Excerpt from One Hundred and Fifty Years of Music Publishing in the United States: An Historical Sketch With Special Reference to the Pioneer Publisher, Oliver Ditson Company, Inc.; 1783-1933 In those days the' very name musician was one of reproach but, stern as were the events and condi tions of the period, surely some mother-hearts crooned lullabies as they rocked the cradle, or over their house work hummed in soft undertone some unforgotten...