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Volume 57, Number 05 (May 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Quest for Ideals

New York World's Fair Music Festival

Staccato Star

Building and Use of a Vocal Instrument (interview with Kerstin Thorborg)

Bach's Musical Helpmate: A Graphic Picture of Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Notenbüch

World's Largest Carillon: Dedicated to Stephen Foster

My Old Kentucky Home: An Eighty-five Year Old Folk Song and Something of Its History

Threshold of Music: The Art of Musical Voyaging: Modulation

Ten Remarkable Years Before the Mike (interview with Virginia Rea)

Schumann's Hints to Young Musicians

Music Study Means Music Study (interview with Mischa Elman)

Forward March of Music

Volume 55, Number 05 (May 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Care of the Voice (interview with Gertrud Wettergren)

Bagpipes of Braemar

Do You Know?

Business Efficiency for the Music Teacher

Mediocrity and Mastery

Benjamin Franklin Discourses on Music

Relative Minor Recognition Device

X Marks the Spot

Is There a Last Word in Piano Technic?

Why and How of Memorizing Music

Ich Liebe Dich (interview with Grieg, Fru Edvard)

From Woods and Fields: A Piano Playlet for Small Children, Suitable for a Spring Recital

Grand Manner in Piano Playing (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)

Discovering a Masterpiece: How Two Musical Sleuths of Britain found Rosamunde

Few Frank Words to the Young Composer …

Volume 55, Number 01 (January 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Superstitions in Music

Musical Food for Millions (interview with Erno Rapée)

Brighter Scale Practice

Increasing the Activity of the Fingers

Magical and Misunderstood Art of Reviewing

Romance of the Sweetest Story Ever Told

Tooting Your Own Horn: The Most Difficult Instrument for the Musician to Learn

My Toughest Spot: Taking Things as They Come

Getting the Perspective in Teaching

Composing for Pictures (interview with Erich Korngold)

Strongest Carillon in the World

First Steps in Musical Transposition

Approach to Interpretation

Berceuse Op. 57 of Chopin

Autumn Days in the Presser Gardens

Brahms Selfless Musician

Arpeggio Drill

Volume 54, Number 10 (October 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Educational Renaissance, A (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Hallowe'en Spirits Go Musical

Early Romance of Haydn

Lesson Check Ups

Harps and Harpists in 1936 (interview with Carlos Salzedo)

Problem of the Adolescent Student

Daily Dozen from the Diatonic Scales

Meistersingers of Nuremberg and Their Wooden Tablet

Subdividing the Beat

Selecting the New Piece

Midnight King: The Tragedy of the Mad Musical Monarch Whose Support Made Wagner's Giant Projects Possible

NBC Music Appreciation Hour

Making a Start with Bach: Practical Helps for the Student Who Desires a Better Knowledge of the Great Master and His Style

Interesting Bit of American Musical …

Volume 54, Number 09 (September 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Humor in Music: Do Composers Tend Toward the Sombre Colors, or Do They Inclinde Toward the Gay?

Radio and Music (interview with David Sarnoff)

Music at Harvard: From a Historical Review

Memories of William Mason and His Friends

Whetting the Children's Appetite for Music

A-440 by National Broadcast

Origin of Sousa's Name: Ridiculous and False Stories about the Ancestry of John Philip Sousa Which Should be Corrected by Etude Readers

Making Tempo Rubato Understandable

When Should Piano Study Be Commenced? A Question Asked by Thousands

Roll of Honor

Finger Independence as Applied to Bach's Fugues

How They Gave Early …

Volume 54, Number 06 (June 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Background in Music Study (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Little Tales of Music Study Accomplishment

Increasing the Activity of the Fingers (in French)

From Forty-Five to Ninety

And Now the Movies (interview with Nino Martini)

Here He Is! The Remarkable Legend of Der Liebe Augustin and How He Ridded Vienna of a Plague by Singing

Piano Accordion: Its Relation to Good Music

First Steps in Perfect Scale Playing

On Freeing the Left Hand

What about the Flute? (interview with Georges Barrère)

Improving the Musical Memory

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Watch the Musical Guide-Posts

Hands Separately

Volume 54, Number 05 (May 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Your Music Live (interview with Henry L. Mencken)

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Practice Lesson

Opera on the Screen

What is Popular and What is High Brow?

Freedom of the Air (interview with Boake Carter)

Salzburg and the Mozart Spirit

Heavy Thumbs

Musician's Relation to the Public, Part 2 (interview with Edward L. Bernays)

Preliminary Presentation of the Piano Keyboard

Training Pupils for the Recital

Scale Wise

Little Recital Hour of the Philadelphia Music Teachers Association

Rhythmic Wisdom

Acoustical Revelations

Watch for This Inpostor

Crayons as Critics

Music Study Helps a Lad: A Letter to Un-Musical …

Volume 54, Number 04 (April 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Start the Day with a Song (interview with Henry Ford)

Easter Dawn in Music

Pictorial Visit to the Birthplacet Eisenach, of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Private Teacher and Music in the Schools (interview with George L. Lindsay)

Musician's Relation to the Public (interview with Edward L. Bernays)

Pitch of Musical Instruments

When Every Gentleman Was a Musician: Memories of the Golden Age of Music in England (interview with Marion Keighley Snowden)

Piano-Accordion in Musical Education: New Thoughts on a New Instrument (interview with C. Irving Valentine)

By-Products of School Music

Important Musts for the Piano Teacher (interview with Isidor Philipp) …

Volume 54, Number 03 (March 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Does it Take to Make a Singer? (interview with Richard Crooks)

Prescriptions for Specific Faults: Prescribing for Musical Faults as the Doctor Prescribes for Physical Ailments

How to Organize and Manage a Successful Junior Music Club

Memory Work

Key of C

Novel Musical Watch

Left-Hand Sustained Notes

Picturesque Youth of Jules Massenet

Making the Pupils' Recital Interesting

Beginnings and Endings: How the Masters Began their Compositions

Expressing Musical Rhythm with the Body: Interesting Class Work with Young Pupils

Fighting the Song Shark

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

March Through the Centuries

Keyboard Geography

Piano Musical Review …

Volume 53, Number 11 (November 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hobbies for Everybody

Wagnerian Singer (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Dolls' Music Festival

Have Musicians a Sense of Humor

What About Radio? (interview with Wilfred Pelletier)

Bach and Handel Compared

Very American Story of Emma Abbott: In Which Poverty Becomes the Vestibule to Success

Rubinstein's Famous Song Der Asra, As Arranged by Liszt: A Soliloquy on This Widely Known Composition

Memorybook Pages of a Musical Pilgrim: Presenting Messages and Music from Many States

Musical Embroideries at the Piano

Why Counterpoint?

How Music Lovers May Become More Truly Musical

Volume 53, Number 09 (September 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hector on Broadway

Day in Radio City

Bands Everywhere

Stage Fright Preventatives

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Food and the Voice (interview with Leon Felderman)

Three Important Chords in Music: Numerous Ways of Using the Chord of the Seventh, the Chord of the Sixth, and the Chord of the Sixth and Fourth

Why Czerny?

Romances of Great Musicians: Romance in the Life of Schubert

That Troublesome Fourth Finger

Wisdom of W.S.B. Mathews: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Writings of One of the Most Original and Distinctive Thinkers in the Field of American Musical Education

Making Sure …

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 53, Number 05 (May 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and America's Greatest Problem

Palestrina, The Prince of Music: The Story of One of the Most Picturesque Figures

Reason for a Certain Theory of Fingering

Finger Exercises on Black Keys

Learning to Pronounce a Foreign Language: Something that Musicians Who Need Languages Should Know

Story of Musical Notation

Music of the Spains: Those Lands of Melody,Gaiety, Dancing, Chivalry and Song

Stars for Star Pupils: Rewards That Interest the Piano Pupil

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Beauty Through Wrist Action: A Study of Tonal Effects for Piano Students

Etude Music Study Expansion League

Have You Got Rhythm?: …

Volume 53, Number 03 (March 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What I Learned from Broadcasting (interview with Nino Martini)

Relaxation Rather then Contraction

Short Course in Memory Training: Making Your Mind Work Along Right Lines

Why Music Should be Retained in the Public Schools: Music's Influence Upon Mankind

Beethoven's Estimate of His Fellow Musicians

One Way to Start a Pupil at the Very First Lesson

Pupils Everywhere: A Letter from a Practical Teacher Who Looked Depression Between the Eyes Until Depression Smiled Back with Success

Little Bach Program Recital

Do We Listen Creatively?

Charles Marie Widor, the Grand Old Man of French Music

Debussy and the Pedal Blur: The Lure …

Volume 52, Number 10 (October 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Regimentation

Secret of Modernist Music (interview with Arnold Schönberg)

Good Teaching Pieces

Acting Theory

Mother, Make Music Study Delightful

Two Manual Accordion As Compared to the Standard Piano Accordion

Stabat Mater and Its Illustrious Composers

Program Architecture

What Does the Public Really Want?

Two Tests for Musical Capacity

Mystic Land of Magic Music (playlet)

To Acquire a Beautiful Legato

Whims of Musicians

Musical Commas and Musical Comments

Etude Practice Clock

Music in the Old Dragon Empire

For Fluency in Arpeggios

Train the Memory

Season's Schedule of Club Events

Kitchen and the One-lined Staff

Those Key-Signatures!

Helpful Hint in …

Volume 52, Number 09 (September 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music Study for Adults (interview with Frederick B. Robinson)

What Geography Has to Do with Rhythm

Game of Musicians

Making a Fist

Teaching Accents

Maurice Ravel: The Man, The Musician, The Critic (interview with Maurice Ravel)

Beethoven, the Humorist

Kreisler and the Prodigy

Music Recreation and the Radio

What Makes a Good Touch

New Music for Ancient Plays

Practicing Difficult Passages

Story of Dixie and its Picturesque Composer

Parent Help in Music Study

Make Your Practice Period Worth While!

Bridge Strength for Pianists

Alabama's Share in Dixie

Cumulative Rewards

Technic Fun

Value of Similes

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 …

Volume 51, Number 09 (September 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Curse of Super-Worry

What I Think of Modern Music (interview with Maurice Ravel)

Touch and Accent: With their Values Carefully Defined

Then and Now

Remarkable American Musical Tradition: The Moravian Funeral Chorals at Salem

How Miss Watson Boosted Her Bank Account

How Great Composers Worked

What is Needed to Gain Success as a Pianist?

Musician Education: The Place of Music in General Education

How to Practice Arpeggios

Structure of Music: The Merits and Methods of Analysis

Musical Tower in Central America

Musical Activities in the U.S.S.R.

Having It Out with the Pupil's Parents

Going to Do's

To Overcome Defects in …

Volume 47, Number 11 (November 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Woman and Music: Twin Souls of Civilization

Children of a Great Romance: A Meeting with the Daughters of Robert and Clara Schumann

Good Habit

I'd Like to, But—

Arpeggios and Their Fingerings

What Great Music Owes to Woman

Correction and Kindness

Much-Abused Spring Song

Love of Beethoven

Benefits from Music Study

How Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler Taught

Handicaps, Which Discourage Good Piano Playing

American Girl's Chance in Opera (interview with Rosa Ponselle)

Fundamental Art Secrets in Piano Playing (interview with Elly Ney)

Notable Musical Women

Blessed is the Musical Woman

Troublesome Rhythms

Mothers of Great Musicians: The Story of the Women Who …

Volume 47, Number 08 (August 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Father Bach: A Personal Visit to the Home of Bach and a Sketch of Some of the Smaller Compositions of the Master

How Shall We Study Bach?

Cleaning Up Slovenly Playing

Polyphonically Speaking

Bird Repertoires

How I Graduated as a Music Bachelor at Fifty-Nine

Building Scale Technic

Pianist and Patent Office: Odd Mechanical Contrivances Designed to Help Pianists

Universal Schubert

Thirty Great Opera Composers

Volume 47, Number 06 (June 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mozart's Musical Portrait of a Lady

Solo Hate Campaign

Sousa Got the Cash!

Rubinstein in Edinburgh

Sheet Music Clinic

Story of Strings and Keys or From Monochord to Pianoforte

Fundamentals of Beautiful Piano Playing

Charm of Stephen Heller: An Interesting Discussion of the Work of a Man Who Strove to Make Educational Studies Beautiful

Making Scales Interesting

Velocity and the Metronome

How to Play Beethoven

How Schubert's Music Reflected the Poems He Chose for Settings

Volume 47, Number 03 (March 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Precise Fingering When Wagner Shot a Rabbit

Brahms as a School Boy

Mozart's Poverty

How Finck Discovered MacDowell

Pupil's Repertoire

Golden Age of Music Study Has Arrived: New Worlds for Music Lovers and Music Students

Musical Research

Triplets

Salient Points for Practice Hours

Music on the Moon-Kissed Riviera

Master Themes the World Loves Best

How the Young Liszt Taught

Left Hand First

Student's Repertoire

Little Recitals

Three Master Singers on Preparing for a Lyric Career

Making the Most of an Exercise

Famous Method of Touch

What are Grace Notes?

Mastering Chromatic Thirds

New Understanding of Italian Terms of Musical Expression …

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 …

Volume 46, Number 10 (October 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mastering Irregular Rhythms

Page Turning for the Pianist

Two Centers in Piano Playing

Simplifying Note Reading

Young Beginner

Musical Home Reading Table

Eighteenth Century Italian Opera

Clara Schumann's Hands

Beethoven's Mother

Music in the City of Flowers

System in Study and Practice

Gounod's Definition

Veronese's Immortal Masterpice—Les Noces de Cana (The Marriage at Cana)

Story of the Ballet and Its Music

Schumann as Educator

Most Curious Page in American Musical History: An Early American Experiment in Communism with a Musical Background

Prerequisites for the Accompanist

Rhythmic Educational Value of the Toy Symphony

How to Get Up a Rhythmic Band

Exceptional …

Volume 46, Number 09 (September 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching Correct Pedaling

Incredible Mental Achievement

Music in the City of Flowers

Improve Your Stretch

Keyboard Facility and Agility

How to Extend Your Hand Without Injury

Beethoven Listening to the Muses—An Etching

Folk Element in Music: The Study of Nationality in Music

Cross Rhythm

Teaching the Use of the Pedal

Master Themes the World Loves Best

Most Amazing Achievement in the History of Music Study: The Remarkable Story of a Student Who Has Been Blind

Volume 46, Number 07 (July 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hymn Playing Helpful

Musical Education in the Home

What Makes a Fine Piano

Evolution of Piano Playing and Virtuosity

Why Do I Study Music

On Describing a Piece

Efficiency in Piano Study

Speaking the Pupil's Language

Studio Ventillation

Tickling the Risibles

Grandeur that Was Rome

Point on Poise

Doorstep of Harmony: Showing How Simple and Delightful the Study May be Made for the Amateur

Frederic Chopin, an Etching

Queen and a Quarrel about Musicians

Making Arpeggios Interesting

Volume 46, Number 02 (February 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Music Colorful

Signs—Always Signs

Forefather of Pianoforte Technic: Czerny The Indispensable

Musical Education in the Home

Why not Write to the Young Pupil?

Radio and the Music Student

Relating Key and Note

Think Before You Play

Cushion for Aida

Sleep On It

Haydn and the Clarinet

Magic of Melody (interview with Eduard Poldini)

Musical Reading and Thinking

Finishing Touches in Piano Playing

Great Moments in Wagner's Nibelungen Triology

Wagner, the Eternal

Acquiring Realistic Technic

Musicians, Take Care of Your Ears

His Own Musician

Go Ahead!

Mélange from France

Romance of a Pioneer Prima Donna: Striking Pictures from the Life …

Volume 46, Number 01 (January 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Playing Arpeggios

Finding the First-Bests

One Road to Good Piano Technic

Picture and Canvas

Checks—and Checks

Self-Study in the Art of Music (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Musical Question of the Hour: Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Education

Schumann and His Mother

Measuring Musical Minds

What Makes the Musical Person?

Suspended Count

Beethoven's Life Tragedy: Dramatic Episodes in the Career of the Great Composer

New Piece

How a Mother Can Make the Child's Music Study Irresistibly Interesting: How Influences will Make or Ruin the Child's Musical Career

Composers at Work

Romance of Music in Palestine

Musical Reading Clubs

Power …

Volume 45, Number 11 (November 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Branding the Blunders

Mother Music

Musical Education in the Home

How Germany is Striving to Win Back Pre-War Musical Conditions

New Paths in Musical Art (interview with Alfredo Casella)

To Facilitate Note Reading

Aid to Memory and Expression

Mechanics of Art

Treat Your Piano Right: Respect Your Piano in the Home and in the Concert Hall if You Demand the Best Results

Introducing Cora and Dora

Showing an Interest in the Pupil

Teaching the Student to Think

Music as an Inspiration in Art (painting)

Something About Chord-Playing

Successful Radio Performance

Haunts of Great Masters n Vienna (etchings)

Light and Shade …

Volume 45, Number 10 (October 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Is Meant by Equal Temperament?

Have Contrast in Music

What Shall We Do With Bad Musicians?

Operatic Triumph Over Mountain-High Obstacles (interview with Madame Isang Tapales)

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing?

Beethoven's Great Funeral March on the Death of a Hero (monument)

Happy Sides to Beethoven's Life

Fads and Fallacies in Modern Pianism

How to Teach Scales

Two Pianos

Queerest String Instrument in the World

Making Selections of Music for Beginners

Scottish and Other Folksong: Its Relation to Art Music

Translating Practice Into Pleasure

Amber Light for Reading Music

Easy Way to Understand the Triads: …