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Adventures in Symphonic Music (1944)
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    The World of Music Books for Young People (10 Reviews)
    Maria Cimino
    Lullabies of Many Lands, by Dorothy Berliner Commins
    1. Lullabies of Many Lands by Dorothy Berliner Commins
    2. Songs and Games of the Americas by Frank Henius
    3. The Flower Drum and Other Chinese Songs by Chin-Hsin Yao Chen and Shih-Hsiang Chen
    4. The Spanish-American Song and Game Book
    5. The Chinese-American Song and Game Book by A. Gertrude Jacobs
    6. Work and Sing by Elie Siegmeister and Julius Brazelton
    7. Victor Herbert Songs for Children by Ella Herbert Bartlett and Victor Herbert
    8. Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev
    9. Famous Pianists, for Boys and Girls by Gladys Burch
    10. Adventures in Symphonic Music by Edward Downes
    The Saturday Review, August 19, 1944, pp. 25-27
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    A Guide to the New Books on Music (39 Reviews)
    Richard S. Angell
    An Annotated Selection
    1. The Harvard Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel
    2. The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by Oscar Thompson
    3. Adventures in Symphonic Music by Edward Downes
    4. Music for the Millions by David Ewen
    5. What Is Music? by John Erskine
    6. Music for the Man Who Enjoys Hamlet by B.H. Haggin
    7. Evenings with Music by Syd Cohen Skolsky
    8. The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900-1600 by Willi Apel
    9. The Concerto by Abraham Veinus
    10. The Evolution of Musical Form by Edward C. Bairstow
    11. British Music by Jack Allan Westrup
    12. Eight Soviet Composers by Gerald Abraham
    13. Johann Sebastian Bach by Laurence N. Field
    14. Music Master of the Middle West by Leola Nelson Bergmann
    15. They All Had Glamour by Edward B. Marks
    16. Bohuslav Martinu: The Man and His Music by Milos Safranek
    17. You're Only Human Once by Grace Moore
    18. The Story of the Sacred Harp, 1844-1944 by George Pullen Jackson
    19. Hymn-Tunes of Lowell Mason by Henry Lowell Mason
    20. Metropolitan Opera Milestones by Mary Ellis Peltz
    21. Men of Popular Music by David Ewen
    22. Hot Discography by Charles Delaunay
    23. Jazz, from the Congo to the Metropolitan by Robert Goffin
    24. Esquire's 1944 Jazz Book by Paul Eduard Miller
    25. Victor Herbert Songs for Children by Ella Herbert Bartlett and Victor Herbert
    26. G.I. Songs by Edgar A. Palmer
    27. Give Out! by Eric Posselt
    28. Work and Sing by Elie Siegmeister and Julius Brazelton
    29. Sing for America by Opal Wheeler
    30. Living with Music by David Barnett
    31. Music for the General College Student by Edmund V. Jeffers
    32. The Conductor Raises His Baton by William Joseph Finn
    33. Handbook of Conducting by Karl D. Van Hoesen
    34. The Unashamed Accompanist by Gerald Moore
    35. Do and Don't Inharmony by Leo Rich Lewis
    36. Your Career in Music by Harriett Johnson
    37. Psychology for Musicians by Percy Carter Buck
    38. The Understanding of Music by Max Schoen
    39. The Physics of Music by Alexander Wood
    The Saturday Review, January 20, 1945, pp. 20-21