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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
35 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 36. See the scan on archive.org.
1For a while after its establishment this company had a retail store also, in which pianofortes and other instruments were sold.
3From about 1880 to 1890 the office and music printing establishment were located at [address hidden], in 1890 they were at [address hidden], and from 1891 at [address hidden] until they were moved in October 1919 to the company's own building, which has large fireproof vaults, at [address hidden], Boston, Massachusetts.
5The White-Smith Music Publishing Company has a large, varied catalog of publications of the better grade, such as reprints of standard works of master composers, original works of some well-known American composers, methods and vocal school music. The kinds of music published include—
7Pianoforte Music Catalog.
8Graded Teaching Pieces for Piano by such modern composers as Charles Wakefield Cadman, H. N. Redman, G. Marschal-Loepke.
10Organ Catalog, considered good. 19
12Violin Catalog.
14Vocal sacred and secular music:
15Song Catalog.
16Sacred Songs with various accompaniments.
17A Catalog for the Catholic Service.
18The Church Choir Year—anthems, operettas, cantatas, etc. mostly by American composers.
19(no line here) one of two readings
21Patriotic and Memorial Occasions Catalog.
22(no line here) one of two readings
24Secular Octavo Music Catalog, which is well-known. 19
26"Universal Series"—first popular priced (originally fifty cents a volume) folio collections of standard works, 19 now some two hundred volumes.
28Their special features are their "Teacher's Library," "Edition White-Smith" and the "Stanhope Edition of School Music."
30The "Teacher's Library" is a collection of original exclusive copyrighted educational and recreational works chiefly for pianoforte, organ, violin, voice, and flute method.
32"Edition White-Smith" consists of over three hundred reprints of standard instruction works—methods, studies, exercises and recreations for pianoforte, organ, violin, violoncello, double bass, mandolin, guitar, clarinet, cornet, flute and voice. In the pianoforte group appear such names as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Cle-
3419 Statement of Charles A. White.
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