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Volume 56, Number 09 (September 1938), James Francis Cooke
Volume 56, Number 09 (September 1938), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Marimba Supersedes Xylophone
How Can We Best Serve Our Students (interview with Geraldine Farrar)
About Pieces for Two Pianos: A Discussion of Musical Works Rapidly Rising in Popularity
Hymns in Teaching Harmony
Threshold of Music: When Four Notes Get Together—Seventh Chords
Modern Marimba and Its Relation to the Xyloophone (interview with Yoichi Hiraoka)
Do Not Cast the Old Aside
Chord Twins
Picturesque Prague—Home of Dvorák and Smetana
Transposing by Numbers
What Did Bach Mean: How Each of His Motives Construes a Thought
Hand and the Memory
Mazurka in F-sharp Minor of Chopin
Compactness With Comfort: Everyone Who Wants a Studio …
Volume 55, Number 07 (July 1937), James Francis Cooke
Volume 55, Number 07 (July 1937), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Song of the American Revolution
Heldentenor, or Heroic Tenor (interview with Lauritz Melchior)
Answers to Brain Teasers Musical Intelligence Test
Bunched Finger Playing
Star Spangled Banner: With Photographs from the Celebrated Historical Collection of William Thompson
Longfellow's Influence on Musical Composition
America: A National Anthem Which Finds Lodgment in the Heart of Every True American
Double Purpose Exercise
Making Friends with the Wrist: An Important Phase of Pianoforte Playing
Playing Pa to Sleep at Three A.M.
Playing the Four Note Chord
Effect of Music on Wild Animals
How America Lost Chopin: A Romance of the Poet of the Piano
Cambridge …
Volume 55, Number 04 (April 1937), James Francis Cooke
Volume 55, Number 04 (April 1937), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Music and Travel
America's Vast New Musical Awakening (interview with Nikolai Sokoloff)
Chopin as a Teacher
List's Singing Tone
Von Weber, Tone Poet of Romanticism
May Day Play Recital: Ten Games with Music
American Singers and the German Lied (interview with Grete Stueckgold)
Dramatizing Piano Duets
Geometry and Speed of Motion: At the Piano Keyboard in the Playing of Chromatic Passages
Two Roads to Acquaintance with Musical Form
Recital Program that Took
Studio Bulletin Board
It's An Art to Tune a Piano
Nocturne in C Minor by Chopin: A Master Lesson
Neglected Senses
Musical Sewing Cards
Profession a Business
Why …
Volume 55, Number 01 (January 1937), James Francis Cooke
Volume 55, Number 01 (January 1937), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Superstitions in Music
Musical Food for Millions (interview with Erno Rapée)
Brighter Scale Practice
Increasing the Activity of the Fingers
Magical and Misunderstood Art of Reviewing
Romance of the Sweetest Story Ever Told
Tooting Your Own Horn: The Most Difficult Instrument for the Musician to Learn
My Toughest Spot: Taking Things as They Come
Getting the Perspective in Teaching
Composing for Pictures (interview with Erich Korngold)
Strongest Carillon in the World
First Steps in Musical Transposition
Approach to Interpretation
Berceuse Op. 57 of Chopin
Autumn Days in the Presser Gardens
Brahms Selfless Musician
Arpeggio Drill
Volume 52, Number 06 (June 1934), James Francis Cooke
Volume 52, Number 06 (June 1934), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Music of New Russia (interview with Albert Coates
Do Snakes Like Music?
Ethelbert Nevin's A Day in Venice (Un Giorno in Venezia): A New Tone Film Presentation Which is Commanding National Attention
Give the Child a Good Piano
Staccato Accents
Baseball and Scales
Use the Metronome in Practicing Sight-reading
Novelty for Your Recital
National Element in Polish Music
Getting a Start in Music Teaching in the Country
How One Teacher Did It
Art of Program Making
Accompanist
Music of the Land of the Bourrée
Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital
Experimenting With the …
Volume 52, Number 04 (April 1934), James Francis Cooke
Volume 52, Number 04 (April 1934), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
There is No Royal Road to Singing! (interview with Göta Ljungberg)
Bass Drum
Chopin Odiosyncracy
How I Managed to Secure Pupils During The Depression
Dating Recitals for Success
Bandmaster Gilmore: The Indomitable Pat Whose Masterpiece was Probably When Johnny Comes Marching Home
London: A World Music Center
Chopin's Masterly Valse in A Flat, Op. 42: A Detailed Lesson Analysis
Music Popular at the Time of Lincoln
Cultivation of Musical Taste in a Small Town
Volume 51, Number 11 (November 1933), James Francis Cooke
Volume 51, Number 11 (November 1933), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Girl Who Wants to Sing (interview with Lily Pons)
Meet the Piano
How to Play Bach More Beautifully (interview with Harold Samuel)
Little Known Music of Cape Breton Island
When Should I Practice?
Platform Showmanship in Piano-Playing
More Greetings form Zealous Etude Enthusiasts
Mixed Rhythms
Best Method is Ecclectic, Part 2 (interview with Leopold Godowsky)
Touch in Relation to Phrasing
Heinrich Heine and Music
Value of Discipline
Blind Tom Reminiscence
Neglected Triad
Story of The Rosary
Secret of Chopin's Playing
Little Journeys to Musical Shrines: A Club Calendar
Telling the World
Learning the Lower and Higher Notes
Touch System for …
Volume 50, Number 01 (January 1932), James Francis Cooke
Volume 50, Number 01 (January 1932), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Lesson on the Chopin Scherzo in B Flat Minor
Very First Lessons at the Keyboard: Practical Advice to Active Teachers
What Music Offers Boys
Do You Know?
Tournament Tickets
Legacy from Pan
Missed Lessons
Bit of Psychology
Matching Musical Terms
Pied Piper of India
Original Manuscript of Home, Sweet Home
Music Student's Tools and Technic
Disadvantageous Bench
Outside Music Report
Stunt Lesson
Hawaii's Musical Background
Some Popular Musical Misconceptions
Schubert and American Romance
Musical Lotto
New Work by a Notable American Composer
Agencies for Helping the Musician
Boy Night
To Develop the Left Hand
How to Make Review a Pleasure …
Volume 49, Number 05 (May 1931), James Francis Cooke
Volume 49, Number 05 (May 1931), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
International Appreciation of Ignace Jan Paderewski: World Famous Pianists and Teachers Greet the Renowned Master in His Hour of Greatest Triumph
Some Fundamentals of Natural Octave Playing
Important Association and a Great Cause
Student Days of George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
How Harmony Helps the Music Student
Pedal Markings
Picture from the Past
Lest We Forget, Lest We Forget: Important Musical Historical Figures of the Picturesque Past
Freak Scales: Curious Musical Systems Used by Modern Composers
Wagner's Death-Dreams of His Own Walhalla (Picture)
Master Lesson Upon Chopin's Aeolian Harp Etude, Op. 25, No. 1
Singing Intelligently in English
Garcia's Second Discovery …
Volume 48, Number 09 (September 1930), James Francis Cooke
Volume 48, Number 09 (September 1930), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Why the World Needs Bands (interview with John Philip Sousa)
Modern Questions in the Study of Harmony
Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today
Curious Lure of Chinese Music
Oral Drills in Intervals
Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 3
Percussion—The Pulse of Music
Technical Problems in a Nutshell
Overcoming Difficulties in Memorizing
Open the New Musical Season Brillantly by Spreading the Gospel of Music-Study
Odd Facts about Sound
Case for Modern Music
Master Lesson on Chopin's Polonaise in C Minor, Op. 40, No. 2
Keeping …
Volume 47, Number 09 (September 1929), James Francis Cooke
Volume 47, Number 09 (September 1929), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Brussels, the Musical Gem of Europe
Report Cards for Piano Pupils
Practical Considerations in Pianoforte Interpretation (interview with Walter Gieseking)
Philadelphia's Amazing Operatic Situation
Centenary of Rubinstein
Future of Music in Moviedom (interview with Erno Rapée
Music Idealism in the United States: An Address Delivered at the Anglo-American Conference on Music at Lausanne, Switzerland, August, 1929
Master Lesson on the Chopin Etude Opus 25, No. 2
Paragraphs form Schubert's Diary
Jazz—Whither Bound?
Volume 46, Number 07 (July 1928), James Francis Cooke
Volume 46, Number 07 (July 1928), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Hymn Playing Helpful
Musical Education in the Home
What Makes a Fine Piano
Evolution of Piano Playing and Virtuosity
Why Do I Study Music
On Describing a Piece
Efficiency in Piano Study
Speaking the Pupil's Language
Studio Ventillation
Tickling the Risibles
Grandeur that Was Rome
Point on Poise
Doorstep of Harmony: Showing How Simple and Delightful the Study May be Made for the Amateur
Frederic Chopin, an Etching
Queen and a Quarrel about Musicians
Making Arpeggios Interesting
Volume 44, Number 05 (May 1926), James Francis Cooke
Volume 44, Number 05 (May 1926), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, and How to Play Them
Getting Technic Away from the Keyboard
Vitality in Practice
I Am Music
Silent Practice
Study of Scales
Speeding Up Sight Reading
Going to Opera and Concerts in Europe
Syncopation
Teaching the Child to Listen
Study in Rhythm
Chopin as a Master of Form
Reading the Bass Clef
Notable Musical Program: The Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial, 1776-1926
How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing? Some Experiments in the Fundamentals of Passage-Playing
Making Changes in Tempo
Time Keeper
First Steps in Transposition
On Selecting Music for Pupils
What Great Men Said About Chopin
Art …
Volume 44, Number 03 (March 1926), James Francis Cooke
Volume 44, Number 03 (March 1926), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Under No Consideration Would I Give Up Music (interview with Ralph Modjeski)
Are Scales Worth-While?
Winter Musicales
Equal Finger Development
Most Musical Town in the World
Mixing Heart with Art
Getting the Student's Measure
Some Points in Pianoforte Duet Playing
Thought Starters
Chopin's Preludes as Interpreted by Liszt
Hard Pierce!
Helps Along the Road
True Chopin
Slow Practice on Old Pieces
Resolves for the New Year
Some Inspirations of Composers
Little Life Stories of the Great Masters
Chopin Reflections
Chopin in His Last Years
Can Expressive Playing be Taught?
Teach Children to Compose
Music of Ireland
Music Teachers' Organizations Honor …
Volume 41, Number 11 (November 1923), James Francis Cooke
Volume 41, Number 11 (November 1923), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Adults and Piano Playing: Problems of the Student Who Seeks to Develop His Playing When Past the Age of Twenty (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)
Stretching Exercises
Word Pastel Portraits of Chopin
Chopin's Tempo Rubato
Helpful Hints to Disheartened Students
How Masterpieces are Made: Distinctive Methods Used by the Great Masters
Is the Modern Piano a Perfect Instrument?
Why Musical Prodigies Usually Retire Early in Life
Form in Music
Save Your Energy
Trapping the Parent
Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)
Why Not?
Secret of Efficiency
Opportunities of the Music Supervisor
Development of Touch
Practical Ideas on the …
Volume 41, Number 10 (October 1923), James Francis Cooke
Volume 41, Number 10 (October 1923), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Our Fortieth Anniversary: Four Decades in the History of the Theo. Presser Company
Chronological Histoy of The Etude Music Magazine and the Theo. Presser Company
Fortieth Anniversary Prophecies and Greetings: World Famous Composers, Teachers, Critics and Interpretive Artists Have Something to Say About Music Forty Years from Now
Letter from the Leipzig Conservatory
Get Pleasure!
Momentous Musical Meeting: Thomas A. Edison and Lt. Comm. John Philip Sousa Meet for the First Time and Talk Upon Music
Music and Organized Labor
Important to Remember
Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing
Studio Notes
True or False? Can You Decide?
Daily Health Exercises Especially …
Volume 40, Number 11 (November 1922), James Francis Cooke
Volume 40, Number 11 (November 1922), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Getting the Right Start in Piano Playing
How to Acquire Technic in Musical Theory
Is the Teacher Without a Music Club as Successful as the Teacher with a Music Club?
What to Do at Children's Musical Parties
Scale Guide
Limitations of the Piano Keyboard
Piano Manners at the Pupils' Recital
Lesson on Chopin's Famous Raindrop Prelude, Opus 28, No. 15: A Practical Reduction of Notes to Dollars and Cents
Starting at the Cradle
Full Pay or Half a Mass
Recorder
Metamorphosis of Charles
Now and Then
Routine for Practical Teacher
Glimpses of Present Day Piano Study (interview with Myra Hess) …
Volume 38, Number 06 (June 1920), James Francis Cooke
Volume 38, Number 06 (June 1920), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
What Must I Go Through to Become a Prima Donna? (interview with Geraldine Farrar)
More Income for Music Teachers: How and Why One Teacher Made Good at an Increased Price
Count the Cost
Musical Genius Everywhere
Child's First Piano Lesson
How to Get Your First Pupils
Compelling Force in Musical Success (interview with Alberto Jonás)
What Shall I Teach?
Most Simple Way of Teaching Lines and Spaces
Scale Maxims
Hint on Memorizing
New Pianistic Beauties Through New Pedal Effects
Did You Say You Couldn't Memorize Music? Read This!
Taking American Music Seriously
Temperature and Practice
Let the Light Fall Right …
Volume 37, Number 02 (February 1919), James Francis Cooke
Volume 37, Number 02 (February 1919), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Are You Loyal to Your Art?
How to Play Two Notes Against Three and Other Unusual Rhythmic Combinations
What Helped Me Most in My Career
How to Correct Common Rhythmic Blunders
Weak Spot in Piano Teaching
String Wind Instrument
Technical Roads to Piano Success
Pieces that Advertise the Teacher
He Didn't Have to Learn
Secrets of Success of Great Musicians
Touch in Piano Playing
Leo Ornstein, Composer and Pianist
Overtures, Past and Present
When and How to Begin the Study of Bach
Bach for Beginners
Neglected Bass Note
Telling the Pupil How to Practice
Has the Art of the Piano …
Volume 33, Number 06 (June 1915), James Francis Cooke
Volume 33, Number 06 (June 1915), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Hand Cramp and How It May Be Remedied
Real Vacation for the Music Worker
Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life (symposium)
Why the Musician Should Develop the Gift of Making Friends
Special Practice in Staccato
American Pageant
What the Composers Are Doing
Profitable Practice versus Wasted Practice (interview with Alexander Lambuert)
Benefits of Ensemble Playing
Dramatic Scenes from the Operas
Function of Piano Studies
Emotional and Picturesque in Music
May Drumming Be of Some Value?
Principles for Fingering the Major and Minor Scales
Etude Master Study Page—Richard Strauss
Well Known Composers of To-day—Elmer S. Hosmer
C Sharp Minor Waltz …
Volume 33, Number 02 (February 1915), James Francis Cooke
Volume 33, Number 02 (February 1915), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Instructive One Minute Paragraphs for Busy Music Workers
Facts About Musical Belgium
To Develop Pearly Runs
Mendelssohn's Interested Listener
Haydn, Dvorak and the Anglican Chant
Masonic Symbolism in the Magic Flute
Pair of Devices for Maintaining Interest
How the Chinese Sang to their Ancestors
Soul of Robert Schumann
Breadth in Musical Art Work (interview with Ignace Jan Paderewski)
Maintaining a High Standard of Efficiency
Music of Proud and Chivalrous Poland: With Special Contributions from Mme. Marcella Sembrich and Leopold Stowski
Beauty of Poland's National Music
Chopin—Poland's National Poet
Popular Fallacies Regarding Tone
Concentration, the Secret of Progress in Music Study …
Volume 32, Number 05 (May 1914), James Francis Cooke
Volume 32, Number 05 (May 1914), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
First Studies in Double Notes
Memorizing Music Successfully (interview with Ossip Gabrilowitsch)
How Gounod Surprised Berlioz
Charles Marie Widor: Dean of French Organ Masters
Method in Sight Reading
Balance in Rhythmic Movement
Study Harmony from Piano Playing
Wit of Malibran
Best of the New Music Issued by the Leading Publishers: Selected, Graded and Recommended to The Etude Readers
Prima Donna of To-Day and Yesterday
Interesting the Boy Pupil
Chopin as a Virtuoso: How Chopin's Playing Impressed His Hearers
Ballet in France
Masters Who Have Failed as Opera Composers
Musical Thought and Action in the Old World
How to Develop Concentration …
Volume 30, Number 06 (June 1912), James Francis Cooke
Volume 30, Number 06 (June 1912), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Clara Schumann's Father on Study
How Analysis Benefits the Piano Pupil (interview with Katharine Goodson)
Selecting Piano Studies that Insure Progress
Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Sappho
To Memorize or Not to Memorize
How Chopin Played: As told by Liszt, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Other Contemporaries
Hours with Leschetizky (interview with Lolita D. Mason)
Rubinstein's Bitter Valedictory
Tributes of Noted Musicians to the Memory of the Late W.S.B. Mathews
How the Mind Should Guide the Body in Practice
Dramatic Moments in the Careers of the Masters
Well-Known Composers of To-day—Charles Wakefield Cadman
Volume 28, Number 05 (May 1910), James Francis Cooke
Volume 28, Number 05 (May 1910), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Influence of Germany's Greatest Masters on the Musicl Art of the World
Giving Lessons in the Country
Weber's Opera, Der Freischutz
Influence of the Folk-Song on German Musical Art (interview with Gustav Mahler)
Predominating Influence in the German Music of To-day
First Finger Exercises at the Keyboard
Some Important Things I Learned in Germany
Germany's Remarkable System of Music Schools: Music Schools of Northern Germany
What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School
Some Facts about Sopranos
Singers Who Lost Their Voices
How to Study a Song
Volume 27, Number 03 (March 1909), James Francis Cooke
Volume 27, Number 03 (March 1909), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
What Musical Europe is Thinking and Doing
Touch—the Great Essential (interview with M. Ossip Gabrilowitsch)
How to Cultivate Sight-Reading
Sub-conscious Mind in Piano Playing
Musical Europe of Yesterday and Musical America of To-day: Reflections Upon the Study of Music and Pianoforte Playing as Taught in Europe Twenty-Five Years Ago and as Taught in America Now
Scarlatti's Unique Fingering
Interesting Stories of Chopin's Career
Chopin's Taste in Music
Mathematics of Melody
How Music Brightens the Home
Bellini, the Genius of Stricken Sicily
Easy Way to Teach Musical History
Conquering of Fear
Use of the Sound Reproducing Machine in Vocal Instruction and …
Volume 26, Number 10 (October 1908), James Francis Cooke
Volume 26, Number 10 (October 1908), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Profitable Physical Exercises for Piano Students
About the Metronome
Paul Wachs: A French Composer Whose Drawing Room Pieces Have Been Exceptionally Successful
How the Masters Waited and Worked for Success: Tales of Persistence and Patience that Paid in the End
How a Musical Note-Book Helps Children
How to Play Chopin
Important Musical Activities Abroad
Musical Magazine and the Village Student
Self-Help Hints on Etude Music: Practical Explanatory Notes for Ambitious, Progressive Teachers and Students
Volume 25, Number 11 (November 1907), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 25, Number 11 (November 1907), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Education of the Masters
Making the Lesson Hour More Profitable
Bach's Sons
Liszt as a Composer and as an Artist
Letter from a Teacher in New Zealand
How to Select a Piano
Teaching New Materials
Famous Italian Pupil of Franz Liszt
Advice to Young Teachers
Some Trials and Experiences of a German Teacher
Volume 25, Number 02 (February 1907), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 25, Number 02 (February 1907), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Chopin as I Knew Him
Lesson on a Phase of Technic: The Thumb and Second Finger
Repertory and How to Acquire It
Reminiscences of Schubert
Life of the Virtuoso
Few Thoughts Concerning the Musical Ear
Anton Rubinstein in His Classes
18th Century Tribute to Bach
Plan for the Teacher Who Wishes to Give Her Pupils Both Private and Class Lessons
French View of the American Musical Future
Evolution of a Country Church Choir
Some Common Errors of Piano Pupils: How to Correct Them
Volume 23, Number 01 (January 1905), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 23, Number 01 (January 1905), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Fréderic François Chopin (Biographical Sketch)
Appreciation of Chopin: His Works Embody All Technical Forms
Chopin the Revolutionaire
Chopin the Teacher
Chopin the Man
Chopin the Poet of the Pianoforte
True Genius of Pianoforte Music: Exemplified in Chopin's Works
Making up a Chopin Program
Quality of Chopin's Genius
Musical Rhythm and Rhythmic Playing
Volume 20, Number 06 (June 1902), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 20, Number 06 (June 1902), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Unsatisfactory Pupil and His Lack of Innate Rhythm
Treatment of the Thumb
Use of Finger Exercises
Saint-Saëns on Melody and Harmony
What Constitutes a Musical Communitys
How Bach Played
Was Old Fogy a Liszt Pupil?
Preparation for the Day's Work
Some of the Easier Chopin Nocturnes
Paderewski on Scale-Playing