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Volume 45, Number 11 (November 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Branding the Blunders

Mother Music

Musical Education in the Home

How Germany is Striving to Win Back Pre-War Musical Conditions

New Paths in Musical Art (interview with Alfredo Casella)

To Facilitate Note Reading

Aid to Memory and Expression

Mechanics of Art

Treat Your Piano Right: Respect Your Piano in the Home and in the Concert Hall if You Demand the Best Results

Introducing Cora and Dora

Showing an Interest in the Pupil

Teaching the Student to Think

Music as an Inspiration in Art (painting)

Something About Chord-Playing

Successful Radio Performance

Haunts of Great Masters n Vienna (etchings)

Light and Shade …

Volume 45, Number 10 (October 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Is Meant by Equal Temperament?

Have Contrast in Music

What Shall We Do With Bad Musicians?

Operatic Triumph Over Mountain-High Obstacles (interview with Madame Isang Tapales)

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing?

Beethoven's Great Funeral March on the Death of a Hero (monument)

Happy Sides to Beethoven's Life

Fads and Fallacies in Modern Pianism

How to Teach Scales

Two Pianos

Queerest String Instrument in the World

Making Selections of Music for Beginners

Scottish and Other Folksong: Its Relation to Art Music

Translating Practice Into Pleasure

Amber Light for Reading Music

Easy Way to Understand the Triads: …

Volume 45, Number 09 (September 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Shall I Do With My Music? (interview with Howard Hanson)

For Mastering Scale-Like Passages

Evolution of the Staff

Learning the Pedals

Damrosch and New York Symphony

Launching the Musical Artist: How Great Pianists, Violinists and Singers are Presented to the Public

Music and Poetry in Autumn

Leschetizky's Vital Ideas

Some Observations on Practice

Hot and Cold—A Helpful Teaching Idea

How to Get Up a Little Musical Pageant in Your Town

Do Not Run Past the Signals

Scale Signature Design

Maintaining Interest

Short Compositions for the Piano

Building the Grand Staff

Curing Collapsible First Joints of Fingers

Stunts Do Not …

Volume 45, Number 08 (August 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Technic and Beauty in Piano Playing (interview the Guiomar Novaes)

Aim and Achievement

Position at the Keyboard

Perfect Twenty-Four

Mistakes Accompanists Make

Interesting the Boy in Practice

Musical Smiles

All About the Slur: Its Fifteen Uses in Music

Von Buelow in Chicago

Learning the Midas Touch from Schubert's Rosamunde

To Do, Or Not To Do

Interpretation of the Little Classics

Liszt's Impromptu Feat

For a Stiff Wrist

Necessity of Visual Musical Education

Whole Rest and Half Rest Gentlemen

Learning the Art of Conducting With the Aid of the Talking Machine

Something About Tone

Wagner a Nervous Conductor

Learning to Listen …

Volume 45, Number 07 (July 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Nothing But Exercises for Six and One-half Years (interview with Tito Schipa)

Perfection Before Pedal

Why Stop Work When Lessons Stop?

Thought Provoker

Breaking-in the New Lesson

On Developing Good Taste Early

Weight Playing

Managing the Student and the Studio

Rhythmic Motions

It Pays to Advertise

Finger Gymnastics

How to Keep Pupils

Few Hints on Violin Playing (interview with Eddy Brown)

Flowers of Our Lost Romance

Improving the Diatonic Scale

Melody Writing for Little Folks

Your Ally—The Bulletin Board

Asparagus with Brahms

Such Hard Times

Putting Life Into Your Playing: Rhythmical Movement Applied to Technic

What the Cowboy Liked Best …

Volume 45, Number 06 (June 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Staccato, the Spice of Music

Keeping Up One's Music

What Effect Has Jazz Upon Present Day Music and Composers?

Magical Symbols of Notation

Glimpse of Jenny Lind

Association of Teacher and Pupil

Power of Accidentals Outside the Measure

Perfection of the Pianist

Polka

Timepiece of Music

Problem of Mixed Time

How the Musician Should Deal with Nerves

Listening In

Musical Vacation

Slow Scale Practice

Can You Tell?—Quiz

How to Give a Delightful Summer Musicale

Phonograph Master Class

Romance of the Scales

Charles Wakefield Cadman All-American Composer

Lucy Learns the Art of Dancing: A Humorous Recitation

Too Big for Him

How …

Volume 45, Number 05 (May 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Secret of Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

What Music Thinkers Think

Ten Rules for Writing Music

Simple Ear Test

Making a Musical Start

Can You Tell? Contest

How to Play Glissandos

Vanishing Folksong

Teaching Scales to Young People

Make the Pupils Do the Work

Early Steps in Music

Pedal Study

One Perfect Number

More Questions from Teachers, Answered

Phenomena of the Wonder Child: Musical Prodigies of Today and Yesterday

Form in Music

Famous Liszt Cadenza Simplified

Gymnasium of the Singers: Technic That Produces Definite Results

Let the Pupils Do It

Scientific Grading

Bel Canto Legend

Leschetizky and the Invalid

My …

Volume 45, Number 04 (April 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Use the Weight and Relaxation Method

Were Bach, Mozart and Schubert Poorly Paid

Musical Note

Points on Practicing

Drawing and Accenting

Secret of Touch or How to Extract the Most Beautiful Tone from the Pianoforte

Substituting Flats for Sharps

Music Creed

Another Use for the Metronome

Shifting the Staves

Can I Learn to Count?

Hints on Rapid, Flexible Playing

Training the Brain to Remember and Reproduce Music

Avoiding After-Pressure on the Keys

Starting a Miniature Conservatory

Getting the Pupil to Think

Aiding the Late Beginner

Great Masters as Students—Beethoven

For Stretching the Hand

Aristoxenus The Modern

Jumping the …

Volume 45, Number 03 (March 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Debussy: His Significance in the History of Piano Literature

Setting High Standards

What Music Does to Youth

Study of Octave Playing

Power of the Dot in Music

How to Estimate the Right Tempo

Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions as a Foundation for Polyphonic Playing

Art of Giving an Interesting Lesson

Getting Right Down to Business

Graded Scrap Books

Quiet Practice

What Active Musi Workers are Thinking and Saying

Viewpoints and Side Lights: Concerning Minor Keys

Bugbear Turned to Account

Excellent Program of Compositions by Amercan Women

Sharps and Flats Contest

What Music is Doing for College Students

Haydn's Opinion …

Volume 45, Number 02 (February 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Every Music Lover Should Know About the Band

Encourage Expression

Distinguishing Between Whole and Half Rests

Scale Contests

Patriotism in Music

Adult Beginner

Only One Chance

Some Other Values

Banish Monotony

Common Sense in Piano Study

Life Stories of Great Masters

Dullard of Finger Family

Coney to Carnegie: In Which He Tells What Determination and Hard Work May Do for the Young Singer

Painting a Fugue

Keeping in Daily Touch with the Pupil

Grieg and the Royal Decoration

Theory of Major and Minor Keys for Beginners

Foot-Work at the Piano

Making Music Lessons Interesting

Playing Teacher

Just Before Playing …

Volume 45, Number 01 (January 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the State (Editorial)

Giving Vitality to the Phrase: Showing How Better Accenting Makes Better Playing

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Why Count?

Practical Acoustics for Musicians

Eight Ways for Making One's Playing Musicianly

More I Practice, the Worse I Get

Russian Amateurs

Conservation of Energy in Music Readin

Robert Schumann

New Picture of Edward MacDowell

Another Way to Teach Harmony

Good Music—Bad Piano

Breath Marks

Mental Aids to Memorizing

Put On the Brakes

High Calling of the Teacher

Playing Accompaniments

Useful Test

How Music Theory Helps Music Lovers

Counting Aloud

Baffling Difficulty

What Assignments …