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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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1was started in 1921 because of the development of instrumental school music, and now contains over 45 numbers.
3The Course of Study in Music Understanding, which appeared in 1924, is unique in being the first and only series of correlated books on music appreciation. It planned to cover five years of study as follows—
5<table>
6 <tr>
7 <th>Year</th>
8 <th>Subject</th>
9 <th>Author</th>
10 </tr>
11 <tr>
12 <td>First year</td>
13 <td>The Fundamentals of Music</td>
14 <td>Karl W. Gehrkens</td>
15 </tr>
16 <tr>
17 <td>Second year</td>
18 <td>From Song to Symphony</td>
19 <td>Daniel Gregory Mason</td>
20 </tr>
21 <tr>
22 <td>Third year</td>
23 <td>Musical Instruments</td>
24 <td>Edgar Stillman Kelley</td>
25 </tr>
26 <tr>
27 <td>Fourth year</td>
28 <td>Epochs in Musical Progress</td>
29 <td>Clarence G. Hamilton</td>
30 </tr>
31 <tr>
32 <td>Fifth year</td>
33 <td>Masters of the Symphony</td>
34 <td>Percy Goetschius</td>
35 </tr>
36</table>
38The Symphonic Band Series, edited by Clifford Page, Mayhew L. Lake and Richard L. Halle, was started in 1926 and now consists of fourteen volumes for school use.
40The Analytic Symphony Series, edited by Dr. Percy Goetschius, was begun in 1927. This series of about forty volumes has no duplicate in Europe or America.17 Its object is to provide playable two-hand piano scores of the great symphonies, symphonic poems and overtures with analytical notes on the structure and orchestration, notes on the significance of the composition and its salient points, and a brief biography of the composer. Some works are published for two hands for the first time in this series, for example D'Indy's B Flat Symphony, Saint Saens' C Minor Symphony and Sibelius' E Minor Symphony.
42The Pocket Music Student Series, started in 1927, was aimed to give music students and lovers needed information on such points as musical terms, noted names in music, listening, pianoforte technic, sight singing, conducting, etc. So far eighteen of these books have been issued.
44Among other publications are operettas, cantatas and the Oliver Ditson Series containing many works of master composers, and songs which are general favorites, planned for the moderately filled purse, and the New Fifty Cent Series planned to serve a similar purpose.
46"The Ditson Edition" contains upwards of three hundred standard educational works for the pianoforte, organ, violin, violoncello, and voice.
4817 Statement of William Arms Fisher.
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