Presto

November 13, 1920.
PRESTO
27
JAZZ AND RAGTIME DEFINED
MC KINLEY LIST OF WINNERS
Popular Numbers That Are Keeping the Lucky
Sheet Music Dealers Busy.
Merit has been the great force in making the late
publications of the McKinley Music Co., Chicago
and New York, the wonderful successes they are
conceded to be. In the merits of a fine list the
publisher's again justify their well-known descrip-
tive phrase, "The Home of Good Ballads." Here are
some of the big sellers:
"Swanee Moonlight," "One Little Girl," "Sweet
Hawaiian Moonlight," "Smoke Rings," "Pickaninny
Blues," "Weeping Willow Lane," Play Me a Dixie
Melody," "Down in Echo Valley," "Overalls,"
"Floatin' Down to Cotton Town," "Wishin' Moon,"
"Somebody Else's Girl," "Shimmy Moon," "Vene-
tion Dreams,' "Hawaiian Rose," "Under Southern
Stars," "Do You?", "In the Harbor of Home, Sweet
Home," "Everything- Tells Me You're Irish."
WHEN LYRICS ARE MISFITS
Oddities of the Song Field Commented Upon and
Frederick W. Vanderpool Adds a Word.
Sometimes a "song hit" will have a most atrocious
lyric while the music will have the qualities to make
the production a success. The sheet music dealer
knows that many of the winners in past years had
alluring music and lyrics that were offenses against
every rule of verse composition. Some of the lyrics
were stilted and commonplace; some were vulgar
and even indecent, but from the sheer attractiveness
of the music became popular.
The fact has often evoked the comment of mu-
sicians, real literary people and observers of the
bizarre combinations from the sheet music pub-
lishers.
The old foreign song writers studied poetry as a
complement to musical technique, and as one of the
in the world, or the peppy jazz, you will hear it. We
carry a complete stock of records, and are always
glad to pla)' them for you."
Miss Birdie Ivey is manager of the talking ma-
chine department of the Strawn-Tucker Furniture
Co.. Little Rock, Ark.
The Famous & Barr Co., St. Louis, has secured
the agency for the Brunswick phonograph. J. F.
Ditzell is manager of the music department.
Mr-. Ida M. Galloway, of Washington, D. C, has
issued an appeal for late phonograph records to use
in a boys' hospital in that city, as the boys have be-
come tired of hearing the old ones.
L. T. Donnelly is manager of the Diamond Disc
Shop, New Orleans.
Columbia Graphophone stockholders have ratified
directors' recommendation of increase in common
stock from 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 shares of no par
value.
basic principles of their artistic education. Men-
tally, they wedded music and words, much as an
oratorio composer thinks of his libretto—orches-
trally—as one.
"This is a day of great activity among American
poets, and their lines are available and suitable for
our composers," said Frederick W. Vanderpool, the
song writer, recently. "They express the thoughts
and aspirations of our contemporaries, which have
an even greater appeal when expressed in song."
NORDICA AND AMERICAN SONGS.
Today, none would think of giving a vocal recital
in which American Songs did not figure. But there
was a time when celebrated singers evaded American
songs on the specious plea that English was unsing-
able, writes William Armstrong in the Delineator.
Suddenly all changed. Madame Nordica made tire-
less propaganda for Charles Wakefield Cadman,
whose great melodic talent she instantly recognized
when he was utterly unknown. Since that time when
he first gave out his admired song, "Land of the
Sky-blue Water," what a mass of songs and instru-
mental pieces he has written, as well as the opera,
"Shaneweis," which had the distinction of being pre-
sented at the Metropolitan Opera House! To her he
owes primarily his quick rise to fame.
PUSHING SHEET MUSIC.
The Elgin Music Company, 50 and 52 Grove ave-
nue, Elgin, 111., is one of the active firms which
makes a sheet music department a continuous source
of profit and the sheet music goods a reliable means
to other sales. In advertising "up-to-the-minute"
popular music this week the firm prints the following
invitation: "Have you heard some catchy melody
which you would like to hear again? Come to this
store. Whatever is new and popular in music we
have."
MRS. J. M. PRIAULX DIES.
The sympathy of a great number of people in the
sheet music trade and kindred trades was recently
extended to Joseph M. Priaulx, of Chas. H. Ditson
& Co., New York, who is secretary-treasurer of the
National Association of Sheet Music Dealers, at the
death of his wife. Mrs. Priaulx was buried from
her late residence, 199 Bowers street, Jersey City,
October 31.
MUSIC COMPOSER IS GUEST.
Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond, the song writer and
publisher, was a guest at the recent annual banquet
of the Piano Merchants' Association of Pittsburgh,
given at the Lincoln Club, Pittsburgh. Mrs. Bond
was accompanied by Mrs. Grace Druitt Lotus, who
contributed to the enjoyment of the evening by
playing some of Mrs. Jacobs Bond's composition.
DIXIE OPENS NEW OFFICE.
The Dixie Music Publishing Company, Inc., of
Miami, Fla., announces the opening • of its New
York office at 1545 Broadway, Gaiety Theater Build-
ing, with L. L. VosBurgh, manager, and Frank M.
Miller, assistant manager, in charge.
NEWBY & EVANS PHONOGRAPH.
The Newby & Evans phonograph, made by New-
by & Evans, New York, is clearly described in a
handsome folder issued this week. Colonial style
illustrated in the folder is described as "a superior
That finds its way into the Hearts of the
combination of elegant design, beautiful tone qual-
People is
ity and durability. Plays all records. Perfected
tone-modifier. Automatic stop. Electric light. Au-
tomatic top-support. Size 45 inches high, 21 Y%
inches wide, 23J4 inches deep. Selected mahogany,
brass trim, visible motor parts gold plated." The
"Our Greatest Song of Praise"
various features which otherwise distinguish the
Newby & Evans machine are comprised in the vari-
Song Leaders and Supervisors of Music Laud
ous parts. That the phonograph has "the least sur-
Its Power to Strengthen Americanism.
face noise of any talking machine in the world" is
prominently stated.
It is full of pep. 18 cents. Order Now.
A National Song Hit
"AMERICA! EIRST and fOREYER"
KURTZMANN PHONOGRAPH CO.
Incorporation papers have been filed in the county
clerk's office, in Buffalo, N. Y., by the Kurtzmann
Phonograph Co., Inc. The firm is capitalized at
$75,000 and will have its principal offices in that
city. The directors are C. Kurtzmann, M. Kimball,
M. T. Sullivan, C. Folts and T. Pomeroy.
Corinthian Music Co.
Hadley, Illinois
Copies may b« secured thro* Lyon & Healy, Chicago, and
Plaza Music Co., New York.
What Each Represents and Tries to Express Is Ex-
plained by Newspaper Writer.
Ragtime is a style of music which came into
vogue about twenty-five years ago with the rage for
"coon" songs and cake-walks, writes D. E. Wheeler
in explaining the difference between ragtime and
jazz in the Dallas Daily Times Herald. It is based,
for the most part, on syncopation. Now, syncopa-
tion is the shifting of an accent or tone or chord by
tyim? it to another, usually a weak beat being tied
to a strong beat; in this way interrupting the nat-
ural order of accentuation in the given time of a
composition. It introduces an irregular pulse in the
music which lends unexpectedness and piquancy to
it. Among the famous composers Schumann was
particularly fond of syncopated effects. His sym-
phonies are full of syncopation. His little piano
piece, "Warum," is an excellent example of this style
of music. So is the well-known "Berceuse" from
"Jocelyn," by Godard.
Tazz, on the other hand, represents the utmost
liberty in music, simply depending on the taste and
ingenuity of the composer or performer, who
may introduce any startling effect he pleases
in the course of composition. Its charm is
its apparent spontaneity and reckless gaiety. Many
despise jazz as the degeneration of music—a sort
of drunken harmony—but there are others who de-
fend it as a new departure in the tonal art, and one
that may lead to great things in the future, mu-
sically speaking.
TRUMPET AND TROMBONE.
Q. Which carries the greater distance, the tone
of the trumpet or that of the slide trombone?
L. J. A.
A. The United States Marine Band says that the
sound of a trumpet carries farther than that of a
trombone.—Chicago Journal.
IT PROBABLY COULD.
A scientific expedition will hunt for the missing
link in Asia, and may find it, says the Chicago
Tribune. But it will never be known whether the
m. 1. was capable of the popular songs which one
sees in the windows of music stores, or whether it
could have done something better.
The float of the Mason Furniture Co., HuntsviHe,
Ala., won the prize in a recent parade witnessed by
50,000 in that city.
If you are not handling the
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Dealers Realize
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On Sales of McKinley Music
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on the market. Selections contained in this
Edition are used by the most promtneat
teachers in the country—Students, Accom-
plished Musicians, and the Music Lovfag
Public in general.
It is conveniently handled; arranged in
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the customers.
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bring more customers to the store than any
other advertising medium that could be em-
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