Music Trade Review
Issue: 1913 Vol. 56 N. 13 - Page 68
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THE
68
APPRAISING AMERICAN MUSIC.
British Writer in the London "Telegraph"
Makes Some Interesting Comments Upon
Prominent American Composers and Their
Work in Interesting Vein.
It has long been the fashion among those who
are interested in creative musical art to regard
America as comparatively, if not completely,
sterile. Her most famous son, Edward MacDow-
ell, was by descent a Scotsman, who studied prin-
cipally in Europe; and not even his most eloquent
admirers dare say that he laid the foundation of
an American school. He was a sweet singer, with
a slightly personal note of his own; but there
was nothing in him of the pioneer or the revo-
lutionary, and his technique was essentially con-
ventional. His much-praised "Keltic" sonata ex-
presses nearly every idiom in Europe but a
"Keltic" idiom, and although there are fine pass-
ages in it, one cannot discuss it in the same
breath with epoch-marking music. Then there
are Horatio Parker and G. W. Chadwick, sound
musicians both, but of no outstanding character
as creative artists, and there are a host of others
of lesser gifts.
It is true that the most important contribution
America has made to the world of music is rag-
time, a style in which there are enormous possi-
bilities, but in the more serious art-song the in-
fluence to-day is undoubtedly French. Whether
the chargv of sterility is going to be refuted it
is a little early to say, but in some songs that
'have lately been published in that country there
are unmistakable signs of a certain creative vital-
ity. Like every country that takes her music
solemnly, America has, of course, her pot-boilers,
her pretty waltzes, her songs for children, her
middle-class anthems and sentimental church
music. These are industries. Outside them are
two or three composers who regard their art as
an exacting mistress worthy of the most punctilious
devotion.
" : ' «?
COLLEGE GIRLSjCENSURE SONGS.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
the ban at the University of Chicago. They no
longer will have places on the dance program.
They have been banished because the words are
suggestive.
There are other songs, too, that soon will be
placed under the ban. The young women of the
Midway institution have arisen and decided that
suggestive songs have no place at any of their
gatherings.
So at future dances the young
women and their partners will dance the tango,
waltz and two step to music that is "clean" and
endorsed.
Tango? Yes, it has been officially decided at
the university that the tango is a perfectly proper
xiance for students. Miss Marion* Talbot, dean
of women,-says the tango can be danced gracefully
and without suggestion of offense.
WHY MUSIC PUBLISHERS DRINK.
Dere sir:—I am sending in this letter a poam of
twenty one vearses which i want you to put music
to and what is the price. It is called The Dead
Lover
She sat within a winder and a tear stood in her
eye,
The bells were toleing sadly as she saw a beer
go by.
Whose form lies there she wondered, and why-
fore do I cry,
Why does my heart beet so because that beer is
passing by.
Her lover dere had went away and left her thair
to sigh,
And all the time that solumm beer was going far-
ther by.—B. L. T. in Chicago Tribune..
NEW QUARTERS IN NEW YORK.
The B. F. Wood Music Co., the prominent Bos-
ton publisher, has leasM offices at 2!)-33 West
Thirty-eighth street, to which its New York
branch will be moved in the near future from the
present quarters, 23 East Twentieth street.
Place Ban on Certain Popular Numbers at
D. R. Wilson will carry a stock of sheet music,
Dances, but Let the Tango Remain on Pro-
small goods, talking machines and records in his
grams as a "Perfectly Proper Dance for
new jewelry store in Placentia, Cal.
Young Lady Students."
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., March -M, l!H:j.
"In My Harem."
"At the Devil's Ball."
"Hitchey-Koo."
The foregoing are three songs that are under
NOW PLAYING IN NEW YORK
Three Big Musical Successes
At the Globe Theater
"The Lady of the Slipper"
Book by Ann Caldwell and Lawrence McCarty.
Lyrics by Tames O'Dea.
Music by Victor Herbert.
If you desire a man for
your service, either for your
selling department, forward
to us and it will be inserted
MILLION
any department of
factory or for your
your advertisement
free of charge.
COPY HIT
Down By The Old Millsfream
Also New Hits
New WHEN WE WERE SWEETHFARTS New
New
UNDER THE OLD OAK TREE
New
New
WAY DOWN SOUTH
New
New
RAG RAG RAG
New
New
THAT SUBWAY RAG New
New
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY New
TELL TAYLOR, MUSIC PUBLISHER
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
MUSIC OFJTHE MONTH
OLIVER DITSON COMPANY,
Boston, Mass.
VOCAL.
Beyond the Cross—Duet for soprano and alto. (Py J.
Lamont Galbraith)
$0.60
Dainty Rosebud Red (G. Hubi-Newcombe-L. E. Orth) . . .60
Days of Days—Easter duet for soprano and alto. (By
Beardsley Van de Water)
60
Dear Winds that Kiss the Roses (Fred G. Bowles-W.
Franke-Harling)
*0
Eyes of Blue (Marie Beatrice Gannon-T,. E. O r t h ) . . . .50
Drifting- and Dreaming (Words and Music by Walter
Rolfe.)
-
.60
Had You But Known (Words and Music by Marie
Rich)
50
Here I See Thee, Face to Face (Horatio Bonar-ueorgc
B. Nevin)
50
I Saw Last Night a Falling Star (Alfred Hyatt-Charles
Fonteyn Manney)
50
Let Me Be a Violet (Words and Music by Marie Rich) .60
(>. King Immortal—A Song of Rejoicing (By Frank H.
Brackett)
75
O Salutaris Hostia (O Holy Father, Hear Our Prayer)
(By C. C. Stearns)
40
O That I Had Win^s Like a Dove (By James Pearce) .60
Requital (Words by Charlotte Becker—Music by Emil
Wiegand)
40
Summer Dawning (G. ITubi-Newcnmbe-TTcrhert W.
Wareing)
60
Summer of the Heart (Frank L. Stanton-Victor Harris) .50
When I Think of You (W. Dayton Wegefarth-Edward
F. Johnston)
60
INSTRUMENTAL.
A la hien-aimee (To My Dearest) (Waltz for piano)
(By Eduard Schuett)
75
A Merry Prank (For piano) (By Wilmnt Lemont)
40
At the Ball (Al Ballo) (For piano) (By Eugenio Di-
Pirani
60
Berceuse in Ab (For organ) (By J. F. Frysinger)
50
Berceuse (For violin and piano) (By Mary K. Wood. .50
Canzonetta, in G Minor, from "The Violin Concerto"
(For the organ) (By Peter Tlyitcb Tchaikovsky.
Arr. for organ bv Harvey B. Gaul 1 )
50
Canzonetta in D (For piano) (By Eduard Schutte.
Ed. by Tohn Orth)
40
Charge of Cavalry (Ritt der Kavallerie) (for piano)
(By F. Sabathil)
<•
60
Chasing Butterflies (For piano) (By Wilmot Lemont) .40
Cradle Song (For piano.) (Bv Reginald Barrett
4 .30
r
Cradle Song (For organ) (By Reginald Barrett)
>0
Communion, in G f Pilgrim's" Song of Hone) (For the
organ) (By Edouard Batiste. Edited by Jas. H .
Rogers)
60
Dancing the Minuet (For piano) (Bv Wilmot Lemont) .30
Tolly Junior—Waltz for piano (By W. F. Sudds)
40
La Coquette—Scherzo Valse for piano (By R. Spauld-
ing Stoughton)
60
Madrigale (For violin and piano) (By Franz Drdla.
Ed. by Eugene Gruenberg)
60
Melodie in Tb (For organ) (Bv Peter Ilyitch Tchai-
kovsky. Arr. by Harvey B. Gaul)
50
Nocturne, in G minor (for piano) (By Richard Piatt) .60
Petite Valse in E (For piano) (By Genari Karganoff.
Ed. by John Orth)
_
40
Serenade, in D (For violin and piano) (By A. d'Am-
brosia. Ed. bv Eugene Gruenberg)
75
Spring Flowers—Valse Brillante for piano (By Homer
N. Bartlett.)
60
The Calisthentic Drill (For piano) (By Wilmot Lemont) .40
The Joyful Peasant (Der htstige Bauer) (For r>iano)
(By Robt. Schumann. Arr. by A. Hartl. Ed. by
Karl Benker)
50
M. WITMARK & SONS,
144 146 West 37th St.. New York.
INSTRUMENTAL.
Blondette (Valse Elegante for piano) (By Carl Wil-
helm Kern)
$0.50
Canzone (Song without words for piano) (By D.
Savino)
50
Doggie Wants to Play (Jarkel will Spielen) (Piano
solo) (By W. Aletter)
50
Drowsy Butterfly (Valso Caprice for piano) (By Kate
Vannah)
60
Gertrude Minuet (Piano solo) (By Samuel J o n a s ) . . . .30
Love and Life (Waltz for piano) (By Karl Bergmann) .50
Mamma's Darling (March duet for piano) (By Geo. L.
Spaulding)
50
Pretty Bluebird, The (Piano solo) (By Geo. L. Spauld-
ing)
80
Sunny Faces (Galop for piano) (By Paul Lawson)
30
Whistling Bob-White, The (Piano solo) (By Geo. J.
Trinkaus)
30
Don't fail to order these Songs
My Dixie Rose
Who shall Wear t h e m
You or I, Love?
Gasoline
At the Lyric Theater
"All For the Ladies"
Book and Lyrics by Henry Blossom.
Music by Alfred G. Robyn.
At the N. Y. Hippodrome
"Under Many Flags"|
Conceived by Arthur Voegtlin.
Book by Carroll Fleming.
Music and Lyrics by Manuel Klein.
All the Music Now Ready.
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witmark Bldg.. 144-148 West 87th St.. N. Y. City.
Chicago San Francisco London Paris Melbourne
Only one Story the
WALTER JACOBS
167 Tremont St.,
BOSTON, MASS
Publisher of
"Kiss of Spring," "Some Day When Dreams Come True,"
And Some Others World Famous.
OLIVER
DITSON
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and Supply Every Requirement of Music Dealers
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. CO.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS & ENGRAVERS O F MUSIC
Main Offices: 62-64 Stanhope S t . Boston
Branch Houses: New York and Oiicaro
Roses Tell
'Mid the Purple Tint-
ed Hills of Tennessee
You Can't Repay the
Debt You Owe your Mother
Meet Me in the Twilight
MCKINLEY MUSIC CO.
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
THE
68
APPRAISING AMERICAN MUSIC.
British Writer in the London "Telegraph"
Makes Some Interesting Comments Upon
Prominent American Composers and Their
Work in Interesting Vein.
It has long been the fashion among those who
are interested in creative musical art to regard
America as comparatively, if not completely,
sterile. Her most famous son, Edward MacDow-
ell, was by descent a Scotsman, who studied prin-
cipally in Europe; and not even his most eloquent
admirers dare say that he laid the foundation of
an American school. He was a sweet singer, with
a slightly personal note of his own; but there
was nothing in him of the pioneer or the revo-
lutionary, and his technique was essentially con-
ventional. His much-praised "Keltic" sonata ex-
presses nearly every idiom in Europe but a
"Keltic" idiom, and although there are fine pass-
ages in it, one cannot discuss it in the same
breath with epoch-marking music. Then there
are Horatio Parker and G. W. Chadwick, sound
musicians both, but of no outstanding character
as creative artists, and there are a host of others
of lesser gifts.
It is true that the most important contribution
America has made to the world of music is rag-
time, a style in which there are enormous possi-
bilities, but in the more serious art-song the in-
fluence to-day is undoubtedly French. Whether
the chargv of sterility is going to be refuted it
is a little early to say, but in some songs that
'have lately been published in that country there
are unmistakable signs of a certain creative vital-
ity. Like every country that takes her music
solemnly, America has, of course, her pot-boilers,
her pretty waltzes, her songs for children, her
middle-class anthems and sentimental church
music. These are industries. Outside them are
two or three composers who regard their art as
an exacting mistress worthy of the most punctilious
devotion.
" : ' «?
COLLEGE GIRLSjCENSURE SONGS.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
the ban at the University of Chicago. They no
longer will have places on the dance program.
They have been banished because the words are
suggestive.
There are other songs, too, that soon will be
placed under the ban. The young women of the
Midway institution have arisen and decided that
suggestive songs have no place at any of their
gatherings.
So at future dances the young
women and their partners will dance the tango,
waltz and two step to music that is "clean" and
endorsed.
Tango? Yes, it has been officially decided at
the university that the tango is a perfectly proper
xiance for students. Miss Marion* Talbot, dean
of women,-says the tango can be danced gracefully
and without suggestion of offense.
WHY MUSIC PUBLISHERS DRINK.
Dere sir:—I am sending in this letter a poam of
twenty one vearses which i want you to put music
to and what is the price. It is called The Dead
Lover
She sat within a winder and a tear stood in her
eye,
The bells were toleing sadly as she saw a beer
go by.
Whose form lies there she wondered, and why-
fore do I cry,
Why does my heart beet so because that beer is
passing by.
Her lover dere had went away and left her thair
to sigh,
And all the time that solumm beer was going far-
ther by.—B. L. T. in Chicago Tribune..
NEW QUARTERS IN NEW YORK.
The B. F. Wood Music Co., the prominent Bos-
ton publisher, has leasM offices at 2!)-33 West
Thirty-eighth street, to which its New York
branch will be moved in the near future from the
present quarters, 23 East Twentieth street.
Place Ban on Certain Popular Numbers at
D. R. Wilson will carry a stock of sheet music,
Dances, but Let the Tango Remain on Pro-
small goods, talking machines and records in his
grams as a "Perfectly Proper Dance for
new jewelry store in Placentia, Cal.
Young Lady Students."
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., March -M, l!H:j.
"In My Harem."
"At the Devil's Ball."
"Hitchey-Koo."
The foregoing are three songs that are under
NOW PLAYING IN NEW YORK
Three Big Musical Successes
At the Globe Theater
"The Lady of the Slipper"
Book by Ann Caldwell and Lawrence McCarty.
Lyrics by Tames O'Dea.
Music by Victor Herbert.
If you desire a man for
your service, either for your
selling department, forward
to us and it will be inserted
MILLION
any department of
factory or for your
your advertisement
free of charge.
COPY HIT
Down By The Old Millsfream
Also New Hits
New WHEN WE WERE SWEETHFARTS New
New
UNDER THE OLD OAK TREE
New
New
WAY DOWN SOUTH
New
New
RAG RAG RAG
New
New
THAT SUBWAY RAG New
New
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY New
TELL TAYLOR, MUSIC PUBLISHER
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
MUSIC OFJTHE MONTH
OLIVER DITSON COMPANY,
Boston, Mass.
VOCAL.
Beyond the Cross—Duet for soprano and alto. (Py J.
Lamont Galbraith)
$0.60
Dainty Rosebud Red (G. Hubi-Newcombe-L. E. Orth) . . .60
Days of Days—Easter duet for soprano and alto. (By
Beardsley Van de Water)
60
Dear Winds that Kiss the Roses (Fred G. Bowles-W.
Franke-Harling)
*0
Eyes of Blue (Marie Beatrice Gannon-T,. E. O r t h ) . . . .50
Drifting- and Dreaming (Words and Music by Walter
Rolfe.)
-
.60
Had You But Known (Words and Music by Marie
Rich)
50
Here I See Thee, Face to Face (Horatio Bonar-ueorgc
B. Nevin)
50
I Saw Last Night a Falling Star (Alfred Hyatt-Charles
Fonteyn Manney)
50
Let Me Be a Violet (Words and Music by Marie Rich) .60
(>. King Immortal—A Song of Rejoicing (By Frank H.
Brackett)
75
O Salutaris Hostia (O Holy Father, Hear Our Prayer)
(By C. C. Stearns)
40
O That I Had Win^s Like a Dove (By James Pearce) .60
Requital (Words by Charlotte Becker—Music by Emil
Wiegand)
40
Summer Dawning (G. ITubi-Newcnmbe-TTcrhert W.
Wareing)
60
Summer of the Heart (Frank L. Stanton-Victor Harris) .50
When I Think of You (W. Dayton Wegefarth-Edward
F. Johnston)
60
INSTRUMENTAL.
A la hien-aimee (To My Dearest) (Waltz for piano)
(By Eduard Schuett)
75
A Merry Prank (For piano) (By Wilmnt Lemont)
40
At the Ball (Al Ballo) (For piano) (By Eugenio Di-
Pirani
60
Berceuse in Ab (For organ) (By J. F. Frysinger)
50
Berceuse (For violin and piano) (By Mary K. Wood. .50
Canzonetta, in G Minor, from "The Violin Concerto"
(For the organ) (By Peter Tlyitcb Tchaikovsky.
Arr. for organ bv Harvey B. Gaul 1 )
50
Canzonetta in D (For piano) (By Eduard Schutte.
Ed. by Tohn Orth)
40
Charge of Cavalry (Ritt der Kavallerie) (for piano)
(By F. Sabathil)
<•
60
Chasing Butterflies (For piano) (By Wilmot Lemont) .40
Cradle Song (For piano.) (Bv Reginald Barrett
4 .30
r
Cradle Song (For organ) (By Reginald Barrett)
>0
Communion, in G f Pilgrim's" Song of Hone) (For the
organ) (By Edouard Batiste. Edited by Jas. H .
Rogers)
60
Dancing the Minuet (For piano) (Bv Wilmot Lemont) .30
Tolly Junior—Waltz for piano (By W. F. Sudds)
40
La Coquette—Scherzo Valse for piano (By R. Spauld-
ing Stoughton)
60
Madrigale (For violin and piano) (By Franz Drdla.
Ed. by Eugene Gruenberg)
60
Melodie in Tb (For organ) (Bv Peter Ilyitch Tchai-
kovsky. Arr. by Harvey B. Gaul)
50
Nocturne, in G minor (for piano) (By Richard Piatt) .60
Petite Valse in E (For piano) (By Genari Karganoff.
Ed. by John Orth)
_
40
Serenade, in D (For violin and piano) (By A. d'Am-
brosia. Ed. bv Eugene Gruenberg)
75
Spring Flowers—Valse Brillante for piano (By Homer
N. Bartlett.)
60
The Calisthentic Drill (For piano) (By Wilmot Lemont) .40
The Joyful Peasant (Der htstige Bauer) (For r>iano)
(By Robt. Schumann. Arr. by A. Hartl. Ed. by
Karl Benker)
50
M. WITMARK & SONS,
144 146 West 37th St.. New York.
INSTRUMENTAL.
Blondette (Valse Elegante for piano) (By Carl Wil-
helm Kern)
$0.50
Canzone (Song without words for piano) (By D.
Savino)
50
Doggie Wants to Play (Jarkel will Spielen) (Piano
solo) (By W. Aletter)
50
Drowsy Butterfly (Valso Caprice for piano) (By Kate
Vannah)
60
Gertrude Minuet (Piano solo) (By Samuel J o n a s ) . . . .30
Love and Life (Waltz for piano) (By Karl Bergmann) .50
Mamma's Darling (March duet for piano) (By Geo. L.
Spaulding)
50
Pretty Bluebird, The (Piano solo) (By Geo. L. Spauld-
ing)
80
Sunny Faces (Galop for piano) (By Paul Lawson)
30
Whistling Bob-White, The (Piano solo) (By Geo. J.
Trinkaus)
30
Don't fail to order these Songs
My Dixie Rose
Who shall Wear t h e m
You or I, Love?
Gasoline
At the Lyric Theater
"All For the Ladies"
Book and Lyrics by Henry Blossom.
Music by Alfred G. Robyn.
At the N. Y. Hippodrome
"Under Many Flags"|
Conceived by Arthur Voegtlin.
Book by Carroll Fleming.
Music and Lyrics by Manuel Klein.
All the Music Now Ready.
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witmark Bldg.. 144-148 West 87th St.. N. Y. City.
Chicago San Francisco London Paris Melbourne
Only one Story the
WALTER JACOBS
167 Tremont St.,
BOSTON, MASS
Publisher of
"Kiss of Spring," "Some Day When Dreams Come True,"
And Some Others World Famous.
OLIVER
DITSON
COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and Supply Every Requirement of Music Dealers
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. CO.
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS & ENGRAVERS O F MUSIC
Main Offices: 62-64 Stanhope S t . Boston
Branch Houses: New York and Oiicaro
Roses Tell
'Mid the Purple Tint-
ed Hills of Tennessee
You Can't Repay the
Debt You Owe your Mother
Meet Me in the Twilight
MCKINLEY MUSIC CO.
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
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