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Volume 68, Number 12 (December 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Gifts for the Music Lover

Story of Notation: Byzantine Neumes, Jewish Cantillation Signs and a 10th-Century Monk's Clever Idea Contributed to the Evolution of the System We Know Today

I Want a Christmas Story

Albert Schweitzer Was My Teacher (interview with Lucie Chenevert Lawson)

How to Write a Song (interview with Sigmund Romberg)

Student Recital . . . 1950 Style

Christmas Music in Mexico

Technique and Musicianship

It's Easy to Read Music

Master Lesson on Chopin

Mazurkas in F Major and G Sharp Minor

How Many Christmas Songs Do You Know?

Volume 68, Number 11 (November 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

In Defense of Kirsten Flagstad

Good Singing Takes Time (interview with Giuseppe De Luca)

Pipers of the Highlands

Truth About Conducting Horse & Buggy

Teacher All-Star Circus Band

How Jean de Reszke Taught Singing

Master Lesson on Chopin's Etude in F Minor

How to Build a Piano Class

Pharyngeal Voice

Volume 68, Number 10 (October 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Geroge Gershwin . . . as I Knew Him

What Every Parent Should Know

How Jean de Reszke Taught Singing

Will Your Students Succeed in Music?: Psychologic Testing Has Eliminated the Guess-Work in Evaluating Pupils' Innate Musical Talent

Breathing is Everything Exit—The Church Quartet

Faust and the Devil

Master Lesson on Chopin's Etude in A-Flat Major

Volume 68, Number 09 (September 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Audiences I Have Known

Arnold Schoenberg's New World of Dodecaphonic Music

Tuner's Tantrum

Music is My Hobby

I Learned Piano at 50

Master Lesson on Shostakovitch's Polka from The Golden Age

Volume 68, Number 08 (August 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Delius in America

Interlochen Holiday

What to Do About the Child Prodigy

When Chautauqua Hit South Branch

School for Conductors

How Schumann Became a Composer

Opportunity Starts in Your Home Town

Invent Your Own Exercises

Master Lesson on Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor

Organ Questions

New Records Artist's Obligation

Music is My Hobby (Edward J. Doyle)

Volume 68, Number 07 (July 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Johann Sebastian Bach . . . His World What Bach Edition Shall I Play?

What Sort of Man Was J.S. Bach?

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Teacher Draft for a Well-Appointed Church Music (from The Bach Reader)

Search for Bach's Grave

Heirs to Bach's Genius Instruments of Bach's Day

I've Always Wanted to Play the Piano

WQXR . . . Radio's Wonder Station

Volume 68, Number 06 (June 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tanglewood: A Mountain Holiday, Summer Study for Gifted Students and One of America's Most Glorious Music Festivals

Opportunities for the Music Counselor

What is Singing?

Master Your Flute Tone (interview with Julius Baker)

Athletes at the Keyboard Wedding

Etiquette for the Organist

Deafness Comes Hard to Music-Lovers, but They Can Hear Now

Master Lesson on Chopin's Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1

Volume 68, Number 05 (May 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Music in Europe Rain, Rats and Red Tape

Teen-Age Symphony: Fifty-five New York Youngsters, Ages 10-17,Play a Full-Scale Concert Season

He Brought Us Orchestral Music

Gaoler Played the Organ: Being a True and Faithful Account of Ye Versatile Doings of Peter Pelham, a Musician of Williamsburg in Ye Olden Time

Come with Me to Antoine's in Jacmal on the Island of Haiti Where the Mysterious Voodoo Drums are Made

Operatic Daughter (interview with Claudia Pinza)

Volume 68, Number 04 (April 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Story of Parsifal

Blueprint for Public School Music

Toscanini Tours

America Art of Choral Conducting

Changing Voice—A Symposium

How I Play the 'Cello (interview with Garbousova, Raya)

School Band: A Challenge Questions and Answers

Teacher's Roundtable

Master Lesson on Tchaikovsky's April

Volume 68, Number 03 (March 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Richards Strauss . . . Conducting is a Difficult Business

Modern Piano Musical Metaphysics . . . Its Cause and Cure

How to Build a Voice Psychologists

Evaluate Music

So You Want to be a Piano Teacher

Structure of Music Clarence Dickinson—Pioneer of Church Music

Let's Simplify the Liebestraum Cadenzas Master Lesson on Brahms' Intermezzo in E-Flat Major, Op. 117,

No. 1 Musical Medicos

For TV Thrillers

Volume 68, Number 02 (February 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Oklahoma Wizard

What Chopin Really Thought of Liszt

Record Your Performances . . . On a High Note: The Secret of Free, Effortless Top Tones—A Studio Tested Formula

Opera Isn't Dead

Volume 68, Number 01 (January 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Social Implications of Piano Study: Leadership, Cooperation, Self-Confidence—These Benefits of Piano Training Make For a Well-Adjusted Personality

Ballet . . . A New Freedom

How to Choose a Violin

Don't Take Your Music Too Seriously (interview with Alec Templeton)

What is Your Vocal Problem?

Ninety We Lose: Children Aren't Little

Men and Women—Look at Piano Lessons from Their Point of View

Musician's Worst Enemy—The Common Cold

Voices Aren't Made . . . They Grow

What Music Teachers Forget to Teach

My First Big Opportunity (interview with Mario Lanza)

How to Play a Melody

Symphony No. 1, Albert Irving Chance

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

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Volume 67, Number 11 (November 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Richard Strauss: 1864-1949

Goodbye, Mr. Johnson

What Is Your Vocal Problem?

First Aid for Ailing Brass: How to Make Your Instrument Work Better and Last Longer

Let's Help Our Young Orchestras: An Amateur Group is Harder to Conduct than the Boston Symphony (interview with Arthur Fiedler)

Use the Pedal—Don't Abuse It

Can Students Learn to Think?

Let Them Doodle!: In the Early Stages, Having Fun with Music is More Important than Sight-Reading

Why Not Take Up Your Music Again?

Pictures Have Impact

Good Bass Is Hard to Find

Fighting the Famine of Strings

Psychologist Looks at Music (interview with Victor …

Volume 67, Number 10 (October 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Listening Pleasure

Football is More than Touchdowns

Fine Art of Practicing (interview with Byron Janis)

Strange Parallels

How to Write Music Manuscripts: An Expert Reveals the Secret of Neat, Legible Writing

Dilemma of the Strings

Sir Thomas Goes on Record (interview)

So You Want to Be an Artist? (interview with Charles L. Wagner)

Music in Industry Pays Dividends

On the Decline of the Art of Singing (first published in 1893)

Silence in Music

Miracles of Recording (interview with Lawrence A. Ruddell)

Mormon Tabernacle Organ in Salt Lake City, Part 2

Editorial: The Chopin Centennial

Volume 67, Number 09 (September 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Why I Went to South Pacific

Talent Isn't Enough!

Short-Cut to Choral Singing

Miss Mary at the Manuals

Modern Music Is Nonsense (interview with Darius Milhaud)

I Used to Play Piano, But . . .

Good Dancers are Good Musicians (interview with Patricia Bowman)

Boston Musical Radio Census

What Makes a Composer Great? (interview with Igor Stravinsky)

Don't Worry About the Next Depression!: Here's How One Teacher Solved the Problem

Tabernacle Organ in Salt Lake City

Get Them Started Right!

Those Fascinating Woodwinds

They've Revived the Music Box

Editorial: Music and Barnumism

Volume 67, Number 08 (August 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Invention in Music

Getting the Most from Your Music Lessons: Practical Hints on Oft-Neglected Factors in Music Study

Denmark's Royal Conductor

Education in Opera (interview with Boris Goldovsky)

Fiddling While the Sun Burns

Hail Rotarians, Kiwanians, Lions, Optimists and Members of All Service Clubs

Imagination, the Key to the Child's Musical Interest

Music, the Universal Language

Gaining Experience (interview with Stella Roman)

Shall I Become a Professional Musician?

Playing the Piano in the Church Service

Keep in the Middle of the Choral Road

Inconsistencies in Musical Notation

Strictly American Vocal Problems (interview with Mack Harrell)

Just How Leschetizky Taught

Volume 67, Number 07 (July 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Music Study in the Open

How to Copyright Music

Building Musicianship (interview with Georges Enesco)

Summer Symphony: Music Festivals and Concerts Enrich Our Vacation Season

Musical Leipzig of Yesterday: Highlights on the Origins of the Famous Musical Center One Hundred Years Ago

They Called Him Skid Row Tchaikovsky: A Symphony of Healing

Problems of the Young Pianist (interview with Paulena Carter)

Volume 67, Number 06 (June 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Will Television Do for Music?

Rhythm Puts Life Into Music

New World of Television (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Story of Schani Strauss

Russian Masters of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Grechaninoff)

Our Country is Hungry for Good Music: A Post-War Candid Camera View of the Ever-Expanding Interest in Music in America

Make Your Recitals Interesting!

Elements of Bel Canto (interview with Ebe Stignani)

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 12)

Holes in the Teacher's Pocketbook

Mozart's Romanze, A Master Lesson

New Form for Violin and 'Cello Tops

Volume 67, Number 05 (May 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Importance of Musical Craftmanship

How to Punctuate Through Phrasing

On Becoming a Better Pianist (interview with Moura Lympany)

Paderewski the Incomparable: The Most Dramatic Figure in the History of the Piano

Concerning the Concertmaster (interview with Harry Zarief)

Finger Stroke in Piano Playing (interview with Henry Levine)

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography, Part 11

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties Recent Visitors at Harvard

Singer and Stage Fright

Preparing for Opera (interview with Polyna Stoska)

May Birthdays and Anniversaries

Style Show: Piano Recitaloque

Volume 67, Number 04 (April 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Independence

Door to Grand Opera for Young American Singers, Part 2 (interview with Wilfrid Pelletier)

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography, Part 10

Beginning the Career (interview with Marilyn Cotlow)

Overcoming the Crime Hazard With Music: An Exciting Community Experiment: How the Denver Junior Police Bands Have Successfully Been Killing Delinquency Before It Happens

America Holds the Hopes of the Musical World (interview with Ralph Vaughan Williams)

World's Most Remarkable Collection of Orchestral Music: The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection in the Free Library of Philadelphia

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties: Pursuing a Speciality

Today's Children Build Tomorrow's …

Volume 67, Number 03 (March 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Code of Ideals

Door to Grand Opera for Young American Singers: The Absorbing Story of The Auditions of the Air as Told by Its Brilliant Director (interview with Wilfrid Pelletier)

William Arms Fisher, Memorial Service at the Arlington Street Church, Boston, MA

World's Favorite Hymn

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 9)

Will Music Festivals Regenerate France?: How Dramatic and Musical Spectacles are Awakening a Great Nation

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties, Part 3

How to Build Confidence (interview with Leonard Warren)

Sense of Security in Piano Playing (interview with Henry Levine)

Technic Must Release Music! (interview with …

Volume 67, Number 02 (February 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musicians and Sensitivity

Training of a Pianist (interview with Alexander Brailowsky)

Music That Comes in Bottles

Mexico, Land of Musical Charm

Sing Your Way Back to Health

Musical Development in Ethiopia (interview with Alexander Kontorowicz)

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 8)

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties, Part 2

From an Avalanche of Recordings

Words and Music

Music a Hobby in the Grass Roots

Diderik Buxtehude, The Great Dane (1637-1707)

Look Out For Your Hands!: Neuritis, Neuralgia, and Temporary Paralysis Must be Watched

Why Not Go In for Amateur Opera? There's No End of Fun Over the Footlights

Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Christmas Comes (poem)

Handbells—Ancient Art Revived

Sing Ho for Christmas

I Learned To Sing By Accident (interview with Mario Lanza)

Swing Into Your Tone

Don’t Plan To Be a Conductor! (interview with Ernest Ansermet)

Why Do We Call Them Carols?: Songs of Christmas Link Today with the Ancient Past

It's the Same Old Claque: Then and Now—New York or Paris—

Relax and Improvise! (interview with Grace Castagnetta)

Concerning Spiccato, Sautille Arpeggios and Articifial Harmonics

Does Your Band Play in Tune?

What Is Your Vocal Problem?

Organ Practice and How To Get It

Master Lesson On the Sarabande and Bourrées …

Volume 67, Number 01 (January 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On Keeping a Musical Diary

Eugène Ysaÿe as a Teacher (interview with Jeannette Ysaÿe)

Musical Fireworks Behind the Iron Curtain

Composer Needs Determination and Faith (interview with William Grant Still)

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties: Haycyon Days at Harvard

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 7)

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music, Part 2

Do Musicians Live Longer Than Others?

Volume 66, Number 12 (December 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Little Lights of Christmas (Poem)

Sibelius Today: A Flight to Helsingfors to Visit Finland's Master Including a Conference with the Composer of Finlandia

Musical Christmas of Yesteryear

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography, Part 6

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music

Christmas Music—A Universal Language

Test Your Teaching Methods

Great Russian Music of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Tcherepnine)

My First Day at the Conservatoire de Paris

Igor Stravinsky and the Greek Tragedy

Music Means Joy in Chinese: The Chinese Cultural Theater Group Affords an Opportunity for Americans to Learn of Cathay

Comeback—Words and Music

Volume 66, Number 11 (November 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Te Deum Laudamus

Needs of the Young Singer (interview with Giuseppe Valdengo)

Shake Hands With the School!: How the Teacher May Profit by Keeping in Touch With the Day School

Christ and Etude

This is Berlin

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist, A Centenary Biography, Part 5

Stumbling Into Music (interview with Douglas Taylor)

Richard L. Austin (Obituary)

Jenny Lind's Vocal Exercises: Additional Advice from a Great Singer of the Past, Supplementing the Article in the Etude from February 1948

People's Song to Their God: A Delightful Picture of the Medieval Origin of the Gregorian Chant

Make Your Christmas Music …

Volume 66, Number 10 (October 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Amusements Safe for Youth

Music Teachers National Association

Let Your Ear Be Your Master! (interview with Ferruccio Tagliavini)

Domestic Musical Trinity: Parent—Teacher—Pupil

How the Master Composers Composed

New Ideas on Musical Memory, Sight Reading, and Programs

Musikwiz Matching Test

Musical Children: Prodigies or Monsters?

Letter from Pepito Arriola

About the Oboe

Zal, the Secret of Chopin's Genius

Know Your Own Worth

I Do Not Die Altogether

Volume 66, Number 09 (September 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Passing of a Noted American Artist

Reflections on Music Teaching (interview with Artur Schnabel)

Don't Fear Memorizing!

Piano Virtuoso in Spite of Himself: Noteworthy Extracts from Harold Bauer's Memoirs

Advertising Value of Classical Music: How An Experiment in Music and Jewels Brought Out Provable Facts That for Certain Commercial Purposes Great Masterpieces Stimulate Interest in Business Institutions

Are You a Violin Teacher?

Great British Brass Band Movement

Revival of the Bach Arias

Carrying a Spear in Grand Opera: How the Cohorts Behind the Footlights See the Art

Imitation—Its Use and Abuse (interview with Set Svanholm)

Letter from An Etude Friend: …

Volume 66, Number 08 (August 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphysis

Building the Glee Club (interview with Kay Holley)

Entirely New Motion Picture Experience!: The History of La Traviata

Paderewski—Pianist and Patriot

Sense of Tempo

Music for a Ballet (A Notagraph)

Let Music Help Make the Peace

Are We Music Educators?

Revolutionary New Process in Recording and Reproducing

Concerning the Contrabass (interview with Philip Sklar)

Are You a Violin Teacher?

Band—What Is Its Future? (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

Practicing Away From the Piano