ABSTRACT

Keziah (violin), Musk (music education), Evangeline (music history and appreciation), Olive (music history and appreciation), Alberta (terms), A.B.C. (general), Theresa W. (general), Mary S. B. (instrument maintenance, piano), Patiently Waiting (choral singing)

Number 94 (15 October 1881) Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) pp. 47-8

B.I.A. (piano), N. B. (general), F. and H. (terms), Aesthete (repertoire), Troublesome (terms), Smut (violoncello)

Number 95 (22 October 1881) New Music p. 51 Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) pp. 62-3

Poodle (practising), Kely (general), E.M.K. (terms, pronunciation), Puella (concertina), E. (general), T.E.S. (composition)

Number 96 (29 October 1881) Le Dernier Papillon (music score) (Edwin M. Lott) pp. 72-3 Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) pp. 79-80

Muriel, Mabel, Alice (general), Katie M. C. and Marie (music education)

Number 97 (5 November 1881) In the Gloaming – (Ballad Picture No. 1) (illustration) (Charles Green) plate facing p. 81 How to Play Beethoven’s Sonatas Part 2 pp. 81-4

Illustration ‘How to Play Beethoven Sonatas’ shows a young woman at the piano p. 81 Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) pp. 95-6

Clarissa (general), R.S.V.P. (harmonium, instrument maintenance), Sunflower (performance etiquette), A.G.B. (music education), Honeysuckle (general)

Number 98 (12 November 1881) What Would You Like to Be? (M. R.) p. 103

Three young girls ponder what they would like to be when they grow up; life intervenes to modify Nellie Graham’s dream of a singing career.