Evening star., 1948-04-25
Music Library
GroupExpands
Its Magazine
By Alice Eyersmon

For some years the Music Library
Association has issued small mag
azine entitled Notes 1t appeared
first in mimeographed form, but for
the last five years it has been printed
and with such success in the distri-
button of valuable information that
the association has decided to ex-
pand it's material. From now on
the magazine will feature biblio-
graphical information and reviews
on music, books on music and re-
cordings, in addition to other
articles.
This quarterly journal has been
right at our door. so to speak, since
its address is the Music Division OF
the Library OF Congress. Although
not a Government publication, so
many members of the Music Divi-
sion are on its staff that permission
has been granted to have subscrip-
tions to Notes sent to this address.
Editors Of the magazine are Richard
s. Hill, William Lichtenwanger and
Lee Farley of the Music Division,
and other members serve on the
board or in other capacities. The
president is Scott Goldthwaite OF
the music department OF the Uni
versity of Chicago, and the vice
president is Lowell P. Beveridge OF
st. Pauls Chapel, Columbia Univer-
sity. Chapter chairnen hail from
California, Massachusetts,, oregon,
Ohio and New York.
Upsurge of Interest.
The reason for the expansion is
due to the important developments
in the American music world
Within the last years, American
compositions, serious writings on
musical subjects and recordings OF
great works have not only increased,
but have assumed so outstanding a
quality that a special effort is nec-
essary to keep those interested
abreast of the times. The objective
of the Music Library Association has
been to disseminate information
about publications 1t has collected,
but with the great increase in mate
rial, some new plan for making IL
available was required.
Heretofore the rather academic
information was prepared for the
associations members and for pro-
fessional music librarians. In the
revision, Notes will be issued in two
parts, one including the above type
of material for the members and
librarians and the other, the mag
azine proper, containing articles OF
more general interest and wider
usefulness as we'll as the reviews.
The March issue has an article,
'Notes on Sources of Musical Amer
icana," by H. Earle Johnson, an i'm
portant one by Charles Seeger on
'UNESCO, February, 1948," and an
interesting "Bibliography of Asiatic
Musics," by several collaborators.
Frank c. Campbell of the Library
OF Congress has covered all the Eu-
ropean countries in his Some Cur
rent Foreign Periodicals" giving the
wartime history of these magazines,
what is planned for the future and
their present status. Music period
icals in Germany are listed also, ir-
respective of their political leanings.
Some of these have been combined
with others or have changed their
policy in accordance with the trend
of the times. r.
Index of Reviews Included.
Such well-known people as Otto
Kinkeldey, Karl Geiringer, Alfred
Frankenstein, Edward N. Waters,
Arthur Loesser and Richard Hill, to
name but a few. have written re-
views Of the outstanding books on
music subjects and musical compo-
sitions have been covered by men
like Will APPEL, Vincent Persichetti.
Richard Franko Goldman and
others. A survey of record albums
has been made by Kurtz Myers In
his "Audio-V Visual Matters" A new
departure is the addition of an index
of reviews published in eight other
magazines.
Notes aims to give to musicians
service comparable to that Of the
Saturday Review of Literature and
the Publishers Weekly. 1t has en-
liSUcu lllc COllhUOl dliOll VI AluoISol
personalities of every department,
and their views are of educational
value on every subject. 1t will be
means for the interested public to
become acquainted with the rich
store of material now coming to the
fore in this country and to which
the worlds most famous composers
and writer's on music who have
sought refuge here are contributing
considerably. The booklet is much
needed one, stemming as 1t does
from a library association of which
the famous Music Division of the
Library Of Congress is the head.