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THE
AN INTERESTING VOLUME,
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
67
AND THEY GET AWAY WITH IT.
kid, we got this number in a two part fixed up
special and it harmonizes great. You'd make a riot
A Near Stenographic Report of a Telephone
For the Use of Both Teachers and Singers,
with it. You said you'd come in, so I saved it for
Conversation of a Professional Manager Gives
Is "French Diction for Singers and Speak-
you. Where was you?
an Idea of the Merry Manner in Which They
ers," Just Published by the Oliver Ditson Co.
"Got another swell number coming that's going
Put It Across.
to bring home the gravy for the lucky' team that
Vocal teachers and singers have reason to feel
cops it. 'Ragtime Circus Clown' is the title. Jack
grateful to William Harkness Arnold for his Ah! but the life of the professional manager is could be the clown and you could be the circus-
"French Diction For Singers and Speakers,' a merry one—get to the office at 10 a. m.; stall no, not the circus, the kid at the circus. Just fit
which has just been published by the Oliver Dit- off a couple of small-timers on the search for
you two. You can gtt twenty-five weeks over the
son Co., of Boston, Mass. Realizing fully the dif- exclusive stuff; kid a couple ot wrens into trying United at the first rehearsal with this new num-
ficulties of acquiring French diction by the meth- out some new songs; stand a score or so of quick
ber. Going to save it for you, 'cause I like you,
odds hitherto employed Mr. Arnold has studied to touches; grab a sandwich at Childs'; listen to a
kid, and want to see you fit with the big people.
develop a system at once definite, accurate and gross or so of demonstrations in the afternoon, Well, don't forget I'm saving it for you; so long,
easy. He has minimized the labor of learning it hear how a number is put over at Hammerstein's
good-bye."
by dividing the work between eye and ear, and by in the evening, and then loaf for the rest ot the
Just think of slipping this sort of stuff over the
day. Just like finding the money, says the man
stripping every topic of useless detail. Advantage
wire or hot from the tongue about fifty times a
who must make his sales totals grow or hunt an-
has been taken of the fact that French is an abso-
day, and getting by. Isn't it worth the money?
lutely phonetic language, to formulate a system other boss. How they do it* is illustrated to a cer-
tain extent by the following conversation caught
for it pronunciation which proceeds swiftly and
surely to mastery of the subject. To aid the mem- on the fly, with a professional manager at the ADDS TWO NUMBERS TO CATALOG.
ory a simple system of marking has been devised, 'phone:
The Edgar Selden Music Publishing and Pro-
whereby the exact diction in song or speech may
"Hello, Rosie, where you been keeping yourself?
ducing Co. announce that it has added "Zaatnee,"
be indicated with certainty, either while listening Been looking for you everywhere. Had the swell-
an Arabian intermezzo by Lewis T. Muir, and
to an artist singing, or a teacher reading the text
est number all set aside for you and Jack. Just the
"When Thou Art Near," by the same composer, to
aloud. The spoken, written and singing exercises
kind of stuff you like to pull and do best. You
its growing catalog. The words for both num-
which occur on almost every page of the volume know, this swinging melody and real meat in the bers are by Monroe H. Rosenfeld. The new pub-
are only intended to serve as guides for the for- lyrics goes like this, Humtiddle hum turn, hum teedle
lications are highly regarded by those who have
mation of many more.
hum. You know, the real cheese. On the level,
examined them.
Throughout the book a number of songs are in-
serted with diction marked. They are selected to
combine, with the practice necessary for perfecting
one's attainments in diction, the greatest amount
of pleasure in singing. There is also an excellent
chapter on conversational French, which shows the
value of this system as an aid to speaking as well
as singing French. The volume is admirably
printed and edited and will be found indispensable
to teachers and students.
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