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Volume 69, Number 01 (January 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Most Potent Musical Forces of the First Half of the Twentieth Century Were . . . Achille Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss, Paul Hindemith, Arturo Toscanni, George Gershwin, Bela Bartok, Serge Prokofieff, Jan Sibelius

What is Happening to Music in America

Modern Music: The First Half Century

Let's Give Them a Rest!: Five Overworked Piano Pieces by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff Should be Retired in Favor of Less-Hackneyed Numbers

Rhythm Makes the Music Go

How I Stage an Opera (interview with Margaret Webster)

Art of Mezza-Voce Singing

Some Thoughts on How to Perform Bach …

Volume 68, Number 05 (May 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Music in Europe Rain, Rats and Red Tape

Teen-Age Symphony: Fifty-five New York Youngsters, Ages 10-17,Play a Full-Scale Concert Season

He Brought Us Orchestral Music

Gaoler Played the Organ: Being a True and Faithful Account of Ye Versatile Doings of Peter Pelham, a Musician of Williamsburg in Ye Olden Time

Come with Me to Antoine's in Jacmal on the Island of Haiti Where the Mysterious Voodoo Drums are Made

Operatic Daughter (interview with Claudia Pinza)

Volume 57, Number 12 (December 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Secret of a Merry Christmas

What the World War Did for Music in Europe (interview with Granville Bantock)

Mistaken Idea

Amaryllis and Louis XIII

Dr. Damrosch on Musical Tolerance

Night Before Christmas. A Musical Playlet

Let Us Give the Piece a Rub

Pencil

Story of Major Bowes and His Amateur Hour: A Million Dollar Idea Carried Out by a Million Dollar Personality

How to Make Money by Teaching the Piano, Part 3

Billings' Best

Old Familiar Carols Game

Music Is My Hobby!: The Engaging Story of How Successful Business and Professional Men and Women Avoid Life Monotony and Insure Against …

Volume 51, Number 12 (December 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Crusade: The Parable of a King and a Mendicant

Spirit of Christmas in Music: Musical Lore of Noeltide from Many Lands

Music for Christmas

Perfect Practice Hour

Little Visit to European Musical Shrines: Vienna Capital of Music

Creating the Music Habit with Children (interview with Ernest Schelling)

When Handel's Messiah was First Given

What Could be Righted in Opera

Candle Light Christmas Mystery: The Music Selected and Arranged from Masters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Four Hands that Play as Two (interview with Josef Lhévinne and Rosina Lhévinne)

What I Have Learned as an Accompanist

Glance Behind the …

Volume 47, Number 06 (June 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mozart's Musical Portrait of a Lady

Solo Hate Campaign

Sousa Got the Cash!

Rubinstein in Edinburgh

Sheet Music Clinic

Story of Strings and Keys or From Monochord to Pianoforte

Fundamentals of Beautiful Piano Playing

Charm of Stephen Heller: An Interesting Discussion of the Work of a Man Who Strove to Make Educational Studies Beautiful

Making Scales Interesting

Velocity and the Metronome

How to Play Beethoven

How Schubert's Music Reflected the Poems He Chose for Settings

Volume 47, Number 05 (May 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin's Perfection of Detail

Fourten Prima Donnas of the Pianoforte

Inspiration Road

Practice Difficult Passages

Teaching the Values of Notes

Matter of Rests

Laugh or Two

Making Plain the Seventh Chord

Indexng as an Aid to Memorizing

How to Impress the First Lesson Upon the Child

Playing and Singing the First Piece

Music of Paris, the Inimitable

Octaves and Blocks

Relaxation

Favorite Musical Instruments of a Past Generation

On Ability to Sight-Read

Me and My Shadow

Broken Chords

Nothing to Practice

Saving Lost Motion in Piano Study

Simple Way of Teaching the Value of the Dot

To Learn Letters and …

Volume 47, Number 04 (April 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Hints on Advertising

House of Accuracy

Learning Rapid Note-Reading

Accent

Charm of Musical Biography

When Pupils Choose Their Own Music

Playing for Others

Adult Beginner

Practice Hour Safeguards

Summer Music Schools

Music on the Moon-Kissed Riviera

Be Sure You Are Right

Bach an Architect of Music

New Light on Musical Acoustics

Teaching Intervals

Musical Cross-Examination

Have You Tried this Way?

Special Emphasis for the Chromatic Scale

Ten Commandements for Piano Students

Comprehensive Piano Lesson Report

Study in Bells, Chimes or Carillons as Related to National Life

Value of the Mental Picture

Wild Melodies from the Arctic

Unique Orchestra of …

Volume 47, Number 02 (February 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Painting with Notes

Soundless Practice

Transposition

Piano as a Home Investment: First in a Series of Frank Editorials Upon the Great Educational and Sociological Importance of this Indispensable Instrument

Take Your Foot Off the Pedal

How the Scale Grows

Keep Studying

Gateways to Accomplishment

Big We Wagner

Trail of a Jongleur: A Fascinating Tale of Wartime Musical Experiences

Cheap at the Price

Why Music is Really a Necessary Part of the Child's Education

Student's Debt to Radio

Note-Bound

Wagner, Voice of the 19th Century

Landing Safely After a Leap

Beat in Whistling

Time-Saving, Hand Moulding Exercises for Piano Students

Costume …

Volume 46, Number 09 (September 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching Correct Pedaling

Incredible Mental Achievement

Music in the City of Flowers

Improve Your Stretch

Keyboard Facility and Agility

How to Extend Your Hand Without Injury

Beethoven Listening to the Muses—An Etching

Folk Element in Music: The Study of Nationality in Music

Cross Rhythm

Teaching the Use of the Pedal

Master Themes the World Loves Best

Most Amazing Achievement in the History of Music Study: The Remarkable Story of a Student Who Has Been Blind

Volume 31, Number 07 (July 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Emperor's Operatic Rules

Getting a Start in Europe as a Virtuoso

Teaching Too Many Pupils

Story of the Orchestral Instruments Told for the General Music Love: The Woodwind Section

Wisdom of Felix Mendelssohn

Pen Picture of Brahms

How to Become a Sure-Fingered Pianist

How to Make Summers Musically Profitable

Commonsense Helps in Teaching Little Folks

Despondent Versus the Over-Sanguine Pupil

Compelling Independent Finger Action

Teaching Children to Use the Pedals

Legato and Staccato Playing

Liszt as a Russian Master Saw Him

Some Old Musical Legends

Playing for Our Friends

Combating the Missed-Lesson Evil (symposium)

Neglected Staccato

Metronome and Its Uses …