New-York tribune., 1916-06-18

which possess a rare beauty Says Miss
Farrar in her preface: 81 offer these
unusual and personally favored selec-
tiOns as an inspiration to all those
whose inherent love for the beautiful
and rare will refuse TO be consoled by
the mediocre offerings, alas all too
prevalent in the musical mart"
In "My Fsvorite German Songs" Miss
Elena Gerhardt has chosen many Of the
songs which have made her name
known TO American audiences. Beeth-
oven. Schubert, Schumann, List.
Franz. Brahms. Jensen, Hugo Wolf and
Richard Strauss are the composers.
Miss Julia Culp in her two volumes
does not confne herself to German
songs. though of course the great
masters of Teutonic lieder form
the backbone of the collection. France
is represented by Debussy, Cesar
Franck, Lalo, Saint-Saens and Weker-
lin; Norway by Grieg; Russia by Tschai-
kowsky. But Miss Culp is also lover
OF Anglo-Saxon and Celtic song. She
includes three old Irish airs arranged
by William Arms Fisher and a group
of English and American songs. Among
the former are Horns "I've Been
Roaming" Bayly's Long, Long Ago"
Purcell's Passing By" and the Seven
teenth Century air. $50 Sweete Is
Shee"; among the latter John H. Dens-
more's April" A. Walter Kramer's "A
Sigh" and Winthe Watts when |
Wake"
Among other recent publications by
the Oliver Ditson Company are Deems
Taylor's song cycle. "The City Of joy;
rather characteristic and charming mu-
steal settings to lyrics by Charles Han
son Towne, expressions of young love
ir New York, and Cedric W Lamont's
"Creole Sketches" for the piano.
Boosey & Co. have brought out lately
f'e "Vignettes" for piano by A. Louis
Scarmolin, and J. Fischer g. Brother
six graceful little pianoforte pieces by
Arthur Hinton, entitled "a Summer
Pilgrimage in the White Mountains"
Two books illustrative of modern
French song have recently been pub
lished by the Boston Music Company.
These are an album Of Six Songs"
BY Gabriel Faure. which includes that
composers "Nell," LES Roses d1spa
han" Creme d'Amour," "Les Bercieux,"
Prison" and "Soir," and an album of
Songs" by composers of the Neo-
French School, which includes Louis
Augin, Ernest Chausson, Arthur Co
guard, Francisque Darceux, Claude
Debussy, Gabriel Faur6, Georges HE,
Paul Ladmierault, Xavier Leroux and
Marcel Samuel-Rousseau.
The second volume Of Daniel Gregory
Mason's "The Appreciation of Music"
has been issued by the H. w. Gray
Company. 1t deals with great modern
composers, and is prefaced with a short
essay on "Romanticism and Realism in
Music In this essay Mr.. Mason traces
the movement from the romanticists,
Schubert, Schumann. Mendelssohn and
Chopin, to the programme music Of the
realists, such as Berlioz and Strauss.
1t is a sane and well balanced discus
sion Of the subject and ought to prove
of benefit to those for whom the vol
ume is intended. The composers, each
of whom receives separate chapter,
are Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn,
Berlioz. List, Chopin, Grieg, Dvorak,
Saint-Saens, Franck, Tschaikowsky,
Brahms, Strauss and Debussy. In each
chapter Mr.. Mason gives a short and
well considered biographical sketch of
the composer, a character study, gen
eral discussion Of his music and a de-
tailed analysis of two or three works
The little book is a welcome addition
to current musical literature. and
should prove of value to the student
who does not wish to enter at once into
more detailed analysis Of the works
! Of the foremost modern composers.