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Ua1b1 8th All Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University

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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 …

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 …

Volume 43, Number 03 (March 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making of a Virtuoso Violinist (interview with Leopold Auer)

How Haydn Got His Job

How Von Weber Looked

Keep Your Piano in Tune

Famous London Physician on the Healing Power of Music

Exaggeration

Curbing the Music Student's Mania for Speed

Musical Bed Rock

For Pupils Slow in Reading Notes

Scientific Hand and Finger Placement, and Other Essentials to Artistic Success

Learning the Staff

What Practice Really Is

Analysis Without Harmony

Teaching the Scale to a New Pupil

What It Means to Put Over a Popular Song

Golden Slowness

Pedal Pointers

Deportment at the Piano

Set Your Mark High

Pirates on …

Volume 43, Number 01 (January 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Errors that Young People Make

Limbering Up Exercise

Repose in Teaching

Just Wondering

Playing Class

Touch and Hearing

Finger Elastic Touch

Scale Practice

So-Called Soft Pedal

Keeping Your Teaching Alive by Constant Study

Taking Stock of Ourselves

Be an Optimistic Teacher

Why Make Music Hideous? Down with the Uglifyers of Music

When is a Melody?

About the Trill

Accent—The Life Pulse in Music

How Mozart Composed

Giving a Musicale

Strengthening the Fingers

What Radio Means to the Music Student

Pointers on Beginner's Practice

Fear of Black Notes

When Practice is Practice

Body Touch

Concerts in Africa

Why is There So …

Hms Pinafore Chorus Parts With French Lyrics, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan

Theatre Productions

Chorus parts from the score for HMS Pinafore. French lyrics have been pasted over the English ones. Created for a French production of the play.

Volume 42, Number 11 (November 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Why is So Much Piano Playing Dull and Uninteresting to Listen To?

Serious Danger to Some Young Students in Large Cities

Another Way with Arpeggios

What Chance Has the Adult Beginner in Music?

How Ought Bach to be Played?

Keyboard Motions that Insure Better Piano Playing

Infinite Pains and Genius

What Studies Shall I Use?

Virtuosity Discounted in England

Origin of Creole Rhythms

Two Against Three Exercise

Use the Dictionary

Is Bach Dull?

Bernhard Hamblen

How Famous Virtuosos Hypnotize Audiences

Useful Triad

To Acquire Speed with Accuracy and Without Hesitation

Improving Hand Stretch

Power of Music: What Great Minds Have …

Volume 42, Number 09 (September 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Schumann—The Master of Child Music: Why Schumann's Muisc Has Had Such a Great Influence on the Education of the Young

Small-Hands Pupil

Making Practice Pleasant

What Touch Shall I Use in Phrasing? A Much-Needed Discussion of an Everyday Musical Problem

Helpful Hints on Practicing

Velvet Tone

Runaway Warhorses

Turning Music Noiselessly

What Effect is Jazz Likely to Have Upon the Music of the Future? (interview with Percy Grainger)

Why Chopin Used a Metronome

Sharps and Flats for Little Ones

Sight-Reading Without a Teacher

Will You Pay the Price

Teach Coöperation by the Use of Two Pianos

Carrots for a Donkey …

Volume 42, Number 08 (August 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Where is Jazz Leading America: Opinions of Famous Men and Women In and Out of Music (Symposium)

Learning to Memorize: A Pianoforte Lesson

Story of the Trill, or Shake

Making Exercises Interesting

Legato—Plus Ears

Is the Triangle a Musical Instrument

What is Jazz Doing to American Music? (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Strike Once, Not Twice

Lincoln Sets Students an Example

Things to Teach My Pupils Every Day

Drill-Master or Music Teacher

Give Your Favorite Exercise a Rest

Musical Nation

Children as Imitators

American Dance Music is Not Jazz

What Gottschalk Said to Carreno

Stop, Look, Listen!

Jazz—Lowbrow and Highbrow

Hand-Made …

Volume 42, Number 07 (July 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Facts About Music and Shakespeare

How Schubert Found Inspiration From a Coffee Mill

How Queen Elizabeth Played the Virginal

Value of Two-Finger Exercises

Changes of Key

Unrest in Study

Self-Help, Eight Weeks' Intensive Summer Course in Pianoforte Study

Grand Piano Gives a Lesson

Don't Interrupt Pupils

Spring Day, a Pitch-Pipe and Some Ear-Training

How Little Italy Requires Its Funeral Marches

Pigeon-Toed Hands and Fingers with Arched Insteps

Musical Dialogue

Haydn's Gay Heart

Tchaikowski's Strange Marriage

Indecent Music

Moment's Notice Repertoire

How a Famous Engineer Studies a New Composition: A Practical Talk on Study Analysis

Listening to Learn from Master Pianists …

Volume 42, Number 06 (June 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fundamentals That Lead to Musicianly Pianoforte Playing

Misplaced Bars

Walking for Teachers and Students

Eisteddfod

Boston's Musical Past

How Much Do Appearances Count?

What the Great Masters of Music Have Done for Little Folks: Famous Sets of Pieces Which Children Should Have an Opportunity to Learn

Starvation Methods for Students

Counterfelts in Musical History

Easiest Way

Episodes in the Life of a Famous Conductor: Pen Pictures from the Autobiography of Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra

Tremolo

Prepare Your Lessons, Teachers!

Finger Stretching and Strenghtening Exercises

Pointers for the Beginning Teacher of Music

Away from the Half-Hour …

Volume 42, Number 03 (March 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

World Court of Eminent Musicians Discuss the Ten Great Masterpieces: Probably the Most Distinguished Group of Composers, Interpreters and Musical Authorities Ever Assembled in Such a Symposium

Beginner and the Pedal: Bringing Charm to the First Stages of Piano Playing

How to Observe the Signature Correctly

Violin Student's Fundamentals (interview with Otakar Sevcik)

Musical Telepathy

Fall-board Protector

Too Old for Music Study?

Interest! Initiative!

Test for the First Year Piano Student

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing

Left-Hand Faults

Student Helps

Curious Facts About the Names of Musical Instruments

Press Hard

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Double Cure

For the Teacher …

Volume 42, Number 02 (February 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music, Musicians and Music-Lovers: Some Notable Personalities as Seen by the Distinguished Modernist

Savez-Vous?

Think It Out Yourself

Composer of the Famous Fifth Nocturne

What Are My Earning Possibilities in Music?

Hints on Passing Musical Examinations

Using Our Best Gift

Scales Day by Day

After-School Pupil

Thresholds of Vocal Art, Part 2 (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)

Pointers on Chart Teaching?

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons, Practical Advice for the Young Teacher

Early Beginning in Theory

Boys' Recital

Basic Principles in Piano Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Stumbling Block in Reading

If Liszt Came Back Again?

Starting That …

Volume 42, Number 01 (January 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Inspirational Moments: Comments of Contemporary Music Lovers

Thresholds of Vocal Art (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)

Berlioz's Pot-Boiling Period

Meyerbeer's Industry

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Ancient Musical Faction

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons

Praise of a Poor Piano: A Paradox

Half-Hour a Day

What is the Signature?

Humor of Richard Wagner

Life Helps and Inspiration from Noted Contemporaries

Poor Beethoven!

Overture Hints

Personal Glimpses of the Masters

Necessary Points in Gaining Control: Many Little Points in Getting a Grasp Upon the Practical Phases of Pianoforte Playing, by Adopting Sensible Devices

Style

Helping Neglected Muscles

Community Teachers' Recital …

Volume 41, Number 12 (December 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Robert Schumann

Basic Principles of Piano Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Great Composers and Their Predominant Moods

How the Rural Music Teacher Can Stimulate Interest

What the Metropolitan Music Critic Looks for Most

Boney Structure of the Hand

Manna-Zucca (Biographical)

Echoes from the Work Shop

Legato Touch

Favorite Instruments of the Great Composers

Out of Tune—Out of Music

Should Piano Playing Undergo a Radical Reform? (interview with Vladimir de Pachmann)

Do It Again

How to Avoid Fumbling at the Keyboard

Beethoven's Novelties in Instrumentation

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Unheard Practice

Importance of Accompanying

Play as You Think—Think as You …

Volume 41, Number 09 (September 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Vital Point Piano Students Miss: Things that Young Pianists Forget (interview with Frederic Lamond)

Training Eyes and Ears

Taking Care of the Piano: Expert Advice by the National Association of Piano Tuners

Colorful Practice

Success and the Music Teacher's Health: What the Teacher Must Do to Keep Fit

Rubber Stamps that Help

Piano Playing Up to Date

Musical History Intelligence Test: Question on the Lives of the Great Composers

Is This the Golden Age of Voice? (interview with Madame Lucrezia Bori)

Master Singers on Tone Production—Symposium

Serious Piano Student's Ultimate Goal

Look at Your Music Shelf

Simplified Reading for …

Volume 41, Number 08 (August 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Leaves from a Virtuoso's Note Book: Practical Study Ideas form Personal Contact with Liszt and Rubinstein (interview with Alexander Siloti)

First Use of the Damper

Tell How Teacher

Making Programs Atrractive

Secret of Caruso's Glorious Voice: What Made the Voice of the Greatest of Tenors so Wonderful and Powerful

Really Use Your Magazines

Need of Muscular Freedom

Carnivals in Music

Transposing Exercises to Build Technic

Demolishing Criticism

Musical Vistas: Sketches from a Busy Musical Life

Swimming to Music

Those Pictured Walls

Ten Be's that Do Not Sting

True of False! Which? Musical Screws to Adjust

Musical Debt ot Aristocracy

Join …

Volume 41, Number 03 (March 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chances of the American Girl in Grand Opera (interview with Giulio Gati-Casazza)

Musical Scrap Book

How to Conduct a Music Memory Contest

Look Out for the Runner-up

Making Cans Out of Can'ts

Six Cardinal Points in Trill Playing

Training In

Practical Means for Developing Better Violin Playing (interview with Albert Spalding)

No Duke Need Apply

Home of Yankee Doodle

Make the Minutes Count

Young Musician and a College Position

Singing Your Piano Pieces

When Octaves Leap-Frog

Finding Fun in Teaching

Producing the Staccao and Legato

Lure of Mozart

Highest Pleasure in Music

Poetic and Melodic Gifts of the Negro

Examples …

Volume 41, Number 01 (January 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of Keeping the Voice (interview with Giuseppe de Luca)

Simple Facts in Developing a Musical Memory

Ear Training for Beginners

Teaching a Five-Year-Old

Knowing the Scales

How I Earned My Musical Education: A Series of Personal Experiences from Real Music Workers

Memorizing Our Moods

Sight Reading

That Heavy Thumb

When the Contralto Was a Curiosity

Every-Day Pianistic Blunders and How to Cure Them

Eyes and No Eyes

Positive Results form Positive Routine

Secret of Staccato

Historic Musical Memories: How Famous Musicians Have Kept Immense Numbers of Musical Compositions in Their Minds for Long Periods of Time

How to Laugh …

Volume 40, Number 10 (October 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Funniest Experience I Ever Had in Opera: A Symposium in Which Many Operatic Celebrities Have Taken Part

Wagner in Parisian Days: Striking Pen Portraits of the Great Masters as Seen by a Brilliant Contemporary

American Music and Composers

Thanksgiving Hymn from Japan

Hand, Tone, Technic

Human Element in Fine Piano Playing (interview with Ernest Schelling)

What Have I a Right to Expect From My Teacher?

Are American Artists Being Denied a Square Deal in Their Own Country

How I Acquired a Relaxed Trill

Measuring Progress

Spread Chords

Names of Scale Degrees and Their Meaning

Some Impressions of the Music of …

Volume 40, Number 09 (September 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music—The Joy and Need of Every Man (interview with Frank Crane)

Getting There Without a Teacher

Don't Stuff the Pupil

Staccato Marks, Touches and Tones

Undisturbed Practice

Basis of Musical Imagination

Marche aux Flambeaux

How to Get a Start in Chautauqua

Abuses the Teacher Should Not Tolerate

Encourage Melody Writing

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Bring Out the Main Thought in Piano Playing: How the Suppression of the Superfluous Helps

How to Develop Legato Wthout Using the Pedal: A Real Test of Your Ability at the Keyboard

Value of Chords for Beginners

Planning a Recital

Making …

Volume 40, Number 08 (August 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the Modern Chautauqua is Doing for Music of All Kinds Everywhere in Our Country

Behind the Scenes with Artists, Part 2: Do Artists Practice Pure Technic?

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

When Mendelssohn Became a Journeyman

Paderewski and the Paper-Hangers

How to Get the Greatest Results form Practice

Italian Musical Terms

Meaning of Sub-Mediant

Some Personal Recollections of Hans Guido Von Bulow: Master in Black and White

Are You a Musical Nurse to Your Child?

Sound Reproducing Machine Records and the Private Teacher: An Intensive Study in Interpretation

Building Up a Class in a …

Volume 40, Number 07 (July 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Plow-Boy to Parsifal: The Remarkable Career of an Indiana Farmer's Boy Who Never Heard a Grand Opera Until Two Years After He was Married (interview with Orville Harrold)

Mixing Music with Brains: The Only Road to Success Hereafter

Making Habits That Help

Learning Bass Notes Simplified

How to Be Happy Though Practicing

Keeping Ahead of You Fingers

Dialogue on Scales

Ouija Board and Piano Practice

Verdi's Thoughts on Art

Some Secrets of Readng at Sight

Four Hand Playing

How Le Couppey Taught

Important Point in Phrasing

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop, Part 9

Full-Measure Rest

How They Put …

Volume 40, Number 05 (May 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Many Roads to Artistic Playing (interview with Alexander Siloti)

Realizing Your Musical Ideals

Recorder: Intimate Glimpses of Famous Contemporaries

Music Facts from Plutarch's Lives

Mañana

Practical Technic for the Beginner

How Long is a Note

Cover to Protect Sheet Music

Hymn Values

Music in the Age of Seneca

Promoting Keyboard Accuracy

Taking Advantage

Rubinstein's Hungry Years

When Simplifying Why Not Simplify?

Pupils Who Discontinue

Time Saving Ideas in Pianoforte Practice

All About the Waltz

Music and Money

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

Remedies for Nervousness in Public Performances

Choking the Muse

Common Musical Matters in a New Guise

Maelzel …

Volume 40, Number 03 (March 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is the Most Important Work to Which the Music Clubs of America May Devote Their Efforts? A Nation-Wide Symposium

Beginnings of American Music: A Sketch of Our Musical Endeavor Up to the Early Years of the Last Century

What Our Music Clubs Need Most

Ingrowing Musical Clubs

Music Students in Small Towns

Getting More Pupils

Slow Practice with Exaggerated Accents

Opera a Year

What the National Federation of Musical Clubs is Doing to Help in Making America a Musical Nation

Heredity and Music

Club: A Municipal Personality

Beacon Lights of Opera, To-Day and Yesterday: Graphic Sketches of the Masters …