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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 35, Number 11 (November 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cure for Musical Pessimism

Simplifying Counting

Why Not Encourage Everyone to Play?

Nervousness in Public Performance and How to Overcome It

Practical Thoughts on Modern Pianoforte Study

Two Ways of Using the Metronome

Some Foundation Principles of Piano Technic, Which May Be Applied to Any Method

Economy of Time at Lessons

Keeping the Brain Strong and Fit

How to Judge a New Piece

High Lights from a Musical Convention: Extracts from Important Addresses Made at the Last Convention of the Music Teachers' National Association

How to Keep Your Piano in Playable Condition

Some Essential Points in Beautiful Playing and How …

Volume 35, Number 10 (October 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Just What Syncopation is

Value of Polyphonic Playing

Greater Results With Less Effort

How to Interest Unmusical People in Music

Some Elementary Truths in Song Interpretation

Curiosities of Notation

Tension and Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

How We Got the Flat and the Natural

Remarkable Cures of Melancholia Through Music

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern English Composers

Mysteries of Music

How to Help Your Pupil to Remember Your Corrections

Value of Versatility in Teaching

Seek Clearness of Musical Outline

How to Get Artistic Effects in Touch: Staccato, Legato and Marcato

Story of the Magic Fire Music

Good Taste …

Volume 35, Number 09 (September 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Four Good Reasons Why Musicians Do Not Succeed

Lack of Concentration

Goals in Scale Playing

How I Regained a Lost Voice: A Practical Experience in Voice Placing (interview with Evan Williams)

How to Increase the Music Class: Approved Methods Employed by Leading Teachers in Securing New Pupils Through Dignified, Legitimate Means

Business Principles for the Musician

Musical Setting

La Marseillaise

Animated Touch

Notes on Piano Playing to Teachers of Children

Learning Music in the Most Rapid, Thorough and Scientific Manner: Important Psychological Principles Deduced from Thousands of Laboratory Experiments Made Simple and Practical for Music Students and Music Teachers

Musician's …

Volume 35, Number 08 (August 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Accomplishments

Simple Cure for Stage-Fright

How to Regain Your Technic

Paths to an American National School of Music (interview with Reginald de Koven)507

Bracelet of Fifths

Getting the Most from Five-finger Exercises

Sharp Major Scale Signature

How the Masters Sought Humor in Music

Echo Exercise

Spasmodic Performance

Up-to-Date Points from an Up-to-Date Teacher

How Can We Do Our Bit?

New Material and New Methods in Musical Composition

Non Plus Ultra

Playing Close to the Keys Versus the High Finger Stroke

Teresa Carreño (obituary)

High School Credits in Texas

How Shall I Play Phrases Properly?—With Special Illustrations Taken from Modern …

Volume 35, Number 07 (July 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Get Control of Your Nerves

Jenny Lind, The Incomparable

Key to Success

Discord of Sweet Sounds

To Avoid Scratching in Violin Playing

Thoroughness in Operatic Preparation (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Let Your Piece Sing to You

Accuracy in Piano Playing—How to Teach it to Children

Controlled Relaxation

Why Should My Boy Study Music?

Electrical Music

Practical Steps in Tone Production: How the Player's Tone May be Enriched and Developed

Pianograms

Head, Heart and Head

High Lights in the Life of Handel—Significant and Interesting Human and Professional Characteristics of the Composer of the Messiah

How to Use The Etude's …

Volume 35, Number 06 (June 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Freak Minds in Modern Music

Keep a Journal

How to Go About Sight-Reading

Saving Time in Practice

Idealism in Music Study (interview with Teresa Carreño)

Yesterday and To-day

What Pieces?

From Finger-Tips to Shoulder

Why Advanced Pupils Lose Inspiration

Acquiring Accuracy in Musical Terms: Correct Definitions and Right Applications

Musical Curiosity

Review Week

Why Not a Daily Song Hour

Scale Contest

Art and Common Sense in Accompanying

Accelerando

Closing Address

Watch Your Hands

Names of Musicians Phonetically Pronounced

What Every Music Student Should Know About Phrasing

Nine Fundamental Divisions of Daily Practice

Symphony: Its Chief Characteristics and How to Recognize …

Volume 35, Number 05 (May 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony Orchestras in the United States

Memorable Performance

Certainly, I'll Play!

How Staccato Practice Puts a Snap in Playing

Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Band

How Beethoven Spiritualized Musical Form

Is the Symphony Played Out?

Two Brilliant American Composers

Aids to Good Timekeeping

Concise Dictionary of Noted Symphonic Composers

Richard Wagner as a Symphonist

New Scale Fingerings

Rise of the American Symphony

Does Teaching Make You Nervous?

Fifteen Vital Steps in Teaching Young Children

Have You a Self-Starter?

Scales and Baseball

Final Steps in Memorizing

How to Start a Local Symphony Orchestra

How Much Did You Practice?

Colored Pencils in …

Volume 35, Number 04 (April 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Aspects of the Art of Music (interview with Thomas A. Edison)

Simple Psychological Helps in Music Teaching

Haydn's Amusing Tribute to a Faithful Dog

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Value of Historical Knowledge in the Appreciation of Music

Snap Shots in a Musical Library

Irish Folk Song that Aids Interpretation

Difficult Pronunciations

Carmen: Arranged for Presentation in Reading Form at Musical Clubs

Expanding the Small Hand

Beethoven to Czerny

Getting Pupils through Printers' Ink: A Practical Advertising Man Talks

Rare Musical Facts

Syncopated Biographies: Musical Life Stories Pleasantly Told

Exercises for Developing the Hands for Piano Touch and Technic …

Volume 35, Number 03 (March 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Justice for the Teacher

What the Musician Must Do To Conserve Good Health

Efficient Practice

Too Much Theory

Difficult Pronunciations

Spirit and Technic of the Pianoforte Pedals

Tolstoi Throws a Bomb into Art and Music: The Arch-Iconoclast of Russia Severly Criticises Some Modern Musical and Artistic Conventions

Some Facts About Russian Church Music

Learning the Key Signatures

Some Obstacles in the Way of Standardization

Early French, Italian and German Composers of Interest to Present-day Pianists

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Masters

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Ranz …

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 35, Number 01 (January 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Self-Expression at the Keyboard

Difficult Pronunciations

Limitations of Touch on the Piano

Gospel of Clean Keys

Musical and Cultural Education of the Modern Pianist

Maxims for Parents of Musical Children

Berlioz's First Meeting with Mendelssohn—And Its Sequel

Fountain of Inspiration for Masters

Mozart's Appearance and Personality

Have You These Five Qualities of the Progressive Teacher?

Causes of Some American Opera Failures

John Philip Sousa Inspects the Home for Retired Music Teachers

How Brahms and Liszt Welcomed Their Friends

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Hints for the Singer's Daily Practice (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

Neat Method …