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Volume 52, Number 12 (December 1934), James Francis Cooke Dec 1934

Volume 52, Number 12 (December 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Progress in Piano Playing and Teaching (interview with Ossip Gabrilowitsch)

Letting the Pupil Select the Music

How to Write a Good Musical Advertisement

Removing the Jounce

Famous German Musical Centers: Leipzig, Part 2

Schumann Discovers a Young Genius

Etude Music Study Expansion League: Great Revival of Interest in Practice

Santa Claus' Surprise Party

American Singer's Opportunities (interview with Gladys Swarthout)

Rhythmic Drawing

What is the Basis of the Piano Technic of Today: Great Pianists Give Important Opinions

Christmas Again

Vital First Year of Music Study: Selecting Right Materials for Children

How to Improve Mind and Muscle Coördination

Square Holes for …


Volume 52, Number 11 (November 1934), James Francis Cooke Nov 1934

Volume 52, Number 11 (November 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Antique Spanish Pianoforte

Famous German Musical Centers: Leipzig

Sand Tables in Music Teaching

Don't You Know

Getting Pupils in 1763 (From Goethe's Boyhood)

Making the Trill Beautiful: Proper Diagnosis and Treatment Remove Ordinary Difficulties

Evening with the Waltz King

Cambridge the Beautiful: A Letter from an Etude Friend in Old Cambridge

How to Hold Your Pupils Longer

Musical Pepper Box

Musical Racketeers: The Claque and Its Long Career

Making the Piano Sing

Beyond the Measure Line

Changing Notes

Story of Elgar

Spreading Culture Through Prizes

Orchestral Tutti, Old and New

Pace Maker of the Keyboard: The Metronome as a Dominant …


Volume 52, Number 10 (October 1934), James Francis Cooke Oct 1934

Volume 52, Number 10 (October 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Regimentation

Secret of Modernist Music (interview with Arnold Schönberg)

Good Teaching Pieces

Acting Theory

Mother, Make Music Study Delightful

Two Manual Accordion As Compared to the Standard Piano Accordion

Stabat Mater and Its Illustrious Composers

Program Architecture

What Does the Public Really Want?

Two Tests for Musical Capacity

Mystic Land of Magic Music (playlet)

To Acquire a Beautiful Legato

Whims of Musicians

Musical Commas and Musical Comments

Etude Practice Clock

Music in the Old Dragon Empire

For Fluency in Arpeggios

Train the Memory

Season's Schedule of Club Events

Kitchen and the One-lined Staff

Those Key-Signatures!

Helpful Hint in …


Volume 52, Number 09 (September 1934), James Francis Cooke Sep 1934

Volume 52, Number 09 (September 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music Study for Adults (interview with Frederick B. Robinson)

What Geography Has to Do with Rhythm

Game of Musicians

Making a Fist

Teaching Accents

Maurice Ravel: The Man, The Musician, The Critic (interview with Maurice Ravel)

Beethoven, the Humorist

Kreisler and the Prodigy

Music Recreation and the Radio

What Makes a Good Touch

New Music for Ancient Plays

Practicing Difficult Passages

Story of Dixie and its Picturesque Composer

Parent Help in Music Study

Make Your Practice Period Worth While!

Bridge Strength for Pianists

Alabama's Share in Dixie

Cumulative Rewards

Technic Fun

Value of Similes


Volume 52, Number 08 (August 1934), James Francis Cooke Aug 1934

Volume 52, Number 08 (August 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Liszt Renounced the World

Arpeggio Practice

Energetic Fingers

How to Find the Keys and the Forms of the Minor Scales

Midsummer Musical Laughs

Jargon of Jazz: An Amusing Article Upon the New and Absurd Nomenclature Which Has Grown Up About the Jazz Orchestra

Music for the Local History Pageant

What Use is the Quarter Tone Scale? Is this Innovation in Modern Music Likely to Remain Merely a Curiosity?

Expressive Dictation

Remedy for Tense Muscles

Romance of Mendelssohn: A Favored Son of the Gods

Speeding Up the Left Hand

Wagner in Venice

Georges Bizet and the True Story of Carmen …


Volume 52, Number 07 (July 1934), James Francis Cooke Jul 1934

Volume 52, Number 07 (July 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Paderewski and Modern Piano Progress

Proper Care of School Pianos

Signor Patti and a Few Others: Notable Husbands of Famous Singers

Older Hands

Earliest Americans and their Music

To Overcome Mistakes in Note-Reading

How to Conduct a Piano Tournament

Music and Life

When Summer Comes Will Music Lag Behind? (interview with Harold Bauer)

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Some Piano Questions

Piano Lessons with Camille Saint-Saëns

Use of Music as a Healing Agent Among the Indians

Life Span of Famous Composers

Hint in Reading

Tambourine Corps

Signposts to Successful Piano Teaching

How …


Volume 52, Number 06 (June 1934), James Francis Cooke Jun 1934

Volume 52, Number 06 (June 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of New Russia (interview with Albert Coates

Do Snakes Like Music?

Ethelbert Nevin's A Day in Venice (Un Giorno in Venezia): A New Tone Film Presentation Which is Commanding National Attention

Give the Child a Good Piano

Staccato Accents

Baseball and Scales

Use the Metronome in Practicing Sight-reading

Novelty for Your Recital

National Element in Polish Music

Getting a Start in Music Teaching in the Country

How One Teacher Did It

Art of Program Making

Accompanist

Music of the Land of the Bourrée

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Experimenting With the …


Volume 52, Number 05 (May 1934), James Francis Cooke May 1934

Volume 52, Number 05 (May 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Singing Student's Vacation (interview with Sigrid Onegin)

New Piece

Holding Notes

Guiding Signs in Music

Making Piano Technic Simpler

Educational Running Mates: School and Music Teacher

Friendly Notes

When Interest Flags

Four-Year-Old Children Make Good Students

Intensive, Profitable Summer Vacation Music Study Calendar

Father of the Pianoforte: Clementi, 1752-1832

Dimished-Seventh Chords

Divine Purcell: Englands Most Distinctive Master Composer and His Music


Volume 52, Number 04 (April 1934), James Francis Cooke Apr 1934

Volume 52, Number 04 (April 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

There is No Royal Road to Singing! (interview with Göta Ljungberg)

Bass Drum

Chopin Odiosyncracy

How I Managed to Secure Pupils During The Depression

Dating Recitals for Success

Bandmaster Gilmore: The Indomitable Pat Whose Masterpiece was Probably When Johnny Comes Marching Home

London: A World Music Center

Chopin's Masterly Valse in A Flat, Op. 42: A Detailed Lesson Analysis

Music Popular at the Time of Lincoln

Cultivation of Musical Taste in a Small Town


Volume 52, Number 03 (March 1934), James Francis Cooke Mar 1934

Volume 52, Number 03 (March 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Student Hardships that Lead to Success (interview with Elisabeeth Rethberg)

Studying the Pianissimo

Musical Courtesy

Composer's Workshop: How Composers Employ Simple Devices to Expand Their Musical Ideas

Irish Quartet

On Choosing a Musical Career

Music and the Ritual of the Dance in Ceylon: The Subtropical Themes and Rhythms that Have an Undying Allure

Pride of Personal Performance

Musical Pepper Box

Helps to Better Sight Playing

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: Its Origin, History and Activities

Slighted Finger

Teach All Keys in the Early Grades

Piano Accordion Band

Conducting a Practical Studio Piano Contest

Problem of the Baby Violinist

Story of Aloha Oe …


Volume 52, Number 02 (February 1934), James Francis Cooke Feb 1934

Volume 52, Number 02 (February 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Education of a Conductor (interview with Bruno Walter)

Stage Fright and How to Cure It

Berlin, The Weltstadt of Music

Music and the Adult

From Bell Stand to Throne Room: A Remarkable Autobiographical Interview with the Eminently Successful American Negro Composer (interview with R. Nathaniel Dett)

Kindergarten Highway to Tone and Rhythm

New Approach to the Thumb-Under Problem

Conquering the Jazz Craze of Young Pianists

Four Times Twenty Musical Years

Old Friends are Best

Indian Drill for the Fingers

Violin Teaching Far From Ordinary: An Unroutined Routine of Violin Instruction (interview with Louis Persinger)

Provincial Opera in Italy

Devices for …


Volume 52, Number 01 (January 1934), James Francis Cooke Jan 1934

Volume 52, Number 01 (January 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Studying Music for the Joy of It (interview with Artur Bodanzky)

Old Friends are Best

Evening of Mozart: A Musical Play in Three Acts for Children and Adults

You Can Sing—If You Will! (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Coming Back Without Teacher

Why Not Give an Etude Radio Recital?

Music Supervisor's Forum

New Deal, the New Leisure, and Music

Interesting Stephen Heller

Here's a New One

Those Troublesome Octaves

Value of Music Study to a Business Woman

Ledger Lines and Spaces Simplified

Sight Reading Suggestions

Drilling for Independence …