Music Trade Review
Issue: 1919 Vol. 69 N. 17 - Page 13
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OCTOBKR 25,
THE MUSIC TRADE
1919
That the music-roll should be classified among
what are sometimes called "season goods" does not
at first seem possible. But a little thought will show
that although music rolls of some kind sell during
every month of the year, there is a distinct season-
ableness, as it were, in the supply. Naturally enough
one might suppose that the vacation months would
produce a demand for the lightest of music, and the
winter months for the heaviest of jazz. Jazz can
certainly be heavy enough too. Really, however, the
manufacturers need not be so careful in discriminat-
ing between the kind of fare they offer us in January
and that which they think we should have in August.
Girls, we know, dance as well when the temperature
outside is 100 degrees Fahr. as when it is—-10 degrees
according to the same renowned scale. Obviously,
then, dance music of the heaviest sort is a good at
music of the heaviest sort is as good at one
time as at another. - It is questionable whether a
more effective for femininely vampirish purposes
when used during the hottest heat of August to the
strains of a badly played ukelele in a boat under a
tree by the river's side, than when the soft strains
of the player-piano float over to the davenport where,
before the crackling fgas) log, young love's dream
is softly whispered, or words to that general effect.
We say, we doubt whether it works one way a bit
better than the other. Wherefore, it should seem,
the music-roll bulletins may as well present a much-
of-a-muchness during twelve months of each calen-
dar year.
The development of the word-roll might appear
to present a surprising phenomenon, were it not true
that it is essentially a part of the popular music
craze. The music which forms the backbone of the
roll business is mainly published for use both as song
and as dance. In consequence, the word-roll is a
fONNORIZE
SONG WORD
D
MUSIC ROLLS
REVIEW
natural development, and there seems no reason why,
in due course, all rolls of the sort should not have
the words as well as the music on them. But while
this is all very well, one may rightly ask why it is
that the manufacturers are plainly neglecting oppor-
tunities to make the player-piano and its rolls a part
of the equipment of every voice-teacher. Let the
purists complain as much as they like, the fact re-
mains that the voice-teachers do teach with the piano
and that many of them are rather indifferent accom-
panists. The number of men and women who like
to sing good music to the best of their ability is sim-
ply legion, and it is too bad that the quantity of
reasonably good song music rolls with words is so
very small, comparatively speaking. There have
been laudable and highly interesting experiments of
various sorts made along these lines, with apparently
great success. What a pity that the roll makers
should be short-sighted enough to cast aside a wea-
pon so useful and powerful.
Speaking of word-rolls, or song-rolls, there is an-
other point worth considering which we ought not
to overlook. The first song-rolls, or rolls with words,
were arranged on a staight-cut basis and when the
hand-played arrangements of the music were brought
out the improvement oppeared undeniable. There
is indeed no question that an accompaniment played
by a good pianist while the words are actually being
sung is better for many users of the resulting roll
than would be a mere straight-cut arrangement. But
the fact remains that very often the hand-played ac-
companiment does not at all suit the singer. Then
the task of modifying it is frequently annoying and
difficult. It should seem that the better class of
song-rolls, those which are built on the better type
of ballad, song and aria, should be arranged usually
with straight-cut music, direct from the score with-
out any sort of "interpreting." Of course when the
roll is, deliberately, a record of the interpretation of
a song by a singer and pianist acting in accord, that
is another matter. Rut apart from this, there is a
field of large size and much fertility to be cultivated
amongst those who would certainly not care for some
one else's interpretations when they can get their
own instead.
AEOLIAN CO.
EACH
ONE
OF
SPECIAL
MERIT
ORDER NOW
Connorized Music Co.
144th St. and Austin Place, NEW YORK
1234 Olive Street, ST. LOUIS, MO.
A large and impressive list of Duo-Art music
furnishes the special feature of the Aeolian Co.'s
November bulletin.
Various works are in-
terpreted by Rudolph Ganz, Arthur Friedheim,
Felix Arndt and other artists of the Aeolian
staff. The usual lists of song rolls and Metro-
style-Themodist music are also included. The
whole may be read below:
SONG ROLLS
Title
.
Composer
Baby—"Oh. Uncle"—Fox-trot
Alstyne
Checkers—Ballad
Edwards
Evangeline—Ballad
Fisher
Give Me a Smile and Kiss—One-step
Sullivan
Honeymoon Waltz
Arden
I'll Be True to the Girl of My Dreams
Baker
I'll Be Your Baby Vampire—Fox-trot
Doro
Innocence Waltz—(Nevinny Valcik) Bohemian Edition. Vlach
In Siam—Fox-trot
Cooper
(Continued nn paqc 14)
APOUQ
The Master Player-Piano
*
Foot Power and Electric
Uprights and Grands
The Apollo Piano Company
MANUFACTURERS
Chicago - - De Kalb
13
Watch this column for
latest music
ARTo SingA
WORD ROLLS
NOVEMBER BULLETIN
(Composers' Names in Parentheses)
x
For Singing or Dancing.
988
x At the High Brown Babies' Ball. One Step.
Kt>y of K Flat.
(Ertlmnn) Gardner
990 x Down By the Meadow Brook. Waltz Song.
Key of G.
(Wendling) Daniels
987 x Hawaiian Lullaby. Waltz Song. Key of F.
(Bridges) Sloane
986 x Hawaiian Smiles. Waltz Song. Key of G.
(Earl) Daniels
998 x I Ain't Gonna' Give Nobody None o' This
Jelly Roll. Key of B Flat.
(Williams) Mackay
997 x I Am Climbing Mountains. Fox Trot. Key
of G.
(Kcndis & Brockman) Gardner
555 x I'm Like a Ship Without a Sail. Waltz
Song. Key of B Flat.
(Kendis & Brockman) Gardner
384 x In Your Arms. Ballad-Fox Trot. Key of C.
(Glaser) Goodwin
556 x I Want a Daddy Who Will Rock Me to Sleep.
From "The Greenwich Village Follies."
(Sloane) Gardner
From "The Greenwich Village Follies."
992 x Lullaby Time. Waltz Song. Key of G.
(Freeman) Mackey
994 x Mandy. From "Ziegfeld Follies." Fox Trot.
Key of C.
(Berlin) Goodwin
999 x Moments. Fox Trot. Key of G.
(Kuhn) Weston
985 x Poor Little Butterfly Is a Fly Girl Now. Fox
Trot. Key of B Flat.
(Rubin-Santrella) Walter
995 x A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody. Fox Trot.
Key of G.
(Berlin) Morton
993 x Some Day You'll Want Me Back (Maybe I
Won't Want You.) Waltz Song. Key of G.
(Morgan) Daniels
989 x Sweet Kisses That Came in the Night. Fox
Trot. Key of G.
(Von Tilzer) Gardner
996 x They're All Sweeties. One Step. Key of G.
(Von Tilzer) Weston
991 x You Know What I Mean. Fox Trot.
Key
of B Flat.
(Rath) Morton
Manufactured by
STANDARD
MUSIC Orange,
ROLL N. CO. J-
Makers of Music
BUY FROM YOUR NEAREST JOBBER
NEW YORK CITY
Crown Muile Co., 1437 Broadway
PHILADELPHIA
Standard Music Roll Co., 514 Market St.
BOSTON
A. Fred Phillips, 165 Tremont St.
SAN FRANCI8C0. CAL.
Hauschlldt Muilc Co.
OCTOBKR 25,
THE MUSIC TRADE
1919
That the music-roll should be classified among
what are sometimes called "season goods" does not
at first seem possible. But a little thought will show
that although music rolls of some kind sell during
every month of the year, there is a distinct season-
ableness, as it were, in the supply. Naturally enough
one might suppose that the vacation months would
produce a demand for the lightest of music, and the
winter months for the heaviest of jazz. Jazz can
certainly be heavy enough too. Really, however, the
manufacturers need not be so careful in discriminat-
ing between the kind of fare they offer us in January
and that which they think we should have in August.
Girls, we know, dance as well when the temperature
outside is 100 degrees Fahr. as when it is—-10 degrees
according to the same renowned scale. Obviously,
then, dance music of the heaviest sort is a good at
music of the heaviest sort is as good at one
time as at another. - It is questionable whether a
more effective for femininely vampirish purposes
when used during the hottest heat of August to the
strains of a badly played ukelele in a boat under a
tree by the river's side, than when the soft strains
of the player-piano float over to the davenport where,
before the crackling fgas) log, young love's dream
is softly whispered, or words to that general effect.
We say, we doubt whether it works one way a bit
better than the other. Wherefore, it should seem,
the music-roll bulletins may as well present a much-
of-a-muchness during twelve months of each calen-
dar year.
The development of the word-roll might appear
to present a surprising phenomenon, were it not true
that it is essentially a part of the popular music
craze. The music which forms the backbone of the
roll business is mainly published for use both as song
and as dance. In consequence, the word-roll is a
fONNORIZE
SONG WORD
D
MUSIC ROLLS
REVIEW
natural development, and there seems no reason why,
in due course, all rolls of the sort should not have
the words as well as the music on them. But while
this is all very well, one may rightly ask why it is
that the manufacturers are plainly neglecting oppor-
tunities to make the player-piano and its rolls a part
of the equipment of every voice-teacher. Let the
purists complain as much as they like, the fact re-
mains that the voice-teachers do teach with the piano
and that many of them are rather indifferent accom-
panists. The number of men and women who like
to sing good music to the best of their ability is sim-
ply legion, and it is too bad that the quantity of
reasonably good song music rolls with words is so
very small, comparatively speaking. There have
been laudable and highly interesting experiments of
various sorts made along these lines, with apparently
great success. What a pity that the roll makers
should be short-sighted enough to cast aside a wea-
pon so useful and powerful.
Speaking of word-rolls, or song-rolls, there is an-
other point worth considering which we ought not
to overlook. The first song-rolls, or rolls with words,
were arranged on a staight-cut basis and when the
hand-played arrangements of the music were brought
out the improvement oppeared undeniable. There
is indeed no question that an accompaniment played
by a good pianist while the words are actually being
sung is better for many users of the resulting roll
than would be a mere straight-cut arrangement. But
the fact remains that very often the hand-played ac-
companiment does not at all suit the singer. Then
the task of modifying it is frequently annoying and
difficult. It should seem that the better class of
song-rolls, those which are built on the better type
of ballad, song and aria, should be arranged usually
with straight-cut music, direct from the score with-
out any sort of "interpreting." Of course when the
roll is, deliberately, a record of the interpretation of
a song by a singer and pianist acting in accord, that
is another matter. Rut apart from this, there is a
field of large size and much fertility to be cultivated
amongst those who would certainly not care for some
one else's interpretations when they can get their
own instead.
AEOLIAN CO.
EACH
ONE
OF
SPECIAL
MERIT
ORDER NOW
Connorized Music Co.
144th St. and Austin Place, NEW YORK
1234 Olive Street, ST. LOUIS, MO.
A large and impressive list of Duo-Art music
furnishes the special feature of the Aeolian Co.'s
November bulletin.
Various works are in-
terpreted by Rudolph Ganz, Arthur Friedheim,
Felix Arndt and other artists of the Aeolian
staff. The usual lists of song rolls and Metro-
style-Themodist music are also included. The
whole may be read below:
SONG ROLLS
Title
.
Composer
Baby—"Oh. Uncle"—Fox-trot
Alstyne
Checkers—Ballad
Edwards
Evangeline—Ballad
Fisher
Give Me a Smile and Kiss—One-step
Sullivan
Honeymoon Waltz
Arden
I'll Be True to the Girl of My Dreams
Baker
I'll Be Your Baby Vampire—Fox-trot
Doro
Innocence Waltz—(Nevinny Valcik) Bohemian Edition. Vlach
In Siam—Fox-trot
Cooper
(Continued nn paqc 14)
APOUQ
The Master Player-Piano
*
Foot Power and Electric
Uprights and Grands
The Apollo Piano Company
MANUFACTURERS
Chicago - - De Kalb
13
Watch this column for
latest music
ARTo SingA
WORD ROLLS
NOVEMBER BULLETIN
(Composers' Names in Parentheses)
x
For Singing or Dancing.
988
x At the High Brown Babies' Ball. One Step.
Kt>y of K Flat.
(Ertlmnn) Gardner
990 x Down By the Meadow Brook. Waltz Song.
Key of G.
(Wendling) Daniels
987 x Hawaiian Lullaby. Waltz Song. Key of F.
(Bridges) Sloane
986 x Hawaiian Smiles. Waltz Song. Key of G.
(Earl) Daniels
998 x I Ain't Gonna' Give Nobody None o' This
Jelly Roll. Key of B Flat.
(Williams) Mackay
997 x I Am Climbing Mountains. Fox Trot. Key
of G.
(Kcndis & Brockman) Gardner
555 x I'm Like a Ship Without a Sail. Waltz
Song. Key of B Flat.
(Kendis & Brockman) Gardner
384 x In Your Arms. Ballad-Fox Trot. Key of C.
(Glaser) Goodwin
556 x I Want a Daddy Who Will Rock Me to Sleep.
From "The Greenwich Village Follies."
(Sloane) Gardner
From "The Greenwich Village Follies."
992 x Lullaby Time. Waltz Song. Key of G.
(Freeman) Mackey
994 x Mandy. From "Ziegfeld Follies." Fox Trot.
Key of C.
(Berlin) Goodwin
999 x Moments. Fox Trot. Key of G.
(Kuhn) Weston
985 x Poor Little Butterfly Is a Fly Girl Now. Fox
Trot. Key of B Flat.
(Rubin-Santrella) Walter
995 x A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody. Fox Trot.
Key of G.
(Berlin) Morton
993 x Some Day You'll Want Me Back (Maybe I
Won't Want You.) Waltz Song. Key of G.
(Morgan) Daniels
989 x Sweet Kisses That Came in the Night. Fox
Trot. Key of G.
(Von Tilzer) Gardner
996 x They're All Sweeties. One Step. Key of G.
(Von Tilzer) Weston
991 x You Know What I Mean. Fox Trot.
Key
of B Flat.
(Rath) Morton
Manufactured by
STANDARD
MUSIC Orange,
ROLL N. CO. J-
Makers of Music
BUY FROM YOUR NEAREST JOBBER
NEW YORK CITY
Crown Muile Co., 1437 Broadway
PHILADELPHIA
Standard Music Roll Co., 514 Market St.
BOSTON
A. Fred Phillips, 165 Tremont St.
SAN FRANCI8C0. CAL.
Hauschlldt Muilc Co.
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