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Minister of Agriculture, the works has not been
produced in proper form or in sufficient quantity to
meet with the public demand, another person other
than the original owner of the copyright may secure
the privilege of producing said work, owing to the
existence of practically the same clause in the new
British copyright law, recently enacted in England.
IDWAID LTMAN BILL • Editor and Proprietor It is safe to say, however, that the new administra-
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
tion will allow the publishers of this country no
more privileges than can be helped.
B. B. WILSON. Editor Music Section
Music Publishing Made Easy.
PaMttad Every Saturday at 1 Madison Ararat. New York
In the Man on the Street column of a fortnight,
SDMCUraON, (including pelage;, Lunuw *XA.I*» mad
ago attention was called to the proposition of a
Mexico, la.UO per year; Caaada, $1.60; all ether eotuv
trl«a. 14 fM)
Western house to have music written for song
poems and publish the same on "musical post cards"
Telephones—Numbers 4677 and 4678 Graunerey
Connecting a l l Department*
for $6.50, a rate so low as to arouse the ire of
those who have been gathering the "long green"
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 7 t 1»11
from the amateur but hopeful song-writers with
$50 bait. Alas, the rates for becoming a famous
All matter of every nature intended
song writer have been still further reduced by the
for this department should be addressed
Western house in their "follow up" letters. As a
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
"final offer" they propose to print the post cards,
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
reduce the price of the "'autograph" post cards
from $6.50 to $5, and to accept the money in week 1
ly instalments. The $5 is mentioned as being
'"barely enough to pay our composer," so very likely
the actual printing of the 500 cards and their dis-
tribution are thrown in gratis. Just to advertise
the business, professional copies of two sacred
songs are enclosed with the letters.
No Excuse for Plagiarism.
The clean sweep made by the Conservatives at
According to musical authorities, there are, with
the recent election in Canada put the quietus on the
the range of musical notes now in use, possibilities
reciprocity proposition, and showed in an unmis-
of producing 6,000,000,000 different melodies with-
takable manner that the majority of Canadians
out becoming monotonous. That statement knocks
were none too friendly to the United States—that
the last props from under the lazy composer who
is, in the commercial spirit at least. The point that
grabs the other fellow's ideas and explains that it is
should interest the publishers of this country is
impossible to have every bar appear to be original,
Lhat the rise to power of the new party means the
or the composer who explains the monotony of his
ousting from office of the Minister of Agriculture,
themes by pleading the limitation of modern music
Mr. Fisher, who was the father of the new copy-
notation. One writer says: '"It was shown that
right bill which caused such a stir on this side of
even with such a short musical form as the Anglir
the border. Through the efforts of Nathan Bur-
can single chant, which consists in its simple state-
kan, who represented the publishers of New York
ment of the notes, no- less than 60,000,000 different
in protesting against certain provisions of the pro-
melodies are possible, with out 'regarding the mul-
posed bill, Mr. Fisher had practically agreed to
titudinous differences formed by passing and auxil-
eliminate the most objectionable clause of the bill,
iary notes, harmonies and rythmical accentuation.*'
that which provided for actual manufacture in Can-
Supposing only one in a hundred of these tunes to
ada of all works enjoying the protection of copy-
be musically interesting, we have a possible reper-
right in that country. In whatever form the bill
is introduced by the new administration, it is prac-
t'cally certain that there will be no change in the
clause providing that when, in the opinion of the
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COMIC OPERA FOE, FRITZI SCHEFF.
The Schuberts announce that a new comic opera,
entitled "The Duchess," with music by Victor Her-
bert, and book by Joseph Herbert and Harry B.
Smith, will have its first metropolitan performance
at the Herald Square Theater on October 10, with
Fritzi Scheff in the title role.
VICTOR HERBERT IN A CRASH.
Victor Herbert, the conductor and composer, was
in his automobile late Saturday afternoon when
the machine collided with a delivery wagon in
Broadway, near Thirty-eighth street, in front of the
Knickerbocker Theater. He was shaken up, but
was not injured.
"ALL ALONE"
"ALL ABOARD FOR BLANKET B A Y "
IT'S GOT TO BE SOMEONE THAT I LOVE"
We are publishers of the following
" THE COUNT of LUXEMBOURG"
"THE QUAKER GIRL"
"GIPSY LOVE"
"THE PINK LADY"
"PEGGY"
"THE SLIM PRINCESS"
"THE ARCADIANS"
"THE BALKAN PRINCESS"
"HAVANA"
"THE CLIMAX"
tory of 600,000 single chants. And if this be true
of such a simple and restricted form of melody,
with what overwhemling force does it apply to
longer and more important compositions!"
What Is Possible with the Chromatic Scale.
Another musical authority, in commenting on the
above, says: "If we take the chromatic scale, con-
sisting of twelve different notes, we find the num-
ber of possible permutations very much greater
still. The first note may be chosen from any of
the twelve, the second from any of the remaining
eleven, the third from either of the ten left, and so
on. By this simple algebraic law of permutations,
we have only to multiply all the numbers, 12, 11,
10, . . . 2, together to find the total number of
arrangements. To save the reader the trouble of
working this out, and to gratify the lover of statis-
tics, it may be said that the number is somewhere
about 479,001,600. No note is repeated in any of
these arrangements. Add to the twelve the octave
of the tonic of the scale, and the number of varia-
tions (still without repeating the same note) ex-
ceeds 6,000,000,000. It is possible to repeat any of
the notes twice or thrice, even in juxtaposition,
without appreciable monotone, and by so doing the
total becomes greater still. Of course many of
these variations, as in the case of the chant, would
be quite worthless; but, on the other hand, by the
;
ntroduction of rythmic changes, it will be seen
that the resources of melody and rythm combined
are infinite, inexhaustible."
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This collection will fill
a niche quite of its own in
musical literature as be-
ing the only folio of
standard dance m u s i c
which can lay claim to
being complete. An even
casual glance at the con-
tents cannot fail to con-
vince the lover of piano
music in the lighter vein,
that it is the ideal collec-
tion of piano dance music,
including every known
style of dance, in each
case represented by a
composition from the pen
of some past master of
dance music composition.
Price. 75 cents.
Most Beautiful Child Ballad Written
In Years.
"Will The Roses
Bloom In Heaven ?"
By Chas. K. Harris
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