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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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1Since 1932 new numbers have been added and others discontinued, as is always the case with any active music publisher.
3The octavo catalog of sacred and secular songs for men's, women's and mixed voices is the largest in the United States.16 Much school music and many publications for children are also included in the catalog.
5With such a tremendous list of publications it is impossible to estimate the influence of this company for the advancement of music not only in the United States but also in the whole world. The following publications were selected and described by Mr. Fisher as being unique and outstanding.
7The Music Students Library was started over thirty years ago with one volume in 1897. Since then other volumes have been added, making a total of forty-two to date. This series of educational text books includes every essential branch of musical instruction, as pianoforte, organ, violin, voice, ear training, harmony, counterpoint, form, instrumentation, acoustics, conducting, history, appreciation and definitions. These works have been prepared by experts in these different fields of music, such as Professor Clarence G. Hamilton of Wellesley College, Mary Venable, Arthur Heacox, Sir John Stainer, Gustav Strube, Heinrich Wohlfahrt translated by John S. Dwight, Ernst Pauer, Percy Goetschius, Karl W. Gehrken.
9The Musicians Library, begun in 1903, is a series of anthologies without parallel in America or Europe.16 These hundred volumes were planned to embrace all the masterpieces of song and pianoforte literature. They were edited by the best authorities to be had, as the following illustrations will show—
11Composer
12Bach
13Beethoven
14Mozart
15Mendelssohn
16Schumann (piano works)
17Anthology of French piano music
18Anthology of German piano music
19Franck
20Brahms (songs)
22Editor
23Ebenezer Prout
24Eugen d'Albert
25Carl Reinecke
26Percy Goetschius
27Xaver Scharwenka
28Isidore Philipp
29Moritz Moszkowski
30Vincent D'Indy
31James Huneker
3316 Statement of William Arms Fisher.
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