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AMERICAN FOLK SONGS.
ARE YOU ?
To keep in line with
the demands of the
times, you must sell
Century Edition
Ten Cent Sheet Music
Century Music Pub. Co.
1178 Broadway
11
New York City
A Soul Stirring High Class Ballad
At the Gate of the
Palace of Dreams
The Especial Claims of Stephen Foster and
Mac Dowel I in This Connection Set Forth.
A point which those who write about folk music
too often forget is brought out by the Russian
composer, Rachmaninoff: "I fully agree that there
is. a national element, but this does not necessarily
depend on the primitive creations of the masses,
but rather upon the cultured mind of the indi-
vidual." Applying this elucidation to America, says
the music critic of the Evening Post, one might say
that the songs of Stephen Foster, which are true
folk songs (he was not a professional or trained
musician) are national, but no more so than are
the art songs of MacDowell, which embody the
American spirit as manifested by a mind of the
highest musical culture. To understand this, play
his "Woodland Sketches" or sing his "Eight
Songs," in which genuinely popular melody is sup-
ported by harmonies exquisitely modern in their
progressions and modulations—modulations which,
like those of Schubert and Grieg, have much more
of a future than the excogitated darings and
deviltries of Debussy and Strauss. "Foster could
no more have written harmonies like MacDowell's
than like Debussy's; but he wrote melodies—na-
tional tunes—as beautiful as MacDowell's and in-
finitely more original and soulful than Debussy's
melodies.
PICKS GOOD DANCE NUMBER.
DETROIT, MICH.
Rum Turn Tiddle
That Haunting Melody
I Love To Hear An Irish Band
That Coontown Quartette
JEROME & SCHWARTZ PUB.
1 4 4 6 Broadway, New York City
Another After The Ball Hit.
"That Swaying Harmony"
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
You can order it from your nearest
jobber or direct from the Publisher.
making an excellent impression in Chicago. Miss
Clayton has chosen as the music to accompany her
dancing the well-known Jerome & Schwartz Co.
success, "Rum Turn Tiddle," which, she declares,
just fills the bill.
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th St., New York
MEYER COHEN, Mgr.
This is without doubt
the first high-grade col-
lection of standard dances
ever published and will
undoubtedly be much- ap-
preciated by violinists,
not only because of the
superiority of its' con-
tents, but also because
every number has been
especially arranged and
placed in the first posi-
tion, so that it is within
the grasp of the average
player. Price, violin and
piano, 75 cents.
NEW FUGUES DISCOVERED.
DANCL
HERMAN FINCK
Played by Leading Orchestras Everywhere.
CHAPPELL & CO., Ltd.
41 East 34th St., New York.
CO.
T. S. Barron, Gen'l Mgr., B'way Theatre Bldg.
THE EUROPEAN SUCCES
MOONLIG
LEO, FEIST,£lnc. , 5 - NEW, t YORK
Those FOUR BIG HITS we're
always talking about.
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
68 Library Avenue
This song is the act-maker
for the stage and the
record-breaker for your
business.
WATCH 'EM COME ALONG!
Since he wrote " The Garden of
Roses" Mr. Schmid has never
equalled this new ballad. It is the
high class BALLAD HIT for the
year.
NEW YORK
"WHEN I GET YOU
ALONE TONIGHT"
Bessie Clayton, the famous danseuse, whose repu-
tation is world-wide, and who was recently a mem-
ber of the Weber & Fields Jubilee Company, has
entered the vaudeville field in a clever ret and is
By SCHMID & BAER
131 W. 41st Street
"WAS IT THUNDER?" asked the
startled crowd at the beach.
Yes, it WAS thunder, but not
from the heavens. It was
merely the uncontrollable
enthusiasm of the daily
throngs at HENDERSON'S,
CONEY ISLAND, when Belle
Baker, the inimitable, sang
A discovery of considerable importance for the
history of sixteenth century music is reported to
have been made by Dr. Eugelke, of Magdeburg, in
the shape of a volume of fugues composed for
string and wind instruments by Johann Walther,
who died in the year 1570, and was a friend of
Martin Luther. The fugues are twenty-six in
number. The title of the volume gives the date of
composition as 1542, and describes the fugues, sev-
enteen of which are composed for three "voices"
and nine for two "voices" as written "on the eight
tones for instruments of the same pitch (gleick-
stimmig), remarkable easy of performance and
very useful, convenient and serviceable." The im-
portance of the discovery, if accurately reported,
lies in the fact that hitherto compositions of the
sixteenth century, unaccompanied by text, have
been regarded as vocal works.
HINDS. NOBLE & ELDREDGE.
31-35 West 15th Street. New Y«rk
ROBERT TELLER SONS ft DORNER
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