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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 …

Volume 40, Number 01 (January 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Would I Take Up Music Again? Symposium

Best Hand Position

Don't Threaten your Child

Should Grade Teachers Specialize in Music?

What Makes Piano Playing Interesting

Rehearse Phrases, Not Fragments

Teaching Rhythm in Class Lessons

Scale Solitaire

New Paths and Visions in Musical Progress (interview with Richard Strauss)

Chicago or Bayreuth

Robert Huntington Terry (photograph)

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

What the Piano Student Could Learn from the Violin Teacher

Humor and Music Teaching

Story of the Turn: Practical Advice Upon How to Play Such Embellishments

Most Helpful Piano Lesson …

Volume 39, Number 12 (December 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hour of Triumph

200 or 200,000

Tchaikowsky on Brahms

Value of Written Work

Music an Ideal Christmas Present (interview with John Philip Sousa)

Keep Your Methods Fresh

Teachers' Round Table

How the Masters Practiced

Seven Rules for Position at the Keyboard

Camille Saint-Saëns, To-Day and Yesterday

Will Piano Exercises Overcome Deformities of the Hand?

Liszt's Business

Save Your Breath?

Heart Music and Art Music

Advance with Every Lesson

Get the Musical Idea

Comparative Musical History Dates

Here and There in the Field of Music: An Intimate Page of Facts, Humor and Comment with the Great Music Makers of To-day and …

Volume 39, Number 10 (October 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Glimpses of Genius (interview with Percy Grainger)

Mother and the Musical Boy

Telling is Not Teaching

Verdi's Thoughts on Art

My Star Soloist

From a Master's Workshop: Little Lessons in Musicianship

Lesson in Chopin Interpretation

Five-Year Old Pupil

Teachers' Fees Should Not be Lowered

Ten Musical Failures and Why They Failed

Ambidexterity in Piano Playing

Too Much Self Help

Mastering Mistakes: Common Errors and Shortcomings of Piano Students and How to Overcome Them

Ten Thoughts for Music Students

Five Wasted Years

Eliminating Stiffness in Piano Playing: Knocking Down the Blank Wall in the Way of Progress in Grade Three

Individual …

Volume 39, Number 09 (September 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Develop Staccato Touch

Twenty Don'ts for Piano Teachers

Motives and Measure Bars

Square Deal for Teachers: Let Us Have a Better Financial Status for the Professional Musician

No Missed Lessons

Wrong Thing

Teaching Table Exercises to Beginners

Practical Ideas on Artistic Pedaling

Counting for a Star

Wise Selection of Piano Teaching Materials

Thumb on the Black Keys

Music and the Student's Health

One Minute with Haydn

Piano Teacher and His Success

Starting the Fire

Essense of Musical Memorizing

Parting Word

Getting Real Happiness from Your Music: Psychology and the Young Musician

Holding Young Child's Interest

Why Some Organists …

Volume 39, Number 06 (June 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Aspects of the Art of Singing in America (interview with Reinald Werrenrat)

Fingering of Major Scales

Teaching Music Through Feeling

Studio Thoughts

Fingering Facts for Self-Help Pupils

Saving Energy in Practice

Von Bülow's Concert Hat

Success Steps in Piano Teaching

Sight Reading and Musicianship

What Method Shall I Study? What Method Shall I Teach?

How the Piano Sings

Fair Price for Lessons

Fingering Scales in Flats

Magic of the Keyboard: Virtuoso Tricks in Piano Playing

Playing Teacher

Do You Lose Your Music?

Liszt's Playing

Shall the Classics be First or Last?

Very Little Ones

Where Long Finger Nails Fall …

Volume 39, Number 04 (April 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eminent Educational Experts Endorse the Golden Hour

Golden Hour: America's Most Serious Problem—A Possible Solution in Which You May Have a Vital Part

Modern Roads to Vocal Success (interview with Julia Claussen)

Sharps, Flats, Naturals

Helpful Criticism

Accent on the Third Beat

Cast Iron Methods

Lingering Lovingly on Details

Experience Plus Enthusiasm

Practical Phases of Pianoforte Technic (interview with Josef Lhevinne)

Taste

Inspiration in Piano Playing

Patience in the Study of Music

Studios, Yesterday and To-day

Psychology of Dress in Public Appearance

Alla Breve

What Was Liszt's Technic Life?

Interest Power in Music

Dialogue on the Pedals

Four Daily Practice …

Volume 38, Number 09 (September 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Hold Your Audience

Injured Right Hand a Blessing

Playing in the Right Octave

How to Make Your Practice Time Less Tedious

Music Composition as a Field for Women (interview with Carrie Jacobs-Bond)

Why Underpay the Music Teacher?

Early Fall Recital

Does Your Pupil Know What Music to Bring to the First Fall Lesson?

Painless Musical Bookkeeping

Opening Gun of the Teaching Season: What a Teacher Must Do to Insure a Prompt Start and a Full Class

Gradual Hand Stretching Exercise

All About Variations

Some Hints on Modern Fingering

Ultra-Modern Music Explained: Unusual Futurist Harmony and Form Discussed

Remembering …

Volume 38, Number 08 (August 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Three Touches Employed in Melody Playing

How to Create New Teaching Business

Direct Method in Music Study

Basis of Success in Music Reading

Fighting Fate to Triumph

Never Too Late

To Parents—Don't Give Up Your Music

To the Pupil Without a Teacher

School and Studio: Studies in the Cirriculum of the Public School Which Compare with Musical Studies

Practical Aspects of Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with M. Alfred Cortot)

Accenting Compound Measures

By-Product of Counting Aloud

Passing Notes

How Much Do You Practice?

More Advanced Technical Exercises and the Relation of Technical Exercises to Studies

Starting Them In

First Steps …

Volume 37, Number 11 (November 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Echoes of Musical Czecho-Slovakia (interview with Josef Stransky)

Real Tendencies of Czecho-Slovak Music

If at First You Don't Succeed

Playing Without Looking at the Keys

Birth of the Czecho-Slavék Republic through Song

Invitation to Song: A Literal Translation of a Poem by Tablonsky

How the Name Bohemian Came Into False Repute

Bedrich Smetana, Founder of Modern Czecho-Slovak Music

Thumbnail Biography of Antonin Dvorék

Dvorák as I Knew Him

Great Masters as Music Teachers

Do Your Fingers Follow Your Eye?

Marks of Expression

Why Music is the Soul of Czechoslovakia

Neckache

Working Through Opposites

Czecho-Slovak Popular Music

How to Make a …

Volume 37, Number 06 (June 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Professional Accompanist

Ten Golden Rules for Piano Study

Pianist and Time Values

Imperfection of the Musical Scale

Silent Rhythm

How to Study the Two-Voiced Inventions of Bach

Rock Bottom of Pianistic Progress

Talking and Doing

Muscular Action in Piano Playing

Make Technic Your Servant—Not Your Master

Practical and Helpful Ideas from the National Convention of the Music Teachers' National Association: What Active Teachers are Thinking and Saying

When Nero was Studying Singing

Out—Back at 2.30

Bible Operas

Cultivating Confidence in the Child

Famous Salon Compositions and Their Composers: Pieces Everybody Knows and the Musicians Who Wrote Them

Making the Summer …

Volume 37, Number 04 (April 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Characteristic Mistakes of Young Piano Pupils

Teaching Children to Play

Inspiration of Ensemble Playing

Where Music Comes From

I Don't Like This Piece

Correct Position at the Key Board

More About Raising the Teacher's Income: Why the Music Teacher is Entitled to Larger Fees for Services

Awakening the Disinterested Pupil

What's in a Bell

True Reward of Good Work

Secrets of Success of Great Musicians

Proper Understanding of the Style of Several Master Composers

How to Practice Broken Chords: Modern Ideas Upon the Principle of the Minimum of Muscular Contraction and the Maximum of Controlled Weight Applied to an Everyday …

Volume 36, Number 09 (September 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Industry

Music, Just for the Fun of It

Musical Contagion

Greatest Musical Asset

Development of Rhythmic Sense in the Music Student

Circumstance and the Artist

Keyboard Maxims of Master Pianists of Today and Yesterday

Why and How to Read at Sight

Two Lessons a Week Versus One

When the Professor Got Back from His Vacation

Thoroughness in Little Things

Some Practical Psychology for Piano Teachers

Scale Honor Roll

Is the Sonata Form Exhausted?

Ties and No Ties

Pupils Whose Parents are Interested

Knack in Securing Agility and Velocity

Don't Neglect the Short Piece

Music's Debt to Gifted Amateurs …

Volume 36, Number 06 (June 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Schumann and Liszt

Absolute Time: A Study of the Heart Beat in Relation to Rhythm

How Fast and How Slow

Make Your Summer Count

Art of Simplifying

How to Become a Good Teacher

Why Bach?

Coining New Words

Let's Have More Music Than Ever: The United States Government Recognizes a Great Need

Music as a War Need

Toy Drum and a Tin Whistle

Music in Wartime

Ragging Good Music

That Weak Measure

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Russian Composers

Artistic and Educational Importance of the Polyphonic Music of Bach …

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 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 …

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 34, Number 11 (November 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the American Girl Should Know About an Operatic Career

Last Days of Stephen Foster

Half Hour of Daily Technic

Useful Addition to the Gallery Collecton

Superlative Importance of Tempo

Some Interesting Musical Historical Facts

Hundred-Dollar Lesson

Difficult Pronunciations

Scale Wheel

Composer: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Great Composers and the Harp

Study with Beads

Studio Visiting Days

Beethoven and the Blind Girl

Learning a Piece by Forgetting It

Musician's Worry Habit

Master Lesson for Earnest Students on Mendelssohn's Charming Spinning Song

What Kind of Music is Best?

How Verdi Sought to Avoid Pomp Even in …

Volume 33, Number 10 (October 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Student Days with Edvard Grieg

Modern University-Trained Composer

Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Prose Reading Arranged from the Famous Drama by Henrik Ibsen, with Musical Accompaniment by Edvard Grieg

Development of the Romantic Folk-Songs of Scandinavia

Full Hour Lesson

Concise Biographical Dictionary of Scandinavian Musicians

Use of Finger Exercises in the Early Grades

Foundations in Touch for the Beginner

Ferdinand Hiller's Tribute to Robert Schumann

Blossom Time in Pianoforte Literature (interview with Percy Grainger)

Selecting the Pupil's Music

Some Occult Aspects of Music

How Liszt Encouraged Saint-Saëns

Scandinavian Musical Activities in the United States

Getting the Right Kind of a Start …

Volume 33, Number 06 (June 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hand Cramp and How It May Be Remedied

Real Vacation for the Music Worker

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life (symposium)

Why the Musician Should Develop the Gift of Making Friends

Special Practice in Staccato

American Pageant

What the Composers Are Doing

Profitable Practice versus Wasted Practice (interview with Alexander Lambuert)

Benefits of Ensemble Playing

Dramatic Scenes from the Operas

Function of Piano Studies

Emotional and Picturesque in Music

May Drumming Be of Some Value?

Principles for Fingering the Major and Minor Scales

Etude Master Study Page—Richard Strauss

Well Known Composers of To-day—Elmer S. Hosmer

C Sharp Minor Waltz …

Volume 31, Number 07 (July 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Emperor's Operatic Rules

Getting a Start in Europe as a Virtuoso

Teaching Too Many Pupils

Story of the Orchestral Instruments Told for the General Music Love: The Woodwind Section

Wisdom of Felix Mendelssohn

Pen Picture of Brahms

How to Become a Sure-Fingered Pianist

How to Make Summers Musically Profitable

Commonsense Helps in Teaching Little Folks

Despondent Versus the Over-Sanguine Pupil

Compelling Independent Finger Action

Teaching Children to Use the Pedals

Legato and Staccato Playing

Liszt as a Russian Master Saw Him

Some Old Musical Legends

Playing for Our Friends

Combating the Missed-Lesson Evil (symposium)

Neglected Staccato

Metronome and Its Uses …