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Volume 74, Number 01 (January 1956), Guy Mccoy
Volume 74, Number 01 (January 1956), Guy Mccoy
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
What Was Mozart's Playing Like?
Creative Contrast in Mozart Mozart Bicentennial: A Partial Listing of Programs Honoring This Event For the Coming Year
Caring for the Voice (interview with Cesare Siepi)
Tape Recorder in the Music Room: Suggestions for the Use of Recording Equipment in the Educational Field
In the Steps of Mozart: A Brief Look at the Master's Life and Times as They Affected His Creative Output
Bartók, the Teacher—As I Knew Him
Volume 52, Number 01 (January 1934), James Francis Cooke
Volume 52, Number 01 (January 1934), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Studying Music for the Joy of It (interview with Artur Bodanzky)
Old Friends are Best
Evening of Mozart: A Musical Play in Three Acts for Children and Adults
You Can Sing—If You Will! (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)
Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital
Coming Back Without Teacher
Why Not Give an Etude Radio Recital?
Music Supervisor's Forum
New Deal, the New Leisure, and Music
Interesting Stephen Heller
Here's a New One
Those Troublesome Octaves
Value of Music Study to a Business Woman
Ledger Lines and Spaces Simplified
Sight Reading Suggestions
Drilling for Independence …
Volume 51, Number 05 (May 1933), James Francis Cooke
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 49, Number 08 (August 1931), James Francis Cooke
Volume 49, Number 08 (August 1931), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Planning for a Prosperous Season
Talk on the Talkies, A (interview with Lawrence Tibbett)
How to Learn to Play at Sight
More Greetings for Paderewski
Johannes Brahms, Etching
Piano Lessons from Masters of Yesteryear
Two Famous MacDowell Pieces
To Make the Left Hand Agile
Mozart the Prodigy (1756-1791)
Swiss Music Festival in the Bernese Oberland
Reading Between the Lines in Music: What is Implied is Often More Important than the Notes Themselves
Interesting Piano-Accordion (interview with Pietro Deiro)
Use of Phonograph in the Practice Hour
Imagination as Shown in Some Piano Pieces
Economizing the Practice Hour
Bell Music, Today and …
Volume 38, Number 08 (August 1920), James Francis Cooke
Volume 38, Number 08 (August 1920), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Three Touches Employed in Melody Playing
How to Create New Teaching Business
Direct Method in Music Study
Basis of Success in Music Reading
Fighting Fate to Triumph
Never Too Late
To Parents—Don't Give Up Your Music
To the Pupil Without a Teacher
School and Studio: Studies in the Cirriculum of the Public School Which Compare with Musical Studies
Practical Aspects of Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with M. Alfred Cortot)
Accenting Compound Measures
By-Product of Counting Aloud
Passing Notes
How Much Do You Practice?
More Advanced Technical Exercises and the Relation of Technical Exercises to Studies
Starting Them In
First Steps …
Volume 36, Number 05 (May 1918), James Francis Cooke
Volume 36, Number 05 (May 1918), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Benjamin Franklin's Musical Side
Letter from General Hugh L. Scott
Slavery to the Keyboard
Piano's Future Assured
Practice the Bass
Music Now More Than Ever: Eminent Men and Women in Many Walks of Life Earnestly Urge Music as a Present National Need
Interesting Way to Teach Phrasing
Music Teachers' Desk
Love Letter from Mozart to his Wife
Get in Touch with the Other Professions
Personality and Interpretation
César Franck After Twenty-five Years
Haydn's Souvenirs of London
High Wrist and Low Wrist
Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn
Home Without Music
Find Joy in …
Volume 35, Number 02 (February 1917), James Francis Cooke
Volume 35, Number 02 (February 1917), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Success in Chorus Conducting: Hints, Aids and Advice to Leaders by the Foremost English Choral Conductors
Melody Hunting
Keep a Lesson Book
Surmounting Stubborn Passages: An Analysis of Technical Difficulties
Twelve Factors in Successful Teaching
When Interest Lags
Rest as Climax
Personality at the Lesson
Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Italian Masters
Curiosities of Music
Modern Italian Operatic Composers
How Psychology Can Help the Musician
Chopiniana
Haydn's Boyhood Pride
High Lights in the Lives of Great Master: Haydn
Keeping Up the Interest in Scale Playing
Delicate Hand
Parting of Haydn and Mozart
Most Difficult Musical Composition
Advantages …
Volume 32, Number 05 (May 1914), James Francis Cooke
Volume 32, Number 05 (May 1914), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
First Studies in Double Notes
Memorizing Music Successfully (interview with Ossip Gabrilowitsch)
How Gounod Surprised Berlioz
Charles Marie Widor: Dean of French Organ Masters
Method in Sight Reading
Balance in Rhythmic Movement
Study Harmony from Piano Playing
Wit of Malibran
Best of the New Music Issued by the Leading Publishers: Selected, Graded and Recommended to The Etude Readers
Prima Donna of To-Day and Yesterday
Interesting the Boy Pupil
Chopin as a Virtuoso: How Chopin's Playing Impressed His Hearers
Ballet in France
Masters Who Have Failed as Opera Composers
Musical Thought and Action in the Old World
How to Develop Concentration …
Volume 32, Number 03 (March 1914), James Francis Cooke
Volume 32, Number 03 (March 1914), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Some Devices that Make Sight Reading Easy
Chopin's Last Surviving Pupil Gives Recollections of His Master
Leading the Pupil to Think While Practicing (interview with Harold Bauer)
Comfort at the Keyboard
Self-Development and Piano Playing
Mozart's Personal Appearance
Pioneers of American Music
Ornamentation in Music
Pros and Cons of Correspondence Instruction in Music: A Far Reaching Symposium on a Much Discussed Subject
Some Things the Student Should Know about Mozart's Works
Liszt's Original Compositions
Music and Abstract Ideas
Foundation Stones of Good Piano Technic
Tragic Character of the Music of Russia
Recollections of Celebrated Musicians (interview with Henry Schradieck)
Exercises …
Volume 32, Number 01 (January 1914), James Francis Cooke
Volume 32, Number 01 (January 1914), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
New Year's Greetings form Well Known American Composers
Talk with the Girl Who Would be a Prima Donna (interview with Nellie Melba)
Cheerfulness in the Lesson
To the Memory of Mathilde Marchesi, 1826-1913
Physical Side of Technical Development
Progress in Music Study (interview with Emil Sauer)
Musical Thought and Action Abroad
Pupils from a Farming District
Hints in Teaching Sight-reading
Attaining Technical Proficiency
To-day with Mozart in Salzburg
Lesson in Exact Terminology
Dot and the Double Dot
Operatic Choral Prayer
Recent Progress in Teaching Methods
Story of the Famous Singer Who Gave Richard Wagner His Ideals
Is Musical Theory Necessary? …
Volume 31, Number 08 (August 1913), James Francis Cooke
Volume 31, Number 08 (August 1913), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Tact in Selecting Teaching Pieces
Dvorák as I Knew Him
Making Your Surroundings Help You
Overheard at a Musical Convention: Opinions of Well-Known Teachers and Musicians
Qualities of a Pianist
Painting Pictures with Tonal Colors: An Instructive and Entertaining Discussion of Programme Music
Instruments of the Orchestra
Musician's Vacation: How to Make It a Restful One
Getting a Start as a Virtuoso in Europe
Romance of the Chopin Preludes
Spirit of the Valse
Wisdom of Liszt
Solving the Missed-lesson Problem
Saint-Säens on the Playing of Bach Fugues
Shall Music Teachers Be Licensed?
What Tchaikovsky Thought of the Great Musicians
Making …
Volume 30, Number 09 (September 1912), James Francis Cooke
Volume 30, Number 09 (September 1912), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Need for a Good Position at the Keyboard
Interesting Vacation Trip to Mozart's Workshop
New Thoughts on the Physiology of Practice
His Majesty's Violins: A Tale of the Court of Louis XIV
Leschetizky on the Pedals
Why Should We Have Pieces for Left Hand Alone?
Pointers on Position at the Piano
Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Apollo
Some Personal Recollections of Chopin
Excessive Octave Practice
Well Known Composer Reaches Opus 1000—Arnold Sartorio
Some Conundrums on Musicians' Names
Women in the Orchestra
About Verdi's Operas
Volume 29, Number 07 (July 1911), James Francis Cooke
Volume 29, Number 07 (July 1911), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Mendelssohn's Ideal Musical Training: Some Interesting Sidelights Upon the Education of the Fortunate Boy Who Was Later to Become One of the Word's Greatest Masters
Great Innovators in the Art of Piano-Playing
Very First Lessons at the Piano
Verdi's Egyptian Opera Aïda
Josef Pischna: The Renowned Writer of Technical Exercises
Brahms' Quick Wit
How to Secure a Legato-Touch
Systematise Your Octave Study
Closing of a Great Career—Gustav Mahler
Old Laws and New Ideas: Important Observations Upon Piano Practice
How the Piano Differs from Its Fore-runners
Characteristic Dance Forms: Short Notes upon Dances Which Have Become Famous Through Their Adoption by …
Volume 28, Number 02 (February 1910), James Francis Cooke
Volume 28, Number 02 (February 1910), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Lesson from Brahms
Methods and Customs of the Paris Conservatoire
Franz Joseph Haydn and the Development of the Sonata and the Symphony
Story of Pepito Arriola
Foreign Fingering vs. American Fingering
Some Uses for Old Music
Some Rules for Making Musical Manuscript
Analyses of Three Famous Classic Marches
How to Get the Most Out of Practice
Physiologist's Comments on Piano Playing
Volume 27, Number 10 (October 1909), James Francis Cooke
Volume 27, Number 10 (October 1909), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Their Obstaclesnd How They Overcame Them: Difficulties That Have Beset the Paths of the Foremost Masters and the Way in Which They Fought and Triumphed
How Music Began
Nervousness—How and When to Prevent It
Analysis of Beethoven Sonata, Opus 14, No. 2, First Movement
Inspiration of Bach's Piano Music
Mendelssohn's Compositions
Grieg at the Keyboard
How to Conduct Pupils' Musicales: Some Practical Hints Regarding the Students' Recital Gleaned from Practical Experience
How the Staccato Touch Broadens Technic
Schumann on Liszt's Playing
Peculiarities of Hungarian Music
Correcting Mistakes at the Lesson
Determining the Lesson Price
Volume 26, Number 04 (April 1908), James Francis Cooke
Volume 26, Number 04 (April 1908), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Newly Discovered Sketch by Mozart with its Musical Explanation
Sustained Finger Exercises
Co-öperation of Teacher and Student
Stimulating the Pupil's Ambition
Autobiography of a Rhapsody of Liszt
Suggestions Relating to Scale Fingering
Some Factors that Aid Good Teaching
Thirty-minute Lesson
Wagner's Witty Remarks on the Oratorio in England
Difficulties of the Young Music Teacher
What Should the Amateur Pianist be Taught of Harmony
Allow the Student to Develop His Own Ideas
Remodeling the Old Teacher's Work: How Great Tact Should be Used in Making Changes
Volume 25, Number 04 (April 1907), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 25, Number 04 (April 1907), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Maiden's Wish (Chopin Story)
Weber a Dramatic Composer
Control of Nervousness in the Musician
Making a Community Musical
Some Considerations on Foreign Study
Some Modern Technical Delusions and a Suggested Remedy
Dangers of Thoughtless Automatic Practice
Aim and Scope of Music for the Left Hand Alone
Shakespeare and Music: Some Interesting Quotations
Are the Keys with Flats in the Signatures Easier to Play than the Keys with Sharps? Why? (Symposium)
Beethoven's Love for Nature
Secret of Rosenthal's Technic
Artist's Revenge (A Story of Liszt and Chopin)
Anton Rubinstein in His Class Room
Keep the Eyes on the Music
Fraud Music …
Volume 24, Number 06 (June 1906), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 24, Number 06 (June 1906), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Making of an Artist: The Views of Alfred Reisenauer
Louis Köhler
Köhler's Technical Scheme
What is American Music?
Gluck and Lavater: How the Great Physiognomist Predicted the Composer's Career
Qualities of the Pianistic Hand
Notes on Rubinstein's Teaching
Handling of Piano Technic for Very Young Children
Study Value of the Pedal
Isadora Duncan and Her School for Classic Dancing
Studies in Prejudice: A Phase of Modern Art
Care to Practice, Then Careful Practice
Volume 24, Number 05 (May 1906), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 24, Number 05 (May 1906), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Chorus Conducting and Music Festival Organization: Talks with Mr. Emil Mollenhauer and Mr. George W. Stewart
Who Shall Select the Pupils' Music
Monument to Stephen Heller
Self-Control
Sigismond Stojowski and His Views on Piano Study
Evolution of the Leschetizky Method
Some of the Elements of a Good Teacher
Program Novelties for Music Clubs
More Extensive Pianoforte Repertoire
Necessity of Theoretical and Historical Study to the Pianist
Reading at Sight: Some Practical Suggestions
How Improvements in the Piano Affected Composition
How the Great Musicians Practice
Mozart's Manner of Composing
Volume 20, Number 10 (October 1902), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 20, Number 10 (October 1902), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Making of an Artist: A Talk with Mark Hambourg
Ear-Training and Use of the Damper Pedal
Essential Conditions Making for Beauty of Tone in Piano-Playing
For the Young Composer
Keep a Dictionary Handy
Pupil's Rights
Technic vs. Interpretation in Piano Playing
Musician as Missionary
How to Keep Pupils
Beautiful Tone
Repertory Building as a Stimulus to Music Study
Fourth Finger in Arpeggios
Volume 20, Number 01 (January 1902), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 20, Number 01 (January 1902), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Joseph Hofmann on Piano Technic and Piano Practice
Guiding Thoughts for 1902 from Leading Musicians
In Mozartland with Old Fogy
Problems of Music Education
Ideal Music School
Place of Routine in Music Work
Woman Music Teacher in a Large City
Two Choices
Ideals
Volume 19, Number 12 (December 1901), Winton J. Baltzell
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 15, Number 06 (June 1897), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 15, Number 06 (June 1897), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Pianoforte Study: Hints on Piano Playing
Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life
Musical Vitiation
What Our Profession Needs
Original of Chopin's Funeral March
Means Available in Piano Teaching
Anecdote of Liszt
Thoughts on Expression
Mistaken
Comments on Two Important Subjects
Finger Quality in Piano Playing
Selection of Teachers
Folk-Music
Three Golden Rules
Pupils' Musicales
Musical Listener
Tragic Side of Music Study
Music Education
Practicing the Hands Separately
Volume 15, Number 01 (January 1897), Winton J. Baltzell
Volume 15, Number 01 (January 1897), Winton J. Baltzell
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Mr. Emil Liebling's Bach Course
Common Sense of Piano Teaching
Should Teachers Employ Collectors?
Souls or Stomachs, Which?
Singing the Counts
Music in its Relation to Health
Nervous Pupil
Boston as Musical Center for the Student
Cincinnati as a City for the Music Student
Talent and Intelligence Contrasted
What Method Do You Teach?
Should a Singing-Teacher Be Able to Sing?
One of Bob's Tramps: A Musical Tale
Talk About Some Early German Folk-Songs
High Prices Realized from Songs
Blasts from The Ram's Horn
Musical Listener
Wanted—A New System of Musical Notation
Better Understanding
That First Lesson
Mozart's Journey from Vienna …
Volume 12, Number 09 (September 1894), Theodore Presser
Volume 12, Number 09 (September 1894), Theodore Presser
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Mental Practice
Amateur Musical Society
Art, Versus Muscular Power
Stray Toughts
Why Give Etudes
Summing Up of the Year's Work
Listening to Music: A Few Words to Concert-Goers
Specimen Programmes for Pupils, Hints as to Methods of Study Performance
Left Hand
Study of Hymn Tunes
Aphorisms
Musical History Examinations
How to Make a Simple Musical Cabinet
Time Reading
Woman's Life of Liszt
Some Curious Habits in Pupils, and Relections Thereon
Well Known
Must Teachers be Performers?
All Piano Pupils Should Study Harmony
Importance and Peculiarities of the Pianoforte
Different Ways of Composing
Gleams from Bohemia
Can Expression Be Cultivated?
Musical …
Volume 10, Number 12 (December 1892), Theodore Presser
Volume 10, Number 12 (December 1892), Theodore Presser
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Thoroughness in Teaching
Concise Chronological History of the Chief Musicians and Musical Events from A.D. 1380-1885
Neglect of Mozart
Singing For Piano Pupils
Studies
Price of Tuition in Music
Teacher as a Missionary
Room at the Top
Delights of Real Study—A Comparison
Modern Pianists
Victim of Theory
Listening to One's Own Playing
Trials and Tribulations of a Music Teacher
Schumann, Chopin and Virtuosity
Higher Education in Music
Effect in Tone-Coloring
Musical Criticism
Study of Arpeggios
Intellectuality in Music
Thoughts on Piano Practice as a Factor in Character-Building
Publisher's Note
Thoughts of Leading Musicians
Phonograph in Music Study
Musical Darwinism
Volume 03, Number 02 (February 1885), Theodore Presser
Volume 03, Number 02 (February 1885), Theodore Presser
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Brahms and Mozart
American Versus Foreign Fingering
Triumph of the Technicon
Deppee's Piano Method Arraigned: The Deppee; or Dish-Rag Theory of Playing the Piano
Technicon
Mechanical Appliances as Promoters of Piano-Forte Technique
Something About Piano-Forte Techniques
Short-Comings of Pupils
Moral Standing of the Musical Profession
On Jumping
Geo. F. Bristow Upon the Study of Harmony
Woman and Music
Treatise Upon the Develpoment of Piano-Forte Technique with the Aid of a Mechanical Apparatus
Heinrich-Henson Song Recital
Thoughts on Education from Klavierehren