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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1D. Music Journals and House Organs
31. MUSIC JOURNALS
5Boston has also had a number of music journals and house organs of publishers and instrument makers. Those mentioned below include all the writer could discover, but the list is doubtless quite incomplete.
7MUSIC JOURNALS
9April 1, 1820-22. Euterpeiad or Musical Intelligencer.
10A four-page weekly "Devoted to the diffusion of musical information and belles lettres." Edited by John P. Parker of [address hidden] and published by Thomas Badger, Jr. Contained music history, biography, criticism, editorials, and some separate music numbers.
121835-1836. The Musical Library.
13Co-editors Lowell Mason and George James Webb, the founders of the earliest school for music, the Boston Academy of Music, 1833-47, which laid the foundations for the development of public school music.
151837-1840. The Music Cabinet.
16Co-editors George James Webb and W. Haywood. This reproduced music and contained articles and news about music.
18May 2, 1838-1839. Boston Musical Gazette.
19Semi-monthly journal devoted to the Science of Music, published by Otis Broaders & Co., [address hidden] Editor, B. Brown; occasional contributors, Lowell Mason, G. J. Webb, T. Comer, N. Mitchell, J. S. Dwight, T. Powers and J. R. Parker. Price $3. per annum, Kidder & Wright, printers & proprietors.
20Contained articles on musical history, biographical sketches of composers and performers, reviews of compositions, accounts of concerts, musical societies, academies and schools, observations on the kindred arts and some sacred or secular music.
22August 1838 to ?. The Seraph.
23"A monthly publication of Church Music, consisting of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Chants, Anthems, etc.; Original and Selected. By Lowell Mason."1 This contained eight pages of music and was
251 Boston Musical Gazette Vol. 1, No. 8, August 8, 1838, Advertisement p. 64.
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