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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
23 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 45. See the scan on archive.org.
1"Wood Octavo Series," an edition of choral works, begun in September 1931, now consists of some two hundred numbers.
3Early in 1932 was inaugurated a new feature—the publication of band music, with the issuance of the Criterion Band Book containing fourteen compositions. Its specialties are a full conductor's score, melody books for all instruments, parts or provision for less common band instruments and parts for a string choir.
5Margaret Anderton's copyright arrangement of excerpts from famous classical works as used in her classes was also issued in 1932.
7"Important composers whose works have been introduced to the public through this company are: Otto Barth, Arthur L. Brown, H. L. Cramm, Caroline H. Crawford, Jules Devaux, Paul Ducelle, Rudolf Eckhardt, Robert B. Eilenberg, Mae Aileen Erb, C. W. Krogmann, Edwin Vaile McIntyre, L. E. Orth, L. J. Quigley, Arnoldo Sartorio, A. Tellier, Max Werner and many others."30 one of two readings
8"Important composers whose works have been introduced to the public through this company are: Otto Barth, Arthur L. Brown, H. L. Cramm, Caroline H. Crawford, Jules Devaux, Paul Ducelle, Rudolf Eckhardt, Robert B. Eilberg, Mae Aileen Erb, C. W. Krogmann, Edwin Vaile McIntyre, L. E. Orth, L. J. Quigley, Arnoldo Sartorio, A. Tellier, Max Werner and many others." 30 one of two readings
10C. C. BIRCHARD & CO.
12This company, now located at [address hidden], was founded by Clarence C. Birchard in 1901 with the publication of The Laurel Song Book, edited by William L. Tomlins.
14The aim of this song book was to furnish school music with texts of definite literary value and subjects that would interest and inspire American youth, emphasizing joy, hope, brotherhood and courage as the dominant emotions of American life. This volume was the pioneer in the use of the art songs of the great composers, as distinct from the purely folk song type of material, drawn largely from central European sources, which at one time predominated in music readers used in the schools.
16This book brought out for the first time in a school song book works of many American composers. Texts were selected from the great poets and writers of the English-speaking world.
18The same principles were followed in the next book in the Birchard catalog, The Laurel Music Reader, also edited by William L. Tomlins and published in 1906, and in later books, all of a supplementary nature rather than a graded series.
20The School Song Book edited by Osbourne McConathy, first published in 1910, revised and enlarged in 1930, was adopted in over five thousand cities and towns.
2230 Music Trade News. September 1930 p. 11.
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