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ADDITIONS TO "HALF DOLLAR SERIES"
RAGTIME MUSIC USEFUL
Four Interesting and Valuable New Volumes
Added to Popular Ditson Edition.
In Restoring Sad and Despondent Persons to
Normal Condition—Chopin's Music for Over-
strung Nerves—Use of Music in Therapeu-
tics Being Studied by Physicians.
A quartet of notable and interesting additions
have just been made to the valuable and justly
popular "Half Dollar Music Series" published by
the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, Mass. Included in
the four new volumes is a series of "Forty Favorite
Airs in Easy Piano Arrangement," among which
are to be found such standard selections as "Alice,
Where Art Thou?" "America," "Annie Laurie,"
"The Campbells Are Comin'," "Darling Nellie
Gray," "Home, Sweet Home," "La Paloma," "The
Mocking Bird," "Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground," and other selections of similar character.
The remaining three volumes are entitled "Fofty-
first Year Piano Pieces," "Thirty-second Year
Piano Pieces" and "Twenty-third Year Piano
Pieces," respectively, all of them made up of thor-
oughly suitable selections from the works of rec-
ognized comp.osers. AH four volumes should
prove distinctly interesting to the trade, the teacher
and the student.
The simplified arrangements have been made'by
Carl Wilhelm Kern, James IT. Rogers and others
well qualified for the task.
The effects of music upon the health—well
known ever since David harped to Saul, but hith-
erto illy understood—are being looked into more
deeply by the group of prominent physicians who
formed the National Society of Musical Therapeu-
tics a year ago.
"No matter to what extent music may restore a
person to the normal," says the New York Medical
Journal, "there can be no question that it may help
other influences to incline the person from the nor-
mal. There are many compositions, notably among
those by Chopin, which are the outcome of more or
less melancholy moods', and while they are beauti-
ful and harmless to the healthy, when made a
steady diet of self-consolation by those suffering
from depression from mental or bodily causes their
effect is undoubtedly pernicious, just as a too ex-
clusive diet of olives or meringues would depress
TURN ABOUT.
"I think I'll go into baseball next year," re-
marked the actor who was out of a job.
"But you don't know anything about baseball,"
objected his friend.
"What's that got to do with it? Look at all the
baseball players that are drawing big salaries on
the stage. They don't know anything about acting,
do they?"
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HARDMAN Autotone
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The
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-phe Perfect Plaver-Piano
Made in three sizes and a variety of
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' artistic cases.
Owning and Controlling E. G. Harrington &• Co., Est., 1872, makers of
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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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PLAN TO PRODUCE "FULLY THAT."
Miss Elizabeth Marbury announces that she will
produce during the Christmas holidays "Fully
That." Guy Bolton wrote the book, P. G. Wode-
house the lyrics and Jerome Kern the music. Mau-
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prominent players will be in the cast. T. B. Harms
& Francis, Day & Hunter will publish the score of
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SPECIALIZEjN MUSIC.
The W. H. Hammack Co., Hagerstown, Md., al-
though handling pianos and other musical instru-
ments, specializes particularly on sheet music and
books, both as publisher and retailer, with much
success.
the general bodily condition and mental atmosphere
of a person so indulging a sickly appetite."
On the other hand, ragtime music, "being in no
wise serious," is the reverse of depressing. "The
African jingles of the present day create an emo-
tional atmosphere of restlessness and excitement
which is typically American, and which is opposed
to health only so far as our national restlessness
and lack of poise tend to make us a people whose
national disease is nervous exhaustion."
Roughly speaking, lively music, such as ragtime,
is likely to rouse depressed persons from their
melancholy; sad and pathetic music will soothe the
excitable and hyper-nervous.
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