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Volume 62, Number 12 (December 1944), James Francis Cooke
Volume 62, Number 12 (December 1944), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Dawn on the Horizon
Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves
Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)
Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge
How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)
Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes
If Parents Had Had Their Way
Music as a Living, Human Element
New York's First Opera
What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words
Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)
Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music
Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …
Volume 57, Number 12 (December 1939), James Francis Cooke
Volume 57, Number 12 (December 1939), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Secret of a Merry Christmas
What the World War Did for Music in Europe (interview with Granville Bantock)
Mistaken Idea
Amaryllis and Louis XIII
Dr. Damrosch on Musical Tolerance
Night Before Christmas. A Musical Playlet
Let Us Give the Piece a Rub
Pencil
Story of Major Bowes and His Amateur Hour: A Million Dollar Idea Carried Out by a Million Dollar Personality
How to Make Money by Teaching the Piano, Part 3
Billings' Best
Old Familiar Carols Game
Music Is My Hobby!: The Engaging Story of How Successful Business and Professional Men and Women Avoid Life Monotony and Insure Against …
Volume 56, Number 12 (December 1938), James Francis Cooke
Volume 56, Number 12 (December 1938), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Christmas Love (poem)
Her Christmas Piano
What Music Has Done for Me (interview with William Allen White)
Lessons with Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Piano Virtuoso and Conductor: An Apostle of Beauty in Piano Playing
Four Octave Practice Helps
Christmas in Many Lands: A Television Christmas Recital
Lady of the Court of Henry XV (portrait)
Threshold of Music: Natural Laws That Guide the Flow of Chords
What Now for Music Teachers? A Nationwide Symposium: Eminent Members of the Music Teachers' National Association, to be in Convention in Washington During the Present Month, Discuss an Important Subject in Advance
Overcoming a Musical Crisis
Let's …
Volume 55, Number 12 (December 1937), James Francis Cooke
Volume 55, Number 12 (December 1937), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Joy of Christmas Morning: A Merry Christmas to Etude Friends Everywhere!
Unseen Forces (interview with Charles R.Gay)
Christmas at Mrs. Santa Claus' Home: A Story Recital for Children
Memorybook Pages of a Musical Pilgrim: Presenting Messages and Music from Many States, Part 4: I Hear America Singing—Out West and Up North
Marimba Moves into the Parlor
Swing! Swing! Swing!: The Last Word in X Music
Musical Lure of the Ballet
Lessons from Beethoven's Sketch Book
Plea for the Real Debussy (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)
New Ideas on Octave Playing: A Fresh and Interesting Discussion
Musical Sandwich
Singer's Equipment: The …
Volume 54, Number 12 (December 1936), James Francis Cooke
Volume 54, Number 12 (December 1936), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Sentiment vs. Sentimentality: A Short History (1900-1936) of the Development of the Ability of the American Student to Express Himself through Music (interview with Rudolph Ganz)
Nativity: A Musical Pageant Arranged for High School Glee Clubs
Manager States His Case (interview with Lawrence Evans and Jack Salter)
Good Lesson Tree
For Scale Practice and Hand Position
From a One-Fingered Virtuoso
Musical Aeroplane Trip Around the World: Music Visits to Many Nations in Story Recital Form
Yuletide Carolles Olde and Newe: Often on Legends with a Whimsy Background
Fundamentals in Advertising
Reflections from a Busy Musical Life (interview with Alexander T. …
Volume 52, Number 12 (December 1934), James Francis Cooke
Volume 52, Number 12 (December 1934), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Progress in Piano Playing and Teaching (interview with Ossip Gabrilowitsch)
Letting the Pupil Select the Music
How to Write a Good Musical Advertisement
Removing the Jounce
Famous German Musical Centers: Leipzig, Part 2
Schumann Discovers a Young Genius
Etude Music Study Expansion League: Great Revival of Interest in Practice
Santa Claus' Surprise Party
American Singer's Opportunities (interview with Gladys Swarthout)
Rhythmic Drawing
What is the Basis of the Piano Technic of Today: Great Pianists Give Important Opinions
Christmas Again
Vital First Year of Music Study: Selecting Right Materials for Children
How to Improve Mind and Muscle Coördination
Square Holes for …
Volume 51, Number 12 (December 1933), James Francis Cooke
Volume 51, Number 12 (December 1933), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Christmas Crusade: The Parable of a King and a Mendicant
Spirit of Christmas in Music: Musical Lore of Noeltide from Many Lands
Music for Christmas
Perfect Practice Hour
Little Visit to European Musical Shrines: Vienna Capital of Music
Creating the Music Habit with Children (interview with Ernest Schelling)
When Handel's Messiah was First Given
What Could be Righted in Opera
Candle Light Christmas Mystery: The Music Selected and Arranged from Masters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Four Hands that Play as Two (interview with Josef Lhévinne and Rosina Lhévinne)
What I Have Learned as an Accompanist
Glance Behind the …
Volume 50, Number 12 (December 1932), James Francis Cooke
Volume 50, Number 12 (December 1932), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
What Does Christmas Music Mean to You?
Visit with Belgium's Musical Queen
Master Lesson on the Carnaval, Op. 9 of Robert Schumann, Part 2
Art of Singing (interview with Benjamin Gigli)
Use of Reward Cards, The
Man who Wrote Silent Night
Music Teachers' National Association Annual Meeting
Relaxing of Tight Wrists
Musical Pepper Box
For Stiff Hands
Chant d'un Voyageur: Capital of the Kingdom of Music
Art of Copying Music
How I Live and Work (interview with Menuhin Yehudi)
My Piano: An Appreciation
Stories of Famous Concert Songs: Mana-Zucca's Own Story of I Love Life (interview with Mana-Zucca)
Structure of …
Volume 49, Number 12 (December 1931), James Francis Cooke
Volume 49, Number 12 (December 1931), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
George Bernard Shaw Talks on Modern Music: Europe's Most Famous Writer and Music Critic Discusses Many Interesting Things in the Shavian Fashion
How Well Do You Know Your MacDowell?
Humorous Situations in Wagner Music Drama Performances
Music Teachers National Association
Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 18
Visit to Musical Oxford
Impression by Repetition
Christmas Eve in Bach's Church
Sparks from the Musical Anvil
Very First Lessons at the Keyboard
Message of Music
Requirements of the Radio Singer
Unusual Crayon Portrait of Brahms
Brahms as I Knew Him …
Volume 48, Number 12 (December 1930), James Francis Cooke
Volume 48, Number 12 (December 1930), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Symphony of Christmas
Why I Prefer Concert to Opera (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)
Reflections on Piano Playing
Miscellaneous Teaching Hints
Toward Facility
Buying Instruments for the Toy Orchestra
Music and Music Study in the Startling Seventies
What Piano Study Will Do for Children
Every Gentleman was a Musician Then: A Glance into the Delightful Musical Atmosphere of the Days of Samuel Pepys in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 3
Critica Digest of Music and Masters of Music, Part 2
Keep …
Volume 47, Number 12 (December 1929), James Francis Cooke
Volume 47, Number 12 (December 1929), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Romance of the Christmas Carol
Music, Munich and the Mad King, Part 1
Pedagogic Principles of Piano Playing: As Prepared for the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris
Decade of The Six: Based on an Interview with the Distinguished French Composer, Arthur Honegger, One of The Six
Secrets of a Master Technic
Self-Study in Music
Changes in Piano Teaching in Fifty Years
Getting Correct Hand Position
To Overcome Poor Fingering
Lure of Japanese Music, Part 1
Are You Making Your Scales Real Ladders to Success: A Review of Common-sense Pedagogical Procedure for Intermediate Students and Some Novel Suggestions for Advanced …
Volume 46, Number 12 (December 1928), James Francis Cooke
Volume 46, Number 12 (December 1928), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Don't Make Counting a Bugbear
Tuning Forks and Canary Birds
Question and Answer Department
Music of Christmas Dawn
World's Tribute to Franz Schubert (pictures)
World Bows in Homage of Franz Schubert: A Graphic Word Picture of the Great Schubert Festival at Vienna
Studio Slogan
Essence of Opera or Almanzor and Imogen, An Opera in Three Acts
How to Play Repeats
Musicians—Painting
Why a Conductor?: Some Hints to the Layman
Teaching the Triads
Style in Singing
Master Themes the World Loves Best
Evolution of Piano Playing and Virtuosity, Part 6
Maintaining Concentration in Practice
Milan, the Shrine of the Opera, Part …
Volume 45, Number 12 (December 1927), James Francis Cooke
Volume 45, Number 12 (December 1927), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Sharps and Flats
On Extemporization
How One Community Solved the Recital Problem
Do Your Fingers Kick Out?
Overcoming Indifference
Christmas Everywhere
Seven Reasons Why You or Members of Your Family Should NOT Study the Piano
César Franck Violin Sonata (painting)
Dissonances and Un-Dissonances: A Chapter Dealing with Euphonious and Cacophanous Tone Groupings
Music That is in Every Man (interview with Roxy)
Potential Sound Always Present
Rut of Separate Hand Practice
Things That Lend Brilliance to Piano Playing
Haunts of Great Masters in Vienna (etchings)
Pelicans and the Piano: A New Revelation of the Significance of Practical Musical Training
Roads to …
Volume 44, Number 12 (December 1926), James Francis Cooke
Volume 44, Number 12 (December 1926), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Art of Clarity in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Harold Samuel)
Teaching the Adult Beginner
Counting for Balky Pupils
How to Teach the Notes on the Grand Staff Beginning with Middle C
Don't Hurry! The Tortoise Won
Music-Sharing Plan
Leschetizky Memorial Dedicated
Interesting Ways of Giving Harmony Examination
How Kullak Taught Octaves
When to Practice Each Hand Alone
Practice Audiences
Good Equipment Necessary for Good Instruction
Schubert the Modernist
Young Student's Measure
Relative Minors
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and How to Play Them
Musical Postcards
Schubertiana
Character Study of George Frederic Handel
Last Lesson First
Golden Age of Music: Henry T. Finck's …
Volume 43, Number 12 (December 1925), James Francis Cooke
Volume 43, Number 12 (December 1925), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Music the Humanizer
Tinsel and Gold of Opera
Studying Aloud
Collapsible Fingers
How to Prepare for Playing in Concerts
Artistic Execution of Octaves
Don't Discourage the Pupil by Beginning all Over Again
Facts about Early Musicians
Brahms, Tausig and Some Variations
Your Chances of Scaling the Operatic Heights (interview with Maria Jeritza)
Two Geniuses in One Apartment
Touch that Thrills
Brahms on Composing Songs
Dictionary Dick
Keyboard Guides
New Ideas on Study and Practice (interview with Percy Grainger)
Some Suggestions for Sightreading
Keep Sweet
Relaxed Piano Playing
Steps Upward
Landing on Skips
Need for Merry Music
Rising Tide of Musical …
Volume 42, Number 12 (December 1924), James Francis Cooke
Volume 42, Number 12 (December 1924), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Acquiring a Technic of Interpretation
Public Library
Inspirational Moments
Why a Musical Italy?
Ring Out, Ye Bells!: How to Secure Bell Effects in Piano Music
Illustration and Demonstration in Teaching
Exercises for Development of Extensors
Triumph of Grieg: How the Great Norwegian Composer Has Gained Permanent Recognition
Seven Practices to Conquer Difficulties
Play Days of Musicians
Are You Going Caroling This Christmas? Revival of a Mediaeval Custom Which is Sweeping the Country: Stories of the Most Famous Christmas Carols and Christmas Folk Songs
Musical Class Training
Giving the Fingers a Vacation
Waking Dozing Students
Determination Masters Piece
Rubinstein's Master Methods …
Volume 41, Number 12 (December 1923), James Francis Cooke
Volume 41, Number 12 (December 1923), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Robert Schumann
Basic Principles of Piano Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)
Great Composers and Their Predominant Moods
How the Rural Music Teacher Can Stimulate Interest
What the Metropolitan Music Critic Looks for Most
Boney Structure of the Hand
Manna-Zucca (Biographical)
Echoes from the Work Shop
Legato Touch
Favorite Instruments of the Great Composers
Out of Tune—Out of Music
Should Piano Playing Undergo a Radical Reform? (interview with Vladimir de Pachmann)
Do It Again
How to Avoid Fumbling at the Keyboard
Beethoven's Novelties in Instrumentation
Chats with Serious Piano Students
Unheard Practice
Importance of Accompanying
Play as You Think—Think as You …
Volume 40, Number 12 (December 1922), James Francis Cooke
Volume 40, Number 12 (December 1922), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Technique and Hand Training
Christmas Music, Past and Present
Music and the Arts
Whole-Tone Scale in Interlocking Octaves
Appeal of the Contralto
Device for Teaching Notes to Beginners
Musical Jealousy
Feel the Rhythm
How Music Clubs are Helping American Music
Behind the Scenes with Artists, Part 5
Particular Treatment of the Turn
Regular Lesson Plan for Teacher and Pupil
Most Important Musical Step
How Interest Stamps Musical Pictures on Your Mind
Foot Stools and Music Teachers
Just What Really is Practice?
Clinic on Footlight Fever
Relaxation Tests
Are You Guilty of the Double Movement?
Home Town Musical Comedy
Practicing Backwards …
Volume 39, Number 12 (December 1921), James Francis Cooke
Volume 39, Number 12 (December 1921), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Hour of Triumph
200 or 200,000
Tchaikowsky on Brahms
Value of Written Work
Music an Ideal Christmas Present (interview with John Philip Sousa)
Keep Your Methods Fresh
Teachers' Round Table
How the Masters Practiced
Seven Rules for Position at the Keyboard
Camille Saint-Saëns, To-Day and Yesterday
Will Piano Exercises Overcome Deformities of the Hand?
Liszt's Business
Save Your Breath?
Heart Music and Art Music
Advance with Every Lesson
Get the Musical Idea
Comparative Musical History Dates
Here and There in the Field of Music: An Intimate Page of Facts, Humor and Comment with the Great Music Makers of To-day and …
Volume 37, Number 12 (December 1919), James Francis Cooke
Volume 37, Number 12 (December 1919), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Music of the Vatican (interview with Canon Monsignore Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri)
Be Ambitious
Organize in Your Own Town
How to Prepare a Number in a Given Time
What About Your Left Hand?
Accentuation
Borrowed Chords and Fancy Chords
Conquering the Hard Spots
Moving Ahead
Musical Classics for the Millions: A Present-day Revolution in Methods of Musical Dissemination Which is Bound to Have Far-reching Results, Through the Movies and Music (interview with Hugo Riesenfeld)
Habit is Second Nature
No Such Thing as Miracles
Studio Revelations
Fingering
Relative Value of Accent in Pianoforte Playing
I Can't Memorize Music!
Introducing the Pupil to …
Volume 36, Number 12 (December 1918), James Francis Cooke
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 35, Number 12 (December 1917), James Francis Cooke
Volume 35, Number 12 (December 1917), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Automatic Faculty in Piano Playing
How to Attain Freedom of the Fingers
Mass of Christ
Footlight Fear and Fever
Important Steps in the Educational Work of an Opera Singer
Three Measure Rhythm
Christmas Carols
Reading Detached Chords
Are the Black Keys Poisonous to the Thumb?
Time to Rest and a Time to Grow
Musical Reputations and How They are Achieved
Is Compulsory Music Study Advisable?
Successful Study of Octaves
Can You Pass This Normal Test?
Some Pianos I Have Known
Practice Individual Tones in a Chord
Beethoven's Characteristics as a Pianist
How to Study Two Against Three
Pianographs
Hints on …
Volume 34, Number 12 (December 1916), James Francis Cooke
Volume 34, Number 12 (December 1916), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Locating the Notes on the Keyboard
Make Your Circular Hit the Mark
Keeping the Voice in Prime Condition
Some Truths about Touch and Tone
Famous Legends of Famous Music: And Incidentally Some Famous Lies About Well-Known Pieces
Beethoven's Appearance and Personality
If I Had to Begin All Over Again: A Remarkably Interesting Symposium with Contributions from Distinguished Musicians
What an Olden Time Bard Looked Like
Composer: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life849
Tempo: The Ruling Force in Music
Teaching Ideals of Three Master Violinists
Teaching Expression to Children
Danger in Tuning the Piano Too High
Four Roads …
Volume 32, Number 12 (December 1914), James Francis Cooke
Volume 32, Number 12 (December 1914), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
What Mozart Could Do as a Child
America's Greatest Musical Need (Symposium)
Personal Initiative in Piano Study (interview with Theodore Leschetisky)
Some Leschetizky Principles of Piano Playing
How They Used to Study in the Olden Days
How to Make Piano Playing Interesting
Remarkable Contrast in Salon Music
Vitality in Teaching
Convenience and Comfort in the Home for Retired Music Teachers
Leopold Auer's Principles of Violin Playing
Plea for the Most American of Instruments
Harmony That is Not Harmony
Artistic Piano Touch and How to Achieve It
European Musical Topics in War Times
Musical Frauds and Fictions
German and Italian Influences …
Volume 22, Number 12 (December 1904), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 22, Number 12 (December 1904), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music: The Oldest Institution of Musical Learning in Russia
Christmas Music in America in Olden Days
Christmas Spirit the True Spirit of Music
Musician's Christmas
Prof. Michael Hambourg on the Modern Pianist and His Art
Talks on Piano Playing
Place of Music in American Life
Christmas Pantomime
Volume 21, Number 12 (December 1903), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 21, Number 12 (December 1903), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Christmas and Christmas Music: A Study of Human Nature
Christmas Thoughts for Musicians
Richard Strauss and His Works: A Talk with the Composer
For the Christmas Recital
Demand for Brevity in Music
Our Picture Supplement
Captains of Music
Early Christmases in Musical History
Old Fogy Abroad: He Revisits the Paris Conservatoire
Proper Care of the Piano
Music and Religion
Theodore Leschetizky
Health of the Musician
In the Interlude
Counter-Surprise; Or, Christmas Eve at Plowville
Christmas in the Eighteenth Century
Christmas Piano