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HOW TO USE THIS CATALOG
You will see, in the first place, that it is all an alphabetical index, from A to Z.
Every piece of music, artist and composer is listed in proper alphabetical place. Every record bears its number, size and Catalog price. Moreover, both the compositions on a record are listed together; if you look for a given title, you can see exactly what is on the other side of the record.
Take, for instance, record No. 6584:
ao Danube Waltz (Strauss) Philadelphia Orchestra
Tales from the Vienna Woods—Waltz (Strauss) Philadelphia Or
Now look under ““T,” and you will find it thus: Tales from the Vienna Woods—Waltz (Strauss) | Philadelphia Orchestra} 6584 12 2.00
Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) Philadelphia Orchestra
To make the Catalog complete as possible, we frequently list the same piece under different headings. An operatic record may be listed under the opera from which it is taken; under the artist recording it, or under its composer, at the end of the Catalog.
Each record 1s listed in its proper alphabetical place, as well as under the name of the artist who made it. A dance record, for example, may be found in several ways. You will find it listed alphabetically under its title. Again, it can be found by referring to the name of the orchestra which made it, in connection with the general heading “Dance Records.” Thus a record is easy to find whether you know only its name, or only the name of the artist who made it, or under a general description with cross references, such as Opera, Dance, Symphony, etc.
For Organ records, look under Organ.
For Piano records, look under Piano.
For Violin records, look under Violin. For Quartets, look under Male Quartets, Instrumental Quartets, etc.
Operatic record listings have the following helps: Almost every opera from which we are making records, is listed with the place and date of its first performance; many have sketches of their plots; every record is listed under the title of the opera, and in the exact order, in the plot, in which it is sung or played, by act and scene. And you will find also, portraits of many artists and sketches of their careers.
The Red Seal records, beside being listed in the alphabetical section of the Catalog, are grouped together into a special ‘‘Red Seal Section” with light red pages. Following this is the “Green” section of records chiefly made in earlier years, which we retain
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