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Volume 28, Number 07 (July 1910), 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

Verdi's Egyptian Opera Aïda

Josef Pischna: The Renowned Writer of Technical Exercises

Brahms' Quick Wit

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 the Masters

Well Known Composers of To-Day—Arthur D'Haenens

What is Talent

Volume 28, Number 06 (June 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spirit of Life in Music—Rhythm

Real Musical Interest in the Czerny Studies

Pianist and the Tuner

Balfe's Opera The Bohemian Girl

Famous German Conservatories: The Conservatories of Southern Germany

Analysis of Teaching Material: The Rondo Form

Some Sign-Posts on the Road to Success in Music Study

What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School

History and Uses of the Metronome

Finger-Habit in Memorizing

Volume 28, Number 05 (May 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

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

Giving Lessons in the Country

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

First Finger Exercises at the Keyboard

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

Some Facts about Sopranos

Singers Who Lost Their Voices

How to Study a Song

Volume 28, Number 04 (April 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Faults Americans Must Correct (symposium)

How Tschaikowski Spent His Days

Neglected Details in Pianoforte Study (interview with Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni)

Personal Glimpses of Moszkowski as a Teacher

Weber's Description of Beethoven

Some Familiar Teaching Pieces by Franz Liszt

To the Young Musician Who Would Compose (interview with Liza Lehmann)

Mendelssohn at Work

Diatonic Scale in the Works of the Masters

How Helen Keller Appreciates Music

Common Mistakes in Tempo and Rhythm

What Early England Gave to Music

How to Enjoy a Symphony

Plain Talk on Starting a Teaching Business

Tschaikowski and Rubinstein

Volume 28, Number 03 (March 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Ten Important Attributes of Beautiful Pianoforte Playing (interview with S.V. Rachmaninoff)

Lessons with von Bülow (interview with Laura Rappoldi)

Origin and Development of the Suite

Tschaikowsky and Melody

Exercises for Practice of Three Notes Against Two

Much Misunderstood Facts Relating to the Laws of Sound

Lowell Mason, American Educator and Musical Pioneer

Some Composers of Valuable Pianoforte Pieces in Smaller Forms

Rhythm—The Secret of Swing in Music

Music as a Profession

Mother's Influence on Music in the Home

Writing Copy for Musical Advertisements

Beethoven as Others Saw Him

MacDowell at the Lesson

Cost of Running a Great Opera House

Volume 28, Number 02 (February 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Lesson from Brahms

Methods and Customs of the Paris Conservatoire

Franz Joseph Haydn and the Development of the Sonata and the Symphony

Story of Pepito Arriola

Foreign Fingering vs. American Fingering

Some Uses for Old Music

Some Rules for Making Musical Manuscript

Analyses of Three Famous Classic Marches

How to Get the Most Out of Practice

Physiologist's Comments on Piano Playing

Volume 28, Number 01 (January 1910), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Short Biographical Notes Upon Italian Musicians

Paris Conservatory of Music

Moritz Moszkowski on Himself

Children of Unmusical Parents

Mme. Teresa Carreño on Individuality in Playing

Personal Recollections of Verdi (interview with Leando Campanari)

Some Striking Pictures of Rossini

Three Notes Against Two

Future of Italian Opera in America

Beginnings of the Oratorio and the Opera

Italian Writers for the Piano

Verdi's Position in Musical Art

Facts About Famous Italian Musicians

Historical Review of Italian Musical Art from the Beginning to the Present Day

Cherubini's Individuality

Some Piano Transcriptions of Numbers from Famous Italian Operas

Liszt on the Playing of His …

School Catalog, Siegel-Myers Correspondence School Of Music

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

The catalog for the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music detailing information about the School, its instructors, classes offered, and the nature of the correspondence courses.

Lesson Book: Grand Opera, Rubinkam I. Nathaniel

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: Grand Opera, number 1 through 10

Volume 27, Number 12 (December 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mendelssohn and Schumann: Personal Recollections of Them as Teachers

Self-Control in Music

Christmas Stories for the Musician's Fireside Reading

Individuality in Piano Playing (interview with Teresa Carreño)

Who the Troubadours Were and What They Did

Etude Gallery of Musical Celebrities

How to Preserve These Portrait-Biographies

How to Study the Trill

Why Some Artists Fail to Win Public Favor

Observations of the Moment

Story of the March

Wonderful Virtuosos of the Thirties and Forties

Helping the Dull Pupil

Mozart the True Type of Genius

Helping the Dull Pupil

Friends of Schubert

When is Music Classical?

Bach the Master of Masters

Short …

Volume 27, Number 11 (November 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Educational Influence of the Opera

On Memorizing Piano Music

Story of the Polonaise

What the Early Church Did for Music

Chopin as Extemporizer

Learning the Bass Clef Notes

How to Expand the Hand Without Injury

Short, Practical Lessons in Theory—The Dominant Seventh Chord

Teacher's Success Depends Upon the Pupil's Success

Mr. George A. Burdett's Work as a Composer

Why Hugo Wolf Failed as a Teacher

Some Fundamental Principles of Advertising for the Musician

Care of the Pianoforte in the Home

How to Form a Musical Library

Volume 27, Number 10 (October 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Their Obstaclesnd How They Overcame Them: Difficulties That Have Beset the Paths of the Foremost Masters and the Way in Which They Fought and Triumphed

How Music Began

Nervousness—How and When to Prevent It

Analysis of Beethoven Sonata, Opus 14, No. 2, First Movement

Inspiration of Bach's Piano Music

Mendelssohn's Compositions

Grieg at the Keyboard

How to Conduct Pupils' Musicales: Some Practical Hints Regarding the Students' Recital Gleaned from Practical Experience

How the Staccato Touch Broadens Technic

Schumann on Liszt's Playing

Peculiarities of Hungarian Music

Correcting Mistakes at the Lesson

Determining the Lesson Price

Volume 27, Number 09 (September 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Digest of Musical Opinion in Europe

Timely Hints to Parents of Musical Children

Social Position of Some of the Great Composers

How to Select Teaching Pieces

How to Retain the Boy's Interest in Music

How to Study Some Noted Mendelssohn Compositions

Unnecessary Motions

Making of a Music Class

Influence of the Reading of Music on the Eye

Commencing Music in Infancy

Making Pupils Practice

Who's Who Among Women Pianists and Violinists

How Rossini Played

Volume 27, Number 08 (August 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching the Child How to Think

Sight Reading and Memorizing

Gounod and Mendelssohn

Haydn's Picturesque Personality

Women's Opportunity in Music (symposium)

Influence of the Amateur in Music: Non-Professional Music-Workers Who Have Made Important Contributions to the Art

Music After Marriage and Motherhood: Opinions of Some of the Most Famous Living Women Musicians Upon the Problem of Keeping Up Musical Work Without Neglecting the Home

Strengthening the Hands

Study Lighter Music in the Summertime

How Beethoven Wrote His Opera Fidelio

Tact in Correcting Mistakes

Popular Error About the Liszt Rhapsodies

Judging Pianos

Forcing Children to Learn Music

Avoid Dull Teaching Pieces …

Volume 27, Number 07 (July 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of the Coloratura Soprano

Woman's Opportunity in Music (symposium)

Famous Women in Musical History

Music After Marriage and Motherhood: Opinions of Some of the Most Famous Living Women Musicians Upon the Problem of Keeping Up Musical Work Without Neglecting the Home

Successful Memorizing: Some Remarkable Experiments in Memory

What Six Months with Czerny's Studies Did

Who's Who Among Famous Women Musicians

American Woman Pianist of To-day and Yesterday: An Entertaining Account of the Remarkable Advance in Piano Playing Made by the Women of Our Country During the Last Century

Vacation Study Without a Piano

Edward Grieg on Liszt's Playing …

Volume 27, Number 06 (June 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Study a New Piece: Suggestions for Cultivating Strength and Endurance Without Running the Risk of Injuring the Hands in Octave Playing

Schumann and Chopin

Recollections of Franz Liszt

How to Use the Etude Gallery

Carl Czerny: A Short Review of the Life and Work of the Teacher of Liszt and Leschetizky

Cheap Teachers Always Expensive

Von Bülow's Memory

How Verdi Entered the Musical Profession

Chronological Sketch of Joseph Haydn's Life

Card System as a Music Teacher's Aid

Why Class Teaching Sometimes Fails

Securing a Desirable Teaching Location

Story of Ballestrieri's Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata

Volume 27, Number 05 (May 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Wagner and Verdi: The Great Masters of Modern Opera

Garcia the Wonderful: The Story of the Teacher of Jenny Lind

How American Students Differ from European Students

Ten Practice Rules by Robert Schumann

What the Masters Thought of Dance Music

Origin of the Sonata

Fitting the Hand to the Keyboard

Music's Great Debt to Poetry

Short Autobiography of Eduard Schutt

Leschetizky on Piano Playing (interview with Theodor Leschetizky)

How You Might Start Your Teaching Business: Some Practical Letters to a Young Teacher

Study of Sixteenth Notes

Short Practical Lessons in Theory

Some Teaching Principles of Dr. Mason

Pedalling

Needs of …

Volume 27, Number 04 (April 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

At the Grave of Beethoven

What Musical Europe is Thinking and Doing

How Fortunes Are Wasted on a Vocal Education (interview with Marcella Sembrich)

Theodore Leschetizsky on Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with Theodore Leschetizsky)

Story of the Waltz: How the Most Fascinating of Dances Has Influenced the Great Composers

Lessons from the Life of Beethoven

How to Study a New Piece (interview with Schelling, Ernest)

Story of Musical Prodigies: How Some Very Remarkable Children Have Afterwards Become Great Musicians and How Others Have Been Injured by Excessive Work in Their Childhood

Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata: Balestrieri's Famous Painting Described

Short Practical …

Volume 27, Number 03 (March 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Musical Europe is Thinking and Doing

Touch—the Great Essential (interview with M. Ossip Gabrilowitsch)

How to Cultivate Sight-Reading

Sub-conscious Mind in Piano Playing

Musical Europe of Yesterday and Musical America of To-day: Reflections Upon the Study of Music and Pianoforte Playing as Taught in Europe Twenty-Five Years Ago and as Taught in America Now

Scarlatti's Unique Fingering

Interesting Stories of Chopin's Career

Chopin's Taste in Music

Mathematics of Melody

How Music Brightens the Home

Bellini, the Genius of Stricken Sicily

Easy Way to Teach Musical History

Conquering of Fear

Use of the Sound Reproducing Machine in Vocal Instruction and …

Volume 27, Number 02 (February 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Review of European Musical Articles

Masters and Their Methods

Mozart's Lack of Commercial Instinct

On the Quantity of Work to be Given a Pupil

Rossini's Remarkable Industry

Opportunities for Young Oratorio Singers

Useless Musical Exercises

Robert Schumann's Carnaval

Optimism in Teaching

What is an Ear for Music?

How Mendelssohn Wrote a Famous Work

Beethoven's Woodland Walks

Young Artist's Treasure Box: Aphorisms by Poets, Philosophers and Artists

Volume 27, Number 01 (January 1909), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mendelssohn, The Man and the Musician

Franz Liszt on the Chopin Mazurka

Mendelssohn the Fortunate

Songs Without Words

Raising Your Income

Home Life of Mendelssohn

Grown-up Beginner

Advantage of Etudes

Napoleon's Great Love for Music

Mendelssohn, The Poet of Symmetry and Grace

Interesting Stories of Mendelssohn

Important Events in the Life of Mendelssohn

Personal Reminiscence of Mendelssohn

Interesting Extracts from Mendelssohn's Letters

Present Position of Mendelssohn's Music

Mendelssohn's Piano Compositions and Their Availability for the Teacher

Origin of the Waltz

Training of a Concert Pianist

How Helen Keller Enjoys Music

Liszt on the Musical Trinity

Told by Chaminade (interview with …

Lesson Book: Harmony, Protheroe Daniel

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: Harmony, number 76 through 100

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 51 through 75

Volume 26, Number 12 (December 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tschaikowski's Appreciation of Grieg

How to Play My Best Know Pieces

Schumann's Industry as a Piano Student

Schubert's Love of Nature

Secret of Public Appearance

Wagner's Phenomenal Imagination

Training of a Concert Pianist, Part 1

We Shoot at a Flying Mark

Paying for Lessons

With Anton Rubinstein in the Class-Room

Teaching the Scales and Arpeggios

Securing Arm Control at the Keyboard

Lesson with Dr. Hans von Bülow

Make Every Movement Count

Question of Equipment

Musical Comedy of Errors

How Chopin Played

Dvorak on Why Bohemia is Musical

What Teachers and Pupils Could Do for American Music

Getting the Most Out …

Volume 26, Number 11 (November 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Invention of the Nocturne

Stephen Heller—His Life and Works

From Rubinstein's Note-Book

Superstititions of Concert Pianists

Effective Piano Practice

American Students Should Study in America

What the Masters of Music Have Accomplished in Old Age: Remarkable Instances of Musical Activity and Intellectual Fecundity Late in Life

Musical Atmosphere in America

What Constitutes Beauty in Piano Playing

Classical Music as a Basis of Pianoforte Instruction

Handel's Youth

Volume 26, Number 10 (October 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Profitable Physical Exercises for Piano Students

About the Metronome

Paul Wachs: A French Composer Whose Drawing Room Pieces Have Been Exceptionally Successful

How the Masters Waited and Worked for Success: Tales of Persistence and Patience that Paid in the End

How a Musical Note-Book Helps Children

How to Play Chopin

Important Musical Activities Abroad

Musical Magazine and the Village Student

Self-Help Hints on Etude Music: Practical Explanatory Notes for Ambitious, Progressive Teachers and Students

Volume 26, Number 09 (September 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Influence of Chopin

Life of Dr. William Mason

Journalistic Comment on Dr. Mason's Death

What is Gipsy Music?

Appreciation of Dr. Mason

Dr. Mason's Genius as a Teacher

William Mason Model Teacher

Pithy Sayings by Dr. Mason

Dr. Mason's Personality

With Dr. Mason in the Studio

Music in the Old World: What the Masters of Europe are Thinking and Doing

Basis of Music Memory

Passing of the Square Piano

Eccentric Moods and Manners of the Great Composers

Volume 26, Number 08 (August 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Should Amateurs be Given a Different Course of Study Than Professional Students?

Class Teaching Versus Private Teaching

False Stories in Musical History

Importance of Music in the Home Life

Rimsky-Korsakov: 1844-1908

Musical Libraries

Piano Lessons by the Great Masters: Franz Liszt

Practical Church Music

Increased Valuation of Music in our Government

How Music May Alleviate Suffering

Bach Becoming Popular

Volume 26, Number 07 (July 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dr. Robert Goldbeck, Prominent German-American Musician and Educator, Deceased

Lessons with Kullak: How the Great German Pedagogue Taught

Questionable Advantages of Foreign Study

Is the Piano a Disadvantage in Early Musical Education? (Symposium)

Correct Pronunciation of the Names of Well-Known Musicians

Acquisition of a Loose Wrist

How the Music Teacher is Hampered by Pupils' School Work

Necessity of a Vacation for Musicians and Students

Musical Development Late in Life

Educational Value of Musical Postal Cards

Egotism in Music

Reginald de Koven upon Night Work

Volume 26, Number 06 (June 1908), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Child Who Can't

Some Eccentricities of Musical Genius

Self-Made Masters in Music: How Schubert, Haydn, Raff, Wagner, Elgar and Others Taught Themselves—Practical Advice for Students Who are Forced to Carve Out Their Own Careers Without the Assistance of a Teacher

How Public School Music Should Help the Private Music Teacher

Should Music be Studied by High School Pupils?

Is the Piano a Disadvantage in Early Musical Education? A Symposium Upon a Vital Subject by Many Well-Known Teachers and Artists

How Correct Accenting Helps the Student

Making the Summer Profitable: Opinions of Practical Teachers upon Rest and Study in the Torrid …