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THE
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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TWO NEW McKINLEY CO. NUMBERS.
ISSUE "USEFUL TEACHING SONGS."
A War Sonrj of a Cheerful Sort, Entitled "I'll
Return, Mother Darling," and a Clever Ha-
waiian Number, "In Honolulu by the Sea,"
Are Both Interesting.
Five Excellent Volumes by Liza Lehmann Just
Placed on the Market—The New Works
Analyzed—Some Interesting Features.
Chappell & Co. have just issued a new,series by
Liza Lehmann, whose reputation as a composer
is international, the title of the scries being "Use-
ful Teaching Songs." Mine. Lehmann's practical
experience as a teacher served to add interest to
her latest work. The series of "Useful Teaching
Songs" consist of five volumes: Soprano, Mezzj-
So,prano, Contralto, Tenor, Baritone and Bass—
songs for the last two voices being included in one
volume. In a preface, Madame Lehmann writes:
"It is said that a good singer is born, not made,
and tjne might almost say that a good teaching
song is born, not made; in other words, a song
unconsciously either possesses the necessary char-
acteristics, or not, from the moment of its in-
ception in a composer's brain." This is true, and
Madame Lehmann has compiled in this series a
Demand from the Trade One of the Good Signs
wonderful little anthology of songs not only good
of Success of "I'm on My Way to Dublin
and beautiful in themselves, but entirely admirable
Bay"—Some Excellent Exploitation.
from the point of view of the teacher and the
music delightful, leaving a pleasant expression that
The success predicted by Jerome H. Remick & serious student of singing. A dozen songs are
all the soldiers do not die on the battlefield. The Co. for Stanley Murphy's latest song, "I'm on contained in each volume, each volume being, as
art title page, from a photograph specially posed, My Way to Dublin Bay," has been attained to a it were, a compendium of vocal styles—within,
shows a real mother, the kind you can't help lov-
marked degree up to this of course, the metier of the particular voice. Fo.r
ing, bidding goodbye to her sturdy soldier boy.
FTM0NMYW1 time. Through the great this reason, if for this alone, teachers of singing
will welcome so useful a series. In making the
" CHORUS.
[TO DUBLIN BAY efforts of the Remick pro- selection
Madame Lehmann has not forgotten the
When the roses of springtime are blooming,
fessional department and a
I'll return, mother darling, some day;
widespread
a d v e r t ising claims of the English song to serious attention.
At the end of the winter of sadness,
campaign the song was The Soprano volume, for example, contains—in
Then I'll kiss all your tears away.
heard in practically every addition to songs of Handel, Gluck, Filotow, Schu-
Just forget that your boy is a soldier,
vaudeville theater of stand- bert, Mehul, Brahms and others—examples of
To my country and home I'll be true;
ing from the Atlantic to Stern dale Bennett ("Dawn, Gentle Flower"), Dr.
When the birds sweetly sing, I'll return in the
the Pacific Coast within a B-oyce ("By Thy Banks, Gentle Stour"), and Dr.
spring,
fortnight after the cam- Arne ("By Dimpled Brook"). The other volumes
I'll return, mother darling, to you.
paign started; that part of the story is his- contain something of the same just proportion of
Songs with a Hawaiian flavor are growing in tory. The exploitation of the number in such our native classics. The songs are all copiously
popularity. One of the best of the late ones is a general way naturally created a demand for annotated, and although an occasional "breath-
"In Honolulu by the Sea," words and music by copies, with the result that dealers have been plac- mark" might be open to question, each littile book
Jack Frost. The charming lyric, the quaint and ing orders on a most generous basis to take care should prove itself a veritable treasure to the
enticing minors of the melody, combine to make of that demand. The sales totals are what actu- humble.
a most charming ballad. A strain of the famous ally prove the success of a song, and those totals
"Aloha oe" in the chorus adds to the attractive- as they refer to "I'm on My Way to Dublin Bay"
The Olney Music Co., Hannibal, Mb., has opened
ness. We predict a big success for this song, not are thoroughly pleasing.
a branch music store in Batchtown, 111.
only on the Pacific Coast, where Hawaiian songs
are in great demand, but the country over.
Although some say there is now a war song
for every soldier, the McKinley Music Co., of
Chicago, has certainly a promising seller in "I'll
Return, Mot.ier Darling, to You," by Casper
Nathan and E. C. Keithley. This song is "differ-
ent. " the lyric is cheerful and encouraging and the
THE SALES TELL THE STORY.
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