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1. The Sacred Music of the Omaha Indians.

   This lecture is popular in character illustrating the religious beliefs and feeling of an important tribe of our America Aborigines. It is a largely an account of the lecturer's experiences on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska. which he visited under circumstances exceptionally favorable for the study of his subject. He was admitted to the confidence of the Indians, and allowed to witness a very important religious ceremony. (that of the Sacred Fellowship Pipes), rarely seen by any white person.
   
   This lecture was first delivered in the popular Plymouth Course and later before the Woman's Club of Milwaukee, exciting the keenest interest. Wherever these Omaha Songs are played or sung, they awaken surprise at the beauty of this newly discovered mine of religious folk-music.  

2. The Origin and Function of Music.

3. The Form Spontaneously Assumed by Natural Folk-Songs.

  These two lectures, while strictly scientific, are also popular in style and character. They sum up, in brief space, the results of many years of study and experience, embodying especially the knowledge obtained by the lecturer's practical experience of Indian Music, and of the various uncivilized peoples represented at the World's Columbian Exposition.

4. How a Great Composition Develops a Germ.

  This lecture is a popular exposition of the important subject of Musical Form, showing how a simple motive may be so treated by a composer as to form the staple of a great composition, fulfilling at the requirements of a work of Art: Unity, variety, symmetry, contrast and climax.

5. Music as an Educational Factor.
  This lecture is a strong plea, by a musician who has not only had a long experience in his profession but also as a college student and a college professor, for the educational value of music, particularly from the intellectual and imaginative sides. It will be of especial interest to teachers and college professors.
  The five lectures will be of great value to schools and colleges where music is taught.
  All these lectures will be freely illustrated. For the first one especially, a good piano perfectly in tune, is indispensable; although a church organ might be substituted in case it were more convenient. 


  Professor Fillmore's duties in connection with the Milwaukee Shcool of Music will permit him to accept only a limited number of lecture engagements.
  Applications for terms and dates may be made to
         J.C FILLMORE
         207 Grand Ave.
         MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC.    Milwaukee, Wis.