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All the U.S. felt it. Radio dance orchestras announced as many tunes as possible by French titles (Parlez Moi d'Amour). Manhattan's Hildegarde, a songstress who worked in Paris cafes in the '303 went on plugging the sentimental melody which she had helped to make No...
The Compos-A-Tune ($3) is an 18 in. by 7 in. cardboard rectangle with 16 twirlable dials arranged in two rows. On the upper eight dials the operator sets any rhythm scheme desired (from countless possible combinations) for the first eight bars of a tune. By twirling the bottom...
1,000 Songs. Great popular songs have some distinction of melody, harmony or rhythm. Most popular songs do not- they follow formulas ceaselessly repeated in Tin Pan Alley. So efficiently does the Compos-A-Tune present the Tin Pan Alley formulas that several professional songwriters are already using it as...
Father Finn's musical specialty (the a cappella* choral music of the 16th Century) occupies the middle ground in the three great divisions of liturgical music. The others are: 1) the Gregorian Chant, pure, unharmonized 6th-Century melody, best heard in recent years from the Benedictine monks of Solesmes...
The author. Twenty years ago, when Ellin Mackay was a contributor to the struggling New Yorker (she wrote an article, then thought to be sensational on the dull life, of debutantes), she met Irving Berlin at Jimmy Kelly's Greenwich Village nightclub. Berlin had then written the four Music...