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Volume 46, Number 04 (April 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is a Symphony Concert?

Musical Appreciation and Form

Taking an Inventory

Alleluia (Frontispiece)

Reinforce the Weak Spots

Aiming for It!

Do You Know That

Wrapping-Paper De Luxe

Teaching the Fundamentals of Music Through Improvisation

Accompanying as an Art

Uses and Abuses of the Pedals

Mozart (Etching)

Parental Influence in the Lives of Famous Musicians

Eighth Note

Whither the Trend of Music? (interview with Darius Milhaud)

Path of Music

Daily Exercises for the Busy Teacher

Keep It Up

Simplicity Thoughts

Finger Combinations Met With Every Day

Youngest Performer

Sight Reading

Phonograph Record as a Master Teacher

Fascinating Journals in Music …

Volume 46, Number 03 (March 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Double Notes for Strengthening the Fingers

Ear-Training the Child on His Own Pieces

Wagnerian Estimate of Mozart

Gilded Angel

Bad Company for a Gentleman's Sons

Baif Club

Taking up Music in Later Life (interview with John Erskine)

Training of a Virtuoso (interview with Moritz Rosenthal)

Not Quantity but Quality

Art and Music

We Have 'Phones!

Impression of Max Bruch's Tone-Poem, Kol Nidrei

Good Instrument for the Beginner

Franz Schubert—An Etching

New Lights on Scale Playing

Fairies in Music

Great Masters as Students of Music: Edward Grieg (1843-1907)

Why a Boy Should Study Music

Fun in Reading Notes

How Rimsky-Korsakoff Taught: …

Volume 46, Number 02 (February 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Music Colorful

Signs—Always Signs

Forefather of Pianoforte Technic: Czerny The Indispensable

Musical Education in the Home

Why not Write to the Young Pupil?

Radio and the Music Student

Relating Key and Note

Think Before You Play

Cushion for Aida

Sleep On It

Haydn and the Clarinet

Magic of Melody (interview with Eduard Poldini)

Musical Reading and Thinking

Finishing Touches in Piano Playing

Great Moments in Wagner's Nibelungen Triology

Wagner, the Eternal

Acquiring Realistic Technic

Musicians, Take Care of Your Ears

His Own Musician

Go Ahead!

Mélange from France

Romance of a Pioneer Prima Donna: Striking Pictures from the Life …

Volume 46, Number 01 (January 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Playing Arpeggios

Finding the First-Bests

One Road to Good Piano Technic

Picture and Canvas

Checks—and Checks

Self-Study in the Art of Music (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Musical Question of the Hour: Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Education

Schumann and His Mother

Measuring Musical Minds

What Makes the Musical Person?

Suspended Count

Beethoven's Life Tragedy: Dramatic Episodes in the Career of the Great Composer

New Piece

How a Mother Can Make the Child's Music Study Irresistibly Interesting: How Influences will Make or Ruin the Child's Musical Career

Composers at Work

Romance of Music in Palestine

Musical Reading Clubs

Power …

Piano Course: Grade 2, 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 2, Preparatory B: Lessons and Tests, number 21 through 40

Piano Course: Grade 4, 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 4, Intermediate B: Lessons and Tests, number 61 through 80

Piano Course: Grade 1, 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 1, Preparatory A: Lessons and Tests, number 1 through 20

Piano Course: Grade 3, 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 3, Intermediate A: Lessons and Tests, number 41 through 60

Piano Course: Grade 5, 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 5, Advanced A: Lessons and Tests, number 81 through 100

Piano Course: Grade 6, 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 6, Advanced B: Lessons and Tests, number 101 through 120

Ua1b1 9th All Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Advertisement for the 9th all star concert series hosted by WKU in 1927-28. Features singers and musicians:

• Lorna Doone Jaxon
• Russian Symphonic Choir
• Suzanne Keener
• Marie Miller
• George Perkins Raymond
• Ernestine Schumann-Heink
• Basile Kibalchich
• Harry Farbman

Volume 45, Number 12 (December 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sharps and Flats

On Extemporization

How One Community Solved the Recital Problem

Do Your Fingers Kick Out?

Overcoming Indifference

Christmas Everywhere

Seven Reasons Why You or Members of Your Family Should NOT Study the Piano

César Franck Violin Sonata (painting)

Dissonances and Un-Dissonances: A Chapter Dealing with Euphonious and Cacophanous Tone Groupings

Music That is in Every Man (interview with Roxy)

Potential Sound Always Present

Rut of Separate Hand Practice

Things That Lend Brilliance to Piano Playing

Haunts of Great Masters in Vienna (etchings)

Pelicans and the Piano: A New Revelation of the Significance of Practical Musical Training

Roads to …

Volume 45, Number 11 (November 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Branding the Blunders

Mother Music

Musical Education in the Home

How Germany is Striving to Win Back Pre-War Musical Conditions

New Paths in Musical Art (interview with Alfredo Casella)

To Facilitate Note Reading

Aid to Memory and Expression

Mechanics of Art

Treat Your Piano Right: Respect Your Piano in the Home and in the Concert Hall if You Demand the Best Results

Introducing Cora and Dora

Showing an Interest in the Pupil

Teaching the Student to Think

Music as an Inspiration in Art (painting)

Something About Chord-Playing

Successful Radio Performance

Haunts of Great Masters n Vienna (etchings)

Light and Shade …

Volume 45, Number 10 (October 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Is Meant by Equal Temperament?

Have Contrast in Music

What Shall We Do With Bad Musicians?

Operatic Triumph Over Mountain-High Obstacles (interview with Madame Isang Tapales)

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing?

Beethoven's Great Funeral March on the Death of a Hero (monument)

Happy Sides to Beethoven's Life

Fads and Fallacies in Modern Pianism

How to Teach Scales

Two Pianos

Queerest String Instrument in the World

Making Selections of Music for Beginners

Scottish and Other Folksong: Its Relation to Art Music

Translating Practice Into Pleasure

Amber Light for Reading Music

Easy Way to Understand the Triads: …

Volume 45, Number 09 (September 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Shall I Do With My Music? (interview with Howard Hanson)

For Mastering Scale-Like Passages

Evolution of the Staff

Learning the Pedals

Damrosch and New York Symphony

Launching the Musical Artist: How Great Pianists, Violinists and Singers are Presented to the Public

Music and Poetry in Autumn

Leschetizky's Vital Ideas

Some Observations on Practice

Hot and Cold—A Helpful Teaching Idea

How to Get Up a Little Musical Pageant in Your Town

Do Not Run Past the Signals

Scale Signature Design

Maintaining Interest

Short Compositions for the Piano

Building the Grand Staff

Curing Collapsible First Joints of Fingers

Stunts Do Not …

Volume 45, Number 08 (August 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Technic and Beauty in Piano Playing (interview the Guiomar Novaes)

Aim and Achievement

Position at the Keyboard

Perfect Twenty-Four

Mistakes Accompanists Make

Interesting the Boy in Practice

Musical Smiles

All About the Slur: Its Fifteen Uses in Music

Von Buelow in Chicago

Learning the Midas Touch from Schubert's Rosamunde

To Do, Or Not To Do

Interpretation of the Little Classics

Liszt's Impromptu Feat

For a Stiff Wrist

Necessity of Visual Musical Education

Whole Rest and Half Rest Gentlemen

Learning the Art of Conducting With the Aid of the Talking Machine

Something About Tone

Wagner a Nervous Conductor

Learning to Listen …

Volume 45, Number 07 (July 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Nothing But Exercises for Six and One-half Years (interview with Tito Schipa)

Perfection Before Pedal

Why Stop Work When Lessons Stop?

Thought Provoker

Breaking-in the New Lesson

On Developing Good Taste Early

Weight Playing

Managing the Student and the Studio

Rhythmic Motions

It Pays to Advertise

Finger Gymnastics

How to Keep Pupils

Few Hints on Violin Playing (interview with Eddy Brown)

Flowers of Our Lost Romance

Improving the Diatonic Scale

Melody Writing for Little Folks

Your Ally—The Bulletin Board

Asparagus with Brahms

Such Hard Times

Putting Life Into Your Playing: Rhythmical Movement Applied to Technic

What the Cowboy Liked Best …

32nd Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 32nd Annual Concert and Commencement at Auditorium Theater (58 East Congress Street) held on June 18, 1927.

Volume 45, Number 06 (June 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Staccato, the Spice of Music

Keeping Up One's Music

What Effect Has Jazz Upon Present Day Music and Composers?

Magical Symbols of Notation

Glimpse of Jenny Lind

Association of Teacher and Pupil

Power of Accidentals Outside the Measure

Perfection of the Pianist

Polka

Timepiece of Music

Problem of Mixed Time

How the Musician Should Deal with Nerves

Listening In

Musical Vacation

Slow Scale Practice

Can You Tell?—Quiz

How to Give a Delightful Summer Musicale

Phonograph Master Class

Romance of the Scales

Charles Wakefield Cadman All-American Composer

Lucy Learns the Art of Dancing: A Humorous Recitation

Too Big for Him

How …

Volume 45, Number 05 (May 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Secret of Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

What Music Thinkers Think

Ten Rules for Writing Music

Simple Ear Test

Making a Musical Start

Can You Tell? Contest

How to Play Glissandos

Vanishing Folksong

Teaching Scales to Young People

Make the Pupils Do the Work

Early Steps in Music

Pedal Study

One Perfect Number

More Questions from Teachers, Answered

Phenomena of the Wonder Child: Musical Prodigies of Today and Yesterday

Form in Music

Famous Liszt Cadenza Simplified

Gymnasium of the Singers: Technic That Produces Definite Results

Let the Pupils Do It

Scientific Grading

Bel Canto Legend

Leschetizky and the Invalid

My …

Volume 45, Number 04 (April 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Use the Weight and Relaxation Method

Were Bach, Mozart and Schubert Poorly Paid

Musical Note

Points on Practicing

Drawing and Accenting

Secret of Touch or How to Extract the Most Beautiful Tone from the Pianoforte

Substituting Flats for Sharps

Music Creed

Another Use for the Metronome

Shifting the Staves

Can I Learn to Count?

Hints on Rapid, Flexible Playing

Training the Brain to Remember and Reproduce Music

Avoiding After-Pressure on the Keys

Starting a Miniature Conservatory

Getting the Pupil to Think

Aiding the Late Beginner

Great Masters as Students—Beethoven

For Stretching the Hand

Aristoxenus The Modern

Jumping the …

Volume 45, Number 03 (March 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Debussy: His Significance in the History of Piano Literature

Setting High Standards

What Music Does to Youth

Study of Octave Playing

Power of the Dot in Music

How to Estimate the Right Tempo

Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions as a Foundation for Polyphonic Playing

Art of Giving an Interesting Lesson

Getting Right Down to Business

Graded Scrap Books

Quiet Practice

What Active Musi Workers are Thinking and Saying

Viewpoints and Side Lights: Concerning Minor Keys

Bugbear Turned to Account

Excellent Program of Compositions by Amercan Women

Sharps and Flats Contest

What Music is Doing for College Students

Haydn's Opinion …

Volume 45, Number 02 (February 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Every Music Lover Should Know About the Band

Encourage Expression

Distinguishing Between Whole and Half Rests

Scale Contests

Patriotism in Music

Adult Beginner

Only One Chance

Some Other Values

Banish Monotony

Common Sense in Piano Study

Life Stories of Great Masters

Dullard of Finger Family

Coney to Carnegie: In Which He Tells What Determination and Hard Work May Do for the Young Singer

Painting a Fugue

Keeping in Daily Touch with the Pupil

Grieg and the Royal Decoration

Theory of Major and Minor Keys for Beginners

Foot-Work at the Piano

Making Music Lessons Interesting

Playing Teacher

Just Before Playing …

Volume 45, Number 01 (January 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the State (Editorial)

Giving Vitality to the Phrase: Showing How Better Accenting Makes Better Playing

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Why Count?

Practical Acoustics for Musicians

Eight Ways for Making One's Playing Musicianly

More I Practice, the Worse I Get

Russian Amateurs

Conservation of Energy in Music Readin

Robert Schumann

New Picture of Edward MacDowell

Another Way to Teach Harmony

Good Music—Bad Piano

Breath Marks

Mental Aids to Memorizing

Put On the Brakes

High Calling of the Teacher

Playing Accompaniments

Useful Test

How Music Theory Helps Music Lovers

Counting Aloud

Baffling Difficulty

What Assignments …

Ua1b1 8th All Star Concert Series, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Advertisement for the 8th all star concert series hosted by WKU in 1926-27. Features singers and musicians:

• Louise Homer
• Don Jose Mojica
• Luella Melius
• Albert Spalding
• Suzanne Keener

Volume 44, Number 12 (December 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of Clarity in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Harold Samuel)

Teaching the Adult Beginner

Counting for Balky Pupils

How to Teach the Notes on the Grand Staff Beginning with Middle C

Don't Hurry! The Tortoise Won

Music-Sharing Plan

Leschetizky Memorial Dedicated

Interesting Ways of Giving Harmony Examination

How Kullak Taught Octaves

When to Practice Each Hand Alone

Practice Audiences

Good Equipment Necessary for Good Instruction

Schubert the Modernist

Young Student's Measure

Relative Minors

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and How to Play Them

Musical Postcards

Schubertiana

Character Study of George Frederic Handel

Last Lesson First

Golden Age of Music: Henry T. Finck's …

Volume 44, Number 11 (November 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Character Sketch of Schubert

Franz Schubert as Others Saw Him

Marriage of Rhythm and Rubato

What Does Technic Mean to You?

Question of More Pep

Scaling the Technic Ladder

Gaining Pupil's Confidence

Piano Lesson in Vaudeville

Mental Tests

Quo Vadis Piano?: Which Way is Pianistic Art Turning?

For Lycidas is Dean, Young Lycidas—Milton

Thoughts from Schubert

Teacher—Mother—Pupil

Musician's Library

Wisdom of Women Musical Workers: What Women Musicians are Thinking

Some Unconsidered Details Often Neglected

Inspiring Confidence

Schubert's Life in Anecdote

Schubert in Romance

How to Read Music Accurately, Rapidly and Comfortably

Why and When the Fourth Finger

Practicing New Scales …

Volume 44, Number 10 (October 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Don't! An Article for Budding Professionals

Selling One's Service

Music That Endures

Safe and Sane Memorizing

Daddy's Musical Family

Variety in Recitals

Solving Rhythmical Riddles

How to Improve Your Sight Reading

Can I Develop Absolute Pitch?

When Shall I Stop Learning?

Marvel of the Human Voice: How Natural Methods of Training Produce Exceptional Results (interview with Oscar Saenger)

Engaging a New Music Teacher

Faithful Pupil

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land

Personality of Rameau

Making the Most of the First Year

Dictionary Habit

Practical Lessons in Hand Culture

Little Life Stories of Great Masters: Biographies in Catechism Form

Queer Notation

Aids …

Volume 44, Number 09 (September 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Did Beethoven Jazz?

Laughing Chorus

Music on the Other Side of the World (interview with Mischa Levitzki)

Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing

Lesson with Chopin

Litle Help on the C Scale Fingering

Remarkable Art of Georges Bizet

When the Wrong Note is It

Teach Both Staffs from the Beginning

Musical Bank Account

Memorial to Louis C. Elson

Magic of Details

Why Not More Home Group Music?

Musical Instruments of Yesteryear

Magnifying Pedal

On Always Progressing

Lessons Away from the Piano

Striking Wrong Notes

Bach at the Organ

Select the Proper …

Volume 44, Number 08 (August 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chronologial Progress in Musical Art (interview with Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky)

Beethoven's Literary Education

I Will

Backing Up

Musical Fundamentals Which Every Student Should Know

Bugaboo of Memorizing

Enthusiastic and Popular Teacher

To Keep Up a Repertoire

Teach by Comparisons

Competent Chopin Commentaries

Music and Morocco

Pupils' Time Wasters

Paris Grand Opera House

Caruso's Meeting with Puccini

Research

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land, Part 2

Real Chopin

Teaching the Sharps and Flats

Your Teacher Enjoys

Geometric Gymnastics

Improving a Pupil's Sense of Rhythm

Planting a Musical Garden

Helping the Beginner

Well-Known Transcriptions and Arrangements for Piano

Give Me Little Classics

Unique …