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Volume 64, Number 11 (November 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Artistic Temperament

H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Becomes a Bachelor of Music

Music Rhythms Affect Brain Rhythms

How Peace Came to Zdeborice

How Melodies Come (interview with Oscar Straus)

What is American Music

Wit and Humor of Musicians

Piano Fundamentals

And So to Music: A Delightfully Quaint and Picturesque Glimpse of Music in England in the Seventeenth Century as Seen Through the Eyes of Samuel Pepys

Developing Technique (interview with Simon Barere)

Flowers of Puerto Rico

Americans Spend Billions for Music

Cellist Looks Ahead (interview with Edmund Kurtz)

. . . Right Good Partners, Too (Gilbert & Sullivan)

Volume 64, Number 09 (September 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Riots

How to Improve Your Sight Reading

Personal History in Music (interview with Vincent Sheean)

New Keys to Practice (VIII)

Effect of Music on History

Dressing for the Concert Stage (interview with Vyvyan Donner)

As in a Mirror

Report to the Nation (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

Yehudi Menuhin's Magic Bow

Publishing a Popular Song (interview with Helmy Kresa)

Overcoming Piano Difficulties by Exaggeration

What Is the Outlook for a One-Armed Pianist? (interview with Paul Wittgenstein)

Competitions

Volume 64, Number 06 (June 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Does Music Develop Character?

Practical Program Idea

Helping Pupils to Create

Review Music Book

New Keys to Practice

Preparation for Potsdam (interview with Eugene List)

Dramatic Last Hours of Mozart

University Training for Motion Picture Musicians

Amazing Tour of Jenny Lind

Battistini, the Incomparable Master of Bel Canto

Well, I Do Declare!: Musical Instruments throughout the World (Section 6)

Musicians in World War II (interview with Yehudi Menuhin)

Sing, Ye Citizens! (interview with Herbert Huffman)

Volume 64, Number 05 (May 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Your Soul

Musicians and Digestion: Physical Influences on the Efficiency of Composers, Musicians, and Singers

Music Brings New Joy to Life and Work: Planned Music Service, in Ever-Expanding Measure, is Revolutionizing Condition in Offices, Banks, Factories, and Public Places (interview with Harry E. Houghton)

Look Into Your Piano

Play the Cello and Look Pretty

Servants of the Muses: Ten Great Musical Educators

Control of the Voice (interview with Lansing Hatfield)

Magic of Sound: Sound, Which is Necessary to Life, Can Be Constructive or Destructive; Scientists Are Now Working on its Beneficial Effects

New Thoughts on Voice Care (interview …

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Campus Lights 1945, Murray State College

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Volume 63, Number 11 (November 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Three Centuries of Thanksgiving

Magic of Melody

Making the Met: Which is 1945 Slang for Securing an Opportunity to Appear as Soloist at the Metropolitan Opera House with the Opera Company of the Metropolitan Opera Association (interview with Edward Johnson)

Principles I Learned from Tobias Mathay (interview with Ray Lev)

Music Teacher's Day in a Boom Town

Class Teaching in Applied Music

Overcoming the Handicaps of the Adult Piano Beginner

Who Should Play the Harp? (interview with Edward Vito)

Volume 63, Number 10 (October 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Concert in Berlin

Mendelssohn's Religious Faith

Modern Device for Teaching the Scales

Music Down Under: Many Surprises in Musical Activity in Australia

Wine of Islam: Coffee, Coffee Houses, and Music

There's a Future in Radio, IF

Britain Produces New Operatic Success

Piano Never Talks Back

What Do You Know About the Symphony Orchestra?: A Practical Quiz for Classes and Clubs

Technic of Music Listening: Channels Through Which the Fine Art Reaches the Emotions

What! Not Able to Read Music?

Choral Art for America (interview with Robert Shaw)

Volume 63, Number 09 (September 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Make It Clear

Distinguished American Guitarist Celebrates Eighty-fifth Birthday

As to Music Appreciation

Our Musical Good Neighbor, Brazil (interview with Olga Coelho)

From a Studio Window: Observations Based on Thirty Years of Teaching at Illinois Conservatory of Music, Mount Holyoke College, and Northfield School for Girls

Musical Advance in China (Part Two)

Superstitious Musicians

The Greeks and Musical Therapeutics: On Their Use of Music to Curb the Passions, Improve the Complexion, and Cure Diseases

The Background of Background Music: How NBC's Experts Fit Music to the Mood and Action of Dramatic Shows

What's Wrong With Our Concert Halls?

Does Music …

Volume 63, Number 08 (August 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Good is Art?

Here Comes the Band

Have You Met Her?

Art of Duo Singing (interview the Victoria Anderson and Viola Morris)

Beethoven's Martinet Teacher

Let's Clarify Music Teaching! (interview with Leo Reisman)

Mr. Piano Writes His Autobiography

Building an Orchestra (interview with Karl Krueger)

Place of Music in Military Hospitals: With Particular Reference to Its Use During Convalescence and Reconditioning of Men with Wartime Injuries

Things Some Teachers Ought to Know

Adult Beginners Want to Learn

Music in New China

Volume 63, Number 04 (April 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Oceans of Tunes

Prescription for a Music Supervisor

Developing the Orchestra (interview with Artur Rodzinski)

Quality Pays

New Keys to Practice

Choose the Right Music

Rhythm, Music, and the Theater (interview with Rouben Mamoulian)

Annual Auditions for American Piano Pupils

What is Expected of an Accompanist?

Fading Fires: Why Does Musical Genius Expire in Some Cases and Continue in Others?

FDR's Favorite Song

Octogenarians, Take Notice

Elusive Pedaling

Applying Principles of Painting to Music

Independence at the Keyboard

Volume 63, Number 02 (February 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and a Loftier Race

New Keys to Practice

Music America Wants: The Amazing Story of How Two Banjos, a Drum, and a Piano Developed into a Vast Musical Enterprise (interview with Fred Waring)

Warming-Up Exercises Make Better Public Performances

There's No Substitute for Knowledge!: How Motion Picture Music is Written (interview with Victor Young)

Victor Young and Victor Young

Our Future Musical Theater (interview with Richard Rodgers)

Music Student Awards Make Better Pupils: War Stamps Make Splendid Prizes

Making Bach Interesting (interview with Alexander Borovsky)

Use of the Palato-Pharyngeal Muscles in Singing

Letter from London: Music, During Britain's Darkest …

Volume 63, Number 01 (January 1945), 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 62, Number 09 (September 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dependable Technic

Basic Beethoven: Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Remarkable Biography Still the Most Consulted Book In Its Class

Philosophy of Musicianship (interview with Fritz Kreisler)

Music in War Torn Normandy

Selecting Music to Fit the Hall: Should Music Designed for a Small Room Be Played in a Great Auditorium?

Aloha Oe and Its Famous Composer: How Hawaii's Queen Wrote One of the Most Popular of All Songs

Musician's Bible: Bach's Well-tempered Clavichord and What It Has Meant to Musical Art

How Can I Raise My Income: A Nation-Wide Symposium with Contributions from Practical American Teachers

It Came in a Dream: Great …

Volume 62, Number 04 (April 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

De Gustibus non est Disputandum

Great Mr. Handel Enters the Films

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

Piano Practice Game That Is Fun

Great Pipe Organs in American Mansions (interview with Archer Gibson)

Great Mr. Handel Now in the Films: Scenes from the English Technicolor Success, Courtesy of Midfilm, Inc.

Building Musicianship (interview with David and Clara Damrosch Mannes)

Rolling Her Way to Triumph: How a Girl with a Gift Arrived by the Wheel-Chair Route (interview with Ethelwynne Kingsbury)

Reaching Fame the Hard Way (interview with Jan Peerce)

Music Should be Fun for Children: How Music Parties Made Practicing a Joy

So …

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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, …

Volume 61, Number 09 (September 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Walt Whitman was a Music Critic

How to Become a Better Pianist (interview with Jan Smeterlin)

Opera for the Millions: An Analysis of the Popularity of Opera (interview with Milton J. Cross)

Use the Mirror in Voice Study

Claude Debussy, French Patriot

Musicians in Khaki: A Vision of Victory in Music Thrills Britain's Armies: The Amazing Story of Symphony Orchestras Made Up of Officers and Men

Among the Composers

Fundamentals of Good Breathing

Natural Power in Piano Playing

Roses and Thorns in the Path of Private Teaching

Grieg—Nationalist and Cosmopolitan: Personal Recollections of Edvard Grieg, Part 4

Three T's: …

Volume 61, Number 07 (July 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Words and Music

Etude Music Lover's Bookshelf

Grieg—Nationalist and Cosmopolitan: Personal Recollections of Edvard Grieg, Part 2

Music Gave Me a Career (interview with Deanna Durbin)

New Era for American Composers (interview with Deems Taylor)

Artistic Possibilities of Good Jazz (interview with Raymond Scott)

Key Lines for Hand Position

Importance of Good Keyboard Action

Scale Contest That Worked

Left-Handed Musicians

How I Worked It Out

Why Not Better Violinists?

Those Puzzling Fifths

Problems in Choral Singing (interview with Albert Stoessel)

Shostakovich Talks on War and Music

Arousing Interest Through Color

Americans All!

Recital Preparation

Our Songs Embody Our National Morale …

Volume 61, Number 06 (June 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Just for the Thrill of It

Wartime Piano Conservation: How to Take Care of Your Instrument for the Duration (interview with Theodore E. Steinway)

What Music Means to Mrs. Miniver (interview with Jan Struther)

Steps to a Vocal Technic

Concert Pianist on the Production Line: From Baby Grands to Bombers

America Made Me a Success (interview with Emanuel List)

Roads to Effective Piano Playing

March to The Stars and Stripes Forever: A Successful Uncle Sam Drill for Boys and Girls

Grieg—Nationalist and Cosmopolitan: Personal Recollections of Edvard Grieg

Technic of the Month—When Spring Climbs the Mountains, Op. 42, No. 6, …

Volume 61, Number 05 (May 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Passing of a Giant

Place of the Little Symphony

Music and the Municipality (interview with Fiorello H. La Guardia)

Have Fun with Music! (interview with Kent Cooper)

Three Main Touches

Hymn That Was Found in a Bottle

Freedom in Singing (interview with Lily Djanel)

Among the Composers

What the Nazi Vandals Did to Tscdhaikowsky's Home

Tension Relieving Music at the Front

Memorizing Is Easy: That is, If You Know How

Beethoven as a Deaf Musician Sees Him

How to Develop an Arpeggio Technic

Music Studio Goes Patriotic

Technic of the Month—Techhistories for Boys and Girls

Important Elements in the Foundation …

Volume 61, Number 04 (April 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

At the Rising of the Sun

Musical Community Plan Which Works

Portal of Musical Dreams: A Message to All Teachers and Pupils from One of the World's Greatest Masters of the Piano

Holding the interest of Pupils

Died in Action: Requiescat in Pace Saxophone

Backstage with the Orchestrator (interview with Russell Bennett)

Class Piano Instruction in 1943: How Subtle Management and Informal Encouragement Produce Results

Problem of the Young Singer in Opera (interview with Fritz Busch)

O Canada, Glorious and Free! Canada's Most Loved Patriotic Songs

Handling the Meddlesome Mother

Important Elements in the Foundation of Touch: Tone Color Controlled …

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Volume 61, Number 02 (February 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hail to the Viola!

Who Should Have a Singing Career? (Interview with Nelson Eddy)

Private Teacher and Public School Team Work

How Vitamins Can Help Musicians

Do You Want to Conduct? (Interview with Alfred Wallenstein)

How A-440 Became the Standard Pitch

Switzerland’s Musical Position in the World War: The Important Mission Assumed by That Country under the Present Circumstances in Europe

Foundation Exercises for Scale Playing: Essential Drill for Rapid Musical Progress

Mexican Musical Folklore, Part 2

Uncle Sam Wants Singing Centers Everywhere

Organ Music Nobody Knows

Karl Merz Music Hall: A Notable Tribute to a Great Musician

Importance of …

Volume 61, Number 01 (January 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music, The Humanizer

Coming to the Front

Make Haste Slowly (interview with Helen Traubel)

Interesting Parents in Piano Recitals

Key Markers

New Opportunities for Ambitious Music Students (interview with Thurlow Lieurance)

How Vitamins Can Help Musicians

Foundation of a Modern Piano Technic: A Discussion of Grading, Touch, and Tone

Amusing Musical Episode

Whistling As an Art

New Approach to the Cross-Rhythm Problem

Let's Have More Music on All Fronts

You Must Go to Work (interview with James Melton)

Mexican Musical Folklore

How Public School Music Helps the Private Teacher

How to Increase Your Practice Endurance One Hundred Percent

Topsy-Turvey Test: …

Volume 60, Number 09 (September 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Selling Your Musical Ability

Our Young Musical Army

President John Quincy Adams' Picturesque Musical Impressions: A Quaint and Highly Pituresque Outlook of the Sixth President of the United States Upon Music in the Early Years of the Past Century

How Chopin Really Looked: Only Photograph Come to Light

Successful Singing (interview with Vivian della Chiesa)

Woods Used in Musical Instruments

Music in Switzerland

Profitable Musical Calling of Women: A Condition Which Should Open a Large, Well-Paid Field for Trained Musical Workers

Oldest Music Store in America

Rapid Sight Playing: A Practical Method to Produce Quick Results

Disney's New Musical Picture …

Volume 60, Number 08 (August 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Right Kind of Relaxation

Climbing to Musical Success

Music, Morale, and Elsa Maxwell

Amazing Garcias, Part 2

Creative Technic for the Pianist (interview with Claudio Arrau)

Forgotten Swiss Opera is Revived

Forward March with Music

Black Key Rote Playing Prior to Sight Reading: A New Teaching Device Found Fascinating to Little Ones

Why and When Do Teachers Really Fail?

Rhythm of the Malaguena

Music for Defense

Paganini, Champion of Restlessness

Maladjusted Child in Music Instruction: Can the Abnormal Child Be Brought Back to Normalcy Through Music?

Strauss Waltzes Give a Ball for the Instruments of the Orchestra

Enlisting Music for …

Volume 60, Number 07 (July 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music—A Prime Wartime Necessity!

When Opportunity Knocks

Music for the Fun of It (interview with Elizabeth Mitchell)

William M. Felton, Obituary

Antidote for Worry

Human Metronome

Sixty Years Among the Masters (interview with Alexander Gretchaninoff)

Allez-Oop! Circus Music Goes Classical, Including Interviews with Merle Evans, Circus Super-Bandmaster, and the Well Known American Operatic Baritone, Robert Ringling, Mus. Doc.

Magic Metal: Romantic Traditions of the Bells

Simplified Clef Reading

Sidelights on the Scale: The Modern Scale Fingering

How to Facilitate the Acquisition of Technic

Music Unites the Americas: A Review of a Memorable Musical Educational Congress

Don’t's in Stage Comportment

War …

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Volume 59, Number 12 (December 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Metropolitan Star

World Hope, Poem

Music Should Speak from the Heart (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

How Music Has Helped in My Life (interview with Lionel Barrymore)

Yes, We Have Music in Hawaii

Historic Musical Friendship: Haydn and Mozart in Their Personal Relations

Defense Worker's Magnificent Musical Opportunity: An Editorial

Preparedness Leads to Success (interview with Frederick Jagel)

Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 4

Christmas Music Through the Ages

Facing Your Audience

Substitute for the Missed Lesson

Memorizing Plan That Works

Unifying Piano Study (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)

Technic of the Month—Legato Chords (Czerny, Opus 335, No. 28)