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Violin Course: Grade 2, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 2, Preparatory B: Lessons and Tests, number 21 through 40

Violin Course: Grade 5, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 5, Advanced A: Compositions, number 501 through 599

Violin Course: Grade 2, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 2, Preparatory B: Exercises, number 201 through 258

Violin Course: Grade 1, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 1, Preparatory A: Lessons and Tests, numbers 1 through 20

Violin Course: Grade 6, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 6, Advanced B: Compositions, number 601 through 660

Violin Course: Grade 4, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 4, Intermediate B: Compositions, number 401 through 463

Volume 54, Number 12 (December 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sentiment vs. Sentimentality: A Short History (1900-1936) of the Development of the Ability of the American Student to Express Himself through Music (interview with Rudolph Ganz)

Nativity: A Musical Pageant Arranged for High School Glee Clubs

Manager States His Case (interview with Lawrence Evans and Jack Salter)

Good Lesson Tree

For Scale Practice and Hand Position

From a One-Fingered Virtuoso

Musical Aeroplane Trip Around the World: Music Visits to Many Nations in Story Recital Form

Yuletide Carolles Olde and Newe: Often on Legends with a Whimsy Background

Fundamentals in Advertising

Reflections from a Busy Musical Life (interview with Alexander T. …

Volume 54, Number 11 (November 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Reflections from a Musical Life

Bird in Grand Opera

My Symphonic Debut in the Films

Pep in Music

For That Weak Left Hand

Harp in History

Woman's Struggle for Recognition in Music

Forgotten Pedal of the Piano

Gift of Liszt to Grieg

Spirituals to Symphonies: A Brief Survey of Negro Music in America, from the Jubilee Singers and their Spirituals to the Playing of Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony by the Philadelphia Orchestra

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (founded by Theodore Thomas)

Gala Days with Liszt at Weimar

Photo-Chart for the Piano Accordion

New Piano Accordion Field

Securing Finger Control

Jazzy Repartee

Volume 54, Number 10 (October 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Educational Renaissance, A (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Hallowe'en Spirits Go Musical

Early Romance of Haydn

Lesson Check Ups

Harps and Harpists in 1936 (interview with Carlos Salzedo)

Problem of the Adolescent Student

Daily Dozen from the Diatonic Scales

Meistersingers of Nuremberg and Their Wooden Tablet

Subdividing the Beat

Selecting the New Piece

Midnight King: The Tragedy of the Mad Musical Monarch Whose Support Made Wagner's Giant Projects Possible

NBC Music Appreciation Hour

Making a Start with Bach: Practical Helps for the Student Who Desires a Better Knowledge of the Great Master and His Style

Interesting Bit of American Musical …

Volume 54, Number 09 (September 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Humor in Music: Do Composers Tend Toward the Sombre Colors, or Do They Inclinde Toward the Gay?

Radio and Music (interview with David Sarnoff)

Music at Harvard: From a Historical Review

Memories of William Mason and His Friends

Whetting the Children's Appetite for Music

A-440 by National Broadcast

Origin of Sousa's Name: Ridiculous and False Stories about the Ancestry of John Philip Sousa Which Should be Corrected by Etude Readers

Making Tempo Rubato Understandable

When Should Piano Study Be Commenced? A Question Asked by Thousands

Roll of Honor

Finger Independence as Applied to Bach's Fugues

How They Gave Early …

Volume 54, Number 08 (August 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Makes a Good Violinist (interview with Jascha Heifetz)

Story and History of Gounod's Faust, The

Musical Repartee

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Music in Public Schools

Neglected Phases of Piano Practice and Playing

Ringing Doorbells to Get Pupils

Music of Hindustan

Hand Building Exercises

Memory Pictures of Famous Musicians

Art of Counting

Sostenuto Pedal

Romance of Felix Mendelssohn

Curing Stiff Wrists and Fingers

Quick Way to Memorize

Combining Different Rhythms

Making Old Etudes Work

Volume 54, Number 07 (July 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Romance of In the Gloaming

Road to Correct Fingering

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Short Cuts to Easy Practice

First Love of Franz Liszt

At What Age Shall My Child Begin to Learn the Piano?

Different Bach

Developing Interest in Practicing

Stamps for Success

Sources of Beethoven's Inspiration

Secrets of the Conductor (interview with Fritz Reiner)

Musical Make-Believe

How the Tuner Can Help You

Indefinable Liszt (interview with Frederick Lamond)

How About Figured Bass?

Safe Rule for Clear Pedaling

Musicians and Their Food

Pitfalls in Teaching Piano Tone Production

Pupil's Piano

Progressive Music Chart

Darkness Before Dawn …

41st Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 41st Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 18, 1936.

Volume 54, Number 06 (June 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Background in Music Study (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Little Tales of Music Study Accomplishment

Increasing the Activity of the Fingers (in French)

From Forty-Five to Ninety

And Now the Movies (interview with Nino Martini)

Here He Is! The Remarkable Legend of Der Liebe Augustin and How He Ridded Vienna of a Plague by Singing

Piano Accordion: Its Relation to Good Music

First Steps in Perfect Scale Playing

On Freeing the Left Hand

What about the Flute? (interview with Georges Barrère)

Improving the Musical Memory

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Watch the Musical Guide-Posts

Hands Separately

Volume 54, Number 05 (May 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Your Music Live (interview with Henry L. Mencken)

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Practice Lesson

Opera on the Screen

What is Popular and What is High Brow?

Freedom of the Air (interview with Boake Carter)

Salzburg and the Mozart Spirit

Heavy Thumbs

Musician's Relation to the Public, Part 2 (interview with Edward L. Bernays)

Preliminary Presentation of the Piano Keyboard

Training Pupils for the Recital

Scale Wise

Little Recital Hour of the Philadelphia Music Teachers Association

Rhythmic Wisdom

Acoustical Revelations

Watch for This Inpostor

Crayons as Critics

Music Study Helps a Lad: A Letter to Un-Musical …

Volume 54, Number 04 (April 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Start the Day with a Song (interview with Henry Ford)

Easter Dawn in Music

Pictorial Visit to the Birthplacet Eisenach, of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Private Teacher and Music in the Schools (interview with George L. Lindsay)

Musician's Relation to the Public (interview with Edward L. Bernays)

Pitch of Musical Instruments

When Every Gentleman Was a Musician: Memories of the Golden Age of Music in England (interview with Marion Keighley Snowden)

Piano-Accordion in Musical Education: New Thoughts on a New Instrument (interview with C. Irving Valentine)

By-Products of School Music

Important Musts for the Piano Teacher (interview with Isidor Philipp) …

Volume 54, Number 03 (March 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Does it Take to Make a Singer? (interview with Richard Crooks)

Prescriptions for Specific Faults: Prescribing for Musical Faults as the Doctor Prescribes for Physical Ailments

How to Organize and Manage a Successful Junior Music Club

Memory Work

Key of C

Novel Musical Watch

Left-Hand Sustained Notes

Picturesque Youth of Jules Massenet

Making the Pupils' Recital Interesting

Beginnings and Endings: How the Masters Began their Compositions

Expressing Musical Rhythm with the Body: Interesting Class Work with Young Pupils

Fighting the Song Shark

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

March Through the Centuries

Keyboard Geography

Piano Musical Review …

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 12 (December 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Let Nothing Discourage You (interview with Lotte Lehmann)

So, This is the Hurdy-Gurdy!

Bach Fugue Simplified

Soul-Light

Music: The Magic Carpet of Radio

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Where Does American Musical Composition Stand?

Fiddle Box of Memories (interview with Sam Franko)

Counting the Group

One Way to Enjoy Music

Music Teachers' National Association Convention of 1935

Music of the New Day (interview with Mana-Zucca)

Christmas Prayer

Boston Symphony Orchestra: Its Origin, History and Activities

How Famous Composers Break all the Rules (interview with William Strasser)

Voice of Experience Inspects the Hammond Organ

Honesty in Piano Study …

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

40th Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 40th Annual Concert and Commencement at Orchestra Hall (220 South Michigan Avenue) held on June 20, 1935.

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 …