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Metronome was an influential music magazine published from 1881 until 1961.

Other Metronomes
The Metronome: A Monthly Review of Music, Boston, published by White & Goullaud from April 1871 to May 1874
 * Ambrose W. Davenport, Jr. (1838–1906), Editor, assisted by his brother, Warren Davenport (1840–1908)..





History
Bandmaster Arthur A. Clappe founded The Metronome in 1884 for band leaders. Carl Fischer (1849–1923), the music publisher, later became publisher of The Metronome for band leaders, and was its publisher until 1914.

The magazine in its early years catered for musicians in marching and then dance bands, but from the swing era, Metronome focused primarily on the genre of Jazz music appealing to fans. During the 1940s, the cover title was displayed as "Metronome" (in a cursive script-style font) with the subtitle words " BANDS &middot; RECORDS &middot; RADIO " (see Metronome logo image under "References"). Notable writers for the magazine were its co-editors, Leonard Feather and Barry Ulanov; Miles Davis cited them as the only two white music critics in New York to understand bebop.

In 1960, Metronome was acquired by RMC Associates of New York City and became its wholly owned subsidiary with a new executive publisher, Harvey Shotz, a Los Angeles based artist manager doing business as Harvey Shotz Artists Manager. Bill Coss remained editor. Coss was a former violinist and, later, artist manager.

The magazine closed in 1961.

Metronome All-Stars Band
Metronome Magazine conducted an annual poll during the years 1939-1961 to choose the musicians whom their readers considered as the top jazz instrumentalists, for that year, playing each instrument. Often, the Metronome organization recorded the all-stars on a regular basis, with recording sessions of the bands chosen in 1939-1942, 1945–1950, 1953, and 1956.

In many cases, the all-stars group recorded two songs, with short solo performances, from nearly all of the participants.

In 1940, Metronome magazine organized the Metronome All Star Nine, including Harry James, Jack Teagarden, Benny Carter, Jess Stacy, Charlie Christian and Gene Krupa.

The all-stars band had several name variations: Metronome All Star Nine; Metronome All Stars; Metronome All Stars 1956; The Metronome All-Stars; or Metronome Allstars.

Edgar Bitner
Edgar Bitner, who ran Leo Feist, Inc., in its founder's absence, was a Tin Pan Alley pioneer, who, with Julius P. Witmark and Nathan Burkan (1878–1936) (a founding father of intellectual property law), was one of ASCAP's honorary pioneer members. As a sideline, after retiring from Feist in 1936, Bitner took over publishing of Metronome, Musical Courier, both of which his son, Edgar, took over after his death.

Metronome Corporation in 1960
In 1960, Ned and John W. Bitner, whose offices were at 26 West 58th Street in Manhattan, were publishers of Your Music and Music Dealer.


 * Beginning around 1950, William Joseph Dougherty (1893–1951) became executive editor of Music Dealer. Dougherty, in October 1945, after World War II, became associate editor of Music Trade Review, then he became editor of Musical Merchandise, one of several magazines founded by Glad Henderson (né Gladston Winchester Henderson; 1884–1942), then, beginning around 1949, advertising and sales promotion manager for Mastro Industries Inc., founded by the French-born reed manufacturer [[Mario Maccaferri (1900–1993).

Publishers

 * <—1906-1907—>: George H. Hilbert (1881–1969)
 * 19??–1938: Edgar Franklin Bitner (1877–1939), former president of Leo Feist, Inc., was publisher of (i) Music Periodicals Corporation, owner of Musical Courier and (ii) Metronome. He retired December 1938, four months before his death. He was survived by three children, Julia Elizabeth "Betty" Bitner (1907–1977), Edgar ("Ned") Franklin Bitner, Jr. (1912–1966), a 1938 Princeton College graduate, and John ("Jack") William Bitner (1915–1999), a 1932 Babson graduate.
 * 1939–1960: Ned Bitner, co-publisher
 * 1939–1960: John William Bitner (1915–1999), co-publisher


 * 1960–1961: Robert Asen (1910–1993), co-publisher
 * 1960–1961: Milton Lichtenstein

Editors-in-chief

 * 1889: Arthur A. Clappé (1850–1920), M.M.C.M., an Irish-born bandmaster, composer, writer, who had studied at Trinity College of Music and the Royal Military School of Music (graduating 1873), both of London. From 1877 to 1884, Clappé directed the Canadian Governor General's Foot Guards Band. He became a U.S. naturalized citizen in 1892.  Clappé directed the Army Band at West Point from about 1887 to 1895.  In 1911, the United States Army Music Training School was founded under his leadership at Fort Jay, Governors Island, Manhattan, which in 1921 was officially recognized as the United States Army School of Music and later relocated in Washington, D.C.  Clappé served as editor of Metronome and Dominant.
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 * <—1903–1922—>: Gustav Saenger (1865–1935), editor the Musical Observer and the Metronome, violinist and pianist. Both publications were, at the time, published by Carl Fischer.  Saenger translated into English Professor H. Kling's Modern Orchestration and Instrumentation; editor-in-chief Carl Fischer Violin publications; composer 2 concert solos (Spanish style), 3 concert miniatures, 12 "Album Leaves" (for piano); arrangements and pieces for piano and string instruments


 * 1939–1955: George T. Simon, editor-in-chief, who sometimes wrote articles under the pseudonym Jimmy Bracken. He also had been a drummer. He changed the magazine's focus from articles on instrument-making and publishing to items about recordings and the noted big-band leaders of the day.
 * 1955–1960: Bill Coss (né William Hungerford Coss, Jr.; 1925–1988) who had earned a bachelor of science degree from Boston College in 1951, was editor-in-chief of Metronome and Jazz Today.

Managing editor

 * 1960–1962: David Solomon, hired December 1960 by Bob Asen, after Asen let Coss go.

Random people

 * 1916: Walter Strich Fischer (1882–1946), manager Musical Observer and secretary Metronome Publishing Company, 46 Cooper Square; he was one of three sons of the founder and namesake of Carl Fischer Music

Business manager

 * <—1914–1916—>: George H. Hilbert (1881–1969), business manager Musical Observer and Treasurer Metronome Publishing Company

Associate editors

 * 1935–1939: George T. Simon, editor-in-chief, who, among other things coined one of the nicknames for Woody Herman's band, "The Herd"
 * 1943–1955: Barry Ulanov (1918–2000), who is married to Ann Belford Ulanov, professor of Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She also manages the lecture series in memory of her late husband.

Associate photographer

 * <—1958—> : William Claxton, West Coast Staff Photographer
 * Herb Snitzer

Selected contributors

 * Leonardo De Lorenzo (1875–1962), flutist: 25 articles (circa 1915) – "Famous Flutists of the Past and Present," a column that included profiles on Giulio Briccialdi, Eugène Walckiers (1793–1866), Heinrich Soussmann (1796–1848), Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier, and Anton Bernhard Fürstenau

Addresses

 * <—1903—>6-10 Fourth Avenue
 * <—1906-1907—>: 48 Cooper Square
 * <—1908–1909—> 136-44 Thompson Street
 * <–1914–1922—>: 48 Cooper Square

Selected articles
Reproduced articles in Jazz in Print (1856–1929): An Anthology of Selected Early Readings in Jazz History Karl Koenig (ed.), Pendragon Press (2002), pps. 576–577;


 * "Rag Time, by Gustav Kühl (de), Die Musik, Vol. 1, August 1902: 1973, translated by Gustav Saenger, "The Musical Possibilities of Rag-Time," Metronome, Vol. 19, No. 3, March 1903, p. 11
 * "Possibilities of the Concert Wind Band from the Standpoint of a Modern Composer," Metronome Orchestra Monthly 34/11 (November 1918), 22-3

Other selected articles
 * "Making the First Talking Picture of a Jazz Orchestra," by Pat Ballard, Metronome, November 1929, 40


 * W. Eugene Smith was mentioned in: "Magazine Note: Metronome, the jazz magazine has begun a series of articles on American photographers." Infinity, vol. 9, no. 9 (Sept. 1960), p. 22. (The series was to include articles on Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Berenice Abbott, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Roy DeCarava, and Edward Steichen)


 * More than a dozen reprints: Jazz in Print (1859–1929)

Public access
Metronome (Carl Fischer)
 * began with: Vol. 48, No. 2 (February 1932)
 * (1995–1961)
 * (1932–1959)
 * (1960–1961)
 * (1960–1961)
 * (1960–1961)
 * (1960–1961)
 * (1960–1961)

Metronome Orchestra Monthly
 * (Metronome Publishing Company)
 * (Metronome Publishing Company)
 * Vol. 30, No. 10 (October 14, 1914)- Ceased in December 1924
 * Vol. 30, No. 10 (October 14, 1914)- Ceased in December 1924

Metronome Orchestra Edition (1925–1932)
 * (Metronome Publishing Company)
 * (Metronome Publishing Company)
 * (Metronome Publishing Company)

Metronome Band Monthly
 * (Metronome Publishing Company)
 * (Metronome Publishing Company)
 * (Metronome Publishing Company)

Metronome Band Edition
 * (1925–1932) (Metronome Corporation, publisher)

Music U.S.A.

Jazz Music U.S.A.
 * Metronome Yearbook

Metronome Music U.S.A.

The Dominant
 * Vol. 1 (1893) – Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan. 1925) – 32 volumes

Music dealer, the business magazine for music merchants

Microfilm and digital
Metronome
 * , Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1885) – Vol 30, No. 9 (September 1914), Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program

Metronome Orchestra Edition, (Metronome Publishing Company)
 * , Vol. 41, No. 1 (January 1, 1925) – Vol. 48, No. 1 (January 1932), Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program
 * , 1925–1932, AMS Press

Metronome Orchestra and Band Editions (1925–1932)
 * , Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program

Metronome, Vol. 48 (1932) – Vol. 75 (1958) (gaps)
 * (Metronome Corporation, publisher), Library of Congress Preservation Microfilming Program

Metronome, Vol. 77, No. 6 (June 1960) – Vol. 78, No. 12 (December 1961)

Metronome Music U.S.A., 1959
 * (Metronome Corporation, publisher) (digital version)

Metronome, 1897–1961 (32 reels)
 * , AMS Press (1971)

Metronome, A Pictorial History of Jazz
 * , AMS Press Film Service


 * American Microfilm Service, Inc. (AMS Inc.)


 * ML 1 .M17. Metronome. V. 13-29, 31-67, 69-78. New York, Metronome Corp., egc. Jan 1887- Dec 1913; Jan 1915-Dec 1951; Jan 1953-Dec 1961.
 * ML 1 .M17. Metronome. Metronome, orchestra monthly and the Metronome, band monthly. From Jan. 1925 to Jan. 1932 called either "orchestra edition" or "band edition". Absorbed the Dominant, orchestra monthly, in Jan. 1925.

Copies of Metronome online

 * Metronome Orchestra Monthly (1915: Vol. 31, nos. 1–10) (courtesy Eastman School of Music)
 * Metronome Band Monthly (1917: Vol. 33, nos. 1–12) (courtesy Eastman School of Music)

Disambiguation

 * The Metronome of this article is not to be confused with Metronome Magazine founded January 1, 1986 (Vol. 1, No. 1) a monthly edited by Brian M. Owens covering arts and entertainment for the Boston area.

Simon's relatives

 * 1903: Alfred L. Simon, Edwin A. Brady, and Leo L. Simon (1866–1959) firm of Alfred L. Simon & Co.

Discography

 * TV Movie: "Getz: Ravel, Sauter, Wilder, Macero and all that jazz ...," produced by Thomas J. Knott, Written by William H. Coss, Jr.; conductor and of the Chamber Symphony was Anshel Brusilow. The program was one of 52 specials scheduled by Group W during the 1968–69 broadcast throughout the United States.  Aired March 18, 1969.