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CHILDCRAFT MUSIC FOR THE FAMILY

IN

FIFTEEN

VOLUMES

VOLUIVIE ELEVEN

MUSIC FOR THE FAMILY

FIELD ENTERPRISES EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION Merchandise Mart Plaza Chicago 5^^ Illinois •

1961 Edition

CHILDCRAFT (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)

©

Copyright 1960, U.S.A. by Field Enterprises Educational Corporation

© 1954, 1949 by Field © 1947, 1945, 1942, 1939 by The Quarrie Corporation Quarrie & Company Copyright © 1937, 1935, 1934 by W. Copyright

Enterprises, Inc.

Copyright

F.

The Copyright

©

Child's Tre.^sury

1931, 1923 by

W.

F. Quarrie

International Copyright

©

& Connpany

1960

by Field Enterprises Educational Corporation International Copyright

©

1954, 1949

by Field Enterprises, Inc. International Copyright

by

All

rights

reproduced

©

1947

The Quarrie Corporation

reserved. in

This

whole or

volume may in

part

in

not

any

be

form

without written permission from the publishers.

Printed in the United States of America

FJA

:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS of CHILDCRAFT gratefully acknowledge the courtesy of the following publishers and authors for permission to use copyrighted words and music

The publishers

American Book Company: Words of "The Sleeping Princess" from A Child's Book of Songs by Robert Foresman, copyright 1918 by American Book Company; "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Silent Night" from Christmas Carols an J Hymns for School and Choir compiled and edited by HoUis Dann, copyright 1910 by Mollis Dann. "America," "Away Manager," "My Pony," "O Christmas Tree," "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone," and "Spring's Arrival" from Fifty Songs for Boys and Girls, arrangements copyrighted 1935 by Artists

Artists and Writers Guild, Inc.: in a

and Writers Guild, Inc., published by Grosser and Dunlap; "Hush-a-by, Baby Mine" and "Sleep, O Babe" from Lullabies of Many Lands by Dorothy Berliner Commins, arrangements copyrighted 1941 by Artists and Writers Guild, Inc., published by Harper & Bros. Associated Music Publishers, Inc.: "Arkansas Trav-

"Here Come Three Dukes A-Riding," "The Menagerie," and "Yippy Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along, Little Dogies" from Early American Songs edited by Margaret and Travis Johnson, copyright 1943 by Associated Music Publishers, Inc.; "O Come All Ye Faithful" from Sacred Music the Whole World Loves arranged by Albert E. Wier, copyright 1916 by D. Appleton & Company, assigned 1944 to Broadcast Music, Inc., renewed 1944 by Broadcast Music, Inc.; "All Through the Night" ("Welsh Lullaby"), "Scottish Lullaby," and "The Little Woman" from Songs the Children Love to Sing arranged by Albert E. Wier, copyright 1916 by D. Appleton & Company, assigned 1944 to Broadcast Music, Inc. eler,"

S. Barnes & Company: "This Is the Way My Dolly Walks" from Dramatic Games and Dances for Little

A.

by Caroline Crawford, copyright I94X by A. S. Barnes & Co., Inc.

Children

1914,

Behrman House, Inc.: Words of "The Hanukkah Song" from Gateway to Jewish Song edited by Judith K. Eisenstein, published 1939 bv Behrman House, Inc.

Black, Irma Simonton: Music of

"The Tugboat."

Central Conference of American Rabbis: "God of Our Fathers" and "Rock of Ages" from Union Hymnal, third edition, rev. and enl., copyright 1931 by the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

The Church Pension Fund: "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" from The Hymnal of the Protestant 1940 edition, copyright 1943 by The Church Pension Fund.

Episcopal

Church,

1940,

J.

Curwen and Sons Ltd.: "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (Royal Oak), copyright 1915 by J. Curwen and Sons Ltd.

John Day Company,

Inc.: "The Spring of the Year," "Train Song," and "A Valentine Song" from Another Singing Time by Satis N. Coleman and Alice G. Thorn, copyright 1937 by Satis N. Coleman and Alice G. Thorn; "The Big Tall Indian," "Falling Leaves," "Halloween," and "Marching Song" from Singing Time by Satis N. Coleman and Alice G. Thorn, copyright 197.9 by Satis N. Coleman and Alice G. Thorn.

Dent, Katherine H.

'Bossv

Cow"

bv Emilie Pouls-

son.

Duenewald Printing Corporation Musical arrangements and English words of "Italian Cradle Song," "Schubert's Cradle Song," and "Swedish Cradle Song" from Lullabies from Every Land by Inez Bertail, copyright 1947 by Pictorial Booksmiths, Inc., published by Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. :

&

Gem

Company, Inc.: "Columbia, the E. P. Dutton of the Ocean" and "Home on the Range" irova Sing by Opal Wheeler, copyright 1944 by & Company, Inc.; "Christ the Lord Risen Today," "Faith of Our Fathers," "A

for America

E. P. Dutton Is

Mighty

Fortress

Is

Our God,

"O God, Our

Help

"Now

"

the

Day

Is

Ages Past" from Sing in Praise by Opal Wheeler, copyright 1946 by E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.

Over," and

in

Edizioni Suvini Zerboni: Melody and Italian words of "Italian Cradle Song" ("Fa La Nana Bambin") by Geni Sadero, copyright 1950 by S. A. Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan, Italy.

& Company: "Bath Time," "Christmas Eve," "Raggle," and "Timothy Tim-o" from Sing a Song of the series The World of Music, copyright 1936 by Ginn & Company.

Ginn

Hall

&

McCreary Company: "Barnyard Song" and

"Pawpaw Patch" from

Songs of the Hills and Plains

arranged by Harry R. Wilson, copyright 1943 by Hall & McCreary Company.

Lyden, Clara: "Halloween Song" and "Turkey Song" from Children Come and Sing by Clara Lyden, copyright 1937 by Edward Stern & Company, Inc., published by E. M. Hale & Company.

MacCarteney, Laura Pendleton: Musical arrangement of

"Warm

Kitty."

Newlin, Edith: Words of Tugboat."

"Warm

Kitty" and "The

Oxford University Press, Inc.: "Sally Go Round the Moon" from This Way and That by Edna Potter, copyright 1930 by Oxford University Press, Inc.

Childcr.\ft

VI

W. Paxton & Company

Ltd.: Welsh words for "All Songs of Wales by Granville Bantock, published by W. Paxton & Co. Ltd.,

Through the Night" from London, England.

Inc.: "As I Sat on a Sunny Bank" and "Deck the Halls" from Christmas Carols from Many Countries by Satis N. Coleman and Elin K. Jorgensen,

G. Schirmer,

copyright 1934 by G. Schirmer, Inc. Seeger,

Ruth Crawford: "Hush,

Little

Baby," "There

Was a Man and He Was Mad," and "What Shall We Do When We All Go Out?" from American Folk Songs for Children published by Doubleday & ComInc., copyright 1948 by Ruth Crawford Seeger.

pany,

Silver Burdett

Company: "Holy God,

Name" from Music

We

Praise

Thy

Wilson, Leeder, and Gee, copyright 1948 by Silver Burdett Americans

Sing

by

Company. Inc., and Artists and Writers Guild, Inc.: "Billy Boy," "Brahms' Lullaby," "Au Clair de la Lune," "Pais Do Do," "Frere Jacques," "A Frog, He Would A-Wooing Go," "Hickory, Dickory, Dock," "I Had a Little Nut Tree," "Jingle Bells," "John Brown Had a Little Indian," "The Muffin Man," "Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?" "Oh Susanna," "Old King Cole,"

Simon and Schuster,

"Old MacDonald Had

a

Farm,"

"Les

Petites

Marionettes," "Rig a Jig Jig," "Rockabye, Baby," "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain," "A Tisket, A Tasket," "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," and "Yankee Doodle" from The Golden Song Book selected and arranged by Katharine Tyler Wes-

arrangements copyrighted 1945 by Simon and Schuster, Inc., and Artists and Writers Guild, Inc. sells,

Clayton F. Summy Company: "Around the Christmas Tree" from Lilts and Lyrics for the School Koom by Alice C. D. Riley and Jessie L. Gaynor, copyright 1907 by Clayton F. Summy Company. Ltd.: "O Canada!" by R. Stanley Wier and C. Lavallee, published by Gordon V. Thompson Ltd.

Gordon V. Thompson

Warne & Company, Inc.: "Aiken Drum" "The Fly and the Humble Bee" from The

Frederick

and

Baby's Bouquet by Walter Crane.

The Westminster Press: "The Old Hundredth" and "Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart" from The Hymnal, Revised,

192.9,

Presbyterian

copyright 191 1 by the Trustees of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-

School Work. Willis Music Company: "The Friendly Beasts," "Pease Porridge Hot," "Pony Stepping High," and

The

"Pop! Goes the Weasel" from Songs for the Nursery Laura Pendleton MacCarteney, copyright 1937 by The Willis Music Co.

School by

"

CONTENTS PAGE

Fun with Sound and

Rhythisi

Around You Sounds Arc Not All the Same

Sound

Is

Hickory, Dickory,

.

.

Sounds You Like Indoor and Outdoor Sounds Through the Year City and Country

Sound

56

Drum

Aiken

All

Dock

50

The Big Tall Indian The Fly and the Humble Bee Old MacDonald Had a Farm Pony Stepping High

58

My Pony

61

59 60 61

62

Raggle

Oh Where, Oh Where Has My

Patterns

Rhythm

Dog Gone

Litde

62 04

Train Song

Putting Sound and

Rhythm Together

65 66

Band Music

The Tugboat John Brown Had a Litde Indian The Sleeping Princess Bath Time Timothy Tim-o This Is the Way My Dolly Walks

Music of the Orchestra

The Menagerie

70

Families of Instruments

Marching Song

7^

People Have Always Liked Music Instruments of Other Lands

Enjoying Music Instruments for You to Play

The String Family The Woodwinds The Brass Family The Percussion Family .

Listening to Music

.

14

1° 17

.

Be Comin' Round the Mountain Susanna

What Shall We Do When The Little Woman

Sleep,

O

Do Do

Fais

We

All

All

A

Through

the

Au

Night

Nursery Songs The More We Sing Twinkle, Twinkle,

Go Round

Clair de la

Rig a

84 86 87 88

Lune

88 .

.

90

on the Range

9^

Jig Jig

95 96

94

Arkansas Traveler

Johnny Morgan Loch Lomond O No, John! Here Come Three Dukes A-Riding My Bonnie Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes

Together

98 100

....

Little Star

the

.

Moon

.

103 ^°4 106 108

Three Pirates

.

102

Cow

Songs of the Seasons and Festivals

Cock-a-doodle-doo

Had

82

Sailing

Pop! Goes the Weasel Old King Cole

I

81

.

.

Hush-a-by, Baby Mine Schubert's Cradle Song

Bossy

77 78 °o

.

Boy

Home

.

Sally

Out.?

Les Petites Marionettes Pawpaw Patch Yippy Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along, Little Dogies

Swedish Cradle Song Brahms' Lullaby Rest, Baby, Rest

Frog,

Billy

.

.

Go

75 76

... ... ...

There

.

Cradle Song

Italian

69

...

Was a Man and He Was Mad He Would A-Wooing Go Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?

.

Baby Babe

Little

68

....

She'll

Oh

Barnyard Song

Hush,

67 68

Folk Songs and Ballads

Lullabies Rockabye, Baby Scottish Lullaby

....

a Litde

Nut Tree

The Muffin

Man

Warm Kitty A Tisket, A

^

Halloween Halloween Song

Frere Jacques

i^'

.

^^^

Falling Leaves

Tasket

.

Hot

.

Pease Porridge

Come, Ye Thankful Turkey Song vii

People,

Come

.

112

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Ye Pure in Heart Lord Jesus Rock of Ages

The Hanukkah Song

114

Rejoice,

158

Jingle Bells

"6

Fairest

159 160

118

Christmas Eve Around the Christmas Tree

The Friendly

O

119 120

Beasts

121

Christmas Tree

122

As I Sat on a Sunny Bank Deck the Halls Away in a Manger Silent

O

Night

Little

Town

124

The Boy

125 126

(Bach)

127 128

of Bethlehem

Hark! the Herald Angels Sing First Noel O Come All Ye Faithful The Spring of the Year A Valentine Song

132 I33

Spring's Arrival

I34

129

The

130

Patriotic Songs

Gem

The The The The

Who

Couldn't Be Discouraged

162

Music

in the

Chapel (Handel)

Father of the

Symphony (Haydn)

Wonder Boy and Boy

Who

the

Heard

of the

Ocean

....

I37 138

The Star-Spangled Banner

140

O

142 I43

Canada! America America the Beautiful

Empress (Mozart)

the Trees Sing

(Beethoven)

170

The Great Writer of Songs (Schubert) The Patriot Composer of Poland (Chopin) Italy's Great Composer of Operas (Verdi) The Modest Genius of Music (Brahms) The Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy

144

From

172

174 176 178

the

Land

of the

Midnight Sun

(Grieg)

The The

Fairy Tale Opera

(Humperdinck)

(MacDowell)

The Composer

186

Who

Broke the Rules

The March King (Sousa) The Music That Stopped

Hymns

....

of Our Fathers Plow the Fields and Scatter Faith of Our Fathers A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Now the Day Is Over Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

147 148

For the Beauty of the Earth

153

AH

154

We

.

Things Bright and Beautiful The Old Hundredth Christ the Lord Is Risen Today O God, Our Help in Ages Past .

.

.

149 150 151

152

155 156

157

184

City Boy and the Wild Rose

(Debussy)

God

164 166

(Tchaikovsky)

Yankee Doodle Columbia, the

About the World's Great Music Makers

Stories

.... a Ball

(Gershwin)

188

190

Game 192

Records for Children Records for Young Children Records for Older Children

Music Songs and Folk Music Music of the Orchestra Instrumental Music

Stories with

Index of Song Titles

195 196

196 197

197 198 199

FUN WITH SOUND

AND RHYTHM

THE WORLD

is

full of

You cannot move or It is all

talk

without making sound.

around you.

Just suppose that

What a

sound.

sound suddenly came to

all

strange world

it

would

a stop!

be!

Automobiles would not honk.

You

could not hear the whistle of a

The

doorbell, radio,

train,

or the roar of an airplane taking

You could not

off.

and telephone would

all

be

silent.

whistle for your dog.

Your cat could not mew for her milk. You would not be able to enjoy music or talking movies, if there were no sound.

How

then

is

sound made?

And how do we

use

it?

SOUND

IS

ALL

AROUND YOU

People and animals make sound.

So do machines,

trains, airplanes,

and automobiles.

E\en running water, wind, and ha\ e sounds of their

ow

rain

n.

CAN YOU MAKE THE SOUNDS church bell

MADE BY EACH OF THESE?

ringing

whistling

boy

rain on umbrella

purring kitten

spinning top

SOUNDS ARE NOT ALL THE SAME Some sounds

7A

are so loud that you can hear noth-

ing else. Others are so soft and quiet you can

hardly hear them.

sounds.

They

Still

others are

in-between

are neither very loud nor very soft.

WHICH OF THESE MAKE LOUD SOUNDS? WHICH ARE SO QUIET YOU CAN HARDLY HEAR THEM? WHICH MAKE IN-BETWEEN SOUNDS?

walking through leaves

electric

train

{m\

ice cream "

tS'Tc^.i^'

cart's

tinkle

bell

SOUNDS YOU Some sounds

\oli like \ery

LIKE

much. Other

sounds \ou don't hke

at

all.

WHICH OF THE SOUNDS MADE BY EACH OF THESE DO

YOU

LIKE?

WHICH MAKE YOU WANT TO PUT YOUR FINGERS

IN

YOUR EARS?

scratching chalk

stick

an

along

iron fence

INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SOUNDS Some sounds you Others }0u hear

Some you

alarm clock

when you are indoors. only when you are outdoors. hear

hear more often during the day.

Others you hear more often

at night.

WHERE DO YOU HEAR THE SOUNDS

1/)//^

MADE BY EACH OF

m"^

THESE?

WHEN DO YOU HEAR THEM?

birds

singing

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washing machine

merry-go-round

vacuum

cleaner

dinner-table sounds Ewine GallowE

owl i,,

'\

hooting

boy bouncing

into

bed

THROUGH THE YEAR You

hear some sounds only at certain times of the \ear.

There

are

In the

fall

some you hear or winter,

in spring or

vou hear others.

summer.

^^^

^^^^

•//'

'/

AT WHAT TIME OF THE YEAR DO YOU HEAR

SOUNDS MADE BY EACH OF THESE?

carol

singers

CITY

AND COUNTRY

Some sounds you hear only You can hear others only in

in the city.

the country

taxicab

horn

WHICH OF THESE MAKE SOUNDS THAT

YOU HEAR

IN

WHICH DO YOU HEAR

THE CITY? IN THE

COUNTRY?

rooster

crowing

policeman's whistle Ewing Galloway

—

SOUND PATTERNS Sometimes,

\

ou repeat the same sound over

and o\er and o\er again. You do \ou drum your it

When we we ha\e

ha\e sound patterns such find in

This

is

as these

the kind of

Mother Goose rh}mes.

You cannot dance without rh}thm. And a part of

bouncing a ball

table.

floor.

RHYTHM.

rh\thm you a rocking horse

on the

\\hen \ou run, and \our feet go tap, tap,

tapping on the

riding

fingers

when You do

this

all

it is

singing and music.

under your leg

HAVE YOU EVER DONE ANY OF THESE? IF

YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW WHAT RHYTHM

IS.

Lord from ifonkmeyer '

"One,

'(\V^ ''i

three,

^^ O'Leary."

RHYTHM There

is

rhythm

in

ahnost everything you

The more rhythm you

have, the more and stunts you can do well. You need rhythm to do all the things you see here. do.

tricks

walking on

all fours

face up

spinning around a tree

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PUTTING SOUND AND RHYTHM TOGETHER When It is

)'0u

put sound and rh}thm together, you can ha\'e

easy for \ou to

all sorts

of fun.

make sounds. You can hardly do anything without

rhythm. And, when }0u put sound and rh} thm together, }0u have music.

You must ha\e sound

and

for music,

it

is

impossible to ha\e music without rhythm.

""^

"Oh,

Ha\'e you ever heard a mother call

Jimmy!"? Her voice goes uphill and down like this.

Oil.

It

sounds

song. This

like the is

how

it

beginning of a looks in music.

^.£3 OH,

Your \oice a

sings, too,

fire siren. It

when \ou

imitate

JIM -MY!

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C^'^^^-^""'^^

goes up higher and higher

and higher. Then it comes down lower and lower and low er to where it started.

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And when

a pon\ trots,

its

feet ha\'e a

certain rhythm. It sounds like this old folk

song that

\

ou can

sing.

fe Trot,

trot,

trot!

Trot, 11

m}'

po

-

ny

i3 trot!

O

PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS LIKED MUSIC Men, women, and children have always liked music. Long before they knew how to read, people clapped hands and stamped their feet as they moved around. In dancing, they kept time by striking two pieces of wood together.

They discovered how

to

make a rough drum.

they hollowed out a tree trunk. Then they stretched an animal's skin across it. First

They made whistles out were the

first

of

willow

pieces of bone. These wind instruments.

sticks, reeds, or

^

-J" _

^V^f\7 ">^^

They cut reeds of different lengths. Then they tied them together so they could play different sounds.

They also stretched strings across pieces of wood. They made music by plucking the strings. These were the first string instruments.

In Bible days. King David had a harpist who played for him.

The people of Egypt had and metal rattles.

lutes,

Their soldiers used trumpets

nm^'W

^ t^ib^

drum was used to senH quickly from send mAssnnps messages rruirklv one place to another. It is still used in the jungle. In Africa, the

And in France, England, and Germany, traveling minstrels told their stories in song.

and tambourines

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Kwing Galloway: International News; United Press

ENJOYING MUSIC There are many ways we can enjoy music. Some of us like to sing. Others like to play instruments. Still others enjoy listening to music even ii they cannot sing or play.

You may

like to sing

by

yourself.

You may

like to sing with your family as you ride in the car.

I,

i

fe

J),

i

Mcr n -

You can enjoy

r]

fi

-

ly

we

ride

j*

a

-

long

singing with others at home, at school, and in church. l\>.\slone \ iew

l\'

Co

.

.sliune

Snow; lining Gallowa.\

^

C\mbals

Triangle

Drum

INSTRUMENTS FOR YOU TO PLAY like to make music of your own. there many different instruments for you to play. You may even like to make some of these inIf

you

are

struments yourself. In Volume

Gourd

272/

you

8,

will find instructions for

on pages 262to do this.

how

rattles

Some Wrist

P»

instruments are easy

to

play.

bells

Rhythm sticks

Coreon from A Devaney. Pinney from Monkmeyer. United Press. Three Lions. Educational Music Mag Pan-Amer. Band Instr Ewing Galloway. Orvjlle Logan Snider Wide World .

.

Other instruments require more practice.

BAND MUSIC Band music is always exciting. Almost every boy and girl would like to play and march with the band. Bands that play in parades are called marching bands. There are other bands that play in the park or in a concert hall. These are called concert bands.

In the pictures

you

will see that

a band has no string instruments, such as a violin or a cello.

Marching band Concert band United Press: Amer. Music Conference

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MUSIC OF THE ORCHESTRA When

the orchestra plays, the music seems to be one big sound. But listen more carefully and you can hear the singing violins, the piping flutes, the blaring trumpets, and the booming drums. just

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V,

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String Instruments

FAMILIES OF INSTRUMENTS There are

many

diHerent instruments in

an orchestra. But we group them into four big families. The instruments in each family are alike in many ways.

THE STRING FAMILY These are the most important instruments in the orchestra. They are

made

wood and

of

special strings.

When

a player draws a bow across the strings, he produces beautiful singing

sounds.

He makes

sounds by plucking the

other

strings.

Violin

The most important instrument

in

the

orchestra

l-rom Tunt

HuntingtoD. courtesy of

©

1942 b.v Harriet E. by Harriet E Huntington courtesy of Doubleday & Co.. Inc.. Instruments, Lewis A Sod and Kny Musical luslrumeol Co.

Ip

Wm,

Viola

The Double Bass

The

alto instrument

of the

\

lolm familv

"bull fiddle"

plays the bass tones

Cello

This has

a

beautiful tone

and with

is

often plaxcd

a piano.

Bow Bows in

similar in design but of different sizes are used

playing

21

all

these instruments. This

is

a cello

bow

THE WOODWINDS All these instruments

were once

made of wood, but now many are made of metal or plastic. Each instrument is made out of a hollow tube. The player blows

make the sounds. He gets the different sounds by the into this to

way he shapes

his lips,

and by

opening and closing a number of holes in the tube.

Piccolo

This instrument is like the flute, but only half its size.

Korling. lubtrumeuis, courtesy of C.

G

Conn, Ltd.

Flute

nstrument has h, clear

sound. Clarinet

This is an important instrument in orchestras

and bands.

Bassoon Because

it

can

make

amusing sounds, this is sometimes called a clown" instrument.

Oboe Orchestra players tune their instruments by listening to the oboe.

22

THE BRASS FAMILY The players blow into these long brass instruments through a small mouthpiece. The longer the tube, the deeper and stronger the sound that the instrument can make. Some oi the tubes are so long that they must be twisted into odd shapes to make them easy to handle.

Rus Arnold: Instruments, courtesy

of C. 0. Cono. Ltd.

^' Tlic tuba plays

deep-down

tones.

Trombone Sometimes called the slide trombone because one tube slides in and out of the other

W

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THE PERCUSSION FAMILY Percussion means striking. To make music with these instruments, you

must shake them or one way or another.

strike

them

il< "Mii.

in

Wide World; Leedy & Ludwig; W.

F. L.

Co.:

Kettle

Drums

These

arc ahva\s plaved in pairs.

a high sound, the other a

Bass

Drum

lo\\-

J.

C. Deagan, Inc.

One

lias

sound.

Drum

This big drum booms out the rhythm of the music.

Glockenspiel

Each

of these

metal plates has a different sound

Chimes These metal pipes make

bell-like

Xylophone

sounds

Because each wooden bar has a different sound, a tune can be pla\cd on this.

24

LISTENING TO MUSIC Listening to good music

is

al-

There are many different kinds of music to which you can Usten. And there are many different places and times when you can enjoy it.

ways

fun.

Hi,

You can

listen to

or at

or

music on the radio

a concert

on records.

in the

park

-55*/ -/J

You can

listen to

someone

singing folk ballads with a guitar

or to an accordion player at a party. .

In church,

music

These are

Just

a few to

of the

listen

to

and enjoy music. See if you can think of others.

26

.

you can enjoy

of the great United

many ways

.

the

pipe organ.

I'ress;

Ainer. Music Conference;

Ewing Gallo

LULLABIES

27

LULLABIES

the

are

tender and

gentle

songs

a

mother sings to her babw From the earhest times, they ha\e soothed the bab\- and lulled him to sleep.

These quiet songs of lo\'e have a special beautv and charm \\'hich ha\e grown out of the close bond between mother and child

To

the bab\s

it is

the

mood and

feeling created

bv the

song, rather than the words, that are important.

A

lullabv

means warmth and

security

and loving

attention.

Mothers

in e\'er\- country,

whatever the language, sing

lullabies to their babies.

fa\orites

For that reason, old

from many lands are included

in this

group.

Fortunate the baby whose mother sings lullabies to

him! They last as

will

long as

bring deep satisfaction that will

lic lives.

28

,44^ 29

ROCKABYE, BABY A Traditional

Arranged by Katharine Tyler Wessells

American Lullaby

i^ i

^

aRock

-

a

f

-

bye,

ba

-

by^

# on

the

tree tfet

J -

top

m

^ ^

^ When

the

wind

m

blows,

the

W^ era

die

-

will

rock-,

jp^

k

%

I

'p=* When

the

bough breaks,

the

era

-

die

will

And

fall,

m

i

down

3^

will

come

^^^ ba

by,

era

-

die

and

9~^ all.

-U

g

r

3°

SCOTTISH LULLABY

^m

.Not too slow

^

hush thee, my

Oh,

ba

moth

-

woods

er

and

are

all

^r

a

la

by,

thy

was

sire

a

knight.

be

-

J'

long

-

ing, dear

«i ../

thee,

my

love

and bright;

ly

ba

-

by,

we

^ fe

-

by.

Thy

sire

was

a

The

^ r They

see.

thee.

to

#

^ ba

-

towers which

'Tl #

hush

the

Thy

f

both

dy,

-

the glens, from

^

.

m

^ f

k

Reprinted n ton & Co.;

-

S

m

Oh,

•?

^

knight.

Oh,

Sonss TA* Children Laoe To Sing, arranged by Albert E. Wier, copyright 1916 by D. AppleYork, N. Y. right assigned 1944 to Broadcast Music, Inc.,

New

,

,

.

rit

.

V

dim

et

k

I

r hush

my

thee,

ba

So

by,

-

^

^

bon

-

so

nie,

m

bright,

f HUSH. LITTLE BABY

A

^

Arranged by

Traditional American Lullaby

ZE ^-^ 1.

Hush,

lit

-

ba

tie

Rutli

Crauford St-eger

I a

say

don't

by,

word,

P fc^ Ma

-

i

m

j^

mas going

to

buy

mock

a

-

ing

bird

£

3 2. If that

mocking bird won't sing,

Mama's going to buy you a diamond 4. If

you

3. If that

ring.

that looking glass gets broke

Mama's going to buy you a 6. If

that cart

Mama's going to buy you a looking glass. 5. If

billy goat.

diamond ring turns brass.

that billy goat won't pull

Mama's going to buy you a cart and bull.

and bull turn over,

Mama's going to buy you a dog named Rover. 7. If

that

dog named Rover won't bark,

Mama's going to buy you a horse and cart.

8. If

that horse and cart fall

You'll still

down,

be the pretties t^g'^rlin town

32

O BABE

SLEEP,

A Traditional

Words by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil

fe

a

1.

Irish Lullaby

=

Andante sostenuto

P

5

i

r

f

f

babe,

Sleep,

i

for the

hums

bee

red

i The

mzE

i I

^ « SI

m

lent twi

light's

-

r Ee

fall.

^=^ /TJJT3 i P

^

Iff

^

Gray

?

Rock

r

comes

To

-

^ val

fr.om theL

f wrap

1^

the

world

Jl

^

f^

I I

J)^

J

^

I

fe

p-^

^^

"iT-r

7

^

thrall,

a

^

my

lyan

J)

[?•

J 33

I

i

J

J)

J

J)

\

=^

J)

I

child,

—

f

?

my

My

joy,

r"

)

and

love

heart's

^ f

f^

^^fp ^^ i

crick

-

ets

sing

-r

2.

Dusk Is

drawn, and the Green Man's thorn wreathed in rings of fog; is

Sheevra

sails his boat

till

morn

Upon the starry bog.

A

It/an

van

o^

And weeps I

sing,

O

moon cusp in dew

the paly

Hath brimm d her

to hear the sad sleep-tune,

love, to you.

it ix

de

f you

34

DO DO

PAIS

Translated by Elaine Birnie

^^ i

^

5

Go

to

Fais

do

A Traditional French Lullaby Arranged by Katharine Tyler Wessells

Mead

sleep, do,

las,

lit

Co

las ,

mon

-

^m sleep,

m

and hap - py Pau-ras du lo

^ ^p do,

T

cakes,Pa-pa teau Pa -pa ,

p'tit

er,

Go

to

re;

Fais

do

has his est en

t

^ dreams lo;

I

m ^m fe

Ma -ma Ma -man

J-

m

_

i

i

pot has

of

good cho

qui fait

du

-

cho

-

CO

-

late;

Go

co

-

lat;

Fais do

to

^w

sleep,

Co -las,

do,

Co

-

ny bakes her ti haut. Qui fait du ga-

she

est en

^m lit- tie

las, monp'tit

j-j^

m T

Broth Fre -

tie

-

^ m5

m

m

B*

Co-

I

Broth-er,

Go

Fre

Fais do

-

^-r

^

re,

to

^^ r do, t'au-ras du lo

-

J.

-

a

35

SONG

ITALIAN CRADLE

I Go

to

sleep,

my

lit

Jfa'

la

na

na

ham.

-

^m t

h

-tie -

onej

Go

bin

Fa' la

^

sleep,

my

pret-ty

na

na

bel

-

ham-

^

^i

3 one.

Moth-er

hin

Net hra- ze

rocks you soft

-

de

ti

-

sleep now,

singf-ing,Go to

ly la

m.a

ma

-

^Ff^

ni

fa' la

,

i

I

i

-

na,

dar-ling".

Now your

moth-er watch-es

na

Che

m.a

7ia

-

.

f

la

-ma

m

gun

I3

pa

tor

-

el

na-

-

^

—9

^^ n

Fa'

ra,

la

by

-

o

Hi

-

na Fa'

-

lul

-

by

-

o

la

iia

-

na

-

nei b7'a

,

*

-

ze

-

ti

ly

-

de

zz.

la

n\

i

—9—

sing-

rocks you soft

Moth-er

la-

~~m

,s

soon be

-0

here. Rock-

ma

El pa

,

too, will

^t

^

\

i

h

near-, Fa-ther,

xe

ba-by fa' la

rji

3

':r\\

t

to

m

ing,Go to ma. Fa' la

sleep lit-tle 7ia

-

na ham-

g=^=^

3

one;

Go

to

sleep

my

pret-ty

one.

hin,

Fa'

la

na

na

hel ham.-

hin.

-

-5^

t

^

?

^

^

36

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT Slowly

A

r

^

Sleep,

my

Soil

am. - rani

-

ser

will lend thee,

fro go

-

gon

-

m^

all

m

-

lu'r

3

-

er,

watch

is

mewn

taw

^ ^

(S^em e^ ri^.

3

el

-

-

ing,

All

wck. Ar

^?

^=f slum-ber steep - ing,

gwir bryd-ferth'wch,

t^ 3X

^

*-i

keep

-

^

^

#^;=#

^ W

night;

^

3X

her nef - oedd

dear,

Ar

BEE

I Teu

$

a:

y

hyd

hours are creep -ing, Mil and vale in yw ty - wyll - wch. I ar-ddang-os

a tempo

Moth

through the

E

-o-

-

All

iani,"

w ^ ^ sp ar

—m

ZI God

5

au

S

noSj

-m

i

^

Soft, the drew- sy

y

night,

i

f

22

-

hyd

Ar

i

Guard- ian an - g^els "Dyvi - aV ffordd i

Got

through the

All

3 E

-6

I

^

and slum-ber, ddy -wed- ant,

still

au'r

%

i

I *=?^

w

babe, He

Traditional Welsh Air

through the

hyd

i

y

% night. nos.

3^

$

Reprinted from Songs The Children Love To Sing, arranged by Albert E. Wier, copyright 1916 by D.Appleton & Co.; copyright assigned 1944 to Broadcast Music, Inc., Ne-w York, N.Y.

.

SWEDISH CRADLE SONG Swedish Words by

CM. Bellman

r Lul - la - by, my So - va lul- la,

i

mf M

Pus

-

sy's

Ndr du

lit - tie

one,

Go

to

HI

van!

J)in

veil

-

le

m

r

play-ing vak- nar,

-tie -

la

the

sunj

Go

to

ska

vi

se'n

Dig

klip

sleep,

ba

-

by.

-

da

gl'd

»=t*

Ej*^

in

lit- tie

-pa

hast oeh

J

-

ba

by.

-

sld

da-

-

*

Maa Se'n

-

mas

bus

sma

hus

-

y

spin

och

kort

-

ning

I* yarn,

lull

lull.

Dad Ska'

i dy's

work hyg

vi

—&

ing

-

ga,

9-

r^^T*

m

lit

al

^

at

m

i

sleep,

-gang

in

the

barn

Lul

la

bla

sa

kull

Och

sma

m

-

Fby

my

vi

sor

ba kvd

by. da.

,

BRAHMS' LULLABY

38 ,&)

Johannes Brahms

Lul

Gu

-

la

by

-

and good- night,

A

ten

bendy gut'

.

Nacht ,

'^=n=

With

ros

-

es

be

mit

Ho

-

sen

be

"^

f

y^

^ m

m

dight,_

With

dacht

^ ba

HI

Nag

mit

m^

^ W Jm

•^'^

.

ies

be

decked

lein

be

steekt

:^

Is

schlupf*

"^

IS

i^

J=J: 5

p

m vn m -A

by's

wee

bed,

Lay thee

down

now and

ter

die

Deck:

Mor - gen

friih

wenn

S

Gott

rs

E

i

^^ ^T^ B

^^

{^H* ^p.: i

V

rest,

May

will

wirst du

thy

slum

ber

be

blest,

weckt,

^

±± ?

Lay thee mor -gen

M==S

f

f

«

% now and

down

wenn

friih,

^ ^r ^W

rest,

Gott

2

write

^

-«

die

o

^

If -

-

-©-

^ ^

J

J

^f

?r

^

i

moi

can

rot.

^

e

My

Pier-

^ lAA. 4=A

to

J

rot,

friend, Pier-

-

^

Lend

?>^tf

moon

eve-ning

UJl

m *

clair

i

s

4 ^ # —

n'ai

J

J

J

J

S^

f^^

-«

-O-

rj Your Ou -

5^r g

front door please

vre

moi

ta

o

por

pen,

.

^ ff

te

Please,

Pour

I

beg

of

I'a-mour de

you,

Dieu.

^r

88

LES PETITES

^&

Mead

Trans, by E.B.

MARIONETTES French Words and Tune Traditional

XE

S See them dance, so! Ain - si font, font,

so!

All the

font, Les pe-

'r—r

—f

mar-ion-

ettes,

ti-tes

mar -ion-

ettes.

^^ dance, font,

^

i

T-r

f so!

so!

font.

foyit,

See them Ain - si

^

^

^m

I

lit- tie

Three

lit

Trois

p'tits

-tie

turns, and

tours

et

off

puis

they

go!

s'en

vont!

J^^J)

^^

W

PAWPAW PATCH Arranged by Harry R.Wilson Lively

i

'

^5

P^

'

^^

3

-d^-d

1.

Where,

oh,

where

is

dear

lit

2.

Come

on,

boys,

and

let's

go

3.

Pick-

up

paw

Y^-

in*

1_

^^^

-

paws,

t

put -tin* 'em

in

3:

-

tie

Nel

lie?

-

find

your

pock

her, -

et.

t

mf

i

J

J

4

Where,

oh^ where

Come

on,

boys,

Pick -in'

up

paw -paws, put

m

is

dear

lit

and

let's

go

TT

i

Where,

oh, where

is

on,

boys,

up

paw -paws,

- in'

m

down

9

^

P

-^

i

^

let's

go

- tin'

'em

-

tie

-

your

in

et,

-

M

der

in

t

i Nel

pock

her, -

et,

W ^ mthe

zz

paw

-

paw

patch,

72:

""

lie?

-

?

5 TT

m

J

find

i r

? yon

lit

put

i

^

dear

and

-o-

^

her,

$

^S

Come

i

I

lie?

-

your pock

in

i

Pick

'Way

Nel find

TT

if^5=^

^

'em

tie

$

i

m

m

- tin'

-

1 3:

ff*--,^-.

YIPPY TI-YI-YO, GIT ALONG, LITTLE DOGIES Cowboy Song

^EF

Hocking

k^=^ 1.

As

2.

Now

o

I

ear

a^

-

was

a

ly

in

LI

walk

-

-

in'

spring

one

morn

we

round

-

in'

for

up

the

p

s

4

o

pleas-ure^

I

spied

do

We

mark 'em

-

IB

gies,

^p

a

o

cow

pun

and

brand 'em and

-

cher

a

^ rid

•

O O

hat was

long,

His

tails,

Then round up

nm

^

thrown the

back and hor

-

ses

his

and

in'

bob

off

J

#

^

I

-

*

spurs were load

Reprinted from Early American Son^j, copyright 1943 by Associated Music Publishers,

Inc.,

the

a

-

their

^m—

a

-

chuck

Ne'w York.

91

i

k

W

1

And as he ap - proached he was sing- in' this song; And throw the lit- tie do - gies on the lone-some old trail.

jing-lin',

wa

^iu^^

!J2

3

2

roam,

H

12:

bright

Where With

a

the

deer

the

lights

3

f

where when

buf heav

the the

f

^

—

^^ ¥

and the from the

-

fa

-

ens

lo

-

are

^-

W^

an

-

te

-

lope

play,

glit

-

ter

-

ing

stars,

sz:

E

!^ Where Havel

P sW ^

sel

-

dom

stood

here

is

heard

a

a

mazed

and

dis

-

cour - ag asked as

=

^

>i^ 22^ -«

word, gazed

mK

igirk

And If

the skies are

not

ry

ex

their glo

i

-

la cloud-y all ceeds that of

21

^ 3

-

ing I

i

^

day.

ours.

&

^

Refrain:

=='^ 3:

i

Home, home on

g

r

i Ml if^

^ir^-»

an

0—

-* -

te

-

lope

the

g i

i

r

Prom

and the

deer

i=«

iia

^

play,

:2

T

#

Where sel-dom

is

heard

a

dis

E

13t cour-ag-mg wordjAnd

Sing ^or 4m«rica

permission.

the

3 *

"^

iS

^

Where

range.

m^ ss^

3:

93

r-0-

3;

i ^^

the skies are not

-0—=.

t

cloud-y all

Z5

day

^

i

by Opal Wheeler, copyright t944 by E.

U

P.

Dutton k

Co., inc.

Reprinted by

94

^

Words and Melody by Godfrey Marks Arranged by Curtis Biever

i Sail

-

ing,

sail

-

W^ U ^S 5

o-ver the bound -ing

main,

0-^

^^ p:

^^

a storm-y

wind

Jack comes home a-

shall blo-w ere

f

^?HF ^Z_^ 0-^

-

ing,

sail

-

ingj

gain.

j:

m Sail

For

^ ^^ B

*=sS man-y

w

ing,

t

o

-

f~f

f:

ver

the

g"

bound

-

ing

main.

I

0-t

Mzsia man-y a storm-y

J wind

;? shall

i

J

;

i

^Mi

blow ere Jack comes home a

^

i

j

.

p

i gain.

For

^ ^^ RIG

A

Arranged by Katharine Tyler Wessells

Old American Chantey

Ji

^-V-

J

^

As

JM

J

^i

r

^

o!

T

J

J'

was walk

I

95

JIG JIG

ing

-

r

J' V

down

the

o!

V

Heigh-

^

P=^

Heigh-

ol

A

pret

^ ^^ ^^^^^ ,

street,

5

T

F

Heigh-ol Heigh

=?

r

* ^^ ^ P

^

ji

J

ty

-

girl

I

•/

I

^ i:^

chanced to meet, Heigh-

ol

Heigh-

s

P -

'

P

Heigh

o!

¥

^^ ^

Rig- a

-

jig -jig

^ way

and

^

J r

a

way

JH

j'

1

r

^

we

go,

a

^^=^^^?^ we

go.

Rig- a -jig-

jig

J

Jh

^ ^

way

we

J^

F

go,

a

f

and

a

way

i

we

go, Heigh-

^ 96

i

^^

^

r-J—^

?±

o!

Heigh - o

-

o!

o!

s ^''1,

J

j'

J

j'

J

j^

r

m

o!

Heigh-o!

Heigh-

o!

I

^

F

T

Heigh-o!

Heigh-

Ji

I

f=r=F

Heigh-

Heigh.

i

J

Heigh-o!

Heigh-

1^ Heigh-o!

o!

m

ARKANSAS TRAVELER Adapted by Margaret and Travis Johnson

Very rhythmic

iBS

^ 1.

2.

^1

*>— Down

on Strang-er come

a a

farm -

rid

-

in

Ar

in'

by

f

f -

kan

that

-

saw

Lived

way,

He

97

Bud

S

and

stopped

and and

Sis talk

to

Maw pass

and the

time

Paw, day:

of

? Paw Sud

sat -

den

-

ly

f

and watched the

rain

mm

the

road

come

pour

day^

all -

down.

in'

A

-

And

i 0=W hop-in' that

m

*^

a trav'- ler would pass that way

he was man-y miles from the near-est town.

S Asked the stranger in and he stayed all night, The rain kept a fallin^, oh^ what a sight! His covers got wet and his clothes got soaked, The stranger got so mad that he nearly choked.

4.

The

in.

He never passed that way again And the farmer's roof is a-leakin' still. He never got it fixed and he never will. Reprinted from Early American Songs, copyright 1943 by Associated Music Publishers, Inc., New York.

2.

A

3.

They

f

3.

stranger packed his things and he left

1=

the rain,

m

77

nev-er will

m

JOHNNY MORGAN Words and Tune Traditional

TT

i

Arranged by Curtis Biever

X=M

W

#

f of

a

band

K-t4 ^

that used

1.

rii

sing

2.

Now

one day John, he chanced

m And And

street,

door.

S

s if

the

the

in la

-

dy's

"

m

i IE

S sweet. They all played dif- f'rent pleased her so

that

^

m

'

^

t=^=t

w 1

in-stru-ments, the

you must know, she

^m

mu-sic was the heav-y sums would

r=^

m

I

a

you heard it you would say it was an-y - thing but la - dy said she'd nev-er heard such mu-sic played be-

m It

mu-sic side

^

¥

iS

fore.

to play play out

to

m

i

same^

And

they were

pay,

If

he would stand

all

one

fam-i

-

out. side the

ly^

and Mor-gan was

thei;

house and play to her all

?

name, day.

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John

-

ny Mor - gan

played

the

or

-

gan, the

m

the

^^ e

^^ ^ The

drum,

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sis

-

played

ter

the

tarn

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hour

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the

ine,

i

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beat

fa- ther

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a

lone

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mu

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of- ten got

s

a

^

pen-ny

to

go

off

£

to

an-oth

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street.

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LOCH LOMOND Arranged by Curtis Biever

Old Scottish Air

^^ 1.

2.

^

By

^ yon

'Twas

bon-nie banks and by

there that

we

part

-

ed

in

yon bon-nie braes, Where the the yon shad-y glen, On

§=B

^ 7

9

^ ^ X^ W

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r

sun shines bright on Loch Lo-mond, Whsre me and my true love were steep, steep side of Ben Lo- mond, Where in pur- pie hue the High-

^

^^

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^

ev-er wont to

land

P

hills

^^

we

go,

view,

^ m

WT

^

On the bon-nie,bon-nie banks And the moon com-ing out

of

Loch

in

the

Lo - mond. gloam- ing.

^

101

Refrain;

^

5 Oh!

you'll take the high road,

and

take

I'll

the

low road, And

—

m

^ Vi/

i

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m

m ^

m

r be

Scot

in

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land

m f=^

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r: and

a

\

my

true

I

m

m

fore

-

you ;

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m

love we'll

i

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meet

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i

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bon-nie.

bon-nie

i

a

banks

s

V^

a of

Loch

Lo

mond.

102

O

NO, JOHN! Arranged by Curtis Biever

English Folk Song

Grazioso

j"i

j

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i

On

yon

O O

Mad

1.

2. 3.

-

der am,

hark!

^B

hill

there

I

will

stands give

^

hear

I

a

crea- turej

you

jew

-

ring

church bells

the

^

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ing;

^

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she

is

I

make you Will you come and will

I

yr=£

have

m I

free,

be

my

wife? Or,

-

her en

beau

-

dress

-

you

set

/ O

-

tyj

go and

I

will

court her give you

dear

Mad

es;

tied

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no, John!

yes

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f

-

no.

ry

me? |

all

your

life?'

f

i No, John!

or

j

mar

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She must an - swer Ma - dam, will you live sin - gle To

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silk

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COME THREE DUKES

HERE

A-RIDING

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come

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dukes

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the Christ-mas can

San

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For San-ta Claus For Christmas Eve

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to

see.

is

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AROUND THE CHRISTMAS

TREE Swedish Folk Tune

Briskly

1.

A

f"

-

2. All

r

f"

f

round the Christ-mas tree, A- round the Christ-mas tree, Athe glad New Year! Oh! hail! the Christmas cheer! All hail

*

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round the Christ-mas tree weV^ danc-ing. With jol - ]y dance and song,We'll sing" it loud and clear, re'c - ing. Then loud the car-ols ring, Then

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$

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THE FRIENDLY BEASTS French Carol

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Je

2/'

I/'

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^^ hum

i

^

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sus said

broth

the

don

a

in

sta- ble

Mother up

hill

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rude; The

and down:

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i)

friend - ly beasts a carried her safely to

I

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round Him stood, Beth-le-hem town.

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er,

key,

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carried His

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said the cow,

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white and red,

said the cow, all white and red.

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4.

all

Him my manger for His bed; gave Him my hay to pillow his head. gave

«T » I,

said the sheep with the curly horn,

Him my wool for a blanket warm He wore my coat on Christmas morn. gave

I

I," said the

5. "l,"

sheep with the curly horn.

said the dove from the rafters high,

"l

cooed Him

to sleep so

I

cooed Him

to sleep,

I,

.

said the dove

He would

not cry,

my mate and

I.

from the rafters high.

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mas

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the

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morn

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come sailing* by> come sailings by, I saw three ships come sailing- by On Christmas Day in the morning. saw

three ships

Come

sailing" by,

I

And who do you think were on the ship. Were on the ship, were on the ship, And who do you think were on the ship, But Joseph and his Fair Lady!

4.

O

he did whistle and she did

And

all

sing^,

the bells on earth did ring-

For joy that Jesus Christ was born

On Christmas Day

From

in the

morning-.

Chrisimas Carols from Many Coantrirs by Satis Inc. Reprinted by permission.

by G. Schirmer,

N. Coleman and Elin K. Jorgensen, copyright 1934

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DECK THE HALLS Welsli Carol

Words Traditional Moderafo

1.

Deck the

2.

See

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Ckristmas Carols from Many Countries

by G. Schirmer. Inc.

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SILENT NIGHT Franz Gruber

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STORIES

ABOUT THE WORLD'S GREAT MUSIC MAKERS

THE BOY

WHO COULDN'T BE

DISCOURAGED

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Johann crept

softly

down

the moonlit

His heart pounded with

stairs.

excitement as he tiptoed past his older brother's room. Finally he

made

reached the music cabinet. There, behind a grating lay the

music book

his brother

had warned him never

reached between the bars and tugged at the book.

through the grating. With the book held the stairs to his room.

There he

close,

laid the

of iron bars,

to touch.

At

last it

Johann slipped

Johann tiptoed back up

book open

to the iirst page,

dipped his quill pen in the ink, and began to write by moonlight.

was afraid

As

to light a candle.

His brother might awaken and

"Soon

the boy wrote, he said to himself:

I

shall

have

see

its

He

glow.

my own music

!

to play

His brother's music book was written by hand,

as nearly all

music

books were in those days. Such books were very precious. But Johann

handled the book carefully, and put

back

it

in the cabinet before

he went

to sleep.

Every moonlight night for his brother's

was the

finished.

book

into a

But he was

six

book

months, Johann copied the music from

of his

so tired that

book away. The next morning

the boy

had done.

in a place

own. Finally

He was

new music book

he went to sleep without putting

his brother

very angry.

his

He

found

it

and knew what

locked up both music books

where Johann could not reach them.

Bitter disappointment filled the boy's heart.

could discourage a boy

who

But no disappointment

loved music as did Johann Sebastian Bach.

162

HE Boy W^ho Couldn't Be Discouraged had beautiful music

ii

had been famous

.iiusicians that

in

Germany

some German towns, people had come "Bachs."

A

He came from

in his heart.

mother would not

for

a family of

two hundred

years. In

to think of all musicians as

say: "I think

my

musician." She would say: "I think

163

son

my is

son

going

is

to

be a

going to be a regular

Bach!" Johann's mother and father had both died by the time he was ten years old.

That

is

why

he had had to go to

live

with his older brother.

When Johann was fifteen, his brother said he could no longer keep him in his house. He told the boy "You are old enough to earn your own :

livmg.

In those days, most boys of fifteen had learned to be carpenters or millers, or

these

workers in some other

ways of making

a living.

Johann had learned none of

trade.

But once again he refused

to be dis-

couraged. Oflf he traveled to the city of Liineburg, where he had heard that boys

were paid for singing in church.

because he did not have enough

money

He

walked most of the way,

to ride,

and he was rewarded

with a place in the choir.

The boy who of music.

Bach wrote hundreds

were written

He

Some of them

little

sung

in great

pieces for Johann's wife

and

wrote his gay "Minuet" for his wife. The minuet

a favorite dance of those days.

G

be a great writer

to be played in the palaces of princes or to be

children to play.

"Air for

to

of beautiful compositions.

churches. Others were delightful

was

grew up

couldn't be discouraged

He

wrote "Gavotte in

String" for violinists to play. His

E Major" and

B Minor Mass

is

some-

times called the greatest church music that has ever been written.

Johann Sebastian Bach was the

Many tions

later

composers studied

and used

Mozart,

his ideas.

Beethoven,

first

his

of the great

composi-

Among them

and Chopin.

were

Some

of

Bach's children also became famous. Yet while

he was

alive,

he was better

known

as

an

or-

ganist than as a composer.

But Johann Sebastian was the greatest Bach of

all.

Bach

German

composers. Bet,maan Archive

THE MUSIC

IN

THE CHAPEL

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) "No!"

said Father

be a musician

"My

sternly.

boy

shall never

In that day in Germany, musicians were often treated like

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Handel

servants. Father

man, not

Handel

Handel

!

was splendid

a servant. It

—and be

Handel wanted

to be a barber-surgeon

called to the castle to trim the duke's

his indigestion. It

was even more splendid

that

It is said

But

little

—

like

Father

mustache or

and earn

to be a lawyer,

fees for giving advice to a prince or a king.

Handel wanted only

an important

his son to be

treat

rich

George Frederick

to be a musician.

one day while Father Handel was away, Mother Handel

brought a clavier into the house and put

it

was a birthday

in the attic. It

present for her son.

The

clavier

playing.

As

was

made

It

a small

box with

strings inside,

a keyboard for

a tiny tinkling sound.

often as he could, George Frederick slipped

play his clavier. Father find him.

and

One day he

Handel often looked looked in the

attic.

away

for the

There

sat

to the attic to

boy and could not

George Frederick

at the clavier.

"So clavier

!

" said Father

and

started

"Oh please. keep

ML

my

Handel. Without another word, he picked up the

away with

it.

Father, don't take

away !"

cried the boy. "Please let

birthday present

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Father Handel grumbled and scolded, but finally he put

down

the

clavier.

"Well then, play the thing," he are to be a lawyer

—not

a

said.

"But remember

—some day you

common musician."

When George Frederick was seven years old, his father took him on a the castle of a duke. Father

visit to

barber-surgeon.

Handel was

While Father Handel and

the

the duke's favorite

duke were

talking, they

heard organ music from the near-by chapel.

"That music

!

is

He rushed into "Why, "It

is

beautiful " said the duke. "Let us see

the chapel, with Father

who

is

playing."

Handel behind.

!

just a

it is

my

boy " said the duke.

stupid son," said Father Handel.

"You must not speak so," said the duke. "A musical talent such as this is rare. You must get the finest teachers for the boy. You must encourage him to be a great musician." Father Handel was stubborn. He argued with the duke. He told him that

George Frederick must study

more

stubborn.

When Father

to be a lawyer.

But the duke was even

Handel returned home, he found

a

music

teacher for George Frederick.

The

boy's talent developed rapidly.

at the court of the

King

he was only 20 years

One

of his

the opera Xerxes.

Handel wrote

Some

of Prussia. His

first

years of age, he played

opera was performed

for the kings

and queens of Germany and Great

most wonderful compositions

is

the "Largo"

An opera is partly a play and partly

music

of his most famous works are called oratorios.

which we hear the

George

II

from

to be sung.

forty-one operas.

written to be sung in churches. His best-known oratorio in

when

old.

Handel wrote music Britain.

At twelve

stirring

of Great Britain

that he rose to his feet,

Today, audiences

still

first

is

"Hallelujah Chorus."

heard

this chorus,

and remained standing

They were the Messiah,

When King

he was so inspired

until

it

was

follow this custom in Handel's honor.

finished.

THE FATHER

OF THE SYMPHONY Joseph Haydn

(1732-1809) In the same year that George Washington was born,

an Austrian peasant family named the birth of a fair-haired baby boy.

Haydn celebrated They named him

Joseph. Joseph's father

made wheels for wagons and

His mother was a cook for noble

families.

coaches.

Both parents

loved music. In the evenings, by candlelight, the family often sang songs of the people, or folk melodies. Father

Haydn Haydn

played the harp for them to sing by.

Joseph learned to sing so well that,

years of age,

an older cousin took him away

near-by

The

Joseph

city.

how

Young

when he was

six

to sing in the choir in a

cousin was very harsh with the boy, but he taught

to play the violin

and the

small, piano-like instrument

called the clavier.

One day sing.

He

church

the music director of a large church in

Vienna heard Joseph

took the eight-year-old boy away to the great

city to sing in a

choir.

The new

choirmaster sometimes beat one of the boys for singing a

sour note or playing a prank. Joseph never sang sour notes, but he liked to play pranks.

All the boys in the choir wore pigtails.

another boy's seph,

pigtail.

The

a prank, Joseph cut off

choirmaster saw the deed. First he beat Jo-

and then he took away

The

As

his job.

hardships of his boyhood failed to

166

dampen Haydn's

love for

The Faiher of pranks.

He grew up

ihe

to be a thoughtful

Symphony

167

and kindly man, but he always

loved to play harmless practical jokes.

At one time Haydn played

who had

hired

him

as

music

He

a palace in the country.

the musicians longed to

a joke

on the powerful Prince Esterhazy,

director.

The

prince kept his musicians at

seldom allowed them

visit their families.

Haydn wished

help them. But he did not see what he could do. directly to the prince about

a \'acation.

He

Many

that he

of

might

did not dare speak

it.

One day Haydn announced

that he

had written

new symphony.

a

Prince Esterhazy and his court gathered in the great hall of the palace to listen.

As

the orchestra began the hnal

on

players blew out the candles

two

nally only

violinists

movement, one by one the

music stands and

their

left

the hall. Fi-

were playing. Then they too departed, and

only the director remained.

Haydn

bowed to the Farewell Symphony."

turned and

call this the

The prince looked perplexed,

prince.

"Your Grace," he

said, "I

then began to smile at Haydn's musical

prank. "I can take a hint start their vacation

were grateful

from old Haydn," he

this

to their

concerts.

symphony

lovely

is

another of Haydn's gentle musical jokes.

for toy instruments to

and

amuse

his prince. It has

on the people who went

to sleep at his

wrote a special symphony for sleepy people.

soft until

He

since.

also played a trick

He

the musicians

all

beloved "Papa Haydn."

amused audiences ever

Haydn

"The musicians may

tomorrow." As you may imagine,

The Toy Symphony wrote

said.

it is

near the end.

Then

there

is

The music

is

sudden loud clash

a

of cymbals, beating of drums, and blowing of horns. Everyone jumps,

and the soundest

sleeper

is

immediately awake. This

is

the "Surprise"

Symphony.

Haydn the

first

is

often called "the father of the symphony," because he was

great master of this

form of music. Sometimes he

is

even called

"the father of instrumental music" because he created or improved so

many

different

forms of music. For these reasons, and also because of

his kindly nature, musicians call

him "Papa Haydn"

to this day.

THE

WONDER BOY AND THE

EMPRESS

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Little

Wolfgang Mozart made

He was

a pretty picture.

dressed in

red and gold, with a powdered wig on his head and a tiny sword swing-

ing at his

side.

He bowed

gracefully to the

Emperor and

the Empress,

then climbed up on the piano bench and began to play.

What

a

performance that was! Wolfgang's lingers flew over the

piano keys like

tiny,

darting birds.

soared in tinkling high melodies

sounds that echoed in the great

The music danced and

sparkled.

It

and swooped low in deep, thundering

hall.

When Wolfgang wriggled down from the bench,

the

Empress swept

him up in her arms. She kissed him again and again. "What a wonder child you are " she exclaimed. !

Soon,

all

Europe heard of the

beautifully at the court of Vienna. jolted

away

in a carriage

who had

played so

One day Wolfgang and

his father

six-year-old

boy

on a long journey. They had been invited

to

King and Queen of France. Again Wolfgang delighted his hearers with his wonvisit

the

derful playing.

Some

those he himself also took the

boy

had to

of the compositions were written. Father

Mozart

London, where he played

King and Queen of England. By the time Wolfgang was twelve

for the

he had played in

He was Mozart

many

great

years old,

cities

of Europe.

and

princesses.

the favorite of queens

Princes and kings gave the

him money and

young Mozart, because it was then

jewels.

Many

musicians envied

the custom to treat musicians

Hke

servants. It

would seem

that Mozart's early

was

life

just

one gay adventure.

But the boy grew very wise about kings and queens, princes and cesses.

He

people.

learned that kings and noblemen were just like ordinary

Some were

princesses

prin-

wise and

Others were stupid and

just.

cruel.

Some

were gracious and kind. But others had very bad manners,

and sometimes young Mozart

told

them

He knew

so.

that

many

ordi-

nary persons had better manners and were better people than some of the nobility.

Mozart began tell

to believe that

bad and stupid kings had no right

to

people what to do. These were dangerous thoughts, for kings often

punished persons

who had

ideas about freedom.

Mozart put

his ideas

into music, rather than speech.

When Mozart grew to manhood, he wrote operas which poked fun at kings and noblemen.

which has many

we

One

of these operas

favorite

was

beautiful.

Another

lilting melodies.

hear the lovely "Minuet." his opera

Sonatas,

Of

The Magic

all his

Flute.

is

The Marriage

Don

of Figaro,

Giovanni, in which

compositions, Mozart's

The

own

overture to this opera

is

symphonies, concertos, and other compositions

flowed from Mozart's pen. Today

man could

is

have written so

many

we

find

it

hard to believe that one

different kinds of music.

169

WHO

THE BOY

HEARD

THE TREES SING

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Ludwig sat with his back to a tree, watching a bird wing its way through the warm blue sky. Before him, a grassy meadow stretched down to the banks of the broad river Rhine.

A

breeze strayed through the grass and touched

Ludwig's cheek. As the breeze rose and fir trees

he heard sweet,

like castles in the sky.

Ludwig

all

sat

He

heard the music of at the river

To

their horns.

on the highest

the boy's excited

the sounds of Nature joined in a beautiful

and

listened like a

boy

in a

magic

spell.

bank.

clouds piled high

that trumpeters stood

blowing a mighty chorus on

imagination,

and Ludwig fancied

Ludwig saw white

He imagined

The

the melody,

trilling flutes.

Raising his eyes,

places,

up

waves lapping and splashing

tiny

the great

sighed and sang like a hundred violins.

rippling grass took

Beethoven

fell,

symphony.

All was forgotten

except the music that rippled and trilled and thundered through his head.

"Ludwig!"

A rough shout broke the spell.

"Yes, father, here

I

am." Ludwig jumped

to his feet

and ran toward

the approaching figure.

"Oh, music

father, just listen to the trees!

They

sing the most beautiful

!

Then Ludwig stopped. He saw thunderclouds For a moment the world was very quiet. "Listen to the listen to

trees,

indeed!" his father shouted. "You had better

me, you young good-for-nothing.

your music

in his father's face.

Why

are you not studying

.^"

He came

forward and stood over the boy. "You must study, study, 170

The Boy !

Who

Heard the Trees Sing

"You must be

study " he stormed.

a

171

wonder-boy musician

Mozart

like

!

Now, you, come home to your music lesson Ludwig wept as his father pushed him down the path toward home. But he knew that he would come again to listen to the singing of the trees. And all his father's scoldings could not make a wonder boy of young Beethoven.

As Ludwig grew

older,

he studied

his

He was anxious to earn money to make

music without being scolded.

his mother's life easier.

At

four-

teen,

he found work as an organist, but he was paid very

teen,

he went to Vienna. There he became a pupil of Mozart, and also

had

lessons

from Haydn.

cause he received the sad

He

little.

At

seven-

remained in Vienna only a short time,

news

that his

be-

mother was dying. By the time

of his mother's death, Ludwig's father had lost his job as a singer.

Ludwig had

to help support the family.

and

for his brothers

sisters.

He worked

His sad childhood

left

hard

a deep

to

buy food

mark on him.

Often he was depressed.

The music Beethoven wrote shows written for

all

the people,

Beethoven also world.

and

and not merely

felt that cruel

for kings

people had brought

He was happiest when he could be outdoors,

listen to the

One day deaf.

the world

became strangely

of Nature.

of birds

still

is

called the Pastoral

You will

evil into the

had music

no longer

He realized

rivers, for

in his heart.

he had

He

com-

lost his hearing.

His

Symphony, which means Sym-

find that Beethoven has put into

and the music of the brook

so well but could

But

in rain or sunshine,

and

the songs of trees

But the great composer

Symphony

phony

much

princes.

Beethoven.

silent for

posed some of his greatest compositions after he had Sixth

and

it is

songs of Nature.

would never again hear

that he

gone

that he loved people, because

—the music

in

it

the songs

Nature that he loved

hear.

Beethoven wrote nine of the long musical compositions called symphonies. His Fifth

and Ninth symphonies

of that kind ever written.

He

also

wrote

are called the greatest music

many

other kinds of music.

Children enjoy the beautiful melodies in his "Moonlight Sonata" and

"Rondino," and the

lively

Dance," and "Ecossaises."

rhythm

of his "Turkish

March," "Country

THE GREAT WRITER

OF SONGS Franz Schubert

(1797-1828) Franz Schubert

and

sisters.

They

lived in the city of Vienna.

all

had learned

to play musical instruments,

often performed for their friends

proud of

He had many

and

brothers

and they

Father Schubert was

relatives.

his family orchestra.

When Franz

and an older brother

v^as seven years old, his father

gan to teach him

to play the

piano and the

Soon he knew more 9 bout music than

violin.

all his

He was eager

be-

to learn.

family put together.

Father Schubert was only a poor schoolmaster.

He

could not afford

music lessons for Franz. But the music director of a church offered he would sing in the choir.

teach the boy

if

when he went

to live at the school in

wish

I

could write

"Well, then,

said, "I it

why

eleven years old

which the choirboys were taught.

There, Franz found a friend in an older boy

One day Franz

He was

named

Joseph.

have a tune running around in

my

head.

right.

I

down." don't you.?" asked Joseph.

"What nonsense!" laughed Franz. "Where would I find the Only people with the money to buy paper can write music." Franz was

to

paper.''

Paper was very expensive in those days. But the next

day Joseph brought him

a small bundle. In

it

were a few sheets of

precious paper.

"Here, Franz," said Joseph.

Franz never forgot

this

"Now you

can write your music

!

kind deed.

When Franz was sixteen, his father came to take him home. He said, "Franz, now you are able to help me with my teaching." Franz soon discovered that he did not like to teach school. He could not

listen to children reciting their lessons

gay tunes that danced around in

his head.

172

while he was listening to the

Franz could hardly wait

until

The Great W^riter of Songs Then he would

school was out.

down

rush

home and

write

his songs.

Father Schubert was unhappy when, one day, Franz said he

must give up school teaching

for his music. "It

is

splendid to write music for fun," he said, "but you are no

Bach or Mozart.

great musician like

How will you earn a Hisioricai Pictures

liTitTrr^"

in his pocket,

he

and

left his father's

head

a

house

^cnutjcri

He had only a few coins

Franz Schubert did not know. full of

melodies. But that day

to seek his fortune.

Franz soon found warm-hearted friends in the gay, music-loving of Vienna.

kept

They wrote

verses for

him

to set lO music.

His friends

city

also

supplied with a piano and with paper on which to write his

him

knew when a new melody would come singHe had to write it down at once, no matter where he

melodies. Schubert never

ing into his head.

Once he was reading from Shakespeare, i'nd saw the words: "Hark! Hark! The lark at Heav'n's gate sings." On the back of a menu, he wrote his lovely song "Hark! Hark! the Lark!" was.

Music publishers began

They paid him paid very

little.

to take notice of

for the right to print

He

sold

some

young Schubert's

them, but today

we

songs.

think that they

of his songs to publishers for as

little

as

fifteen dollars apiece

He cared about nothing

Schubert did not care about money, however.

down

except writing

golden

flood.

the songs that

During

came pouring

into his

head

his short lifetime of thirty-one years,

like a

Schubert

The most beautiful of these include "Ave Maria," "The Hedge Rose," "The Erl King," and "Who Is Sylvia.?" wrote more than 600 songs.

He

also

wrote other kinds of music besides songs. There are delightful

melodies in his

Symphony

in

B

Minor. This

Unfinished Symphony," because

it

is

sometimes called "The

has only two parts instead of three

or four. It

sing.

was

as easy for

The famous

Franz Schubert

to write a

song

as

it is

for a bird to

musician, Franz Liszt, called Schubert "the most

poetic musician that ever lived."

Even

the great Beethoven said: "Cer-

tainly this Schubert has the divine spark!"

173

!

THE PATRIOT COMPOSER OF POLAND Frederic Chopin

(1810-1849)

X X^'v

Father Chopin began a merry PoUsh folk tune on his Frederic sat

dropped on

still

and

gan

down

a tear rolled

his

cheek and

his blouse.

The music of the flute It trilled

Soon

listened.

flute. Little

and whistled

to tremble.

He

rose higher. It

like the

opened

danced

like a

happy peasant

girl.

song of a bird. Little Frederic's chin be-

mouth wide and began

his

to cry.

Father and Mother Chopin loved Frederic deeply. But they also loved music, and they were sad because their it

little

son seemed to dislike

so.

"Ah, well," Frederic

is

said

Mother Chopin, "we

put to bed before

we have our

shall just

have to wait until

music."

After Mother Chopin had taken Frederic to his

little

room

upstairs,

room for an evening of music. Father Chopin played the flute. Mother Chopin sang. Frederic's sister, Ludwika, played the piano. During the evening, several friends came in to the family gathered in the living

hear the music. Upstairs, the boy

who

should have been asleep lay awake listening.

He squeezed his pillow tight against his eyes to keep the tears back. How could they say that he hated music! His tears were not tears of pain,

but of

Frederic loved music so

joy.

much

that the

sound of

it

made him

weep. But he was so young that he could not find the

words

to tell his parents

how

he

felt.

Frederic especially liked the sound of the

piano his

was

sister

listening,

played.

One day when no one

he reached up to the piano key-

board and pressed

down

a key.

Then he

pressed

another and another. Gradually he formed the notes into a melody that he play.

How

wonderful that was

Frederic's in the

had heard

mother found him

doorway

listening,

to

his sister

him

there.

She stood

and suddenly she un174

xy'Y\N.

The Patriot Composer of Poland derstood that she

wanted

him

past

why music made to

Frederic cry. She was so happy

hug him. But

instead she tiptoed softly

into the kitchen. Frederic did not even hear her.

when he was

Frederic began taking piano lessons

He

years old.

taught

him

received very

good

music

to play all the

training.

six

His teacher

The Well-Tempered

in

Clavichord, which Johann Sebastian Bach had written as exercises for

Lhopm

music students.

Young Chopin began

to

compose

his

own music almost

soon as he could play the piano. His compositions were influenced by

as

the kinds of music his parents loved best. His father

had come from

France, and often played the music of that country on his

French music, but most of

liked the

sang is

—songs of

all

his native Poland. It

is

Frederic

flute.

he loved the songs

his

mother

the Polish music he wrote that

most popular. Frederic's

mother

free country.

told

him

Then neighbor

Polish people

remembered

that

Poland had once been

nations had taken

when

the days

away

its

their country

proud and

a

freedom.

The

was

and

free,

sang songs about the land they loved. Frederic used these national songs in his compositions for the piano.

Chopin try,

lived

most of

his life in Paris.

He always

loved his

own

coun-

however, and sometimes he was very homesick. At these times he

wrote some of his most beautiful music.

Chopin wrote

all his

music for the piano.

Among

his

most famous

compositions are his twelve Polonaises. These are grand and dignified, like a

slow dance.

favorite.

Chopin

The

also

"Polonaise Militaire in

wrote

fifty-six

because

it

Major"

is

a general

mazurkas. The mazurka

Polish dance. His best-known waltz

named

A

is

the

"Minute Waltz."

takes just one minute to play.

He

is

a

gay

It is

so

wrote fourteen other

waltzes.

Chopin's love for his country speaks through his music, ful

language which the people of

stirring

music

still

any country weep,

all

countries can understand. Chopin's

has the power to just as a little

like a beauti-

make

boy wept over a

years ago.

175

men and women of Polish folk tune many

strong

GREAT COMPOSER OF OPERAS

ITALY'S

Giuseppe Verdi (18 3-1901) 1

The in the

grocer's wife trembled with fear as she

church

shushed him

She held her baby

belfry.

when he

huddled

close,

started to cry. In the street

and

below

her she could hear shouts and screams.

Verdi

A

town

few hours

a

group of

before.

soldiers

They were breaking

taking away their valued possessions.

no one was

The

had forced

On

way

their

into the

into people's houses

the streets

and

and

in the houses,

safe.

grocer's wife

had no gold or jewels

for the soldiers to take.

her baby son was more precious to her than

She had been

frantic

when

with worry

all

But

the gold in the world.

she heard that the soldiers had

come. Hidden in the belfry, she hoped she might save him from harm.

Suddenly the church door burst open. There was the tramp of heavy feet

on the worn wooden

soldiers

floor.

The mother prayed

would not find her hiding

place.

After a long time the soldiers tramped out. ter

silently that the

The sound

of their laugh-

faded in the distance. But the mother remained in the belfry for

many

hours, until she

When and the

The

was sure

she finally crept

soldiers

it

down

was

safe to

come down. it

was night

tell

about the

the stairs with her baby,

had gone.

people of this

town

little

in northern Italy

still

who hid her baby in the belfry. They are proud of her son, was Giuseppe Verdi, who became a great composer of operas.

grocer's wife for he

He made

their

Except for

and happy.

town famous.

this

one dramatic event,

He grew up

little

in his father's inn

was old enough, he helped

his father

Giuseppe's

life

and grocery

was peaceful

store.

When

he

and mother wait on the customers

in the grocery store.

Sometimes to hear

him

a

wandering old

play.

The

violinist

violinist

came

to the inn.

urged the boy's parents

interest in the field of music.

176

Giuseppe loved

to

encourage his

Great Composer of Operas

Italy's

One day

Father Verdi brought

bought for a few neighbor

all his

His father

own,

broken

its

to play

Giuseppe learned

parts.

much Uke

Now

a piano.

A

Giuseppe had an

whenever he wished.

also arranged for the

his teacher retired.

old spinet, which he had

This was an instrument

skillfully repaired

instrument

lessons.

coins.

home an

177

church organist to give him music

so well that

he was appointed organist when

He was only twelve years old, and earned

ten dollars

a year.

Giuseppe's parents were delighted with their son's musical

But they realized that

him away

to live in a larger

a better education. little

A

their village

On

village to play the

town

had

to offer

him. Soon they sent

three miles away,

where he could get

Sundays and

little

feast days,

he trudged back to his

organ in the church.

wealthy merchant heard of the boy's musical

Giuseppe money

so that

It

was

as

for

its

music.

Its

gave

people especially loved

called operas.

music. This determined the future of Verdi. life to

He

Young Verdi went to hear though he had been swept into a new world of

dramas which are

operas sung.

talent.

he could study in Milan.

Milan had long been famous the musical

ability.

He

decided to devote his

writing operas.

Verdi's

first

opera was not successful. But he worked

all

the harder

because of his failure. His second opera, called Nabucco, was received

with wild enthusiasm. After that time, each

new opera was a triumph for Verdi. He became known as one of the greatest composers of operas in all the world.

The Verdi

operas most frequently heard to-

day are Aida, Rigoletto,

II

Trovatore, and

La

They have many

beautiful melodies.

Young listeners usually like

the "Anvil Chorus"

Traviata.

from

from

//

Trovatore and the "Grand March"

A'ida.

^^^^^JKT^^^^^^W

THE MODEST GENIUS OF MUSIC Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Father Brahms beat time with his Broun

fist

and counted.

—

"One and two and three and four and one and two No, no You must hold the vioUn so, and draw the bow

Bros.

!

Brahms

across

Little

to

do

it

—

so.

Now again."

Johannes scraped away

as his father said.

But he

at his violin again. felt that

He

he might try

tried very all his life

hard

and

never be so great a musician as Father Brahms. Father played in the

Hamburg

orchestra of the greatest theater in

Sometimes Father Brahms took the boy

would

sit

and wide-eyed,

quiet

The

father's big bass viol.

on his

listening to the

Johannes

zoom-zoom-zoom

of his

next day, he would practice harder than ever

violin.

Johannes worked so hard realized the boy "I

to the theater.

at his

knew as much

as

music lessons that one day

his father

he did.

can no longer teach you anything," he

said,

"but

I

have a friend

who will give you piano lessons." Johannes had never before tried to play a piano. First he learned to play two notes together to

make

a chord.

Then he

stretched his hands

wide, so as to play three and four notes together. Next came finger exercises.

"And now," Johannes notes.

said the teacher, "I shall play for you."

listened.

He loved

His heart leaped

at the

the rumble

and boom of the low, or

dancing sounds of the high, or

bass,

treble,

notes.

"Try

as I

may," he

said to himself, "I shall never be able to play the

piano so beautifully."

Johannes took piano lessons for

many months. He

compositions by Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven.

He

learned to play

also learned to play

popular songs.

One day his teacher said, "Johannes, teach you. You can play as well as I can

!

178

there

is

nothing more

I

can

The Modest Genius The piano

teacher took Johannes to the best

music teacher he was

much

in

Hamburg. This great man

said

too busy to take another pupil. But

he finally consented to hear Johannes play, and

we remem-

then he changed his mind. Today, ber

him only

because he taught Brahms.

Johannes himself had

music

sive

lessons.

to

pay for these expen-

His father could barely

af-

ford to support his family, without an added

burden. Johannes played at a concert to help

money

earn

for his lessons.

He

found work

also

playing in various places of entertainment in the community.

As

became more

the years passed, Johannes

interested in writing

music than in playing the piano. His compositions attracted the attention of leading musicians.

became

his friend,

great composer, Robert

and wrote an

genius. After this tribute a

The

article praising

him

Schumann, musical

as a

from Schumann, Johannes Brahms' career

as

composer was assured.

Brahms had become

After

modest

as

was

still

own

sonatas on the floor

could anyone play such stuff as

a friend about a

symphony he had

this.^"

just

and

completed.

have a pretty symphony.

must ask someone who

I

said,

"After that,

He showed

work by

saying, "I don't is

his

of music except opera.

phonies which rank second only to those of Beethoven.

own

know whether

I

wise enough to

remind us of the

lovely songs of

He He

wrote sym-

wrote songs

Franz Schubert. Some of

his

for stringed instruments are considered the finest of their kind. listeners like his

works

Young

"Cradle Song," sometimes called "Brahms' Lullaby,"

and "The Sandman." Brahms loved you

to

me."

Brahms wrote every kind that

humble and

At another time he wrote

humility and anxiety in his

tell

as

he had been in his boyhood. Once, after playing a sonata by

Bach, he threw one of his

how

a composer, he

listen to his waltzes

to

you can almost

and flowers nodding by the

walk

in the country,

see trees

side of the brook.

179

and when

swaying in the breeze

THE LAND OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY

Petr Mich

Tchaikovsky

(1840-1893)

What

a wonderful Christmas tree!" said Marie.

gleamed with

hung from

lights. Silver flutes

stood a beautiful Sugar

Plum

The dark

the boughs.

At

tree

the top

Fairy.

Marie had many Christmas presents.

Among them

were twin

dolls

— Russian boys with red blouses and blue breeches and shiny leather Two

boots.

Chinese dolls wore pigtails and yellow satin pajamas. An-

other doll was a girl from the sandy desert of Arabia. She wore veils and

gold bracelets.

But the best present was in a gay-colored suit.

a

Nutcracker made of

silver.

His jaws were strong enough

He was

dressed

to crack the hardest

nut.

Marie's friends

all

came

and played games, and they liked, so she ate

ate.

to her party

Marie wanted her guests

more than anyone

At bedtime Marie could hardly food.

But she

on Christmas Day. They danced,

else.

was

sleep, she

finally closed her eyes

to feel free to eat all

and

as

so excited

and

full of

soon as she was asleep she

dreamed. In her dream, she got out of bed and tiptoed downstairs. Just then the clock struck midnight,

and

the toys

all

tooted a melody.

The Sugar Plum

march around

the Christmas tree.

a

As they marched, by the Mouse King.

"Who his

will flight a duel

sword in the

The

the floor

came

Fairy flew

alive.

The

down and

silver flutes

led the toys in

opened and an army of mice came

out, led

with me?" asked the Mouse King, shaking

air.

toys shivered with fright.

But the Nutcracker stepped forward.

"I will flght," he said bravely.

180

It

The Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy

181

The Mouse King was much

too quick with

was a one-sided

his sword,

"Oh,

and the Nutcracker was too clumsy.

my it

at the

of?

one of her house

Mouse King. In

and the Nutcracker turned

and

"What

poor Nutcracker," wailed Marie.

She bent and took she threw

battle.

into a

can

do!"

I

slippers. Carefully

and

a flash he

handsome

all his

army vanished,

The

Prince.

taking aim,

Prince knelt

kissed Marie's hand.

"You have broken the spell which the Mouse King held over me," he said. "As a reward, I shall take you to the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy."

In a wink he whisked her away, and the toys with her.

What

a

wonderful land

!

The moon was

a

lemon drop. The clouds

were whipped cream. The mountains were jam and marmalade. Beautiful

flowers

were giving toys

danced

nodded everywhere. The King and Queen

sat

on

Mouse King. All

a party to celebrate the defeat of the

the

for Marie.

The Russian arms,

of Fairyland

dolls

danced the

their heels,

Pigtails flew as the

trepal{.

In this dance, they folded their

and kicked out

their toes in time to the music.

two Chinese danced. The Arab

Arabian dance. The

silver flutes

danced

Sugar Plum Fairy danced. But the

finest

to their

girl

own

swayed

music.

to

Even

an the

dance was the "Waltz of the

Flowers."

The

next morning, Marie saw her toys around the

tree,

and knew

her journey to the magic land was only a dream.

This

fairy tale

was

set

to

music by the great Russian composer

Tchaikovsky. Listen closely to his ]SIutcrac\er Suite and you will hear the different parts of the story.

Tchaikovsky found

his

Brown

only happiness in

music. Later composers have used

many

of his

melodies in popular songs. There are beautiful melodies in his "Marche Slav," liet,

Romeo and

]u-

and the song, "None But the Lonely

Heart."

Tcfia/kousky

Bros.

FROM THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN Edvard Grieg

(1843-1907)

Norway

In to be

one of the world's

showed deep KcKard

love for his country.

first

revealed his interest in music

He learned

years old.

named Edvard Cjrieg. He grew up most beloved composers. The music he wrote

there oiiee lived a boy

to play

when he was

chords at his mother's piano.

notes that sound well together, or

make

only five

Two or

more

liarmony, are a chord. Edvard

played three, and then four, and finally five notes together. Each combination of notes brought

When lessons.

much home

Edvard was

him

a

new

thrill of discovery.

six years old, his

Edvard did not

mother began giving him piano music

like to practice his

lessons.

rather have gone out to play in the crooked street in front of his in the city of

One day

made

Bergen. But his mother

every day. Ik'fore long, he was writing his

Norwegian

the great

own

compositions to play.

Ole

violinist,

certain he practiced

Bull,

Edvard's father. Edvard listened breathlessly to the about his ira\els

him

He would

in

folk tunes.

to

visit

violinist's stories

America, where huge crowds had gathered

Norwegian

play

came

to hear

Edvard hoped the great man would

play for him, too, but he had not brought his violin. Instead, he insisted that

Edvard play one of

When mother their

the boy

to

heads

go

When

own

compositions.

had finished playing, Ole Bull called

one side and talked with them in

the boy, shook are to

his

to

his father

seriously. Finally they

and

nodded

agreement with what he was saying. Then he came

him by

the shoulder in a friendly way,

Leipzig and become a musician

Edvard was

fifteen, his

servatory in Leipzig as they

and

said:

to

"You

!"

parents sent

him

oflf

to the

music con-

had promised. Many great musicians had 182

From studied

the Land

and worked

oi

riii:

MinM(;in Sun

them were Bach and Mendelssohn. With before him,

When

Edvard studied

he came

home

He

companion.

Norway, Grieg took long with Ole

valleys, often

and rumble of

He

rivers free

awe

He

their frozen winter spell.

mountains, while listening

at the steep

about the a

from

spring thaws

ice as the

people"

"little

who were

supposed

Ikill

mountain

listened to the splash of

brooks and the roar of tumbling waterfalls. the crash

example

their

as never before.

to

walks through the mountain as his

Among

in this old (jcrnian city.

heard the

set

gaz.ed in

Ole

to

fairy tales

Ikill's

High up on

to live there.

mountain, he looked out over the seacoast and saw glittering icebergs

floating by.

about

all

He

the

home to write music Many of his works

could hardly wait to get back

things he had seen

have in them something of the

and heard.

fairy

atmosphere of these charming

tales.

Sometimes Grieg was invited into of milk

and

chunk

a big

the family sang.

Some

of bread.

have a cup

a farmer's cottage to

As he

he listened

ate,

of these songs had been sung in

songs that

to

Norway

for

hun-

dreds of years, but no one had ever written them down. Cirieg wove

them

into his music.

Grieg expressed

his people's love for gaiety

"Norwegian Dances." He wrote about the mountains in

"March

young Norwegian

and dancing

the imaginary

of the Dwarfs."

When

singer, he wrote the beautiful

he

in his

little

"1

people of

love with a

fell in

song

two

Love Thee"

in

make his songs most famous work is the

her honor. Later she became his wife, and helped to

famous by singing them Peer Gynt Suite.

wegian

writer,

He

at concerts.

wrote

Henrik

Ibsen.

this

Grieg's

music for

a play

These compositions

by the great Nor-

fittingly capture the

yearning and restlessness of Peer Gynt, the wanderer. They also echo the places

where

his

wanderlust led him.

Nearly every composition (irieg ever wrote was

Norway. Many men have loved few who have poured out world

a

song of love for is

one of the

music

for all the

their country. Ikit (Jrieg

their feelings in beautiful

to hear.

183

THE FAIRY TALE OPERA Engelbert Humperdinck

(1854-1921) "Please

tell

us a story, Mother," asked the boy. !

"Yes, please do " echoed his bright-eyed

"But

I

have gingerbread

"Gingerbread.^"

mother

like

The

make,"

to

sister.

said their mother.

children stopped their dancing and eyed their

two hungry

"Mmm—gingerbread

sparrows.

little

"Well," said the boy, "couldn't

we have

just a

little

!

story

—and

gingerbread, too.^"

His mother thought the matter over. Then, laughing, she untied her apron and led her children "This story," she began, forest

and found

a house

name was Hansel and one which you

to the chair "is

about a boy and

made

girl

of gingerbread

his sister's

name was

who

got lost in the

and candy. The boy's

Gretel.

The

forest

was the

see outside."

The boy and

the girl never tired of hearing the wonderful story of

Hansel and Gretel, and

how

they escaped from the cruel witch

was

lived in the gingerbread house. It

mother's

by the window.

their favorite

among

who

all their

stories.

She told them the story was not lieved

good

it

was.

It

true,

was easy

fairies lived in the

western Germany. lieve in a real

but sometimes they almost be-

It

to

dark

imagine that witches and forests near their

was not too hard

for

gingerbread house, especially

home

them

in

to be-

when

they

were hungry. Engelbert and his

sister

sometimes played that they

were Hansel and Gretel. Then they pretended that

Humperdinck

The Fairy Tale Opera grew

a big tree that

But Ufe was not

all

to prepare for school.

parents believed that

in

was the gingerbread house.

yard

their

185

make-believe for Engelbert.

He had

He

and

also

had

to study notes

children should

all

know

a

his lessons

scales, for his

music. Engelbert

little

loved studying music.

When

Engelbert grew older, his father and mother told

they wanted

him

to be

an

architect.

They

said

he should learn

plans for great buildings. Engelbert was eager to do

wished. But he could not keep his a picture of a building it

would turn

and then

mind on

sit

and

singing in front of

it.

stare at

to his

it.

that

draw

to

his parents

He would draw

In his imagination,

two children dancing and

Soon, he was scribbling the tune the children were

singing on a corner of the drawing paper.

come

what

his studies.

into a gingerbread house, with

him

mind, and

it

Then

another tune would

would go onto another corner

This was a discouraging procedure for a young

of the paper.

architect.

Soon, Engelbert became so interested in writing music that he decided he should give to

change

his career

up

trying to be an architect.

He

was encouraged

by the head of the great music school in the

city

of Cologne.

Engelbert Humperdinck ner.

later

This great composer of operas

of his musical dramas.

He

became let

the

friends with Richard

Wag-

young man help produce one

gave Humperdinck valuable advice about

composing music.

By

this time,

had children it

Humperdinck's

of her

would be fun

Gretel.

to

own

sister

was grown up and married. She

to tell stories to.

make

She and her brother thought

a musical play of the story of

Hansel and

She wrote the play, and Engelbert wrote the music

children acted the parts of the children in the fairy tale

for

when

it.

Her

she gave

the play.

We

know

this

musical play as the opera Hansel and Gretel.

called the greatest opera ever written for children. It has ful songs.

Song

Young

of the

many wonder"The Grownups also

listeners especially like "Susie, Little Susie,"

Sandman," and the "Children's Prayer."

enjoy this opera, because too.

It is

it

reminds them that they once were children,

THE CITY BOY

AND THE WILD ROSE

Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) The boy wandered down under the big oak the shade

The

picnic.

far

and

die sunny hillside.

tree, his father

talked. It

and mother

sat in

was a wonderful day

hot streets of

New

Up MacDowell

for a

York City seemed

away.

At

the foot of the

hill,

the boy

came upon

a small stream. Several

rocks showed above the water. Balancing himself carefully, he stepped

from one rock

Beyond its rails

to the other until

the stream

was

he had reached the other

side.

was old and broken. Some of

a rail fence. It

lay in the grass.

In one corner of the zigzag fence, the boy saw the Wild Rose.

It

was

young, and had only a few tender shoots creeping along the weathered rails

of the fence. But

"What

He away.

had put forth

several blossoms.

!

a pretty flower " said the boy.

reached for

He

it

it.

"Ouch!" he

held his finger tight.

A

and quickly drew

said,

tiny

a thorn

hand

his

drop of blood oozed out where

had scratched

it.

"There," said the Wild Rose, "that will teach

you

to

go around molesting

rose blossoms."

"But

don't

I

want

it

for myself," the

boy protested. "I want to give

it

to

my

mother."

"A Rose.

pretty thought!" replied the

"Now

let

me

tell

Wild

you what would

happen. Your mother would pin

blossom on her got home,

its

dress.

petals

By

my

the time she

would be drooped

and withered. She would put it in a vase of water to revive. But it would be

too

late.

The

petals

would turn

brown

at

the

"Fhe

Cnv Boy

edges

— then

and the

W

ild

would drop

they

Rose off,

187

one by one

!

"Please don't go on " said the boy. "I didn't realize

it

meant

so

—

much

to you."

"Well,

about time you learned," sniffed the Wild Rose, and

it's

changed the

subject.

"What do you suppose I am doing "Why, just growing," he replied. "Just growing, indeed pasture. Before

am

I

!

little boy.'^"

one of the most important roses in

Mother Nature

corner looked terrible

here,

let

me

this

take root here, this old fence

—nothing but weeds and bare

rails

"Now I am beginning to make my corner beautiful. One day I shall grow until my blossoms cover all that is ugly here. "Now run along— I have work to do. And don't forget— blossoms in fence corners belong to

Mother Nature. Never, never pick them!"

The boy never told his parents what the Wild Rose had said to him. They were older and wiser than he, and of course they knew that a rose can't talk.

But when the boy grew

to

manhood, he wrote

composition about the Wild Rose.

"To a Wild Rose." Edward MacDowell wrote

It is

Many

a beautiful musical

great pianists have played

it.

called

other of his pieces for piano

clude

"The Robin Sings

Tailor and a Bear"

tells

is

nearly called

in the

is

"To

a place

a

music about Nature. An-

Water

Lily."

His songs

in-

Apple Tree" and "The Sea." "Of

an interesting

After MacDowell's death, his

Dowell Colony. This

all his

a

story.

widow turned

their

where composers,

farm into the Macwriters,

and

artists

can work in peace and quiet. Such persons find inspiration in the shady forest

and

sunlit clearings of the Colony. Songbirds nest in the trees,

and wild flowers bloom that the

in

Wild Rose grows

sunny fence corners.

there, too.

And

you may be sure

THE COMPOSER

WHO

BROKE THE RULES Debussy

Achille Claude

(1862-1918)

"No, no, Claude! There are

You must

together.

music

follow

certain notes that

the

rules

in

do not sound well

order

to

play

beautiful

!

Maestro Marmontel was angry with his pupil. Everyone knew that a musician

had

to

obey the rules of such great composers

as

Beethoven. But Claude Debussy seemed to think he could

own

Bach and

make up

his

rules.

"Now try music

as

it

again, Claude," he said sternly.

Bach wrote

time play the

this

it."

Claude drew himself up straight and began

The music

"And

to play the

piano again.

tinkled along in a slow rhythm, like the dignified dance

called a minuet.

Claude played the notes exactly

as they

"Bravo!" exclaimed Maestro Marmontel. "That

is

were written.

the

way music

should be played." "But, Maestro," said Claude, "that was like painting a picture with-

out enough colors. it

Now let me add the other colors, and this is the way

sounds."

His fingers moved quickly with strange

new

to the keyboard.

The minuet

glittered

sounds. These sounds seemed harsh to the ears of

Maestro Marmontel. "Stop

^,^^^

"That

!

" he shouted.

it

am

the

ears.

in his grave at such a playing of his music

!

very sorry. Maestro," said Claude politely. "I

do not wish is

held his hands over his

not music," he sputtered, "but noise! Bach

is

would turn "I

He

way

I

to ofifend

you and Monsieur Bach. But that

think music should sound."

Claude Debussy was probably the most stubborn pupil

Debuss\}

The Composer

who

Broke the Rules

ever studied at the great Paris Conservatory.

old

years to

Who

when he began

know, however,

his

that his

studies

rule-breaker of French music.

These

rules,

break his

life

He was only eleven He already seemed

was

Marmontel and

pleaded and threatened. But, during there, they failed to

there.

purpose in

spirit.

189

be the great

to

the other

teachers

the eleven years Claude spent

all

He went on merrily breaking rules.

taken together, are called the music tradition, and young

pupils are not supposed to break them.

There was one rule that Debussy liked the

This rule said

least of all.

that only certain notes could be played together to sound well, or

make

harmo7iy. Debussy believed that any note of the scale could be played

with any other note.

which Marmontel or discord.

It

was

He

objected.

them

called

But Debussy found them

tional combinations,

new combinations

these strange

far

of notes to

the opposite of

more

harmony,

than the tradi-

attractive

and he went right on playing them,

for they

were

not discord to him.

person believes in something with

If a

make

others believe in

and then another right

it,

too.

of his teachers

and they were wrong.

Debussy's

When

And

new kind

that

began

what Debussy

is

to

all his heart,

often he can did. First

wonder whether

Finally, even

the boy

one

was

Marmontel was won over

to

of music

Debussy was twenty-two years

in musical form, called a cantata. This

old,

won

Later, the "wild boy" of the Conservatory

he wrote a religious story the great Prize of

Rome.

became the most respected

composer in France.

One

of Debussy's

most beautiful compositions

Lune," or "Moonlight." Suite for his suite includes

child

little

He

is

called "Clair de

wrote the charming Children's Corner

daughter, Chou-Chou, to play on the piano. This

"Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum," which shows

must struggle with piano

exercises.

"Jimbo's Lullaby," a musical picture of a

Others in the little girl

how

a

suite include

crooning her toy

"Snow Is window; "The

elephant to sleep; the charming "Serenade for a Doll;"

Dancing," which describes falling snow Little

as seen

from

a

Shepherd;" and that great favorite of many people, "GoUiwog's

Cakewalk."

THE MARCH KING John

(1854-1932)

Philip Sousa

Before there were radios or motion pictures with sound, band music was the kind of music which people heard

Sousa

band.

its

It also

most

The band

Nearly every

city

and town had

played to welcome important

visitors.

played on holidays such as the Fourth of July. People loved the

march rhythms played by

stirring

The

who

people

visitors to

the band.

Washington, D. C, heard band music

lived in

often. In the capital of the

One

often.

United

States, there

were many important

be greeted with a parade led by a marching band.

of the small boys

John Philip Sousa.

who

followed the band

down

the street

When there was a big parade, John was

was

the proudest

boy in Washington. The Marine Corps band played for every big pa-

and John's father played the trombone

rade,

Sometimes Father Sousa took John

to rehearsals at the

The leader, or conductor, of the band drummer and strike the triangle or sound

racks.

that

some day he might grow up

Sometimes he even dared

often

let

John

Marine Barsit

with the

the cymbals. John

hoped

to be a regular player in the band.

dream

to

in this band.

that he

was the conductor of the

band!

John soon began taking music wrote his

first

composition and took

him it was no good. The boy was so disappointed told his father that he

wanted

John worked in the bakery for the next day.

On

He came

Young Sousa orchestra. ties

and

Soon

it

for

become two

his orchestra

The

up music.

He

a baker instead.

That was

At

teacher told

nights, helping to bake the bread

and asked

learned rapidly.

the age of twelve, he

to his teacher.

the second night he

to his father

At

that he resolved to give

to

the baker's wife boxed his ears. baker.

lessons.

asleep at his work,

and

end of John's career

as a

fell

the

to take

music lessons again.

the age of sixteen he formed a small

was much

in theaters.

190

in

demand

for playing at par-

One night Sousa's orchestra was playing at a theater in Philadelphia. The commanding officer of the United States Marine Corps was in the audience.

A

few days

come

later

Sousa received a

the conductor of the

thoven,

He

invitation to be-

Marine Corps Band! This was the great

opportunity Sousa had always wanted. over and over again.

was an

letter. It

He made the musicians

rehearse

taught them to play the music of Bach, Bee-

Wagner, and Tchaikovsky.

In those days, band music was chiefly marching music. Sousa be-

band should play

lieved that a

Under cert

his leadership, the

band

as well as a

certain other kinds of music at concerts.

Marine Corps Band became

marching band.

But Sousa became most famous for

marches for the band leave out his

own

the audience

would

see that his

to play.

rise

Later Sousa organized his

many

At

the

and ask him

music was well

his

march music. He wrote many

Sometimes he would give a concert and

compositions.

that he toured the

a splendid con-

end of the concert, someone

to play a

Sousa march.

He

in

could

liked.

own

world with

band. This band became so popular

it.

People in

different languages, understood

many

lands,

who

spoke

and loved the magical language

of Sousa's music.

Sousa's most popular marches include

"The

Stars

and

Stripes For-

"The High School Cadets," "Semper Fidelis," "The Washington Post," and "The Gladiator." Today, whenever you hear a band leading a parade, it is very likely to be playing a march by Sousa, the ever,"

"March King." 191

THE MUSIC

THAT STOPPED A BALL GAME George Gershwin (1898-1937) BettmaDD Archive

Gershwin

George Gershwin was

crowded East Side of

New

ball in the schoolyard.

boy of nine

a dark-haired

York

City.

One day he was

George had chosen

attend the violin recital of a schoolmate of the violin

was loud enough

George heard the terest in the ball

to be

He

stood

still

to play baseball rather

named Maxie. But

"Humoresque," he

and

young

violinist's

house and found a

than

the music

When

lost all in-

listened.

After the music had ended, George tried to find Maxie. the

the

playing base-

heard in the schoolyard.

strains of Dvo!"ak's

game.

who Uved on

new

friend

He went

to

—one who talked

about music and musicians.

George became fascinated by popular music. Later, he got a job playing a piano for a music publisher. Before long, publishers began to

buy George Gershwin's songs.

A

comedian named Al Jolson sang one of Gershwin's songs,

"Swanee." The song and

The

its

composer became famous overnight.

orchestra leader, Paul

Whiteman, asked Gershwin

something for a concert he was planning. As he thought of America, of sang,

and of the

its

called

many

noises of big

sat at the

to write

piano he

peoples and the dififerent songs they

cities.

He

put

all

these thoughts

and

sounds into a composition which he called The Rhapsody in Blue. It

—

new kind of music concert jazz. Gershwin won the Pulitzer Prize with was

a

comedy, Of Thee I Sing.

He

Ira. Ira

lyrics.

was the boy

Many for

music for the musical

even wrote an opera, Porgy and Bess.

Gershwin wrote only the music of the words, or

his

his songs,

and other persons wrote

of these lyrics were written by his brother,

whom the Gershwins had

once bought a piano

because they believed he would be the musician of the family

192

RECORDS FOR CHILDREN

193

RECORDS

offer a

Children

will

espeeiallv for

wealth of music of every kind.

enjov not only the reeords

them but

also

many

made

of the beautiful

performances by our greatest musicians.

A

growing collection of good records brings a child endless adventure and enjoyment, at a relatively small cost.

Such

a collection

is

built over the years, as a child's

interests de\'elop

favorites over

and

and broaden. o\'er again.

He

will play his

Though

these

may

change, he will always keep a lo\c for the good

music he has heard through records.

The

records that }ou will find in this section were selected after being tried out with

both at

home and

in school.

194

many

children

RECORDS FOR CHILDREN RPM

list are available in 78 unless starred (*), in which case they are avail-

All records in this

able only in 33^/^ or 45 RPM. Names of the manufacturers are indicated bv these letters:

FW —Folk\\ays

BGR —Big Golden Records BOR — Bomand Record Co. CAP

CRG COL D

L

—Capitol Records — Children's Record Guild —Columbia Recording Corp. —Decca Records

MC

Records

—London Records —Mercury Childcraft

MGM—MGM

Records

Records

V

—RCA Victor

YPR

—Young People's Records

Records for Young Children Choo Choo Train

to the

New Mother

Farm

Fa\orite songs and sound effects

Daddv Comes Home Fun w ith Daddv Father Gander Fun songs with

Fog Boat

is

the

CRG

\\'ell-lo\ed

will

enjov

MC

Peter and the W^olf Short \ersion told by Boris Karloff

MC

CRG

Shoemaker and the Elves, The An old tale that is alwa\s popular

MC

CRG

Smgnig Games

Farm

Familv singing vou

Christmas songs

MC

The

Interesting sounds and music

Grandfather's

MC

Night Before Christmas, The theme

excellent music

Story,

Goose Good music and good nonsense

MC

Easv enough

for a child to follow

MGM

Hansel and Gretel

A short \ersion for young children Happy Birthday Songs

for a fa\orite

Little Brass

A

Pleasing adaptation of the old talc

Several of the wc]l-lo\cd lullabies

Mother Goose

YPR

MGM

Songs about everyday things

MC

Billy Goats Gruff Fa\orite talc told by Boris Karloff

MC

Three

series

Complete library of Mother Goose on six individual records

MC

Telephone Song, Tlie

Man

Retelling of \\ell-known folk tale

MC

Songs for Sleepyheads

Band

Tlie Little Gingerbread

A

Sleeping Beauty

MC

day

record with lively band music

Muffin

MC

MC

Tunes

for Tots Eight gay little songs

MC

in the City

little

Walk

dog and the many sounds

that he hears in the city

YPR 195

A

in the Forest animals and instruments

stor\- of

YPR

Childcr.\ft

196

Records for Older Children Stories with

Little

Music

A

Engine That Could, The

V

popular storybook album

Lonesome House Alice in \\'onderland: Lewis Carroll COL Narrated by Jane Powell

MC

good, shorter version

America's Favorite Marches Ballad for Americans the people

who make up

the U. S. A.

BGR Bozo

CAP

elown

a

Bozo on the Farm

CAP

orchestra of animals

Bugs Bunny

in

by Bugs

CAP

delightful music

MC

related

Captain Snorter Humorous yerse with

MC

of Se\ille

Beautifully told by Charles

Eagle and the Thrush, Indian folk

tale

V

Laughton

CRG

about music

New Clothes, Outstanding musical play

The

YPR

CRG

with Mendelssohn's music

Parade of the W^ooden Soldiers

COL

Peter and the Wolf: ProkofieflF Narrated by Arthur Godfrey

Horton Hatches the Egg: Dr. Seuss (2-10") MGM A stor\- full of humor Jack and the Beanstalk

MC

telling of old tale

Johnny Appleseed old American tale

COL

Peter Pan w

ith

Broadway

cast.

COL

Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff

Pinocchio Ven' entertaining arrangement

A

li\ely

MC

An

(2-10")

musical play

YPR

Moon

MC

exciting space adventure

Basil

Rathbone

in this

adAcnture

Arabian Nights (3-12") COL

(2-10")

V

(2-10")

CRG

Bear's Picnic

There W^ere Tliree Indians

A

good introduction to

histor}'

Treasure Island Taken from the Disnev mo\ie

MGM (2-10")

V

The Ugly Duckling: Andersen Retelling of famous tale

MC

Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore: Milne Excellent stor\book album

the Pooh and Tigger: Milne companion to abo\e

V

Winnie

Sambo's Jungle Band

Excellent musical storybook album

Delightful musical play

The Teddy

CAP

Little Black

Midsummer Night's Dream A musical plav based on Shakespeare,

Sleeping Beauty: Tchaiko\'sky

(2-10")

Gerald McBoing-Boing: Dr. Seuss Sound effects in riotously funny stor\'

A wonderful

COL

sensitive story

Sinbad the Sailor

The

Emperor's

A lively

Many Moons: Thurber

Rocket to the

Christmas Carol, A: Dickens

An

*L

Robin Hood

Child's Introduction to the Opera

The Barber

Inxented Music

Excellently done by

Stonland

Storybook album

CRG

an empt\' house

Good marching music

at the Circus

Storybook album about

Amusing

in

delightful "tall tale"

Charming and

V

Cities Ser\iee Band. La\elle cond.

Of

Man Who

Tlie

A

Alice in W^onderland

A

The many sounds

V

A

V

Records Sidewalk Songs Rhymes used in

Songs and Folk Music Animal Fair Funnv songs sung bv Burl

I\

COL

cs

Campfire Songs

"Home on

MC

the Range" and others

MC

games

children's

Soldier Songs of Our Land Songs of the armed scr\iccs

MC

Songs of Many Lands Sung bv Joseph Marais and Miranda

\^

Songs of Our Patriots

MC

Stirring patriotic songs

Come

Let Us Be Joyful

lively

Come

German

folk

V

danee

to the Fair

Good

YPR

spirited singing

Songs of the \^eld. Volumes Josef Marais

ver\^

MC

good musical arrangement

Favorite Hymns for Children Sung by Denis Dav, with orchestra

V

Folk Music of Haiti Exciting rhythm recorded in Haiti

"*

FS\^

Folk Songs of Brazil Bidu Savao

Sung

in

D

(2-10")

CAP

Stephen Foster Songs Frank Luther and L\n Murrav Ouartet

*D

The Twelve Days

of Christmas Lovely old song that is fun to sing

The Wayfaring Working on

YPR

Stranger (4-10")

COL

the Railroad

Good arrangement

Folk Songs of Other Lands

U, HI

Square Dance Party

Folk songs with Burl I\es

COL

sings in Portuguese

I,

and his Bush veld band

Easy-to-follow dances

Cowboy Songs With

D

(4-10")

Christmas H\mns and Carols Robert Shaw Chorale. In two \ olumes

A

197

of train songs

YPR

French, German, and English

MC

Music of the Orchestra

Folk Songs of Our Land

"Oh

Susanna," "Casey Jones,"

Golden Treasury Including

many

etc.

MC

Pla\cd

of Folk Songs

BGR

old faxorites

BGR

Hillbilly

and

Pla}-

COL

different animals are depicted in amusing music and verse

COL

Toys and Orchestra amusing composition

for

Delightful,

YPR

Coppelia Ballet Suite: Delibes

Party Songs

MC

Rollicking folk songs

V

Stoko\\ski

Carnival of the Animals: Saint-Saens

Concerto

Hansel and Gretel: Humperdinck Recorded by the Metropolitan Opera

b)-

The

Golden Treasury

of Train Songs Familiar railroad songs

Blue Danube, The: Strauss

COL

Beautiful ballet music

Cradle Song: Brahms Little

Pedro

Spanish-American folk and game songs

CRG

Entrance of Little Fauns: Pierne Espara Waltz: \\'aldteufel Ver\-

Pedro and the Street Singers More folk and game songs

Little

Music

of the Sioux and Authentic Indian music

CRG

Navajo (4-10")

F\V

Round and Round Introduction to the fugue

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Great Music for Young Folks Familiar classics with new words

Hungarian Dances No.

5

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MC 6:

Brahms

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melodies

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Childcraft

198

Weber

Invitation to the Dance:

William Tell 0\erture: Rossini

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Delightful rhythm

Mozart Country Danees Based on old German folk

Toscanini and the

Tlie

YPR

tunes

Music Box: Liadof Nutcracker Suite: Tchaikovsky A wooden nutcracker comes to life

Young

NBC

Person's

Guide

to the Or-

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Instrumental Music

Perpetual Motion: Strauss

Flight of the Bumblebee: Rimsky-

:

Poet and Peasant Overture: von Suppe

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Rodeo: Copeland

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Ballet music about the Southwest

Sorcerer's Apprentice, Tlie: Dukas Exciting and amusing tale of magic

5V2: Don Gilhs Fun with sound

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Toy Symphony: Haydn A symphony composed for

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Instruments of the Orchestra Introducing the instruments

(4-10")

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Licorice Stick

Minuet

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the clarinet

in

G: Beethoven

Miseha Elman plavmg the

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Orpheus Melody by Gluck children

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Turkey

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Flat: Brahms in Plaved by Boston Pops Orchestra

Waltz

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Peer Gynt Suite No. i Greig Ad\entures of a Norwegian wanderer

Stirring music.

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Beautiful \iohn music

Rondino on

Rondo Good

Theme by Beetho\en

for Bassoon and Orchestra introduction to the bassoon

Sweet and

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Old-fashioned music-box recording

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Index

199

Index of Song Titles Aiken Drum, 56 All Things Bright and All

Through

Beautiful, 154

the Night, 36

John Brown Had a Litde Indian, 66 Johnny Morgan, 98 Litde Woman, The, 78

Loch Lomond, 100 Marching Song, 72

America, 143

America the Beautiful, 144 Arkansas Traveler, 96

Menagerie, The, 70

Around the Christmas Tree, 119 As I Sat on a Sunny Bank, 122

Mighty Fortress

Away

Is Our God, A, 150 Sing Together, The, 45 Muffin Man, The, 52

Billy Boy, 86

My Bonnie, 104 My Pony, 61 Now the Day Is O Canada!, 142

in a Manger, 125 Barnyard Song, 80 Bath Time, 68 Big Tall Indian, The, 58

More

We

Over, 151

Brahms' Lullaby, 38 Chrismias Eve, 118

O Christmas Tree, 121 O Come All Ye Faithful, 130 O God, Our Help in Ages Past,

Christ the Lord

Oh, Dear! What Can the Matter Be?, 84

Bossy

Cow, 49

Clair de

la

Risen Today, 156

Is

Oh Susanna, 76 Oh Where, Oh Where Has My

Lune, Au, 87

Cock-a-doodle-doo, 50

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, 138 Come, Ye Thankful People, Come, 112

Deck the Halls, 124 Drink to Me Only with Thine Fairest Lord Jesus, 159 Pais

Do

Faith of

Eyes, 106

Our

Pawpaw

The, 129

For the Beauty of the Earth, 153 Frere Jacques, 52

Friendly Beasts, The, 120

He Would A-Wooing Our

of

of Bethlehem, 127

Patch, 88

Pony Stepping High, 61 Pop! Goes the Weasel, 47 Raggle, 62 Rejoice,

Go, A, 82

Fathers, 147

Ye Pure

in Heart, 158

Rest, Baby, Rest, 39

Rig

a Jig Jig, 95

Rockabye, Baby, 29

Halloween, 111

Halloween Song,

Town

Petites Marionettes, Les, 88

Fly and die Bumble Bee, The, 59

God

Litde

No, John!, 102

Pease Porridge Hot, 55

Falling Leaves, 112

Frog,

Rock

1 1

Hanukkah Song, The,

114

of Ages, 160

Sailing, 94

Go Round

Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, 128

Sally

Here Come Three Dukes A-Riding, 103 Hickory, Dickory, Dock, 56 Holy God, We Praise Thy Name, 152 Home on the Range, 92 Hush, Little Baby, 31 Hush-a-by, Baby Mine, 40

Schubert's Cradle Song, 42

I

Had

Italian

a Little

Nut

Tree, 51

Cradle Song, 35

Jingle Bells, 116

Dog Gone,

Old Hundredth, The, 155 Old King Cole, 48 Old MacDonald Had a Farm, 60

O O

First Noel,

Little

62

Do, 34 Fndiers, 149

157

the

Moon, 47

Scottish Lullaby, 30 She'll

Be Comin' Round the Mountain, 75

Silent Night, 126

Sleeping Princess, The, 67 Sleep,

O

Babe, 32

Spring of the Year, The, 132 Spring's Arrival, 134

Star-Spangled Banner, The, 140

Childcraft

200 Swedish Cradle Song, 37 There Was a Man and He This

Is

Three

die

Way My '

Turkey Song, 114

Was Mad,

Dolly Walks, 69

Pirates, 108

81

Twinkle. Twinkle, Litde

Star, 46

Valentine Song, A, 133

Warm

Kitty, 53

Timothy Tim-o, 68

We

Tisket, a Tasket, A, 54

What

Train Song, 64 Tugboat, The, 65

Yankee Doodle, 137 Yippy Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along,

Plow

the Fields

Shall

and

Scatter, 148

We Do When We

All

Go

Out-,

Little Dogies, 90

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