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Volume 54, Number 02 (February 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting Joy Out of Music (interview with Hendrik Willem van Loon)

What Grade?

Poland's Leading Composer Since Chopin

Eniment Recognition

Saint-Saëns as a Prima Donna

Mozart for Little Folk

Tone Quality and Tone Color in Piano Playing

She Made Curl Papers of His Sonatas

Liszt and Wagner

What Radio Offers the Young Composer: From an Address to the Schoolmen's Convention at Philadelphia

Modulation is Not Difficult: A Simple Technical Discussion of a Fascinating Theoretical Problem

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Be Kind to the Tuner

Music They Understand

Mexico’s Significance in Present Day Music

On Wings of …

Volume 54, Number 01 (January 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Singer's Art (interview with Feodor Chaliapin)

What Makes a Successful Pianoforte Piece

Music of the Buddhist Devil Dancers

Consort of Musick at Dame Percy's: An Outline for a Recital in Honor of Washingotn's Birthday

New Glimpses into the Life of Chopin

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Harmonica Band: What Does it Offer

Music in Modern Home Life

Beethoven's Love of Nature

Volume 53, Number 11 (November 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hobbies for Everybody

Wagnerian Singer (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Dolls' Music Festival

Have Musicians a Sense of Humor

What About Radio? (interview with Wilfred Pelletier)

Bach and Handel Compared

Very American Story of Emma Abbott: In Which Poverty Becomes the Vestibule to Success

Rubinstein's Famous Song Der Asra, As Arranged by Liszt: A Soliloquy on This Widely Known Composition

Memorybook Pages of a Musical Pilgrim: Presenting Messages and Music from Many States

Musical Embroideries at the Piano

Why Counterpoint?

How Music Lovers May Become More Truly Musical

Volume 53, Number 10 (October 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Amazing Career of Ignace Paderewski: Pianist, Composer, Orator, Statesman

Should Piano Teachers Study Other Instruments?

Lowered Second Scale-Step

National Broadcasting Company Music Appreciation Hour

Most Amazing Romance in Musical History

Genial Dr. Burney: The Originator of the Paino Duet

William Byrd in Praise of Singing

Day in Radio City

La Bohome—A Tragedy of Humble Life in Paris—An Adaptation of Puccini's Famous Opera, to be Used as a Reading at Music Clubs

Why Every Child Should Have Musical Training

Volume 53, Number 09 (September 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hector on Broadway

Day in Radio City

Bands Everywhere

Stage Fright Preventatives

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Food and the Voice (interview with Leon Felderman)

Three Important Chords in Music: Numerous Ways of Using the Chord of the Seventh, the Chord of the Sixth, and the Chord of the Sixth and Fourth

Why Czerny?

Romances of Great Musicians: Romance in the Life of Schubert

That Troublesome Fourth Finger

Wisdom of W.S.B. Mathews: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Writings of One of the Most Original and Distinctive Thinkers in the Field of American Musical Education

Making Sure …

Volume 53, Number 08 (August 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Forty Years in Showdom

And the Twain Shall Meet (interview with Armand Tokatyan)

Parent's Musical Opportunity

On Hearing the Lesson: Miss Kammerer's Lucid and Practical Expositions of Her Highly Successful Pedagogical Ideas Are Widely Welcomed by Teachers

Etude Day in the Public School

Program for Our Mothers

Couppey Suggestion

How Scotland Sings Her Story

Know Your Piano: Your Piano Has Over Six Thousand Parts; It Pays to Know Something About Them

Making My Family Musical: What It Has Meant to Their Lives and Mine

Romances of Great Musicians: Romance in the Life of Schumann

Why Every Child Should Have a …

Volume 53, Number 07 (July 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Prosperity Leads the Way

Distinctly American Vocal Problems (interview with Queena Mario)

Star Spangled Banner: Our National Anthem, Enshrined in the Hearts of all Patriotic Americans

Violinist's Summer (interview with Mischa Elman)

Geography of the Piano: Where the Piano Comes From

Failures that Triumphed

Romances of Great Musicians: Romance in the Life of Mozart

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Increasing the Resources of the Piano (interview with Walter Gieseking)

Music of the Congo: An Interesting Romance of the Music of Darkest Africa

Music Study Extension Course

Volume 53, Number 06 (June 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Nulla Dies Sine Linae (No Day Without Its Lines)

Violoncello as a Solo Instrument (interview with Beatric Harrison)

Sight Playing and to Improve It

Speed at the Piano Keyboard: Using Geometry to Help

Study Hints for the Advancing Student

Current Radio Programs

Visits to European Musical Shrines: Frankfort, Dresden, Stuttgart and Other Teutonic Music Centers

Organ Point or Pedal Point

Beethoven Advises a Piano Teacher

Altered Chords

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Evolution of the Piano Action

Lessons from Hearing Great Pianists

Learning to Pedal Effectively

Addison, The Spectator, on Eighteenth Century Music

Mother's Part

Developing a …

Volume 53, Number 05 (May 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and America's Greatest Problem

Palestrina, The Prince of Music: The Story of One of the Most Picturesque Figures

Reason for a Certain Theory of Fingering

Finger Exercises on Black Keys

Learning to Pronounce a Foreign Language: Something that Musicians Who Need Languages Should Know

Story of Musical Notation

Music of the Spains: Those Lands of Melody,Gaiety, Dancing, Chivalry and Song

Stars for Star Pupils: Rewards That Interest the Piano Pupil

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Beauty Through Wrist Action: A Study of Tonal Effects for Piano Students

Etude Music Study Expansion League

Have You Got Rhythm?: …

Volume 53, Number 04 (April 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mission Mass Chimes

Vast American Cultural Movement

Savoyard Saga: Comments Upon One of the Most Unusual Happenings in the History of Music in the Theater—The Fateful Combination of Gilbert, Sullivan and D'Oyly Carte at the Savoy Theater in London

Accent the Charm of Music: Why the First and Third Beats are Accented

Piano as a Broadcasting Instrument

Modern Tendencies in Music

Saving for Music Study

Evening With Ethelbert Nevin

Passing of a Great Diva

Cultivating a Dependable Memory

Grand Tradition of Opera (interview with Léon Rothier)

About Fifth Fingers, Ladies' Hands, and Camels' Backs

Helping the Parent to Help the …

Volume 53, Number 03 (March 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What I Learned from Broadcasting (interview with Nino Martini)

Relaxation Rather then Contraction

Short Course in Memory Training: Making Your Mind Work Along Right Lines

Why Music Should be Retained in the Public Schools: Music's Influence Upon Mankind

Beethoven's Estimate of His Fellow Musicians

One Way to Start a Pupil at the Very First Lesson

Pupils Everywhere: A Letter from a Practical Teacher Who Looked Depression Between the Eyes Until Depression Smiled Back with Success

Little Bach Program Recital

Do We Listen Creatively?

Charles Marie Widor, the Grand Old Man of French Music

Debussy and the Pedal Blur: The Lure …

Volume 53, Number 02 (February 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting Jobs through Music

Jennygrams: An Amusing Episode in American Musical History—How Barnum Turned Jenny Lind's American Début Into a Money Making Scheme

Dr. Brahms and Dr. Bilroth

Can Any Music Enthusiast Become a Master of the Piano?

Are You a Musical Parasite?

Musical Instruments of Old and Modern Cathay

Concerning the Jazz Question

Rules and Exceptions in Musical Theory

Music and Postage Stamps

Lilting Strains of the Waltz

Don't Save Time—Take It!

Music Everywhere: What the Radio is Doing for Musical America

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

How I Use My Etudes

Travelogue Recital

Glinka and …

Volume 53, Number 01 (January 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Broken Strings

Personal Conferences with Claude Debussy: A New Posthumous Interview, Introducing Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of Famous Writers and Musicians with the Master

Famous Czerny Study and How to Play It

Which Scale First

If You Were My Pupil (interview with Grete Stueckgold)

Mrs. B. Natural's Party: Children's Costume Recital or Musical Playlet

How Fast Shall I Practice

Rules and Exceptions in Music Theory, Part 1

Modern Piano Pedagogy

California's Musical Marvel

Piano Classes That Make Success

Gold Star Contest

Modern Bravura Playing of Octave-Chords

We Wish Our Teachers Wouldn't

Cherubini and the French Revolution

Changing Notes

Little Tale of …

Volume 52, Number 11 (November 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Antique Spanish Pianoforte

Famous German Musical Centers: Leipzig

Sand Tables in Music Teaching

Don't You Know

Getting Pupils in 1763 (From Goethe's Boyhood)

Making the Trill Beautiful: Proper Diagnosis and Treatment Remove Ordinary Difficulties

Evening with the Waltz King

Cambridge the Beautiful: A Letter from an Etude Friend in Old Cambridge

How to Hold Your Pupils Longer

Musical Pepper Box

Musical Racketeers: The Claque and Its Long Career

Making the Piano Sing

Beyond the Measure Line

Changing Notes

Story of Elgar

Spreading Culture Through Prizes

Orchestral Tutti, Old and New

Pace Maker of the Keyboard: The Metronome as a Dominant …

Volume 52, Number 10 (October 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Regimentation

Secret of Modernist Music (interview with Arnold Schönberg)

Good Teaching Pieces

Acting Theory

Mother, Make Music Study Delightful

Two Manual Accordion As Compared to the Standard Piano Accordion

Stabat Mater and Its Illustrious Composers

Program Architecture

What Does the Public Really Want?

Two Tests for Musical Capacity

Mystic Land of Magic Music (playlet)

To Acquire a Beautiful Legato

Whims of Musicians

Musical Commas and Musical Comments

Etude Practice Clock

Music in the Old Dragon Empire

For Fluency in Arpeggios

Train the Memory

Season's Schedule of Club Events

Kitchen and the One-lined Staff

Those Key-Signatures!

Helpful Hint in …

Volume 52, Number 09 (September 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music Study for Adults (interview with Frederick B. Robinson)

What Geography Has to Do with Rhythm

Game of Musicians

Making a Fist

Teaching Accents

Maurice Ravel: The Man, The Musician, The Critic (interview with Maurice Ravel)

Beethoven, the Humorist

Kreisler and the Prodigy

Music Recreation and the Radio

What Makes a Good Touch

New Music for Ancient Plays

Practicing Difficult Passages

Story of Dixie and its Picturesque Composer

Parent Help in Music Study

Make Your Practice Period Worth While!

Bridge Strength for Pianists

Alabama's Share in Dixie

Cumulative Rewards

Technic Fun

Value of Similes

Volume 52, Number 08 (August 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Liszt Renounced the World

Arpeggio Practice

Energetic Fingers

How to Find the Keys and the Forms of the Minor Scales

Midsummer Musical Laughs

Jargon of Jazz: An Amusing Article Upon the New and Absurd Nomenclature Which Has Grown Up About the Jazz Orchestra

Music for the Local History Pageant

What Use is the Quarter Tone Scale? Is this Innovation in Modern Music Likely to Remain Merely a Curiosity?

Expressive Dictation

Remedy for Tense Muscles

Romance of Mendelssohn: A Favored Son of the Gods

Speeding Up the Left Hand

Wagner in Venice

Georges Bizet and the True Story of Carmen …

Volume 52, Number 07 (July 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Paderewski and Modern Piano Progress

Proper Care of School Pianos

Signor Patti and a Few Others: Notable Husbands of Famous Singers

Older Hands

Earliest Americans and their Music

To Overcome Mistakes in Note-Reading

How to Conduct a Piano Tournament

Music and Life

When Summer Comes Will Music Lag Behind? (interview with Harold Bauer)

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Some Piano Questions

Piano Lessons with Camille Saint-Saëns

Use of Music as a Healing Agent Among the Indians

Life Span of Famous Composers

Hint in Reading

Tambourine Corps

Signposts to Successful Piano Teaching

How …

Volume 52, Number 06 (June 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of New Russia (interview with Albert Coates

Do Snakes Like Music?

Ethelbert Nevin's A Day in Venice (Un Giorno in Venezia): A New Tone Film Presentation Which is Commanding National Attention

Give the Child a Good Piano

Staccato Accents

Baseball and Scales

Use the Metronome in Practicing Sight-reading

Novelty for Your Recital

National Element in Polish Music

Getting a Start in Music Teaching in the Country

How One Teacher Did It

Art of Program Making

Accompanist

Music of the Land of the Bourrée

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Experimenting With the …

Volume 52, Number 05 (May 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Singing Student's Vacation (interview with Sigrid Onegin)

New Piece

Holding Notes

Guiding Signs in Music

Making Piano Technic Simpler

Educational Running Mates: School and Music Teacher

Friendly Notes

When Interest Flags

Four-Year-Old Children Make Good Students

Intensive, Profitable Summer Vacation Music Study Calendar

Father of the Pianoforte: Clementi, 1752-1832

Dimished-Seventh Chords

Divine Purcell: Englands Most Distinctive Master Composer and His Music

Volume 52, Number 04 (April 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

There is No Royal Road to Singing! (interview with Göta Ljungberg)

Bass Drum

Chopin Odiosyncracy

How I Managed to Secure Pupils During The Depression

Dating Recitals for Success

Bandmaster Gilmore: The Indomitable Pat Whose Masterpiece was Probably When Johnny Comes Marching Home

London: A World Music Center

Chopin's Masterly Valse in A Flat, Op. 42: A Detailed Lesson Analysis

Music Popular at the Time of Lincoln

Cultivation of Musical Taste in a Small Town

Volume 52, Number 03 (March 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Student Hardships that Lead to Success (interview with Elisabeeth Rethberg)

Studying the Pianissimo

Musical Courtesy

Composer's Workshop: How Composers Employ Simple Devices to Expand Their Musical Ideas

Irish Quartet

On Choosing a Musical Career

Music and the Ritual of the Dance in Ceylon: The Subtropical Themes and Rhythms that Have an Undying Allure

Pride of Personal Performance

Musical Pepper Box

Helps to Better Sight Playing

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: Its Origin, History and Activities

Slighted Finger

Teach All Keys in the Early Grades

Piano Accordion Band

Conducting a Practical Studio Piano Contest

Problem of the Baby Violinist

Story of Aloha Oe …

Volume 52, Number 02 (February 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Education of a Conductor (interview with Bruno Walter)

Stage Fright and How to Cure It

Berlin, The Weltstadt of Music

Music and the Adult

From Bell Stand to Throne Room: A Remarkable Autobiographical Interview with the Eminently Successful American Negro Composer (interview with R. Nathaniel Dett)

Kindergarten Highway to Tone and Rhythm

New Approach to the Thumb-Under Problem

Conquering the Jazz Craze of Young Pianists

Four Times Twenty Musical Years

Old Friends are Best

Indian Drill for the Fingers

Violin Teaching Far From Ordinary: An Unroutined Routine of Violin Instruction (interview with Louis Persinger)

Provincial Opera in Italy

Devices for …

Volume 52, Number 01 (January 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Studying Music for the Joy of It (interview with Artur Bodanzky)

Old Friends are Best

Evening of Mozart: A Musical Play in Three Acts for Children and Adults

You Can Sing—If You Will! (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Coming Back Without Teacher

Why Not Give an Etude Radio Recital?

Music Supervisor's Forum

New Deal, the New Leisure, and Music

Interesting Stephen Heller

Here's a New One

Those Troublesome Octaves

Value of Music Study to a Business Woman

Ledger Lines and Spaces Simplified

Sight Reading Suggestions

Drilling for Independence …

Worship: The Items Composing The Worship Of The Church Of Christ On The First Day Of The Week., J. C. Mcquiddy

Stone-Campbell Books

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Volume 51, Number 11 (November 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Girl Who Wants to Sing (interview with Lily Pons)

Meet the Piano

How to Play Bach More Beautifully (interview with Harold Samuel)

Little Known Music of Cape Breton Island

When Should I Practice?

Platform Showmanship in Piano-Playing

More Greetings form Zealous Etude Enthusiasts

Mixed Rhythms

Best Method is Ecclectic, Part 2 (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Touch in Relation to Phrasing

Heinrich Heine and Music

Value of Discipline

Blind Tom Reminiscence

Neglected Triad

Story of The Rosary

Secret of Chopin's Playing

Little Journeys to Musical Shrines: A Club Calendar

Telling the World

Learning the Lower and Higher Notes

Touch System for …

Volume 51, Number 10 (October 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Modern Life (interview with Herriot, M. Ëdouard

Aid to Relaxation

Best Method is Eclectic (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Carloads of Pianos

Golden Anniversary Greetings

Rhythm and Accent

Tannhäuser: A Romantic Opera in Three Acts—Arranged as a Reading for Music Clubs

What is Wrong with the Piano?

Points in Pedaling

Singing School to School Symphony

Since Singing is So Goode a Thing

Expressive Piano Playing

Impressing the Accent

Personal Observations of Rimsky-Korsakoff

Plenty of Pupils

Glance Behind the Scenes of Radio Land

Chopin's Valse in E Minor (Posthumous): A Master Lesson

Musical Small Coal Man

Making the Bass Beautiful …

Volume 51, Number 09 (September 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Curse of Super-Worry

What I Think of Modern Music (interview with Maurice Ravel)

Touch and Accent: With their Values Carefully Defined

Then and Now

Remarkable American Musical Tradition: The Moravian Funeral Chorals at Salem

How Miss Watson Boosted Her Bank Account

How Great Composers Worked

What is Needed to Gain Success as a Pianist?

Musician Education: The Place of Music in General Education

How to Practice Arpeggios

Structure of Music: The Merits and Methods of Analysis

Musical Tower in Central America

Musical Activities in the U.S.S.R.

Having It Out with the Pupil's Parents

Going to Do's

To Overcome Defects in …

Volume 51, Number 08 (August 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Personality and Music

Centenary of Brahms, 1833-1933

Miniature Music Club

What Is a Tone Poem?

Annual Banquet of the National Moths' Association

Personal Reminiscences of Johannes Brahms

What a Musical Education May Cost

Why Richard Wagner Selected Bayreuth

Schubert and Beethoven

The Structure of Music: How Does the Composer Do His Work? What Form is to Music

Building a Large Music Class in a Country District

How to Use Seals

Musical Current Events Course

Volume 51, Number 07 (July 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Discipline versus Coddling

Summer Progress in Music Study (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)

Some Fallacious Theories

Is Music a Language?

Johannes Brahms—Portrait

Playing Duets with Brahms

Destiny and a Brahms Autograp

Music's Role in Healing: History Reveals the Curious Use of Music in Therapeutics

Structure of Music: Counterpoint—The Interweaving of Melodies

To Improve Octaves

Scottish Song Stories

Making Music Teaching Opportunities

Musical Tea

Genius of Jessie L. Gaynor: An Intimate Picture of Remarkable Figure in American Musical Education

Those Interesting Scales

Lost Schubert Masterpiece

Vacation Practice Schedule