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Volume 40, Number 07 (July 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Plow-Boy to Parsifal: The Remarkable Career of an Indiana Farmer's Boy Who Never Heard a Grand Opera Until Two Years After He was Married (interview with Orville Harrold)

Mixing Music with Brains: The Only Road to Success Hereafter

Making Habits That Help

Learning Bass Notes Simplified

How to Be Happy Though Practicing

Keeping Ahead of You Fingers

Dialogue on Scales

Ouija Board and Piano Practice

Verdi's Thoughts on Art

Some Secrets of Readng at Sight

Four Hand Playing

How Le Couppey Taught

Important Point in Phrasing

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop, Part 9

Full-Measure Rest

How They Put …

Volume 40, Number 06 (June 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Radio Music for Everybody (interview with J. Andrew White)

How Kullak Got Back

Goldmark Avec Suite

Musicale at Dickens'

Hepling the Careless Pupil

Simple Facts About Harmony That Every Music Lover Should Know

Character in Sound

Legend of The Moonlight Sonata

Capture the Child's Magical Interest Early

Reminiscences of a Famous Prima Donna

Indicating Mistakes

Silent Music Lesson

Phrasing Made Simple for Earnest Piano Students

Is This the Ideal Position at the Piano?

Paganini Demanded Skill

Why Popular Songs Don't Last

Symphonies in Color—Silent Music

Practical Musical Note-Books

Helping a Limping Pupil

Know the Notes

Something About the Pause

Little …

Volume 40, Number 05 (May 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Many Roads to Artistic Playing (interview with Alexander Siloti)

Realizing Your Musical Ideals

Recorder: Intimate Glimpses of Famous Contemporaries

Music Facts from Plutarch's Lives

Mañana

Practical Technic for the Beginner

How Long is a Note

Cover to Protect Sheet Music

Hymn Values

Music in the Age of Seneca

Promoting Keyboard Accuracy

Taking Advantage

Rubinstein's Hungry Years

When Simplifying Why Not Simplify?

Pupils Who Discontinue

Time Saving Ideas in Pianoforte Practice

All About the Waltz

Music and Money

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

Remedies for Nervousness in Public Performances

Choking the Muse

Common Musical Matters in a New Guise

Maelzel …

Volume 40, Number 04 (April 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Beginnings in Vocal Art (interview with Emma Calvé)

Camille Saint-Saëns Parting Advice on Piano Study

Be Your Own Surgeon

Memory of a Great Conductor

What Berlioz Thought of Us

Too Much Practice is Waste: How to Get Results Without Nerve Drain and Muscular Fatigue by Employing Scientific Methods

Artist is Always Ready

Making Pupils Count

Fraudulent Musical Masterpieces

What Did the Ancients Mean by Music of the Spheres

Some New Facts about the Creator of the Nocturne: John Field of Dublin

Paste This in Your Instruction Book: Common Sense Hints to Piano Students

About Triplets

What Makes a Great …

Volume 40, Number 03 (March 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is the Most Important Work to Which the Music Clubs of America May Devote Their Efforts? A Nation-Wide Symposium

Beginnings of American Music: A Sketch of Our Musical Endeavor Up to the Early Years of the Last Century

What Our Music Clubs Need Most

Ingrowing Musical Clubs

Music Students in Small Towns

Getting More Pupils

Slow Practice with Exaggerated Accents

Opera a Year

What the National Federation of Musical Clubs is Doing to Help in Making America a Musical Nation

Heredity and Music

Club: A Municipal Personality

Beacon Lights of Opera, To-Day and Yesterday: Graphic Sketches of the Masters …

Volume 40, Number 02 (February 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Most Remarkable Pianoforte Recital Ever Given

Spirit of Chopin

More Reasons Why She Couldn't Hold Her Pupils

Remarkable Mind of Camille Saint-Saëns: Passing of the Great French Composer at Advance Age: A Review of his Works as Reflected from Some of His Writings, and From the Writings of His Friends

What the Teacher Should Demand

Saint-Saëns' Last Public Address

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

What Guido Suffered

How I Overcame the Greatest Obstacle in My Career, Symposium

Handel's Sensitive Ear

Unavoidable Practice

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

Exercises to Prevent Arm Strain

Vioin and the …

Volume 40, Number 01 (January 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Would I Take Up Music Again? Symposium

Best Hand Position

Don't Threaten your Child

Should Grade Teachers Specialize in Music?

What Makes Piano Playing Interesting

Rehearse Phrases, Not Fragments

Teaching Rhythm in Class Lessons

Scale Solitaire

New Paths and Visions in Musical Progress (interview with Richard Strauss)

Chicago or Bayreuth

Robert Huntington Terry (photograph)

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

What the Piano Student Could Learn from the Violin Teacher

Humor and Music Teaching

Story of the Turn: Practical Advice Upon How to Play Such Embellishments

Most Helpful Piano Lesson …

Volume 39, Number 12 (December 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hour of Triumph

200 or 200,000

Tchaikowsky on Brahms

Value of Written Work

Music an Ideal Christmas Present (interview with John Philip Sousa)

Keep Your Methods Fresh

Teachers' Round Table

How the Masters Practiced

Seven Rules for Position at the Keyboard

Camille Saint-Saëns, To-Day and Yesterday

Will Piano Exercises Overcome Deformities of the Hand?

Liszt's Business

Save Your Breath?

Heart Music and Art Music

Advance with Every Lesson

Get the Musical Idea

Comparative Musical History Dates

Here and There in the Field of Music: An Intimate Page of Facts, Humor and Comment with the Great Music Makers of To-day and …

Volume 39, Number 11 (November 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Pianist's Palette

Recorded Music

From a Master's Workshop

Practice Plan that Brings Results

How Genius Discounts Handicaps

Emphasizing Different Voices

Studio Stories that Hit the Spot

Demand the Noblest Ideals

How One Mother Got Time for Music Stories

Finale: Yesterday and Today

Better Elocution in Your Piano Playing

Little Learning Not Always a Dangerous Thing

Interesting Your Pupils

Knowing the Keyboard

Here and There in the Field of Music: An Intimate Page of Fact, Humor and Comment with the Great Music Makers of To-day and Yesterday

Harmony, Not a Dry and Difficult Subject

Visit to the Presser Home for Retired …

Volume 39, Number 10 (October 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Glimpses of Genius (interview with Percy Grainger)

Mother and the Musical Boy

Telling is Not Teaching

Verdi's Thoughts on Art

My Star Soloist

From a Master's Workshop: Little Lessons in Musicianship

Lesson in Chopin Interpretation

Five-Year Old Pupil

Teachers' Fees Should Not be Lowered

Ten Musical Failures and Why They Failed

Ambidexterity in Piano Playing

Too Much Self Help

Mastering Mistakes: Common Errors and Shortcomings of Piano Students and How to Overcome Them

Ten Thoughts for Music Students

Five Wasted Years

Eliminating Stiffness in Piano Playing: Knocking Down the Blank Wall in the Way of Progress in Grade Three

Individual …

Volume 39, Number 09 (September 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Develop Staccato Touch

Twenty Don'ts for Piano Teachers

Motives and Measure Bars

Square Deal for Teachers: Let Us Have a Better Financial Status for the Professional Musician

No Missed Lessons

Wrong Thing

Teaching Table Exercises to Beginners

Practical Ideas on Artistic Pedaling

Counting for a Star

Wise Selection of Piano Teaching Materials

Thumb on the Black Keys

Music and the Student's Health

One Minute with Haydn

Piano Teacher and His Success

Starting the Fire

Essense of Musical Memorizing

Parting Word

Getting Real Happiness from Your Music: Psychology and the Young Musician

Holding Young Child's Interest

Why Some Organists …

Volume 39, Number 08 (August 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Momentous Musical Anniversary: P.M.T.A. Celebrates Thirtieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of a Movement Which Has Become Country Wide

Greatest Thing in Technic: Dr. William Mason's Vast Technical Vision

Musical Brain-Storms and Their Results

Heyday of Music

Vocal Masterpieces for the Masses (interview with Henri Scott)

Sustaining Pedal and What It Does to Piano Music

Musical Explorer

Pianist's Vitality

Keeping Up Interest in Your Music Club

Color Effects in Piano Playing

Don'ts for Scale Playing

Bug-Bear of Dotted Notes

Variety in Scale Practice

Bad Manners at Concerts

Look Up!

Variety at Lessons

Something New in Music Temperament and Musical Understanding

How …

Volume 39, Number 07 (July 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Freedom in Music Teaching Methods (interview with Erno Dohnanyi)

What the Word Sissy Did

Deep Breathing vs. Nervousness

Motives and Melodies

Rural Music Teacher's Pay

How They Earned a Musical Education

Weak Fingers

Musical Innovations

Counting Aloud

Daily Supervised Practice

Quality and Color in Piano Playing: How to Make Your Playing Beautiful by the Legitimate Use of Color Effects

Ten Cardinal Points in Legato Piano Playing

Are You Taking or Are You Studying Music?

Check Up Your Hand Position

Speed Mania

Noise, the Disease of the Century

How Primary Pupils May Learn to Read Rapidly

Line a Day

Art of …

Volume 39, Number 06 (June 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Aspects of the Art of Singing in America (interview with Reinald Werrenrat)

Fingering of Major Scales

Teaching Music Through Feeling

Studio Thoughts

Fingering Facts for Self-Help Pupils

Saving Energy in Practice

Von Bülow's Concert Hat

Success Steps in Piano Teaching

Sight Reading and Musicianship

What Method Shall I Study? What Method Shall I Teach?

How the Piano Sings

Fair Price for Lessons

Fingering Scales in Flats

Magic of the Keyboard: Virtuoso Tricks in Piano Playing

Playing Teacher

Do You Lose Your Music?

Liszt's Playing

Shall the Classics be First or Last?

Very Little Ones

Where Long Finger Nails Fall …

Volume 39, Number 05 (May 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Golden Hour

Letters from Eminent Americans Endorsing The Golden Hour

Parents, Do You Do Your Part?

Handy Definitions

Variety in Scale Practice

Gymnastics in the Bass

What is the Most Difficult Thing in Piano Playing? (interview with Ignaz Friedman)

Muscle and Piano Playing

What Method Do You Use?

Sky the Limit

Musicians and the General Public

Gossec's Grim Humor

One Minute with Ludwig van Beethoven: Selected Quotations

Making Melodies and Addressing Them Properly

Sight Reading in the More Difficult Keys

Introduction in Scale Practice: A Practical Plan

Repeated Keys: An Interesting Effect in Piano Playing Worthy of Study by Ambitious …

Volume 39, Number 04 (April 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eminent Educational Experts Endorse the Golden Hour

Golden Hour: America's Most Serious Problem—A Possible Solution in Which You May Have a Vital Part

Modern Roads to Vocal Success (interview with Julia Claussen)

Sharps, Flats, Naturals

Helpful Criticism

Accent on the Third Beat

Cast Iron Methods

Lingering Lovingly on Details

Experience Plus Enthusiasm

Practical Phases of Pianoforte Technic (interview with Josef Lhevinne)

Taste

Inspiration in Piano Playing

Patience in the Study of Music

Studios, Yesterday and To-day

Psychology of Dress in Public Appearance

Alla Breve

What Was Liszt's Technic Life?

Interest Power in Music

Dialogue on the Pedals

Four Daily Practice …

Volume 39, Number 03 (March 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Phases of Modern Pianoforte Study

Mercenary Methods and the Result

Teacher Who Makes You Work

Some Common Failings and Their Correction

Young at Seventy, Old at Forty

Be Comfortable While You Teach: A Word of Advice to Young Teachers

Steps in Learning to Compose

Learning to Like the Classics

Perspective in Teaching

Arm Relaxation Applied to Finger Work

Life Maxims of Great Musicians

Negative Criticism and Why It Fails

Soul of Poland in Music

Is the Development of High Speed Desirable in the Study of Scales and Arpeggios?

Getting Ready for a Recital

Unfair Competition

Suggestions to Young Concert …

Volume 39, Number 02 (February 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Acquiring a Vocal Repertoire (interview with Alma Gluck)

Cause and Cure of Nervousness

Soul Exercises

How the Scale Should be Practiced Every Day

Average Amateur Pianist

Early Teaching Material

Lines and Spaces

Select the Best Fingering

Poor Performance and Its Sequel

Curve of Improvement in Practice

How to Get the Most Out of Your Music Lesson

Acquiring a Repertoire

Folly of Giving Too Difficult Music to Students

Thematic Index

Historical Music Study

Introduction to the Keyboard

Secret of Success of Great Musicians

Learning By Ear

Keeping Up

Don't Be Discouraged

Chords I Have Met

Emotional Control in Playing

How to …

Volume 39, Number 01 (January 1921), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Unseen Influences in Musical Composition and Interpretation (interview with Cyril Scott)

How to Check Up a Child's Progress

Written Lesson in Music

Why Does My Back Get Tired When I Practice?

Intensive Left-Hand Practice

Handicapped Players

What are the Best Kind of Playing Fingers

Adelina Patti: Queen of the Opera of the Last Century

Use Up-to-Date Beginner's Books

How Would You Answer These Self-Searching Questions?

When You Practice

One Note: Some of the Fascinating Curiosities of Acoustics

How Can I Find Out Whether My Child is Musical?

Rhythmic Knack

Peep Behind the Scenes

De Gustibus Est Disputandum, I Say: Matters …

Volume 38, Number 12 (December 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Self Study in the Art of Singing (interview with Mme. Amelita Galli-Gurci)

Harsh Chords in the Bass and What To Do With Them

Rubinstein, Master of Tone

Environment and the Child's Musical Life

Ten-Toned Scales

Harmonious Blacksmith

Revolutionary Etude: A Christmas Story of Music and the Great Unrest

Getting Results in Pianoforte Study

Doing too Much for Students

Like Flying to a Bird

Schubert and Schubart

Bringing Out the Master's Meaning

Some Interesting Things to Know About Playing Scales, Chords and Arpeggios

Marking Accidentals

Apple-pie-ano

Christmas Festival of Peace, Music and Good Cheer

Practical Exercises in Weight Playing

How to …

Volume 38, Number 11 (November 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Liszt to Leschetizky: Forty Years with Great Pianists

Unmusical Fugue

Chart for Remembering Key Signatures

Music and the Home

Practical Exercises in Modern Phrasing

Tonal Perception

Don't Be Fooled by Applause

How Can I Study the Art of Instrumentation?

Preparedness: The Secret of Speed

Getting Results in Pianoforte Study: Some Modern Ways of Reaching the Goal Through New Artistic Means

Musical Misnomers

Lessons We Dread

Early Hours for Practice

Passing on the Credit

Some Tricky Musical Signs, Ties, Slurs and Accidentals

Planning Practice to Get Best Results

Why are Sharps Harder than Flats

Effective Finger Exercises

Fingers versus Brains …

Volume 38, Number 10 (October 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Soul of the American Indian

Keyboard Masters of Other Years

Does Your Piano Need a Scavenger?

Light Touch

American Indian's Music Idealized

Great Possibilities of American Music Clubs

Places That Don't Sound Right and What to Do With Them

Shall I Take Up Music as a Profession?

Be Generous with Praise

Impressions of Indian Music as Heard in the Woods, Prairies, Mountains and Wigwams

Passing of Carlos Troyer, Musician and Explorer: Famous Friend of the Indians and the Notable Work He Accomplished

Interesting Facts About the Indians

Indian Musicians in the Modern World

Lieurance Program

Collectors of Native American …

Volume 38, Number 09 (September 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Hold Your Audience

Injured Right Hand a Blessing

Playing in the Right Octave

How to Make Your Practice Time Less Tedious

Music Composition as a Field for Women (interview with Carrie Jacobs-Bond)

Why Underpay the Music Teacher?

Early Fall Recital

Does Your Pupil Know What Music to Bring to the First Fall Lesson?

Painless Musical Bookkeeping

Opening Gun of the Teaching Season: What a Teacher Must Do to Insure a Prompt Start and a Full Class

Gradual Hand Stretching Exercise

All About Variations

Some Hints on Modern Fingering

Ultra-Modern Music Explained: Unusual Futurist Harmony and Form Discussed

Remembering …

Volume 38, Number 08 (August 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Three Touches Employed in Melody Playing

How to Create New Teaching Business

Direct Method in Music Study

Basis of Success in Music Reading

Fighting Fate to Triumph

Never Too Late

To Parents—Don't Give Up Your Music

To the Pupil Without a Teacher

School and Studio: Studies in the Cirriculum of the Public School Which Compare with Musical Studies

Practical Aspects of Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with M. Alfred Cortot)

Accenting Compound Measures

By-Product of Counting Aloud

Passing Notes

How Much Do You Practice?

More Advanced Technical Exercises and the Relation of Technical Exercises to Studies

Starting Them In

First Steps …

Volume 38, Number 07 (July 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Know How in the Art of Singing (interview with Mary Garden)

Summer Activities of the Music Teacher

Music and Mechanics

Why Use the Letter C in 4/4 Time?

What Every Piano Student Should Know About Pedaling

Technic or No Technic? Which?

Best Remedy I Have Ever Found for Nervousness in Public Performance

Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians

Good Beginning

Memories of Rubinstein and Liszt

Why Go to Pieces?

Make Your Left Hand Intelligent

Musical Patriotism

Strengthening the Weaker Digits

Where Does Father Come In?

Helpful Hints on Arpeggio Fingering

Illustration and Story in Piano Teaching

That Loud Pedal …

Volume 38, Number 06 (June 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Must I Go Through to Become a Prima Donna? (interview with Geraldine Farrar)

More Income for Music Teachers: How and Why One Teacher Made Good at an Increased Price

Count the Cost

Musical Genius Everywhere

Child's First Piano Lesson

How to Get Your First Pupils

Compelling Force in Musical Success (interview with Alberto Jonás)

What Shall I Teach?

Most Simple Way of Teaching Lines and Spaces

Scale Maxims

Hint on Memorizing

New Pianistic Beauties Through New Pedal Effects

Did You Say You Couldn't Memorize Music? Read This!

Taking American Music Seriously

Temperature and Practice

Let the Light Fall Right …

Volume 38, Number 05 (May 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Tendencies in Pianistic Art (interview with Benno Moiseiwitsch)

Note on Interpretation

How to Write Characteristic Music

Some Big Thoughts from a Great Writer

Slow Scales

Don't be Fooled by Fake Memory Systems

Technic versus Interpretation in Piano Study

Those Tiresome Five-Finger Exercises!

Teaching in the Language of Do

What Do You Mean by Musical Expression?

Well-tuned Piano

Start the Fashion of Punctuality

How the Great Masters Practiced

Interest at the Very Beginning

Dictating Music

Mystery of Genius

New Pianistic Beauties by New Pedal Effects

Tone-Deaf Pupils

Will Ragtime Turn to Symphonic Poems (interview with Major Rupert Hughes)

Some Interesting …

Volume 38, Number 04 (April 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music for the Man of To-day (interview with Rupert Hughes)

Don't Be Discouraged

Need for Wrist Freedom

Psychic Influence in Modern Music

Slow Practice the First Step on the Road to Virtuosity

Romance of a Famous Song: Judge Galloway's The Gypsy Trail

Recipes for Profitable Practice

Piano Playing of To-day

Temperament, Technic and Tact in Accompanying

Some Important Facts About Studying Real Composition

Introducing Yourself to the Pupil

Scales in Four Octaves

Getting the Most from Technical Exercises

Hateful Half Hour' Practice and Some Ways of Overcoming It

How Some Composers Compose

Attention as a Factor in Piano Study

Why …

Volume 38, Number 03 (March 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Aftermath of the Great War (interview with Walter Damrosch)

Catchy Fourth

Getting Ahead in Music

Method versus Methods: A Practical Talk to Teachers from a Renowned European Pedagog

Murdering Your New Piece

Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians

Secret of a Good Musical Memory: Successive Steps in Acquiring the Art of Remembering Music

Piano Teacher's Best Advancement

Home-Made Metronome

Classic Piano Playing from Beethoven to the Modern

Hints for Your Repertoire

Ill-Founded Conclusion Concerning the Great Mozart

Every Music Student Should Learn How to Accompany

Right Kind of Musical History

Do You Want a Flexible Wrist?

What Instrument …

Volume 38, Number 02 (February 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Notable Group of American Musical Educators

Etudes of Chopin and How They Ought to be Practiced

Multiple Rhythm

Indispensables in Pianistic Success

Some Errors and How I Corrected Them

What is Shape in Music

All Sorts and Conditions of Pupils

Is Playing by Ear Harmful? Play What You See, See What You Play; Play What you Hear, Hear What You Play; See What You Hear, Hear What You See

Key Relationship and Key Signatures

Hearing Wrong Fingering

Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians

High-Grade Concerts in a Small Town

Gather Memories! The True Story of a Musician Who Did …