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Volume 31, Number 07 (July 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Emperor's Operatic Rules

Getting a Start in Europe as a Virtuoso

Teaching Too Many Pupils

Story of the Orchestral Instruments Told for the General Music Love: The Woodwind Section

Wisdom of Felix Mendelssohn

Pen Picture of Brahms

How to Become a Sure-Fingered Pianist

How to Make Summers Musically Profitable

Commonsense Helps in Teaching Little Folks

Despondent Versus the Over-Sanguine Pupil

Compelling Independent Finger Action

Teaching Children to Use the Pedals

Legato and Staccato Playing

Liszt as a Russian Master Saw Him

Some Old Musical Legends

Playing for Our Friends

Combating the Missed-Lesson Evil (symposium)

Neglected Staccato

Metronome and Its Uses …

Volume 31, Number 06 (June 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Plan of Scale Practice

Solving the Missed Lesson Problem: A Symposium Upon a Matter of Vital Importance to All Music Teachers

Importance of the First Impression

How I Made My Summer Vacation Profitable: A Timely Symposium from Busy Representative Teachers

Tolstoy's Great Love for Music

Are Great Pianists Always Nervous?

Making the Pupils' Recital Attractive: A New Idea for Progressive Music Workers

New Idea in Teaching the Touch

Instruments of the Orchestra

Balfe's Musicianship

How to Secure a Beautiful Tone at the Keyboard

Temperamental Playing

Developing an Instinctive Sense of Tone

Wisdom of Robert Schumann

Ten Working Rules

Old-Time Advances …

Volume 31, Number 05 (May 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Recollections of Famous Musicians

Counting Habit

Practical Hints to Pupils

Great Operatic Romances Adapted for the Piano

How Chopin's Funeral March Was Written

Plagiarism in Music

Important Secret of Touch

How Diabelli Curbed Beethoven

Story of the Orchestra Instruments told for the General Music Lover

Pianist's Part in Ensemble Playing

Teacher's Attitude for Success

Natural Progressive Methods with Beginners

Character of Beethoven's Music

Secrets of Artistic Phrasing

Where the Dictionary Helps

Striking Modern Ideas on Music as a Curative Force

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Schumann

What Does it Mean to Practice

In Dr. Harmony's Doorway

Mark Hambourg on the …

Volume 31, Number 04 (April 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chord Analysis

Self-Expression in Piano Study (interview with Max Pauer)

Music of the People in Russian Masterpieces (interview with Modeste Altschuler)

Developing a Child's Taste for Music

Parental Opposition to the Musical Career

Secrets of Artistic Phrasing

Handel the Autocrat

Developing Patience in Music Teaching

Spohr on Beethoven as a Conductor

Pianoforte Music by Some of the Modern Russian Composers

When Criticism is Justified

Problem of the Left Hand

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Schubert

Success in Class Teaching: How to Conduct Special Classes in Musical Subjects

What the Teacher Should Memorize

How Some Famous Musical Pieces Got Their Names …

Volume 31, Number 03 (March 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Amusing Experiences with Eccentric Pupils

Music of the People in Rusian Masterpieces (interview with Modest Altschuler)

Russian Folk-Songs Relating to Marriage

Age to Begin Piano Study

Pianoforte Music by Some of the Modern Russian Composers

Music Teacher and the Doctor

Famous Russian Pianists on the Art of Piano Study: Interesting Opinions of Great Virtuosos Which Give Practical Help to the Student

Some Common Musical Terms Relating to Experssion

All About the Interval

Art of Pianoforte Playing in Russia (interview with Josef Lhevinne)

Why They Lost Their Pupils

Chopin's Lamentable Affliction

What Russia Has Done for the Violin

Modern Masters in …

Volume 31, Number 02 (February 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Conserve Your Nerve Force

How Piano is Studied in France

Slow Movement

Chopin's Characteristics

Application fo Efficiency to Piano Playing

Preparing the Hands for Keyboard Mastery

Errors in Print

Giuseppe Verdi: Composer, Patriot and Philanthropist

Learning to Listen

Importance of Accent

Why are Consecutive Fifths Objectionable?

Vitalizing the Practice Period

What the Piano Teacher Can Do For the Reed Organ Pupil

Why We Have so Few Good Sight Readers

Success in Concert Singing (interview with Clara Butt)

Rhythmic Importance of Accent

Runs

Master Study Page—Handel

With the World's Great Educators—Herbert Spencer

Give the Boy a Chance

Well-Known Composers of To-day—John …

Volume 31, Number 01 (January 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Personal Recollections of Famous Musicians

How Fine Editions Help the Student and the Teacher

Place of Technic in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

What Significance Has the Weight of the Arm in Piano Playing?

Making a Start as a Music Teacher

Delightful Home for Retired Music Teachers

Then and Now: Thirty Years of Advance in Musical America (symposium)

With the World's Great Educators—Herbart

Hugo Wolf's Method of Composition

Positive vs. Negative Teaching

Musical Thought and Action in the Old World

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Brahms

Well Known Composers of To-day—George Dudley Martin

Why Must I Practice Slowly?

Rubinstein's …

Outline Of A Course Of Lessons In Choral Conducting, Siegel-Myers Correspondence School Of Music

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A pamphlet outlining the lesson plans during the choral conducting correspondence course

Lesson Book: Pipe Organ, Eddy Clarence

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Music Lesson Book for the correspondence courses offered through the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music.
Lessons and examinations: Pipe Organ, number 1 through 6, 60, and 150 to 152

Volume 30, Number 12 (December 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Clear Chords

Importance of Fine Editions of the Classics

Don't Expect Everything of the Teacher

How Chopin Wrote the Preludes

Save Your Energy

Our Photogravure Supplement, Their Son

Advance of Vocal Art in America

Plan Your Season's Work Rightly

Training of the Rhythmic Sense

Triangle as a Teaching Help

Richard Wagner and Christmas

Painting with Tones

Musical Success Comes from Within

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Chopin

Stephen Heller as I Knew Him: Memories of Lessons with the Noted Composer Teacher

With the World's Great Educators

Love Affairs of Famous Composers

Law of Success in Musical Study

Mile-Posts in Pianistic …

Volume 30, Number 11 (November 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Benefit of Playing in the Polyphonic Style

Master Study Page—The Real Gounod, 1818-1893

Keep the Finger Nails Trimmed

With the World's Great Educators—Rousseau

Selecting Standard Classics for the Study Season

Well Known Composers of To-day—W.D. Armstrong

Volume 30, Number 10 (October 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Master Study Page—The Real Beethoven, 1770-1827

Reminiscences of Some Famous Musicians

Famous Mythological Characters in Music

Selected Technical Truths from World Famous Pianists: Gems of Pedagogical Thought Crystallized in the Crucible of Time and Experience

Solving the Missed Lesson Problems

Wrist in Piano Playing

What Every Teacher Should Know About Teaching: Home-Study Hints on the Greatest of Arts

Selecting Standard Classics for the Study Season: Useful Pianoforte Pieces for Special Development

Jules Massenet, Eminent French Master, Passes Away

Death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Well Known Composers of To-day—J. Lamont Galbraith

Wagner on How Mendelssohn Conducted Beethoven

Practical Hints on Securing New …

Volume 30, Number 09 (September 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Need for a Good Position at the Keyboard

Interesting Vacation Trip to Mozart's Workshop

New Thoughts on the Physiology of Practice

His Majesty's Violins: A Tale of the Court of Louis XIV

Leschetizky on the Pedals

Why Should We Have Pieces for Left Hand Alone?

Pointers on Position at the Piano

Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Apollo

Some Personal Recollections of Chopin

Excessive Octave Practice

Well Known Composer Reaches Opus 1000—Arnold Sartorio

Some Conundrums on Musicians' Names

Women in the Orchestra

About Verdi's Operas

Volume 30, Number 08 (August 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Position at the Piano

Carnival Music

Busoni and the Press

Correct Position at the Keyboard: A Symposium

Characteristic Features of Russian Music

Reading Music Like a Book

Exciting Musical Career of Tillie Clapsaddle

Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Pan

His Majesty's Violins: A Story of Music at the Court of Louis XIV

Bright Sayings of Famous Masters

Odd Effect of Music on Animals

Volume 30, Number 07 (July 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Great Musicians on Their Contemporaries

Training of the Pianist of the Future (interview with Wilhelm Bachus)

Schumannisms

Musical History During the Piano Lesson

Modern Ideas on Broken-Chord Practice

Playing Duets with Schumann

How I Gave My First Lesson: A Symposium of Particular Interest to Your Teachers and Students Who Aspire to Be Teachers

Analysis Guide to Intelligent Musical Interpretation

Famous Mythological Characters in Music: Orpheus

Bishop Who Wrote Operas

Berlin's Concerts

Volume 30, Number 06 (June 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Clara Schumann's Father on Study

How Analysis Benefits the Piano Pupil (interview with Katharine Goodson)

Selecting Piano Studies that Insure Progress

Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Sappho

To Memorize or Not to Memorize

How Chopin Played: As told by Liszt, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Other Contemporaries

Hours with Leschetizky (interview with Lolita D. Mason)

Rubinstein's Bitter Valedictory

Tributes of Noted Musicians to the Memory of the Late W.S.B. Mathews

How the Mind Should Guide the Body in Practice

Dramatic Moments in the Careers of the Masters

Well-Known Composers of To-day—Charles Wakefield Cadman

Volume 30, Number 05 (May 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Conquering the Stiff Wrist

Passing of W.S.B. Mathews

Important Points Frequently Neglected in the Study of Pianoforte Works

From Beethoven to Wagner

Mental Effect of Tones

Married Woman Pupil

Great Pianists at the Keyboard: A Lesson in Position (portraits)

Symposium on Position at the Keyboard

Some Secrets of Success in Playing in Public

Some Royal Musicians

Student Days with Dvorák

Well-Known Composers of Today—George Eggeling

Composers as Conductors

Volume 30, Number 04 (April 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Famous Standard Etudes: Their Value to the Teacher and to the Music Student

How George Bernard Shaw Learned to Play the Piano

Pitfalls in the Road to Musical Success

Daily Hints for Diligent Pupils

Perplexing Embellishments and Their Execution

Mental Technic of Memorizing

I Could Play it All Right at Home

Some Practical Helps to Sight Reading

How Small Hands May be Trained To Play Arpeggio Chords

Modern French and German Opera

Real Ole Bull, Personal Reminiscences

Little Known Musical Facts

Road to Expression (interview with Harold Bauer)

Well Known Composers of To-day—Robert M. Stults

Volume 30, Number 03 (March 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Facts about Musical Ireland

Artistic Aims in Piano Playing (interview with Harold Bauer)

Chopin and the Tempo Rubato

Centurion Composers of Opera

Mendelssohn's Phenomenal Memory

Gluck's Operatic Ideals

How to Execute Mordents, Trills and Appoggiaturas

Modern Italian Opera: Its Tendencies and Its Composers

Offenbach's Remarkable American Experiences

Making a Success of the Pupils Recital: With Important Suggestions upon Overcoming Stage Fright

Ten Most Important Epochs in Musical History

Adventurous Composer of Maritana

Volume 30, Number 02 (February 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Probable Origin of Syncopation

Opera of the People (interview with Victor Herbert)

Boccherini and His Friends

If My Daughter Should Study for Grand Opera (interview with Andreas Dippel)

When Different Pupils Make the Same Mistakes

How a Great Operatic Production is Prepared: Opinions from Many Celebrated Specialists upon a Subject of Much Human Interest to all Music Lovers

Grand Opera as a Business

Self-Help in Voice Study (interview with Charles Dalmores)

Alphabet of the Opera Composers

Names of the Notes in Other Languages

Success at the First Lessons: Five Important Points for Teachers to Remember and Employ

Well-Known Composers of …

Volume 30, Number 01 (January 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Italy, the Home of Grand Opera (interview with Enrico Caruso)

Interpretation of Beethoven's Piano Masterpieces

Progress in Piano Playing (interview with Josef Holmann)

Beginnings of Opera

Ten Most Famous Opera Singers of the Last Century

Should American Opera Aspirants Study Abroad?

Bel Canto: The Foundation of All Successful Operatic Singing (interview with Bernice de Pasquali)

Prolific Opera Composer

Improving Arpeggio Chord Playing

Last Work of Wagner, Parsifal

Mystery of the Lethbridge Strad

$10,000 Stradivarius Violin Demolished by Unknown Fanatic

Lesson Book: A Course Of Lessons In Public School Music For Kindergarten Teachers, Grade Teachers And Supervisors, Clark

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Book outlining the correspondence course for future teachers of public music in Kindergartens and elementary schools.

Lesson Book: Public School Music, Clark E. Frances

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Music Lesson Book for the correspondence courses offered through the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music.
Lessons and Examinations: Public School Music, number 76 through 100

Volume 29, Number 12 (December 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Regular Progress

Presto Paragraphs

Recollections of My Musical Childhood

Acquiring a Good Touch

Is Woman's Musical Talent Really Limited?

Simplicity of Harmony

How Musical Sounds Come to Us

Glory of Beethoven

Mental Pictures in Music

Chopin's Revolutionary Etude

Do Americans Need More Technic?

Training the Crossing Fingers in scale Playing

Reminders

How Piano Playing Has Progressed (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Posing at the Pianoforte

Mystery of the Lethbridge Strad: A Christmas Story of Musical Life in a Great City

Lisztiana

What Franz Liszt Did for the Music of the Church

Franz Liszt as I Knew Him

Well Known Composers …

Volume 29, Number 11 (November 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Rubinstein's Meteoric Tour of America: Personal Reminiscences of the Great Russian Master

Pupil's Part in Piano Study

Work, the Secret of Pianistic Success (interview with Vladimir de Pachmann)

Physical Development and Care of the Pianist's Hand: Practical Directions for Gaining Strength, Firmness and Flexibility, Treatment of Strained Muscles and Pianist's Cramp

Developing the Natural Rhythmic Sense of the Child

Graded Course for Piano Students (symposium)

Offenbach's Greatest Opera, Tales of Hoffmann

How The Tales of Hoffmann was Written

Story of The Tales of Hoffmann

Famous Singers in The Tales of Hoffmann

Volume 29, Number 10 (October 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Introductions in Classical Compositions

My Only Meeting with Richard Wagner

Originality in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Vladimir de Pachmann)

Richard Wagner's Great Sacrifices for Success: The Master Composer's Own Description of His Fight Against the Bitterest Povety and Continual Failure

Self-Help, the Foundation of All Permanent Success: A Collection of Letters and Articles from World Famous Men Pertaining to One of the Greatest Elements in Human Progress

Self-Help Course for Piano Students: A Series of Educational Works, Technical Studies, Etudes and Pieces, Selected Especially for this Issue by Well-Known Teachers with Wide Experience in America and in Europe

Some New …

Volume 29, Number 09 (September 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Centenary of Franz Liszt—Founder of Modern Pianism: A Recent Analysis of the Technical and Artistic Traits of the Greatest of Piano Masters

What Schubert was Paid for His Songs

How Thinking Ahead Helps Memorizing and Sight Reading

Revealing the Composer's Hidden Meaning (interview with Sigismund Stojowski)

Prime Minister's Tribute to Music

Music Teachers for Piano-Player Owners

Left-Hand Recital

Flotow's Tuneful Opera Martha

How to Gain Muscular Control at the Keyboard

Clara Schumann's Memories of Mendelssohn's Piano Playing

Progress in American Musical Education

Well-Known Composers of To-Day—Richard Ferber

Getting Ready for the Musical Club Season: First Steps in Starting a Musical …

Volume 29, Number 08 (August 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin: Pre-Eminent Genius of the Pianoforte

Getting the Most Out of Five-Finger Exercises

Modern Pioneers in the Art of Piano-Playing

Etude Debate: Shall Music Teachers be Required to Pass an Examination Before They are Permitted to Teach?

Pentatonic Scales in Famous Song

Can Your Pupils Listen?

When the Mother Interferes

Laying the Foundation for Velocity: How Great Speed May be Attained if the Right Beginning is Made

Wagner's Opera Tannhäuser

Mendelssohn the Fortunate

Some Delicate (?) Contemporary Criticisms of Wagner's Early Works

How I Overcame Stage Fright

Encores at Pupils' Recitals

Rossini the Humorist: Epigrams and Wit of the Most …

Volume 29, Number 07 (July 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mendelssohn's Ideal Musical Training: Some Interesting Sidelights Upon the Education of the Fortunate Boy Who Was Later to Become One of the Word's Greatest Masters

Great Innovators in the Art of Piano-Playing

Very First Lessons at the Piano

Verdi's Egyptian Opera Aïda

Josef Pischna: The Renowned Writer of Technical Exercises

Brahms' Quick Wit

How to Secure a Legato-Touch

Systematise Your Octave Study

Closing of a Great Career—Gustav Mahler

Old Laws and New Ideas: Important Observations Upon Piano Practice

How the Piano Differs from Its Fore-runners

Characteristic Dance Forms: Short Notes upon Dances Which Have Become Famous Through Their Adoption by …

Volume 29, Number 06 (June 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spirit of Life in Music—Rhythm

Real Musical Interest in the Czerny Studies

Balfe's Opera The Bohemian Girl

Famous German Conservatories: The Conservatories of Southern Germany

Analysis of Teaching Material: The Rondo Form

What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School

History and Uses of the Metronome

Hearing with the Eye

Beginner Specialist in Piano Teaching