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Music Trade Review

Issue: 1915 Vol. 60 N. 3

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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Why Don't You? MREVIEWflEARS
THAT, if half the rumors in circulation during
the past few weeks really developed, the local music
publishing trade would look as though it had been
Iff everybody in your Town
struck by a 42-centimetre shell.
knew you handle
THAT the Sam Fox Publishing Co., Cleveland U.,
has just published the "Sam Fox Trot," a play upon
names that is as clever as the composition of the
number itself. George P. Howard is responsible
for the number.
THAT Earl Carroll, lyric writer and composer,
recently connected with Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.,
has made a new trade connection.
and sell it at 10c. a copy
THAT Jack Glogau is becoming so used to win-
you'd sell twice as many
ning silver and cups and other trophies with the
copies!
Feist songs, in company with Bob Miller, that he
actually forgets to mention the fact.
Why don't you advertise
THAT "Tipperary," although not martial as a
in your local p a p e r s -
song, has been taken as the basis for a new war
others do it with profit,
drama.
THAT the invasion of New York by several
why don't you?
Western music publishing houses is promised at an
early date and as soon as suitable arrangements
can be made.
THAT "On the 5:15," one of the lecent additions
to the catalog of J. H. Remick & Co., is proving a
decided success.
231-235 West 40th St., New York City
THAT the motion of the Ted iSnyder Co. for a
new trial of the "Girl in Havana" case on the
far surpasses Tipperary' in their opinion and will claim of newly discovered evidence was denied by
likely sweep the country. The number will be sung the court and the judgment rendered in favor of
at the closing performances of the week, this after- Charles K. Harris still stands. The hearings be-
noon and to-night. It was composed by Al Pian- for the. referee will be resumed to determine the
tadosi and Al Bryan."
actual sales of the song.
THAT we met a song writer this week who
GETS GERRITJMITH LIBRARY.
claimed that his last royalty check exceeded his
The music library of the late Gerrit Smith has expectations by several dollars. Name of publisher
been presented by Mrs. Smith to Dr. William C. not given.
THAT Charles K. 1 arris' waltz of peace, "When
Carl, for the Gui.lmant Organ School. The col-
lection contains many valuable works for the or- Angels Weep," is proving a success even beyond
gan. Tn the list are manuscripts from a great expectations, which is indicative of the excellent
exploitation of the number.
number of the world's leading composers, in addi-
tion to scores and works on theoretical subjects.
You
Can't Go
Wron£
With
Feist'So
Hi
CENTURY
EDITION
Century Music Pub. Go.
WHAT MAKES SONGS POPULAR?
CRESCENT CO. INCORPORATED.
The Crescent Music Co., New York, has been
incorporated with capital stock of $10,000 for the
purpose of engaging in the music publishing and
motion picture fields. The incorporators are: H.
S. Wittmark, Philip Sharlash and R. Silman.
10 NEW REMICK
SONG HITS
Over the Hills to Mary.
Chinatown, My Chinatown.
At the Mt^issippi Cabaret.
I Want to Linger.
When It's Night Time Down in
Burgundy.
There Is Only One California for
Mine.
On the 5.15.
Oh, What a Beautiful Baby.
Come Over to Dover.
Wrap Me in a Bundle (and take
me home with you).
Jerome H. Remick & Co.
219 W. 46th Street
NEW YORK
137 W. Fort Street
DETROIT, MICH.
ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER
Mnsic Engravers and Printers
SEND MANUSCRIPT AND IDEA OF TITLE
FOR ESTIMATE
311 West 43d Street, New TorK City
New York State College of Agriculture Giving
Much Serious Study to That Subject—Some
Interesting Material in a Pamphlet Just Pub-
lished in Reference to That Matter.
The New York State College of Agriculture at
Cornell University is at work in an effort to dis-
cover, if possible, just what is responsible for the
"life" of a song, although just why a college of
agriculture should take such a pronounced interest
in music is not quite clear.
In a pamphlet on the subject issued by Rose Mor-
gan, under the auspices of the college, there are
some interesting theories put forth as to the reasons
for a song's popularity.
"We do not sing songs merely because they have
lived," reads the pamphlet. "We sing as a mode of
self-expression; and if the song that is new to our
ears and possibly newly created answers us we sing
it with much the same right that we use in adopt-
ing the style of the hour in house furnishing or in
dress."
BUY YOUR MUSIC
FROM
BOSTON
ill
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is the day to make a big display of
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1 of Love Still Burning"
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T I T L E PAGES FREE
F^ cents a copy if you attach
y t h i s advertisement t o
your order
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Tlien there is another test—that of personal pos-
session. "Does the song live for me, the individual?
Has it a place in my life for reasons personal or of
value to me? As a memory does it leave me un-
ashamed and glad to recall it?" If they can stand
the test of these questionings, the writer claims, it
matters not to what class they belong—folk song,
ballad, ragtime or classical, they become "our"
songs and we become quick to defend tbem.
Why is it that ragtime is so short lived and
that a song which had the whole town by the throat
with its insistent tune for a while dies as quickly
as a rainbow in the sky? Here is one explanation:
"The vogue of the present day popular song is
{Continued on page 62.)
THE MUSICAL COMEDY HIT
OF THE SEASON!
Henry Blossom & Victor Herbert's!
Brightest and Biggest Success
"The Only Girl"
Now Playing to capacity at the
Lyric Theatre, N. Y.
All the musical numbers, selec-
tion, score NOW READY!
M. WITMARK & SONS
NEW YORK
THE BALLAD SUCCESS OF AMERICA
WALTER JACOBS
BOSTON, MASS.
Publisher of
"Kiss of Spring," "Some Day When Dreams Come True,"
And Some Others World Famous.
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and supply Every Requirement of Music Dealers
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. CO.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS, ft ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC
Maim Offices: 62-64 Stanhope St., Boston.
Branch Houses: New York and Chicago.
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Witmark Bldg., 144-146 W. 37th St.,
8 J'.osworth St.,
OLIVER DITSON
Thursday
January 21st
"Suppose I Met You
Face To Face"
By CHAS. K. HARRIS
SOLD WHEREVER MUSIC IS SOLD
CHAS. K. HARRIS
Broadway and 47th Street
MEYER C O H E N , Mgr.
New York
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
Little Town of Bethlehem," "It Came Upon the still, as his emaciated hands ran feverishly over
Midnight Clear" and "Home of the Soul."
the keys. Then he seemed to gather will and
force; he played; and the fall of the notes was as
due to its 'ragtime,' pretty, often very pretty, and
the dropping of tears. The listeners did not renew
CHOPIN'S
FUNERAL
MARCH.
full of sprightliness and suggestion. The word-
their dance; they lost all zest for it. They did
maker knows this and the suggestive rhythm of
How the Great Pole Improvised the Famous
not move; they did not speak until Chopin ceased
'ragtime' seems to be his license. The 'ragtime' be-
Funeral March Interestingly Told.
his playing and lapsed moodily into himself again.
comes the color, gaudy but attractive, when skil-
They praised him; they tried to carry him about
fully used; the words—what do they become in this
How Chopin composed, or rather improvised, the studio on their shoulders in honor of the im-
song which is claiming a place in the home as ex- his Funeral March is related in the Paris Temps by provisation ; but he shook them off and went his
pressing the spirit of that home? Study them, read Jules Claretie in an article on the late painter Zieni, way. The 'Improvisation' was the Funeral March."
them separated from the tune. You will know if
says the New York Post:
that song be not the dime novel of music. Its very
WELSH RIVALS_FOR "TIPPERARY."
"At the burial of Ziem Chopin's Funeral March
tune, pretty as it may seem with its tinkly rhythm, —the march in the sonata—was the dirge to which
A Cardiff dispatch to Lloyd's Weekly says:
is bad because it suggests and supports words that the mourners moved. And then I remembered
"Cymric ardor on the battlefield is going to be
should never have been printed, much less sold or that it was in Ziem's studio that Chopin had first inspired and sustained by Cymric music. Not the
sung.
composed it and under a kind of hallucination. least impressive sight among the Welsh units train-
"Study again some of the songs and ballads that Ziem and the frequenters of his studio were a wild ing at Porthcawl has been the gathering of the
have lived. Many of them were at one time so- and whimsical lot in those days, and on this par- soldiers for choral singing. When the new Welsh
called popular songs and 'best sellers.' Why did ticular evening they were amusing themselves with army of 40,000 men takes the field it will go to
not they, too, perish within the year of their birth? a half comic, half ghastly masquerade. Stripping battle to the sound of a Cymric war chorus, which
Read their words separated from their tunes. Now the sheets from the beds and seizing any white experts have described as the finest martial music
take the tunes and see^ if they were once popular wrapping upon which they could lay hand, they in the world.
merely because they tinkled; is there not something had improvised a ballet of ghosts, suggested doubt-
"The organization just formed is known as the
more there than the suggestion of a clog dance?"
less by the phantoms of the nuns that rise from Welsh Army Male Voice Chorus, and as the re-
The "worth while" songs listed in the pamphlet
their graves in Meyerbeer's opera, 'Robert the cruits include some of the finest singers in the
include:
"America," "Star-Spangled Banner," Devil.'
Welsh valleys, men who have competed in scores
"Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Yankee Doodle,"
"Chopin, however, held aloof. He would not of Eisteddfods, the soldiers' practice songs at
"Home, Sweet Home," "Old Kentucky Home," join in the frolic; he would not even smile at it. Porthcawl partake of the character of first-class
"Old Oaken Bucket," "Ben Bolt," "Swing Low, He was nervous and 'shivery,' and finally he sat concerts, which attract to the vicinity of the hall
Sweet Chariot," "Tombigbee River," "The Mocking down at the pianoforte, while the 'ghosts' in their large numbers of residents of the town and vis-
Bird," "Gentle Annie," "Jolly Old St. Nicholas," "O white shrouds gathered about him. They grew itors."
WHAT MAKES SONGS POPULAR?
{Continued
from
page
ul.)
STERLING
It's what is iaside of the Sterling that has made its repu-
tation. Every detail of its construction receives thorough
attention from expert workmen—every material used in its
construction • is the best—absolutely. That means a piano
of permanent excellence in every particular in which a
piano should excel. The dealer sees the connection between
these facts and the universal popularity of the Sterling.
THE STERLING
COMPANY
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Manufacturers of
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Tha HARDMAN Upright Piano
Made in three sizes and a variety
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The HARRINGTON Piano
and
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Supreme among moderately priced instruments
An admirable instrument at a price all can afford
and also owning and controlling the Autotone Co., makers of
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The only P.ayer-Piano of reputation made throughout "Player" as well as "Piano" by Piano makers of acknowl-
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