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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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1about 1910 to [address hidden] and was out of that business by 1911. The firm of Walter Jacobs, Inc. bought his catalog 68 and he went to New York State where he teaches.
3The Wa Wan Press 69 was founded in 1901 at Newton, Massachusetts, by Arthur Farwell who sold it in 1912 to G. Schirmer, Inc. of New York.
5Mr. Farwell's avowed aim was "to issue unsalable works by American composers whatever their tendencies and artistic affiliations," especially "any music that developed in interesting fashion any folk music to be found on American soil." 70
7To finance and secure a regular distribution, subscribers were solicited to receive in periodical form the publications of the Press issued quarterly each year. This same plan has been followed by the Society for the Publication of American Music.
9The contributions of this Press were twofold, they helped to awaken interest in our American folk songs, and they also helped to launch a number of Mr. Farwell's fellow composers, including Henry F. Gilbert, Edgar Stillman Kelley and Harvey Worthington Loomis.
11Riker, Brown and Wellington, Inc. was established in 1929 at [address hidden] by Mr. Riker with Mr. Brown, a New England Conservatory graduate and a composer, and Mr. Wellington with the aim of specializing in publication of meritorious works of American composers. The company was sold out in 1934 and is being reorganized under another name.
13Their publications consisted of songs, small pianoforte compositions and octavo numbers, sacred or secular, for men's, women's and mixed voices. They made a specialty of finding and publishing manuscripts of old masters such as a group of five songs of Handel arranged for John McCormack by Samuel Endicott and four old Spanish piano selections from the repertoire of George Copeland and edited by him.
15They introduced Samuel Endicott as a composer in the United States, Canada and abroad, and brought out songs and octavo works of Paul Allen of Brookline, Massachusetts, whose opera Last of the Mohicans published by Ricordi has been performed abroad many times.
1768 See Walter Jacobs, Inc. p. 74.
1869 For the following information see Howard, John Tasker. Our American Music pp. 439, 441, 442, & 621.
1970 Ibid p. 439.
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