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Volume 59, Number 07 (July 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the World's Great Hour

National Defense Demands Music

Music the Navy Needs (interview with Lt. Charles Benter)

Boy—the Piano—The Spirit of the Game

New England Idyl

Modest Moussorgsky's Last Hours (Short Pages from Family Memoirs)

Golden Jubilee Banquet

Finding Opportunity on the Concert Stage (interview with S. Hurok)

Army Song Book Makes Its Bow

Music in Britain's War (interview with Betty Humby)

Will the Orchestra Be Modernized? Introducting a Conference with the Late Emanuel Moore, Inventor of the Double Keyboard Piano

Technic of the Month—Thirds in Five Finger Groups

46th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 46th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 20, 1941.

Volume 59, Number 06 (June 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Economics of Piano Study

Music As a Social Force

Problems of the Advanced Piano Student (interview with Artur Rubinstein)

Teaching the Teens

Musical Development in the Philippines

How Fast Shall I Play It? The Rhythms and Speeed of the Classics

What theLittle Mother Did: In Which the Great American Baritone Tells Why Students of Singing Should Study the Piano

You Can’t Get Away from It!

Making Practice Profitable (interview with Mischa Elman)

Morning Music and What It Meant: Some Ineresting Known Facts About Ancient Concerts and Their Givers

Four Strong Foundations: The Importance of Proper Hand, Wrist, Arm and Forearm …

Volume 59, Number 05 (May 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Money Cannot Buy It

Men, Women and Song

Approaching an Operatic Role (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Our Friends, the Music Critics (interview with Alberto Jonás)

Making Sure of Your Song

Creators of a Famous Song

Let's Make it a 'Tiptoe' Study

Help for the Poor Sight Reader

Rather, Frances Taylor

Silent Practice: An Aid to the Soft Accompaniment Touch

Sidney Lanier: Poet, Man and Musician

Why Was Leschetizky Great? The Gist of the Methods of the Famous Viennese Pedagog Who Brought More Eminent Pupils than any Other Teacher Since Liszt

How to Get Children to Practice

Music to the Front …

Volume 59, Number 04 (April 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Finnish Fighter

Blow! Joshua! Blow!

Economizing Energy at the Keyboard (interview with Ruth Slenczynski)

Music in Peru, the Land of the Incas

Learning How to Compose

I Saw Musical Vienna Fall (interview with Robert Stolz)

What Really Is Modern Music?

Musical Films

Schubert Again Enters the Films

Go Back to the Piano! A Lively Article from a Sensible Mother Who Found Her Own Way Back

Acquiring a Light Thumb

Outer and the Inner Ear

Queer One Tone Music of the Lapps

Piano Practice as a Game

Learning How to Act in Opera (interview with Leopold Sachse)

Music in War-Torn Greece …

Volume 59, Number 03 (March 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Country Music Goes to Town

How Do They Do It?

Jazz—the Music of Exile: An English Opinion Which Credits the Jewish Race as Well as the Negro Race with American Jazz

Why Al Smith Likes Music: The Musical Credo of a Striking Individualist

Battle of Music

ASCAP's Reply to its Critics

Famous Composers Rally to ASCAP

Strength of Fingers, Strength of Thought (interview with Rudolf Serkin)

Art and Life in Indian Music (interview with Ish-ti-Opi)

New Dress Every Day

How to Make the Melody Speak

Teaching Tone Quality

My Country's Music—'Tis of Thee!

Master Lesson on Bach's Fantasie in C …

Campus Lights 1941, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

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

Volume 59, Number 01 (January 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Blessings in Their Train

Art of Piano Ensemble (interview with Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff)

Gettting a Song Published

Our Musical Beginnings in the Southwest

America's Musical Bank

Proper Care of the Piano

Success Can Be Won Without Money (interview with John Charles Thomas)

Golden Wedding Anniversary at The Presser Home

Only Ladies' Bagpipe Band in America

How John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Practices

How I Prepare a Radio Program (interview with André Kostelanetz)

Piano Ensembles Attract Fine Attention

Soft Pedal Problem

How Music Helped Me to Avoid the Asylum

Better Sight Reading

Musical Travelogues of Latin-America

Cradle of Composers: What …

Violin Course: Grade 8, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

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

1940 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Flyer, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event flyer from 1940 advertises the third annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Ursinus College. It lists the featured soloists as well as the admission price.

1940 Ursinus College Messiah Performance Program, Music Department

Messiah Programs

This music event program from 1940 contains information about the third annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" at Ursinus College. It lists the performers and conductor as well as the order of each piece of music.

Volume 58, Number 12 (December 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Promissory Notes

Light That Shineth in Darkness

Carols for the Feast of Christmas

Music as an Avocation (interview with Mrs. Vincent Astor)

Bill of Musical Rights

Christmas Music in the Little Town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Unusual Customs in the Bustling Industrial City that Make Music a Religion, and Religion, Music

Radio Staff Pianist: What It Takes, and What He Makes

What Is Behind the Popular Song (interview with Eddie Cantor)

For Unto Us a Child Is Born: The Story of Handel's The Messiah

Musician Decorates for Christmas

Christ Reigns To-Day: A Hymn of Christian Faith

Quick Work! Remarkable Feats in …

Volume 58, Number 11 (November 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Scoring a Success

Middle Years

Great Painters and the Art of Music

Practicing on a Mental Keyboard

Vocal Training from a Famous Master (interview with Zinka Milanov)

What the Pianist of Tomorrow Must Possess (interview with Sigismond Stojowski)

Mystery of Sound Effects in the Radio Studio

Christmas Piano and the Nineteenth Hole

Clear and Distinct Piano Playing

Demand for Unusual Song Programs (interview with Eva Gauthier)

Radio Help Music Pronunciation

Practical Antidotes for Stage Fright

Master Lesson—Bird As Prophet, Op. 82, No. 7 by Robert Schumann

Mauro Giuliani

Why Copying of Copyrighted Music by Hand or Otherwise is Illegal

Volume 58, Number 10 (October 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Neighbor Policy

Armies of Singing Men

Take Time to Take Time

Good Singing is Natural (interview with Jussi Bjoerling)

Romance in Songs

How Ferruccio Busoni Taught (interview with Egon Petri)

Who Wrote That?

Basis of Violin Playing Today

What Shall I Sing? (interview with Eva Gauthier)

Getting a Start in a Small Town

Dissecting the Chromatic Scale

Dr. E.E. Hipsher Retires

Helps Toward Sight Reading

Sign That Paid

Getting Laughter Through Music: An Important Description of Works in Which Composers Have Stiven to Make Fun with Tones

Volume 58, Number 09 (September 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Permanent Wealth in Music Study

Conservatory in the Home

Opportunities for Opera Singers (interview with Edward Johnson)

Great Bells and Little Bells: A Story of Carillons

Requirements of Rhythm Playing (interview with Fred Waring)

Contralto of the String Family (interview with Emanuel Feuermann)

Kings of the Keyboard—Liszt and Rubinstein: A Vivid Picture of Great Moments in Late Victorian Days

Make Progress by Making Friends

Story of the Mystic Stick: The Part Played by the Baton in Musical History

Rotary Exercises Develop Piano Playing

Greatest of the Garcias: The Romance of Maria Malibran—The Great Prima Donna to Visit America

How to …

Volume 58, Number 08 (August 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Significant Musical Advance

Music and the World's Great Hour

Part Work and Part Play

Mental Approach to Singing (interview with Jessica Dragonette)

Music All Around the Fair

Story Book Recital

Hill Billy and River Songs at Their Source: Notes of an Active Collector in Discovering American Folk Songs

Music Can Work Miracles: Why Singing in the Bath tub is Good for Your Ego

Protecting Your Piano Investment: Milions and Millions of Dollars are Invested in Pianos in America, Yet Few Know How to Protect Their Instruments

Sound Track of Yesterday and Today

Miraculous Case of Blind Tom: The Enigma of …

Volume 58, Number 07 (July 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Champions

America's Pioneer A Cappella Choir of Youth

Music of the Walt Disney Cartoons (interview with Paul J. Smith)

Operatic Nomads in Opera Land: Do You Want to Sing in Opera in Italy? Here is How They Begin

Aeolian Harp—and How to Make It

Was Herbert Spencer Right?

Polka Again

Love of Music and How It Is Cultivated

First American Pianist: A New Orleans Prodigy—First American to Appear in European Concerts

Fate Was Their Fortune: How Destiny Remade The Lives of Famous Musicians

Napoleon Helps a Yankee Town

Their Toughest Spot: Getting the Right Start

Behind the Scenes in Radio …

45th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 45th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 14, 1940.

Volume 58, Number 06 (June 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sure Fiddler at Seventeen

Agreeable Succession of Sounds

Road of Glory: A Spiritual Pageant in the Deep South That Rivals Green Pastures

Your Community Should Have a Public Music Library (interview with Dorothy Lawton)

Truth About the Mysterious Death of Peter Ilyich Tsychaikowsky

Invitation to Mr. Paderewski's Eightieth Birthday Party: A Birthday Cake with a Million Candles

Beethoven, the Eccentric

William C. Steere of Worcester, Massachusetts

Teaching Phrasing Through Rests

Stamp of Approval

Toscanini, Man and Legend

What Good Is the Middle Pedal?

Sumer Is I-Cumen In: How a Teacher Solved the Problem of Keeping Busy Through the Summer, by …

Volume 58, Number 05 (May 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Youth Cries, Wake Up America!

New Thing Came and They Would Not See

New Insights to the Mastery of Debussy: Three Striking Period Pictures

Breaking into Radio

Mr. Bach of 1940

Composers and Their Mothers

German Masters

Our Musical Presidents

How to Make Pupils' Recitals Fascinating: Stage Etiquette for Every Performing Musician

When Music is King: A Week When a Nation Turns Musical

Odyssey of Oscar Levant (interview with Levant, Oscar)

Volume 58, Number 04 (April 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Folk Songs

Time and Tune

Music Educators Constantly Progressing

Don't Fear Your Limitations (interview with Jarmila Novotná)

When J.P. Morgan Sang

By the Beautiful Blue Danube: The Story of the Most Popular Waltz Ever Written)

Amusing Musical Episodes

Renaissance of A Cappella Singing (interview with Baroness Georg Von Trapp)

Mr. Mathews' Treasure Box: How a Famous American Music Educator Preserved Musical Facts

How to Capitalize Music Memory

Using Imagination in Teaching

Musical Askit Baskit

Gaining Keyboard Velocity Through Touch Control

Liszt, the Patron Saint of Music

Volume 58, Number 03 (March 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cultural Olympics

Relief Through Change

Down to Mexico: The Picturesque Music of Our Sister Republic on the South

Heart of the Blues (interview with W.C. Handy)

Accompanists are Born, Not Made (interview with Coenrad V. Bos)

Irishman the Grandfather of Russian Music: The Singular Story of John Field, Pianist and Composer

Family Musical Museum: A Remarkable Swiss Group Which Has Attracted Wide Attention

How Much Musical Talent Has My Child? A Musical Intelligence Test for Children Which Any Musical Mother May Give at Home

Music—An Avocation for Men: A Soldier Talks to Boys About Men and Music

How the Oratorio …

Campus Lights 1940, Murray State College

Campus Lights

No abstract provided.

Volume 58, Number 02 (February 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Debutante: How a Youthful Prima Donna Triumphed at Thirteen

Keystone of Our Nation

Ageless Tunes: Why Victor Herbert's Melodies Never Became Chestnuts

There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding: The Story of a Song that Earned Three Million Dollars (interviewh with Zo Elliott)

Amusing Musical Episodes

Discovering the Riches in Old Music (interview with Wanda Landowska)

Social Art: Eight Hands—Forty Fingers

Medallions of Russian Masters of Yesteryear (interview with Plotnikoff, Eugene)

How to Get and to Hold Pupils

Harpist and His Problems (interview with Marcel Grandjany)

Master Lesson—Chopin's Mazurka, Op. 24, No. 4 in B-flat Minor

Volume 58, Number 01 (January 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Have You Youth Concerts in Your Community?

Music and the Dawn of a New Day

Making of a Name (interview with Arthur Judson)

Wartime Musical London, Paris and Brussels

Begin the Year with Music

Creating a Character in Opera (interview with Friedrich Schorr)

Dreams of Old Musical Vienna: How Musical History Was Made Over Cups of Coffee

Musical Triumphs in Motion Pictures: A History of the Art, from Jazz Singer to Today1

Current Films with Worth While Music

Making Five Finger Piano Technic Vital: A Highly Instructive Article for Younger Teachers

Training the Hands for Definite Goals

Why Not a …

Volume 57, Number 12 (December 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Secret of a Merry Christmas

What the World War Did for Music in Europe (interview with Granville Bantock)

Mistaken Idea

Amaryllis and Louis XIII

Dr. Damrosch on Musical Tolerance

Night Before Christmas. A Musical Playlet

Let Us Give the Piece a Rub

Pencil

Story of Major Bowes and His Amateur Hour: A Million Dollar Idea Carried Out by a Million Dollar Personality

How to Make Money by Teaching the Piano, Part 3

Billings' Best

Old Familiar Carols Game

Music Is My Hobby!: The Engaging Story of How Successful Business and Professional Men and Women Avoid Life Monotony and Insure Against …

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?