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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 …

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1928-1929, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1928-1929 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, biographical information about and images of faculty, and tuition information.

Piano Course: Grade 2, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 2, Preparatory B: Lessons and Tests, number 21 through 40

Piano Course: Grade 4, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 4, Intermediate B: Lessons and Tests, number 61 through 80

Three Negro Poems / Music By Jacques Wolfe; Words By Clement Woodbury, Jacques Wolfe, Clement Woodbury, G. Schirmer Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: abstract drawing of African American faces; Publisher: G. Schirmer Inc. (New York)

Piano Course: Grade 1, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 1, Preparatory A: Lessons and Tests, number 1 through 20

Piano Course: Grade 3, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 3, Intermediate A: Lessons and Tests, number 41 through 60

Piano Course: Grade 5, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 5, Advanced A: Lessons and Tests, number 81 through 100

Piano Course: Grade 6, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 6, Advanced B: Lessons and Tests, number 101 through 120

Memories Of France / Music By Russel Robinson; Words By Al Dubin, Russel Robinson, Al Dubin, Waterson Berlin And Snyder Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of red roses; Publisher: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. (New York)

Short'nin' Bread / Music By Jacques Wolfe; Words By Clement Wood, Jacques Wolfe, Clement Wood, Harold Flammer Incorporated

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of an African American woman; Publisher: Harold Flammer Incorporated

Banjo-Pickaninnies / Words By Robin Mac Lachlan, Robin Mac Lachlan, Harold Flammer (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of two rural African American boys playing banjo; description reads a descriptive piano piece; Publisher: Harold Flammer (New York)

Marie / Words By Irving Berlin, Irving Berlin

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: photo of Vilma Banky; Publisher: Irving Berlin Inc. (New York)

When The Robert E. Lee Arrives In Old Tennessee (All The Way From Gay Paree) / Music By Paul Cunningham; Words By J. Keirn Brennan, Paul Cunningham, J. Keirn Brennan, M. Witmark And Sons (New York)

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: drawing of the steam boat, Robert E. Lee, arriving at a dock, there is much celebration by the all black crew and crowd; Publisher: M. Witmark and Sons (New York)

Banjo-Pickaninnies / Words By T. Robin Mac Lachlan, T. Robin Maclachlan

Sheet Music, 1920-1929

Cover: description reads: A Descriptive Piano Piece; Publisher: Harold Flammer (New York)

Ua1b1 9th All Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Advertisement for the 9th all star concert series hosted by WKU in 1927-28. Features singers and musicians:

• Lorna Doone Jaxon
• Russian Symphonic Choir
• Suzanne Keener
• Marie Miller
• George Perkins Raymond
• Ernestine Schumann-Heink
• Basile Kibalchich
• Harry Farbman

Lincoln Song, Cyrus Simmons, Cyrus Simmons

ALLM: Civil War Sheet Music Collection

80.7568.671 – “Lincoln Song”: Cyrus Simmons: Cyrus Simmons: 1928: Voice Solo.

The Famous Gretsch Musical Instruments Catalog No. 27, Gretsch Company

Gretsch Company Catalogs & Price Lists

This catalog features over three thousand instruments and accessories, including drums, guitars, pianos, violins, banjos, ukuleles, mandolins, etc. An index is included at the end of the catalog.

Volume 45, Number 12 (December 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sharps and Flats

On Extemporization

How One Community Solved the Recital Problem

Do Your Fingers Kick Out?

Overcoming Indifference

Christmas Everywhere

Seven Reasons Why You or Members of Your Family Should NOT Study the Piano

César Franck Violin Sonata (painting)

Dissonances and Un-Dissonances: A Chapter Dealing with Euphonious and Cacophanous Tone Groupings

Music That is in Every Man (interview with Roxy)

Potential Sound Always Present

Rut of Separate Hand Practice

Things That Lend Brilliance to Piano Playing

Haunts of Great Masters in Vienna (etchings)

Pelicans and the Piano: A New Revelation of the Significance of Practical Musical Training

Roads to …

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: …

Volume 45, Number 09 (September 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Shall I Do With My Music? (interview with Howard Hanson)

For Mastering Scale-Like Passages

Evolution of the Staff

Learning the Pedals

Damrosch and New York Symphony

Launching the Musical Artist: How Great Pianists, Violinists and Singers are Presented to the Public

Music and Poetry in Autumn

Leschetizky's Vital Ideas

Some Observations on Practice

Hot and Cold—A Helpful Teaching Idea

How to Get Up a Little Musical Pageant in Your Town

Do Not Run Past the Signals

Scale Signature Design

Maintaining Interest

Short Compositions for the Piano

Building the Grand Staff

Curing Collapsible First Joints of Fingers

Stunts Do Not …

Volume 45, Number 08 (August 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Technic and Beauty in Piano Playing (interview the Guiomar Novaes)

Aim and Achievement

Position at the Keyboard

Perfect Twenty-Four

Mistakes Accompanists Make

Interesting the Boy in Practice

Musical Smiles

All About the Slur: Its Fifteen Uses in Music

Von Buelow in Chicago

Learning the Midas Touch from Schubert's Rosamunde

To Do, Or Not To Do

Interpretation of the Little Classics

Liszt's Impromptu Feat

For a Stiff Wrist

Necessity of Visual Musical Education

Whole Rest and Half Rest Gentlemen

Learning the Art of Conducting With the Aid of the Talking Machine

Something About Tone

Wagner a Nervous Conductor

Learning to Listen …

Volume 45, Number 07 (July 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Nothing But Exercises for Six and One-half Years (interview with Tito Schipa)

Perfection Before Pedal

Why Stop Work When Lessons Stop?

Thought Provoker

Breaking-in the New Lesson

On Developing Good Taste Early

Weight Playing

Managing the Student and the Studio

Rhythmic Motions

It Pays to Advertise

Finger Gymnastics

How to Keep Pupils

Few Hints on Violin Playing (interview with Eddy Brown)

Flowers of Our Lost Romance

Improving the Diatonic Scale

Melody Writing for Little Folks

Your Ally—The Bulletin Board

Asparagus with Brahms

Such Hard Times

Putting Life Into Your Playing: Rhythmical Movement Applied to Technic

What the Cowboy Liked Best …

32nd Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 32nd Annual Concert and Commencement at Auditorium Theater (58 East Congress Street) held on June 18, 1927.

Volume 45, Number 06 (June 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Staccato, the Spice of Music

Keeping Up One's Music

What Effect Has Jazz Upon Present Day Music and Composers?

Magical Symbols of Notation

Glimpse of Jenny Lind

Association of Teacher and Pupil

Power of Accidentals Outside the Measure

Perfection of the Pianist

Polka

Timepiece of Music

Problem of Mixed Time

How the Musician Should Deal with Nerves

Listening In

Musical Vacation

Slow Scale Practice

Can You Tell?—Quiz

How to Give a Delightful Summer Musicale

Phonograph Master Class

Romance of the Scales

Charles Wakefield Cadman All-American Composer

Lucy Learns the Art of Dancing: A Humorous Recitation

Too Big for Him

How …

Volume 45, Number 05 (May 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Secret of Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

What Music Thinkers Think

Ten Rules for Writing Music

Simple Ear Test

Making a Musical Start

Can You Tell? Contest

How to Play Glissandos

Vanishing Folksong

Teaching Scales to Young People

Make the Pupils Do the Work

Early Steps in Music

Pedal Study

One Perfect Number

More Questions from Teachers, Answered

Phenomena of the Wonder Child: Musical Prodigies of Today and Yesterday

Form in Music

Famous Liszt Cadenza Simplified

Gymnasium of the Singers: Technic That Produces Definite Results

Let the Pupils Do It

Scientific Grading

Bel Canto Legend

Leschetizky and the Invalid

My …

Volume 45, Number 04 (April 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Use the Weight and Relaxation Method

Were Bach, Mozart and Schubert Poorly Paid

Musical Note

Points on Practicing

Drawing and Accenting

Secret of Touch or How to Extract the Most Beautiful Tone from the Pianoforte

Substituting Flats for Sharps

Music Creed

Another Use for the Metronome

Shifting the Staves

Can I Learn to Count?

Hints on Rapid, Flexible Playing

Training the Brain to Remember and Reproduce Music

Avoiding After-Pressure on the Keys

Starting a Miniature Conservatory

Getting the Pupil to Think

Aiding the Late Beginner

Great Masters as Students—Beethoven

For Stretching the Hand

Aristoxenus The Modern

Jumping the …

Ua68/9/1 Iolanthe Program, Wku Music Department

WKU Administration Documents

Program for performance of Iolanthe, contains ads for many Bowling Green businesses.

Volume 45, Number 03 (March 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Debussy: His Significance in the History of Piano Literature

Setting High Standards

What Music Does to Youth

Study of Octave Playing

Power of the Dot in Music

How to Estimate the Right Tempo

Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions as a Foundation for Polyphonic Playing

Art of Giving an Interesting Lesson

Getting Right Down to Business

Graded Scrap Books

Quiet Practice

What Active Musi Workers are Thinking and Saying

Viewpoints and Side Lights: Concerning Minor Keys

Bugbear Turned to Account

Excellent Program of Compositions by Amercan Women

Sharps and Flats Contest

What Music is Doing for College Students

Haydn's Opinion …