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An Example of a Habit.
some selected popular air is rendered, then they
The habit of tracing to the negro the origin of
do applaud. Higher musical education is a mighty
every modern song that isn't a dead march, is no fine thing and worthy of development, but it can't
better illustrated than in a recent article on rag-
reach the top at one jump. In mathematics, for
time music appearing on the "Forum" under the instance, it is desirable that every one should un-
name of W. W. Kenilworth, in which he says:
derstand calculus, but it would be idiotic to start
"There is nothing more vital in the expression a primary scholar with calculus. He has to study
EDWARD LYMAN BILL - Editor aid Proprietor of the life of any race than its music. Its music simple arithmetic, his algebra, geometry and
J. B. STILLANE, Maiaglng Editor
trigonometry first and in easy stages advance. So
is the symbolism for the summary of its emotional
it is in music. Another feature of the educational
attainment and possibility. There is no need to
B. B. WILSON. Editor Music Section
movement that hits home, is the fact that the
say that the 'ragtime' music, or, as it is popularly
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called, 'rag music,' has its visible source in the palmy days when popular publishers could send out
ancestry of negro music. It is negro music more half a dozen singers to take part in the free con-
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modernly adapted. It was typically negroid in the certs and boost their songs, is now a thing of the
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years prior to the Civil War. It bears radical re- past, the cafes, rathskellers and private concert
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semblance to the fantastic waywardness of Creole offering the only opportunities for boosting in that
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song. It is a modulated derivation. Now the particular direction.
most significant fact about this music is that it has
N E W Y O R K , A U G U S T 26, l t l l
become typically American. It has outgrown its
negroid limitations and achieved national import-
All matter of every nature intended
ance. There is a popular demand for it. Fortu-
Chicago-Philadelphia Opera Co. and Ricordi &
for this department should be addressed
nately, it is assuming a more desirable interpreta-
Co. Break Over Royalty Question.
The Editor Music Section Music Trade
tion, yet the entire range of vaudeville song is
Review, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.
permeated with the derivative type.
The break between the Chicago, Philadelphia
There is a certain sway and swing, a certain
Opera Co., and the well-known music publishing
indescribable sensuous something appealing and
house of Giulio Ricordi & Co., Milan, whereby
suggestive about the ring and melody, the rhythm
the latter have forbidden the opera company to
and versification of the music. Scrutinizingly criti- present any of Puccini's works, has aroused great
cised, all of the songs are insidiously perverting; interest in the musical circles of this country
they are indicative of relaxative morality, or dis- While no definite information was offered by the
paragement of the martial tie, of triviality in re- representative of the Kicordi's in this country, it
lationship of sex, etc., and the entire moral code was, nevertheless stated that the decision is final.
Whatever its faults, the ragtime music of to-day, might be included. There is not even an attempt The high royalties demanded for Puccini's works
to all appearances, is the means of producing a lib- made at concealment of the thought conveyed in
are given as the reason for the disagreement.
eral share of the income of writers on musical the song. It is out-and-out vulgarity."
Puccini's "Tosca," "Madama Butterfly" and "La
subjects, especially those working on space. After
"Educating the Public."
Boheme" are among the most popular operas of
having exhausted their funds of criticism regard-
to-day, and the box office receipts from them
Those in charge of the music of New York,
ing the works of the great masters, and pointing
having come to the conclusion that the public among the largest in the repertoire of all the lead-
out the "mistakes" made by Chopin, Mozart, Bee-
ing opera houses of the world. Each of the three
should receive what was good for them rather
thoven, etc., they finally get down to hard pan and
than what they wanted, decreed that during the is certain to draw large audiences, and there is
take a fall out of poor ragtime. The main
summer just drawing to a close, the concerts pro- much interest in this country in "The Girl of the
trouble is that many of the writers lack origi-
grams in the parks, etc., shoufd be made up Golden West," in spite of New York's lack of en-
nality. Some years ago when coon songs were
chiefly of music of classic nature, and of educa- thusiasm for it. In the present season at Covent
the rage, certain critics endeavored to show that
tional character. Just what the ultimate success Garden, London, it is said that the Puccini operas
the modern coon song had nothing to do with the
of the scheme will be it is hard to say, but it is were the only ones in the repertoire to return any
music of the negro. His argument was good, but
a peculiar fact that in instances where the pro- considerable profit.
ever since, there have been countless columns
grams consisted entirely of the higher class music,
It is apparent that nothing but some strongly
of printed matter produced as a result of the self-
the audience applaud each number, whether they
important differences between the Italian publish-
same comparison. The musical enthusiast, or
understand it or not, until an encore consisting of
ers and the Dippel forces could bring about such
rather the man who dotes on classics, never gets
close enough to the ragtime of to-day to realize
that every bit of syncopated music to-day is not
necessarily a coon song.
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