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Volume 54, Number 10 (October 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Educational Renaissance, A (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Hallowe'en Spirits Go Musical

Early Romance of Haydn

Lesson Check Ups

Harps and Harpists in 1936 (interview with Carlos Salzedo)

Problem of the Adolescent Student

Daily Dozen from the Diatonic Scales

Meistersingers of Nuremberg and Their Wooden Tablet

Subdividing the Beat

Selecting the New Piece

Midnight King: The Tragedy of the Mad Musical Monarch Whose Support Made Wagner's Giant Projects Possible

NBC Music Appreciation Hour

Making a Start with Bach: Practical Helps for the Student Who Desires a Better Knowledge of the Great Master and His Style

Interesting Bit of American Musical …

Volume 49, Number 10 (October 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Could Richard Wagner Have Passed a Mus. Bac. Examination?

Music in Present Day Soviet Russia (interview with Edwin A. Fleisher)

Black Notes: When the Thumb and Little Finger May Be Used on Them

Three Wonder Workers in Piano Technic

Training the Prodigy (interview with Efrem Zimbalist)

Picture Awards for Scrap-books

Neglected Phases of Piano Study

Playing Postman

Billboard Man

Royal Musicians

Art of Singing for the Radio: Tricks of the Microphone Easily Mastered

School Music Department

Coördinating the Grade School and High School Instrumental Music Program

Imperishable Romance of St. Cecilia

Training Pupils for Public Appearance

When Not to Practice …

Volume 49, Number 03 (March 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Amazing Idiosyncrasies of Richard Wagner: Demi-God or Demi-Demon

Hearing Inwardly

Those Troublesome Grace Notes

Can You Tell?

Quicker Results Through Weight Playing

Does Radio Broadcasting Require a Special Technic?

Stockholm the Magnificent

Some Origins of the Harp

Simile, Segue and Sempre

Dynamics and Expression

Playing the Piano with the Minimum of Muscular Effort

How to Develop Technic

Grandma Fry Adds a New Stunt

Educating the New Musical Public

Are You Old Enough to Remember?

Volume 46, Number 02 (February 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Music Colorful

Signs—Always Signs

Forefather of Pianoforte Technic: Czerny The Indispensable

Musical Education in the Home

Why not Write to the Young Pupil?

Radio and the Music Student

Relating Key and Note

Think Before You Play

Cushion for Aida

Sleep On It

Haydn and the Clarinet

Magic of Melody (interview with Eduard Poldini)

Musical Reading and Thinking

Finishing Touches in Piano Playing

Great Moments in Wagner's Nibelungen Triology

Wagner, the Eternal

Acquiring Realistic Technic

Musicians, Take Care of Your Ears

His Own Musician

Go Ahead!

Mélange from France

Romance of a Pioneer Prima Donna: Striking Pictures from the Life …

Volume 45, Number 09 (September 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Shall I Do With My Music? (interview with Howard Hanson)

For Mastering Scale-Like Passages

Evolution of the Staff

Learning the Pedals

Damrosch and New York Symphony

Launching the Musical Artist: How Great Pianists, Violinists and Singers are Presented to the Public

Music and Poetry in Autumn

Leschetizky's Vital Ideas

Some Observations on Practice

Hot and Cold—A Helpful Teaching Idea

How to Get Up a Little Musical Pageant in Your Town

Do Not Run Past the Signals

Scale Signature Design

Maintaining Interest

Short Compositions for the Piano

Building the Grand Staff

Curing Collapsible First Joints of Fingers

Stunts Do Not …

Volume 40, Number 10 (October 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Funniest Experience I Ever Had in Opera: A Symposium in Which Many Operatic Celebrities Have Taken Part

Wagner in Parisian Days: Striking Pen Portraits of the Great Masters as Seen by a Brilliant Contemporary

American Music and Composers

Thanksgiving Hymn from Japan

Hand, Tone, Technic

Human Element in Fine Piano Playing (interview with Ernest Schelling)

What Have I a Right to Expect From My Teacher?

Are American Artists Being Denied a Square Deal in Their Own Country

How I Acquired a Relaxed Trill

Measuring Progress

Spread Chords

Names of Scale Degrees and Their Meaning

Some Impressions of the Music of …

Volume 38, Number 01 (January 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Indispensables in Pianistic Success (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Irregular Rhythms

Records That Help the Music Teacher

Qu-est-ce Que Vous Voulez?

Don't Be Too Awfully Dignified

Three Rs of Sight Reading

Musical Embellishments

Taking Stock

Conquer Your Bête Noire

Inter-relationship of the Ear and the Eye

Some Practical Hints on Pedaling

Dressing the Part

Lines and Spaces

Musical Pot-Boilers: Facts about the Mental Tasks Which Great Masters Have Been Forced to Undertake to Earn a Bare Existence

Difficulty in Piano Music

After the Novelty Has Gone

Clairvoyance, Spiritism and Occultism in Music

Sensations in the Spotlight

Blazing New Trails

Will Richard …

Volume 34, Number 07 (July 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Success Guides for Young Teachers

Practice Hour Filled with Pleasure

Part the Piano Should Play in Musical Education

What Should be the Attitude of the Layman Toward Music

Most Subtle Secret of Success

Live Teacher—Am I One?

Teaching the Use of the Bass Clef

Practice the Hard Parts Separately

Beginning at Both Ends

Effect of Mechanical Instruments Upon Musical Education: A Symposium from Noted American Educators Upon a Question of Wide Significance

Royal Performers on the Flute

Real Meaning of Rhythm

Useful Finger Exercise

Discouraging the Pupil

Can There Be Any Real New Music?

How Parents Can Help

First Requisites …

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 24, Number 07 (July 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Edouard Risler and His Playing of Beethoven's Sonatas

Suggestions for Chord Playing

Soirée at Richard Wagner's

What Does the Layman Hear in Music?

Making of an Artist: The View of Alfred Reisenauer

How an Opera Was Written

Schumann's Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12

Suggestions for Sight Reading Practice

Plea for Broad-Mindedness

Value of Imagination

Modern Virtuoso

Selection of Teaching Music