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Volume 30, Number 08 (August 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Position at the Piano

Carnival Music

Busoni and the Press

Correct Position at the Keyboard: A Symposium

Characteristic Features of Russian Music

Reading Music Like a Book

Exciting Musical Career of Tillie Clapsaddle

Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Pan

His Majesty's Violins: A Story of Music at the Court of Louis XIV

Bright Sayings of Famous Masters

Odd Effect of Music on Animals

Volume 30, Number 07 (July 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Great Musicians on Their Contemporaries

Training of the Pianist of the Future (interview with Wilhelm Bachus)

Schumannisms

Musical History During the Piano Lesson

Modern Ideas on Broken-Chord Practice

Playing Duets with Schumann

How I Gave My First Lesson: A Symposium of Particular Interest to Your Teachers and Students Who Aspire to Be Teachers

Analysis Guide to Intelligent Musical Interpretation

Famous Mythological Characters in Music: Orpheus

Bishop Who Wrote Operas

Berlin's Concerts

Volume 30, Number 06 (June 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Clara Schumann's Father on Study

How Analysis Benefits the Piano Pupil (interview with Katharine Goodson)

Selecting Piano Studies that Insure Progress

Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Sappho

To Memorize or Not to Memorize

How Chopin Played: As told by Liszt, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Other Contemporaries

Hours with Leschetizky (interview with Lolita D. Mason)

Rubinstein's Bitter Valedictory

Tributes of Noted Musicians to the Memory of the Late W.S.B. Mathews

How the Mind Should Guide the Body in Practice

Dramatic Moments in the Careers of the Masters

Well-Known Composers of To-day—Charles Wakefield Cadman

Volume 30, Number 05 (May 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Conquering the Stiff Wrist

Passing of W.S.B. Mathews

Important Points Frequently Neglected in the Study of Pianoforte Works

From Beethoven to Wagner

Mental Effect of Tones

Married Woman Pupil

Great Pianists at the Keyboard: A Lesson in Position (portraits)

Symposium on Position at the Keyboard

Some Secrets of Success in Playing in Public

Some Royal Musicians

Student Days with Dvorák

Well-Known Composers of Today—George Eggeling

Composers as Conductors

Volume 30, Number 04 (April 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Famous Standard Etudes: Their Value to the Teacher and to the Music Student

How George Bernard Shaw Learned to Play the Piano

Pitfalls in the Road to Musical Success

Daily Hints for Diligent Pupils

Perplexing Embellishments and Their Execution

Mental Technic of Memorizing

I Could Play it All Right at Home

Some Practical Helps to Sight Reading

How Small Hands May be Trained To Play Arpeggio Chords

Modern French and German Opera

Real Ole Bull, Personal Reminiscences

Little Known Musical Facts

Road to Expression (interview with Harold Bauer)

Well Known Composers of To-day—Robert M. Stults

Volume 30, Number 03 (March 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Facts about Musical Ireland

Artistic Aims in Piano Playing (interview with Harold Bauer)

Chopin and the Tempo Rubato

Centurion Composers of Opera

Mendelssohn's Phenomenal Memory

Gluck's Operatic Ideals

How to Execute Mordents, Trills and Appoggiaturas

Modern Italian Opera: Its Tendencies and Its Composers

Offenbach's Remarkable American Experiences

Making a Success of the Pupils Recital: With Important Suggestions upon Overcoming Stage Fright

Ten Most Important Epochs in Musical History

Adventurous Composer of Maritana

Volume 30, Number 02 (February 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Probable Origin of Syncopation

Opera of the People (interview with Victor Herbert)

Boccherini and His Friends

If My Daughter Should Study for Grand Opera (interview with Andreas Dippel)

When Different Pupils Make the Same Mistakes

How a Great Operatic Production is Prepared: Opinions from Many Celebrated Specialists upon a Subject of Much Human Interest to all Music Lovers

Grand Opera as a Business

Self-Help in Voice Study (interview with Charles Dalmores)

Alphabet of the Opera Composers

Names of the Notes in Other Languages

Success at the First Lessons: Five Important Points for Teachers to Remember and Employ

Well-Known Composers of …

Volume 30, Number 01 (January 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Italy, the Home of Grand Opera (interview with Enrico Caruso)

Interpretation of Beethoven's Piano Masterpieces

Progress in Piano Playing (interview with Josef Holmann)

Beginnings of Opera

Ten Most Famous Opera Singers of the Last Century

Should American Opera Aspirants Study Abroad?

Bel Canto: The Foundation of All Successful Operatic Singing (interview with Bernice de Pasquali)

Prolific Opera Composer

Improving Arpeggio Chord Playing

Last Work of Wagner, Parsifal

Mystery of the Lethbridge Strad

$10,000 Stradivarius Violin Demolished by Unknown Fanatic

Lesson Book: A Course Of Lessons In Public School Music For Kindergarten Teachers, Grade Teachers And Supervisors, Clark

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Book outlining the correspondence course for future teachers of public music in Kindergartens and elementary schools.

Lesson Book: Public School Music, Clark E. Frances

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Music Lesson Book for the correspondence courses offered through the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music.
Lessons and Examinations: Public School Music, number 76 through 100

I'Ve Got The Finest Man, Henry S. Creamer, James Reese Europe, Waterson, Berlin, & Synder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: Women wearing a hat in a circular frame with the name "Primrose Semon"

First line of song: Happy, happy, happy little bird am I, I want to fly, here's the reason why

First line of chorus: I've got the finest man, Oh, lawd! I've got the kindest man

Include sheet music sample from the song "June Honeymoon"

Moderato

Words by Henry S. Creamer

Music by James Reese Europe

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Synder Co, New York

When The Twilight Comes To Kiss The Rose "Good-Night", Robert F. Roden, Henry W. Petrie, F. B. Haviland Pub. Co. Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A woman in a white dress holding a rose flower in front of a window.

First line of song: Near a rose bush down in Dixie I am dreaming

First line of chorus: When the twilight comes to kiss the rose "Good Night!"

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Good bye, Little Girl Of My Dreams"

Moderato

Words by Robert F. Roden writer of "There's A Dixie Girl Who's Longing For A Yankee Doodle Boy"

Music by Henry W. Petrie composer of "As Deep As The Deep Blue Sea"

Includes Male Quartette chorus

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 …

Come Along Honey, Will M. Hough, Frederick Donaghey, Ben M. Jerome, R. H. Burnside, Harry Askin, Joe M. Harris

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: In June time, in moon time the world goes 'round to a tune time with fond hearts beating fond lips are meeting, every night.

First line of chorus: Come along, honey, I'm waiting come along out in the bright moon-light,

Valse Modto

The La Salle Opera-House Co. Inc. Puts Forth the Musical Comedy The Girl at the Gate

Play and Lyrics by Will M. Hough and Frederick Donaghey

Music by Ben M. Jerome

Staged by R. H. Burnside

Harry Askin * Managing Director

1 score, (8p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Joe …

Good-Bye Eveybody, G. Okonkowsky, A. Schonfeld, Frank Smithson, Will M. Hough, Jean Gilbert, T. B. Harms Company

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of four men wearing black top hats and three women. One women is wearing a big sailor shaped hat, another has a back hat while wearing glasses, and the last one's hat is a painting board with two paint brushes.

First line of chorus: Beware the spell of the spring time, though it seems sweet as, life to you.

First line of chorus: Good-bye, everybody! Good-bye, everything!

Mort. H. Singer presents The Berlin Operetta A Modern Eve

Book by G. Okonkowsky & A. Schonfeld

Staged by Frank Smithson

Lyrics by Will M. Hough

Music by Jean …

Just As We Used To Do, Louis Robinson, Harry I. Robinson, Will Rossiter

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of an older couple sitting in chairs. The women is knitting while the man taps her arm holding a book in the other hand. In the background is a wall of flowers with a hole in the middle showcasing a younger couple.

First line of song: When the roses were in bloom, 'Mid the flowers' sweet perfume

First line of chorus: We'll stroll once again down the old country lane just as we used to do

Andante Moderato

Words by Louis Robinson

Music by Harry I. Robinson

Male Quartette

Includes alternative male quartette chorus version

1 …

Mine, Alfred Solman, Joe Morris Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of four men in a semi-circle at the bottom left corner of the page. Below the photo is says The Criterion Quartette Messrs. Quine, Snow, Noeker, Dumas

First line of song: If you could only read my heart, dear

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Just A dream of You , Dear"

Andante moderato

Alto or Baritone in Bb

By the composer of "If I Had A Thousand Lives To Live"

Words by James W. M. Gee and Paul Benedek

Music by Alfred Solman

Introduced by and Dedicated to Mr. William Wade Hinshaw, Baritone of …

When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandie, Mellor Gifford, Francis, Day & Hunter

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: The side profile of a couple looking in the right direction standing next to each other.

First line of song: On a farm in Normandy, there resided Rose Marie,

First line of chorus: When it's apple blossom time in Normandy!

Moderato con espressione

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Love Dreams" and "The Maurice Tango"

Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth's song success When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandie

Sung by the writers in Lew Fiends' Production "The Sun Dodgers"

Written & Composed by Mellor Gifford & Trevor

1 score, (6p.), 32x25 cm

Published by Francis, Day …

Hold Your Tongue, Earle C. Jones, Roy L. Burch, Up-To-Date Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A sitting cat facing the right direction with a bow tie around its neck.

First line of song: This world is full of people who talk all the time, their heads are like a steeple with bells that always chime

First line of chorus: You hold your tongue, just hold your tongue,

Moderato

The Great Comic Song As Sung All Over The World

Words by Earle C. Jones Author of "Nobody" "Dr. Brown"

Music by Roy L. Burch composer of "Get Wise" "Alabama Rose"

1 score, (6p.), 34x28 cm

Published by Up-To-Date Music Co., Indiana

Sleep, Baby, Sleep (Irene's Lullaby), John J. Handley, F. E. Hathaway

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A woman in a dress holding a child outside watching a man walking towards her with mountains and a house in the background.

First line of song: Sleep baby, sleep, close to my breast,

First line of Yodle: A - e - o - la - e - - - - O - le - a - e - du -

Andante

Refrain: p Dolce cres.

Refrain: dim.

Yodle: Tempo di Valse

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Promise me", "Love's Answer", and " Absent"

Words and Music by John J. Handley

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm …

The Wriggley Rag, Worton David, George Arthurs, E. Ray Goetz, Malvin Franklin, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A line of people boarding a cruise ship

First line of song: You've heard of Gaby and her Gaby Glide

First line of chorus: First give a glide, then a stride, then a slide, on your side as you twirl a bit

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Happy Little Country Girl"

Moderato

By Worton David and George Arthurs

Lew Fields Presents All Aboard!

Words by E. Ray Goetz

Music by E. Ray Goetz and Malvin Franklin

1 score, (8p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin and Snyder Co, New York

On The Mississippi, Ballard Macdonald, Carroll & Fields, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a crowd of people on a harbor dancing, playing a banjo and having fun while a paddle ship is coming into the background. There is a cabin in the far distant. In the lower left corner is a portrait of a man with the caption Palmer Hines.

First line of song: In my dreams I seem to hear a whistle shrill

First line of chorus: On the Mississippi, On the Mississippi, where those boats go puffin' along

Tempo di Marcia

Words by Ballard Macdonald

Music by Carroll & Fields

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published …

Burglar Man, Arthur G. Schnadt, Herbert Binner, Betts & Binner Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front Cover: A burglar in a mask pointing a gun

First line of song: Twas a dark and stormy night everybody sleeping tight.

First line of chorus: In the middle of the night, hear that sound, hear that sound, that must be a burglar.

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the song "There Is No Little Girl Like You"

Words by Arthur G. Schnadt

Music by Herbert Binner

1 score, (6p.), 34x27 cm

Published by Betts & Binner Co, Chicago

Aloha Oe, H. M. Queen Lihuokalani, Frank Sheridan, The John Frnaklin Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a girl dressed in Hawaiian wear, on an island surrounded by palm trees, the bay, and a mountain in the background.

Includes sample sheet music from the songs "Ma Cherie" and "My Heart Is Thine!"

Moderato

Composed by H.M. Queen Lihuokalani

English Lyric by Frank Sheridan

Oliver Morosco's Production The Bird Of Paradise By Richard Walton Tully

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published by The John Franklin Music Co, New York

You're My Baby, A. Seymour Brown, Nat D. Ayer, Jerome H. Remick & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of woman standing side ways with a hat on her head with big ruffles. The caption says: Dorothy Brenner

First line of song: There's something the matter with me dear

First line of chorus: You're my baby, you're a wonderful child.

Includes sheet music samples from the song "On A Beautiful Night with A Beautiful Girl"

Moderato

Words by A Seymour Brown

Music by Nat D. Ayer

Popular Edition

Song by A. Seymour Brown and Nat. D. Ayer composers of "Oh, You Beautiful Doll"

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., …

Konig Drosselbart: Weihnachtsmarchenspiel In 6 Bildern, Lena Stein-Schneider

Musical Performances

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Volume 29, Number 12 (December 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Regular Progress

Presto Paragraphs

Recollections of My Musical Childhood

Acquiring a Good Touch

Is Woman's Musical Talent Really Limited?

Simplicity of Harmony

How Musical Sounds Come to Us

Glory of Beethoven

Mental Pictures in Music

Chopin's Revolutionary Etude

Do Americans Need More Technic?

Training the Crossing Fingers in scale Playing

Reminders

How Piano Playing Has Progressed (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Posing at the Pianoforte

Mystery of the Lethbridge Strad: A Christmas Story of Musical Life in a Great City

Lisztiana

What Franz Liszt Did for the Music of the Church

Franz Liszt as I Knew Him

Well Known Composers …

Volume 29, Number 11 (November 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Rubinstein's Meteoric Tour of America: Personal Reminiscences of the Great Russian Master

Pupil's Part in Piano Study

Work, the Secret of Pianistic Success (interview with Vladimir de Pachmann)

Physical Development and Care of the Pianist's Hand: Practical Directions for Gaining Strength, Firmness and Flexibility, Treatment of Strained Muscles and Pianist's Cramp

Developing the Natural Rhythmic Sense of the Child

Graded Course for Piano Students (symposium)

Offenbach's Greatest Opera, Tales of Hoffmann

How The Tales of Hoffmann was Written

Story of The Tales of Hoffmann

Famous Singers in The Tales of Hoffmann

Volume 29, Number 10 (October 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Introductions in Classical Compositions

My Only Meeting with Richard Wagner

Originality in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Vladimir de Pachmann)

Richard Wagner's Great Sacrifices for Success: The Master Composer's Own Description of His Fight Against the Bitterest Povety and Continual Failure

Self-Help, the Foundation of All Permanent Success: A Collection of Letters and Articles from World Famous Men Pertaining to One of the Greatest Elements in Human Progress

Self-Help Course for Piano Students: A Series of Educational Works, Technical Studies, Etudes and Pieces, Selected Especially for this Issue by Well-Known Teachers with Wide Experience in America and in Europe

Some New …

Volume 29, Number 09 (September 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Centenary of Franz Liszt—Founder of Modern Pianism: A Recent Analysis of the Technical and Artistic Traits of the Greatest of Piano Masters

What Schubert was Paid for His Songs

How Thinking Ahead Helps Memorizing and Sight Reading

Revealing the Composer's Hidden Meaning (interview with Sigismund Stojowski)

Prime Minister's Tribute to Music

Music Teachers for Piano-Player Owners

Left-Hand Recital

Flotow's Tuneful Opera Martha

How to Gain Muscular Control at the Keyboard

Clara Schumann's Memories of Mendelssohn's Piano Playing

Progress in American Musical Education

Well-Known Composers of To-Day—Richard Ferber

Getting Ready for the Musical Club Season: First Steps in Starting a Musical …

Volume 29, Number 08 (August 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin: Pre-Eminent Genius of the Pianoforte

Getting the Most Out of Five-Finger Exercises

Modern Pioneers in the Art of Piano-Playing

Etude Debate: Shall Music Teachers be Required to Pass an Examination Before They are Permitted to Teach?

Pentatonic Scales in Famous Song

Can Your Pupils Listen?

When the Mother Interferes

Laying the Foundation for Velocity: How Great Speed May be Attained if the Right Beginning is Made

Wagner's Opera Tannhäuser

Mendelssohn the Fortunate

Some Delicate (?) Contemporary Criticisms of Wagner's Early Works

How I Overcame Stage Fright

Encores at Pupils' Recitals

Rossini the Humorist: Epigrams and Wit of the Most …