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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 44, Number 11 (November 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Character Sketch of Schubert

Franz Schubert as Others Saw Him

Marriage of Rhythm and Rubato

What Does Technic Mean to You?

Question of More Pep

Scaling the Technic Ladder

Gaining Pupil's Confidence

Piano Lesson in Vaudeville

Mental Tests

Quo Vadis Piano?: Which Way is Pianistic Art Turning?

For Lycidas is Dean, Young Lycidas—Milton

Thoughts from Schubert

Teacher—Mother—Pupil

Musician's Library

Wisdom of Women Musical Workers: What Women Musicians are Thinking

Some Unconsidered Details Often Neglected

Inspiring Confidence

Schubert's Life in Anecdote

Schubert in Romance

How to Read Music Accurately, Rapidly and Comfortably

Why and When the Fourth Finger

Practicing New Scales …

Volume 44, Number 10 (October 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Don't! An Article for Budding Professionals

Selling One's Service

Music That Endures

Safe and Sane Memorizing

Daddy's Musical Family

Variety in Recitals

Solving Rhythmical Riddles

How to Improve Your Sight Reading

Can I Develop Absolute Pitch?

When Shall I Stop Learning?

Marvel of the Human Voice: How Natural Methods of Training Produce Exceptional Results (interview with Oscar Saenger)

Engaging a New Music Teacher

Faithful Pupil

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land

Personality of Rameau

Making the Most of the First Year

Dictionary Habit

Practical Lessons in Hand Culture

Little Life Stories of Great Masters: Biographies in Catechism Form

Queer Notation

Aids …

Volume 44, Number 09 (September 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Did Beethoven Jazz?

Laughing Chorus

Music on the Other Side of the World (interview with Mischa Levitzki)

Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing

Lesson with Chopin

Litle Help on the C Scale Fingering

Remarkable Art of Georges Bizet

When the Wrong Note is It

Teach Both Staffs from the Beginning

Musical Bank Account

Memorial to Louis C. Elson

Magic of Details

Why Not More Home Group Music?

Musical Instruments of Yesteryear

Magnifying Pedal

On Always Progressing

Lessons Away from the Piano

Striking Wrong Notes

Bach at the Organ

Select the Proper …

Volume 44, Number 08 (August 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chronologial Progress in Musical Art (interview with Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky)

Beethoven's Literary Education

I Will

Backing Up

Musical Fundamentals Which Every Student Should Know

Bugaboo of Memorizing

Enthusiastic and Popular Teacher

To Keep Up a Repertoire

Teach by Comparisons

Competent Chopin Commentaries

Music and Morocco

Pupils' Time Wasters

Paris Grand Opera House

Caruso's Meeting with Puccini

Research

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land, Part 2

Real Chopin

Teaching the Sharps and Flats

Your Teacher Enjoys

Geometric Gymnastics

Improving a Pupil's Sense of Rhythm

Planting a Musical Garden

Helping the Beginner

Well-Known Transcriptions and Arrangements for Piano

Give Me Little Classics

Unique …

Volume 44, Number 07 (July 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Our Own Musical To-Morrow

Why the World Needs Music (interview with Henry Van Dyke)

Unnecessary Movement

In Defense of Etudes

Keys' Sang

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and How to Teach Them, Part 3

Make Friends of Your Instruments

When You Play That Piece

Let's Pretend

Great Men and the Power of Music

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land

Practice Won't Wait Said Rubinstein

Do You Listen?

Education of the Average Student in Music

Romanticism in Music

Practicing Versus Playing

Student Takes Stock

Musicians and Their Hair

Professional Etiquette

Indoor Relay Race in Scales

One Key at a Time

Unused Faculties

Self Help …

Volume 44, Number 06 (June 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Everything Counts in Your Musical Success (interview with Lawrence Tibbett)

Vale, Melodeon!

Profitable Lesson in Playing Double Notes

Women's Orchestras in 18th Century Italy

Simple Help for Scale-Mastery

Attention and Getting Along

Practical Point for Practical Teachers

Getting the Hang of the Rhythm

Various Ways of Writing Dots and Their Corresponding Touches

Rightly Learned Piece

Learning the Keyboard

How Words Help

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Adult Beginner and His Problems

For the Musically Slow

Selecting Compositions for Your Pupils

Cyril Scott and His Ego

How to Play Correctly Two Notes Against Three

Thumb Drill of …

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 04 (April 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hungary' Love for Music

Waiting for Inspiration

Slow Down

Don't Play Your Hardest Pieces in Public

Regular Practice Counts

Psychology of Reading Music at Sight

Dead Notes

Little Life Stories of the Great Masters

Strength of Silence

Hungary, the Land of Rhythm and Melody (interview with Yolanda Mëro)

Reveling in Music

Chord Playing

Imitation in Musical Compositions

Aids for the Slow Reader

Irresistible Lure of Gypsy Music

Practical Method of Teaching Treble and Bass Notes

Five Reasons Why You Should Study the Piano

Nervousness

Get a Musical Education First (interview with Margarete Matzenauer)

Our Musical Esperanto

On Temper in Piano …

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 44, Number 02 (February 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin: A Eulogy Upon the Greatest of Polish Musicians

Chopin's Estimate of Other Musicians

Six Don’t's for Young Students

Chopin Pilgrimage in the Mediterranean

What the Piano Teacher Must Know

Interesting Class Lessons

Vary the Position

Present-Day Significance of Chopin

Inspirational Moments

Climaxes in Chopin's Art

Character Study of Chopin

Chopin Reflections

Episodes on the Life of Chopin: Milestones, Musical and Otherwise, in the Career of the Most Famous Master of Piano Music

First Lesson on the Keyboard

Can You Discriminate?

Genius of Chopin

Chopin Character Lines

Chopin and Schumann Play Quits

Chopin Chronology

That New Composition

Advice on the …

Volume 44, Number 01 (January 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tributes from Eminent Men and Women to Theodore Presser

How to Teach the Major and Minor Scales

Suggestion for Orchestra Goers

Some Aspects of America's Advance in the Musical Art (interview with Owen Wister)

Practice Hour for the Rusty Housewife

Character Study of Theodore Presser the Man: Biography of Theodore Presser as it Appears in Who's Who for 1925

Inspirational Moments

What Part Has Modernism in Present Day Piano Study

Teaching Old Pianists New Tricks

Touch

Utilizing Sensations

Life Appreciations of Theodore Presser from Those Who Knew Him

Opus-Numbers

Adaptable Wrist-Action

Practical Fingering Illustrated for Individual Needs: A Self-Help for …