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McKinley Catalog of Piano Teaching
Material, Wide, Varied and Practical
All Compositions Included Classified According to Grade—All Numbers Revised, Edited and
Printed From New Plates—Other Publications Along the Same Lines
/CHICAGO, ILL., June 14.—The McKinley given as much thought as the notation and the
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Mu:-ic Co., 1501-15 East Fifty-fifth street, execution. In many of these revisions explana-
has woiked out with the aid of its editorial staff tory notes have been inserted touching upon
a special catalog of teaching music classified both the execution and the interpretation, a fea-
according to grades of piano technic. The ad- ture in editing interesting to both teacher and
vantages of this classification, as explained by pupil.
the company to the music teaching profession
It has been the aim of the publishers to make
are many, as it saves many weary hours of the all violin and piano numbers meet every re-
teacher's time heretofore used in examining, quirement, whether for study, teaching, concert
selecting, refingering, phrasing and otherwise * or general entertainment. The violin parts are
"marking up" the compositions best suited for mostly in the first position and are carefully
a pupil.
bowed and fingered. When possible, a second
For instance, if the teacher is confronted with violin part is added for duet purposes. Many
this problem she can turn to the special teaching numbers not only have been re-edited, but have
catalog and find immediately the piece that she been rewritten in a thoroughly refreshing mod-
desires the pupil to study. Under the main ern style.
heading "Touch" there will be found numbers
The editing of the vocal numbers is in prog-
listed under "Legato," "Staccato," "Finger Con- ress and will soon be completed. The list com-
trol," "Double Touch," "Hand Development and prises about half secular and half sacred num-
Expansion," and numerous other headings. In bers, the secular consisting principally of stand-
like manner, under the main heading, "Technic," ard songs. When possible, a violin obligato
will be found numbers listed under the sub-head- part is introduced. Besides the regular use of
ings "Scales and Runs," "Double Notes," "Cross- the vocal composition with obligato, the num-
ing of Hands," etc. .This classification is carried bers can be used without voice fur two violins
out further to "Time, Tempo and Rhythm" and and piano, or for violin, saxophone and piano
"Interpretation."
(the saxophone playing the violin part and the
All the McKinley compositions have been violin the voice part), for the reason that the
thoroughly revised, carefully edited and printed violin part has the voice part cued on a separate
from specially engraved plates. The phrasing, staff, and the voice part is bowed and fingered
pedaling, tone shading and metronome marks just as though it were a violin part. This novel
have been worked into all the grades, giving arrangement of the vocal numbers adapts itself
abundance of material for study. A number of for high schools using or teaching violin, as it
compositions in the easy grades have been adds about one hund.ed vocal numbers to be
printed in large notes. In fingering the first and played instrumentally for violin and piano.
second grades the editorial staff has kept in
A most important item in the additions to
mind the small hand of the average child be- this year's catalog is a set of six "Easy Pieces
ginner.
in Difficult Keys," contributed jointly by Mine.
This method of revision aims solely to bring Sturkow-Ryder and Henry S. Sawyer. Few
out the best technic of the composition. Every pupils can play music written in more than two
point of shading and interpretation has received or three sharps and flats, the main reason being
careful attention to meet the requirements of
that most music in the advanced keys is quite
the most exacting musical critics, and to make difficult. Here arc six gems of melody, all dif-
every composition a model example for the pro- ferent and all easy; three are in Ab, Db and Gb,
gressive teacher.
while the other three are in E, B and F sharp.
In every case the style of playing has been The study of such pieces is a fine preparation
for reading harder music in the difficult keys,
and the best teachers and conservatories will
welcome them.
"The Singer's Art, an Analytical Study of
Vocal Techinque," by Allen Ray Carpenter, is
a new book of preparatory work designed to
equip singers with the necessary technic to en-
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accents, swells, etc., will be shown a list of such
songs as illustrate these points.
Nearly all easy violin music is written in easy
keys, such as C, G, D, A, etc., so as to make
frequent use of the open string. On the theory
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if the music written in them were easier, Stur-
kow Ryder has written a book entitled "Twelve
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Sarabande) are patterned after classic forms,
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easy to play, and have evoked strong testi-
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