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"The idea of Two Piano music is, of course, nothing new, but whether through a new techincal approach originating in
radio performances, or on its own merits as a medium of musical expression, two piano playing is far more popular and acceptable
today than ever before even in those halcyon days of the two piano arrangements of the standard Symphonies, and the reams
of Waltzes, Marches and Suites devised by the Romanticists for not too frequent performances on two pianos.
Of more recent date, a new approach in the conception of two piano music, more especially in the transcriptions of well
known American melodies, has done much to firmly establish the meduim as one thoroughly native to our musical expression and
held in esteem by performers, arrangers and listeners alike.
In offereing a series of two pianos, four-hand transcriptions of outstanding melodies selected from our vast catalogue
we feel that we have achieved still another milestone in idealizing our national heritage in music."
- from the libraries of M. Witmark & Sons and T. B Harms
circa 1940
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