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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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1Under the editorship of M. Teresa Armitage the "Laurel Series" was expanded by addition of:
3Junior Laurel Songs for upper grades, containing good texts and beautiful music of moderate difficulty in diversified arrangements.
4Laurel Unison Books for unison singing of great operatic and classic masterpieces.
5Folk and Art Songs consisting of fresh folk songs and material from great masters, for intermediate grades, and correlating with other subjects.
6Senior Laurel Songs for high school, with compositions from every representative period of music history to and including the present.
7The Laurel S. A. B. Book for junior high school.
8Singing Youth for junior high school.
10Books have also been published for glee clubs and choral groups, such as Laurel Songs for Treble Voice, The Laurel Glee Book for male voices, The Check Book of part songs for high school boys, edited by Peter W. Dykema, and Concert Songs for Girls by M. Teresa Armitage for girls of high school age.
12In the series of "Laurel Music Text Books" American composers were represented for the first time in vocal school music, especially Harvey Worthington Loomis and Arthur Farwell, and also Arthur Edward Johnstone, Edgar Stillman Kelley, Horatio Parker, Clayton Johns, George W. Chadwick, Arthur Foote, Henry Holden Huss, and others.
14The "Twice [address hidden]" started in 1913 with the publication of Eighteen Songs and Choruses for Community Singing, prepared at the request of the Music Supervisors' National Conference and edited by Peter W. Dykema, Hollis Dann, Will Earhart and Osbourne McConathy. This book was planned to contain the cherished songs of the country. Although this collection is now one of the largest of its kind, containing as it does 176 favorite melodies arranged for choral performance, one of its principal features is the low price of fifteen cents per copy. The series has been expanded till it now includes six different books for various vocal groups. Altogether several million copies of this series have been sold.
16Octavo music for part singing was started early. The "Laurel Octavo Choruses" catalog of over a thousand pieces includes works of both foreign and American composers, among the latter Joseph W. Clokey and Samuel Richards Gaines particularly. This led to
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