New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-01

EAsY Y SONG " RI TING n j,
ANY ONE. CAN BE "a COMPOSER WITH
OUT; KNOWING A5 MOTE.
You Suggest the Idea, and the Song II
Written While You Wait salaried Poets
Are In Attendanceto Furnish the Words.
Your Name Goes on the Sheet.
Do you want to be known as a com
poser Of music? It is the easiest thing
in the world. .s. sss
You may not know one note from an
other, but that doesn matter, "A few
days ago a representative .ofsThe Exam
1ner went to visit a local musician Of re-
pute. Before the musician stood a su-
perb young woman She was whistling.
Her ripe, red lips had on them "a most
tempting pucker. ssll.a " tlistlesl a few
notes and stepped. LI1cs? Tie II usic.a,a,
who was armed 5Tissl. q sheet Of rnusic
score paper and i lead I:eucil, made HER
oglyphlcs Gil the Ines .alid SPACES Gil the
sheet. This was repeated several times.
There, said the girl. that is all =
A sardonic smile glittered for an in
slant On the musicians face and was
gone. IIe stepped to a piano and played
the melody as it had been whistled to
him, at the same time. improvising an
accompaniment. ..% =,
"'Well?" said the girl interrogatively,
She had not tho faintest idea Of har-
mony OF counterpoint. She could not
sing.
II must change it some,'' said the
musician $3.50
"Oh, yes, I expected that said she.
II furnish the musical idea and you do
the back work. - IL. ~
Once more there was a glimmer of
fun in the musicians eyes. He request
ed the girl to call again in few days.
II will have one Of our poets write
words for it, :" said he, s'and when you
come again you can see how you like it.
You will see how they go together. -
"Of course my name will 20 on the
sheet when it is published?" st@.r:
Certainly. Do you want to be known
as the author Of the words?'' 49,.
The girl blushed rather painfully.
The heightened color made her look
rather more superb. She was a tall
willowy brunette, with glowing black
eyes and a rich olive complexion, on
which her blush played prettily. Her
attire was fashionable and the fit was
perfect. Altogether she was what lite
Barnacle would have called "a we'll
groomed young woman Her ears and
hands were small and aristocratic. Her
manner, now that she had stopped puck
ering her lips to whistle, was little
naughty. Evidently she had not previ-
ously thought about the words of the
song. The Mephistophelean suggestion
of the musician was tempting. His bait
was literary as we'll as musical distinc-
ton. She took it all, musical and liter
airy, bait, hook and line, with a little
gasp. It has been said that cit is just
as we'll to be hung for a sheep as for a
lamb, and she adopted that view with
little hesitation. When the music sheet
comes out, with a sentimental title,
this rosy, brunette will be heralded as
both musician and poetess.
This is not an uncommon occurrence
IN San Francisco, SO it was said by those
who ought to know A local music pub
Usher put out list Of about 500 San
Francisco compositions last year, and,
according to the head of the firm, very
few appeared as they were originally
conceived. What appeared to be odd
about the episode first mentioned was
the perfection of the facilities furnished
for taking down a musical composition.
The musician wrote on his music score
paper with the speed and certainty of a
stenographer. In fact, be was for the
time musical amanuensis... When the
girl had left him, he became the poor
composer in fact. -*r' y
George W. Hetzel comes in contact
with many people who have. musical
ideas without musical knowledge. He
literally takes notes as they reveal their
Ideas Being a composer, lie is versed in
the knowledge necessary to make these
ideas practicable. . He is compelled to
cast the tune for the range of voice for
which it is best adapted. People whistle,
sing, play the banjo and thump the
piano at him. Then he turns the idea
into "a musical composition. Hugo V.
Schlam Of the musical publishing firm
OF: rBroder & Schlam furnished some
amusing. facts Mr. Schlam says that
only popular songs, which are in the
range of ordinary singers, and dance
tunes are composed on the plan herein
dicated. It is not difficult for any person
with musical idea toget.a song, words
and music, credited to him. When the
composition is ready for publication it
has little resemblance to the idea Of the
reputed author. Very likely the origi-
nator has little story that he desires
to have worked up into song, but
the words are beyond him or her, and q
paid poet has to do this work. Well to
do people, in the financial sense, and
often poorer people are willing to as
sumo authorship with, very little claim
to it. Variety singers sometimes adopt
this method of gaining fame.
An odd case was mentioned by Mr.