Composition Commons^™

Volume 24, Number 06 (June 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making of an Artist: The Views of Alfred Reisenauer

Louis Köhler

Köhler's Technical Scheme

What is American Music?

Gluck and Lavater: How the Great Physiognomist Predicted the Composer's Career

Qualities of the Pianistic Hand

Notes on Rubinstein's Teaching

Handling of Piano Technic for Very Young Children

Study Value of the Pedal

Isadora Duncan and Her School for Classic Dancing

Studies in Prejudice: A Phase of Modern Art

Care to Practice, Then Careful Practice

Volume 24, Number 05 (May 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chorus Conducting and Music Festival Organization: Talks with Mr. Emil Mollenhauer and Mr. George W. Stewart

Who Shall Select the Pupils' Music

Monument to Stephen Heller

Self-Control

Sigismond Stojowski and His Views on Piano Study

Evolution of the Leschetizky Method

Some of the Elements of a Good Teacher

Program Novelties for Music Clubs

More Extensive Pianoforte Repertoire

Necessity of Theoretical and Historical Study to the Pianist

Reading at Sight: Some Practical Suggestions

How Improvements in the Piano Affected Composition

How the Great Musicians Practice

Mozart's Manner of Composing

Volume 24, Number 04 (April 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Life in New Orleans

How Tchaikovsky Composed

Experiences of a Music Student in Germany in 1905

Cultivate the Taste

Helps for Young Teachers

Position of the Hand in Piano Playing

Do We Play Enough for Our Pupils!

Small Conservatory

Tact in Teaching

Method of Gaining Speed in Playing

Piano and Its Influence on the Growth of Music

Do Musical Prodigies Last?

Music in Mexico

Volume 24, Number 03 (March 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making a Modern Conservatory of Music: What an Endowment is Doing for the Institute of Musical Art, New York City

Polyphonic Music as Related to Modern Art and Education in Music

John Knowles Paine: The First of the Great American Composers

Medieval Musical Entertainment

Pianoforte Four-Hand Compositions

Secret of Successful Work

Some Mistakes in Teaching

How to Prepare and Conduct Class Meetings

Abt Vogler

Poems a Musician Should Know, with Suggestions for Their Study

Volume 24, Number 02 (February 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Advent of Endowed Institutions in American Musical Education

Value of the Old Classics

Some Thoughts on Pedaling

Mark Hambourg and Leschetizky

Reading Music at Sight

Elements of Musical Appreciation

Gymnastic Wrist Exercises

Young Woman Pianist and Her Business Prospects

How to Memorize Music

Triumph of Counterpoint

Mark Hambourg's Suggestions for Music Students

Volume 24, Number 01 (January 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

George Frederick Handel: The Making of Great Man in Music

Handel's Place in Musical History

Instrumental Music of Handel

Handel's Oratorios To-day

Handel Miscellany

Longevity of Musical Compositions

Vincent d'Indy

Two Ways of Teaching the Piano

Music Teaching and General Education

Practical Ideas Applied to the Teaching of Children

Story of the Water Music

The S.D.N. Theory Of Music: Rudiments, James W. Acuff, William D. Evridge

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.

Lesson Book: Piano, Sherwood Hall William

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Music Lesson Book for the correspondence courses offered through the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music.
Lessons: Piano, number 1 through 20

Lesson Book: Piano, Sherwood Hall William

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Music Lesson Book for the correspondence courses offered through the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music. Note: various lessons in this book contain additional instruction notes
Lessons: Piano, number 1 through 100

Lesson Book: Piano, Sherwood Hall William

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Music Lesson Book for the correspondence courses offered through the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music. Note: this book is incomplete and does not contain all lessons
Lessons: Piano, number 11 through 97

Clover Blossoms, Floyd Thompson, Will Rossiter

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman standing sniffing a handful of clover while she watches a gentlemen on his knees pick more clover. There are trees and a house in the background.

First line of song: Tonight I'm dreaming of the dear old homestead

First line of chorus: Clover blossoms, clover blossoms, bathing in the pale moon

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Drifting" and "Scoop"

Chorus for Male Voices included

Andante

A sentimental Ballad with chorus Arranged for Quartette also published as a Waltz for Piano

Words and Music by Floyd Thompson

1 score, (8p.), 32x25 cm …

My Dream Of You, John Terrell Leahy, Duncan Belcher, White-Smith Music Publishing Company

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a small circular image with a woman's profile in the middle

First line of song: I dream of days we spent together

First line of chorus: You've found another for your heart

Andante moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs " The Message", "Oh Winds of Eve", "Tell Him I Love Him Yet", "This Rose", and "The Rose Of Love"

Words by John T. Leahy

Music by Duncan Belcher

Respectfully dedicated to Miss Mercy Lewis

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published by White-Smith Music Publishing Company, Boston, New York, Chicago

When You Know You're Not Forgotten By The Girl You Can't Forget, Fred Helf, Ed. Gardenier, Helf & Hager Co. Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A fancy border with two torches and the side of a lady's profile in the middle

First line of song: Gently the breeze sighs thro' the trees, two sweethearts strolling alone

First line of chorus: When you know you're not forgotten, by the girl you can't forget

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "'Neath The Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle"

Valse moderato expressivo

Music by J. Fred Helf

Words by ED. Gardenier

By Writers of "Someone Thinks Of Someone", "Whip-poor-will Sings Marguerite." etc.

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published by Helf & Hager Co. Inc, New York

Afterwards (Favorite English Songs), Mary Mark Lemon, John W. Mullen, Mckinley Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a rectangular border

First line of song: After the day has sung its song of sorrow, and one by one the golden stars appear

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Ramona", "Moonlight Fancies", "Let Me Hear The Songs My Mother Used To Sing"

Words by Mary Mark Lemon

Music by John W. Mullen

1 score, (6p.), 35x26 cm

Published by McKinley Music CO., Chicago, New York

Volume 23, Number 12 (December 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Study of Musical Talent: Illustrated from Life

Musicians at Practice

Musician's Love

Musicians Buried in Westminster Abbey

Influence of Musical Instruments upon Composition

Piano Music of the Present

Distinctive American Note in Our Music

Attitude of the Typical Musical Audience

Touch Signs

Reminiscences of Famous Musicians of the Immediate Past

Practical Ideas Applied to the Teaching of Children,Part 3

Best Way to Study Czerny

Music and National Life

Volume 23, Number 11 (November 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Carl Baermann: Some Characteristics of His Art and His Playing

Men and Things of the Day in Music

Music in the University of California

Mme. Wanda Landowska

How May a Child's Musical Talent be Determined!

Music Teachers and Pupils: A Study in Influences

Why Does a Composer Compose?

Realism in Music

On Traits and Characteristics of Students

Methods and their Use

True Musical Understanding: Is it the Result of Rule and Measure?

Useful Gymnastic Exercises for Musicians

Volume 23, Number 10 (October 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Concert Hall of the Paris Conservatoire

Making of Tone Color Effects on the Piano

Liszt as a Pianoforte Writer

Hints for Inexperienced Teachers

Music and Life

Opportune Bending of the Musical Twig: A Few Suggestions in Elementary Piano Teaching

Young Music Teacher

Foundation of Sight Reading

Estimate of Johann Sebastian Bach

Gounod and Faust

Mission of Music in the Public Schools

Essentials of Success

Music Lessons the Soldiers Taught

Volume 23, Number 09 (September 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Music Festival in America: Its Tendency to Promote a Musical Atmosphere

Emancipation of the Musician

Sense of Musical Beauty

On the Necessity of Better Music in Teaching

Ways and Means for the Development of Music in Small Towns

Music Teaching as a Profession and a Business

Modern Idea of Business System Applied to the Musical Life

Volume 23, Number 08 (August 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practicable Promotion of Music in Small Places

Christian Sinding

Women in Music

Hans Christian Andersen and Music

Criticism of Popular Music

Should the Teacher of Music Give Free Lessons!

Summer Days in the Newberry Library, Chicago

Franz Schubert and His Coffee Mill

Lesson in Composition

Gaining Endurance

Practical Ideas Applied to the Teaching of Children

Volume 23, Number 07 (July 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Study of Musical Conditions in the Southern States

Sir Edward Elgar

Practical Application of the Rudiments of Harmony to the Study of the Piano

Interpretation of Music Upon the Piano

Influence of the Music Teacher Upon the Pupil

On the Essence of the Beautiful in Piano-Playing

Volume 23, Number 06 (June 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of Piano Interpretation

Musical Conditions on the Pacific Coast: The Plethora of Teachers but Less Concentration of Effort than in the East

Failure: Its Causes and How to Overcome Them

English System of Examinations in Music

Suggestion for Sight Reading

How Strauss Composes a Song

Helps for New Teachers

Health of the Musician

Hygiene of the Hand

Volume 23, Number 05 (May 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Great Music Schools of London and the English System of Musical Examinations

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Descriptive Programs

Muscular Preparation for Pianoforte Technic

Suggestive Analyses

Young Pupil's Practice

Care of the Piano

Some Curious Musical Dictionaries

School Music in Relation to the Church and the Community

Fingering

Art and Dilettantism

Volume 23, Number 04 (April 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art Music in the Middle West: In the Smaller Towns and Cities

Pedaling

Conservatory and College: What Reciprocal Relations Do They Bear Educationally

Advantages and Disadvantages of Studying Music in Berlin

IMusical Faculty

Traditions of Musical Expression

Lesson by Isidor Philipp at the Paris Conservatory

Music in Fiction

Volume 23, Number 03 (March 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sir Hubert Parry and The Royal College of Music, London

Art Music in the Middle West; The Large Cities

Counting Time vs. Keeping Time

Alexander Scriabine

Public School Education in Music

Helps for New Teachers

Negro Melodies vs. Coon Songs

Some of the Drawbacks of Music Teaching

Second Thoughts on Music in the College and the University

Volume 23, Number 02 (February 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mrs. Bloomfield Zeisler on Study and Repertory

Interpretation: The Fine Art of Music

Alexander Glazunoff

Study of Theodore Thomas

Paderewski on Piano Teaching and Study

Business Details in Music Teaching

Publicity

I Pray Thee Have Me Excused: Some of the Reasons Pupils Give for Changing Their Instructors

Training in Musical Taste

Cranky Parent

Prime Factors in Students' Progress

Volume 23, Number 01 (January 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fréderic François Chopin (Biographical Sketch)

Appreciation of Chopin: His Works Embody All Technical Forms

Chopin the Revolutionaire

Chopin the Teacher

Chopin the Man

Chopin the Poet of the Pianoforte

True Genius of Pianoforte Music: Exemplified in Chopin's Works

Making up a Chopin Program

Quality of Chopin's Genius

Musical Rhythm and Rhythmic Playing

Dearie, Clare Kummer, Jos. W. Stern & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of two woman. One is in the upper left of the page in a circle and the other is in the bottom right of the page in a heart.

First line of song: The world's growing older each day, and the world's growing colder they say

First line of chorus: Dearie, my Dearie

Andantino ma non troppo

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "In the Golden Autumn Time, My Sweet Elaine", "Let Me Write What I Never Dared to Tell', "A Social in the Parlor", and "Milo"

Miss Sallie Fisher of the Frank Daniel's Company …

I'M On My Way To Dublin Bay, Stanley Murphy, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a women in a dress and cape that appears to be floating over a body of water and fields.

First line of song: Michael Shea he marched away with the Dublin Fusiliers, An he left the town in cheers but he left his girl in tears.

First line of chorus: Goodbye! I'm on my way to dear old Dublin Bay, That's why I'm feelin gay

Marcia

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Over The Hills To Mary" and "When Our Mothers Rule the World"

Lyric and Music by Stanley Murphy

Popular Edition

1 score, …

Volume 22, Number 12 (December 1904), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music: The Oldest Institution of Musical Learning in Russia

Christmas Music in America in Olden Days

Christmas Spirit the True Spirit of Music

Musician's Christmas

Prof. Michael Hambourg on the Modern Pianist and His Art

Talks on Piano Playing

Place of Music in American Life

Christmas Pantomime

Volume 22, Number 11 (November 1904), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

European Centers for Music Study: Weimar German Athens

Cranky Pupil

Physicians' Diagnosic for Young Practitioners

Elementary Harmony

Musical Analysis

How May We Widen Our Influence as Teachers?

Russia's Greatest Composer: Peter Iljitch Tchaikovsky

Thoughts on Mozart

Mechanical and Musical Side of Piano Teaching

Importance of Music Training for Boys

Some Mistakes in a Musical Education

Unpopularity of Classical Music

Dr. Mason on the Arm in Playing: What Does the Arm Actually Do in Piano Playing?