Music Practice Commons^™

Volume 57, Number 06 (June 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Now That Commencement Is Here?

Learning How to Help Yourself (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Yes There is a Musical Market

Radio Flashes

Pianist, Know Your Fingers: A New Approach to Piano Technic

Democracy of Radio (interview with Stephen West)

Mother Goose, Mus. Doc.: A Dramatic Piano Recital

Vital Inner Structure of Music: Is Counterpoint the Dry Bones of the Tone Art?

Some Tuneful Towns in the United States

Astonishing New Instrument

Beethoven's Best Clothes (an Anecdote)

Musical Radical Reforms

Great Master's Principles of Composition: Balakirev's Clear and Practical Ideas Upon Musical Structure

New Lights on Giuseppe Verdi as Seen in …

Volume 56, Number 03 (March 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hacks Who Become Masters

Career in Radio: Soprano Soloist of the Critics Service Radio Hour of the National Broadcasting Company (interview with Lucille Manners)

Let Us Have More Piano Duets

Romance of Easter Carols: Music of the Great Restival of the Resurrection

Personal Memory of Ippolitoff-Ivanoff

Story of the Gloria Patri, Glory Be to the Father

Civic Value of a Music Hobby: Justice of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Founder and Conductor of the City Amateur Symphony Orchestra (interview with Leopold Prince)

Student Repertoires

Threshold of Music: The Simplest Chord in Music—The Major Triad

Bugles over …

Volume 55, Number 06 (June 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Television, When?

Schumann's Forest Scenes

How Do We Behave at the Piano?

They Didn't Eat with Liszt

Color Effects in Pianoforte Playing

How One Teacher Got Ahead of The Big Bad Wolf

One Jump Ahead of the Times

Summertime Pageant Recital for Young People

Brain Teasers Intelligence Test for Music Lovers

Approach to Scales

Fifteen Years in Radio (interview with Milton J. Cross)

Training the Thumbs

Incorrect Phraseology

Enfants Terribles of Pianist's Hands

More Be's For Your Musical Hive

Scale Preparation

Moscheles in Scotland: A Very Entertaining Account of His Meeting with Sir Walter Scott

Verdi Renaissance

Wild Music of …

Volume 53, Number 02 (February 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting Jobs through Music

Jennygrams: An Amusing Episode in American Musical History—How Barnum Turned Jenny Lind's American Début Into a Money Making Scheme

Dr. Brahms and Dr. Bilroth

Can Any Music Enthusiast Become a Master of the Piano?

Are You a Musical Parasite?

Musical Instruments of Old and Modern Cathay

Concerning the Jazz Question

Rules and Exceptions in Musical Theory

Music and Postage Stamps

Lilting Strains of the Waltz

Don't Save Time—Take It!

Music Everywhere: What the Radio is Doing for Musical America

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

How I Use My Etudes

Travelogue Recital

Glinka and …

Volume 51, Number 05 (May 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musica Tonsoria

Music Now More than Ever (interview with William H. Woodin)

Several Points Worth While

How Weight Playing May Add to the Student's Resources

Why Great Artists Succeeded - Schumann-Heink

Michael Kelly Goes Abroad: An Amazing Musical Travelogue Over One Hundred Years Old Giving Intimate Glimpses of Haydn, Mozart, Glinck and Other Masters

Opera through the Centuries

Mozart and the B Minor Adagio

Can I Sing over the Radio?

For Busy People

Transposing at Sight

When it is Hard to Concentrate

Structure of Music - Modulation

Business Hints

Volume 50, Number 03 (March 1932), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Tragedy of the Duke of Wellington

Technic the Outgrowth of Musical Thought (interview with Vladimir Horowitz)

Absurd Phrasing

Teacher's Creed

Radio and Musical Education

Beginning Pedal

On Writing a Successful Concert Song

Character Study

Composers and Music

How To Encourage Piano Pupils to Practice

Importance of a Certain Fingering

Up in the Air

Minuet in Music

Teaching New Arpeggios

Community Recital

What to Do With the Poorly Prepared Pupil

Gift of Something to Do

Amateur Organizations

Message to Parents about the Piano

Volume 49, Number 09 (September 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Television and Radio To-day

What the Band Means to Your Home Community (interview with John Philip Sousa)

How Expression is Achieved at the Keyboard Through Accent: The Agógic Accent in Expression

Beethoven as a Violinist, Portrait

New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra: Its Origin and History

Report Card Form

Practical and Profitable Piano Recital

America's Giant Strides in Music for Youth

To Judge the Pupil's Progress

Twenty September Business Hints for Practical Teachers of Music

New Fashioned Dry Goods Advertising

Tone Color

Schumann's Immortal Words

On the Interpretation of Bach

Notes and Rests that Go Together

Volume 48, Number 09 (September 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Why the World Needs Bands (interview with John Philip Sousa)

Modern Questions in the Study of Harmony

Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today

Curious Lure of Chinese Music

Oral Drills in Intervals

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 3

Percussion—The Pulse of Music

Technical Problems in a Nutshell

Overcoming Difficulties in Memorizing

Open the New Musical Season Brillantly by Spreading the Gospel of Music-Study

Odd Facts about Sound

Case for Modern Music

Master Lesson on Chopin's Polonaise in C Minor, Op. 40, No. 2

Keeping …

Volume 48, Number 06 (June 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Melodic Genius of Ethelbert Nevin (interview with Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin (Anne Paul Nevin)

Gluck and Marie Antoinette (picture)

Radio as an Educational Factor: For Artist Musicians and Music Students

Getting the Most Out of Self-Study

Practicing for the Spring Recital

Three Vital Points in Piano Mastery: Practice Hints to Pianoforte Students

How to Start a Class

Flowers, Music and Sunbeams

Romance of the Guitar

Wisdom of a Great Teacher: Karl Merz

Wagner and the Ominous Number 13

Study Schedule

Enlarging the Pupil's Musical Vocabulary

Story of Annie Laurie

Accompanist Who Aids and Abets

Volume 48, Number 05 (May 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fighting Deadly Uniformity

Will the Radio and Talking Pictures Compel a Revolution in Methods of Teaching Singing?

Special Exercise in Double Thirds for Independence of Fingers

Child's Native Love of Music

Musical Value of Silence: How to Play Rests Effectively

Why Slow Practice Helps

Piano Study for Adult Beginners

Romance of the Guitar (interview with Andrés Segovia)

Great Masters as Students (Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893)

Double Notes

Rhythm and Technic, the Keys to Interpretation (interview with José Iturbi)

Opus—Key—Composer

How Has the Piano as an Instrument Developed in the Last Half Century?

Master Lesson on the Famous Fantasia in C Minor by …