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Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

So This Is Our Christmas! (editorial)

Musical Dates of the Pre-Christian Period

Christmas Crib: The World-wide Adoption of the Holy Scene in the Manger

Secret of Song Speech (interview with Conrad Thibault)

Story of Christmas: As Told by the Titles of Christmas Carols and Songs

Wit and Humor of Musicians (Part Two)

What Hotels Mean to Music

Music Study Promotes Happy Homes: A Psychologist Discovers Notable Facts

Fiddler in the Sky

Spinet Rules in the 1947 Piano Field (Pictures)

Unknown Liszt Portrait

Volume 64, Number 11 (November 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Artistic Temperament

H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Becomes a Bachelor of Music

Music Rhythms Affect Brain Rhythms

How Peace Came to Zdeborice

How Melodies Come (interview with Oscar Straus)

What is American Music

Wit and Humor of Musicians

Piano Fundamentals

And So to Music: A Delightfully Quaint and Picturesque Glimpse of Music in England in the Seventeenth Century as Seen Through the Eyes of Samuel Pepys

Developing Technique (interview with Simon Barere)

Flowers of Puerto Rico

Americans Spend Billions for Music

Cellist Looks Ahead (interview with Edmund Kurtz)

. . . Right Good Partners, Too (Gilbert & Sullivan)

Volume 64, Number 10 (October 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Wanted—a Million Pianos

Music's Significant Place in Modern Life (interview with Harry S. Truman)

How I Taught Alec Templeton (interview with Margaret Humphrey)

Humor in Music (interview with Alec Templeton)

Stars and Stripes Forever Around the World

Bland Memorial Dedicated: Negro Minstrel Who Wrote Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Honored by Governor William M. Tuck and Virginians

Significance of the Bland Memorial

Important Announcement

Piano Student's Problem of Memorizing

Volume 64, Number 09 (September 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Riots

How to Improve Your Sight Reading

Personal History in Music (interview with Vincent Sheean)

New Keys to Practice (VIII)

Effect of Music on History

Dressing for the Concert Stage (interview with Vyvyan Donner)

As in a Mirror

Report to the Nation (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

Yehudi Menuhin's Magic Bow

Publishing a Popular Song (interview with Helmy Kresa)

Overcoming Piano Difficulties by Exaggeration

What Is the Outlook for a One-Armed Pianist? (interview with Paul Wittgenstein)

Competitions

Volume 64, Number 08 (August 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Need for Leadership

Was Wagner Influenced by Schubert?

My Life With Music (interview with Helen Hayes)

Hints on the Organ Recital

Making Discarded Music Useful

Why Not Enjoy Elizabethan Keyboard Music?

Do You Want to Become a Radio Singer? (interview with Reinhold Schmidt)

Tune Up, Neighbors!

Technic—Basic Need for Good Playing: A Stimulating Factor in Velocity Work

Every Music Lesson is Expandable

Start Singing. Wherever You Are! (interview with Donald Dame)

Military Polonaise of Frédéric Chopin, A Master Lesson

Sight Reading

Volume 64, Number 07 (July 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Raising the Music Teacher's Income

Claque in Grand Opera: From Looking for a Bluebird

Prepare for Good Luck! (interview with Eleanor Steber)

Basic Foundations of a Permanent Technique: Oft Neglected Phases of Piano Study of Real Significance to All Students and Teachers

Too Late for What?: A Guide to Adults Who Don't Expect to Make Carnegie Hall, But Who Can Get Lots of Fun From Their Playing

Knight of Music

Do You Want to Arrange Music for Radio? (interview with Percy Faith)

Changing Values in Harmony

Operatic Side of Shakespeare

Volume 64, Number 06 (June 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Does Music Develop Character?

Practical Program Idea

Helping Pupils to Create

Review Music Book

New Keys to Practice

Preparation for Potsdam (interview with Eugene List)

Dramatic Last Hours of Mozart

University Training for Motion Picture Musicians

Amazing Tour of Jenny Lind

Battistini, the Incomparable Master of Bel Canto

Well, I Do Declare!: Musical Instruments throughout the World (Section 6)

Musicians in World War II (interview with Yehudi Menuhin)

Sing, Ye Citizens! (interview with Herbert Huffman)

Volume 64, Number 05 (May 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Your Soul

Musicians and Digestion: Physical Influences on the Efficiency of Composers, Musicians, and Singers

Music Brings New Joy to Life and Work: Planned Music Service, in Ever-Expanding Measure, is Revolutionizing Condition in Offices, Banks, Factories, and Public Places (interview with Harry E. Houghton)

Look Into Your Piano

Play the Cello and Look Pretty

Servants of the Muses: Ten Great Musical Educators

Control of the Voice (interview with Lansing Hatfield)

Magic of Sound: Sound, Which is Necessary to Life, Can Be Constructive or Destructive; Scientists Are Now Working on its Beneficial Effects

New Thoughts on Voice Care (interview …

Volume 64, Number 04 (April 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Finding the Right Place

Sustaining the Pupil's Interest

Paper Shortage—Our Joint Problem

Before There Was a Copyright

Little Touch of God's Finger (interview with Lauritz Melchior)

Three Contemporary English Composers (William Walton, Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten)

Pietro Mascagni—A Tragic Figure?

Pink Slips, Prizes, and Perfection

Know Your Instrument! (interview with Egon Petri)

Servants of the Ideal: Ten Great Educators

Negro Spiritual: A Lively Leaven in the American Way of Life

Claude Debussy as a Music Critic

What the Audience Should Give to an Artist (interview with Mme. Mana-Zucca)

Volume 64, Number 03 (March 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Quality of Great Music

How Opera Hit G.I. Joe

Want to Be a Band Leader?

Teaching Music Means Teaching Taste (interview with Robert Casadesus)

What About That Song You Have Written? (interview with Helmy Kresa)

Rhythmic Background of the Orchestra (interview with David Grupp)

Band Questions Answered

What of the Shrines of Yesteryear?: Weimar, Home of the Great Franz Liszt

Latin-American Music in the United States

Notable Friend of Music (interview with Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)

This Business of Conducting

Volume 64, Number 02 (February 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Greatest Teacher in the World

Etude Spring Festival of Music

Three Ravels: Personal Souvenirs of the Great French Composer

Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (Part 2) (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)

Harp in College and University Training

Potentates as Musicians

New Radio Shows Feature Younger Artists

Etude Music Lover's Bookshelf

Teacher's Round Table

Well, I Do Declare!: Musical Instruments Throughout the World (Section 2)

Teaching the Singer to Become an Interpretative Artist (interview with Lotte Lehman)

Louis-Hector Berlioz' Picturesque Memoirs

Perfecting Piano Technique (interview with Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson)

Volume 64, Number 01 (January 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Year Opportunity

New Keys to Practice

Don't Be Dowdy!

Short Digest in Scale Practice

Philosophy of Vocal Study (interview with Maggie Teyte)

Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)

Paying Our Debt to America (interview with Henry H. Reichhold)

Good and Bad Punctuation in Phrasing

Reform in Music Teaching (interview with Heitor Villa-Lobos)

Worth Your Weight: Common Sense in Weight Playing

Parent-Teacher Groups for Music Studios

Developing the Staff Pianist for Radio (interview with H. Leopold Spitalny)

Violin Course: Grade 7, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Lessons and Tests, number 121 through 140

Violin Course: Grade 8, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Lessons and Tests, number 141 through 160