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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

Volume 29, Number 05 (May 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Influence of Germany's Greatest Masters on the Musicl Art of the World

Weber's Opera, Der Freischutz

Influence of the Folk-Song on German Musical Art (interview with Gustav Mahler)

Predominating Influence in the German Music of To-day

Some Important Things I Learned in Germany

Germany's Remarkable System of Music Schools: Music Schools of Northern Germany

What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School

Important Observations Upon Piano Practice

Ten Vital Tests in Finishing a Piece

Some Facts about Sopranos

Singers Who Lost Their Voices

How to Study a Song

Volume 29, Number 04 (April 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How Great German Singing Festivals Have Advanced the Art of Music in Germany and America

Conservatory at Leipsic

Program Music of Yesterday

Supernatural in German Musical Art

Some Important Things I Learned in Germany

Some Interesting Facts About Musical Magazines

Predominating Influence in the German Music of To-Day

Influence of Germany's Greatest Masters on the Musical Art of the World

As to Music Study in Europe

Wagner's Music-Drama, Lohengrin

America's Musical Debt to Germany

Great Gifts of the Centuries: Immortal Contemporaries in Music, Art and Literature

Gottschalk and Impressarios

Musician's Letter to an Ambitious Piano Student: Master Lessons in Piano …

Volume 29, Number 03 (March 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Radiating Keyboard

Oldest Living Composer

Some Absurdities of Opera

First Compositions of the Masters

Gounod's Masterpiece, Faust

Some Recent Music for Piano

About Accompanying

Fundamental Principles of Piano Playing

Famous Extemporizing

Rogues' March

Helpfulness of Obedience: A Talk with Mothers of Music Students

Attitude of the Pupil

Great Philosopher on Music

Impediments to Interpretation

Little Known Irish Musician

Music and the American Boy

Volume 29, Number 02 (February 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Weber as a Teacher

How Shall We Make Our Pupils Practice?

Bizet's Masterpiece, Carmen

Music and Color

Epigrams from Schumann

Your First Public Appearance

William H. Sherwood

Some Piano Personalities

Selecting Compositions for Teaching Purposes

Thumb and the Little Finger in Piano Playing

Some Things Piano Owners Ought to Know

Musical Blunders of Famous Authors

Practical Points for the Young Teacher

Well Known Composers of To-Day—Henry Weyts

English Organist of the Past and Present

Decline of the Banjo

Volume 29, Number 01 (January 1911), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

English Pianists and the Development of Piano Playing in England

English Composers of To-day

Influence of Oratorio Upon English Music

Short Biography of Frederick Corder

Beggar's Opera

Music at the English Universities

How Music in England Has Profited by Local Musical Examinations

England's Hospitality to Foreign Musicians

Short Biographical Notes on British Musicians

Value of Pianoforte Transcriptions

Lessons from Memorable Piano Recitals

English Folk-Songs

Well Known Composers of To-Day—Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Handel Failure

English Organist of the Past and Present

How Verdi Came to Write Aïda

Lesson Book: Singing, Crampton George

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

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

Lesson Book: History, Analysis And Appreciation Of Music, Gunn Dillard Glenn

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: History, Analysis and Appreciation of Music, number 1 through 30

Volume 28, Number 12 (December 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Overheard at the Symphony Concert

Developing the Beautiful in Piano Playing

What Daily Practice Means

Difficult Art of Good Pedaling

Lessons from Memorable Piano Recitals

How One Teacher Raised Her Income

My First Composition

How and Why the American Teacher Has Succeeded in Europe

Those Missed Lessons

Patrons and Helpers of Great Composers

Some Wagner Caracatures

Crying Need in American Music

Professor's Christmas Dilemma: A Musical Romance of Xmas

Hand Drill

On Making the Most of a Poor Instrument

Well Known Composers of To-Day—Hermann Necke

Need of Better Sight Reading

Balzac's Interest in Music

Pupils Who Pay by the Lesson

Volume 28, Number 11 (November 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Approximate Pronunciations of the Names of French Musicians

How Verdi Preserved His Originality

Lessons with Franz Liszt

Weber's Mistake

Cultivating Musical Taste in the Public Schools

Tschaikowski's Ideals

Triumph of Edward MacDowell

Wagner on Mendelssohn and Schumann

Beware of Fraudulent Publishers

Survival of the Fittest in Music: How the Great Works of the Tonal Art Remain Through the Centuries, While Those of Less Value Are Doomed to More or Less Certain Oblivion

Just Ordinary Miss Brown: The Story of an Old-fashioned Teacher and How She Got Real Results While Others Failed

What to Do at the First Lesson: The …

Volume 28, Number 10 (October 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music the American People Demand (interview with John Philip Sousa)

Scharwenka on Listening to One's Playing

Failure of Gounod's Faust

Heredity and Music: Remarkable Instances of the Manner in Which Musical Talent Has been Communicated from One Generation to Another

Some Great Virtuosos of the Present Day

Clara Schumann on Ear Training

Talk with Svendsen

Preparing the Hands for Advanced Pianoforte Study

Better Understanding of the Double Bar

Vital Defects of Most Pianists

Some Distinctions in Musical Terms

Volume 28, Number 09 (September 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Franz Liszt and the Origin of the Symphonic Poem

How Spohr Learned the French Horn in One Day

What is Meant by Interpretation

Forgotten Rivals of Great Composers

Story of the Minuet

How Music Helps the Business Woman

Power of Concentration in Music Study and How to Develop It

Mendelssohn's Versatility

Italy the Land of Music? A German View

Schumann Epigrams

Trip to the Shrine of Beethoven

How Beethoven Found the Theme for His Fifth Symphony

Map of Musical Europe

Well Known Composers of To-Day—George B. Nevin

How Verdi Became a Musician

Comparative Difficulty of Sharp and Flat Keys

Purcell's …

Volume 28, Number 08 (August 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin: Pre-Eminent Genius of the Pianoforte

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

When the Mother Interferes

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

Characteristic Dance Forms: Notes Upon Famous National Dances

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 Whimsical of the …