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Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. SDAES Bulletin 733, 52 pp.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Some light edgewear and closed tears along edges, interior fine. Lovely cover art. Pianoforte score. John J. Fitzgerald was a composer working in the tradition of light classical and salon style piano music, producing pieces intended for amateur and recreational pianists rather than concert performance. His work falls within a genre that was particularly popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when there was a substantial market for appealing and accessible piano compositions that could be enjoyed in domestic settings by players of moderate ability. Pieces of this type were a staple of parlor music culture and remained in circulation through sheet music publishers catering to the broad middle ground between serious classical repertoire and purely popular music. The Colonial March Melody is a medley arrangement for piano that brings together a collection of traditional and well known American tunes into a single continuous piece. The medley format was a popular and commercially successful form in the sheet music market of the era, allowing publishers to offer buyers a substantial and varied musical experience within a single publication. The piece contains The Country Dance, Soldiers Joy, Mocking Bird, My Old Kentucky Home, Virginia Reel, Turkey in the Straw, and Yankee Doodle, woven together within the overall framework of the arrangement. The march character suggested by the title gives the medley a unifying sense of rhythm and forward momentum that helps bind the various component tunes into a coherent whole. The colonial reference in the title evokes a nostalgic connection to early American culture and history, which was a common and appealing theme in popular music publishing of this period, reflecting a broader cultural interest in American heritage and national identity that was particularly prominent around the turn of the twentieth century. Arranging a medley of this kind required skill in transitioning smoothly between different tunes while maintaining a consistent overall character and level of difficulty appropriate to the intended audience. The tunes gathered together in this particular medley share a common thread of American folk and popular tradition, giving the collection a natural coherence that would have made it appealing to patriotically minded amateur pianists interested in celebrating and performing music rooted in the national cultural heritage. Will Wood was a music publisher operating within the commercial sheet music industry, producing and distributing music aimed at the broad amateur market. Publishers of this type played an essential role in the musical culture of their era, acting as the primary means by which composers reached the public before the age of recording and broadcasting transformed how music was consumed and distributed. Sheet music publishing was a significant commercial enterprise during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with publishers actively seeking out compositions that would appeal to amateur pianists and sell well through music shops and mail order catalogs. Publishers such as Will Wood typically handled a wide range of material including popular songs, dance music, instructional pieces, and light classical character pieces. The relationship between composers and publishers of this type was often transactional, with composers selling their work outright or receiving royalty arrangements in exchange for the publisher taking on the costs of engraving, printing, and distributing the sheet music. A medley of American traditional tunes such as The Colonial March Melody would have fit naturally into the catalog of a publisher serving the broad amateur market, given the enduring popularity of the component tunes and the patriotic appeal of the overall concept. Sheet music of this era was notable not only for its musical content but also for the visual presentation of its covers, and illustration played an important role in making publi. Fischer ( RDF ) (illustrator).…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. Inventory # D749-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 37, No. 7, Issue 412, July 1984 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown - Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company ** ARTICLES AND STORIES (1) The Psychic vs. the Killer by Rob MacGregor and Trish Janeshutz (2) The Majestic Moai of Easter Island by Rosemarie Casas (3) Right from the Horses Mouth by Abbie C. Massey (4) Crystal Skull of Death, Part I by Joe Nickell and John F. Fischer (5) Psychics Beat the Stock Market by D. Scott Rogo (6) UFO Show Over Lancashire by Peter A. Hough (7) Poltergeist in Medieval Germany by Sven Rosen (8) Shed No Idle Tears by Marjorie A. Taylor (9) First Family of Spiritualism by Greg Guma PRICE = $9; VG/FN; sticker to fc; ** AUTHORS; Rob MacGregor and Trish Janeshutz ; Rosemarie Casas ; Abbie C. Massey; Joe Nickell and John F. Fischer; D. Scott Rogo; Peter A. Hough; Sven Rosen; Marjorie A. Taylor; Greg Guma Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

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Gr.-8° Mit zahlr. Abb. u. Kalendarium. 176 S. Ill. OKt. - Sehr gutes Ex. * Enth. u.a.: Möller, Der Wiederbeginn des politischen Lebens 1945/46 im Amt Harsewinkel. Temme, Das Wiedenbrücker Haus m. dem Drudenfuß u. s. Bewohner. Schlelein, Preußische Rekrutenwerbung im Verler u. Rietberger Land u. d. Schanewirt. Potthoff, Seit 1927 leuchtet auch in Liemke Nord elektrisches Licht. Berg, Die alte Mühle am Gut Brincke avancierte zum Atelier d. Künstlers Johannes Schepp. 1. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. good+ condition with a bit of wear and a pen name on the first page - no dust jacket.

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