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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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1graded to correlate with the history and geography studied in the respective grades. Many illustrations are used—great art pictures for the mood of the song and art correlation, composers’ portraits for music history, and instruments of the orchestra for orchestral correlation. The many beautiful three-color illustrations are the first appearance of this feature in a textbook series. There is detailed rhythmic work for each grade. Two-part songs begin in the fifth grade and three-part in the sixth.
3The series consists of six pupils’ books for six grades; two teachers’ manuals covering elementary grades two and three, two more teachers’ manuals for intermediate grades four and five, a teacher’s guide for the fifth book (grade six); Music of Many Lands and Peoples ("the silver book") for junior high school; Highways and Byways of Music ("the bronze book") for the seventh grade just out; and one-book and two-book courses for rural schools, and a manual for rural schools.
5There is also a Catholic edition for six grades with Gregorian chants mingled with the other songs, and a Gregorian Manual.
7The "silver" and "bronze" books, so called from the color of their covers, are washable and the paper used inside has no shine to bother the eyes. These new features were introduced in 1932.
9More than two hundred and fifty Victor records are also correlated into six units with teachers’ guides for their use in the music appreciation work of The Music Hour series.
11In addition to these main series Silver, Burdett & Company has collections of supplementary school music, notably the "Silver Song Series" for all the grades and high school, and collections of special types of songs.
13They also have supplementary sheet music, the "Beacon" series of octavo music, and operettas. Especially noteworthy among the latter are Rosamunde with music by Schubert and The Frantic Physician with music by Gounod, both librettos adapted and arranged by Alexander Dean. The music of the latter has been arranged for high school and professional production in both piano-vocal score and complete orchestration by Marshall Bartholomew. Its overture is published separately.
15A review of Le Médecin Malgré Lui speaks of it as being of the Gilbert and Sullivan range and describes it thus, as filling a real lack, "Few works as interesting as this one come to the re-
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