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MUSIC AS A HOBBY: How to have Fun with Music as Performer and Listener by Fred R. Barton

MUSIC AS A HOBBY: How to have Fun with Music as Performer and Listener

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Pub Date: Nov. 20th, 1941
Publisher: Harper

Compare report on Charles Cooke-- Playing the Piano for Pleasure (page 424 This takes up various instruments, suggests the formation of musical groups from the straight amateur point of view. Work -- but not so hard as Charles Cooke suggests. There are chapters on how to interest a child in music, how to listen, how to use the phonograph and radio, how to make a living at music. Underlines social side as common demoninator in small and large groups. Style occasionally on coy side.