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MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JANUARY 10, 1920
MUSIC THAT WEARS WELL THE BEST
Length, Not Strength, of Popularity the Final
Test of Value of Music, Says Writer
Familiarity does not always "breed contempt"
—it may also breed admiration. It all depends
upon the quality of the thing you become famil-
iar with. Nowhere is this more true than in the
realm of music.
Harold Vincent Milligan writes under the %
title of "From Ragtime to Classical" in the
Woman's Home Companion:
"It is the wearing quality of good music which
distinguishes it from the shoddy article, and the
more you become familiar with the music that
has stood the test of time and has become 'clas-
sic' the greater your enjoyment of it will be-
come.
"The average life of a popular song is, let us
say, six months. Handel's melody, known as
'Largo,' is 200 years old and is loved to-day by
more people than ever before. Violins have
sung Bach's 'Air for the G String' through more
than two centuries, and it will be just as popu-
lar a century hence as it is to-day.
"If we heard as much Beethoven as we do
George M. Cohan, there is absolutely no ques-
tion as to our relative enjoyment of the Fifth
Symphony and 'Over There.' Thanks to the
phonograph, we can do just that thing, and
thanks to the phonograph more and more of tis
are finding our way into the great treasure house
of the world's music.
"Time was (not so long ago, either) when
'opera' meant the Metropolitan Opera House,
in New York City, and 'symphony' meant Bos-
ton and one or two other large cities. Dwell-
ers in smaller cities and towns and in country
districts were dependent upon 'local talent' or
an occasional visit from a traveling company, or
were shut off entirely from good music.
"But nowadays the dweller on the loneliest
western ranch can sit down in the evening and
enjoy the violin playing of Elman or Heifetz
or Ysaye, or mayhap indulge in a little grand
opera for the refreshing of his soul. No mat-
ter how far from the Metropolitan Opera House
you may live, you may enjoy Gounod's 'Faust'
just as much as you do Dickens' 'David Copper-
field.'
"And as for the younger generation—can you
imagine what it means to them to have as
familiar friends the great masters of music?"
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ROSE OF ROMANY
A Gypsy Ballad Beautiful by Neil Moret, composer of " MICKEY." and Louis Weslyn, writer of " SEND ME AWAY WITH
A SMILE." Sung with success by Henry Burr
THREE MORE GOOD SELLERS: "BOW WOW," an instrumental one-step; "WON'T YOU
COME BACK TO TOKIO," a novelty, and "SUNSHINE MARY," ballad
DANIELS & WILSON, Inc.
NEW YORK OFFICE
145 WEST 45th STREET
San Francisco
SOME SCHIRMER POPULAR NUMBERS
Compositions by Lee S. Roberts and Others Be-
ing Featured in a Big Way
G. Schirmer, Inc., are showing much activity
with their semi-popular catalog. The majority
of these numbers are from the pen of Lee S.
Roberts and include the sensational success,
"Patches," together with his "Mississippi Moon-
light," "Montezuma" and "Please."
In addition to the above, "Bohemia," a clever
fox-trot by Ethel Broaker, with a lyric by Louis
Weslyn, writer of "Send Me Away With a
Smile," is becoming quite popular. "Only a
Rose," by Frank Wright and "The Little Town
in the Ould County Down," by the writers of
''Tumble Down Shack in Athlone," are making
a favorable impression.
Dave Kaplan, manager of the band and or-
chestra department of G. Schirmer, Inc., has
given "Bohemia" an exceptional orchestra ar-
rangement, which has created more than the
usual comment among the orchestra leaders
throughout the country.
A NEW SAM FOX SUCCESS
In "My Cairo Love," by Harry D. Kerr and
J. S. Zamecnik, the Sam Fox Pub. Co., Cleve-
land, O., have apparently one of the most suc-
cessful song hits of the year. This, together
with their "Me-Ow" and "Taxi," by Mel B.
Kaufman, is leading the Sam Fox catalog in
point of sales. All these numbers have been
recorded by practically all the talking machine
record and music roll manufacturing companies
and are featured very prominently by orchestras
everywhere.
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MUSICAL NOTATION PATENTED
WASHINGTON, D. C, January
5.—Patent No.
1,313,015 was recently granted to Sidney Ar-
mor Reeve, New Brighton, N. Y., for a musical
notation, which is virtually a renewal of an
earlier application tiled March 6, 1913, Serial
No. 752258.
This invention relates to musical notation
for the pianoforte, organ or orchestra. Its
object is to facilitate the type-setting, engraving,
printing and reading of music, the use of musi-
cal typewriting, the musician's interpretation
of the printed notes into musical sounds, and
the transition of popular use from the system
now virtually universal to a better one. Thus,
while its immediate object is to simplify the
system of symbols so as to show the eye with
the least mental effort not merely the pitch de-
sired, but also the mechanical means to be
taken to produce that pitch in sound, yet its
ultimate and all-important object is to select
that combination of symbols which will .make
it practicable for the musical public To step
from the old system to the new—lacking^which
feature no suggestion for an improved nota-
tion can be of use.
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NEW FEIST SONG COMING
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Leo Feist, Inc., will shortly publish a new
ballad fox-trot entitled "The Time Will Come."
The words of the number are by Maurice Gun-
sky. The music is by Bert Levy, arranger for
the San Francisco office of Leo Feist, Inc., and
musical director for Bert Levy's Princess The-
atre at that city.
IN THE AFTERGLOW
THE SENSATIONAL SONG SUCCESS
OF THE YEAR
"If You Would Care
For a Lonely Heart"
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The Words by J. WILL CALLAHAN
The Music by FRANK H. GREY
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"Dear Heart"
"My Castles In the Air
Are Tumbling Down"
"Valse Gloria"
"Sunshine Rose"
"Girl of My Dreams"
"Buddy"
"Drifting"
"Dream Waltz"
"Rippling Waters"
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Copyrighted, 1919. by Hinds, Hayden &Eldredge, Inc.
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