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The Student Designer April 1931, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The April 1931 issue covered topics including: the death of RISD President Eliza G. Radeke, Mechanical Department honors and news, a Jewelry Design student named Martin Nelson, class updates, satirical and comedic writing, current events happening on campus, RISD sports, and advertisements.

The Student Designer March 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The March, 1930 issue had an article about the RISD Mechanical Design department, it's history and mission. Gallery talks and art exhibitions in the Providence area were also included. Bits of humor, an essay about the RISD museum, brief articles about music and the arts and local ads were also in this issue.

The Student Designer February 27, 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The February 27, 1930 issue had articles about the RISD Jewelry and Silversmithing department, art exhibitions in the Providence area, RISD sports news, class news, and social news. An article about RISD Alum and sculptor Nancy Elizabeth Prophet winning a Harmon Foundation prize for her wood carving of the "Head of a Negro" is present. Also included were local ads and a poem.

The Student Designer January 31, 1930, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The January 31, 1930 issue had an article about RISD architecture students who wanted a change in their curriculum. Also included was an article about the RISD textile department. Bits of humor, ads and information about art exhibitions were also in this issue.

Ua1b1 11th All Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Advertisement for the 11th all star concert series hosted by WKU in 1929-1930. Features singers, musicians and lecturers:

• Estelle Gray-Llevinne
• United States Army Band
• Berger-Steindel-Aster Trio
• Gloria Randolph
• Smallman a Capella Choir
• Ratan Devi
• Chandra Dharma Sena Gooneratne
• Henri Scott
• Charles Boggs
• Melvena Passmore
• Festival Opera Company
• Howard Carman
• William Phillips
• Rhys Morgan

Changing Conceptions Of Sacred Music, Marion Virginia Rice

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

From the Very beginning of time, music has had an unusual emotional power, and probably because of this reason, it has always been connected with religion. According to one author, sacred music may be divided historically, as follows: (1) Jewish Music, (2) Music of the Primitive Church, (3) Medieval Church Music, (4) Post-Reformation Music, and (5) Modern Church. Each of these divisions may be subdivided; and, in considering the various types which may be found in each, one may see how the conception of sacred music has changed in accordance with the changing views concerning religion.

The study which this …

Volume 47, Number 12 (December 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Romance of the Christmas Carol

Music, Munich and the Mad King, Part 1

Pedagogic Principles of Piano Playing: As Prepared for the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris

Decade of The Six: Based on an Interview with the Distinguished French Composer, Arthur Honegger, One of The Six

Secrets of a Master Technic

Self-Study in Music

Changes in Piano Teaching in Fifty Years

Getting Correct Hand Position

To Overcome Poor Fingering

Lure of Japanese Music, Part 1

Are You Making Your Scales Real Ladders to Success: A Review of Common-sense Pedagogical Procedure for Intermediate Students and Some Novel Suggestions for Advanced …

The Student Designer December 1929, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Student Designer was a student-run monthly newspaper published between 1929 and 1932. The issue of December 1, 1929 included a brief article with information about a reception for Mr. Farnum given by the RISD Alumni Association. There also were articles about the Textile and Mechanical Design departments. Bits of humor, club and school news and local art exhibitions were also included.

Volume 47, Number 04 (April 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Hints on Advertising

House of Accuracy

Learning Rapid Note-Reading

Accent

Charm of Musical Biography

When Pupils Choose Their Own Music

Playing for Others

Adult Beginner

Practice Hour Safeguards

Summer Music Schools

Music on the Moon-Kissed Riviera

Be Sure You Are Right

Bach an Architect of Music

New Light on Musical Acoustics

Teaching Intervals

Musical Cross-Examination

Have You Tried this Way?

Special Emphasis for the Chromatic Scale

Ten Commandements for Piano Students

Comprehensive Piano Lesson Report

Study in Bells, Chimes or Carillons as Related to National Life

Value of the Mental Picture

Wild Melodies from the Arctic

Unique Orchestra of …

Volume 47, Number 02 (February 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Painting with Notes

Soundless Practice

Transposition

Piano as a Home Investment: First in a Series of Frank Editorials Upon the Great Educational and Sociological Importance of this Indispensable Instrument

Take Your Foot Off the Pedal

How the Scale Grows

Keep Studying

Gateways to Accomplishment

Big We Wagner

Trail of a Jongleur: A Fascinating Tale of Wartime Musical Experiences

Cheap at the Price

Why Music is Really a Necessary Part of the Child's Education

Student's Debt to Radio

Note-Bound

Wagner, Voice of the 19th Century

Landing Safely After a Leap

Beat in Whistling

Time-Saving, Hand Moulding Exercises for Piano Students

Costume …

Ua1b1 10th All-Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Advertisement for the 10th all-star concert series hosted by WKU in 1928-29. Features singers and musicians:

• Sophie Braslau
• Margery Maxwell
• Francis Macmillen
• Russian Symphonic Choir
• Silvia Scionti
• Chicago Concert Company
• Stell Andersen

Volume 46, Number 08 (August 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Means to an End

Band Without Music

Musical Education in the Home

Most Remarkable Orchestra in the World

Stiumulating the Desire to Compose

Modulation and Transposition

Raising the Price Imperceptibly

Touch It Up

Meet My Friend, Mr. Schubert!

Facsimile The Erlking

Summer Music Study

Rhythmic Educational Value of The Toy Symphony

How to Give a Rhythmic Kitchen Symphony

Rhythmic Studies in Rests

Tests that Turn Teaching Successward: A Vital Series of Pertinent Personal Questions Designed to Help Ambitious Teachers

Fourth and Fifth Fingers

Yes, I Teach 'Em Jazz

Scenes from the Childhood of Franz Schubert: A Musical Playlet for Children …

Volume 46, Number 06 (June 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Summer Study Count

Naples is a Song (Napoli é Una Canzone)

How to Study the Encore Song

Etching, Beethoven and Goethe

Secret of Extracting Tone Color from the Piano

One Hour at the Piano

Chord Conversion for Small Hands

Memorizing Notes on Staves

Practicing Away from the Piano (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

How to Free the Fourth and Fifth Fingers

Aids to Musicianship: Scientific Principles a Necessity for Perfection in Art

Accents

Ua1b1 9th All Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Advertisement for the 9th all star concert series hosted by WKU in 1927-28. Features singers and musicians:

• Lorna Doone Jaxon
• Russian Symphonic Choir
• Suzanne Keener
• Marie Miller
• George Perkins Raymond
• Ernestine Schumann-Heink
• Basile Kibalchich
• Harry Farbman

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 45, Number 07 (July 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Nothing But Exercises for Six and One-half Years (interview with Tito Schipa)

Perfection Before Pedal

Why Stop Work When Lessons Stop?

Thought Provoker

Breaking-in the New Lesson

On Developing Good Taste Early

Weight Playing

Managing the Student and the Studio

Rhythmic Motions

It Pays to Advertise

Finger Gymnastics

How to Keep Pupils

Few Hints on Violin Playing (interview with Eddy Brown)

Flowers of Our Lost Romance

Improving the Diatonic Scale

Melody Writing for Little Folks

Your Ally—The Bulletin Board

Asparagus with Brahms

Such Hard Times

Putting Life Into Your Playing: Rhythmical Movement Applied to Technic

What the Cowboy Liked Best …

Volume 45, Number 06 (June 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Staccato, the Spice of Music

Keeping Up One's Music

What Effect Has Jazz Upon Present Day Music and Composers?

Magical Symbols of Notation

Glimpse of Jenny Lind

Association of Teacher and Pupil

Power of Accidentals Outside the Measure

Perfection of the Pianist

Polka

Timepiece of Music

Problem of Mixed Time

How the Musician Should Deal with Nerves

Listening In

Musical Vacation

Slow Scale Practice

Can You Tell?—Quiz

How to Give a Delightful Summer Musicale

Phonograph Master Class

Romance of the Scales

Charles Wakefield Cadman All-American Composer

Lucy Learns the Art of Dancing: A Humorous Recitation

Too Big for Him

How …

Volume 45, Number 05 (May 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Secret of Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

What Music Thinkers Think

Ten Rules for Writing Music

Simple Ear Test

Making a Musical Start

Can You Tell? Contest

How to Play Glissandos

Vanishing Folksong

Teaching Scales to Young People

Make the Pupils Do the Work

Early Steps in Music

Pedal Study

One Perfect Number

More Questions from Teachers, Answered

Phenomena of the Wonder Child: Musical Prodigies of Today and Yesterday

Form in Music

Famous Liszt Cadenza Simplified

Gymnasium of the Singers: Technic That Produces Definite Results

Let the Pupils Do It

Scientific Grading

Bel Canto Legend

Leschetizky and the Invalid

My …

Volume 45, Number 04 (April 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Use the Weight and Relaxation Method

Were Bach, Mozart and Schubert Poorly Paid

Musical Note

Points on Practicing

Drawing and Accenting

Secret of Touch or How to Extract the Most Beautiful Tone from the Pianoforte

Substituting Flats for Sharps

Music Creed

Another Use for the Metronome

Shifting the Staves

Can I Learn to Count?

Hints on Rapid, Flexible Playing

Training the Brain to Remember and Reproduce Music

Avoiding After-Pressure on the Keys

Starting a Miniature Conservatory

Getting the Pupil to Think

Aiding the Late Beginner

Great Masters as Students—Beethoven

For Stretching the Hand

Aristoxenus The Modern

Jumping the …

Ua68/9/1 Iolanthe Program, Wku Music Department

WKU Administration Documents

Program for performance of Iolanthe, contains ads for many Bowling Green businesses.

Volume 45, Number 03 (March 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Debussy: His Significance in the History of Piano Literature

Setting High Standards

What Music Does to Youth

Study of Octave Playing

Power of the Dot in Music

How to Estimate the Right Tempo

Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions as a Foundation for Polyphonic Playing

Art of Giving an Interesting Lesson

Getting Right Down to Business

Graded Scrap Books

Quiet Practice

What Active Musi Workers are Thinking and Saying

Viewpoints and Side Lights: Concerning Minor Keys

Bugbear Turned to Account

Excellent Program of Compositions by Amercan Women

Sharps and Flats Contest

What Music is Doing for College Students

Haydn's Opinion …

Ua1b1 8th All Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Advertisement for the 8th all star concert series hosted by WKU in 1926-27. Features singers and musicians:

• Louise Homer
• Don Jose Mojica
• Luella Melius
• Albert Spalding
• Suzanne Keener

Volume 44, Number 11 (November 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Character Sketch of Schubert

Franz Schubert as Others Saw Him

Marriage of Rhythm and Rubato

What Does Technic Mean to You?

Question of More Pep

Scaling the Technic Ladder

Gaining Pupil's Confidence

Piano Lesson in Vaudeville

Mental Tests

Quo Vadis Piano?: Which Way is Pianistic Art Turning?

For Lycidas is Dean, Young Lycidas—Milton

Thoughts from Schubert

Teacher—Mother—Pupil

Musician's Library

Wisdom of Women Musical Workers: What Women Musicians are Thinking

Some Unconsidered Details Often Neglected

Inspiring Confidence

Schubert's Life in Anecdote

Schubert in Romance

How to Read Music Accurately, Rapidly and Comfortably

Why and When the Fourth Finger

Practicing New Scales …

Volume 44, Number 09 (September 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Did Beethoven Jazz?

Laughing Chorus

Music on the Other Side of the World (interview with Mischa Levitzki)

Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing

Lesson with Chopin

Litle Help on the C Scale Fingering

Remarkable Art of Georges Bizet

When the Wrong Note is It

Teach Both Staffs from the Beginning

Musical Bank Account

Memorial to Louis C. Elson

Magic of Details

Why Not More Home Group Music?

Musical Instruments of Yesteryear

Magnifying Pedal

On Always Progressing

Lessons Away from the Piano

Striking Wrong Notes

Bach at the Organ

Select the Proper …

Volume 44, Number 06 (June 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Everything Counts in Your Musical Success (interview with Lawrence Tibbett)

Vale, Melodeon!

Profitable Lesson in Playing Double Notes

Women's Orchestras in 18th Century Italy

Simple Help for Scale-Mastery

Attention and Getting Along

Practical Point for Practical Teachers

Getting the Hang of the Rhythm

Various Ways of Writing Dots and Their Corresponding Touches

Rightly Learned Piece

Learning the Keyboard

How Words Help

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Adult Beginner and His Problems

For the Musically Slow

Selecting Compositions for Your Pupils

Cyril Scott and His Ego

How to Play Correctly Two Notes Against Three

Thumb Drill of …

Volume 44, Number 04 (April 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hungary' Love for Music

Waiting for Inspiration

Slow Down

Don't Play Your Hardest Pieces in Public

Regular Practice Counts

Psychology of Reading Music at Sight

Dead Notes

Little Life Stories of the Great Masters

Strength of Silence

Hungary, the Land of Rhythm and Melody (interview with Yolanda Mëro)

Reveling in Music

Chord Playing

Imitation in Musical Compositions

Aids for the Slow Reader

Irresistible Lure of Gypsy Music

Practical Method of Teaching Treble and Bass Notes

Five Reasons Why You Should Study the Piano

Nervousness

Get a Musical Education First (interview with Margarete Matzenauer)

Our Musical Esperanto

On Temper in Piano …

Volume 44, Number 03 (March 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Under No Consideration Would I Give Up Music (interview with Ralph Modjeski)

Are Scales Worth-While?

Winter Musicales

Equal Finger Development

Most Musical Town in the World

Mixing Heart with Art

Getting the Student's Measure

Some Points in Pianoforte Duet Playing

Thought Starters

Chopin's Preludes as Interpreted by Liszt

Hard Pierce!

Helps Along the Road

True Chopin

Slow Practice on Old Pieces

Resolves for the New Year

Some Inspirations of Composers

Little Life Stories of the Great Masters

Chopin Reflections

Chopin in His Last Years

Can Expressive Playing be Taught?

Teach Children to Compose

Music of Ireland

Music Teachers' Organizations Honor …

Volume 44, Number 02 (February 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin: A Eulogy Upon the Greatest of Polish Musicians

Chopin's Estimate of Other Musicians

Six Don’t's for Young Students

Chopin Pilgrimage in the Mediterranean

What the Piano Teacher Must Know

Interesting Class Lessons

Vary the Position

Present-Day Significance of Chopin

Inspirational Moments

Climaxes in Chopin's Art

Character Study of Chopin

Chopin Reflections

Episodes on the Life of Chopin: Milestones, Musical and Otherwise, in the Career of the Most Famous Master of Piano Music

First Lesson on the Keyboard

Can You Discriminate?

Genius of Chopin

Chopin Character Lines

Chopin and Schumann Play Quits

Chopin Chronology

That New Composition

Advice on the …

The Salamander February 1926, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Salamander was a short-lived student publication released monthly during the 1925-1926 academic year at the Rhode Island School of Design. Beginning in January 1926, contents were printed on both sides of the page, mostly comprised of fictional gossip and humor. The issue of February 1926 included poems, RISD sports news, art exhibitions, a concert at Memorial Hall and hand drawn illustrations.

Volume 44, Number 01 (January 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tributes from Eminent Men and Women to Theodore Presser

How to Teach the Major and Minor Scales

Suggestion for Orchestra Goers

Some Aspects of America's Advance in the Musical Art (interview with Owen Wister)

Practice Hour for the Rusty Housewife

Character Study of Theodore Presser the Man: Biography of Theodore Presser as it Appears in Who's Who for 1925

Inspirational Moments

What Part Has Modernism in Present Day Piano Study

Teaching Old Pianists New Tricks

Touch

Utilizing Sensations

Life Appreciations of Theodore Presser from Those Who Knew Him

Opus-Numbers

Adaptable Wrist-Action

Practical Fingering Illustrated for Individual Needs: A Self-Help for …