, there are hints of it here and there in many books, but in no one in particular was a detailed study given. Paul Landormy’s book, A History of Music, seemed to carry the heart of the subject, however, in an extremely miniature style.

When we think of French music, our minds are generally centered in Paris, for it is here that the greatest organizations have been sponsored, and the important musical ideas …

Volume 48, Number 12 (December 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony of Christmas

Why I Prefer Concert to Opera (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)

Reflections on Piano Playing

Miscellaneous Teaching Hints

Toward Facility

Buying Instruments for the Toy Orchestra

Music and Music Study in the Startling Seventies

What Piano Study Will Do for Children

Every Gentleman was a Musician Then: A Glance into the Delightful Musical Atmosphere of the Days of Samuel Pepys in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 3

Critica Digest of Music and Masters of Music, Part 2

Keep …

The Student Designer December 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The issue of December 1930 covered topics including: current events happening on campus, editorials, news from the wider art world, RISD sports, school clubs, a brief essay from Royal Bailey Farnum to all students, news from various department, and advertisements.

Volume 48, Number 11 (November 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, Season 1930-31

Critical Digest of Music and Masters

To Count or Not to Count

How to Organize and Start a Piano Class

Fascinating Musical Dances I Have Seen East of Suez

Mother's Hand Leads the Way: Changing the Practice Hour from Drudgery to Delight

Christmas Party

Teresa Carreño as Teacher: Memories of a Remarkable Woman and Musician

Are You Able to Play Trills?

Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today

Beauty of Bach

Ivory and Ebony Gymnasium

How to Place the Piano

That Concert Cough

Snapshot Sight Reading

Teacher-Parent Coöperation

Tales from the …

Volume 48, Number 10 (October 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Majestry of Liszt

Spirit of Hungarian Music (interview with Yolanda Mérö)

Dots and Their Values

Little Visits to European Musical Shrines: Hungary's Rich Gifts to Music

Three Notes Against Two

Auditions for the Sound Films

Endless Fascination of Hungarian Gypsy Music

Hungerian National Instrument—The Czimbalalom: A Musical RelicWhose Ancestry May Be Traced Back to Nineveh

Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today

Eminent Hungarian Pianist

Notable Hungarian Musicians of Past and Present

Do You Like This Musical Club?

This Chromatic Age: Exercises that Prepare the Piano Student for a New Era in Which the Chromatic Scales Will be Used More …

Volume 48, Number 09 (September 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Why the World Needs Bands (interview with John Philip Sousa)

Modern Questions in the Study of Harmony

Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today

Curious Lure of Chinese Music

Oral Drills in Intervals

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 3

Percussion—The Pulse of Music

Technical Problems in a Nutshell

Overcoming Difficulties in Memorizing

Open the New Musical Season Brillantly by Spreading the Gospel of Music-Study

Odd Facts about Sound

Case for Modern Music

Master Lesson on Chopin's Polonaise in C Minor, Op. 40, No. 2

Keeping …

Volume 48, Number 08 (August 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Gentle Art of Taking Time to Live!

Little More Beethoven, Please: The Pianoforte Sonata in A Flat, Op. 26

Scale Charts

Seeing Music as a Whole: Where Many Fail

Left Hand Difficulties

What's the Matter with our Music? (interview with Geraldine Farrar)

Most Useful of All Fingering Rules

Middle C

Precise Contact

Piano Teacher's Dictionary of Touch

Brothers and Sisters

Music of the Waltz and Its Creators

Workable Report Slip

Small Threads in the Musical Tapestry

Preparedness of Attack as an Aid to Sight Reading

Camouflage Scales

New Theory of Pianoforte Tone Production

Arranging Music for Toy Orchestras

Musical Sport …

Volume 48, Number 07 (July 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Religious Taboos on Music

Cosima Saga: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who, as the Daughter of Liszt and the Wife and Widow of Wagner, was the Most Discussed Musical Personaltiy of Her Sex in the World of Opera

When Special Patience is Needed

Be a Self-Starter

Talk with the Ambitious Harmony Student

To the Measure of the Mind

Twin Scales

First Scale

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio

Haunts of Great Musicians in Vienna—Etchings

Curious Story of Jacques Offenbach, the Kind of Opera Bouffe: How the …

35th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 35th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (218 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 21, 1930.

Volume 48, Number 06 (June 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Melodic Genius of Ethelbert Nevin (interview with Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin (Anne Paul Nevin)

Gluck and Marie Antoinette (picture)

Radio as an Educational Factor: For Artist Musicians and Music Students

Getting the Most Out of Self-Study

Practicing for the Spring Recital

Three Vital Points in Piano Mastery: Practice Hints to Pianoforte Students

How to Start a Class

Flowers, Music and Sunbeams

Romance of the Guitar

Wisdom of a Great Teacher: Karl Merz

Wagner and the Ominous Number 13

Study Schedule

Enlarging the Pupil's Musical Vocabulary

Story of Annie Laurie

Accompanist Who Aids and Abets

Volume 48, Number 05 (May 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fighting Deadly Uniformity

Will the Radio and Talking Pictures Compel a Revolution in Methods of Teaching Singing?

Special Exercise in Double Thirds for Independence of Fingers

Child's Native Love of Music

Musical Value of Silence: How to Play Rests Effectively

Why Slow Practice Helps

Piano Study for Adult Beginners

Romance of the Guitar (interview with Andrés Segovia)

Great Masters as Students (Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893)

Double Notes

Rhythm and Technic, the Keys to Interpretation (interview with José Iturbi)

Opus—Key—Composer

How Has the Piano as an Instrument Developed in the Last Half Century?

Master Lesson on the Famous Fantasia in C Minor by …

Volume 48, Number 04 (April 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hail to the Music of Spain

Marvelous Musical Story of Barcelona (interview with Pablo Casals)

Rhythm and Technic, the Keys to Interpretation (interview with José Iturbi)

Glossary of Spanish Musical Terms and Related Words

Holy Week in Seville

Music, An Indespensible Human Need

Some Modern Spanish Composers

Night in Granada

Consistent Sight Reading

Slurring Slips

Ceaseless Charm of the Music of Spain

Notable Musical Women

Monsalvat—The Land of the Holy Grail

Peteneras of Seville

That is a Zarzuela?

Habañera from Carmen

Spain's Musical Message to American Mothers

The Student Designer April 1931, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The April 1931 issue covered topics including: the death of RISD President Eliza G. Radeke, Mechanical Department honors and news, a Jewelry Design student named Martin Nelson, class updates, satirical and comedic writing, current events happening on campus, RISD sports, and advertisements.