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Volume 68, Number 04 (April 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Story of Parsifal

Blueprint for Public School Music

Toscanini Tours

America Art of Choral Conducting

Changing Voice—A Symposium

How I Play the 'Cello (interview with Garbousova, Raya)

School Band: A Challenge Questions and Answers

Teacher's Roundtable

Master Lesson on Tchaikovsky's April

Volume 68, Number 03 (March 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Richards Strauss . . . Conducting is a Difficult Business

Modern Piano Musical Metaphysics . . . Its Cause and Cure

How to Build a Voice Psychologists

Evaluate Music

So You Want to be a Piano Teacher

Structure of Music Clarence Dickinson—Pioneer of Church Music

Let's Simplify the Liebestraum Cadenzas Master Lesson on Brahms' Intermezzo in E-Flat Major, Op. 117,

No. 1 Musical Medicos

For TV Thrillers

Volume 68, Number 02 (February 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Oklahoma Wizard

What Chopin Really Thought of Liszt

Record Your Performances . . . On a High Note: The Secret of Free, Effortless Top Tones—A Studio Tested Formula

Opera Isn't Dead

Volume 68, Number 01 (January 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Social Implications of Piano Study: Leadership, Cooperation, Self-Confidence—These Benefits of Piano Training Make For a Well-Adjusted Personality

Ballet . . . A New Freedom

How to Choose a Violin

Don't Take Your Music Too Seriously (interview with Alec Templeton)

What is Your Vocal Problem?

Ninety We Lose: Children Aren't Little

Men and Women—Look at Piano Lessons from Their Point of View

Musician's Worst Enemy—The Common Cold

Voices Aren't Made . . . They Grow

What Music Teachers Forget to Teach

My First Big Opportunity (interview with Mario Lanza)

How to Play a Melody

Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Christmas Comes (poem)

Handbells—Ancient Art Revived

Sing Ho for Christmas

I Learned To Sing By Accident (interview with Mario Lanza)

Swing Into Your Tone

Don’t Plan To Be a Conductor! (interview with Ernest Ansermet)

Why Do We Call Them Carols?: Songs of Christmas Link Today with the Ancient Past

It's the Same Old Claque: Then and Now—New York or Paris—

Relax and Improvise! (interview with Grace Castagnetta)

Concerning Spiccato, Sautille Arpeggios and Articifial Harmonics

Does Your Band Play in Tune?

What Is Your Vocal Problem?

Organ Practice and How To Get It

Master Lesson On the Sarabande and Bourrées …

Volume 66, Number 12 (December 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Little Lights of Christmas (Poem)

Sibelius Today: A Flight to Helsingfors to Visit Finland's Master Including a Conference with the Composer of Finlandia

Musical Christmas of Yesteryear

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography, Part 6

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music

Christmas Music—A Universal Language

Test Your Teaching Methods

Great Russian Music of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Tcherepnine)

My First Day at the Conservatoire de Paris

Igor Stravinsky and the Greek Tragedy

Music Means Joy in Chinese: The Chinese Cultural Theater Group Affords an Opportunity for Americans to Learn of Cathay

Comeback—Words and Music

Fellowship Song Book: Revised., International Christian Youth Fellowship Commission Of The Disciples Of Christ

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Volume 65, Number 12 (December 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Down (Poem)

Silent Night, Holy Night!

America's Great Peace Hymn: The Story of America, the Beautiful and Its Composer, Samuel A. Ward

Amazing Subterranean Oratorio Performance: An Astonishing Account of a Notable Concert 750 Feet Underground in a Fabulous American Cavern Fairyland

Keep It Natural! (interview with Eileen Farrell)

Revival of the English Carol

What Gives a Violin Tone?

Joyous Mendelssohn (1809-1847): An Anniversary Sketch of the Brilliant Career of Felix Mendelssohn

Young People in Music (interview with Malcolm Sargent)

What the Singer Needs for a Career in Radio (interview with Jane Wilson)

The Music Of The New Testament Church, H. H. Gray

Stone-Campbell Books

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Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

So This Is Our Christmas! (editorial)

Musical Dates of the Pre-Christian Period

Christmas Crib: The World-wide Adoption of the Holy Scene in the Manger

Secret of Song Speech (interview with Conrad Thibault)

Story of Christmas: As Told by the Titles of Christmas Carols and Songs

Wit and Humor of Musicians (Part Two)

What Hotels Mean to Music

Music Study Promotes Happy Homes: A Psychologist Discovers Notable Facts

Fiddler in the Sky

Spinet Rules in the 1947 Piano Field (Pictures)

Unknown Liszt Portrait

Volume 63, Number 12 (December 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Song for a New World (Poem)

World Christmas Carols

Legend of Switzerland's Native Instrument

Queen Receives the Queen (Marjorie Lawrence)

Music's March of Victory (interview with Beardsley, Ruml)

Revolution in Opera (interview with Laszlo Halasz)

How Records Helped Win the War

Christmas Carol

Edison's Contribution to Musical Appreciation

George Eliot—Musician

Getting a Piece Ready for Public Performance

Wayfaring Minstrel (interview with Burl Ives)

Instrumental Music, Percy E. Krewson

Stone-Campbell Books

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Volume 62, Number 12 (December 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dawn on the Horizon

Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves

Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)

Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge

How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)

Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Music as a Living, Human Element

New York's First Opera

What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words

Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)

Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music

Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …

Volume 61, Number 12 (December 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Canticle (Poem)

Piano When Peace Comes (interview with Lucien Wulsin)

Hints for the Young Violinist (interview with Carroll Glenn)

Turning the Searchlight on Musical Harmonies

Music and the Americas of Tomorrow (interview with James Rowland Angell)

Jitterbugs of Yesteryear: Dancing Madness through the Ages

Save Your Old Etudes: They are Valuable

Carols at Christmas

Music and War Manpower

Story of Beethoven's Adelaide

Don't Wreck—Build: How Destructive Criticism May be Turned into Profitable Criticism

Singing with Philosophy (interview with Igor Gorin)

Process of Weight Release in Piano Playing

Modern Ballet and Its Music

Technic of the Month—Prelude in B major, …

Great Gospel Songs For Tent And Tabernacle, Great Songs Press

Stone-Campbell Books

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Volume 59, Number 02 (February 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Star Enters Her 'Teens

Morning at Valley Forge

Lord Byron in Romantic Music

Reaching Your Goal at the Keyboard (interview with Percy Grainger)

Earlier God Bless America

Singing Success without Money or Manager

Brahms' Prickly Pet

Language of the Composer (interview with Béla Bartók)

Musical Ear

Lure for the Musical Child

Origin of The Star-Spangled Banner

Practical Hints for Training the Conductor (interview with Nicholai Malko)

Pirating Parnassus: Tune Borrowing in Tin Pan Alley

Technic of the Month—More Invaluable Czerny Studies

A Ten-Cent History Of "Music In Worship", Charles Buttz Titus

Stone-Campbell Books

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Volume 57, Number 11 (November 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Heredity and Music

Success in Voice Study (interview with Nelson Eddy)

Radio Flashes

Practical Aids in Getting Pupils

Composing for the Radio

ASCAP's Giant Music Festival

Do You Know?

How I Mastered Eighty Piano Concertos (interview with Henrietta Schumann)

Helpful Pedal Exercises

Who Wrote America?

Short Cuts in Piano Technic: Valuable Ideas Derived from a Study of the Keyboard Philosophy of Tausig, Deppe, and de Pachmann

Music for the Pre-School Child

Fatigue Hour

Success for the Young Musician (interview with Jan Smeterlin)

Encouragement Versus Criticism

Make Your Practice Period Profitable

Use and Misuse of the Metronome

Music As an Anaesthetic …

Volume 57, Number 10 (October 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music, Now, More Than Ever

Youth and Music Disciline

How People Are Swayed by Song (interview with Mark Sullivan)

Shall We Educate the Parents?

Increasing the Attendance at Pupils' Recitals

Time, Only, Tells (interview with Paul Hindemith)

Tradegy of a Deaf Musician: The Dramatic Fate of Friedrich (Bedrich) Smetana

Some Reflections on Singing (interview with Maria Anderson)

Helpful Octaves

How to Make Money by Teaching the Piano

Musical Viking: New Vistas of the Life of Edvard Grieg

Magnificent Musical Undertaking

How to Make Polyphonic Playing Interesting: Practical Doorways to the Art of Performing Interwoven Melodies

Hungarian Dance, No. 6 by …

Volume 57, Number 09 (September 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Crime Prevention: Better Spend $5000 for a Band Than $50,000 for a Jail

Make Your Pupils' Recitals Fascinating

Getting Acquainted with the Keyboard

Style's the Thing (interview with John Brownlee)

Czerny, Master of Masters

Independent Finger Motion

Schumann Drill

Luring the Child to Love the Piano (interview with Marcele Chéridjian-Charrey)

Painless Review Work

Liszt Trick

Fascination of Two-Piano Playing (interview with Silvio Scionti)

Strange Music Makers

Threshold of Music: Borrowed Chords and Altered Chords

Are You Aiming for the Opera?

Volume 57, Number 08 (August 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musica Pan-America

Music of the Woodland: A Musical Playlet

History of the Marimba

Teaching the Little Tots: The Real Pre-School Age

Mind's Ear

Diversions of the Masters

How to Teach Broken Chords

Couldn't Fool Him on Pitch

Music Makers in Old New England: A Timely Review of Many Quaint Customs

Singers of the Soil: Including the Fascinating Story of Buckwheat or Shaped Notes

Jascha Heifetz Transposed to the Films

Color in Piano Styles

Music's Debt to the Poets

New Experiment with Music in Business

Scherzo from the Sonata in F Minor of Brahms—A Master Lesson

Volume 57, Number 07 (July 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Joy of Singing

Learning to Interpret Great Music (interview with Robert Casadesus)

Radio Flashes

Negro Stephen Foster: The First Published Biography of James A. Bland

New Genius Who Does Not See—Alex Templeton

How to Improve the Child's Reading Ability

Music Circus in Recital: A Program That Will Delight All Youngsters, and Intrigue the Boys

Having Fun with the Ears

Music from a Carpenter's Saw

Music as a Business Man Sees It (interview with Allan Hancock)

Our Insect Musicians

Wrist Lubrication

Abandoned Farms of Music Education

Threshold of Music: Keys That are Related—Sisters and Cousins and Aunts—Natural Laws That Guide the …

Volume 57, Number 06 (June 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Now That Commencement Is Here?

Learning How to Help Yourself (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Yes There is a Musical Market

Radio Flashes

Pianist, Know Your Fingers: A New Approach to Piano Technic

Democracy of Radio (interview with Stephen West)

Mother Goose, Mus. Doc.: A Dramatic Piano Recital

Vital Inner Structure of Music: Is Counterpoint the Dry Bones of the Tone Art?

Some Tuneful Towns in the United States

Astonishing New Instrument

Beethoven's Best Clothes (an Anecdote)

Musical Radical Reforms

Great Master's Principles of Composition: Balakirev's Clear and Practical Ideas Upon Musical Structure

New Lights on Giuseppe Verdi as Seen in …

Volume 57, Number 05 (May 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Quest for Ideals

New York World's Fair Music Festival

Staccato Star

Building and Use of a Vocal Instrument (interview with Kerstin Thorborg)

Bach's Musical Helpmate: A Graphic Picture of Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Notenbüch

World's Largest Carillon: Dedicated to Stephen Foster

My Old Kentucky Home: An Eighty-five Year Old Folk Song and Something of Its History

Threshold of Music: The Art of Musical Voyaging: Modulation

Ten Remarkable Years Before the Mike (interview with Virginia Rea)

Schumann's Hints to Young Musicians

Music Study Means Music Study (interview with Mischa Elman)

Forward March of Music

Volume 57, Number 04 (April 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums! (from Handel's Judas Maccabeus)

Renaissance of the Band (Interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

What Do Bands Mean to America? (interview with Fred A. Holtz)

And the Band Won

New Concepts in Present Day Music (interview with Paul Whiteman)

America's Oldest Civic Band: One Hundred and Ten Years of Activity; and Still Flourishing

Sing With Your Heart (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Recent Record Releases

Tooting a Horn for Fifty Years (interview with B.A. Rolfe)

Eight Years Abroad With a Jazz Band

American Bandmaster Speaks—A Symposium

March of the Grail Knights: From Richard Wagner's Parsifal as …

Volume 57, Number 03 (March 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Quirks

Victor Herbert as I Knew Him: Memories of The Man and His Music

Simplicity as a Background for Art (interview with Guiomar Novaes)

Radio Flashes

Adult Piano Beginner: What Should be Done to Make the Hands Supple (interview with Isidor Philipp)

Hand and the Keyboard

William Mason—An American Master: High Lights in the World's Famous Piano Methods

Good Singing Must be Natural (interview with Bruna Castagna)

Recent Record Releases

Unknown Victor Herbert: Intimate Pictures of the Life of a Widely Loved Composer

Lazy Hand

Scrambling Pupil

Romance of Annie Laurie: The Story Behind One of the Most Famous …

Volume 57, Number 02 (February 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the Arts

Smart Attire for Concert and Recital (interview with Elizabeth Hawes)

Why Music Is the Most Popular of the Fine Arts

Let's Go to the Music Hall: How They Put on the Show in the World's Largest Theater

How to Play Notes

Music's Debt to Shakespeare

Recent Record Releases

Musical Foresight-Hindsight

Mystic Dances of the Far East

Music Elects a Governor

Threshold of Music: Linking Chords into Sentences—And Punctuating Them

Meaning of Musical Ornamentation: The Psychology Behind These Interesting Tonal Decorations in Music

Etude's Courses in Culture

Magnificent New The Mikado in Technicolor: A Cinema Presentation from …

Volume 57, Number 01 (January 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Epic of Attainment

Amazing Musical World of To-day (interview with Walter Gieseking)

Going Through the Book

Moonlight Sonata: Fact, Fiction and Fancy

How to Abolish Fear Before Audiences: The Meaning of Mike-Fright

Men of the Orchestra: A Visit with the Individuals Who Produce the Music (interview with Mishel Piastro)

Spelling of Musical Notation: Musical Orthography Made Clear

Earning a Living Through Singing

Astonishing Invention of Musical Interest

New European Sound Reproducing Invention

Etude in C-sharp Minor by Chopin

Etude's Courses in Culture

Quest for Harmony in Decoration

Forward March of Music

Aids to Sight Reading

Another Use for Reward …

Volume 56, Number 11 (November 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony a Day

Apprentice Years of a Master (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)

Threshold of Music: A Stormy Seventh—And Some Even More Complex Chords

Awakening of Ebenezer Scrooge: A Playlet in Three Acts Adapted from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Stephen Foster of Tin Pan Alley in Other Days: The Magic Story of America's Most Loved Composer of Folk Songs

What Music in Sing Sing Prison Means in the Lives and Reclamation of Many Inmates

Three Notographs

Madrigals of the Days of Good Queen Bess: Polyphonhic Masterpieces of the Elizabethan Era Formerly Heard by Few But Now Heard by Millions Over …

Volume 56, Number 10 (October 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Maintaining Radio Interest

Conductor and His Orchestra (interview with John Barbirolli)

Hour of Charm: The Most Unusual Girls Orchestra of the Times (interview with Phil Spitalny)

Master as Seen by His Wife (interview with Aino Sibelius)

Threshold of Music: The Most Famous Chord in Music: The Dominant Seventh

Three Notes Against Two

Major John A. Warner: New York State's Notable Musical Police Superindentant

Training the Little Finger

Rhythm for Clearness

Caring for the Vocal Instrument (interview with Giovanni Martinelli)

Practice Is Playing

Some Two Thousand Year Old Wisdom on the Tone Art

Strike the Nail on the Head

Game of …