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Volume 50, Number 02 (February 1932), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Washington's Day: A Historical Sketch

Rest or Silence?

Outline and Atmosphere in Piano Playing (interview with José Iturbi)

Enemies of Your Piano and How to Fight Them

Establishing Music School Standards in America

How the Famous Safonoff Taught Scales

Robert Burns, the Song Writer

From Circus Band to Symphony Orchestra: A Remarkable Story of Triumph Over Apparently Insurmountable Difficulties (interview with Adolph Hirschberg)

Our First Musical Ambassador: Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Music Supervisors' Forum

Putting Heart Into the Tone

Merry Singers of Medieval Times

Preparing Pieces for a Recital

Some Russian Backgrounds in Music

Are Student Recitals a Bore? …

Volume 50, Number 01 (January 1932), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Lesson on the Chopin Scherzo in B Flat Minor

Very First Lessons at the Keyboard: Practical Advice to Active Teachers

What Music Offers Boys

Do You Know?

Tournament Tickets

Legacy from Pan

Missed Lessons

Bit of Psychology

Matching Musical Terms

Pied Piper of India

Original Manuscript of Home, Sweet Home

Music Student's Tools and Technic

Disadvantageous Bench

Outside Music Report

Stunt Lesson

Hawaii's Musical Background

Some Popular Musical Misconceptions

Schubert and American Romance

Musical Lotto

New Work by a Notable American Composer

Agencies for Helping the Musician

Boy Night

To Develop the Left Hand

How to Make Review a Pleasure …

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1932-1933, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1932-1933 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, an academic calendar, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, images of student and campus life, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, and biographical information about and images of faculty.

Volume 49, Number 12 (December 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

George Bernard Shaw Talks on Modern Music: Europe's Most Famous Writer and Music Critic Discusses Many Interesting Things in the Shavian Fashion

How Well Do You Know Your MacDowell?

Humorous Situations in Wagner Music Drama Performances

Music Teachers National Association

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 18

Visit to Musical Oxford

Impression by Repetition

Christmas Eve in Bach's Church

Sparks from the Musical Anvil

Very First Lessons at the Keyboard

Message of Music

Requirements of the Radio Singer

Unusual Crayon Portrait of Brahms

Brahms as I Knew Him …

Volume 49, Number 11 (November 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Visit to the Home of Eduard Schütt

Novelties for the Piano

Practical Way of Acquiring Tecnic

Ginger Up Your Brains with Music: Being Some Effects of the Tone Art

Breaking into Metropolitan Opera by the Back Door

Some Popular Confusions

Building Scales Before Playing Them

Why Great Artists Succeed—Jascha Heifetz

Is Culture Progressing in Musical Art? (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)

Philadelphia Orchetra: Its Origin and History

Elusive Counter-Theme

Music of the Clarinet

Developing a True Sense of Rhythm

Music Work Counters

Volume 49, Number 10 (October 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Could Richard Wagner Have Passed a Mus. Bac. Examination?

Music in Present Day Soviet Russia (interview with Edwin A. Fleisher)

Black Notes: When the Thumb and Little Finger May Be Used on Them

Three Wonder Workers in Piano Technic

Training the Prodigy (interview with Efrem Zimbalist)

Picture Awards for Scrap-books

Neglected Phases of Piano Study

Playing Postman

Billboard Man

Royal Musicians

Art of Singing for the Radio: Tricks of the Microphone Easily Mastered

School Music Department

Coördinating the Grade School and High School Instrumental Music Program

Imperishable Romance of St. Cecilia

Training Pupils for Public Appearance

When Not to Practice …

Volume 49, Number 09 (September 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Television and Radio To-day

What the Band Means to Your Home Community (interview with John Philip Sousa)

How Expression is Achieved at the Keyboard Through Accent: The Agógic Accent in Expression

Beethoven as a Violinist, Portrait

New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra: Its Origin and History

Report Card Form

Practical and Profitable Piano Recital

America's Giant Strides in Music for Youth

To Judge the Pupil's Progress

Twenty September Business Hints for Practical Teachers of Music

New Fashioned Dry Goods Advertising

Tone Color

Schumann's Immortal Words

On the Interpretation of Bach

Notes and Rests that Go Together

Volume 49, Number 08 (August 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Planning for a Prosperous Season

Talk on the Talkies, A (interview with Lawrence Tibbett)

How to Learn to Play at Sight

More Greetings for Paderewski

Johannes Brahms, Etching

Piano Lessons from Masters of Yesteryear

Two Famous MacDowell Pieces

To Make the Left Hand Agile

Mozart the Prodigy (1756-1791)

Swiss Music Festival in the Bernese Oberland

Reading Between the Lines in Music: What is Implied is Often More Important than the Notes Themselves

Interesting Piano-Accordion (interview with Pietro Deiro)

Use of Phonograph in the Practice Hour

Imagination as Shown in Some Piano Pieces

Economizing the Practice Hour

Bell Music, Today and …

Volume 49, Number 07 (July 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Did this Musician Re-Make Spain?

Let the Amateur Make Music (interview with Harold Bauer)

Hold the Pedal

Systematic Memorizing

Variety, the Secret of Practice

The Right Way and Wrong Way to Interpret Syncopation

Collapsible Piano

Musical Highlights in China and Japan

Romance of Alessandro Stradella: A Story of One of the Most Picturesque Figures in the History of Music

Save Material

Music in the Home: A Family Concert

That Awful Fourth Finger

Homage to Gounod (Picture)

Class Piano Instruction Questionnaire

Six in One

Romance of Ben Bolt

Why Study the Leipzig Cantor's Inventions?

Some Music Specters

Key Signatures in a …

Music In The High School And Its Correlation With Other Subjects Of The Curriculum, Frederick G. Smith

Bachelors’ Theses

Music has established a place for itself in the modern high school. It is in the curriculum because modern educators believe it has its place in the modern scheme of education.

Volume 49, Number 06 (June 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fame Overnight! (interview with Lily Pons)

Why Modern Music is Modern—And What, Please, is Atonal Music? (interview with Nicholas Slonimsky)

Physical Revitalization of Musicians: New Scientific Health and Diet Discoveries Which Are Startling the World

Should the Child Begin Piano Study at the Age of Five

Rage of the Rumba

Secrets of the Staccato Touch

Three Costly Mistakes

Playing the Piano by Touch

Time-Saving Method to Keep Up Old Pieces

Educating the New Musical Public

Most Important Point in Singing

Coming Musical Awakening

Improvised Opera

Clothespins or Hammers

Graded Courses and Prizes

The Educational Trend In Social Science With A Course Of Study In Sociology For The Senior High School, Clyde Parker

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Volume 49, Number 05 (May 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

International Appreciation of Ignace Jan Paderewski: World Famous Pianists and Teachers Greet the Renowned Master in His Hour of Greatest Triumph

Some Fundamentals of Natural Octave Playing

Important Association and a Great Cause

Student Days of George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

How Harmony Helps the Music Student

Pedal Markings

Picture from the Past

Lest We Forget, Lest We Forget: Important Musical Historical Figures of the Picturesque Past

Freak Scales: Curious Musical Systems Used by Modern Composers

Wagner's Death-Dreams of His Own Walhalla (Picture)

Master Lesson Upon Chopin's Aeolian Harp Etude, Op. 25, No. 1

Singing Intelligently in English

Garcia's Second Discovery …

Volume 49, Number 04 (April 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Should the Piano have Two Keyboards (interview with Winifred Christie)

Eliminating Nerves When Playing in Public

Listen for Color in Your Piano Playing

Tchaikovsky on Mozart

Little Visits to European Musical Shrines: Stockholm the Magnificent

What Music Owes to Alessandro Scarlatti: Bach's Italian Predecessor and What He Did

International Musical Conference: Musical England and America to Meet on Shores of Lake Geneva

Right Piece for the Right Pupil at the Right Time

Ornaments and their Interpretation

Romance of Bells

Music of Hindu Temples

Breathing for Voice Production

Educating the New Musical Public

Public School Music, George Pomerantz Sr.

Bachelors’ Theses

Our public schools which attempted to include in their program every subject which may contribute to the development of human character or to the elevation of human happiness, did not until recently, include music. Music was looked upon as an art which should be taught to the gifted ones only and, therefore, should be taught privately. It is only recently that our educators are beginning to realize the important role music plays in human life. It has been only recently that music has been introduced as a subject into the public school. Even today there is a lot of discussion …

Volume 49, Number 03 (March 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Amazing Idiosyncrasies of Richard Wagner: Demi-God or Demi-Demon

Hearing Inwardly

Those Troublesome Grace Notes

Can You Tell?

Quicker Results Through Weight Playing

Does Radio Broadcasting Require a Special Technic?

Stockholm the Magnificent

Some Origins of the Harp

Simile, Segue and Sempre

Dynamics and Expression

Playing the Piano with the Minimum of Muscular Effort

How to Develop Technic

Grandma Fry Adds a New Stunt

Educating the New Musical Public

Are You Old Enough to Remember?

Volume 49, Number 02 (February 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When I Arrived in the Metropolis

Social Art of Music (editorial)

Leschetizky as I Knew Him

Music Study in Paris

Report Card for Piano Work

Musik der Zeit: An Editorial Discussion of Present Day Gargoyles of Dissonance

Putting the Spirit into Spirituals

Accompanist

How Dvorák Taught Composition

Tie and Slur Confusion

Young Pupil Meditates

Educating the New Musical Public

Musical Greeting

Reports for Music Pupils

Music Versus Noise

Relaxing the Shoulders

Transposing for the Uninitiated

Remembering the Pupil

Volume 49, Number 01 (January 1931), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Ultimate Musical Choice

Musical Life in Festive Copenhagen

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 7

Educating the New Musical Public

Lepold Auer's Great Legacy to Art

Reflections on the Art of Piano Playing

Present Day Musical Films and How They are Made Possible

Airways of Music

Technic of Scale Playing

Marimba

Triumphant Advance of Music

Master Lesson on the Impromptu in A Flat, Opus 29, of Chopin

Game of Correcting Melodies

Minor Family

Light and Agile Thumb

Teaching Fundamentals to Young Students

Tchaikovsky's School Days

Accent in Scale …

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1931-1932, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1931-1932 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, an academic calendar, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, images of student and campus life, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, student services, and biographical information about and images of faculty.

Piano Course: Grade 8, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Compositions, number 801 through 860

Piano Course: Grade 8, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Lessons and Tests, number 141 through 160

Volume 48, Number 12 (December 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony of Christmas

Why I Prefer Concert to Opera (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)

Reflections on Piano Playing

Miscellaneous Teaching Hints

Toward Facility

Buying Instruments for the Toy Orchestra

Music and Music Study in the Startling Seventies

What Piano Study Will Do for Children

Every Gentleman was a Musician Then: A Glance into the Delightful Musical Atmosphere of the Days of Samuel Pepys in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 3

Critica Digest of Music and Masters of Music, Part 2

Keep …

Volume 48, Number 11 (November 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, Season 1930-31

Critical Digest of Music and Masters

To Count or Not to Count

How to Organize and Start a Piano Class

Fascinating Musical Dances I Have Seen East of Suez

Mother's Hand Leads the Way: Changing the Practice Hour from Drudgery to Delight

Christmas Party

Teresa Carreño as Teacher: Memories of a Remarkable Woman and Musician

Are You Able to Play Trills?

Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today

Beauty of Bach

Ivory and Ebony Gymnasium

How to Place the Piano

That Concert Cough

Snapshot Sight Reading

Teacher-Parent Coöperation

Tales from the …

Volume 48, Number 10 (October 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Majestry of Liszt

Spirit of Hungarian Music (interview with Yolanda Mérö)

Dots and Their Values

Little Visits to European Musical Shrines: Hungary's Rich Gifts to Music

Three Notes Against Two

Auditions for the Sound Films

Endless Fascination of Hungarian Gypsy Music

Hungerian National Instrument—The Czimbalalom: A Musical RelicWhose Ancestry May Be Traced Back to Nineveh

Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today

Eminent Hungarian Pianist

Notable Hungarian Musicians of Past and Present

Do You Like This Musical Club?

This Chromatic Age: Exercises that Prepare the Piano Student for a New Era in Which the Chromatic Scales Will be Used More …

Volume 48, Number 09 (September 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Why the World Needs Bands (interview with John Philip Sousa)

Modern Questions in the Study of Harmony

Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today

Curious Lure of Chinese Music

Oral Drills in Intervals

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 3

Percussion—The Pulse of Music

Technical Problems in a Nutshell

Overcoming Difficulties in Memorizing

Open the New Musical Season Brillantly by Spreading the Gospel of Music-Study

Odd Facts about Sound

Case for Modern Music

Master Lesson on Chopin's Polonaise in C Minor, Op. 40, No. 2

Keeping …

Volume 48, Number 08 (August 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Gentle Art of Taking Time to Live!

Little More Beethoven, Please: The Pianoforte Sonata in A Flat, Op. 26

Scale Charts

Seeing Music as a Whole: Where Many Fail

Left Hand Difficulties

What's the Matter with our Music? (interview with Geraldine Farrar)

Most Useful of All Fingering Rules

Middle C

Precise Contact

Piano Teacher's Dictionary of Touch

Brothers and Sisters

Music of the Waltz and Its Creators

Workable Report Slip

Small Threads in the Musical Tapestry

Preparedness of Attack as an Aid to Sight Reading

Camouflage Scales

New Theory of Pianoforte Tone Production

Arranging Music for Toy Orchestras

Musical Sport …

Volume 48, Number 07 (July 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Religious Taboos on Music

Cosima Saga: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who, as the Daughter of Liszt and the Wife and Widow of Wagner, was the Most Discussed Musical Personaltiy of Her Sex in the World of Opera

When Special Patience is Needed

Be a Self-Starter

Talk with the Ambitious Harmony Student

To the Measure of the Mind

Twin Scales

First Scale

Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio

Haunts of Great Musicians in Vienna—Etchings

Curious Story of Jacques Offenbach, the Kind of Opera Bouffe: How the …

Volume 48, Number 06 (June 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Melodic Genius of Ethelbert Nevin (interview with Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin (Anne Paul Nevin)

Gluck and Marie Antoinette (picture)

Radio as an Educational Factor: For Artist Musicians and Music Students

Getting the Most Out of Self-Study

Practicing for the Spring Recital

Three Vital Points in Piano Mastery: Practice Hints to Pianoforte Students

How to Start a Class

Flowers, Music and Sunbeams

Romance of the Guitar

Wisdom of a Great Teacher: Karl Merz

Wagner and the Ominous Number 13

Study Schedule

Enlarging the Pupil's Musical Vocabulary

Story of Annie Laurie

Accompanist Who Aids and Abets

Volume 48, Number 05 (May 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fighting Deadly Uniformity

Will the Radio and Talking Pictures Compel a Revolution in Methods of Teaching Singing?

Special Exercise in Double Thirds for Independence of Fingers

Child's Native Love of Music

Musical Value of Silence: How to Play Rests Effectively

Why Slow Practice Helps

Piano Study for Adult Beginners

Romance of the Guitar (interview with Andrés Segovia)

Great Masters as Students (Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893)

Double Notes

Rhythm and Technic, the Keys to Interpretation (interview with José Iturbi)

Opus—Key—Composer

How Has the Piano as an Instrument Developed in the Last Half Century?

Master Lesson on the Famous Fantasia in C Minor by …

Volume 48, Number 04 (April 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hail to the Music of Spain

Marvelous Musical Story of Barcelona (interview with Pablo Casals)

Rhythm and Technic, the Keys to Interpretation (interview with José Iturbi)

Glossary of Spanish Musical Terms and Related Words

Holy Week in Seville

Music, An Indespensible Human Need

Some Modern Spanish Composers

Night in Granada

Consistent Sight Reading

Slurring Slips

Ceaseless Charm of the Music of Spain

Notable Musical Women

Monsalvat—The Land of the Holy Grail

Peteneras of Seville

That is a Zarzuela?

Habañera from Carmen

Spain's Musical Message to American Mothers