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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 …

Campus Lights 1943, Murray State College

Campus Lights

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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 …

Campus Lights 1942, Murray State College

Campus Lights

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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)

Volume 59, Number 06 (June 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Economics of Piano Study

Music As a Social Force

Problems of the Advanced Piano Student (interview with Artur Rubinstein)

Teaching the Teens

Musical Development in the Philippines

How Fast Shall I Play It? The Rhythms and Speeed of the Classics

What theLittle Mother Did: In Which the Great American Baritone Tells Why Students of Singing Should Study the Piano

You Can’t Get Away from It!

Making Practice Profitable (interview with Mischa Elman)

Morning Music and What It Meant: Some Ineresting Known Facts About Ancient Concerts and Their Givers

Four Strong Foundations: The Importance of Proper Hand, Wrist, Arm and Forearm …

Volume 59, Number 05 (May 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Money Cannot Buy It

Men, Women and Song

Approaching an Operatic Role (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Our Friends, the Music Critics (interview with Alberto Jonás)

Making Sure of Your Song

Creators of a Famous Song

Let's Make it a 'Tiptoe' Study

Help for the Poor Sight Reader

Rather, Frances Taylor

Silent Practice: An Aid to the Soft Accompaniment Touch

Sidney Lanier: Poet, Man and Musician

Why Was Leschetizky Great? The Gist of the Methods of the Famous Viennese Pedagog Who Brought More Eminent Pupils than any Other Teacher Since Liszt

How to Get Children to Practice

Music to the Front …

Volume 59, Number 04 (April 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Finnish Fighter

Blow! Joshua! Blow!

Economizing Energy at the Keyboard (interview with Ruth Slenczynski)

Music in Peru, the Land of the Incas

Learning How to Compose

I Saw Musical Vienna Fall (interview with Robert Stolz)

What Really Is Modern Music?

Musical Films

Schubert Again Enters the Films

Go Back to the Piano! A Lively Article from a Sensible Mother Who Found Her Own Way Back

Acquiring a Light Thumb

Outer and the Inner Ear

Queer One Tone Music of the Lapps

Piano Practice as a Game

Learning How to Act in Opera (interview with Leopold Sachse)

Music in War-Torn Greece …

Campus Lights 1941, Murray State College

Campus Lights

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Volume 59, Number 02 (February 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Star Enters Her 'Teens

Morning at Valley Forge

Lord Byron in Romantic Music

Reaching Your Goal at the Keyboard (interview with Percy Grainger)

Earlier God Bless America

Singing Success without Money or Manager

Brahms' Prickly Pet

Language of the Composer (interview with Béla Bartók)

Musical Ear

Lure for the Musical Child

Origin of The Star-Spangled Banner

Practical Hints for Training the Conductor (interview with Nicholai Malko)

Pirating Parnassus: Tune Borrowing in Tin Pan Alley

Technic of the Month—More Invaluable Czerny Studies

Campus Lights 1940, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 58, Number 01 (January 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Have You Youth Concerts in Your Community?

Music and the Dawn of a New Day

Making of a Name (interview with Arthur Judson)

Wartime Musical London, Paris and Brussels

Begin the Year with Music

Creating a Character in Opera (interview with Friedrich Schorr)

Dreams of Old Musical Vienna: How Musical History Was Made Over Cups of Coffee

Musical Triumphs in Motion Pictures: A History of the Art, from Jazz Singer to Today1

Current Films with Worth While Music

Making Five Finger Piano Technic Vital: A Highly Instructive Article for Younger Teachers

Training the Hands for Definite Goals

Why Not a …

Campus Lights 1939, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

The Place Of Music-Drama In The Curriculum Of The American Colleges And Universities, Erwin Ruff

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

If America wishes to see the day when good music drama shall become her best and at the same time her most popular form of entertainment she must investigate the condition of music-drama as it is at present and then decide upon a future method of action to improve that condition.

In a small way, that may be blazing the trail, I have set about to follow the above suggestions. l have made an investigation of music-drama in America, with particular emphasis on music-drama in the colleges and the universities and, as a result, have a definite suggestion to make …

Volume 55, Number 02 (February 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Enesco Talks on Menuhin

How the Piano is Coming Back

How to Become a Better Pianist (interview with Isidor Philipp)

Advantages of a Poor Piano

Role of Music in Prisons

Tour of Early Keyboard Instruments in the Nation's Capital

Cure for Musicians' Cramp

Catering to America's Musical Tastes (interview with David Rubinoff)

Graceful Gavotte: A Dance to Which Several Influences Have Contributed

Pupil's Right

Benjamin Franklin's Interest in Music

Teaching Interpretation Through Thought Force

Old Music Arrives; Order Sent in '87 Is Filled by Firm

Czerny's Many-Sided Etude, Number Sixty-Five

Measure for Measure

Aids in Overcoming Finger Stiffness

Relating Music …

Volume 54, Number 08 (August 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Makes a Good Violinist (interview with Jascha Heifetz)

Story and History of Gounod's Faust, The

Musical Repartee

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Music in Public Schools

Neglected Phases of Piano Practice and Playing

Ringing Doorbells to Get Pupils

Music of Hindustan

Hand Building Exercises

Memory Pictures of Famous Musicians

Art of Counting

Sostenuto Pedal

Romance of Felix Mendelssohn

Curing Stiff Wrists and Fingers

Quick Way to Memorize

Combining Different Rhythms

Making Old Etudes Work

Volume 54, Number 02 (February 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting Joy Out of Music (interview with Hendrik Willem van Loon)

What Grade?

Poland's Leading Composer Since Chopin

Eniment Recognition

Saint-Saëns as a Prima Donna

Mozart for Little Folk

Tone Quality and Tone Color in Piano Playing

She Made Curl Papers of His Sonatas

Liszt and Wagner

What Radio Offers the Young Composer: From an Address to the Schoolmen's Convention at Philadelphia

Modulation is Not Difficult: A Simple Technical Discussion of a Fascinating Theoretical Problem

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Be Kind to the Tuner

Music They Understand

Mexico’s Significance in Present Day Music

On Wings of …

Volume 53, Number 08 (August 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Forty Years in Showdom

And the Twain Shall Meet (interview with Armand Tokatyan)

Parent's Musical Opportunity

On Hearing the Lesson: Miss Kammerer's Lucid and Practical Expositions of Her Highly Successful Pedagogical Ideas Are Widely Welcomed by Teachers

Etude Day in the Public School

Program for Our Mothers

Couppey Suggestion

How Scotland Sings Her Story

Know Your Piano: Your Piano Has Over Six Thousand Parts; It Pays to Know Something About Them

Making My Family Musical: What It Has Meant to Their Lives and Mine

Romances of Great Musicians: Romance in the Life of Schumann

Why Every Child Should Have a …

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 …

Ua37/20 Scrapbook, Margie Helm

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Scrapbook dated 1889 to 1932 created by Margie Helm. Includes programs from a variety of events held at WKU for the period. Some items digitized and posted separately.

Volume 48, Number 11 (November 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, Season 1930-31

Critical Digest of Music and Masters

To Count or Not to Count

How to Organize and Start a Piano Class

Fascinating Musical Dances I Have Seen East of Suez

Mother's Hand Leads the Way: Changing the Practice Hour from Drudgery to Delight

Christmas Party

Teresa Carreño as Teacher: Memories of a Remarkable Woman and Musician

Are You Able to Play Trills?

Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today

Beauty of Bach

Ivory and Ebony Gymnasium

How to Place the Piano

That Concert Cough

Snapshot Sight Reading

Teacher-Parent Coöperation

Tales from the …

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

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 …

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