Music Trade Review
Issue: 1922 Vol. 74 N. 10 - Page 48
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
NEW FORM OF MUSIC
NEW COMPOSERS' ORGANIZATION
J. Q. Dixon Invents New Method of Publishing
Sheet Music
International Composers' Guild, Inc., Makes Its
First Public Announcement
J. Quallan Dixon, head of the Sovereign Pub.
Co., Buffalo, N. Y., is the inventor of a new
type of sheet music. It is known as Dixon's
Double Album Sheet, has one fold and contains
two complete songs, the music plates measuring
eleven by thirteen inches. It is said that this new
type of music requires less paper, stave lines,
plates and engraving. The double sheets carry
instructions by which they each can be made
individual pieces. The new issues of this new
style of music are being forwarded to the trade.
A document entitled "Manifesto" in letters
half an inch high is being circulated with the sig-
nature of an "International Composers' Guild,
Inc." It commences:
• "The composer is the only one of the creators
of to-day who is denied direct contact with the
public. When his work is done he is thrust aside,
and the interpreter enters, not to try to under-
stand the composition, but impertinently to judge
it. Not finding in it any trace of the conventions
to which he is accustomed he banishes it from
his programs, denouncing it as incoherent and
unintelligible.
"It is true that in response to public demand
our official organizations occasionally place on
their programs a new work surrounded by estab-
lished names. But such a work is carefully
chosen from the most timid and anemic of con-
NEW JACK JUILLS BALLAD
Jack Mills, Inc., is making a special campaign
in professional circles on a new ballad entitled
"Dear Old Southland." The number is from
the pens of Creamer and Layton.
JOHN STEEL
Celebrated Tenor
Late Star of Ziegfeld Follies, Victor Artist and
Now in Keith Vaudeville, Sings
ii
Only a Smile
MARCH 11,
1922
temporary production, leaving absolutely un-
heard the composers who represent the true spirit
of our time."
(The manifesto is signed only with the name
of the guild, but the letterhead which accom-
panied it lists the Guild's "Technical Board" in
alphabetical order as follows: Alfredo Casella,
Acario Catapos, Carl Engel, A. Walter Kramer,
Julius Mattfield, Carlos Salzedo, Karol Szyma-
nowsky, Edgar Varese and Emerson Whithorne.
Edgar Varese is also listed as director of the
guild, with an office at No. 120 East Fortieth
street.)
The manifesto continues:
"Dying is the privilege of the weary. The pres-
ent-day composers refuse to dje. They have
realized the necessity of banding together and
fighting for the right of each individual to secure
a fair and free presentation of his work. It is out
of such a collective will that the International
Composers' Guild was born.
"The aim of the International Composers'
Guild is to centralize the works of the day,
to group them in programs intelligently and or-
ganically constructed, and, with the disinterested
help of singers and instrumentalists, to present
these works in such a way as to reveal their
fundamental spirit.
"The International Composers' Guild refuses
to admit any limitation, either of volition or of
action.
"The International Composers' Guild dis-
approves of all 'isms,' denies the existence of
schools, recognizes only the individual."
NEW WITMARK WALTZ
"On a Saturday Night" The Latest Release From
the Pens of Two Popular Composers
No one ever believed that the waltz song was
doomed to extinction. There have always been
waltz songs and there will always be waltz songs,
and no craze for other forms of popular ditties
and dances will ever supplant waltz melody
for singing purposes, to say nothing of dancing.
Indeed, there's an increasing demand all along
the line for a good waltz song and M. Witmark
& Sons announce they have it. It bears the
happy title of "On a Saturday Night," and is
written by" William A. Downs and that com-
poser of scores of old favorites, John W. Bratton.
A UNIQUE NUMBER
Read
This
Night
Letter
The Logical Successor to
"Sunshine of Your Smile"
"ONLY A SMILE" Music by J. S. Zamecnik, in 3 Keys
With Violin or Cello Obbligato; List price 60c.
SAM FOX PUB. CO.
Cleveland-New York
The Miller Music Publishing Co., of Chicago,
is the publisher of a unique number entitled,
"Di-Wen-Da." The number has been tried out
by several dance orchestras and, seemingly, is
showing up quite successfully.
Shes ^A Senscdioii!
OLD IASHIQNED
GIRL
48
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
NEW FORM OF MUSIC
NEW COMPOSERS' ORGANIZATION
J. Q. Dixon Invents New Method of Publishing
Sheet Music
International Composers' Guild, Inc., Makes Its
First Public Announcement
J. Quallan Dixon, head of the Sovereign Pub.
Co., Buffalo, N. Y., is the inventor of a new
type of sheet music. It is known as Dixon's
Double Album Sheet, has one fold and contains
two complete songs, the music plates measuring
eleven by thirteen inches. It is said that this new
type of music requires less paper, stave lines,
plates and engraving. The double sheets carry
instructions by which they each can be made
individual pieces. The new issues of this new
style of music are being forwarded to the trade.
A document entitled "Manifesto" in letters
half an inch high is being circulated with the sig-
nature of an "International Composers' Guild,
Inc." It commences:
• "The composer is the only one of the creators
of to-day who is denied direct contact with the
public. When his work is done he is thrust aside,
and the interpreter enters, not to try to under-
stand the composition, but impertinently to judge
it. Not finding in it any trace of the conventions
to which he is accustomed he banishes it from
his programs, denouncing it as incoherent and
unintelligible.
"It is true that in response to public demand
our official organizations occasionally place on
their programs a new work surrounded by estab-
lished names. But such a work is carefully
chosen from the most timid and anemic of con-
NEW JACK JUILLS BALLAD
Jack Mills, Inc., is making a special campaign
in professional circles on a new ballad entitled
"Dear Old Southland." The number is from
the pens of Creamer and Layton.
JOHN STEEL
Celebrated Tenor
Late Star of Ziegfeld Follies, Victor Artist and
Now in Keith Vaudeville, Sings
ii
Only a Smile
MARCH 11,
1922
temporary production, leaving absolutely un-
heard the composers who represent the true spirit
of our time."
(The manifesto is signed only with the name
of the guild, but the letterhead which accom-
panied it lists the Guild's "Technical Board" in
alphabetical order as follows: Alfredo Casella,
Acario Catapos, Carl Engel, A. Walter Kramer,
Julius Mattfield, Carlos Salzedo, Karol Szyma-
nowsky, Edgar Varese and Emerson Whithorne.
Edgar Varese is also listed as director of the
guild, with an office at No. 120 East Fortieth
street.)
The manifesto continues:
"Dying is the privilege of the weary. The pres-
ent-day composers refuse to dje. They have
realized the necessity of banding together and
fighting for the right of each individual to secure
a fair and free presentation of his work. It is out
of such a collective will that the International
Composers' Guild was born.
"The aim of the International Composers'
Guild is to centralize the works of the day,
to group them in programs intelligently and or-
ganically constructed, and, with the disinterested
help of singers and instrumentalists, to present
these works in such a way as to reveal their
fundamental spirit.
"The International Composers' Guild refuses
to admit any limitation, either of volition or of
action.
"The International Composers' Guild dis-
approves of all 'isms,' denies the existence of
schools, recognizes only the individual."
NEW WITMARK WALTZ
"On a Saturday Night" The Latest Release From
the Pens of Two Popular Composers
No one ever believed that the waltz song was
doomed to extinction. There have always been
waltz songs and there will always be waltz songs,
and no craze for other forms of popular ditties
and dances will ever supplant waltz melody
for singing purposes, to say nothing of dancing.
Indeed, there's an increasing demand all along
the line for a good waltz song and M. Witmark
& Sons announce they have it. It bears the
happy title of "On a Saturday Night," and is
written by" William A. Downs and that com-
poser of scores of old favorites, John W. Bratton.
A UNIQUE NUMBER
Read
This
Night
Letter
The Logical Successor to
"Sunshine of Your Smile"
"ONLY A SMILE" Music by J. S. Zamecnik, in 3 Keys
With Violin or Cello Obbligato; List price 60c.
SAM FOX PUB. CO.
Cleveland-New York
The Miller Music Publishing Co., of Chicago,
is the publisher of a unique number entitled,
"Di-Wen-Da." The number has been tried out
by several dance orchestras and, seemingly, is
showing up quite successfully.
Shes ^A Senscdioii!
OLD IASHIQNED
GIRL
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