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Volume 27, Number 09 (September 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Digest of Musical Opinion in Europe

Timely Hints to Parents of Musical Children

Social Position of Some of the Great Composers

How to Select Teaching Pieces

How to Retain the Boy's Interest in Music

How to Study Some Noted Mendelssohn Compositions

Unnecessary Motions

Making of a Music Class

Influence of the Reading of Music on the Eye

Commencing Music in Infancy

Making Pupils Practice

Who's Who Among Women Pianists and Violinists

How Rossini Played

Volume 27, Number 08 (August 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching the Child How to Think

Sight Reading and Memorizing

Gounod and Mendelssohn

Haydn's Picturesque Personality

Women's Opportunity in Music (symposium)

Influence of the Amateur in Music: Non-Professional Music-Workers Who Have Made Important Contributions to the Art

Music After Marriage and Motherhood: Opinions of Some of the Most Famous Living Women Musicians Upon the Problem of Keeping Up Musical Work Without Neglecting the Home

Strengthening the Hands

Study Lighter Music in the Summertime

How Beethoven Wrote His Opera Fidelio

Tact in Correcting Mistakes

Popular Error About the Liszt Rhapsodies

Judging Pianos

Forcing Children to Learn Music

Avoid Dull Teaching Pieces …

Volume 27, Number 07 (July 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of the Coloratura Soprano

Woman's Opportunity in Music (symposium)

Famous Women in Musical History

Music After Marriage and Motherhood: Opinions of Some of the Most Famous Living Women Musicians Upon the Problem of Keeping Up Musical Work Without Neglecting the Home

Successful Memorizing: Some Remarkable Experiments in Memory

What Six Months with Czerny's Studies Did

Who's Who Among Famous Women Musicians

American Woman Pianist of To-day and Yesterday: An Entertaining Account of the Remarkable Advance in Piano Playing Made by the Women of Our Country During the Last Century

Vacation Study Without a Piano

Edward Grieg on Liszt's Playing …

Volume 27, Number 06 (June 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Study a New Piece: Suggestions for Cultivating Strength and Endurance Without Running the Risk of Injuring the Hands in Octave Playing

Schumann and Chopin

Recollections of Franz Liszt

How to Use the Etude Gallery

Carl Czerny: A Short Review of the Life and Work of the Teacher of Liszt and Leschetizky

Cheap Teachers Always Expensive

Von Bülow's Memory

How Verdi Entered the Musical Profession

Chronological Sketch of Joseph Haydn's Life

Card System as a Music Teacher's Aid

Why Class Teaching Sometimes Fails

Securing a Desirable Teaching Location

Story of Ballestrieri's Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata

Volume 27, Number 05 (May 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Wagner and Verdi: The Great Masters of Modern Opera

Garcia the Wonderful: The Story of the Teacher of Jenny Lind

How American Students Differ from European Students

Ten Practice Rules by Robert Schumann

What the Masters Thought of Dance Music

Origin of the Sonata

Fitting the Hand to the Keyboard

Music's Great Debt to Poetry

Short Autobiography of Eduard Schutt

Leschetizky on Piano Playing (interview with Theodor Leschetizky)

How You Might Start Your Teaching Business: Some Practical Letters to a Young Teacher

Study of Sixteenth Notes

Short Practical Lessons in Theory

Some Teaching Principles of Dr. Mason

Pedalling

Needs of …

Volume 27, Number 04 (April 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

At the Grave of Beethoven

What Musical Europe is Thinking and Doing

How Fortunes Are Wasted on a Vocal Education (interview with Marcella Sembrich)

Theodore Leschetizsky on Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with Theodore Leschetizsky)

Story of the Waltz: How the Most Fascinating of Dances Has Influenced the Great Composers

Lessons from the Life of Beethoven

How to Study a New Piece (interview with Schelling, Ernest)

Story of Musical Prodigies: How Some Very Remarkable Children Have Afterwards Become Great Musicians and How Others Have Been Injured by Excessive Work in Their Childhood

Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata: Balestrieri's Famous Painting Described

Short Practical …

Volume 27, Number 03 (March 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Musical Europe is Thinking and Doing

Touch—the Great Essential (interview with M. Ossip Gabrilowitsch)

How to Cultivate Sight-Reading

Sub-conscious Mind in Piano Playing

Musical Europe of Yesterday and Musical America of To-day: Reflections Upon the Study of Music and Pianoforte Playing as Taught in Europe Twenty-Five Years Ago and as Taught in America Now

Scarlatti's Unique Fingering

Interesting Stories of Chopin's Career

Chopin's Taste in Music

Mathematics of Melody

How Music Brightens the Home

Bellini, the Genius of Stricken Sicily

Easy Way to Teach Musical History

Conquering of Fear

Use of the Sound Reproducing Machine in Vocal Instruction and …

Volume 27, Number 02 (February 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Review of European Musical Articles

Masters and Their Methods

Mozart's Lack of Commercial Instinct

On the Quantity of Work to be Given a Pupil

Rossini's Remarkable Industry

Opportunities for Young Oratorio Singers

Useless Musical Exercises

Robert Schumann's Carnaval

Optimism in Teaching

What is an Ear for Music?

How Mendelssohn Wrote a Famous Work

Beethoven's Woodland Walks

Young Artist's Treasure Box: Aphorisms by Poets, Philosophers and Artists

Volume 27, Number 01 (January 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mendelssohn, The Man and the Musician

Franz Liszt on the Chopin Mazurka

Mendelssohn the Fortunate

Songs Without Words

Raising Your Income

Home Life of Mendelssohn

Grown-up Beginner

Advantage of Etudes

Napoleon's Great Love for Music

Mendelssohn, The Poet of Symmetry and Grace

Interesting Stories of Mendelssohn

Important Events in the Life of Mendelssohn

Personal Reminiscence of Mendelssohn

Interesting Extracts from Mendelssohn's Letters

Present Position of Mendelssohn's Music

Mendelssohn's Piano Compositions and Their Availability for the Teacher

Origin of the Waltz

Training of a Concert Pianist

How Helen Keller Enjoys Music

Liszt on the Musical Trinity

Told by Chaminade (interview with …

Volume 26, Number 11 (November 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Invention of the Nocturne

Stephen Heller—His Life and Works

From Rubinstein's Note-Book

Superstititions of Concert Pianists

Effective Piano Practice

American Students Should Study in America

What the Masters of Music Have Accomplished in Old Age: Remarkable Instances of Musical Activity and Intellectual Fecundity Late in Life

Musical Atmosphere in America

What Constitutes Beauty in Piano Playing

Classical Music as a Basis of Pianoforte Instruction

Handel's Youth

Volume 26, Number 10 (October 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Profitable Physical Exercises for Piano Students

About the Metronome

Paul Wachs: A French Composer Whose Drawing Room Pieces Have Been Exceptionally Successful

How the Masters Waited and Worked for Success: Tales of Persistence and Patience that Paid in the End

How a Musical Note-Book Helps Children

How to Play Chopin

Important Musical Activities Abroad

Musical Magazine and the Village Student

Self-Help Hints on Etude Music: Practical Explanatory Notes for Ambitious, Progressive Teachers and Students

Volume 26, Number 09 (September 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Influence of Chopin

Life of Dr. William Mason

Journalistic Comment on Dr. Mason's Death

What is Gipsy Music?

Appreciation of Dr. Mason

Dr. Mason's Genius as a Teacher

William Mason Model Teacher

Pithy Sayings by Dr. Mason

Dr. Mason's Personality

With Dr. Mason in the Studio

Music in the Old World: What the Masters of Europe are Thinking and Doing

Basis of Music Memory

Passing of the Square Piano

Eccentric Moods and Manners of the Great Composers

Volume 26, Number 08 (August 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Should Amateurs be Given a Different Course of Study Than Professional Students?

Class Teaching Versus Private Teaching

False Stories in Musical History

Importance of Music in the Home Life

Rimsky-Korsakov: 1844-1908

Musical Libraries

Piano Lessons by the Great Masters: Franz Liszt

Practical Church Music

Increased Valuation of Music in our Government

How Music May Alleviate Suffering

Bach Becoming Popular

Volume 26, Number 07 (July 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dr. Robert Goldbeck, Prominent German-American Musician and Educator, Deceased

Lessons with Kullak: How the Great German Pedagogue Taught

Questionable Advantages of Foreign Study

Is the Piano a Disadvantage in Early Musical Education? (Symposium)

Correct Pronunciation of the Names of Well-Known Musicians

Acquisition of a Loose Wrist

How the Music Teacher is Hampered by Pupils' School Work

Necessity of a Vacation for Musicians and Students

Musical Development Late in Life

Educational Value of Musical Postal Cards

Egotism in Music

Reginald de Koven upon Night Work

Volume 26, Number 06 (June 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Child Who Can't

Some Eccentricities of Musical Genius

Self-Made Masters in Music: How Schubert, Haydn, Raff, Wagner, Elgar and Others Taught Themselves—Practical Advice for Students Who are Forced to Carve Out Their Own Careers Without the Assistance of a Teacher

How Public School Music Should Help the Private Music Teacher

Should Music be Studied by High School Pupils?

Is the Piano a Disadvantage in Early Musical Education? A Symposium Upon a Vital Subject by Many Well-Known Teachers and Artists

How Correct Accenting Helps the Student

Making the Summer Profitable: Opinions of Practical Teachers upon Rest and Study in the Torrid …

Volume 26, Number 05 (May 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Student Days in Weimar With Liszt: Reminiscences of an American Virtuoso and Teacher Who Won the Interest of the Greatest Master of the Keyboard

Extending the Compass of a Hand Without Injury

Securing Pupils

Helpful Ideas for the Younger Piano Teacher

Difficulties of Teachers in Small Towns

Leopold Godowsky on Natural Technic

Retaining the Loyalty of Old Pupils

Rise of the Virtuoso

Necessity of Credentials for Music Teachers

Some Essentials of Pianoforte Tone Production

Good Way to Teaach Odd Rhythms

Mothers as Assistant Teachers

Volume 26, Number 04 (April 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Newly Discovered Sketch by Mozart with its Musical Explanation

Sustained Finger Exercises

Co-öperation of Teacher and Student

Stimulating the Pupil's Ambition

Autobiography of a Rhapsody of Liszt

Suggestions Relating to Scale Fingering

Some Factors that Aid Good Teaching

Thirty-minute Lesson

Wagner's Witty Remarks on the Oratorio in England

Difficulties of the Young Music Teacher

What Should the Amateur Pianist be Taught of Harmony

Allow the Student to Develop His Own Ideas

Remodeling the Old Teacher's Work: How Great Tact Should be Used in Making Changes

Volume 26, Number 03 (March 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

MacDowell and His Mission

Why We Should Support American Music

Bach at the Organ

Poor Pay for Musicians

Harold Bauer on Technic

Rembrandt and Wagner

How to Study Chopin's Nocturne, Opus 9, Number 2

H. Engelmann

Brahms and the Waltz

Trying for a Church Position

Slow Practice

Volume 26, Number 02 (February 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching Young Boys

Placate the Parent

Piano Duet Practice

Technic as It Should Be

Teachers' Auxiliary Work

What is Music?

So-Called Natural Piano Technic

Carl Heins

Musical Degrees in American Colleges

Why the Masters Died Poor

Brahms and Nikisch

Contrasted Character of Major and Minor Music

Volume 26, Number 01 (January 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some of Reinecke's Famous Pupils

Home Life of Reinecke

Courses of Self-Study for Piano: Suggestions as to How It May Best Be Pursued

What Music Owes to Dancing

Paderewski on Music Teaching

Career of a Concert Singer: Opinions and Experiences of the Noted Concert Soprano Miss Emma Thursby

Private Teacher in His Relation to Music in the Public Schools

How I Teach the Scales

How Long Shall Be the Lesson of a Child Under Twelve Years?

Chances of the Music Teacher in the Southwest

Volume 25, Number 11 (November 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Education of the Masters

Making the Lesson Hour More Profitable

Bach's Sons

Liszt as a Composer and as an Artist

Letter from a Teacher in New Zealand

How to Select a Piano

Teaching New Materials

Famous Italian Pupil of Franz Liszt

Advice to Young Teachers

Some Trials and Experiences of a German Teacher

Volume 25, Number 10 (October 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Edvard Grieg

Eulogy Upon Grieg

Grieg's Twelve Most Popular Piano Pieces

Story of the Gavotte

Joseph Joachim: A Tribute to the Great Teacher, Artist, Man, Who Stood at the Educational Head of Musical Life in Berlin for a Half Century—His Remarkable Violin School and His Influence Upon His Pupils and Friends

Should Recital Music be Memorized?

Sevcik and Joachim

How Rubinstein Played the Piano

Edvard Grieg

Volume 25, Number 09 (September 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Business Man and Good Music

Technical Exercises, Etudes and Pieces: How to Use Them

Palestrina

Fallacy of Music Study Abroad

Practice that Develops Technic

Practical Hints by Bülow

To Teachers Who Do Not Play

Volume 25, Number 08 (August 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Business Side of Making an Artist

To Protect Sheet Music

Study of Mozart's Sonata in F Major

Musical Education of the Blind

Henry Parker

How I Teach the Piano

Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakoff

Development of the Pianoforte

Enthusiasm in Teaching

High School Music Courses and College Requirements

Hans Sachs

Géza Horváth

Volume 25, Number 07 (July 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Schumann's Workshop

How to Read Music

Beethoven's Fondness for Out-of-Door Life

Hint for the Sight Reader

Success and Failure in Music: A Symposium

Anton Rubinstein in His Classes

Grading Music for Teaching Purposes

Young Pupil and Elementary Musical Theory

Teaching Material for Children

Beethoven's Personal Appearance

Notes on the Study of Scales

Arthur Foote

Environment a Factor in Teaching

World's Greatest Pianists

Emotional Appeal in Instrumental Music

Paderewski's Minuet in G

Study of Program Music

Volume 25, Number 06 (June 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Johannes Brahms: The Classical Spirit in Music

Some Sayings of Brahms

Estimate of Brahms' Work

Brahms as a Practical Joker

How Liszt Taught

Chorus in the Small Town, with Some Side-Lights on Its Influence on American Music

Edvard Grieg: The Scandinavian Spirit in Music

Jacques the Dreamer: The Story of a Musician, with a Moral in It

Charles Camille Saint-Saëns: A Representative of French Music

Story of the Minuet

History Questions for Music Students

Importance of Finger Training

Cornelius Gurlitt

Monument to Stephen Heller

Volume 25, Number 05 (May 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musician's Holiday in Central Europe: Summer Music in Germany

Liszt's Love for the Piano

TTo the Graduates in Music: A Baccalaureate

Scales and Scale Playing: Their Place in Modern Piano Playing (Prize Essay)

Minnesinger

Education of the Masters

Conservatory Musical Society—What it Can Do for Members

Suggestion to Stimulate American Composition

Teaching Pieces by Godard

Some Leipzig Teachers of Fifty Years Ago

Volume 25, Number 04 (April 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Maiden's Wish (Chopin Story)

Weber a Dramatic Composer

Control of Nervousness in the Musician

Making a Community Musical

Some Considerations on Foreign Study

Some Modern Technical Delusions and a Suggested Remedy

Dangers of Thoughtless Automatic Practice

Aim and Scope of Music for the Left Hand Alone

Shakespeare and Music: Some Interesting Quotations

Are the Keys with Flats in the Signatures Easier to Play than the Keys with Sharps? Why? (Symposium)

Beethoven's Love for Nature

Secret of Rosenthal's Technic

Artist's Revenge (A Story of Liszt and Chopin)

Anton Rubinstein in His Class Room

Keep the Eyes on the Music

Fraud Music …

Volume 25, Number 03 (March 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Easter at St. Peter's, Rome

Notes for the History Teacher

Pioneers in Music

Keyboard and the Hand

Incident of Schumann's Last Days

Hints for the Duet-Player

Rhythm and Meter in Music

Nature's Symphony: An Incident of Beethoven's Youth

Songs without Words

Sigismond Thalberg

Volume 25, Number 02 (February 1907), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin as I Knew Him

Lesson on a Phase of Technic: The Thumb and Second Finger

Repertory and How to Acquire It

Reminiscences of Schubert

Life of the Virtuoso

Few Thoughts Concerning the Musical Ear

Anton Rubinstein in His Classes

18th Century Tribute to Bach

Plan for the Teacher Who Wishes to Give Her Pupils Both Private and Class Lessons

French View of the American Musical Future

Evolution of a Country Church Choir

Some Common Errors of Piano Pupils: How to Correct Them