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Volume 28, Number 12 (December 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Overheard at the Symphony Concert

Developing the Beautiful in Piano Playing

What Daily Practice Means

Difficult Art of Good Pedaling

Lessons from Memorable Piano Recitals

How One Teacher Raised Her Income

My First Composition

How and Why the American Teacher Has Succeeded in Europe

Those Missed Lessons

Patrons and Helpers of Great Composers

Some Wagner Caracatures

Crying Need in American Music

Professor's Christmas Dilemma: A Musical Romance of Xmas

Hand Drill

On Making the Most of a Poor Instrument

Well Known Composers of To-Day—Hermann Necke

Need of Better Sight Reading

Balzac's Interest in Music

Pupils Who Pay by the Lesson

Volume 28, Number 11 (November 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Approximate Pronunciations of the Names of French Musicians

How Verdi Preserved His Originality

Lessons with Franz Liszt

Weber's Mistake

Cultivating Musical Taste in the Public Schools

Tschaikowski's Ideals

Triumph of Edward MacDowell

Wagner on Mendelssohn and Schumann

Beware of Fraudulent Publishers

Survival of the Fittest in Music: How the Great Works of the Tonal Art Remain Through the Centuries, While Those of Less Value Are Doomed to More or Less Certain Oblivion

Just Ordinary Miss Brown: The Story of an Old-fashioned Teacher and How She Got Real Results While Others Failed

What to Do at the First Lesson: The …

Volume 28, Number 10 (October 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music the American People Demand (interview with John Philip Sousa)

Scharwenka on Listening to One's Playing

Failure of Gounod's Faust

Heredity and Music: Remarkable Instances of the Manner in Which Musical Talent Has been Communicated from One Generation to Another

Some Great Virtuosos of the Present Day

Clara Schumann on Ear Training

Talk with Svendsen

Preparing the Hands for Advanced Pianoforte Study

Better Understanding of the Double Bar

Vital Defects of Most Pianists

Some Distinctions in Musical Terms

Volume 28, Number 09 (September 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Franz Liszt and the Origin of the Symphonic Poem

How Spohr Learned the French Horn in One Day

What is Meant by Interpretation

Forgotten Rivals of Great Composers

Story of the Minuet

How Music Helps the Business Woman

Power of Concentration in Music Study and How to Develop It

Mendelssohn's Versatility

Italy the Land of Music? A German View

Schumann Epigrams

Trip to the Shrine of Beethoven

How Beethoven Found the Theme for His Fifth Symphony

Map of Musical Europe

Well Known Composers of To-Day—George B. Nevin

How Verdi Became a Musician

Comparative Difficulty of Sharp and Flat Keys

Purcell's …

Volume 28, Number 02 (February 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Lesson from Brahms

Methods and Customs of the Paris Conservatoire

Franz Joseph Haydn and the Development of the Sonata and the Symphony

Story of Pepito Arriola

Foreign Fingering vs. American Fingering

Some Uses for Old Music

Some Rules for Making Musical Manuscript

Analyses of Three Famous Classic Marches

How to Get the Most Out of Practice

Physiologist's Comments on Piano Playing

Volume 28, Number 01 (January 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Short Biographical Notes Upon Italian Musicians

Paris Conservatory of Music

Moritz Moszkowski on Himself

Children of Unmusical Parents

Mme. Teresa Carreño on Individuality in Playing

Personal Recollections of Verdi (interview with Leando Campanari)

Some Striking Pictures of Rossini

Three Notes Against Two

Future of Italian Opera in America

Beginnings of the Oratorio and the Opera

Italian Writers for the Piano

Verdi's Position in Musical Art

Facts About Famous Italian Musicians

Historical Review of Italian Musical Art from the Beginning to the Present Day

Cherubini's Individuality

Some Piano Transcriptions of Numbers from Famous Italian Operas

Liszt on the Playing of His …

My, What A Funny Little World This Is! / Words By Lewis And Benett, Lewis And Benett

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: a contemplative man ; photo inset of Carrie Reynolds; Publisher: Jos. W. Stern and Co. (New York)

School Catalog, Siegel-Myers Correspondence School Of Music

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

The catalog for the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music detailing information about the School, its instructors, classes offered, and the nature of the correspondence courses.

Lesson Book: Grand Opera, Rubinkam I. Nathaniel

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Music Lesson Book for the correspondence courses offered through the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music.
Lessons and Examinations: Grand Opera, number 1 through 10

Alma, George V. Hobart, Jean Briquet, Jerome H. Remick & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman with a furry hat holding a purse standing, leaning on a chair with the words Lottie Kendall. There is images of plants on each side and a portrait of a man in the upper left corner.

First line of song: Why are the men bold? Why do they stare at me?

First line of chorus: Alma, sweet Alma, Oh! where do you live?

Moderato

Lyrics by George V. Hobart

Music by Jean Briquet

Joseph Weber presents the sensational musical play "Alma Where Do You Live?" From the German of Adolf Philipp

English Version …

The Lotus, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The 1910 yearbook for Rhode Island School of Design, called The Lotus, included hand drawn illustrations, student-submitted entries, descriptions of each department in the school, lists of students and faculty, descriptions of popular social events, and advertisements. Also included was a calendar of events for the school year. Poems and short stories were also in this yearbook.

Volume 27, Number 11 (November 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Educational Influence of the Opera

On Memorizing Piano Music

Story of the Polonaise

What the Early Church Did for Music

Chopin as Extemporizer

Learning the Bass Clef Notes

How to Expand the Hand Without Injury

Short, Practical Lessons in Theory—The Dominant Seventh Chord

Teacher's Success Depends Upon the Pupil's Success

Mr. George A. Burdett's Work as a Composer

Why Hugo Wolf Failed as a Teacher

Some Fundamental Principles of Advertising for the Musician

Care of the Pianoforte in the Home

How to Form a Musical Library

Volume 27, Number 04 (April 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

At the Grave of Beethoven

What Musical Europe is Thinking and Doing

How Fortunes Are Wasted on a Vocal Education (interview with Marcella Sembrich)

Theodore Leschetizsky on Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with Theodore Leschetizsky)

Story of the Waltz: How the Most Fascinating of Dances Has Influenced the Great Composers

Lessons from the Life of Beethoven

How to Study a New Piece (interview with Schelling, Ernest)

Story of Musical Prodigies: How Some Very Remarkable Children Have Afterwards Become Great Musicians and How Others Have Been Injured by Excessive Work in Their Childhood

Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata: Balestrieri's Famous Painting Described

Short Practical …

Volume 27, Number 03 (March 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Musical Europe is Thinking and Doing

Touch—the Great Essential (interview with M. Ossip Gabrilowitsch)

How to Cultivate Sight-Reading

Sub-conscious Mind in Piano Playing

Musical Europe of Yesterday and Musical America of To-day: Reflections Upon the Study of Music and Pianoforte Playing as Taught in Europe Twenty-Five Years Ago and as Taught in America Now

Scarlatti's Unique Fingering

Interesting Stories of Chopin's Career

Chopin's Taste in Music

Mathematics of Melody

How Music Brightens the Home

Bellini, the Genius of Stricken Sicily

Easy Way to Teach Musical History

Conquering of Fear

Use of the Sound Reproducing Machine in Vocal Instruction and …

Volume 27, Number 02 (February 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Review of European Musical Articles

Masters and Their Methods

Mozart's Lack of Commercial Instinct

On the Quantity of Work to be Given a Pupil

Rossini's Remarkable Industry

Opportunities for Young Oratorio Singers

Useless Musical Exercises

Robert Schumann's Carnaval

Optimism in Teaching

What is an Ear for Music?

How Mendelssohn Wrote a Famous Work

Beethoven's Woodland Walks

Young Artist's Treasure Box: Aphorisms by Poets, Philosophers and Artists

Volume 26, Number 12 (December 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tschaikowski's Appreciation of Grieg

How to Play My Best Know Pieces

Schumann's Industry as a Piano Student

Schubert's Love of Nature

Secret of Public Appearance

Wagner's Phenomenal Imagination

Training of a Concert Pianist, Part 1

We Shoot at a Flying Mark

Paying for Lessons

With Anton Rubinstein in the Class-Room

Teaching the Scales and Arpeggios

Securing Arm Control at the Keyboard

Lesson with Dr. Hans von Bülow

Make Every Movement Count

Question of Equipment

Musical Comedy of Errors

How Chopin Played

Dvorak on Why Bohemia is Musical

What Teachers and Pupils Could Do for American Music

Getting the Most Out …

Russian Nuptials, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

No abstract provided.

Volume 26, Number 11 (November 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Invention of the Nocturne

Stephen Heller—His Life and Works

From Rubinstein's Note-Book

Superstititions of Concert Pianists

Effective Piano Practice

American Students Should Study in America

What the Masters of Music Have Accomplished in Old Age: Remarkable Instances of Musical Activity and Intellectual Fecundity Late in Life

Musical Atmosphere in America

What Constitutes Beauty in Piano Playing

Classical Music as a Basis of Pianoforte Instruction

Handel's Youth

Volume 26, Number 05 (May 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Student Days in Weimar With Liszt: Reminiscences of an American Virtuoso and Teacher Who Won the Interest of the Greatest Master of the Keyboard

Extending the Compass of a Hand Without Injury

Securing Pupils

Helpful Ideas for the Younger Piano Teacher

Difficulties of Teachers in Small Towns

Leopold Godowsky on Natural Technic

Retaining the Loyalty of Old Pupils

Rise of the Virtuoso

Necessity of Credentials for Music Teachers

Some Essentials of Pianoforte Tone Production

Good Way to Teaach Odd Rhythms

Mothers as Assistant Teachers

Volume 26, Number 04 (April 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Newly Discovered Sketch by Mozart with its Musical Explanation

Sustained Finger Exercises

Co-öperation of Teacher and Student

Stimulating the Pupil's Ambition

Autobiography of a Rhapsody of Liszt

Suggestions Relating to Scale Fingering

Some Factors that Aid Good Teaching

Thirty-minute Lesson

Wagner's Witty Remarks on the Oratorio in England

Difficulties of the Young Music Teacher

What Should the Amateur Pianist be Taught of Harmony

Allow the Student to Develop His Own Ideas

Remodeling the Old Teacher's Work: How Great Tact Should be Used in Making Changes

Volume 26, Number 02 (February 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching Young Boys

Placate the Parent

Piano Duet Practice

Technic as It Should Be

Teachers' Auxiliary Work

What is Music?

So-Called Natural Piano Technic

Carl Heins

Musical Degrees in American Colleges

Why the Masters Died Poor

Brahms and Nikisch

Contrasted Character of Major and Minor Music

Volume 24, Number 08 (August 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Exercises for the Sight Reading Class

Reminiscences of Celebrated Singers (interview with Giovanni Sbriglia)

Significance of Bach to Modern Music

Public Taste in Music as Shown by Summer Orchestra Programs

Teaching of the Minor Scales

Bach Awakening

Aphorisms from the Manuscript of the Late C.H. Richter

Story of Johann and Joseph Strauss

Pupils' Rhythmical Problems

Volume 24, Number 07 (July 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Edouard Risler and His Playing of Beethoven's Sonatas

Suggestions for Chord Playing

Soirée at Richard Wagner's

What Does the Layman Hear in Music?

Making of an Artist: The View of Alfred Reisenauer

How an Opera Was Written

Schumann's Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12

Suggestions for Sight Reading Practice

Plea for Broad-Mindedness

Value of Imagination

Modern Virtuoso

Selection of Teaching Music

Volume 24, Number 05 (May 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chorus Conducting and Music Festival Organization: Talks with Mr. Emil Mollenhauer and Mr. George W. Stewart

Who Shall Select the Pupils' Music

Monument to Stephen Heller

Self-Control

Sigismond Stojowski and His Views on Piano Study

Evolution of the Leschetizky Method

Some of the Elements of a Good Teacher

Program Novelties for Music Clubs

More Extensive Pianoforte Repertoire

Necessity of Theoretical and Historical Study to the Pianist

Reading at Sight: Some Practical Suggestions

How Improvements in the Piano Affected Composition

How the Great Musicians Practice

Mozart's Manner of Composing

Volume 24, Number 01 (January 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

George Frederick Handel: The Making of Great Man in Music

Handel's Place in Musical History

Instrumental Music of Handel

Handel's Oratorios To-day

Handel Miscellany

Longevity of Musical Compositions

Vincent d'Indy

Two Ways of Teaching the Piano

Music Teaching and General Education

Practical Ideas Applied to the Teaching of Children

Story of the Water Music

Volume 23, Number 11 (November 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Carl Baermann: Some Characteristics of His Art and His Playing

Men and Things of the Day in Music

Music in the University of California

Mme. Wanda Landowska

How May a Child's Musical Talent be Determined!

Music Teachers and Pupils: A Study in Influences

Why Does a Composer Compose?

Realism in Music

On Traits and Characteristics of Students

Methods and their Use

True Musical Understanding: Is it the Result of Rule and Measure?

Useful Gymnastic Exercises for Musicians

Volume 23, Number 10 (October 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Concert Hall of the Paris Conservatoire

Making of Tone Color Effects on the Piano

Liszt as a Pianoforte Writer

Hints for Inexperienced Teachers

Music and Life

Opportune Bending of the Musical Twig: A Few Suggestions in Elementary Piano Teaching

Young Music Teacher

Foundation of Sight Reading

Estimate of Johann Sebastian Bach

Gounod and Faust

Mission of Music in the Public Schools

Essentials of Success

Music Lessons the Soldiers Taught

Volume 23, Number 09 (September 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Music Festival in America: Its Tendency to Promote a Musical Atmosphere

Emancipation of the Musician

Sense of Musical Beauty

On the Necessity of Better Music in Teaching

Ways and Means for the Development of Music in Small Towns

Music Teaching as a Profession and a Business

Modern Idea of Business System Applied to the Musical Life

Volume 23, Number 07 (July 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Study of Musical Conditions in the Southern States

Sir Edward Elgar

Practical Application of the Rudiments of Harmony to the Study of the Piano

Interpretation of Music Upon the Piano

Influence of the Music Teacher Upon the Pupil

On the Essence of the Beautiful in Piano-Playing

Volume 18, Number 05 (May 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Studio Experience: Professional Courtesy

Greatest Difficulty for the Piano

Pertinent Points for Earnest Students

Remoteness of Things

Scharwenka Anecdote

How to Handle Stubborn Pupils

Too High Aims

Franz Peter Schubert

Chronological Summary of Schubert's Works

Schubert's Rank as a Composer and His Influence on the Romantic School

Sadness of Schubert's Life

Schubert and the German Lied

Schubertiana

Man Schubert

Schubert's Orchestral Compositions

On Schubert in Relation to Harmony, Melody, and Rhythm

Few Aphorisms on Schubert by Robert Schumann

Franz Schubert and His Pianoforte Compositions

Discipline via Affection

Characteristics of Schubert's Genius

Listen and Learn

Nervous System and Its Influence Upon …