V Page 722 NOVEMBER 1920 THE ETUDE gtytrtg~£>ramii Annua l Ifnltiag ^ THE PRICES GIVEN ARE FOR CASH WITH ORDER—TRANSPORTA-TION CHARGES PREPAID SPECIAL HOLIDAY CASH PRICES=THIS OFFER Many Suggestions for the Teacher, Student and Lover of Music None of These Publications Will be Sent "O n Sale" at These Special Holiday Prices GROVE'S DICTIONARY of MUSIC and MUSICIANS Five Large Volumes, Bound in Red Cloth Stamped in Gold Specially Priced, $17.00 A Splendid Gift for a Musician This greatest of all musical works embraces every branch of musical education, musical science, theory, history, biography, musical terms, aesthetics and musical industries. Over a period of sixteen years 184 musical specialists worked on this musical encyclopedia. The five volumes contain 4,000 pages, \and the treatment of every subject is most complete. An ideal gift for any individual or organization to present to the musician high in their esteem. Buy Yourself a Set on Easy Terms The original publisher of this work sold it for $25.00, but by reason of issuing it in large quantities the Theo. Presser Co. is able to sell it for $17.00. Despite this low price an oppor-tunity is offered to obtain this work on easy terms. $3.00 will bring the set to you, and the bal-ance may be paid in monthly installments of $2.00. Albums for Beginning, Intermediate or Advanced Pianists ADVANCED STUDY PIECES Regular Price$1.00 Holiday Cash Price 50 cents Upper medium grade pieces of musical merit with real technical value. STANDARD ELEMENTARY ALBUM Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents The most comprehensive collection of easy teaching pieces published. 82 numbers. STANDARD AMERICAN ALBUM Regular Priee 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents Meritorious recital numbers, all by Ameri-can composers. Upper medium grade. STANDARD OPERA ALBUM Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents Melodies from the great operas arranged in the best manner; of intermediate difficulty not beyond the fourth grade. ALBUM OF DESCRIPTIVE PIECES Regular Price $12 5 Holiday Cash Price 65 cents Characteristic piano pieces, depicting mu-sically various moods, scenes and impressions. AMERICAN COMPOSERS' ALBUM Regular Price $1.25 Holiday Cash Price 65 cents Excellent numbers, by representative Ameri-can composers. A credit to American music. CELEBRATED COMPOSITIONS BY FAMOUS COMPOSERS Regular Price $1.00 Holiday Cash Price 50 cents A volume of such compositions as every good pianist delights in having. COMPOSITIONS FOR THE PIANOFORTE BY WOMAN COMPOSERS Regular Price $1.00 Holiday Cash Price 50 cents Some of the best compositions by successful woman composers. MASTERPIECES FOR THE PIANOFORTE Regular Price $1.50 Holiday Cash Price 75 cents Real masterpieces selected from great com-posers. MODERN DRAWING ROOM PIECES Regular Price $1.25 Holiday Cash Price 65 cents A popular album and of a wide appeal to pianists. SUNDAY PIANO MUSIC Regular Price $1.00 Holiday Cash Price 50 cents Dignified, stately and worshipful music for all Sunday playing. POPULAR RECITAL REPERTOIRE Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents Such pieces as Dvorak's "Humoresque" and Schutt's " A La Bien Aimee" are included in this album. STANDARD BRILLIANT ALBUM Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents Twenty-seven pieces of a showy nature, yet not difficult. STANDARD ADVANCED ALBUM Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents A collection containing twenty-eight classic and modern compositions. YOUNG PLAYERS' ALBUM Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents No piano student of the earlier grades should be without the seventy melodious numbers in this collection. PIANO PLAYERS' REPERTOIRE Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents Fine material for light recital work or self-amusement. Ideal for average pianists. STANDARD PARLOR ALBUM Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents Melodious and entertaining are the forty-one pieces in this album. STANDARD FIRST PIECES Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents Seventy-two pieces full of melody and mostly lying in the second grade. POPULAR HOME COLLECTION Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents Forty-six pieces not to be found in any other collection. Medium grade. STANDARD STUDENTS' CLASSIC ALBUM Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Pries 40 cents The very best composers, classical and mod-ern, are represented in the forty-eight com-positions in this album. SOUVENIRS OF THE MASTERS By Geo. L. Spaulding Regular Price $1.00 Holiday Cash Price 50 cents Twenty-seven famous melodies in easy^ ar-rangements. Excellent for the child pianist. OPERATIC FOUR-HAND ALBUM Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents An excellent four-hand book, containing im-mortal melodies from operas. STANDARD DUET PLAYERS' ALBUM Regular Price 75 cents Holidav Cash Price 40 cents A collection of medium grade four-hand pieces in different styles. ~ CONCERT DUETS Regular Price $1.25 Holiday Cash Price 65 cents Twenty-four excellent piano duets of a good character. MUSIC LOVERS' DUET BOOK Regular Price 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 40 cents Medium grade duets, excellent for diversion and sight-reading practice. TWO PIANISTS Regular Price $1.25 Holiday Cash Price 65 cents Brilliant and popular duets for the piano, grade four. Child's Own Book of Great Musicians B y THOMA S TAPPE R Regular Price 20 cents each Holiday Cash Price, 12 cents each, postpaid A Unique Series of Biographies for Children BAC H BEETHOVE N CHOPI N HAYD N LISZ T MENDELSSOH N SCHUBER T MOZAR T WAGNE R VERDk SCHUMAN N HANDE L These clever biographies are designed to instruct and at the same time amuse the children through a combination of play and study. A sheet of pictures describing various scenes, char-acters and events prominent in the lives of the great masters is furnished with each book. After reading the stories th^ child cuts out these pictures and pastes them in the spaces designated; then, on the blank pages provided at the back of the book, proceeds to write a short composition based on the knowledge acquirecr. An artistic outside cover, a silk cord and a needle are supplied with each booklet in this series. Simple but explicit directions for binding are given and when completed the child can point with pride to a book most aptly named:. The Child's Own Book of Great Musicians. This system has been used in day schools for some time and as applied to ihe study of music biography by Mr. Tapper has proved an instantaneous success. It impresses the story on the child mind in a most vivid and lasting manner. Standard History of Music By JAMES FRANCIS COOKE Regular Price, $1.50 Holiday Cash Price, $1.00, postpaid A History That Has Pleased Thousands Music lovers are here furnished interesting reading, and the music student is Supplied with forty story lessons in music lore. The illustrations alone are of a most interesting character. Bound in red cloth, and stamped with gold, this two hundred and fifty page book, containing one hundred and fifty illustrations, makes a very desirable gift. Mistakes and Disputed Points an Music By L. C . Elson Regular Price $1.50 Holiday Cash Price $1.00, postpaid Those many points regarding which mu-sicians disagree are fully discussed in this book. Many teachers and students are woe-fully misinformed on a hundred and one dif-ferent things that are here carefully explained. Gallery of Musical Celebrities Regular Price: Paper Bound , 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 50 cents, postpaid # A collection of portraits of seventy-two mu-sicians, with short biographies. This book is a fine volume for the teacher's studio or the music lover's reading table and for improving one's spare moments Gallery of Eminent Musicians Regular Price: Paper Bound , 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 50 cents, postpaid Similar to the above-described volume. These works are unique in condensation of material and beauty of illustration. Gallery of Distinguished Musicians Regular Price: Paper Bound , 75 cents Holiday Cash Price 50 cents, postpaid This work is another volume similar to the two described above. These three works make a complete source of reference and offer more than two hundred biographies and as many illustrations. Celebrated Pianists, Past and Present By A . Ehrlich Regular Price $2.50 Holiday Cash Price $1.70, postpaid One of the most reliable works on musical biography. Illustrated with 150 portraits of European and American pianists of the past and present. Alcestis A Novel Regular Price $1.25 Holiday Cash Price 85 cents, postpaid The tale of a musician's career. The plot is of absorbing^ interest qnd the impression left is most beneficial to higher musical study. Anecdotes of Great Musicians By W . F . Gates Regular Price $2.00 Holiday Cash Price $1.35, postpaid To the average reader this is one of the most interesting musical books published. Con-tains three hundred anecdotes of great com-posers, players and singers. Lively and en-tertaining. 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The First Violin By Jessie Fothergill Regular Price $1.00 Holiday Cash Price 70 cents, postpaid This tale is beautifully told and for a mu-sical novel is classed in the first rank. This romance, entwined with a musician's life, in-terests the young and old alike. First Studies in Music Biography B y Thos . Tapper Regular Price $1.75 Holiday Cash Price $1.25 postpaid For foundation study in musical history this book is the best obtainable. A very appropri-ate gift for an ambitious young Mt:-icnt. MUSI C THEODORE PRESSER CO. MAI L ORDE R PUBAND ER S 1710-1712-171 4 CHESTNU T STREE T SUPPL Y DEALER S PHILADELPHIA, PA. HOUSE
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