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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

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 …

Volume 29, Number 07 (July 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mendelssohn's Ideal Musical Training: Some Interesting Sidelights Upon the Education of the Fortunate Boy Who Was Later to Become One of the Word's Greatest Masters

Great Innovators in the Art of Piano-Playing

Very First Lessons at the Piano

Verdi's Egyptian Opera Aïda

Josef Pischna: The Renowned Writer of Technical Exercises

Brahms' Quick Wit

How to Secure a Legato-Touch

Systematise Your Octave Study

Closing of a Great Career—Gustav Mahler

Old Laws and New Ideas: Important Observations Upon Piano Practice

How the Piano Differs from Its Fore-runners

Characteristic Dance Forms: Short Notes upon Dances Which Have Become Famous Through Their Adoption by …

Volume 29, Number 06 (June 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spirit of Life in Music—Rhythm

Real Musical Interest in the Czerny Studies

Balfe's Opera The Bohemian Girl

Famous German Conservatories: The Conservatories of Southern Germany

Analysis of Teaching Material: The Rondo Form

What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School

History and Uses of the Metronome

Hearing with the Eye

Beginner Specialist in Piano Teaching

Volume 29, Number 05 (May 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Influence of Germany's Greatest Masters on the Musicl Art of the World

Weber's Opera, Der Freischutz

Influence of the Folk-Song on German Musical Art (interview with Gustav Mahler)

Predominating Influence in the German Music of To-day

Some Important Things I Learned in Germany

Germany's Remarkable System of Music Schools: Music Schools of Northern Germany

What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School

Important Observations Upon Piano Practice

Ten Vital Tests in Finishing a Piece

Some Facts about Sopranos

Singers Who Lost Their Voices

How to Study a Song

Volume 29, Number 04 (April 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How Great German Singing Festivals Have Advanced the Art of Music in Germany and America

Conservatory at Leipsic

Program Music of Yesterday

Supernatural in German Musical Art

Some Important Things I Learned in Germany

Some Interesting Facts About Musical Magazines

Predominating Influence in the German Music of To-Day

Influence of Germany's Greatest Masters on the Musical Art of the World

As to Music Study in Europe

Wagner's Music-Drama, Lohengrin

America's Musical Debt to Germany

Great Gifts of the Centuries: Immortal Contemporaries in Music, Art and Literature

Gottschalk and Impressarios

Musician's Letter to an Ambitious Piano Student: Master Lessons in Piano …

Volume 29, Number 03 (March 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Radiating Keyboard

Oldest Living Composer

Some Absurdities of Opera

First Compositions of the Masters

Gounod's Masterpiece, Faust

Some Recent Music for Piano

About Accompanying

Fundamental Principles of Piano Playing

Famous Extemporizing

Rogues' March

Helpfulness of Obedience: A Talk with Mothers of Music Students

Attitude of the Pupil

Great Philosopher on Music

Impediments to Interpretation

Little Known Irish Musician

Music and the American Boy

Volume 29, Number 02 (February 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Weber as a Teacher

How Shall We Make Our Pupils Practice?

Bizet's Masterpiece, Carmen

Music and Color

Epigrams from Schumann

Your First Public Appearance

William H. Sherwood

Some Piano Personalities

Selecting Compositions for Teaching Purposes

Thumb and the Little Finger in Piano Playing

Some Things Piano Owners Ought to Know

Musical Blunders of Famous Authors

Practical Points for the Young Teacher

Well Known Composers of To-Day—Henry Weyts

English Organist of the Past and Present

Decline of the Banjo

Volume 29, Number 01 (January 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

English Pianists and the Development of Piano Playing in England

English Composers of To-day

Influence of Oratorio Upon English Music

Short Biography of Frederick Corder

Beggar's Opera

Music at the English Universities

How Music in England Has Profited by Local Musical Examinations

England's Hospitality to Foreign Musicians

Short Biographical Notes on British Musicians

Value of Pianoforte Transcriptions

Lessons from Memorable Piano Recitals

English Folk-Songs

Well Known Composers of To-Day—Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Handel Failure

English Organist of the Past and Present

How Verdi Came to Write Aïda

Volume 28, Number 11 (November 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Approximate Pronunciations of the Names of French Musicians

How Verdi Preserved His Originality

Lessons with Franz Liszt

Weber's Mistake

Cultivating Musical Taste in the Public Schools

Tschaikowski's Ideals

Triumph of Edward MacDowell

Wagner on Mendelssohn and Schumann

Beware of Fraudulent Publishers

Survival of the Fittest in Music: How the Great Works of the Tonal Art Remain Through the Centuries, While Those of Less Value Are Doomed to More or Less Certain Oblivion

Just Ordinary Miss Brown: The Story of an Old-fashioned Teacher and How She Got Real Results While Others Failed

What to Do at the First Lesson: The …

Volume 28, Number 10 (October 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music the American People Demand (interview with John Philip Sousa)

Scharwenka on Listening to One's Playing

Failure of Gounod's Faust

Heredity and Music: Remarkable Instances of the Manner in Which Musical Talent Has been Communicated from One Generation to Another

Some Great Virtuosos of the Present Day

Clara Schumann on Ear Training

Talk with Svendsen

Preparing the Hands for Advanced Pianoforte Study

Better Understanding of the Double Bar

Vital Defects of Most Pianists

Some Distinctions in Musical Terms

Volume 28, Number 09 (September 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Franz Liszt and the Origin of the Symphonic Poem

How Spohr Learned the French Horn in One Day

What is Meant by Interpretation

Forgotten Rivals of Great Composers

Story of the Minuet

How Music Helps the Business Woman

Power of Concentration in Music Study and How to Develop It

Mendelssohn's Versatility

Italy the Land of Music? A German View

Schumann Epigrams

Trip to the Shrine of Beethoven

How Beethoven Found the Theme for His Fifth Symphony

Map of Musical Europe

Well Known Composers of To-Day—George B. Nevin

How Verdi Became a Musician

Comparative Difficulty of Sharp and Flat Keys

Purcell's …

Volume 28, Number 08 (August 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin: Pre-Eminent Genius of the Pianoforte

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

When the Mother Interferes

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

Characteristic Dance Forms: Notes Upon Famous National Dances

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 Whimsical of the …

Volume 28, Number 07 (July 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mendelssohn's Ideal Musical Training: Some Interesting Sidelights Upon the Education of the Fortunate Boy Who Was Later to Become One of the Word's Greatest Masters

Great Innovators in the Art of Piano-Playing

Verdi's Egyptian Opera Aïda

Josef Pischna: The Renowned Writer of Technical Exercises

Brahms' Quick Wit

Closing of a Great Career—Gustav Mahler

Old Laws and New Ideas: Important Observations Upon Piano Practice

How the Piano Differs from Its Fore-runners

Characteristic Dance Forms: Short Notes upon Dances Which Have Become Famous Through Their Adoption by the Masters

Well Known Composers of To-Day—Arthur D'Haenens

What is Talent

Volume 28, Number 06 (June 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spirit of Life in Music—Rhythm

Real Musical Interest in the Czerny Studies

Pianist and the Tuner

Balfe's Opera The Bohemian Girl

Famous German Conservatories: The Conservatories of Southern Germany

Analysis of Teaching Material: The Rondo Form

Some Sign-Posts on the Road to Success in Music Study

What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School

History and Uses of the Metronome

Finger-Habit in Memorizing

Volume 28, Number 05 (May 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Influence of Germany's Greatest Masters on the Musicl Art of the World

Giving Lessons in the Country

Weber's Opera, Der Freischutz

Influence of the Folk-Song on German Musical Art (interview with Gustav Mahler)

Predominating Influence in the German Music of To-day

First Finger Exercises at the Keyboard

Some Important Things I Learned in Germany

Germany's Remarkable System of Music Schools: Music Schools of Northern Germany

What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School

Some Facts about Sopranos

Singers Who Lost Their Voices

How to Study a Song

Volume 28, Number 04 (April 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Faults Americans Must Correct (symposium)

How Tschaikowski Spent His Days

Neglected Details in Pianoforte Study (interview with Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni)

Personal Glimpses of Moszkowski as a Teacher

Weber's Description of Beethoven

Some Familiar Teaching Pieces by Franz Liszt

To the Young Musician Who Would Compose (interview with Liza Lehmann)

Mendelssohn at Work

Diatonic Scale in the Works of the Masters

How Helen Keller Appreciates Music

Common Mistakes in Tempo and Rhythm

What Early England Gave to Music

How to Enjoy a Symphony

Plain Talk on Starting a Teaching Business

Tschaikowski and Rubinstein

Volume 28, Number 03 (March 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Ten Important Attributes of Beautiful Pianoforte Playing (interview with S.V. Rachmaninoff)

Lessons with von Bülow (interview with Laura Rappoldi)

Origin and Development of the Suite

Tschaikowsky and Melody

Exercises for Practice of Three Notes Against Two

Much Misunderstood Facts Relating to the Laws of Sound

Lowell Mason, American Educator and Musical Pioneer

Some Composers of Valuable Pianoforte Pieces in Smaller Forms

Rhythm—The Secret of Swing in Music

Music as a Profession

Mother's Influence on Music in the Home

Writing Copy for Musical Advertisements

Beethoven as Others Saw Him

MacDowell at the Lesson

Cost of Running a Great Opera House

Volume 28, Number 02 (February 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Lesson from Brahms

Methods and Customs of the Paris Conservatoire

Franz Joseph Haydn and the Development of the Sonata and the Symphony

Story of Pepito Arriola

Foreign Fingering vs. American Fingering

Some Uses for Old Music

Some Rules for Making Musical Manuscript

Analyses of Three Famous Classic Marches

How to Get the Most Out of Practice

Physiologist's Comments on Piano Playing

Volume 28, Number 01 (January 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Short Biographical Notes Upon Italian Musicians

Paris Conservatory of Music

Moritz Moszkowski on Himself

Children of Unmusical Parents

Mme. Teresa Carreño on Individuality in Playing

Personal Recollections of Verdi (interview with Leando Campanari)

Some Striking Pictures of Rossini

Three Notes Against Two

Future of Italian Opera in America

Beginnings of the Oratorio and the Opera

Italian Writers for the Piano

Verdi's Position in Musical Art

Facts About Famous Italian Musicians

Historical Review of Italian Musical Art from the Beginning to the Present Day

Cherubini's Individuality

Some Piano Transcriptions of Numbers from Famous Italian Operas

Liszt on the Playing of His …

Volume 27, Number 11 (November 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Educational Influence of the Opera

On Memorizing Piano Music

Story of the Polonaise

What the Early Church Did for Music

Chopin as Extemporizer

Learning the Bass Clef Notes

How to Expand the Hand Without Injury

Short, Practical Lessons in Theory—The Dominant Seventh Chord

Teacher's Success Depends Upon the Pupil's Success

Mr. George A. Burdett's Work as a Composer

Why Hugo Wolf Failed as a Teacher

Some Fundamental Principles of Advertising for the Musician

Care of the Pianoforte in the Home

How to Form a Musical Library

Volume 27, Number 10 (October 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Their Obstaclesnd How They Overcame Them: Difficulties That Have Beset the Paths of the Foremost Masters and the Way in Which They Fought and Triumphed

How Music Began

Nervousness—How and When to Prevent It

Analysis of Beethoven Sonata, Opus 14, No. 2, First Movement

Inspiration of Bach's Piano Music

Mendelssohn's Compositions

Grieg at the Keyboard

How to Conduct Pupils' Musicales: Some Practical Hints Regarding the Students' Recital Gleaned from Practical Experience

How the Staccato Touch Broadens Technic

Schumann on Liszt's Playing

Peculiarities of Hungarian Music

Correcting Mistakes at the Lesson

Determining the Lesson Price