Fascinating piano lessons for the youngest children : with forty piano teaching pieces (thematically presented) : each piece selected for special usefulness in piano instruction.

Advertising and thematic catalog of selected music and books published by the Oliver Ditson Company between 1897 and 1938, mostly in the 1920's and 1930's. The latest item advertised, The Red Song Melody Series, appears on the back cover. The musical excerpts have captions indicating the t...

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Format:	Musical Score Book
Language:	No linguistic content
Published:	Boston, Mass. : Oliver Ditson Company, Inc., [1938?]
Subjects:	Oliver Ditson Company, Inc. > Catalogs. Oliver Ditson Company, Inc. Piano > Teaching pieces > Thematic catalogs. Piano > Teaching pieces > Excerpts. Piano > Instruction and study > Bibliography > Catalogs. Piano music > Bibliography > Catalogs. Piano. Piano > Instruction and study. Piano music. Publishers' catalogs > Massachusetts > Boston > 20th century. Advertisements. Bibliographies. Catalogs.

Table of Contents:

Musical excerpts: The blacksmith's song / G.N. Bordman
Summer and winter / Frederic Groton
Hills and valleys / Clara Ellfeldt Kantzler
Glad and gay / Helen L. Cramm
Little Dutch dance / Helen L. Cramm
Moods and modes / Frederic Groton
Step lightly / Helen L. Cramm
The surprise! / Haydn ; adapted by Susan Schmitt
The clown : Humoresque / Carl Wilhelm Kern
Dance of the sunbeams (Gavotte) / Charles Wakefield Cadman
Gypsy life / Bernard Wagness
In my rocking-chair / Bernard Wagness
March of the Boy Scouts / G.A. Grant-Schaefer
Soaring / Walter Rolfe
Country gardens (Morris dance) / arranged by William Baines
The glider / Bernard Wagness
The juggler / Carl Wilhelm Kern
A lonely bird / Lyda Simmons
Pigeons / Cedric W. Lemont
Pixie's frolic / Rob Roy Peery
The strolling harp player / Milton Harding
Uncle Zeb with his fiddle / Bert R. Anthony
Chasing butterflies / Wilmot Lemont
Dance of the spooks / Bert R. Anthony
Flying curlew (Arpeggio valse) / Mary Hildeburn Parsons
Ghost in the haunted room / Bert R. Anthony
Off to camp : march / Bert R. Anthony
Mee Loo : Chinese dance / Bert R. Anthony
Zorina (Intermezzo orientale) / Bert R. Anthony
Serenade / Gladys V. Gilbert
Valse espagnole / Mari Paldi
Intermezzo orientale / James H. Rogers
Jubilee march / Frederick A. Williams
The coming of spring : waltz caprice / Sarah Ball Browers
In a Polish garden / Frederick A. Williams
Jeunesse : valse de ballet / Charles Fonteyn Manney
Majesty of the deep / George F. Hamer
The pines : a tone-poem for piano / H. Alexander Matthews
Russian dance / H. Engelmann
'Tis raining / Homer Grunn.