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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
48
CONDUCTED BY B. B. WILSON
BIG ORDERS FORJHAWAIIAN MUSIC
Heavy Demand for Publications of That Class
Experienced by Sherman J Clay & Co.
SAN
On To Plattsburg
FRANCISCO, CAL., August 5.—Edward T.
Little, manager of the sheet music department
of Sherman, Clay & Co., reports the receipt of
many large orders for the newer Hawaiian
music publications, the new Hawaiian waltz,
"Kilima," having made a hit beyond all expec-
tations. The San Francisco Irish song, "Almost
Home," has also been a great success since the
new edition was gotten out. This house had a
wonderful window during the first week that
"Canary Cottage" played here, putting in spe-
cial scenery, a background of sky and moun-
tains, a valley with the Canary Cottage, grass,
trees, walks, etc., with thirty live canaries;
showing an exact miniature copy of the scene
in the first act. With this there were merely a
few copies of the songs, and a card announcing
that the songs and player rolls were on sale.
As a result nearly everybody that came into the
store for several days bought one of these
songs, and the sidewalk was packed.
MARCH
The March of Preparedness!
By
HERBERT W. LOWE
DEALERS—Fall in Line and order this great
march at the following attractive prices for first
introduction, viz.:
Piano Solo, retail 60 cents, lets 80 Per Cent.
Four Hands, retail 60 cents, lees 80 Per Cent.
Band, retail 50 cents
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Orchestra, full, retail 60 cents
I
Orchestra. 14 parts, retail 50 cents
VV-i and Va
Orchestra. 10 parts, retail 40 cents
Orchestra, piano parts, retail 15 cents J
Introduction Rates Expire September 1, 1916
Piano S o l o . 6 0 - Published a/w for Band and Orchestra
Boston - Oliver Ditson Company
YorkChas H.D.tson & Co. - • • ChicagO'Lyon 5 Healy
OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, - BOSTON
CHAS. H. DITSON & CO., - NEW YORK
PREPAREDNESS MARCH POPULAR
"On
to Plattsburg" Being Featured Very
Strongly by the Oliver Ditson Co.
Although only on the market for a compara-
tively short time the new march "On to Platts-
burg," composed by Herman W. Lowe and
published by the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, has
apparently struck the popular chord. The gen-
eral endorsement of the Plattsburg idea of mili-
tary training by those in favor of preparedness
has lent special interest to the new march of
preparedness. The melody of the piece is a
lively one and the trio is supplied with special
words written by David Stephens. The march
has a title page thoroughly in keeping with its
spirit and is being exploited very energetically
by the publishers while the Plattsburg camp is
still in being.
'There's a Rose in Old Erin
Thai's Blooming for Me"
I Ain't Got Nobody and Nobody
Cares for Me"
Only You," Waltz Song
" O Those Blues "
" I Love the Name of Dixie "
"You Are the Image of Mother,
That's Why 1 Love You "
"One Wonderful Night"
"In the Land of Love with the
Songbirds "
" O, How 1 Want You "
"Sing Me the Rosary"
"La Danza Appasslonata "
(Passion Dance), Fox Tango
"La Seduccion," Fox Tango
'* Tambourines and Oranges "
Fox Trot
THE NATIONALj\NTHEM IS IRISH
W. Murdoch Lind Quotes Prominent Authority
to Prove That the Music of the "Star Span-
gled Banner" Was Originally an Irish Air—
How It Was Adapted for Our Use
1771, before Smith had published anything.
" 'The music and words were reprinted by
Anne Lee, of Dublin, in 1780, and it had ap-
peared in many collections before Smith in-
cluded it in his.
" 'The legend of the air's English origin was
created by Chappell, who mistook Smith's col-
lection for Smith's composition, and Mr. Son-
neck, chief of the Division of Music in the Li-
brary of Congress, followed Chappell.
" 'It seems providential in its fitness that this
magnificent American national air should
originate in Ireland, and in its being set by
Key's order to the deathless song that was in-
spired by the sight of the American flag floating
triumphantly from Fort MacIIenry.
" 'Dr. MacHenry, Washington's army sur-
geon in 1776 and Secretary of War in 1796, and
for whom the fort was named, was an Irish-
man.'
The following interesting letter from W.
Murdoch Lind, based on an article published in
The Review of July 22, is interesting as shed-
ding new light on the origin of the national
anthem. The letter is as follows:
"In the article 'Need for a National Song,'
which appears in The Music Trade Review of
July 22, Jennie L. Chadwick, of Park Ridge,
N. J., says of 'The Star Spangled Banner':
" 'The melody was once an old English drink-
ing song, and as such is musically unsuited and
from an aesthetic standpoint unfit for patriotic
purposes.'
"Miss Chadwick will, I hope, excuse me for
"W. MURDOCH LIND."
saying that the melody of 'The Star Spangled
Banner' never was 'an old English drinking song.'
Joseph E. Howard, the well-known composer,
It is entirely too ponderous for a Bacchanalian
ditty; as a matter of fact it is not English at and his wife were badly injured when another
all, but Irish, in proof of which I shall now machine crashed into the Howard car on the
quote from that remarkable book 'Brochure of road near Atlantic City last Saturday.
Irish Achievements in Government, Art, Archi-
tecture, Literature and Poetry'—the work of f
my esteemed friend Michael J. Redding, Esq.,
the learned and genial poet-philosopher of Bal-
timore, Md.:
" 'Not until the latter half of the seventeenth
"On the Old Dominion Line 1 '
century, after the Treaty of Limerick was vio-
"In Old Brazil"
lated (1691) did the verse-maker or bard merge
"Down Honolulu Way"
into the musician, and the harper and bard be-
came fused in one, as was the case with Caro-
"Welcome. Honey, to your Old
lan, commonly called the last of the bards, and
Plantation Home"
who died in 1738, a few years before Moore was
"The Whole World Loves a Lover"
born.
"And They Called it Dixieland"
" 'It was this same Turlough O'Carolan, born
"Come Back to Arizona"
in Meath, 1670, who in 1730 gave us the air i
"Underneath the Stars"
'" Anacreon in Heaven;" this air was first pub-1
"You'll Always be the same
lished in America by Mathew Carey, an Irish-
Sweet Baby To Me"
'man, in "The Vocal Companion," in 1796.
"They
Didn't Believe Me"
" 'And Francis Scott Key directed his song,
"On Lake Champlain"
"The Star-Spangled Banner," to be sung to the
"Memories"
air of "Anacreon in Heaven."
"My Dreamy China Lady"
" 'Stafford Smith, the alleged composer of the
"You'll Find a Little Bit of
air, entered the copyright of his "Fifth Book
Ireland Everywhere"
of Canzonets," the collection which contained
it, on May 14, 1799, and he only arranged the
tune in the form of a glee; and though he lived
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till 1836 he never laid claim to its composition.
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