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Volume 43, Number 12 (December 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music the Humanizer

Tinsel and Gold of Opera

Studying Aloud

Collapsible Fingers

How to Prepare for Playing in Concerts

Artistic Execution of Octaves

Don't Discourage the Pupil by Beginning all Over Again

Facts about Early Musicians

Brahms, Tausig and Some Variations

Your Chances of Scaling the Operatic Heights (interview with Maria Jeritza)

Two Geniuses in One Apartment

Touch that Thrills

Brahms on Composing Songs

Dictionary Dick

Keyboard Guides

New Ideas on Study and Practice (interview with Percy Grainger)

Some Suggestions for Sightreading

Keep Sweet

Relaxed Piano Playing

Steps Upward

Landing on Skips

Need for Merry Music

Rising Tide of Musical …

Volume 42, Number 12 (December 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Acquiring a Technic of Interpretation

Public Library

Inspirational Moments

Why a Musical Italy?

Ring Out, Ye Bells!: How to Secure Bell Effects in Piano Music

Illustration and Demonstration in Teaching

Exercises for Development of Extensors

Triumph of Grieg: How the Great Norwegian Composer Has Gained Permanent Recognition

Seven Practices to Conquer Difficulties

Play Days of Musicians

Are You Going Caroling This Christmas? Revival of a Mediaeval Custom Which is Sweeping the Country: Stories of the Most Famous Christmas Carols and Christmas Folk Songs

Musical Class Training

Giving the Fingers a Vacation

Waking Dozing Students

Determination Masters Piece

Rubinstein's Master Methods …

Volume 41, Number 12 (December 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Robert Schumann

Basic Principles of Piano Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Great Composers and Their Predominant Moods

How the Rural Music Teacher Can Stimulate Interest

What the Metropolitan Music Critic Looks for Most

Boney Structure of the Hand

Manna-Zucca (Biographical)

Echoes from the Work Shop

Legato Touch

Favorite Instruments of the Great Composers

Out of Tune—Out of Music

Should Piano Playing Undergo a Radical Reform? (interview with Vladimir de Pachmann)

Do It Again

How to Avoid Fumbling at the Keyboard

Beethoven's Novelties in Instrumentation

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Unheard Practice

Importance of Accompanying

Play as You Think—Think as You …

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 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 38, Number 12 (December 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Self Study in the Art of Singing (interview with Mme. Amelita Galli-Gurci)

Harsh Chords in the Bass and What To Do With Them

Rubinstein, Master of Tone

Environment and the Child's Musical Life

Ten-Toned Scales

Harmonious Blacksmith

Revolutionary Etude: A Christmas Story of Music and the Great Unrest

Getting Results in Pianoforte Study

Doing too Much for Students

Like Flying to a Bird

Schubert and Schubart

Bringing Out the Master's Meaning

Some Interesting Things to Know About Playing Scales, Chords and Arpeggios

Marking Accidentals

Apple-pie-ano

Christmas Festival of Peace, Music and Good Cheer

Practical Exercises in Weight Playing

How to …

Volume 37, Number 12 (December 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Vatican (interview with Canon Monsignore Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri)

Be Ambitious

Organize in Your Own Town

How to Prepare a Number in a Given Time

What About Your Left Hand?

Accentuation

Borrowed Chords and Fancy Chords

Conquering the Hard Spots

Moving Ahead

Musical Classics for the Millions: A Present-day Revolution in Methods of Musical Dissemination Which is Bound to Have Far-reching Results, Through the Movies and Music (interview with Hugo Riesenfeld)

Habit is Second Nature

No Such Thing as Miracles

Studio Revelations

Fingering

Relative Value of Accent in Pianoforte Playing

I Can't Memorize Music!

Introducing the Pupil to …

Volume 36, Number 12 (December 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How Washington Irving Revelled in the Music of Christmas

Be a Live Wire

Are You a Good Salesman?

How to Keep Fit for a Successful Public Appearance

Never Louder Than Lovely

Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers

Know Your Piano

Mental Rehearsal

What is Temperament?

Price: Can You Pay It?

Humorous Musical Interruptions

Music That is Too Difficult

Mysterious Middle Pedal: A Most Interesting and Helpful Article …

Volume 35, Number 12 (December 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Automatic Faculty in Piano Playing

How to Attain Freedom of the Fingers

Mass of Christ

Footlight Fear and Fever

Important Steps in the Educational Work of an Opera Singer

Three Measure Rhythm

Christmas Carols

Reading Detached Chords

Are the Black Keys Poisonous to the Thumb?

Time to Rest and a Time to Grow

Musical Reputations and How They are Achieved

Is Compulsory Music Study Advisable?

Successful Study of Octaves

Can You Pass This Normal Test?

Some Pianos I Have Known

Practice Individual Tones in a Chord

Beethoven's Characteristics as a Pianist

How to Study Two Against Three

Pianographs

Hints on …

Volume 34, Number 12 (December 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Locating the Notes on the Keyboard

Make Your Circular Hit the Mark

Keeping the Voice in Prime Condition

Some Truths about Touch and Tone

Famous Legends of Famous Music: And Incidentally Some Famous Lies About Well-Known Pieces

Beethoven's Appearance and Personality

If I Had to Begin All Over Again: A Remarkably Interesting Symposium with Contributions from Distinguished Musicians

What an Olden Time Bard Looked Like

Composer: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life849

Tempo: The Ruling Force in Music

Teaching Ideals of Three Master Violinists

Teaching Expression to Children

Danger in Tuning the Piano Too High

Four Roads …

Volume 33, Number 12 (December 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

To Avoid Inaccuracy

Beethoven

Sense of Touch in Music

Opportunities and Limitations in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Rudolph Ganz)

Teaching Backward Children

Nervousness and the Pedal

When and How to Memorize

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life: Not a Needless Accomplishment

Let the Mind Rule the Memory

Many Music Teachers Retire in Comfort

Lines of Improvement in Modern Pianoforte Playing and Teaching

Scales, Scales, Scales, Every Day

Pianist's Vocabulary

First Steps in Sight-Reading

Gloria's Great Chance: A Story of Music and Christmas

Giving Greater Value

Popular Musical Mis-conceptions: Some Musical Conventions Which Should be Exploded

Why Study Harmony

Relation …

Volume 32, Number 12 (December 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Mozart Could Do as a Child

America's Greatest Musical Need (Symposium)

Personal Initiative in Piano Study (interview with Theodore Leschetisky)

Some Leschetizky Principles of Piano Playing

How They Used to Study in the Olden Days

How to Make Piano Playing Interesting

Remarkable Contrast in Salon Music

Vitality in Teaching

Convenience and Comfort in the Home for Retired Music Teachers

Leopold Auer's Principles of Violin Playing

Plea for the Most American of Instruments

Harmony That is Not Harmony

Artistic Piano Touch and How to Achieve It

European Musical Topics in War Times

Musical Frauds and Fictions

German and Italian Influences …

Volume 31, Number 12 (December 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Jenny Lind, Artist and Woman

How to Count Time

How They Protected Aged Musicians in the Seventeenth Century

Thoroughness in Music Study (interview with Camille Saint-Saëns)

Let Your Music Taste Reveal Your Character

Independent Finger Action

How Tunes are Made

European Musical Topics

Saving Indian Music from Oblivion

Helps in Scale Playing

Mendelssohn's Happy Christmas Spirit

We can Learn from Other Things

Our Humble Beginnigs in Music

Secret of Good Staccato Playing

Avoid Unnecessary Excitement at Pupils' Recitals

Should the Average Pupil Study Pianoforte Playing

How Chopin Played Chopin: Interesting Opinions of Modern Critics and Famous Contemporaries

Home for Retired …

Volume 30, Number 12 (December 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Clear Chords

Importance of Fine Editions of the Classics

Don't Expect Everything of the Teacher

How Chopin Wrote the Preludes

Save Your Energy

Our Photogravure Supplement, Their Son

Advance of Vocal Art in America

Plan Your Season's Work Rightly

Training of the Rhythmic Sense

Triangle as a Teaching Help

Richard Wagner and Christmas

Painting with Tones

Musical Success Comes from Within

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Chopin

Stephen Heller as I Knew Him: Memories of Lessons with the Noted Composer Teacher

With the World's Great Educators

Love Affairs of Famous Composers

Law of Success in Musical Study

Mile-Posts in Pianistic …

Volume 29, Number 12 (December 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Regular Progress

Presto Paragraphs

Recollections of My Musical Childhood

Acquiring a Good Touch

Is Woman's Musical Talent Really Limited?

Simplicity of Harmony

How Musical Sounds Come to Us

Glory of Beethoven

Mental Pictures in Music

Chopin's Revolutionary Etude

Do Americans Need More Technic?

Training the Crossing Fingers in scale Playing

Reminders

How Piano Playing Has Progressed (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Posing at the Pianoforte

Mystery of the Lethbridge Strad: A Christmas Story of Musical Life in a Great City

Lisztiana

What Franz Liszt Did for the Music of the Church

Franz Liszt as I Knew Him

Well Known Composers …

Volume 28, Number 12 (December 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Overheard at the Symphony Concert

Developing the Beautiful in Piano Playing

What Daily Practice Means

Difficult Art of Good Pedaling

Lessons from Memorable Piano Recitals

How One Teacher Raised Her Income

My First Composition

How and Why the American Teacher Has Succeeded in Europe

Those Missed Lessons

Patrons and Helpers of Great Composers

Some Wagner Caracatures

Crying Need in American Music

Professor's Christmas Dilemma: A Musical Romance of Xmas

Hand Drill

On Making the Most of a Poor Instrument

Well Known Composers of To-Day—Hermann Necke

Need of Better Sight Reading

Balzac's Interest in Music

Pupils Who Pay by the Lesson

Volume 27, Number 12 (December 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mendelssohn and Schumann: Personal Recollections of Them as Teachers

Self-Control in Music

Christmas Stories for the Musician's Fireside Reading

Individuality in Piano Playing (interview with Teresa Carreño)

Who the Troubadours Were and What They Did

Etude Gallery of Musical Celebrities

How to Preserve These Portrait-Biographies

How to Study the Trill

Why Some Artists Fail to Win Public Favor

Observations of the Moment

Story of the March

Wonderful Virtuosos of the Thirties and Forties

Helping the Dull Pupil

Mozart the True Type of Genius

Helping the Dull Pupil

Friends of Schubert

When is Music Classical?

Bach the Master of Masters

Short …

Volume 26, Number 12 (December 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tschaikowski's Appreciation of Grieg

How to Play My Best Know Pieces

Schumann's Industry as a Piano Student

Schubert's Love of Nature

Secret of Public Appearance

Wagner's Phenomenal Imagination

Training of a Concert Pianist, Part 1

We Shoot at a Flying Mark

Paying for Lessons

With Anton Rubinstein in the Class-Room

Teaching the Scales and Arpeggios

Securing Arm Control at the Keyboard

Lesson with Dr. Hans von Bülow

Make Every Movement Count

Question of Equipment

Musical Comedy of Errors

How Chopin Played

Dvorak on Why Bohemia is Musical

What Teachers and Pupils Could Do for American Music

Getting the Most Out …

Volume 25, Number 12 (December 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some of the World's Greatest Women Pianists: Short, Interesting Biographies and Appreciations of Great Performers from Clara Schumann to the Present Day

Evil of Too Difficult Music

Mozart's Christmas

Tact and Success

Discouraged?

Musical Americanisms

Christmas Greetings from Well-Known Musicians

Don't Get Discouraged

Progress—Past and Present

Our Repertoire Class

Reflections by the Way, Part 1

Disgrace to Music: A Protest Against the Practice of Subsidizing Pianists Employed by Some Piano Firms

Fraud Publishers Again

Modesty of Brahms

Important Events in Musical History

Scale Playing

Practical Hints for the Busy Teacher

Making a Piece Interesting

Necessity of Sympathy in Teaching Children …

Volume 24, Number 12 (December 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Glimpse at the Christmas of Some Noted European Churches

Practical Listening to Music

Folk Music as Related to Art Music

American Folk Songs

Songs of Christmas

Music and Other Arts

Suggestions for Playing Some Pianoforte Works of Schumann

Story of a Song

Volume 23, Number 12 (December 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Study of Musical Talent: Illustrated from Life

Musicians at Practice

Musician's Love

Musicians Buried in Westminster Abbey

Influence of Musical Instruments upon Composition

Piano Music of the Present

Distinctive American Note in Our Music

Attitude of the Typical Musical Audience

Touch Signs

Reminiscences of Famous Musicians of the Immediate Past

Practical Ideas Applied to the Teaching of Children,Part 3

Best Way to Study Czerny

Music and National Life

Volume 22, Number 12 (December 1904), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music: The Oldest Institution of Musical Learning in Russia

Christmas Music in America in Olden Days

Christmas Spirit the True Spirit of Music

Musician's Christmas

Prof. Michael Hambourg on the Modern Pianist and His Art

Talks on Piano Playing

Place of Music in American Life

Christmas Pantomime

Volume 21, Number 12 (December 1903), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas and Christmas Music: A Study of Human Nature

Christmas Thoughts for Musicians

Richard Strauss and His Works: A Talk with the Composer

For the Christmas Recital

Demand for Brevity in Music

Our Picture Supplement

Captains of Music

Early Christmases in Musical History

Old Fogy Abroad: He Revisits the Paris Conservatoire

Proper Care of the Piano

Music and Religion

Theodore Leschetizky

Health of the Musician

In the Interlude

Counter-Surprise; Or, Christmas Eve at Plowville

Christmas in the Eighteenth Century

Christmas Piano

Volume 20, Number 12 (December 1902), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Best Living Composers

Perennial Romanticism

Music as it Exists in the United States: A General Survey

Choral Societies as a Factor in Musical Progress

What the Pedagogues Have Done for Modern Music

Influence of the Modern Orchestra

Musical Journalism as a Factor in Modern Music

What Some Persons Expect of a Pupil

Popular Instrumental Music

Popular Ballad and its Influence

Cradle Song

Modern Theory Teaching

Old Fogy is Pessimistic

Commercialism a Stumbling-Block

First Flights of a Singer: A Story Founded upon the Career of a Prominent American Singer

Volume 19, Number 12 (December 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, January 27, 1756-December 5, 1791

Mozart: An Appreciation

Mozart as Piano Writer

On the Study of Mozart's Sonatas

Listener to Mozart's Works

Newly-Discovered Portrait of Mozart

Mozart's Genius

Impress of Mozart On Musical History

Suggestions for Programs from Mozart's Works

Art of Mozart

Mozart Literature

Children's Page

Mozart Evening

Biographical Sketch

Mozart: Boy and Man

Mozart Revival

Mozart as a Worker

Violin

Joachim Bowing

Some Interesting Statements (interview with Camilla Urso)

Teaching the Beginner

Volume 18, Number 12 (December 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Is Wagner Wearisome?

Richard Wagner

Has Europe Discovered A Great Pedagogue?

Romantic Story of Wagner's Life

Suggestions for Wagner Study

Wagner and Operatic Reform

Present State of the Wagner Question

Wagneriana

Memory Among the Blind

Literature of Wagner

Wagner's Influence on Piano Composition

Outline Sketch of Richard Wagner's Life

Wagner Craze

Wagner's Harmonic Methods

How to Meet the New In Art

Outline Sketch of Wagner's Operas

Popularization of Wagner's Music

Esthetic Value of Wagner's Works

True Spirit of Advanced Study

Volume 17, Number 12 (December 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Too Much Talent

Social Element in Success

Penalty of Genius

Narrow and Broad Pianoforte Instruction

Odds and Ends; or, Ideas on Many Subjects

Fallacious Notions

Teacher-Student

Musician's Life-Work

Study the Life of Schumann

Robert Schumann as a Composer for the Piano

Robert Schumann, Biographical

Piano Works of Robert Schumann

Point of Utility

Autobiographic Character of Schumann's Music

Side Lights on Schumann

Some Side Lights on the Making of a Musician

Songs of Schumann

Technical Demands of Schumann's Music

Schumann—The Man

Christmas Story

Successful Teacher

To the Girls Who Read The Etude

Education of Musicians

Do You Expect a Testimonial?

Clara …

Volume 16, Number 12 (December 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Comments by Emil Liebling

Danger of Premature Introduction of Classical Music

Some Thoughts on Teaching the Pianoforte

Great Players and Great Teachers

Don'ts

Symposium: Is the Teaching Season Growing Shorter?

Origin of the Baton

Critical Comment

Factors in a Teacher's Success

Behind the Scenes in Art-Life

Violins and Girls

Hearing Music as a Factor in Musical Education

Attempting the Impossible

Technic and Emotion

Sin Against Good Taste

Writing of the Requiem: The Story of Mozart's Masterpiece

Originality Impossible

Good Advice

Nervousness Before Appearing in Public

Methods and Results

Eclecticism in Music

Home Influence on Pupils

Memorizing is Such Hard Work …

Volume 15, Number 12 (December 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Make a Living

Apology for the Piano

Remedy Suggestion

Song Writers of the Day

Bit of Biography

Talent for Technic is not Musical Talent

Musical Listener

Monomaniac in Music

How to Teach—How to Study

Are We Not Giving Too Much Thought to the Technical Side of Music, Thereby Losing Sight of the True Meaning of the Art?

Treatment of Unpromising Pupils

Cathedral Chimes at Christmas Eve

Strongest Thing in the World

Music Touched His Heart

What a Music Teacher Ought to Know

Starting Pupils Aright

Mozart and Pure Beauty

How to Study

Would-Be Paderewski

Keeping Up with the …

Volume 14, Number 12 (December 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

One Hand Alone

Submerged Melodies

Fillmore, John C.

Intention and Success

Playing by Memory

Evil of the Time

Avoidance of the Commonplace

Music Chats with Children

Music Teachers' Problem

Theodor Kullak

Let Singers Beward of Doctors

Humorous Incident

Is Marriage Inimical to Music? If so, Why?

New Story of Paganini

Plea for My Last Teacher

Needs of Piano Students and How They May be Secured

Secret of Musical Expression

Extract

For the Suppression of Din

Why Study Musical History?

Obstacles They Met, and How They Overcame Them: Lessons in Perseverance from the Lives of the Masters

Most Difficult Piece

How …