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Volume 35, Number 11 (November 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cure for Musical Pessimism

Simplifying Counting

Why Not Encourage Everyone to Play?

Nervousness in Public Performance and How to Overcome It

Practical Thoughts on Modern Pianoforte Study

Two Ways of Using the Metronome

Some Foundation Principles of Piano Technic, Which May Be Applied to Any Method

Economy of Time at Lessons

Keeping the Brain Strong and Fit

How to Judge a New Piece

High Lights from a Musical Convention: Extracts from Important Addresses Made at the Last Convention of the Music Teachers' National Association

How to Keep Your Piano in Playable Condition

Some Essential Points in Beautiful Playing and How …

Volume 35, Number 10 (October 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Just What Syncopation is

Value of Polyphonic Playing

Greater Results With Less Effort

How to Interest Unmusical People in Music

Some Elementary Truths in Song Interpretation

Curiosities of Notation

Tension and Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

How We Got the Flat and the Natural

Remarkable Cures of Melancholia Through Music

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern English Composers

Mysteries of Music

How to Help Your Pupil to Remember Your Corrections

Value of Versatility in Teaching

Seek Clearness of Musical Outline

How to Get Artistic Effects in Touch: Staccato, Legato and Marcato

Story of the Magic Fire Music

Good Taste …

Volume 35, Number 09 (September 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Four Good Reasons Why Musicians Do Not Succeed

Lack of Concentration

Goals in Scale Playing

How I Regained a Lost Voice: A Practical Experience in Voice Placing (interview with Evan Williams)

How to Increase the Music Class: Approved Methods Employed by Leading Teachers in Securing New Pupils Through Dignified, Legitimate Means

Business Principles for the Musician

Musical Setting

La Marseillaise

Animated Touch

Notes on Piano Playing to Teachers of Children

Learning Music in the Most Rapid, Thorough and Scientific Manner: Important Psychological Principles Deduced from Thousands of Laboratory Experiments Made Simple and Practical for Music Students and Music Teachers

Musician's …

Volume 35, Number 08 (August 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Accomplishments

Simple Cure for Stage-Fright

How to Regain Your Technic

Paths to an American National School of Music (interview with Reginald de Koven)507

Bracelet of Fifths

Getting the Most from Five-finger Exercises

Sharp Major Scale Signature

How the Masters Sought Humor in Music

Echo Exercise

Spasmodic Performance

Up-to-Date Points from an Up-to-Date Teacher

How Can We Do Our Bit?

New Material and New Methods in Musical Composition

Non Plus Ultra

Playing Close to the Keys Versus the High Finger Stroke

Teresa Carreño (obituary)

High School Credits in Texas

How Shall I Play Phrases Properly?—With Special Illustrations Taken from Modern …

Volume 35, Number 07 (July 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Get Control of Your Nerves

Jenny Lind, The Incomparable

Key to Success

Discord of Sweet Sounds

To Avoid Scratching in Violin Playing

Thoroughness in Operatic Preparation (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Let Your Piece Sing to You

Accuracy in Piano Playing—How to Teach it to Children

Controlled Relaxation

Why Should My Boy Study Music?

Electrical Music

Practical Steps in Tone Production: How the Player's Tone May be Enriched and Developed

Pianograms

Head, Heart and Head

High Lights in the Life of Handel—Significant and Interesting Human and Professional Characteristics of the Composer of the Messiah

How to Use The Etude's …

Volume 35, Number 06 (June 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Freak Minds in Modern Music

Keep a Journal

How to Go About Sight-Reading

Saving Time in Practice

Idealism in Music Study (interview with Teresa Carreño)

Yesterday and To-day

What Pieces?

From Finger-Tips to Shoulder

Why Advanced Pupils Lose Inspiration

Acquiring Accuracy in Musical Terms: Correct Definitions and Right Applications

Musical Curiosity

Review Week

Why Not a Daily Song Hour

Scale Contest

Art and Common Sense in Accompanying

Accelerando

Closing Address

Watch Your Hands

Names of Musicians Phonetically Pronounced

What Every Music Student Should Know About Phrasing

Nine Fundamental Divisions of Daily Practice

Symphony: Its Chief Characteristics and How to Recognize …

Volume 35, Number 05 (May 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony Orchestras in the United States

Memorable Performance

Certainly, I'll Play!

How Staccato Practice Puts a Snap in Playing

Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Band

How Beethoven Spiritualized Musical Form

Is the Symphony Played Out?

Two Brilliant American Composers

Aids to Good Timekeeping

Concise Dictionary of Noted Symphonic Composers

Richard Wagner as a Symphonist

New Scale Fingerings

Rise of the American Symphony

Does Teaching Make You Nervous?

Fifteen Vital Steps in Teaching Young Children

Have You a Self-Starter?

Scales and Baseball

Final Steps in Memorizing

How to Start a Local Symphony Orchestra

How Much Did You Practice?

Colored Pencils in …

Volume 35, Number 04 (April 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Aspects of the Art of Music (interview with Thomas A. Edison)

Simple Psychological Helps in Music Teaching

Haydn's Amusing Tribute to a Faithful Dog

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Value of Historical Knowledge in the Appreciation of Music

Snap Shots in a Musical Library

Irish Folk Song that Aids Interpretation

Difficult Pronunciations

Carmen: Arranged for Presentation in Reading Form at Musical Clubs

Expanding the Small Hand

Beethoven to Czerny

Getting Pupils through Printers' Ink: A Practical Advertising Man Talks

Rare Musical Facts

Syncopated Biographies: Musical Life Stories Pleasantly Told

Exercises for Developing the Hands for Piano Touch and Technic …

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Eighth Annual Festival Of New Music, Steve Hall

All Performances

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Volume 35, Number 03 (March 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Justice for the Teacher

What the Musician Must Do To Conserve Good Health

Efficient Practice

Too Much Theory

Difficult Pronunciations

Spirit and Technic of the Pianoforte Pedals

Tolstoi Throws a Bomb into Art and Music: The Arch-Iconoclast of Russia Severly Criticises Some Modern Musical and Artistic Conventions

Some Facts About Russian Church Music

Learning the Key Signatures

Some Obstacles in the Way of Standardization

Early French, Italian and German Composers of Interest to Present-day Pianists

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Masters

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Ranz …

Volume 35, Number 02 (February 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Success in Chorus Conducting: Hints, Aids and Advice to Leaders by the Foremost English Choral Conductors

Melody Hunting

Keep a Lesson Book

Surmounting Stubborn Passages: An Analysis of Technical Difficulties

Twelve Factors in Successful Teaching

When Interest Lags

Rest as Climax

Personality at the Lesson

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Italian Masters

Curiosities of Music

Modern Italian Operatic Composers

How Psychology Can Help the Musician

Chopiniana

Haydn's Boyhood Pride

High Lights in the Lives of Great Master: Haydn

Keeping Up the Interest in Scale Playing

Delicate Hand

Parting of Haydn and Mozart

Most Difficult Musical Composition

Advantages …

Volume 35, Number 01 (January 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Self-Expression at the Keyboard

Difficult Pronunciations

Limitations of Touch on the Piano

Gospel of Clean Keys

Musical and Cultural Education of the Modern Pianist

Maxims for Parents of Musical Children

Berlioz's First Meeting with Mendelssohn—And Its Sequel

Fountain of Inspiration for Masters

Mozart's Appearance and Personality

Have You These Five Qualities of the Progressive Teacher?

Causes of Some American Opera Failures

John Philip Sousa Inspects the Home for Retired Music Teachers

How Brahms and Liszt Welcomed Their Friends

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Hints for the Singer's Daily Practice (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

Neat Method …

Volume 34, Number 11 (November 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the American Girl Should Know About an Operatic Career

Last Days of Stephen Foster

Half Hour of Daily Technic

Useful Addition to the Gallery Collecton

Superlative Importance of Tempo

Some Interesting Musical Historical Facts

Hundred-Dollar Lesson

Difficult Pronunciations

Scale Wheel

Composer: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Great Composers and the Harp

Study with Beads

Studio Visiting Days

Beethoven and the Blind Girl

Learning a Piece by Forgetting It

Musician's Worry Habit

Master Lesson for Earnest Students on Mendelssohn's Charming Spinning Song

What Kind of Music is Best?

How Verdi Sought to Avoid Pomp Even in …

Volume 34, Number 10 (October 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting Results Through Right Practice: A Talk to Students

Points to Remember in Sight Reading

What's Wrong with My Piece

Teacher and His Business

Building of Music: A Practical Lesson in the Principles of Musical Form

Self-Help Road to Success in Music

Overcoming Stage Fright

Common Sense in Pianoforte Touch and Technic

Why Should I Study Theory

Some Facts About Pitch

Composer and the Organ Grinder: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

What Every Student Should Know About Phrasing

Learning to Depend Upon One's Self

Honor to the Teacher

George Noyes Rockwell

Master Lesson—Mendelssohn's Scherzo in E …

Volume 34, Number 09 (September 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Stephen Foster's Versatility and Industry

Talking Too Much

Some Musical Signposts

Personal Recollections of the Last Days of Stephen Foster

Intimate View of Stephen Foster

Sense of Rhythm

Intelligent Training of the Thumb

Find the Shortest, Quickest and Easiest Way to Do Things

Spurring Up a Slow Pupil

Stephen C. Foster's Romantic Career

Music's Written Language

How to Show Pupils the Advantages of Slow Practice

Compounded Measures

Popularizing Good Music

Some Curious Musical Instruments Used by Savage Tribes

Beauty and Originality in Haydn's Pianoforte Sonatas

Generosity of Franz Liszt

Two Great Musical Innovators, Liszt and Paganini

Are You a Solomaniac? …

Volume 34, Number 08 (August 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Instruments of Mythology

What Time Means to the Musician

Some Facts About Rubinstein

Was Liszt the Paganini of the Piano?

More About American Musical Atmosphere

Dr. Cornelius Rübner on American Musical Atmosphere

Training of the Thumb in Pianoforte and Organ Playing

Three Helpful Devices with Which Piano Students Should be Familiar

Music in America During Revolutionary Times

How One Mother Kept the Home Together

Necessary Little Instrument for Every Piano

Habit Formation in Relation to Pianoforte Playing

Philadelphia Movement in Music

Notation of Silence

Systematize Children's Practice

Curious Facts About Music

Real Help for the Pupil

Musical Memorizing To-day …

Volume 34, Number 07 (July 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Success Guides for Young Teachers

Practice Hour Filled with Pleasure

Part the Piano Should Play in Musical Education

What Should be the Attitude of the Layman Toward Music

Most Subtle Secret of Success

Live Teacher—Am I One?

Teaching the Use of the Bass Clef

Practice the Hard Parts Separately

Beginning at Both Ends

Effect of Mechanical Instruments Upon Musical Education: A Symposium from Noted American Educators Upon a Question of Wide Significance

Royal Performers on the Flute

Real Meaning of Rhythm

Useful Finger Exercise

Discouraging the Pupil

Can There Be Any Real New Music?

How Parents Can Help

First Requisites …

Volume 34, Number 06 (June 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the American Musical Public Needs (interview with Josef Stransky)

Geography of Opera

Correct Musical Diagnosis

Tragic Ending of Enrique Granados

Negro in the World of Music

Can Poetic Playing and Singing Be Taught?

Proper Age for Beginning Music

Different Kinds of Touch the Student Should Master

Story of the Piano in Pictures

World Music of To-morrow: A Prospect of the Nature of Our Musical Progress Based Upon the Musical Tendencies of To-day

Gift of Observation in Piano Study

When Grandmother Taught Me Music

Eye and the Ear: Shall the Student Learn to Play by Ear?

Some Interesting Beginnings in …

Volume 34, Number 05 (May 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sanity and Insanity in Modern Musical Composition

Classified List of Some Futurist and Modernist Composers

Will the Music of Ultra-Modernists Survive? A Symposium by Eminent Musicians

Some Examples of Cubist Art by Recognized Futurists

Thoroughness in Hungarian Music Study

Talented Pupil Who Wastes His Time

Redundant Practice

Efficiency Principle in Piano Study

How Edward Grieg Found Success

Boundaries of Beauty in Musical Art

Three Trinities in Music

Firsts in American Musical History

How to Play Thirds and Sixths—A Study in Advanced Technic

Facts About Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord

Use Musical Terms Precisely

Rebuilding on Old Foundations

Creoles and their Music

How …

Volume 34, Number 04 (April 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Studies in Advanced Technic

Spirit of the Piece

Practical Ideas in Teaching, Culled from a Famous Authority

Flush of Nervousness

Marvels of Sound: Some Wonders of Acoustics with Which Music Lovers Should be Familiar

Sound Facts for Busy Readers

Universality in Piano Teaching Methods

Developing Musical Volume of Tone

One Way of Getting More Pupils

Monotone

Musical Day in Nature: A Lecture Recital Program for Students and Teachers

Working Creed for the Music Teacher

Plan for the Systematic Review of Old Pieces

What To Do When a Teacher Cannot Be Had

History of Notation and the Young Student

Holding …

Volume 34, Number 03 (March 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Radical Methods in Modern Pianoforte Study

Remarkable Pianoforte Arrangements of Franz Liszt

Artistic Origin of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words

Liszt in Fiction: A Romance in Which the Great Pianist is the Central Figure

Practicing with One Hand

Shakespeare's Music the World Over

Clara Schumann's Debt to Johannes Brahms

Muscular Mastery of the Keyboard

Every One Can Memorize Music: That is, if Everyone Will Work Hard Enough, Long Enough and in the Right Way

Thoroughness in Memorizing Music

Misleading Musical History

Sibelius and the Music of Modern Finland

Teaching Pupils the Musical Alphabet

Nervousness versus Karma: A Much-Needed Parable for Timid …

Volume 34, Number 02 (February 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Happy Side of Music Teaching

Blind Handel and His Blind Helper

Piano Subito

You and the Other Teacher

Elementary Study of Pianoforte Technic

Teacher's Nerve Destroyers

Hands and the Pianist

Away from the Piano

Science of Pianoforte Practice

Establishing a Definite Technic

Single Little Mistake

Leisure Hour Facts for Music Workers

What is Expected of the Accompanist?

Foundation of Smooth Scale Playing

Practicing Backward

Musical Facts for Spare Moments

Early Drill in Sight Reading

Ten Points in Extemporization

Place of the Nocturne in Musical Art

Pertinent Questions for Conscientious Teachers

Interesting Facts About Finnish Music

When Should I Practice?

Three …

Volume 34, Number 01 (January 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Preparing for the Virtuoso's Career

Chopin in Fiction

Chopiniana: Chopin's Character, Temperament and Art Etched in Interesting Facts from

Music in the Danish Capital

Aid to Sight Reading

On the Gentle Art of Advertising

Arm-Control in Piano Playing

Don'ts for the Mothers of Music Pupils

Letting the Pupil Select Music

Should a Teacher Evolve His Own Method, or Use That of His Instructor?

How to Gain Power, Sweetness and Expression in Singing

Matter of American Musical Atmosphere

Practical Ideas in a Nutshell

Wisdom of Leschetizky: Statements from His Personal Expressions on Pianoforte Playing

Have I Musical Talent?

Use of the …

Volume 33, Number 11 (November 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Boy Who Would Not Practice

Beethoven Piano in America

Four Essentials of Daily Practice

Power of Suggestion in Music

First Performance of Handel's Messiah, The

Franz Liszt—The Last Word in Piano Playing: Some Unpublished Aphorisms

Fingering the Minor Scales

At What Age Should the Pupil Start

Beginnings of Modern Instrumentation

MacDowell's Distinguished Career: A Collection of Interesting Personal Recollections and Comments Throwing New Light Upon Phases of the Activity of MacDowell as a Composer Pianist and as a Teacher

Edvard Grieg and His Own Compositions

Artistic Musical Temperament: And What a Few Kings Did in the Tonal Art

Beautiful Folk …

Volume 33, Number 10 (October 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Student Days with Edvard Grieg

Modern University-Trained Composer

Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Prose Reading Arranged from the Famous Drama by Henrik Ibsen, with Musical Accompaniment by Edvard Grieg

Development of the Romantic Folk-Songs of Scandinavia

Full Hour Lesson

Concise Biographical Dictionary of Scandinavian Musicians

Use of Finger Exercises in the Early Grades

Foundations in Touch for the Beginner

Ferdinand Hiller's Tribute to Robert Schumann

Blossom Time in Pianoforte Literature (interview with Percy Grainger)

Selecting the Pupil's Music

Some Occult Aspects of Music

How Liszt Encouraged Saint-Saëns

Scandinavian Musical Activities in the United States

Getting the Right Kind of a Start …

Volume 33, Number 09 (September 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Modernism in Pianoforte Study (interview with Percy Grainger)

Better Understanding of Crescendo

Musical Obligation to the Child

Right Studio Equipment

Dramatic Scenes from the Operas

Passing of Paul Wachs

How to Introduce Scales to the Tiny Tot

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life

Be the Architect of Your Own Technic

Sensible Practice Hints

Value of Scales

Music from the Cradle to the Grave

Piano Study as an Aid to Good Health

Tonal Technical Practice

Straightening Out the Strausses

How to Start a Musical Kindergarten

Mothers, Do You Need These Don’t's?

Deeds Not Words!

When Is a Piano in Tune?

Volume 33, Number 08 (August 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the Great War Will Mean to Music in America

Doing Away with the Useless in Piano Playing

How to Get Established in a New Town

Are Teachers Careless in Details?

Easy Scale Memorizing

Music Teaching and Common Sense

Interesting Musical Facts

Musical Tendencies which Must be Observed

Remedies for Musical People Who Are Nervous (interview with Alberto Jonás)

Saint-Saëns on Gounod's Faust

Must the Teacher Also be a Fine Pianist?

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life

Why Memorizing is Always Desirable

From the Professor's Standpoint

Passing of a Great Pianist

Studying Tone Values in Piano Playing

Strengthening Weak …

Volume 33, Number 07 (July 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Developing Automatic Muscular Sense

Let Money Making be Secondary

Nervousness in Piano Playing (interview with Alberto Jonás)

Musical Recollections of Four Score Years

Thinking Practice

Getting the Right Viewpoint in Teaching Music

Needed Reforms in the Essentials of Piano Technic

Question of Pianos

Aim of Productive Practice

Paths of Reform in Musical Education

Interesting Civic Movement in Music

Enriching the Means of Tone Production

Aim Above the Mark!

Present Day Pianist's Goal

Danger of Short Cuts in Music

Music a Numan Necessity in Modern Life (symposium)

Elements of Beauty in Rhythm

How to Acquire Rapidity?

Romance of Our National Anthem: …

Volume 33, Number 06 (June 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hand Cramp and How It May Be Remedied

Real Vacation for the Music Worker

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life (symposium)

Why the Musician Should Develop the Gift of Making Friends

Special Practice in Staccato

American Pageant

What the Composers Are Doing

Profitable Practice versus Wasted Practice (interview with Alexander Lambuert)

Benefits of Ensemble Playing

Dramatic Scenes from the Operas

Function of Piano Studies

Emotional and Picturesque in Music

May Drumming Be of Some Value?

Principles for Fingering the Major and Minor Scales

Etude Master Study Page—Richard Strauss

Well Known Composers of To-day—Elmer S. Hosmer

C Sharp Minor Waltz …

Volume 33, Number 05 (May 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Vagaries of Modern Harmony

Instead of Recitals

Little Problems in Human Nature Connected with Music Teaching

After the Musicale

Is Music Always Inspired?

Uniformly Well-Trained Pupils

Insuring Progress in Music Study (interview with Mark Hambourg)

Time for Practice

Some Pitfalls in Sight-Reading

Music Standardization in Missouri

Dramatic Scenes from the Operas

Defense of Classic Forms in Music

Playing Before One's Friends

Musician's Beginnings

Why Is It I Do Not Get Pupils?

What the Father Should Realize About Music Study

Practical Suggestion for Pupil Efficiency

What to Look for in Scale Playing

Characteristics of Polish Music

Musical Genius and Insanity: Great …