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Volume 40, Number 12 (December 1922), James Francis Cooke Dec 1922

Volume 40, Number 12 (December 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Technique and Hand Training

Christmas Music, Past and Present

Music and the Arts

Whole-Tone Scale in Interlocking Octaves

Appeal of the Contralto

Device for Teaching Notes to Beginners

Musical Jealousy

Feel the Rhythm

How Music Clubs are Helping American Music

Behind the Scenes with Artists, Part 5

Particular Treatment of the Turn

Regular Lesson Plan for Teacher and Pupil

Most Important Musical Step

How Interest Stamps Musical Pictures on Your Mind

Foot Stools and Music Teachers

Just What Really is Practice?

Clinic on Footlight Fever

Relaxation Tests

Are You Guilty of the Double Movement?

Home Town Musical Comedy

Practicing Backwards …


Volume 40, Number 11 (November 1922), James Francis Cooke Nov 1922

Volume 40, Number 11 (November 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting the Right Start in Piano Playing

How to Acquire Technic in Musical Theory

Is the Teacher Without a Music Club as Successful as the Teacher with a Music Club?

What to Do at Children's Musical Parties

Scale Guide

Limitations of the Piano Keyboard

Piano Manners at the Pupils' Recital

Lesson on Chopin's Famous Raindrop Prelude, Opus 28, No. 15: A Practical Reduction of Notes to Dollars and Cents

Starting at the Cradle

Full Pay or Half a Mass

Recorder

Metamorphosis of Charles

Now and Then

Routine for Practical Teacher

Glimpses of Present Day Piano Study (interview with Myra Hess) …


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

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 40, Number 09 (September 1922), James Francis Cooke Sep 1922

Volume 40, Number 09 (September 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music—The Joy and Need of Every Man (interview with Frank Crane)

Getting There Without a Teacher

Don't Stuff the Pupil

Staccato Marks, Touches and Tones

Undisturbed Practice

Basis of Musical Imagination

Marche aux Flambeaux

How to Get a Start in Chautauqua

Abuses the Teacher Should Not Tolerate

Encourage Melody Writing

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Bring Out the Main Thought in Piano Playing: How the Suppression of the Superfluous Helps

How to Develop Legato Wthout Using the Pedal: A Real Test of Your Ability at the Keyboard

Value of Chords for Beginners

Planning a Recital

Making …


Volume 40, Number 08 (August 1922), James Francis Cooke Aug 1922

Volume 40, Number 08 (August 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the Modern Chautauqua is Doing for Music of All Kinds Everywhere in Our Country

Behind the Scenes with Artists, Part 2: Do Artists Practice Pure Technic?

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

When Mendelssohn Became a Journeyman

Paderewski and the Paper-Hangers

How to Get the Greatest Results form Practice

Italian Musical Terms

Meaning of Sub-Mediant

Some Personal Recollections of Hans Guido Von Bulow: Master in Black and White

Are You a Musical Nurse to Your Child?

Sound Reproducing Machine Records and the Private Teacher: An Intensive Study in Interpretation

Building Up a Class in a …


Volume 40, Number 07 (July 1922), James Francis Cooke Jul 1922

Volume 40, Number 07 (July 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Plow-Boy to Parsifal: The Remarkable Career of an Indiana Farmer's Boy Who Never Heard a Grand Opera Until Two Years After He was Married (interview with Orville Harrold)

Mixing Music with Brains: The Only Road to Success Hereafter

Making Habits That Help

Learning Bass Notes Simplified

How to Be Happy Though Practicing

Keeping Ahead of You Fingers

Dialogue on Scales

Ouija Board and Piano Practice

Verdi's Thoughts on Art

Some Secrets of Readng at Sight

Four Hand Playing

How Le Couppey Taught

Important Point in Phrasing

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop, Part 9

Full-Measure Rest

How They Put …


Volume 40, Number 06 (June 1922), James Francis Cooke Jun 1922

Volume 40, Number 06 (June 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Radio Music for Everybody (interview with J. Andrew White)

How Kullak Got Back

Goldmark Avec Suite

Musicale at Dickens'

Hepling the Careless Pupil

Simple Facts About Harmony That Every Music Lover Should Know

Character in Sound

Legend of The Moonlight Sonata

Capture the Child's Magical Interest Early

Reminiscences of a Famous Prima Donna

Indicating Mistakes

Silent Music Lesson

Phrasing Made Simple for Earnest Piano Students

Is This the Ideal Position at the Piano?

Paganini Demanded Skill

Why Popular Songs Don't Last

Symphonies in Color—Silent Music

Practical Musical Note-Books

Helping a Limping Pupil

Know the Notes

Something About the Pause

Little …


Volume 40, Number 05 (May 1922), James Francis Cooke May 1922

Volume 40, Number 05 (May 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Many Roads to Artistic Playing (interview with Alexander Siloti)

Realizing Your Musical Ideals

Recorder: Intimate Glimpses of Famous Contemporaries

Music Facts from Plutarch's Lives

Mañana

Practical Technic for the Beginner

How Long is a Note

Cover to Protect Sheet Music

Hymn Values

Music in the Age of Seneca

Promoting Keyboard Accuracy

Taking Advantage

Rubinstein's Hungry Years

When Simplifying Why Not Simplify?

Pupils Who Discontinue

Time Saving Ideas in Pianoforte Practice

All About the Waltz

Music and Money

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

Remedies for Nervousness in Public Performances

Choking the Muse

Common Musical Matters in a New Guise

Maelzel …


Volume 40, Number 04 (April 1922), James Francis Cooke Apr 1922

Volume 40, Number 04 (April 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Beginnings in Vocal Art (interview with Emma Calvé)

Camille Saint-Saëns Parting Advice on Piano Study

Be Your Own Surgeon

Memory of a Great Conductor

What Berlioz Thought of Us

Too Much Practice is Waste: How to Get Results Without Nerve Drain and Muscular Fatigue by Employing Scientific Methods

Artist is Always Ready

Making Pupils Count

Fraudulent Musical Masterpieces

What Did the Ancients Mean by Music of the Spheres

Some New Facts about the Creator of the Nocturne: John Field of Dublin

Paste This in Your Instruction Book: Common Sense Hints to Piano Students

About Triplets

What Makes a Great …


Volume 40, Number 03 (March 1922), James Francis Cooke Mar 1922

Volume 40, Number 03 (March 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is the Most Important Work to Which the Music Clubs of America May Devote Their Efforts? A Nation-Wide Symposium

Beginnings of American Music: A Sketch of Our Musical Endeavor Up to the Early Years of the Last Century

What Our Music Clubs Need Most

Ingrowing Musical Clubs

Music Students in Small Towns

Getting More Pupils

Slow Practice with Exaggerated Accents

Opera a Year

What the National Federation of Musical Clubs is Doing to Help in Making America a Musical Nation

Heredity and Music

Club: A Municipal Personality

Beacon Lights of Opera, To-Day and Yesterday: Graphic Sketches of the Masters …


Volume 40, Number 02 (February 1922), James Francis Cooke Feb 1922

Volume 40, Number 02 (February 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Most Remarkable Pianoforte Recital Ever Given

Spirit of Chopin

More Reasons Why She Couldn't Hold Her Pupils

Remarkable Mind of Camille Saint-Saëns: Passing of the Great French Composer at Advance Age: A Review of his Works as Reflected from Some of His Writings, and From the Writings of His Friends

What the Teacher Should Demand

Saint-Saëns' Last Public Address

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

What Guido Suffered

How I Overcame the Greatest Obstacle in My Career, Symposium

Handel's Sensitive Ear

Unavoidable Practice

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

Exercises to Prevent Arm Strain

Vioin and the …


Volume 40, Number 01 (January 1922), James Francis Cooke Jan 1922

Volume 40, Number 01 (January 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Would I Take Up Music Again? Symposium

Best Hand Position

Don't Threaten your Child

Should Grade Teachers Specialize in Music?

What Makes Piano Playing Interesting

Rehearse Phrases, Not Fragments

Teaching Rhythm in Class Lessons

Scale Solitaire

New Paths and Visions in Musical Progress (interview with Richard Strauss)

Chicago or Bayreuth

Robert Huntington Terry (photograph)

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

What the Piano Student Could Learn from the Violin Teacher

Humor and Music Teaching

Story of the Turn: Practical Advice Upon How to Play Such Embellishments

Most Helpful Piano Lesson …