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Volume 73, Number 12 (December 1955), Guy Mccoy Dec 1955

Volume 73, Number 12 (December 1955), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

I Heard the Bells

Christmas Concerts at Grand Central

It Shouldn't be a Battle (interview with Otto Harbach)

Soviet Russia's Top Pianist Makes Sensational Début in America

To Cosima—With Love

Great Church Rebuilds Its Organ

Orchestra in the Daily Life of Your School

Music Postage Bill Passes Senate


Volume 72, Number 12 (December 1954), Guy Mccoy Dec 1954

Volume 72, Number 12 (December 1954), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

World's Most Holy Hour—Poem

Challenge to America

Christmas Concerto

Minimum Instrumental Performance Requirements for Music Education Majors

Lillian Baldwin and the Cleveland Story

American Academy of Teachers of Singing

Orchestra Department

Important Rôle of the String Orchestra in School Music

Christmas with the Composers


Volume 71, Number 12 (December 1953), Guy Mccoy Jan 1953

Volume 71, Number 12 (December 1953), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music at Christmas (Poem)

Performer—or Artist? (interview with Bidu Sayão)

Messiah Sunday (interview with Gordon Bachlund)

Backstage with the TV Scene Designer

Impressions of a Musical Journey to Africa

Ole Bull Returns to Pennsylvania

Rare Bit of Singing and Dancing

Much to Do About Conducting

What is Your Carol I.Q.?

Who Was this Christmas Outcast?


Volume 70, Number 12 (December 1952), Guy Mccoy Jan 1952

Volume 70, Number 12 (December 1952), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Love (Poem)

Concert Artist and His Community (interview with Alfredo de St. Malo)

Play Carols All-American, Too

Sixty Years Since Gilmore

Music Appreciation—Family Style

New Approach to Voice Training

Music: America's Global Ambassador of Good Will

Economics for the Music Teacher

Nativity: Christmas Program for Pianist and Narrator, Singer and Chamber Singers

Little Ol' Lady with Music in Her Soul

Adventures of a Piano Teacher


Volume 69, Number 12 (December 1951), John Briggs Jan 1951

Volume 69, Number 12 (December 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Day of Days (Poem)

What Do Christmas Carols Mean to You?

New Horizon for Piano Teachers: The Elementary Classroom Teacher Needs a Background of Piano Study

Christmas at the Panama Canal

Play Lessons for the Pre-School Age

What I've Learned in Judging Competitions (interview with Jesus Maria Sanroma)

Grass Roots of Opera in America: Colleges and Universities Set the Pace in Creating Opera Centers Throughout U.S.

Special Christmas Programs Are Rewarding

Covered Tone—What is It?

This Choir Goes Big Time: Doctors, Lawyers, Salesmen, Housewives, Salesladies—All Join Their Voices in This Inspired Group

Do You Teach Piano or Piano Music?


Volume 68, Number 12 (December 1950), John Briggs Dec 1950

Volume 68, Number 12 (December 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Gifts for the Music Lover

Story of Notation: Byzantine Neumes, Jewish Cantillation Signs and a 10th-Century Monk's Clever Idea Contributed to the Evolution of the System We Know Today

I Want a Christmas Story

Albert Schweitzer Was My Teacher (interview with Lucie Chenevert Lawson)

How to Write a Song (interview with Sigmund Romberg)

Student Recital . . . 1950 Style

Christmas Music in Mexico

Technique and Musicianship

It's Easy to Read Music

Master Lesson on Chopin

Mazurkas in F Major and G Sharp Minor

How Many Christmas Songs Do You Know?


Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949), James Francis Cooke Jan 1949

Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Christmas Comes (poem)

Handbells—Ancient Art Revived

Sing Ho for Christmas

I Learned To Sing By Accident (interview with Mario Lanza)

Swing Into Your Tone

Don’t Plan To Be a Conductor! (interview with Ernest Ansermet)

Why Do We Call Them Carols?: Songs of Christmas Link Today with the Ancient Past

It's the Same Old Claque: Then and Now—New York or Paris—

Relax and Improvise! (interview with Grace Castagnetta)

Concerning Spiccato, Sautille Arpeggios and Articifial Harmonics

Does Your Band Play in Tune?

What Is Your Vocal Problem?

Organ Practice and How To Get It

Master Lesson On the Sarabande and Bourrées …


Volume 66, Number 12 (December 1948), James Francis Cooke Dec 1948

Volume 66, Number 12 (December 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Little Lights of Christmas (Poem)

Sibelius Today: A Flight to Helsingfors to Visit Finland's Master Including a Conference with the Composer of Finlandia

Musical Christmas of Yesteryear

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography, Part 6

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music

Christmas Music—A Universal Language

Test Your Teaching Methods

Great Russian Music of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Tcherepnine)

My First Day at the Conservatoire de Paris

Igor Stravinsky and the Greek Tragedy

Music Means Joy in Chinese: The Chinese Cultural Theater Group Affords an Opportunity for Americans to Learn of Cathay

Comeback—Words and Music


Volume 65, Number 12 (December 1947), James Francis Cooke Dec 1947

Volume 65, Number 12 (December 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Down (Poem)

Silent Night, Holy Night!

America's Great Peace Hymn: The Story of America, the Beautiful and Its Composer, Samuel A. Ward

Amazing Subterranean Oratorio Performance: An Astonishing Account of a Notable Concert 750 Feet Underground in a Fabulous American Cavern Fairyland

Keep It Natural! (interview with Eileen Farrell)

Revival of the English Carol

What Gives a Violin Tone?

Joyous Mendelssohn (1809-1847): An Anniversary Sketch of the Brilliant Career of Felix Mendelssohn

Young People in Music (interview with Malcolm Sargent)

What the Singer Needs for a Career in Radio (interview with Jane Wilson)


Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946), James Francis Cooke Dec 1946

Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

So This Is Our Christmas! (editorial)

Musical Dates of the Pre-Christian Period

Christmas Crib: The World-wide Adoption of the Holy Scene in the Manger

Secret of Song Speech (interview with Conrad Thibault)

Story of Christmas: As Told by the Titles of Christmas Carols and Songs

Wit and Humor of Musicians (Part Two)

What Hotels Mean to Music

Music Study Promotes Happy Homes: A Psychologist Discovers Notable Facts

Fiddler in the Sky

Spinet Rules in the 1947 Piano Field (Pictures)

Unknown Liszt Portrait


Volume 63, Number 12 (December 1945), James Francis Cooke Jan 1945

Volume 63, Number 12 (December 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Song for a New World (Poem)

World Christmas Carols

Legend of Switzerland's Native Instrument

Queen Receives the Queen (Marjorie Lawrence)

Music's March of Victory (interview with Beardsley, Ruml)

Revolution in Opera (interview with Laszlo Halasz)

How Records Helped Win the War

Christmas Carol

Edison's Contribution to Musical Appreciation

George Eliot—Musician

Getting a Piece Ready for Public Performance

Wayfaring Minstrel (interview with Burl Ives)


Volume 62, Number 12 (December 1944), James Francis Cooke Dec 1944

Volume 62, Number 12 (December 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dawn on the Horizon

Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves

Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)

Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge

How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)

Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Music as a Living, Human Element

New York's First Opera

What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words

Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)

Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music

Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …


Volume 61, Number 12 (December 1943), James Francis Cooke Dec 1943

Volume 61, Number 12 (December 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Canticle (Poem)

Piano When Peace Comes (interview with Lucien Wulsin)

Hints for the Young Violinist (interview with Carroll Glenn)

Turning the Searchlight on Musical Harmonies

Music and the Americas of Tomorrow (interview with James Rowland Angell)

Jitterbugs of Yesteryear: Dancing Madness through the Ages

Save Your Old Etudes: They are Valuable

Carols at Christmas

Music and War Manpower

Story of Beethoven's Adelaide

Don't Wreck—Build: How Destructive Criticism May be Turned into Profitable Criticism

Singing with Philosophy (interview with Igor Gorin)

Process of Weight Release in Piano Playing

Modern Ballet and Its Music

Technic of the Month—Prelude in B major, …