ABSTRACT
E. Hartland (practising society), Student of Trin. Coll. (music history and appreciation), Curiosity (music education), A Working Girl (voice), Peterina (music education)
Number 720 (14 October 1893) Changes: Song (music score) (Hamish MacCunn, Words Lady Lindsay of Balcarres)
pp. 20-2 Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) p. 32
Miss Meech and Anxious to Improve (practising society), Violet (applied music), Y.A.M. (piano, applied music), R. A. (sight-reading), Rustic (theory)
Number 721 (21 October 1893) Notices of New Music p. 39
Number 722 (28 October 1893) Varieties (Paying Music) p. 58
Number 723 (4 November 1893) Beethoven (J. F. Rowbotham) Part 1 pp. 69-71 Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) p. 80
W. H. Springfellow (music education), Meg (voice), Player (Camarthen) (violin, instrument maintenance), Impromptu (music education, nuisance), Kerry (banjo), I. M. Alix (theory, correspondence course), M. B. (Brisbane) (music teaching, correspondence classes), Lady Organist (organ, health, practising society), Nobody’s Darling (Aleppo) (Irish harp), Dum Spiro Spero (piano, practising, nuisance)
Number 724 (11 November 1893) Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) p. 95
M. or N. (organ, music history and appreciation), A Native of the Golden Horn (Constantinople) (voice), Agnita (repertoire)
Number 725 (18 November 1893) Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) p. 112
Madge (piano, nuisance), Hilda (violin), A Constant Subscriber (general), B.E.S. (terms), Red Tail (general)
Number 726 (25 November 1893) Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) p. 128
Snowdrop (violin), A. C. Veneris (violin, instrument maintenance), Madge (theory, correspondence course), No Name (violin), A Would-Be Musician (banjo, Irish harp, choosing instrument), S. Williams (violin, health), Georgie (zither), F. R. Fisher (repertoire)
Number 727 (2 December 1893) Come, Let Me Sing, Sweet Muse Sublime (poem) (C. P.) p. 136
Illustration ‘Come, let me sing, sweet muse sublime’ p. 137 Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) p. 144
L. E. (music education), Gertrude Dear (organ, repertoire), Enquiring Mind (terms), M. M. (piano)
Beethoven Part 2 pp. 148-50
Number 729 (16 December 1893) Answers to Correspondents pp. 175-6
Barbara (music history and appreciation)
Number 730 (23 December 1893) Carol for Female Voices (music score) (William H. Hunt, Refrain from Longfellow’s ‘Nor-
man Baron’) pp. 179-81 Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) p. 192
Elsie Dinsmore (voice, health), La Brum (general), C. Sharp (general), Allen (music education), Corona and Mazeppa (practising society), G. S. (voice), Wynifred (music history and appreciation)
Number 731 (30 December 1893) The Coming of the King (poem) (Helen Marion Burnside) p. 205
Number 732 (6 January 1894) Lassie (poem) (William T. Saward) p. 216 Answers to Correspondents (Music heading) p. 224
L.E.E.L. (applied music), Doddie (practising, nuisance), Doubtful (applied music), Bee (theory), Ruby H. A. (general), E. G. (music education), Maggie (music student lodging), Louise (music history and appreciation), Monica (music education)
Number 733 (13 January 1894) The Progress of Women’s Work (S.F.A. Cauldfeild) Part 2 pp. 228-9
Caulfeild expresses surprise that women ‘have produced no works of importance, very beautiful song-composers as they have, in many instances, shown themselves’, which she attributes to lack of training and opportunities to develop their inherent talent (p. 228).
