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Volume 36, Number 12 (December 1918), James Francis Cooke Dec 1918

Volume 36, Number 12 (December 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How Washington Irving Revelled in the Music of Christmas

Be a Live Wire

Are You a Good Salesman?

How to Keep Fit for a Successful Public Appearance

Never Louder Than Lovely

Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers

Know Your Piano

Mental Rehearsal

What is Temperament?

Price: Can You Pay It?

Humorous Musical Interruptions

Music That is Too Difficult

Mysterious Middle Pedal: A Most Interesting and Helpful Article …


Volume 36, Number 11 (November 1918), James Francis Cooke Nov 1918

Volume 36, Number 11 (November 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Programs of Works by Women Composers from Contemporary American Publishers

Famous Musical Women of the Past

From the Bottom Up

What the Life of an Artist Means

Musical Celebrities Sell Liberty Bonds (picture)

To the Girl Who Wants to Compose

Music as a Vocation for Women

Mother's Part in the Child's Musical Training

Two Types of Violin Playing

List of Well-Known Women Composers

Story of America's Largest Musical Organization: The National Federation of Musical Clubs

Small Hands and Their Extraordinary Possibilities

Technic of Study


Volume 36, Number 10 (October 1918), James Francis Cooke Oct 1918

Volume 36, Number 10 (October 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spain the Eldorado of Music

Thomas à Becket

Beethoven and Hero Worship

Music Interest of the American Man of To-Morrow

Help in Interpretation

How Can I Make My Practice More Intelligent?

Musical Thermometer

Imperial Opera

Rhythmless Pupils

Stems, Tails and Hooks: A Lesson in Exact Notation

Cultivating a Perfect Staccato Touch

Value of Visiting Lessons

High Lights in the Life of Grieg: Interesting Phases in the Career of the Great Norwegian Master

Thumb and Its Agility

Accompanied Trill

How to Read at Sight and Memorize at the Same Time

Finishing Steps

Second Nature in Music

Interesting Suggestion for Advanced Pupils …


Volume 36, Number 09 (September 1918), James Francis Cooke Sep 1918

Volume 36, Number 09 (September 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Industry

Music, Just for the Fun of It

Musical Contagion

Greatest Musical Asset

Development of Rhythmic Sense in the Music Student

Circumstance and the Artist

Keyboard Maxims of Master Pianists of Today and Yesterday

Why and How to Read at Sight

Two Lessons a Week Versus One

When the Professor Got Back from His Vacation

Thoroughness in Little Things

Some Practical Psychology for Piano Teachers

Scale Honor Roll

Is the Sonata Form Exhausted?

Ties and No Ties

Pupils Whose Parents are Interested

Knack in Securing Agility and Velocity

Don't Neglect the Short Piece

Music's Debt to Gifted Amateurs …


Volume 36, Number 08 (August 1918), James Francis Cooke Aug 1918

Volume 36, Number 08 (August 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Possibilities of Negro Music

Definite Progress

How Beethoven Worked

Gounod's Romantic Philanthropy

Reflection of Neatness

Sense Touch

What Gives Brilliancy to Pianoforte Playing?

Is Standardization in Piano Technic Really Worth While?

How Much Value Do You Receive From Your Practicing?

Music Teacher Worth While

Are We Cutting Off Our Musical Noses?

What Shall We Do with German Music?

Riches No Enemy Can Take Away

Music Rally in Philadelphia

Democracy of Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Debt of All Musicians to the First Great Master to Uphold the Dignity of His Profession in the Presence of Arrogance of the Aristocracy

How to …


Volume 36, Number 07 (July 1918), James Francis Cooke Jul 1918

Volume 36, Number 07 (July 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Composers Compose

Where Not to Use the Pedal

Spirit of the Masters—Preparation for the Study of Chopin, Debussy and Modern Composers

How to Get Your Music Published

Let's Have More Charity in Criticism

Important Uses for Music

Mistakes Cannot Be Corrected in Public

Foundation Steps in Practicing Scales

What Eurythmics Means

Vacation Rest for Music Teachers

Fighting to Get a Start

Choice of Material for Developing Interpretation: An Article of Particular Summer Self-Study Value to Teachers and Advanced Students

Learning How to Teach the Pianoforte

Why Do They Do It?

Etude Master Study Page: Composers of Music of Wide …


Volume 36, Number 06 (June 1918), James Francis Cooke Jun 1918

Volume 36, Number 06 (June 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Schumann and Liszt

Absolute Time: A Study of the Heart Beat in Relation to Rhythm

How Fast and How Slow

Make Your Summer Count

Art of Simplifying

How to Become a Good Teacher

Why Bach?

Coining New Words

Let's Have More Music Than Ever: The United States Government Recognizes a Great Need

Music as a War Need

Toy Drum and a Tin Whistle

Music in Wartime

Ragging Good Music

That Weak Measure

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Russian Composers

Artistic and Educational Importance of the Polyphonic Music of Bach …


Volume 36, Number 05 (May 1918), James Francis Cooke May 1918

Volume 36, Number 05 (May 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Benjamin Franklin's Musical Side

Letter from General Hugh L. Scott

Slavery to the Keyboard

Piano's Future Assured

Practice the Bass

Music Now More Than Ever: Eminent Men and Women in Many Walks of Life Earnestly Urge Music as a Present National Need

Interesting Way to Teach Phrasing

Music Teachers' Desk

Love Letter from Mozart to his Wife

Get in Touch with the Other Professions

Personality and Interpretation

César Franck After Twenty-five Years

Haydn's Souvenirs of London

High Wrist and Low Wrist

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn

Home Without Music

Find Joy in …


Volume 36, Number 04 (April 1918), James Francis Cooke Apr 1918

Volume 36, Number 04 (April 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Their Ancestry

How Long is the Life of a Piano?

Price of Success

How to Locate the Keys by Touch

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Bach, Haydn and Mozart

Time and Rhythm

Fun in Music

Are You Musically Educated?

Questionnaire for the Average Music Teacher of the Average Child

All About Accent

Different Types of Song Accompaniment

Emotional Effect Through Rhythm and Phrasing

Open Door to Opera

Value of Finger Staccato

Musicians Short Folk

Why Some Music Lessons are Dull

What to Do When You Cannot Secure A Good Teacher: Self Help Hints for Active Music …


Volume 36, Number 03 (March 1918), James Francis Cooke Mar 1918

Volume 36, Number 03 (March 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Use and Abuse of Five Finger Exercise

Tact in Teaching Technic

Counting Aloud

Let Your Ears Save Your Eyes

Public Performance of Etude Music

Are You Getting into a Rut: An Important Symposium

How Do Composers Compose?

Centenary of the Great Educational Classic for the Piano

How to Use the Etude's Educational Supplement

Bach in Burlesque

Little Lights and Shadows of Music Teaching

Music, the Painter of Pictures in Moods: A Highly Entertaining and Instructive Discussion of the Subject

Rare Effect in Advanced Pianoforte Playing

Scale Study Without Monotony

Some Interesting Things About the Gavotte

Fighting Musical Obstacles in the …


Volume 36, Number 02 (February 1918), James Francis Cooke Feb 1918

Volume 36, Number 02 (February 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Have You a Self Starter?

Rates of Tempo in the Past and Present

Can Ugly Music be Beautiful?

Get Rid of Fear

Two-Fold Vitality of Anglo-Saxon Music

Developing the Tactile Sense

Success with the Adult Beginner at the Piano

Do Not Attempt the Impossible

Hands, Hands, Hands: Some Interesting Facts for Teachers and Pupils About the Pianist's Tools

Accent Scales Right

Making Pupils Musicians

What Should a Teacher Know?

Irregular Groups that Baffle Pianists: How to Play Combined Accents, Times and Rhythms in Pianoforte Composition

Case of Richard Wagner vs. Democracy: Should the Operas of Richard Wagner be Debarred in …


Dear Little Boy Of Mine, Ernest R. Ball, J Keirn Brennan Jan 1918

Dear Little Boy Of Mine, Ernest R. Ball, J Keirn Brennan

Historic Sheet Music Collection

1. Oft when I'm lonely my memory swings Back to your baby days, Feeling the joys that a baby brings Out of God's wond'rous ways; Seeming to hear the first pray'r that you said, Longing to tuck you in bed_ There's no one knows how I long for you now, Here with my arms outspread. 2. Boy of mine, Boy of mine, Altho' my heart was aching, I seemed to know you'd want to go, Pride in your manhood waking. I'll be here, waiting, dear, Till at a glad dawn's breaking, I'll hear you say you're home to stay, Dear …


Volume 36, Number 01 (January 1918), James Francis Cooke Jan 1918

Volume 36, Number 01 (January 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Folk Music: A Negligible Quantity

Beethoven's Advice to a Piano Teacher

New Year Advice from Famous Pianists: Study Epigrams of the Foremost Present Day Virtuosos Selected for this Issue

Too Much Preparation

Well Tempered

Every Teacher's New Year Resolution

Work Out Your Own Salvation

Legato Playing with Pedal and Without

Case Against Don’ts

Beauties in the Music of the American Indian (interview with Thurlow Lieurance)

Little Thinking Machines

Where the Left Hand Ends and the Right Hand Begins

What is Elasticity in Piano Playing?

Greatest Shortcomings of the Average Student

Is Slow Practice Overdone?

Helpful Routine in Sight Reading …


Ua37/4 Funeral March Heroica, Franz Strahm Jan 1918

Ua37/4 Funeral March Heroica, Franz Strahm

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Sheet music for Franz Strahm's original composition Funeral March Heroica written in memorial of the fallen heroes of the World War I American Expeditionary Forces.


At The Coffee Cooler's Tea / Music By Harry De Costa; Words By Alex Sullivan, Harry De Costa, Alex Sullivan, Witmark And Sons (Chicago) Jan 1918

At The Coffee Cooler's Tea / Music By Harry De Costa; Words By Alex Sullivan, Harry De Costa, Alex Sullivan, Witmark And Sons (Chicago)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of African Americans, dressed in finery, dancing under the stars; description novelty jazz song; Publisher: Witmark and Sons (Chicago)


When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France / Music By Cliff Hess And Edgar Leslie; Words By Alfred; Bryan, Cliff Hess, Edgar Leslie, Waterson Berlin And Snyder Co. (New York) Jan 1918

When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France / Music By Cliff Hess And Edgar Leslie; Words By Alfred; Bryan, Cliff Hess, Edgar Leslie, Waterson Berlin And Snyder Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of a marching band, with battle scenes in the background; Publisher: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. (New York)


When It's Cotton Pickin' Time In Tennessee / Music By James A. Brennan; Words By Jack Caddigan, James A. Brennan, Jack Caddigan, Daly Music Publisher (Boston) Jan 1918

When It's Cotton Pickin' Time In Tennessee / Music By James A. Brennan; Words By Jack Caddigan, James A. Brennan, Jack Caddigan, Daly Music Publisher (Boston)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of idyllic farm scene, where African Americans smile as they pick cotton; Publisher: Daly Music Publisher (Boston)


The Pickaninny's Paradise / Music By Nat. Osborne; Words By Sam Ehrlich, Nat. Osborne, Sam Ehrlich, Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. (New York) Jan 1918

The Pickaninny's Paradise / Music By Nat. Osborne; Words By Sam Ehrlich, Nat. Osborne, Sam Ehrlich, Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: photo of the Courtney Sisters; drawing of an elderly African American woman talking to a young African American girl; Publisher: Harry von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. (New York)


I'M Sorry I Made You Cry / Words By N. J. Clesi, N. J. Clesi, Leo Feist Inc. (New York) Jan 1918

I'M Sorry I Made You Cry / Words By N. J. Clesi, N. J. Clesi, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of a Caucasian couple, locked in an embrace; Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)


Kentucky Dream / Music By S. R. Henry; Words By Agnetta Floris And D. Onivas; Translated By Frank H. Warden, S. R. Henry, Agnetta Floris, D. Onivas, Jos. W. Stern And Co. (New York) Jan 1918

Kentucky Dream / Music By S. R. Henry; Words By Agnetta Floris And D. Onivas; Translated By Frank H. Warden, S. R. Henry, Agnetta Floris, D. Onivas, Jos. W. Stern And Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: a Photo of Mabel Norman; Publisher: Jos. W. Stern and Co. (New York)


Mammy's Lullaby / Words By Lee. S. Roberts, Lee. S. Roberts Jan 1918

Mammy's Lullaby / Words By Lee. S. Roberts, Lee. S. Roberts

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of an evening scene with a little house and a steamboat in background; text on cover reads close yoh dreamy eyes; Publisher: Forster Music Publisher (Chicago)


Mammy's Lullaby / Music By Lee S. Roberts; Words By Will Callahan, Lee S. Roberts, Will Callahan, Forster Music Publisher (Chicago) Jan 1918

Mammy's Lullaby / Music By Lee S. Roberts; Words By Will Callahan, Lee S. Roberts, Will Callahan, Forster Music Publisher (Chicago)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of sunset over a river; description reads a dreamy southern waltz (see 431); Publisher: Forster Music Publisher (Chicago)


Ziegfeld Follies 1918 / Music By Dave Stamper; Words By Gene Buck, Dave Stamper, Gene Buck, T. B. Harms And Co. (New York) Jan 1918

Ziegfeld Follies 1918 / Music By Dave Stamper; Words By Gene Buck, Dave Stamper, Gene Buck, T. B. Harms And Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: photo collage of twenty Ziegfeld girls; Publisher: T. B. Harms and Co. (New York)


How'd You Like To Be My Daddy / Music By Ted Snyder; Words By Joe Young And Sam M. Lewis, Ted Snyder, Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis, Waterson Berlin And Snyder Co. (New York) Jan 1918

How'd You Like To Be My Daddy / Music By Ted Snyder; Words By Joe Young And Sam M. Lewis, Ted Snyder, Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis, Waterson Berlin And Snyder Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: photo of two women superimposed over a drawing of an exotic garden scene; Publisher: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. (New York)


When The Boys From Dixie Eat The Melon On The Rhine / Music By Ernest Breuer; Words By Alfred Bryan, Ernest Breuer, Alfred Bryan, Richmond Publisher (New York) Jan 1918

When The Boys From Dixie Eat The Melon On The Rhine / Music By Ernest Breuer; Words By Alfred Bryan, Ernest Breuer, Alfred Bryan, Richmond Publisher (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of Caucasian male American troops unloading watermelons from a ship; caricature drawing inset of African American boys eating watermelons; Publisher: Richmond Publisher (New York)


Cotton Hollow Harmony / Music By Richard A. Writing; Words By Chas A. Mason, Richard A. Writing, Chas A. Mason, Jerome H. Remick And Co. (Detroit) Jan 1918

Cotton Hollow Harmony / Music By Richard A. Writing; Words By Chas A. Mason, Richard A. Writing, Chas A. Mason, Jerome H. Remick And Co. (Detroit)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of an African American couple gazing into each others eyes; Publisher: Jerome H. Remick and Co. (Detroit)


That Alabama Jazbo Band / Words By W. Benton Overstreet, W. Benton Overstreet, Will Rossiter (Chicago) Jan 1918

That Alabama Jazbo Band / Words By W. Benton Overstreet, W. Benton Overstreet, Will Rossiter (Chicago)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: caricature of an African American band; photo inset of Sophie Tucker; Publisher: Will Rossiter (Chicago)


Tears Of Love / Music By S.R. Henry; Words By Frank K. Warren, S. R. Henry, Frank K. Warren, Jos. W. Stern And Co. (New York) Jan 1918

Tears Of Love / Music By S.R. Henry; Words By Frank K. Warren, S. R. Henry, Frank K. Warren, Jos. W. Stern And Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: a photo of a woman; Publisher: Jos. W. Stern and Co. (New York)


Jazzin' The Blues Away / Music By Dick Heinrich; Words By Jeff Branen, Dick Heinrich, Jeff Branen, Stasny Music Co. (New York) Jan 1918

Jazzin' The Blues Away / Music By Dick Heinrich; Words By Jeff Branen, Dick Heinrich, Jeff Branen, Stasny Music Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawings of Caucasian males performing music; Publisher: Stasny Music Co. (New York)


At The Shim-Me-Sha-Wabblers' Ball / Music By Geo A. Lewis; Words By Geo A. Lewis, Geo Lewis, Geo A. Lewis, Frank K. Root And Co. (Chicago) Jan 1918

At The Shim-Me-Sha-Wabblers' Ball / Music By Geo A. Lewis; Words By Geo A. Lewis, Geo Lewis, Geo A. Lewis, Frank K. Root And Co. (Chicago)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of African Americans dancing at a ball; Publisher: Frank K. Root and Co. (Chicago)