My somewhat puzzling music book possibly fits into the subject of this Permathread, but I don't think I've got the time at present to figure out how to extract appropriate bits to fit into the theme here.

NEW MUSIC HORIZONS, SIXTH BOOK - ILLUSTRATED BY JULES GOTLIEB

New Music Horizons is a series title used by Silver Burdett, but this one indicates no credit to S-B that I've been able to find.

PUBLISHED BY
THE STATE OF KANSAS
FERD VOILAND, JR., State Printer, TOPEKA

There is NO INDEX OF SONGS with the only thing resembling a Table of Contents being a page giving:

NEW MUSIC HORIZONS Sixth Book
Being a Good Citizen
World Brotherhood
A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever"
Songs Great Artists Sing
Composers of Our Times
Holidays and Festivals
Old World Songs and Ballads
"Jest and Youthful Jollity"
Work and Play in the U. S. A.
When the World Was Younger
How Music Grew
Our Own Tunes and Harmonies
Design in Music
Bowing and Blowing
Everyone Takes His Part
Through the Eyes and Ears of Science
There's Music on the Air

Note the absence of page numbering to indicate where to find any of the above, and they appear to be rather "intermixed" and "overlapping" in the book.

There is a "Classified Index" with page references for where to look for particular "morality/religious propaganda" but few of these reference anything by song titles.

Some songs carried under familiar titles are "fragments" without complete verses, and some have only fragments of a single verse. Some songs with familiar verses - sometimes even matching the scores customary with the song, are shown with song titles that are "unintelligible" and unrelated to the customary titles for the song/tune.

This is a book that I picked up at an antique shop, probably for reasons of "nostalgia" because the cover "looked familiar" - within the past ten years, although I can't say whether it's the same one that might have been in use when I was in 6th grade in Kansas. © - actually indicated just as a "publication date" - is 1946 which is "about the right time," but our "music teacher" also taught generic 5th grade so that's where we got our main "dose" of music, and it was less emphasized in 6th grade. I quite frankly don't recall whether we ever looked at the "book" in 6th grade so I may never have seen a "book 6," although we sang some ...

I'm scanning stuff, including books, because we've run out of shelf space, so all I've got is a pdf of the book. I scan for "publication quality" so my files are large. This one is about 221 MB (248 pages) and probably too big for easy emailing, but would be about 1/3 of a CD. I can print/extract individual pages to perhaps email individual songs, but since I can't figure out a way to tell anyone what's on the pages, that's of uncertain value.

About the only explanation I can come up with for the total disorganization of the book is ... "Hey - it's Kansas." If someone wants to try to figure that out I could snail mail a CD - maybe.

John