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Volume 64, Number 03 (March 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Quality of Great Music

How Opera Hit G.I. Joe

Want to Be a Band Leader?

Teaching Music Means Teaching Taste (interview with Robert Casadesus)

What About That Song You Have Written? (interview with Helmy Kresa)

Rhythmic Background of the Orchestra (interview with David Grupp)

Band Questions Answered

What of the Shrines of Yesteryear?: Weimar, Home of the Great Franz Liszt

Latin-American Music in the United States

Notable Friend of Music (interview with Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)

This Business of Conducting

Campus Lights 1946, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 64, Number 02 (February 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Greatest Teacher in the World

Etude Spring Festival of Music

Three Ravels: Personal Souvenirs of the Great French Composer

Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (Part 2) (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)

Harp in College and University Training

Potentates as Musicians

New Radio Shows Feature Younger Artists

Etude Music Lover's Bookshelf

Teacher's Round Table

Well, I Do Declare!: Musical Instruments Throughout the World (Section 2)

Teaching the Singer to Become an Interpretative Artist (interview with Lotte Lehman)

Louis-Hector Berlioz' Picturesque Memoirs

Perfecting Piano Technique (interview with Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson)

Volume 64, Number 01 (January 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Year Opportunity

New Keys to Practice

Don't Be Dowdy!

Short Digest in Scale Practice

Philosophy of Vocal Study (interview with Maggie Teyte)

Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)

Paying Our Debt to America (interview with Henry H. Reichhold)

Good and Bad Punctuation in Phrasing

Reform in Music Teaching (interview with Heitor Villa-Lobos)

Worth Your Weight: Common Sense in Weight Playing

Parent-Teacher Groups for Music Studios

Developing the Staff Pianist for Radio (interview with H. Leopold Spitalny)

Violin Course: Grade 7, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Lessons and Tests, number 121 through 140

Violin Course: Grade 8, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Lessons and Tests, number 141 through 160

1945 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event program from 1945 contains information about the eighth annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Ursinus College. It lists the performers and conductor as well as the order of each piece of music.

Campus Lights 1945, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 63, Number 11 (November 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Three Centuries of Thanksgiving

Magic of Melody

Making the Met: Which is 1945 Slang for Securing an Opportunity to Appear as Soloist at the Metropolitan Opera House with the Opera Company of the Metropolitan Opera Association (interview with Edward Johnson)

Principles I Learned from Tobias Mathay (interview with Ray Lev)

Music Teacher's Day in a Boom Town

Class Teaching in Applied Music

Overcoming the Handicaps of the Adult Piano Beginner

Who Should Play the Harp? (interview with Edward Vito)

Volume 63, Number 10 (October 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Concert in Berlin

Mendelssohn's Religious Faith

Modern Device for Teaching the Scales

Music Down Under: Many Surprises in Musical Activity in Australia

Wine of Islam: Coffee, Coffee Houses, and Music

There's a Future in Radio, IF

Britain Produces New Operatic Success

Piano Never Talks Back

What Do You Know About the Symphony Orchestra?: A Practical Quiz for Classes and Clubs

Technic of Music Listening: Channels Through Which the Fine Art Reaches the Emotions

What! Not Able to Read Music?

Choral Art for America (interview with Robert Shaw)

Volume 63, Number 09 (September 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Make It Clear

Distinguished American Guitarist Celebrates Eighty-fifth Birthday

As to Music Appreciation

Our Musical Good Neighbor, Brazil (interview with Olga Coelho)

From a Studio Window: Observations Based on Thirty Years of Teaching at Illinois Conservatory of Music, Mount Holyoke College, and Northfield School for Girls

Musical Advance in China (Part Two)

Superstitious Musicians

The Greeks and Musical Therapeutics: On Their Use of Music to Curb the Passions, Improve the Complexion, and Cure Diseases

The Background of Background Music: How NBC's Experts Fit Music to the Mood and Action of Dramatic Shows

What's Wrong With Our Concert Halls?

Does Music …

Volume 63, Number 08 (August 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Good is Art?

Here Comes the Band

Have You Met Her?

Art of Duo Singing (interview the Victoria Anderson and Viola Morris)

Beethoven's Martinet Teacher

Let's Clarify Music Teaching! (interview with Leo Reisman)

Mr. Piano Writes His Autobiography

Building an Orchestra (interview with Karl Krueger)

Place of Music in Military Hospitals: With Particular Reference to Its Use During Convalescence and Reconditioning of Men with Wartime Injuries

Things Some Teachers Ought to Know

Adult Beginners Want to Learn

Music in New China

Volume 63, Number 07 (July 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Great American Musical Ideal: The Splendid Record of The Edward MacDowell Association at Peterborough, New Hampshire, in Fostering the Productions of Representative American Creative Workers

Hawaii's Other Music

Chopin As a Teacher of Pianoforte: The Great Master Taught Regularly Four and Five Hours Daily

Teague Designed Piano for the White House

Helpful Exercises for the Pianist's Hand

Making Practice a Game: Did You Ever Try to Teach a Child Before It was Five Years of Age?

Hints for the Young Conductor (interview with Frank J. Black)

When Artistic Lightning Strikes: A Feuilleton Upon Genius and Artistic Temperament by One Who …

50th Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 50th Annual Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 15, 1945.

Volume 63, Number 06 (June 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Supreme Service of Music

Spectacular Meyerbeer

Childhood in Valhalla (interview with Friedelind Wagner)

Four Ways to Save Waste Paper

Governor Dewey Hails Music

Secret of Leschetizky

Beginning, Middle, and Ending: A Fundamental Art Principle Which, if Universal, Will Assist in Giving Balance and Climax to Your Interpretations

Relax!—Then What?

You're Not Too Old to Play the Piano

Music in the Post-War Curriculum

America's Musical Yesterday

Be Your Own Guide! (interview with Dorothy Kirsten)

Volume 63, Number 05 (May 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and World Unity

Mexico's Famous Folk Orchestra

What is Musical Interpretation?

Tell-How Tour of the Radio City Music Hall

New Keys to Practice

Mental Projection in Singing (interview with Nadine Conner)

Music Teacher and the Post-War Period

One Hour of Practice

Tragic Memorial

Musical Progress in San Salvador

Music for the Mentally Disturbed

America and Good Music (interview with Howard Barlow)

Volume 63, Number 04 (April 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Oceans of Tunes

Prescription for a Music Supervisor

Developing the Orchestra (interview with Artur Rodzinski)

Quality Pays

New Keys to Practice

Choose the Right Music

Rhythm, Music, and the Theater (interview with Rouben Mamoulian)

Annual Auditions for American Piano Pupils

What is Expected of an Accompanist?

Fading Fires: Why Does Musical Genius Expire in Some Cases and Continue in Others?

FDR's Favorite Song

Octogenarians, Take Notice

Elusive Pedaling

Applying Principles of Painting to Music

Independence at the Keyboard

Volume 63, Number 03 (March 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

I Want to Be the Leader of the Band

Figures and Phrases

Vochestra—A New Musical Combination (interview with Fred Waring)

Objectives of Scale Practice: Why is It That the Student Who Has Had a Thorough Training in Scales Can Be Distinguished Immiediately?

Do Musical Talents Have Higher Intelligence?: The Famous Quiz Kids Make a Remarkable Showing

Why Not Get Up a Summer Music Play?

Musical Genius and Youth

Artist Speaks of Music (interview with S.J. Woolf)

How Strong Is Your Foundation? (interview with José Iturbi)

Volume 63, Number 02 (February 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and a Loftier Race

New Keys to Practice

Music America Wants: The Amazing Story of How Two Banjos, a Drum, and a Piano Developed into a Vast Musical Enterprise (interview with Fred Waring)

Warming-Up Exercises Make Better Public Performances

There's No Substitute for Knowledge!: How Motion Picture Music is Written (interview with Victor Young)

Victor Young and Victor Young

Our Future Musical Theater (interview with Richard Rodgers)

Music Student Awards Make Better Pupils: War Stamps Make Splendid Prizes

Making Bach Interesting (interview with Alexander Borovsky)

Use of the Palato-Pharyngeal Muscles in Singing

Letter from London: Music, During Britain's Darkest …

Volume 63, Number 01 (January 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dawn on the Horizon

Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves

Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)

Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge

How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)

Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Music as a Living, Human Element

New York's First Opera

What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words

Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)

Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music

Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …

Volume 63, Number 12 (December 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Song for a New World (Poem)

World Christmas Carols

Legend of Switzerland's Native Instrument

Queen Receives the Queen (Marjorie Lawrence)

Music's March of Victory (interview with Beardsley, Ruml)

Revolution in Opera (interview with Laszlo Halasz)

How Records Helped Win the War

Christmas Carol

Edison's Contribution to Musical Appreciation

George Eliot—Musician

Getting a Piece Ready for Public Performance

Wayfaring Minstrel (interview with Burl Ives)

1944 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event program from 1944 contains information about the seventh annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Ursinus College. It lists the performers and conductor as well as the order of each piece of music.

Volume 62, Number 12 (December 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dawn on the Horizon

Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves

Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)

Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge

How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)

Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Music as a Living, Human Element

New York's First Opera

What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words

Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)

Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music

Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …

Volume 62, Number 11 (November 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Blessings at Thanksgiving

Does Practice Make Perfect?

What Is the Purpose of Music Study? (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Punctuation Enhances Musical Beauty: A Plea for Better Punctuation in Music, a Most Vital Part of Phrasing Often Disregarded by Young Piano Students

Theodore Presser as a Teacher

Masterpieces in the Jungle: The Saga of USO-Camp Show Unit 264

Meet Destiny With Your Head Up!

Curing the Mistake Habit: How to Help the Child to Help Himself in Weeding His Musical Garden

How to Plan Programs That Succeed: Judgment and Experience Bring Lasting Results

Get Your Vowels Right!

Setting Industry to Music …

Volume 62, Number 10 (October 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Spheres

Beware of Discordant Voices

Music American Doughboys Hear in India

Compleat Musical Home: What Your Household Must Have to Secure Ideal Musical Results

Fifty Years of Settlement Music: Important Anniversary of the Creation of a Valuable Movement

Childhood and Youth of Edvard Grieg: A Musical Playlet for Young Folks

The Winnah

Physical Coördination in Singing (interview with Maria Kurenko)

Creating a Durable Musical Memory

Musical Fathers and Sons

Technic of the Month—Finale, from Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 6, by Franz Liszt

Volume 62, Number 09 (September 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dependable Technic

Basic Beethoven: Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Remarkable Biography Still the Most Consulted Book In Its Class

Philosophy of Musicianship (interview with Fritz Kreisler)

Music in War Torn Normandy

Selecting Music to Fit the Hall: Should Music Designed for a Small Room Be Played in a Great Auditorium?

Aloha Oe and Its Famous Composer: How Hawaii's Queen Wrote One of the Most Popular of All Songs

Musician's Bible: Bach's Well-tempered Clavichord and What It Has Meant to Musical Art

How Can I Raise My Income: A Nation-Wide Symposium with Contributions from Practical American Teachers

It Came in a Dream: Great …

Volume 62, Number 08 (August 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mind's Ear

Why Music Study Is a Priceless Investment

Keep Jazz Within Its Limits! (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Greatest Show On Earth Grew Out of Music (interview with Mrs. Charles Ringling)

Vital Use of Drudgery

Building Character Through Music

Music in the Chinese Theater

Coöperative Pupil's Recital Plan Which Succeeded

Protect your Precious Musical Instruments

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Musical Ideas Come First

Practice With Your Brains!

Technic of the Month—Prelude in F-sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 13, by Frédéric Chopin

Volume 62, Number 07 (July 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Plant Morale

Jane, the Adult Beginner

How Music Helps the Salvation Army (interview with Evangeline Booth)

When the Great Day Comes: A Plan for a Peace Day Celebration (An Editorial)

Story of The American Debussy (Charles T. Griffes)

Passing of a Distinguished Editor and Musicologist

American Music for American Orchestras: A Renowned Conductor Tells What Kind of Music He Seeks from American Composers

Let Phrasing Solve Your Difficulties, Part 2

General Wanted a Wedding March

Master Lesson on a Fascinating Bach Prelude

Technic of the Month—Prelude in B Minor, Op. 28, No. 6, by Frédéric Chopin

49th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 49th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 16, 1944.

Volume 62, Number 06 (June 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Where Airy Voices Lead

Untapped Reservoirs of Musical Treasures: The Secret of the Second Wind with Notable Citations for the Life of Antonio Stradivari

Music in the South American Way (interview with Xavier Cugat)

Music Launches the Henry Grady

Divide and Conquer

Counting Can Be Fun!

Ear Scenery: The Theory and Practice of Sound Effects

Rolled Chords

Let Phrasing Solve Your Difficulties: Musician or Woodpecker? Which are You?

United Nations Piano Recital

Let Us Sing in English! (interview with Florence Easton)

Simplifying the Approach to Harmony

Guitar and Its Traditions (interview with Andres Segovia)

Technic of the Month—Prelude in G …