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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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1the song which has sold the greatest number of copies recorded in modern times. Thus upon a generous impulse one brother gave a fortune to the other." 28
3New works by modern composers, especially Daniel Protheroe, Leo Sowerby, and Rudolf Friml, whose Arabian Suite is one of the company's publications, are constantly being brought out. Matilde Bilbro of the South is a composer introduced by this firm.
5This company's major publications are the Boston Music Company's Popular Concert Library, "Boston Music Company Edition," and the "John M. Williams' Piano Books and Educational Series Music."
7The first is a collection of compositions which are orchestrated for small, full and grand orchestra. The composers are mainly the more modern ones and include such well known names as Albeniz, Cadman, Debussy, De Koven, Friml, MacDowell, Nevin, Palmgren, Stoessel and Toselli.
9The "Boston Music Company Edition" of nearly four hundred copyrighted numbers consists of both church and recital compositions for voice, pianoforte, violin, organ and brass instruments, albums for voice, violin and chamber music trios, and combinations of instruments such as violin and pianoforte, violoncello and pianoforte, and mandolin and pianoforte. The song albums are of American, Finnish, French, Italian and Russian composers especially. The list of pianoforte works contains such names as Heller, Marschal-Loepke and Schytte, and repertory albums for pianoforte by American, Finnish, French, German, Italian and Russian composers.
11The "John M. Williams' Piano Books" is a graded course of study which they have had for ten years. In that time considerably over one million copies of these books have been sold and conservatories, schools and colleges all over the United States are using them.
13THE B. F. WOOD MUSIC COMPANY
15This company was founded by Benjamin Frank Wood of Lewiston, Maine, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, a teacher of pianoforte and organ, and an organist and choir director in Maine. He was also associated with A. P. Schmidt
1728 Ibid pp. 122 & 123.
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