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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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1Composer
2Franz
3Negro Melodies
4English Folk Songs
5English Songs
6French Folk Songs
7Modern French Songs
8Opera Songs
10Editor
11William Foster Apthorp
12S. Coleridge Taylor
13Cecil J. Sharp
14Granville Bantock
15Julien Tiersot
16Philip Hale
17Henry Krehbiel
19The first publication of a method of class instruction was Mitchell's Class Methods for the Violin issued in 1912. This was based on the pioneer experiences of Dr. Albert G. Mitchell in teaching violin classes in the Boston Public Schools. In 1838 Boston had been the leader in introducing music into the public schools under the guidance of Lowell Mason. Again under Dr. Mitchell's leadership it was the pioneer in initiating the now generally accepted class instruction movement. Later the company published Dr. Mitchell's books of class instruction methods for viola, clarinet, cornet and slide trombone, Bornschein's methods for violoncello and T. P. Giddings' pioneer methods for pianoforte.
21In 1915 the first volume of the Famous Singers Series, another unique publication, appeared. These were song anthologies, books of favorite selections of famous singers like Julia Culp, Geraldine Farrar, Alma Gluck, Marcella Sembrich and Emma Calvé and edited by them.
23The Music Students Piano Course, of 20 books, the first of its kind on a large scale, was issued in 1918. Experts in this field of music, Clarence G. Hamilton, Dr. John P. Marshall, Will Earhart, Dr. Percy Goetschius and William Arms Fisher, comprised the board of editors. This was designed as a series of text books for a five-year course of music study for the average intelligent person at the time when the granting of school credit for private pianoforte study made a standard necessary as a basis for granting it. This was the first course of this type issued by a publisher "without any strings attached." It has been adopted by the National Federation of Music Clubs as the standard course of study for pianoforte.
25Another unique publication is the Philharmonic Orchestra Series, one of the first series of orchestral compositions issued in the United States with full orchestral score for the conductor. It
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