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2 leaves [title page, preface], 185 pp. Original cloth. Top & bottom of spine frayed. Corners of covers worn. Ink stamp of publisher G. Schirmer on front flyleaf. Pencilling in text up to p. 75 and in appendix C for the parts of the text through p. 72. Good.
COPY OF VIOLINIST JACQUES GORDON, SIGNED BY HIM FOUR TIMES, on front flyleaf, title page, preface, p. 3 (see photos). Also "J. I. Gordon. N.Y." is printed in ink on the vertical fore edge of the pages (see photo). Gordon "studied music theory with Percy Goetschius at the Institute of Musical Art" (see below).
"Eleventh Edition Revised and Enlarged". It does not have a date on the title page but there are two copyright dates, 1892 and 1900. Although I have not yet identified a copy with the date of 1900 on the title page, I have seen one with a date of 1903 on the title page described as the "Seventh Edition Revised and Enlarged", and with 185 pp, as in the eleventh edition offered here.
So here is my guess about the printing history of the book. It was originally published in 1892. In 1900, the second copyright date, a revised edition of 185 pp was published. The text of the eleventh edition offered here is the same as in the 1900 text. A third copyright date of 1917 was later added. I have seen a fifteenth edition "completely re-written and enlarged" of 174 pages with that 1917 copyright date. The preface to that edition is dated October 1916 and states it is "completely rewritten and slightly enlarged".
Quoting Wikipedia about Percy Goetschius (1853- 1943): "an American composer, music theorist, and teacher who won international fame in the teaching of composition and music theory. . . . In 1892, he took a position in the New England Conservatory, Boston, and four years later opened a studio in that city. In 1905, he went to the staff of the Institute of Musical Art (which later merged into Juilliard School) in New York City, headed by Frank Damrosch. Goetschius retired from the Institute in 1925. . . ."
Quoting Wikipedia about Jacques Gordon: "Gordon began his violin studies at the age of five and was already performing as a musical prodigy at nine. In 1912, he graduated from the Imperial Conservatory in Odessa. He made his debut as a violinist in Berlin in 1911 and undertook a European tour in 1913. In the same year, he was awarded a gold medal by Tsar Nicholas II. After a concert tour of the USA and Canada in 1914 15, he studied violin with Fritz Kneisel and music theory with Percy Goetschius at the Institute of Musical Art. At the suggestion of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, he became a member of the Berkshire String Quartet in 1918, where he remained until 1920. In 1921, he founded the Gordon String Quartet in Chicago. That same year, he became concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Frederick Stock. He also headed the violin department at the American Conservatory of Chicago [where he and Arthur Olaf Andersen were colleagues]. In 1930, Gordon moved to Falls Village and founded the Gordon Musical Association, which offered a summer school for music students, particularly chamber musicians, under the name Music Mountain. He therefore resigned his position with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. From 1928, he was a visiting lecturer at the Julius Hartt School of Music in Hartford. In the 1930s, he was conductor of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and a guest conductor of the New Haven Orchestra. For his contributions to chamber music, he was awarded the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal in 1938. In the academic year 1941 42, Gordon became a substitute teacher for Gustave Tinlot at the Eastman School of Music. In 1942, Howard Hanson appointed him head of the school's violin department. In 1947, he suffered a stroke during a concert with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1948, he succumbed to a second stroke, which he suffered during a private music session with Albert Spalding and Fritz Kreisler in Great Barrington.".
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