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Volume 41, Number 07 (July 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Poetry and Practice (interview with Guiomar Novaes)

Lesson from the Birds

Teachers' Obligation to Public

Music Teacher's Obligation to the General Public

Seven Things to Keep Little Musicians Interested

False Tendencies in Present-day Piano Teaching

Right Attitude

Slow Movement

Musician's Social Cheque

Memorizing through Writing

How It's Done

Praise and Its Value

Musical Temperament

Sonata in Musical Literature

Oriental Music

Self-Training in Sight Reading

Making Class Work Profitable with Music Pupils

Thinkn Do

Musical History Intelligence Test: Question on the Lives of the Great Composers

From a Teacher's Letter

Tennis for Technic

Creating Interest in a Beginner

How to Organize …

Volume 41, Number 06 (June 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Labor: Comments from Famous Americans Upon the Need for Music in Business

Famous Industrial Bands

Team Work with Pupils

Origin of Marks of Expression

Correspondence Column

Keeping at the Front as Hard as Getting There

Abnormal Music vs. Sane Music

Time Cards for Busy Students

Study of the Hand in Piano Playing

Common-Sense Arpeggio Study

Facts about Bars

What is the Best Fingering

How to Overcome Nervousness

Musical Joy Within

Here Comes the Bride: A Junetime Story of the Great Wedding Music of Yesterday and To-day for the Church and for the Home

How Long Shall I Hold …

Volume 41, Number 05 (May 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How I Got Rid of Nervousness in Public

How Mother Collected Her Bills

How Shall We Study

Why Do I Make Mistakes? How Can I Correct Them?

Don’t's for Parents

How Russian Students Work (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

A Plea for the Can't-plays

Why Do Not More Men Take Up Music? Some Thoughts on the Feminization of Music, Yeserday and To-day

Musical History Intelligence Test: Question on the Lives of the Great Composers

Primary Methods in Music

Trick of Confidence

On the Perfecting of the Fourth and Fifth Fingers

Training the Fingers for Quick Results in Accuracy and Speed

Musical …

Volume 41, Number 04 (April 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Selection of Pieces

What is Good Singing?

Why We Should Sing the Master Songs

Yodeling in the Alps

New Lights on the Art of the Piano (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Practical Practice

Teacher in Feathers

Anthems to Kill Time

America's Favorite Hymns: A Discussion Representing the Entire Country Resulting from 32,000 Hymn Titles Sent to The Etude

Romance of Hymns and Tunes

Artistic Production of Octaves

Securing the Mother's Coöperation

Untangling Minor Scales

Making Scales Fascinating

Stirring the Pupil's Imagination

Mystery of Inspiration (interview with Rudolf Friml)

How Can We Interest the Beginner?

Original Rock of Ages

From Broadway to …

Volume 41, Number 03 (March 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chances of the American Girl in Grand Opera (interview with Giulio Gati-Casazza)

Musical Scrap Book

How to Conduct a Music Memory Contest

Look Out for the Runner-up

Making Cans Out of Can'ts

Six Cardinal Points in Trill Playing

Training In

Practical Means for Developing Better Violin Playing (interview with Albert Spalding)

No Duke Need Apply

Home of Yankee Doodle

Make the Minutes Count

Young Musician and a College Position

Singing Your Piano Pieces

When Octaves Leap-Frog

Finding Fun in Teaching

Producing the Staccao and Legato

Lure of Mozart

Highest Pleasure in Music

Poetic and Melodic Gifts of the Negro

Examples …

Volume 41, Number 02 (February 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting a Start as a Virtuoso (interview with Mischa Levitzki)

Practice Rules

Cultivated Eccentricities of Musicians: Their Futility

Turning Old-Fashioned Musical Traditions Upside Down

Musical Biographical Catechism Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters—Robert Schumann

Parents of Famous Composers

Word of Praise—The Fairy Wand

Finger Liberty Through Scale Playing

How Caruso Practiced Daily

Show Interest in Your Pupils

Poison for Omitted Sharps and Flats

Memorize at Least Twenty Pieces

Musicians and Brain Collapse

Make the First Lesson Exciting

Five Fertile Years of Music

Some Vagaries of Counting

Your Successor

What the Young Composer Must Know

Greater Value of Technical Studies

Build …

Volume 41, Number 01 (January 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of Keeping the Voice (interview with Giuseppe de Luca)

Simple Facts in Developing a Musical Memory

Ear Training for Beginners

Teaching a Five-Year-Old

Knowing the Scales

How I Earned My Musical Education: A Series of Personal Experiences from Real Music Workers

Memorizing Our Moods

Sight Reading

That Heavy Thumb

When the Contralto Was a Curiosity

Every-Day Pianistic Blunders and How to Cure Them

Eyes and No Eyes

Positive Results form Positive Routine

Secret of Staccato

Historic Musical Memories: How Famous Musicians Have Kept Immense Numbers of Musical Compositions in Their Minds for Long Periods of Time

How to Laugh …

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 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 40, Number 10 (October 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Funniest Experience I Ever Had in Opera: A Symposium in Which Many Operatic Celebrities Have Taken Part

Wagner in Parisian Days: Striking Pen Portraits of the Great Masters as Seen by a Brilliant Contemporary

American Music and Composers

Thanksgiving Hymn from Japan

Hand, Tone, Technic

Human Element in Fine Piano Playing (interview with Ernest Schelling)

What Have I a Right to Expect From My Teacher?

Are American Artists Being Denied a Square Deal in Their Own Country

How I Acquired a Relaxed Trill

Measuring Progress

Spread Chords

Names of Scale Degrees and Their Meaning

Some Impressions of the Music of …

Volume 40, Number 09 (September 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music—The Joy and Need of Every Man (interview with Frank Crane)

Getting There Without a Teacher

Don't Stuff the Pupil

Staccato Marks, Touches and Tones

Undisturbed Practice

Basis of Musical Imagination

Marche aux Flambeaux

How to Get a Start in Chautauqua

Abuses the Teacher Should Not Tolerate

Encourage Melody Writing

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Bring Out the Main Thought in Piano Playing: How the Suppression of the Superfluous Helps

How to Develop Legato Wthout Using the Pedal: A Real Test of Your Ability at the Keyboard

Value of Chords for Beginners

Planning a Recital

Making …

Volume 40, Number 08 (August 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the Modern Chautauqua is Doing for Music of All Kinds Everywhere in Our Country

Behind the Scenes with Artists, Part 2: Do Artists Practice Pure Technic?

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

When Mendelssohn Became a Journeyman

Paderewski and the Paper-Hangers

How to Get the Greatest Results form Practice

Italian Musical Terms

Meaning of Sub-Mediant

Some Personal Recollections of Hans Guido Von Bulow: Master in Black and White

Are You a Musical Nurse to Your Child?

Sound Reproducing Machine Records and the Private Teacher: An Intensive Study in Interpretation

Building Up a Class in a …

Volume 40, Number 07 (July 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Plow-Boy to Parsifal: The Remarkable Career of an Indiana Farmer's Boy Who Never Heard a Grand Opera Until Two Years After He was Married (interview with Orville Harrold)

Mixing Music with Brains: The Only Road to Success Hereafter

Making Habits That Help

Learning Bass Notes Simplified

How to Be Happy Though Practicing

Keeping Ahead of You Fingers

Dialogue on Scales

Ouija Board and Piano Practice

Verdi's Thoughts on Art

Some Secrets of Readng at Sight

Four Hand Playing

How Le Couppey Taught

Important Point in Phrasing

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop, Part 9

Full-Measure Rest

How They Put …

Volume 40, Number 06 (June 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Radio Music for Everybody (interview with J. Andrew White)

How Kullak Got Back

Goldmark Avec Suite

Musicale at Dickens'

Hepling the Careless Pupil

Simple Facts About Harmony That Every Music Lover Should Know

Character in Sound

Legend of The Moonlight Sonata

Capture the Child's Magical Interest Early

Reminiscences of a Famous Prima Donna

Indicating Mistakes

Silent Music Lesson

Phrasing Made Simple for Earnest Piano Students

Is This the Ideal Position at the Piano?

Paganini Demanded Skill

Why Popular Songs Don't Last

Symphonies in Color—Silent Music

Practical Musical Note-Books

Helping a Limping Pupil

Know the Notes

Something About the Pause

Little …

Volume 40, Number 05 (May 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Many Roads to Artistic Playing (interview with Alexander Siloti)

Realizing Your Musical Ideals

Recorder: Intimate Glimpses of Famous Contemporaries

Music Facts from Plutarch's Lives

Mañana

Practical Technic for the Beginner

How Long is a Note

Cover to Protect Sheet Music

Hymn Values

Music in the Age of Seneca

Promoting Keyboard Accuracy

Taking Advantage

Rubinstein's Hungry Years

When Simplifying Why Not Simplify?

Pupils Who Discontinue

Time Saving Ideas in Pianoforte Practice

All About the Waltz

Music and Money

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

Remedies for Nervousness in Public Performances

Choking the Muse

Common Musical Matters in a New Guise

Maelzel …

Volume 40, Number 04 (April 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Beginnings in Vocal Art (interview with Emma Calvé)

Camille Saint-Saëns Parting Advice on Piano Study

Be Your Own Surgeon

Memory of a Great Conductor

What Berlioz Thought of Us

Too Much Practice is Waste: How to Get Results Without Nerve Drain and Muscular Fatigue by Employing Scientific Methods

Artist is Always Ready

Making Pupils Count

Fraudulent Musical Masterpieces

What Did the Ancients Mean by Music of the Spheres

Some New Facts about the Creator of the Nocturne: John Field of Dublin

Paste This in Your Instruction Book: Common Sense Hints to Piano Students

About Triplets

What Makes a Great …

Volume 40, Number 03 (March 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is the Most Important Work to Which the Music Clubs of America May Devote Their Efforts? A Nation-Wide Symposium

Beginnings of American Music: A Sketch of Our Musical Endeavor Up to the Early Years of the Last Century

What Our Music Clubs Need Most

Ingrowing Musical Clubs

Music Students in Small Towns

Getting More Pupils

Slow Practice with Exaggerated Accents

Opera a Year

What the National Federation of Musical Clubs is Doing to Help in Making America a Musical Nation

Heredity and Music

Club: A Municipal Personality

Beacon Lights of Opera, To-Day and Yesterday: Graphic Sketches of the Masters …

Volume 40, Number 02 (February 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Most Remarkable Pianoforte Recital Ever Given

Spirit of Chopin

More Reasons Why She Couldn't Hold Her Pupils

Remarkable Mind of Camille Saint-Saëns: Passing of the Great French Composer at Advance Age: A Review of his Works as Reflected from Some of His Writings, and From the Writings of His Friends

What the Teacher Should Demand

Saint-Saëns' Last Public Address

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

What Guido Suffered

How I Overcame the Greatest Obstacle in My Career, Symposium

Handel's Sensitive Ear

Unavoidable Practice

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

Exercises to Prevent Arm Strain

Vioin and the …

Volume 40, Number 01 (January 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Would I Take Up Music Again? Symposium

Best Hand Position

Don't Threaten your Child

Should Grade Teachers Specialize in Music?

What Makes Piano Playing Interesting

Rehearse Phrases, Not Fragments

Teaching Rhythm in Class Lessons

Scale Solitaire

New Paths and Visions in Musical Progress (interview with Richard Strauss)

Chicago or Bayreuth

Robert Huntington Terry (photograph)

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

What the Piano Student Could Learn from the Violin Teacher

Humor and Music Teaching

Story of the Turn: Practical Advice Upon How to Play Such Embellishments

Most Helpful Piano Lesson …

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 39, Number 11 (November 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Pianist's Palette

Recorded Music

From a Master's Workshop

Practice Plan that Brings Results

How Genius Discounts Handicaps

Emphasizing Different Voices

Studio Stories that Hit the Spot

Demand the Noblest Ideals

How One Mother Got Time for Music Stories

Finale: Yesterday and Today

Better Elocution in Your Piano Playing

Little Learning Not Always a Dangerous Thing

Interesting Your Pupils

Knowing the Keyboard

Here and There in the Field of Music: An Intimate Page of Fact, Humor and Comment with the Great Music Makers of To-day and Yesterday

Harmony, Not a Dry and Difficult Subject

Visit to the Presser Home for Retired …

Volume 39, Number 10 (October 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Glimpses of Genius (interview with Percy Grainger)

Mother and the Musical Boy

Telling is Not Teaching

Verdi's Thoughts on Art

My Star Soloist

From a Master's Workshop: Little Lessons in Musicianship

Lesson in Chopin Interpretation

Five-Year Old Pupil

Teachers' Fees Should Not be Lowered

Ten Musical Failures and Why They Failed

Ambidexterity in Piano Playing

Too Much Self Help

Mastering Mistakes: Common Errors and Shortcomings of Piano Students and How to Overcome Them

Ten Thoughts for Music Students

Five Wasted Years

Eliminating Stiffness in Piano Playing: Knocking Down the Blank Wall in the Way of Progress in Grade Three

Individual …

Volume 39, Number 09 (September 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Develop Staccato Touch

Twenty Don'ts for Piano Teachers

Motives and Measure Bars

Square Deal for Teachers: Let Us Have a Better Financial Status for the Professional Musician

No Missed Lessons

Wrong Thing

Teaching Table Exercises to Beginners

Practical Ideas on Artistic Pedaling

Counting for a Star

Wise Selection of Piano Teaching Materials

Thumb on the Black Keys

Music and the Student's Health

One Minute with Haydn

Piano Teacher and His Success

Starting the Fire

Essense of Musical Memorizing

Parting Word

Getting Real Happiness from Your Music: Psychology and the Young Musician

Holding Young Child's Interest

Why Some Organists …

Volume 39, Number 08 (August 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Momentous Musical Anniversary: P.M.T.A. Celebrates Thirtieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of a Movement Which Has Become Country Wide

Greatest Thing in Technic: Dr. William Mason's Vast Technical Vision

Musical Brain-Storms and Their Results

Heyday of Music

Vocal Masterpieces for the Masses (interview with Henri Scott)

Sustaining Pedal and What It Does to Piano Music

Musical Explorer

Pianist's Vitality

Keeping Up Interest in Your Music Club

Color Effects in Piano Playing

Don'ts for Scale Playing

Bug-Bear of Dotted Notes

Variety in Scale Practice

Bad Manners at Concerts

Look Up!

Variety at Lessons

Something New in Music Temperament and Musical Understanding

How …

Volume 39, Number 07 (July 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Freedom in Music Teaching Methods (interview with Erno Dohnanyi)

What the Word Sissy Did

Deep Breathing vs. Nervousness

Motives and Melodies

Rural Music Teacher's Pay

How They Earned a Musical Education

Weak Fingers

Musical Innovations

Counting Aloud

Daily Supervised Practice

Quality and Color in Piano Playing: How to Make Your Playing Beautiful by the Legitimate Use of Color Effects

Ten Cardinal Points in Legato Piano Playing

Are You Taking or Are You Studying Music?

Check Up Your Hand Position

Speed Mania

Noise, the Disease of the Century

How Primary Pupils May Learn to Read Rapidly

Line a Day

Art of …

Volume 39, Number 06 (June 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Aspects of the Art of Singing in America (interview with Reinald Werrenrat)

Fingering of Major Scales

Teaching Music Through Feeling

Studio Thoughts

Fingering Facts for Self-Help Pupils

Saving Energy in Practice

Von Bülow's Concert Hat

Success Steps in Piano Teaching

Sight Reading and Musicianship

What Method Shall I Study? What Method Shall I Teach?

How the Piano Sings

Fair Price for Lessons

Fingering Scales in Flats

Magic of the Keyboard: Virtuoso Tricks in Piano Playing

Playing Teacher

Do You Lose Your Music?

Liszt's Playing

Shall the Classics be First or Last?

Very Little Ones

Where Long Finger Nails Fall …

Volume 39, Number 05 (May 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Golden Hour

Letters from Eminent Americans Endorsing The Golden Hour

Parents, Do You Do Your Part?

Handy Definitions

Variety in Scale Practice

Gymnastics in the Bass

What is the Most Difficult Thing in Piano Playing? (interview with Ignaz Friedman)

Muscle and Piano Playing

What Method Do You Use?

Sky the Limit

Musicians and the General Public

Gossec's Grim Humor

One Minute with Ludwig van Beethoven: Selected Quotations

Making Melodies and Addressing Them Properly

Sight Reading in the More Difficult Keys

Introduction in Scale Practice: A Practical Plan

Repeated Keys: An Interesting Effect in Piano Playing Worthy of Study by Ambitious …

Volume 39, Number 04 (April 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eminent Educational Experts Endorse the Golden Hour

Golden Hour: America's Most Serious Problem—A Possible Solution in Which You May Have a Vital Part

Modern Roads to Vocal Success (interview with Julia Claussen)

Sharps, Flats, Naturals

Helpful Criticism

Accent on the Third Beat

Cast Iron Methods

Lingering Lovingly on Details

Experience Plus Enthusiasm

Practical Phases of Pianoforte Technic (interview with Josef Lhevinne)

Taste

Inspiration in Piano Playing

Patience in the Study of Music

Studios, Yesterday and To-day

Psychology of Dress in Public Appearance

Alla Breve

What Was Liszt's Technic Life?

Interest Power in Music

Dialogue on the Pedals

Four Daily Practice …

Volume 39, Number 03 (March 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Phases of Modern Pianoforte Study

Mercenary Methods and the Result

Teacher Who Makes You Work

Some Common Failings and Their Correction

Young at Seventy, Old at Forty

Be Comfortable While You Teach: A Word of Advice to Young Teachers

Steps in Learning to Compose

Learning to Like the Classics

Perspective in Teaching

Arm Relaxation Applied to Finger Work

Life Maxims of Great Musicians

Negative Criticism and Why It Fails

Soul of Poland in Music

Is the Development of High Speed Desirable in the Study of Scales and Arpeggios?

Getting Ready for a Recital

Unfair Competition

Suggestions to Young Concert …

Volume 39, Number 02 (February 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Acquiring a Vocal Repertoire (interview with Alma Gluck)

Cause and Cure of Nervousness

Soul Exercises

How the Scale Should be Practiced Every Day

Average Amateur Pianist

Early Teaching Material

Lines and Spaces

Select the Best Fingering

Poor Performance and Its Sequel

Curve of Improvement in Practice

How to Get the Most Out of Your Music Lesson

Acquiring a Repertoire

Folly of Giving Too Difficult Music to Students

Thematic Index

Historical Music Study

Introduction to the Keyboard

Secret of Success of Great Musicians

Learning By Ear

Keeping Up

Don't Be Discouraged

Chords I Have Met

Emotional Control in Playing

How to …