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1. Sleepy-Time Horse. Finger legato. (In three-fi,nger group,s). . . 2
2. The Kindergarten. Finger legato. (In four-fi,nger groups) 3
3. The Lame Dog. Preparatory phrasing exercise ..... 4
4. The Swing. Two-note phrases in the right hand. Thumb under (chromath pro-
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5.The Merry-Go-Round. Three-note phrases 6
6. The Broken Doll. Melody playing and thumb under. 7

7. The Tea Party. Extended phrases. 8

8. Roller Skating. Introducing tied notes. 9
9. The Little Nurse. The dotted quarter-note. 10
An Easy Way to Read Leger Lines 11

10. The Dancing Lesson. Leger lines. t2

11. Making Cookies. Left hand phrases on leger lines. t4
t2. Jumping Rope. Broken chords and five-finger groups ascending 15

13. Rolling the Hoop. Broken chords and five-finger groups descending. . . L6
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In the Gym. Preparatory trill studies t7
16. Piano Practice. Trill study 18
t7. Boating on the Lake. Melody playing 19
18. Hiking. Wrist staccato in accompaniment figures 20
19. Playing Tennis. Forearm staccato 2t
20. Mother Tells a Story. Grace notes and the double-sharp. . . 22
2t. Tuning in the Radio. Syncopation. . . 23
22. Gathering Wildflowers. Graceful phrasing 24
23. The Whirring Airplane. Triplets 25
24. Forest Dawn. Extended broken chords and trills. .. 26
25. Field Hockey. Tetrachords, ascending. . . . 28
26. Coasting. Tetrachords, descending. . . 29
27. At Church. Major and minor modes 30
28. Aqua-Planiryl. Passage playing, divided between the hands 32
29. Riding. Wrist
and forearm attacks 33
30. At the Ball. Style and rhythm. . . 34
31. Glrl Scouts March. The dotted eighth-note 36
Glossary. Terms, Abbreviations and Signs 37
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educational material is so universally in vogue among

modern piano teachers that it is quite "the fashion" nowadays to play only good music.
Every.body demands appropriate, original, and at the rame time constructive material,

is possible only after technique is in process of

In this volume,designed especially lot grl Fuprls, there are
pieces progressing in technical sequbnce. Each piece was written with some
definite technical problem in mind and when any young lady masters the contents up to tenryo
she will have gained distinctly in musicianship and in general facility.

practice in the home for the saLe of recreation is the

shortest and surest route toward rapid progress. Tuneful melodies are an factor
to encourage such habis and these pieces should therefore appeal to every girl as delighdul
to play when her chums gather around the piano.

to play the piano is just as necessary to the culture

and refinement of young ladies to-day as it was in the Colonial days of our elders, but
we have the advantage of better facilities, better material and better teachers.

may the "Girls' Own Piano Book" meet gallantly the

critical challenge of Miss

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The Kindergarten
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To Kindergarten!
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The Lame Dog

Limp, limp down the street,
Bruno follows Sue;
With a paw bound in rags,
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The Swing a^^a

High toward the clouds we go wingingrand then

Eack v'e come swinging to gr€en eaith again.
What if the swing should etop high in the air?
Down we'd come tumbling, a mueh frightened pair!
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The Merry- G[o-Round

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The Tea Party

"BiUy boy, worft you please have some tea?"
"No, thank$r MarS Tea's not for me!"
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Roller Skating
I'm learning to state, and whenl'm all through,
Ill sail like a ship that's cleaviag the blue!
b I'm keeping my hopes as high as can be
And try to forget fve a well-shinned knee!

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The Little Nurse

Bye-by, Dolly, youle sick I tnow.
Doctor's not here!
My, but he's slow!
Hope he gives you a magic pill,
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Mother's just frantic
When you are ill!
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ITECEB- I/INES

Leger- liaes are ehort lines usod on lotes which llo lbovo or Beloy the staff, Leger- spaces
are the spaces betweon the leger-li[es. Leger-liqes aad Epacea are couated either Up or
Down, away from the staff.

The leger- lines aad spaces are very easy to read if we renember them as Borrowrd llner
or tproa3.

This illustration shows how All leger- lines and spaces ia the Bar olcf (above Midtlle C) aro
lines and spaces Borrowod from tho Trcblc olef.

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Piano keys
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Making Cookies
Take a little dough,
Knead it to and fro,
Add a few plump raisins
And then a nut or so!
Cut them nice and ronnd,
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And your family will eat L--
Your cookies by the pound.
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Boating on the Lake

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Hiking
When the frost is oa the pumphin
A-hiking we will go!
Distance shall not dauat us,
Mud nor wind nor strow.
Who knows what adventure H

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Ready to reward us
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Playing Tennis
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Practice every suany day,
When an opening comesr- attack it.
Soon you'll learn to wield your racquet
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Tuni ngint he Radio

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I turs or thc Radio clear and high,
All sorts of soogs wirg out of tho sly,
If with ry practi8c I re.lly try,
I shall be playing thau tye aad bye.

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The \Yhirring Aeroplane

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But I'm scared of her propeller.

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Field Hockey
Picnics in the Spring,
Hockey in the Fall,
Girls who stay indoors and mope
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Coasting
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Pulling up,
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In the first tune'f{ow the MaJ or and Mlnor Modeg In the second tuDe, we
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nor) in the third and At Church bursts forth in the rel-
fourth measure. After a Sunday comes, the stately organ ative major key(Al Ma-
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otroe more to theAl!fia- School and play are all forgotten
jor tey. While we lift our hearts in prayer

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Aqua-Planing
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Going at fearful speed,
Having sport in our Daddy's way
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At the Ball
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And dancing at my first big Ball!

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Ae6t: Emphasize or stress. . . >A time is to be prolonged. The
Alla brwe: I rhythm. Two length of tlre pause, or hold, is
beats to dre measure--one treat governed by the taste of the
to each half-note . player. . . rn
Allcfretto: Gay and moderately Plano: Sofdy. . P
lively. . . . Pocos Little.
Nle(ro:Quick and cheerful. . . Indicated by the
Aadaate: Moderately slow. . . . curved The notes sithin
Andantho: Really means the line should be played with
slnsa tlstt o*hnb, brtt ud as legato torrch. The end of the
a t€mpo indication, it usually phrase, howevcr, should have
manl€ o Mlc tosta tlwtt otfunb olorful infection. This is pra.
Anlmsto3 Animated. . . . . . . .. duced bv plaving the last note,
Crescmdo: A gradual increas-
or last sev€ral notes witll a
Ctrlr.. gentle .inward and upward roll
ing in tone. Shown alo sith the of tlre hand. Propedy played,
a phrase on the piano repre-
D. C. al Da Capo al Flae: Rctum to Eents the bowing of t}e violinist
Fbre the beginning of the piece and or the breathing of the singer. .
ptay to the end of the measdre
in which Fdfc appears dl. Rltardaado: A gradual slowing
Dlar.. A gradual de- of thetime.................:
creasing in tone. Shown &lcr.. Schcrzando: Ptayfully; gaily. ,
Dotted notes: A dot after a Sforzondo: Forcing, the sudden
note indicates that it is to be aenting of a note or chord. . . . {,
hdd its full value flres an addi- lqL Sostenuto: Sustained. Indi-
tional latrl of its value. For cated by a line over a note or
instance,
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chord. . .
Stsccato: Detached; played in
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In f rhythm a mann€r tlat s@arates tlte
oone beat notes from each other. .. .. ., ..
while Sytrcopation: Caused when the
-one and one-half beats acc€nts fall upon the weak beats,
meanwhile suppressing th€ natu-
Double charp: A doublecharp ral accented beats. ...... ......
indicates that the note before Tempo:Time.
which it is placed is to be raised Tetrachcd: The Greek name
,w scrrri-rolzct .
of a four-stringed instrument.
Forte: Loud; strong. , .. ......
Fordsdmo: Very loud; very
f, Used in nrusic, it means four
adjoining notes of the scale.
8t!ong. . .
Gfece !lote3: Little notes added
tf, Two tekaclpttk ioined tog€ther
form an octave of our present
as ornaments to give a graceful diatonic scale.
cfrect They have no time value
and should be played as quickly
as possible. &
L€8a : Little lines added
above or bclow the staff to hold
notes that go beyond the com-
paso of the usual five lines and hold the key silently for the
four spaces , value of the tied note) . . . . .
: Each tone held until it Ttltl: A warbling or birdJike
la connected with the efrect produced by playing rap-

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following tone. .
Mezzo fcte: Moderately loud
Muzo plano: Moderately soft
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idly tro adioinins not6 of t]re
scalein alternation.. ..,......
Trlpleu: Three notea of equal
value played in the time of two
Mod€r8to: Modemtely, . . .. .,
Paure: The over a
notes of the same value.
Vlvace: Lively; vivacious; light;
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Planned as a diversion for the young

student, it aims to apply the knowledge
he has already acquired to well-known
tunea or short improvisations or frag-
ments of tfiese tunes. The general
scheme of the book is designed to furnish
supplernentary material-.something the
pupil will want to play for self-amuse-
TIee Snake-Charrner of ment or for benefit by the practice. He
l':'l begins his Muolcal Journey Around
tlre World with the departure of the
ship from the Navy Yard. As it steanrs
tlil t) F]
into each port the characteristic national
tune, dance rhytlm or music of the
respective nation is depicted in some
clwer guise to improve the pupil's play-
ing. A two-color map in the front of the
book, shows the entire itinerary, As
each recreation is thoroughly learned, the
teactrer fills in the space with a heavy
pencil-line to indicate the ship's progr€ss,
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