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Volume 35, Number 12 (December 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Automatic Faculty in Piano Playing

How to Attain Freedom of the Fingers

Mass of Christ

Footlight Fear and Fever

Important Steps in the Educational Work of an Opera Singer

Three Measure Rhythm

Christmas Carols

Reading Detached Chords

Are the Black Keys Poisonous to the Thumb?

Time to Rest and a Time to Grow

Musical Reputations and How They are Achieved

Is Compulsory Music Study Advisable?

Successful Study of Octaves

Can You Pass This Normal Test?

Some Pianos I Have Known

Practice Individual Tones in a Chord

Beethoven's Characteristics as a Pianist

How to Study Two Against Three

Pianographs

Hints on …

Volume 35, Number 11 (November 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cure for Musical Pessimism

Simplifying Counting

Why Not Encourage Everyone to Play?

Nervousness in Public Performance and How to Overcome It

Practical Thoughts on Modern Pianoforte Study

Two Ways of Using the Metronome

Some Foundation Principles of Piano Technic, Which May Be Applied to Any Method

Economy of Time at Lessons

Keeping the Brain Strong and Fit

How to Judge a New Piece

High Lights from a Musical Convention: Extracts from Important Addresses Made at the Last Convention of the Music Teachers' National Association

How to Keep Your Piano in Playable Condition

Some Essential Points in Beautiful Playing and How …

Volume 35, Number 10 (October 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Just What Syncopation is

Value of Polyphonic Playing

Greater Results With Less Effort

How to Interest Unmusical People in Music

Some Elementary Truths in Song Interpretation

Curiosities of Notation

Tension and Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

How We Got the Flat and the Natural

Remarkable Cures of Melancholia Through Music

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern English Composers

Mysteries of Music

How to Help Your Pupil to Remember Your Corrections

Value of Versatility in Teaching

Seek Clearness of Musical Outline

How to Get Artistic Effects in Touch: Staccato, Legato and Marcato

Story of the Magic Fire Music

Good Taste …

Volume 35, Number 09 (September 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Four Good Reasons Why Musicians Do Not Succeed

Lack of Concentration

Goals in Scale Playing

How I Regained a Lost Voice: A Practical Experience in Voice Placing (interview with Evan Williams)

How to Increase the Music Class: Approved Methods Employed by Leading Teachers in Securing New Pupils Through Dignified, Legitimate Means

Business Principles for the Musician

Musical Setting

La Marseillaise

Animated Touch

Notes on Piano Playing to Teachers of Children

Learning Music in the Most Rapid, Thorough and Scientific Manner: Important Psychological Principles Deduced from Thousands of Laboratory Experiments Made Simple and Practical for Music Students and Music Teachers

Musician's …

Volume 35, Number 08 (August 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Accomplishments

Simple Cure for Stage-Fright

How to Regain Your Technic

Paths to an American National School of Music (interview with Reginald de Koven)507

Bracelet of Fifths

Getting the Most from Five-finger Exercises

Sharp Major Scale Signature

How the Masters Sought Humor in Music

Echo Exercise

Spasmodic Performance

Up-to-Date Points from an Up-to-Date Teacher

How Can We Do Our Bit?

New Material and New Methods in Musical Composition

Non Plus Ultra

Playing Close to the Keys Versus the High Finger Stroke

Teresa Carreño (obituary)

High School Credits in Texas

How Shall I Play Phrases Properly?—With Special Illustrations Taken from Modern …

Volume 35, Number 07 (July 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Get Control of Your Nerves

Jenny Lind, The Incomparable

Key to Success

Discord of Sweet Sounds

To Avoid Scratching in Violin Playing

Thoroughness in Operatic Preparation (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Let Your Piece Sing to You

Accuracy in Piano Playing—How to Teach it to Children

Controlled Relaxation

Why Should My Boy Study Music?

Electrical Music

Practical Steps in Tone Production: How the Player's Tone May be Enriched and Developed

Pianograms

Head, Heart and Head

High Lights in the Life of Handel—Significant and Interesting Human and Professional Characteristics of the Composer of the Messiah

How to Use The Etude's …

Ua45/6 Commencement Concert, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement concert program and graduation program listing music certificate / diploma recipients.

Volume 35, Number 06 (June 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Freak Minds in Modern Music

Keep a Journal

How to Go About Sight-Reading

Saving Time in Practice

Idealism in Music Study (interview with Teresa Carreño)

Yesterday and To-day

What Pieces?

From Finger-Tips to Shoulder

Why Advanced Pupils Lose Inspiration

Acquiring Accuracy in Musical Terms: Correct Definitions and Right Applications

Musical Curiosity

Review Week

Why Not a Daily Song Hour

Scale Contest

Art and Common Sense in Accompanying

Accelerando

Closing Address

Watch Your Hands

Names of Musicians Phonetically Pronounced

What Every Music Student Should Know About Phrasing

Nine Fundamental Divisions of Daily Practice

Symphony: Its Chief Characteristics and How to Recognize …

Volume 35, Number 05 (May 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony Orchestras in the United States

Memorable Performance

Certainly, I'll Play!

How Staccato Practice Puts a Snap in Playing

Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Band

How Beethoven Spiritualized Musical Form

Is the Symphony Played Out?

Two Brilliant American Composers

Aids to Good Timekeeping

Concise Dictionary of Noted Symphonic Composers

Richard Wagner as a Symphonist

New Scale Fingerings

Rise of the American Symphony

Does Teaching Make You Nervous?

Fifteen Vital Steps in Teaching Young Children

Have You a Self-Starter?

Scales and Baseball

Final Steps in Memorizing

How to Start a Local Symphony Orchestra

How Much Did You Practice?

Colored Pencils in …

Volume 35, Number 04 (April 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Aspects of the Art of Music (interview with Thomas A. Edison)

Simple Psychological Helps in Music Teaching

Haydn's Amusing Tribute to a Faithful Dog

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Value of Historical Knowledge in the Appreciation of Music

Snap Shots in a Musical Library

Irish Folk Song that Aids Interpretation

Difficult Pronunciations

Carmen: Arranged for Presentation in Reading Form at Musical Clubs

Expanding the Small Hand

Beethoven to Czerny

Getting Pupils through Printers' Ink: A Practical Advertising Man Talks

Rare Musical Facts

Syncopated Biographies: Musical Life Stories Pleasantly Told

Exercises for Developing the Hands for Piano Touch and Technic …

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 1, No. 3a, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter and course catalog published bi-monthly.

• Condensed Information
• To High School Graduates
• The Cherry Club Banquet
• Kentucky Educational Association
• The Music Festival
• Summer School
• Commencement
• The New Catalog

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Eighth Annual Festival Of New Music, Steve Hall

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Volume 35, Number 03 (March 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Justice for the Teacher

What the Musician Must Do To Conserve Good Health

Efficient Practice

Too Much Theory

Difficult Pronunciations

Spirit and Technic of the Pianoforte Pedals

Tolstoi Throws a Bomb into Art and Music: The Arch-Iconoclast of Russia Severly Criticises Some Modern Musical and Artistic Conventions

Some Facts About Russian Church Music

Learning the Key Signatures

Some Obstacles in the Way of Standardization

Early French, Italian and German Composers of Interest to Present-day Pianists

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Masters

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Ranz …

Volume 35, Number 02 (February 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Success in Chorus Conducting: Hints, Aids and Advice to Leaders by the Foremost English Choral Conductors

Melody Hunting

Keep a Lesson Book

Surmounting Stubborn Passages: An Analysis of Technical Difficulties

Twelve Factors in Successful Teaching

When Interest Lags

Rest as Climax

Personality at the Lesson

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Italian Masters

Curiosities of Music

Modern Italian Operatic Composers

How Psychology Can Help the Musician

Chopiniana

Haydn's Boyhood Pride

High Lights in the Lives of Great Master: Haydn

Keeping Up the Interest in Scale Playing

Delicate Hand

Parting of Haydn and Mozart

Most Difficult Musical Composition

Advantages …

Volume 35, Number 01 (January 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Self-Expression at the Keyboard

Difficult Pronunciations

Limitations of Touch on the Piano

Gospel of Clean Keys

Musical and Cultural Education of the Modern Pianist

Maxims for Parents of Musical Children

Berlioz's First Meeting with Mendelssohn—And Its Sequel

Fountain of Inspiration for Masters

Mozart's Appearance and Personality

Have You These Five Qualities of the Progressive Teacher?

Causes of Some American Opera Failures

John Philip Sousa Inspects the Home for Retired Music Teachers

How Brahms and Liszt Welcomed Their Friends

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Hints for the Singer's Daily Practice (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

Neat Method …

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1917 -- Vol. 39, No. 01, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

I'M A Real Kind Mama (Lookin' For A Lovin' Man) / Music By Maceo Pincard; Words By Roger Graham, Maceo Pincard, Roger Graham, Frank K. Root And Co. (Chicago)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: a drawing of a woman wearing a massive hoopskirt (Tricolor outfit: red, white, and blue); Publisher: Frank K. Root and Co. (Chicago)

The Darktown Strutters' Ball / Words By Shelton Brooks, Shelton Brooks, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: caricature drawing of African American couples dancing, photo inset of Ben Davis; Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sweetness (Honey Suckle Of Mine) / Music By Jack Stern; Words By Eddie Leonard, Jack Stern, Eddie Leonard, Chas K. Harris (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: photo of a Caucasian male in blackface; Publisher: Chas K. Harris (New York)

You Can Have It, I Don't Want It / Music By Clarence Williams And Armand J. Piron ; Words By May Hill, Clarence Williams, Armand J. Piron, May Hill, Frank K. Root And Co. (Chicago)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of an African American male playing banjo and singing, while a rooster stares down at him; photo inset of Miss Lillian Teece; Publisher: Frank K. Root and Co. (Chicago)

Alexander's Back From Dixie (With His Ragtime Band) / Music By Pete Wendling; Words By Lew Colwell, Pete Wendling, Lew Colwell, Lee S. Roberts (Chicago)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: African American band parading in uniform (see # 159); Publisher: Lee S. Roberts (Chicago)

Before The World Began / Music By Alfred Solman; Words By Andrew B. Sterling, Alfred Solman, Andrew B. Sterling, Joe Morris Music Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

No abstract provided.

Southern Gals / Music By Albert Gumble; Words By Jack Yellen, Albert Gumble, Jack Yellen, Jerome H. Remick And Co. (Detroit)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: a drawing of a woman with Hat; photo inset of Florence Moore; Publisher: Jerome H. Remick and Co. (Detroit)

A Little Bit O' Honey / Music By Carrie Jacobs-Bond; Words By W. G. Wilson, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, W. G. Wilson, Carrie Jacobs-Bond And Son (Hollywood)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: painting of an African American mother holding a child on her lap; Publisher: Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Son (Hollywood)

Mammy Blossom's Possum Party / Music By Theodor Morse; Words By Arthur Fields, Theodor Morse, Arthur Fields, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of rural African Americans dancing to music made by a banjo player, an accordionist, and by wood blocks; photo inset of Jack Connors Jr. (see 417); Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Prohibition Blues / Music By Al Sweet; Words By Al Sweet, Al Sweet, M. Witmark And Sons (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: caricature of an exasperated African American male pointing to his wine glass, as a weeping waiter holds out his hand in a gesture of no, liquor bottle fly away on wings; Publisher: M. Witmark and Sons (New York)

The Dixie Volunteers / Music By Harry Ruby; Words By Edgar Leslie, Harry Ruby, Edgar Leslie, Waterson Berlin And Snyder Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of Soldiers; photo inset of Eddie Cantor; Publisher: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. (New York)

It Takes A Long Tall Brown-Skin Gal To Make A Preacher Lay His Bible Down / Music By Will E. Skidmore; Words By Marshall Walker, Will E. Skidmore, Marshall Walker, Skidmore (Kansas City)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of an African American minister walking away from a church with an African American woman -- his Bible is left on the road; photo inset of singer Rae Samuels; Publisher: Skidmore (Kansas City)

Mammy Blossom's Possum Party / Music By Theodor Morse; Words By Arthur Fields, Theodor Morse, Arthur Fields, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Cover: drawing of African Americans playing music and dancing; photo inset of Eddie McGrath (see #73); Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Over There / Words By George M. Cohan, George M. Cohan, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1910-1919

Key of Bb. Cover: a drawing of four soldiers singing and one of them is playing Banjo; Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)