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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 Walter Jacobs firm published more or less motion picture type of pianoforte, organ and orchestra music for twenty-five years, being particularly active in this field from 1908-1929. Then the invention of the vitaphone caused the discontinuance of organ and orchestral playing in motion picture houses. Their catalog, "Jacobs' Piano Folios" of over 100 volumes in four series of loose leaf collections, with photoplay usage indicated by Del Castillo, which is primarily designed for the use of photoplay pianists and organists, is widely used. It includes American copyright compositions of every type required for the musical interpretation of motion pictures. Practically all these numbers are orchestrated.
3The earliest successful songs published by the house were By the Watermelon Vine (Lindy Lou), the ballad Some Day When Dreams Come True and My Dusky Rose by Thomas S. Allen. The Jacobs' Evergreen Collection of Fifty Famous Old Songs is one of their best known collections.
5The company has a comprehensive general band and orchestra catalog. This includes many marches—"The Walter Jacobs Standard Marches and Galops" for orchestra and for band, R. B. Hall's Band Book of His Most Famous Marches, for band and orchestra and [address hidden], such as Our Director, De Molay Commandery, Bay State Commandery, Up the Street and National Emblem arranged for orchestra and pianoforte. For the Bicentennial of George Washington's birth in 1932 The Father of His Country march by E. E. Bagley was published. In addition the company has a catalog of "Overtures, Suites and Selections" for orchestra and for band, many of the standard numbers being arranged by R. E. Hildreth, "Program Pep Novelties of Various Types" for small and large orchestra, and two concert compositions for band by R. E. Hildreth. Many numbers in the various publications of the company are by Norman Leigh, the pen name of Arthur Cleveland Morse, the present editor of Jacobs' Band Monthly and Jacobs' Orchestra Monthly.
7In 1929 the company began publishing for school bands and orchestras and now has a number of collections and series for this field. It is partly classical music with some popular, but not much modern material.
9The collections for both band and orchestra are:
10Jacobs' Evergreen Collection of Fifty Famous Old Songs.
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