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My Creed, Howard Arnold, Elizabeth Garrett, Gambler Hinged Mucis Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No Front Cover

First line of song: I would be true, for there are those that trust me,

Andante Moderato

p expressivo

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "There's a Song in the Woods for You" and "A Thought"

Words by Howard Arnold Walter

Music by Elizabeth Garrett

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Gambler Hinged Mucis Co., Chicago

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 11 (November 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Pianist's Palette

Recorded Music

From a Master's Workshop

Practice Plan that Brings Results

How Genius Discounts Handicaps

Emphasizing Different Voices

Studio Stories that Hit the Spot

Demand the Noblest Ideals

How One Mother Got Time for Music Stories

Finale: Yesterday and Today

Better Elocution in Your Piano Playing

Little Learning Not Always a Dangerous Thing

Interesting Your Pupils

Knowing the Keyboard

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

Harmony, Not a Dry and Difficult Subject

Visit to the Presser Home for Retired …

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 08 (August 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Momentous Musical Anniversary: P.M.T.A. Celebrates Thirtieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of a Movement Which Has Become Country Wide

Greatest Thing in Technic: Dr. William Mason's Vast Technical Vision

Musical Brain-Storms and Their Results

Heyday of Music

Vocal Masterpieces for the Masses (interview with Henri Scott)

Sustaining Pedal and What It Does to Piano Music

Musical Explorer

Pianist's Vitality

Keeping Up Interest in Your Music Club

Color Effects in Piano Playing

Don'ts for Scale Playing

Bug-Bear of Dotted Notes

Variety in Scale Practice

Bad Manners at Concerts

Look Up!

Variety at Lessons

Something New in Music Temperament and Musical Understanding

How …

Volume 39, Number 07 (July 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Freedom in Music Teaching Methods (interview with Erno Dohnanyi)

What the Word Sissy Did

Deep Breathing vs. Nervousness

Motives and Melodies

Rural Music Teacher's Pay

How They Earned a Musical Education

Weak Fingers

Musical Innovations

Counting Aloud

Daily Supervised Practice

Quality and Color in Piano Playing: How to Make Your Playing Beautiful by the Legitimate Use of Color Effects

Ten Cardinal Points in Legato Piano Playing

Are You Taking or Are You Studying Music?

Check Up Your Hand Position

Speed Mania

Noise, the Disease of the Century

How Primary Pupils May Learn to Read Rapidly

Line a Day

Art of …

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 05 (May 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Golden Hour

Letters from Eminent Americans Endorsing The Golden Hour

Parents, Do You Do Your Part?

Handy Definitions

Variety in Scale Practice

Gymnastics in the Bass

What is the Most Difficult Thing in Piano Playing? (interview with Ignaz Friedman)

Muscle and Piano Playing

What Method Do You Use?

Sky the Limit

Musicians and the General Public

Gossec's Grim Humor

One Minute with Ludwig van Beethoven: Selected Quotations

Making Melodies and Addressing Them Properly

Sight Reading in the More Difficult Keys

Introduction in Scale Practice: A Practical Plan

Repeated Keys: An Interesting Effect in Piano Playing Worthy of Study by Ambitious …

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 39, Number 03 (March 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Phases of Modern Pianoforte Study

Mercenary Methods and the Result

Teacher Who Makes You Work

Some Common Failings and Their Correction

Young at Seventy, Old at Forty

Be Comfortable While You Teach: A Word of Advice to Young Teachers

Steps in Learning to Compose

Learning to Like the Classics

Perspective in Teaching

Arm Relaxation Applied to Finger Work

Life Maxims of Great Musicians

Negative Criticism and Why It Fails

Soul of Poland in Music

Is the Development of High Speed Desirable in the Study of Scales and Arpeggios?

Getting Ready for a Recital

Unfair Competition

Suggestions to Young Concert …

Volume 39, Number 02 (February 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Acquiring a Vocal Repertoire (interview with Alma Gluck)

Cause and Cure of Nervousness

Soul Exercises

How the Scale Should be Practiced Every Day

Average Amateur Pianist

Early Teaching Material

Lines and Spaces

Select the Best Fingering

Poor Performance and Its Sequel

Curve of Improvement in Practice

How to Get the Most Out of Your Music Lesson

Acquiring a Repertoire

Folly of Giving Too Difficult Music to Students

Thematic Index

Historical Music Study

Introduction to the Keyboard

Secret of Success of Great Musicians

Learning By Ear

Keeping Up

Don't Be Discouraged

Chords I Have Met

Emotional Control in Playing

How to …

Volume 39, Number 01 (January 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Unseen Influences in Musical Composition and Interpretation (interview with Cyril Scott)

How to Check Up a Child's Progress

Written Lesson in Music

Why Does My Back Get Tired When I Practice?

Intensive Left-Hand Practice

Handicapped Players

What are the Best Kind of Playing Fingers

Adelina Patti: Queen of the Opera of the Last Century

Use Up-to-Date Beginner's Books

How Would You Answer These Self-Searching Questions?

When You Practice

One Note: Some of the Fascinating Curiosities of Acoustics

How Can I Find Out Whether My Child is Musical?

Rhythmic Knack

Peep Behind the Scenes

De Gustibus Est Disputandum, I Say: Matters …

I Like It, Aileen Stanly, Charles N. Grant, Irving Berlin Inc.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman in a diamond shaped border with the words Aileen Stanly



First line of song: Mary Greene seventeen Mother's only child

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Home Again Blues", "Rosie Make It Rosy For Me', and "Drowsy Head"

Standard Edition

Sincerely Aileen Stanly

First line of chorus: I'm gonna do it if I like it and I like it

Arranged by Charles N. Grant

Moderato

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Irving Berlin Inc., New York

My Sunny Tennessee, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Herman Ruby, Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of a man on the right and a lady in the middle dancing. Also includes a pair of carnival masks.

First line of song: When the shades of night are falling, Tennessee, I hear you calling;

First line of chorus: I wanna be in Tennessee in my Dixie paradise,

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Little Min-nee-ha! ha!

By Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Herman Ruby

As sung by Eddie Cantor in Lee & J. J. Shubert's Production The Midnight Rounders of 1921

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Waterson Berlin & Snyder …

When Francis Dances With Me, Benny Ryan, Sol (Violinsky) Ginsberg, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A couple dancing on the left with another man standing on the right with a path of flowers in between.

First line of some: Katie O' Conner from Tenth Avenue, was dancing with Francis her beau,

First line of chorus: When Francis dances with me, Hully Gee, I'm as gay as can be,

Tempo di Valse

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Swanee River Moon"

Words by Benny Ryan

Music by Violinsky

"Say, fellers, dis song is de real goods for a waltz." Yours Katie O'Connor

"Benny Ryan scratched off de woids, and me friend Violinsky knocked …

Say It With Music, Irving Berlin, Hassard Short, Charles N. Grant, Irving Berlin Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover : A picture of a open ballerina music box

First line of song: Music is a language lovers understand

First line of chorus: Say it with music, beautiful music

Moderato con espressione

Sam H. Harris presents Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue

Words & Music by Irving Berlin

Staged by Hassard Short

Includes sheet music samples from the song "In A Cozy Kitchenette Apartment"

Arranged by Charles N. Grant

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Irving Berling Inc, New York

Song Of Love, Dorothy Donnelly, Sigmund Romberg, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: Once on a time, In a kingdom by the sea

First line of chorus: You are my song of love, melody immortal

From the Musical Play "Blossom Time"

Lyric by Dorothy Donnelly

Music by Sigmund Romberg Adapted from Melodies of Franz Schubert & Heinrich Berte

Feist Art Series

From the Operetta "Blossom Time"

Duet

1 score, (8p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Leo Feist Inc., New York

Call Me Back, Pal O' Mine, Lawrence Perricone, Harold Dixon, Dixon-Lane Music Pub. Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a man's side profile in a rectangular frame with the words "Yours Sincerely Harold Dixon"

First line of song: I am thinking today of a pal far away that I left in the days long ago

First line of chorus: Call me back Pal O' mine let me dream once again

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Wishing For You", "When All The World Forgets You There's A Mother Waiting Still", and "Mammy Land"

Moderately with expression

Marimba Waltz Song

Words by Lawrence Perricone

Music by Harold Dixon

Male Quartette version included

To M. …

Wabash Blues, Dave Ringle, Fred Meinken, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A group of nine men wearing tuxes that look like they are in a orchestra each holding a different instrument.

First line of song: Nearly broken hearted since the day that I once started from my Wabash home, Indiana's sweet and it's a place that's hard to beat but then I longed to roam

First line of chorus: Oh, those Wabash Blues, I know I got my dues, A lonesome soul am I

Moderato

Standard Edition

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Swanee River Moon"

Featured with Enormous Success by Isham Jones Famous Orchestra

Words by Dave …

My Carolina Rose, Wendell W. Hall, Forster Music Publisher Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman with a pinup hairstyle with a flower tucked into it, wearing a dress with a ruffle trim around the shoulders with a big train and a bouquet of flowers in her hand

First line of song: There's a rose in the heart of the South land, little flow'r I long to see

First line of chorus: She has those dreamy eyes of blue, A smile beyond compare

Moderato with Expression

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Mellow Moon", "Missouri", "Moon River", and "On The Alamo"

By Wendell W. Hall, "The Singing Xylophonist" …

In Bluebird Land, W. R. Williams, Albert E. Short, Will Rossiter

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front Cover: A picture of two birds. One on a tree branch and the other on a tree stump.

First line of song: Although today the clouds are grey, dreary the skies of blue

First line of chorus: Blue birds, don't you hear them call?

Valse Andante

Includes sheet music samples from the songs " Love Days", "Don't You Remember The Time?"

Lyric by W.R. Williams

Music by Albert E. Short

Musical Director Riviera Theatre Chicago ILL.

p a tempo

Chorus: p_mf a tempo

Includes chorus in Fox-Trot Tempo

1 score, (6p), 32x24 cm

Published by Will Rossiter, Chicago

Volume 38, Number 12 (December 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Self Study in the Art of Singing (interview with Mme. Amelita Galli-Gurci)

Harsh Chords in the Bass and What To Do With Them

Rubinstein, Master of Tone

Environment and the Child's Musical Life

Ten-Toned Scales

Harmonious Blacksmith

Revolutionary Etude: A Christmas Story of Music and the Great Unrest

Getting Results in Pianoforte Study

Doing too Much for Students

Like Flying to a Bird

Schubert and Schubart

Bringing Out the Master's Meaning

Some Interesting Things to Know About Playing Scales, Chords and Arpeggios

Marking Accidentals

Apple-pie-ano

Christmas Festival of Peace, Music and Good Cheer

Practical Exercises in Weight Playing

How to …

Volume 38, Number 11 (November 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Liszt to Leschetizky: Forty Years with Great Pianists

Unmusical Fugue

Chart for Remembering Key Signatures

Music and the Home

Practical Exercises in Modern Phrasing

Tonal Perception

Don't Be Fooled by Applause

How Can I Study the Art of Instrumentation?

Preparedness: The Secret of Speed

Getting Results in Pianoforte Study: Some Modern Ways of Reaching the Goal Through New Artistic Means

Musical Misnomers

Lessons We Dread

Early Hours for Practice

Passing on the Credit

Some Tricky Musical Signs, Ties, Slurs and Accidentals

Planning Practice to Get Best Results

Why are Sharps Harder than Flats

Effective Finger Exercises

Fingers versus Brains …

Volume 38, Number 10 (October 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Soul of the American Indian

Keyboard Masters of Other Years

Does Your Piano Need a Scavenger?

Light Touch

American Indian's Music Idealized

Great Possibilities of American Music Clubs

Places That Don't Sound Right and What to Do With Them

Shall I Take Up Music as a Profession?

Be Generous with Praise

Impressions of Indian Music as Heard in the Woods, Prairies, Mountains and Wigwams

Passing of Carlos Troyer, Musician and Explorer: Famous Friend of the Indians and the Notable Work He Accomplished

Interesting Facts About the Indians

Indian Musicians in the Modern World

Lieurance Program

Collectors of Native American …

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 38, Number 07 (July 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Know How in the Art of Singing (interview with Mary Garden)

Summer Activities of the Music Teacher

Music and Mechanics

Why Use the Letter C in 4/4 Time?

What Every Piano Student Should Know About Pedaling

Technic or No Technic? Which?

Best Remedy I Have Ever Found for Nervousness in Public Performance

Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians

Good Beginning

Memories of Rubinstein and Liszt

Why Go to Pieces?

Make Your Left Hand Intelligent

Musical Patriotism

Strengthening the Weaker Digits

Where Does Father Come In?

Helpful Hints on Arpeggio Fingering

Illustration and Story in Piano Teaching

That Loud Pedal …

Volume 38, Number 06 (June 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Must I Go Through to Become a Prima Donna? (interview with Geraldine Farrar)

More Income for Music Teachers: How and Why One Teacher Made Good at an Increased Price

Count the Cost

Musical Genius Everywhere

Child's First Piano Lesson

How to Get Your First Pupils

Compelling Force in Musical Success (interview with Alberto Jonás)

What Shall I Teach?

Most Simple Way of Teaching Lines and Spaces

Scale Maxims

Hint on Memorizing

New Pianistic Beauties Through New Pedal Effects

Did You Say You Couldn't Memorize Music? Read This!

Taking American Music Seriously

Temperature and Practice

Let the Light Fall Right …

Volume 38, Number 05 (May 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Tendencies in Pianistic Art (interview with Benno Moiseiwitsch)

Note on Interpretation

How to Write Characteristic Music

Some Big Thoughts from a Great Writer

Slow Scales

Don't be Fooled by Fake Memory Systems

Technic versus Interpretation in Piano Study

Those Tiresome Five-Finger Exercises!

Teaching in the Language of Do

What Do You Mean by Musical Expression?

Well-tuned Piano

Start the Fashion of Punctuality

How the Great Masters Practiced

Interest at the Very Beginning

Dictating Music

Mystery of Genius

New Pianistic Beauties by New Pedal Effects

Tone-Deaf Pupils

Will Ragtime Turn to Symphonic Poems (interview with Major Rupert Hughes)

Some Interesting …