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Volume 57, Number 05 (May 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Quest for Ideals

New York World's Fair Music Festival

Staccato Star

Building and Use of a Vocal Instrument (interview with Kerstin Thorborg)

Bach's Musical Helpmate: A Graphic Picture of Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Notenbüch

World's Largest Carillon: Dedicated to Stephen Foster

My Old Kentucky Home: An Eighty-five Year Old Folk Song and Something of Its History

Threshold of Music: The Art of Musical Voyaging: Modulation

Ten Remarkable Years Before the Mike (interview with Virginia Rea)

Schumann's Hints to Young Musicians

Music Study Means Music Study (interview with Mischa Elman)

Forward March of Music

Volume 57, Number 04 (April 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums! (from Handel's Judas Maccabeus)

Renaissance of the Band (Interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

What Do Bands Mean to America? (interview with Fred A. Holtz)

And the Band Won

New Concepts in Present Day Music (interview with Paul Whiteman)

America's Oldest Civic Band: One Hundred and Ten Years of Activity; and Still Flourishing

Sing With Your Heart (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Recent Record Releases

Tooting a Horn for Fifty Years (interview with B.A. Rolfe)

Eight Years Abroad With a Jazz Band

American Bandmaster Speaks—A Symposium

March of the Grail Knights: From Richard Wagner's Parsifal as …

Volume 57, Number 03 (March 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Quirks

Victor Herbert as I Knew Him: Memories of The Man and His Music

Simplicity as a Background for Art (interview with Guiomar Novaes)

Radio Flashes

Adult Piano Beginner: What Should be Done to Make the Hands Supple (interview with Isidor Philipp)

Hand and the Keyboard

William Mason—An American Master: High Lights in the World's Famous Piano Methods

Good Singing Must be Natural (interview with Bruna Castagna)

Recent Record Releases

Unknown Victor Herbert: Intimate Pictures of the Life of a Widely Loved Composer

Lazy Hand

Scrambling Pupil

Romance of Annie Laurie: The Story Behind One of the Most Famous …

Volume 57, Number 02 (February 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the Arts

Smart Attire for Concert and Recital (interview with Elizabeth Hawes)

Why Music Is the Most Popular of the Fine Arts

Let's Go to the Music Hall: How They Put on the Show in the World's Largest Theater

How to Play Notes

Music's Debt to Shakespeare

Recent Record Releases

Musical Foresight-Hindsight

Mystic Dances of the Far East

Music Elects a Governor

Threshold of Music: Linking Chords into Sentences—And Punctuating Them

Meaning of Musical Ornamentation: The Psychology Behind These Interesting Tonal Decorations in Music

Etude's Courses in Culture

Magnificent New The Mikado in Technicolor: A Cinema Presentation from …

Volume 57, Number 01 (January 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Epic of Attainment

Amazing Musical World of To-day (interview with Walter Gieseking)

Going Through the Book

Moonlight Sonata: Fact, Fiction and Fancy

How to Abolish Fear Before Audiences: The Meaning of Mike-Fright

Men of the Orchestra: A Visit with the Individuals Who Produce the Music (interview with Mishel Piastro)

Spelling of Musical Notation: Musical Orthography Made Clear

Earning a Living Through Singing

Astonishing Invention of Musical Interest

New European Sound Reproducing Invention

Etude in C-sharp Minor by Chopin

Etude's Courses in Culture

Quest for Harmony in Decoration

Forward March of Music

Aids to Sight Reading

Another Use for Reward …

Volume 56, Number 12 (December 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Love (poem)

Her Christmas Piano

What Music Has Done for Me (interview with William Allen White)

Lessons with Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Piano Virtuoso and Conductor: An Apostle of Beauty in Piano Playing

Four Octave Practice Helps

Christmas in Many Lands: A Television Christmas Recital

Lady of the Court of Henry XV (portrait)

Threshold of Music: Natural Laws That Guide the Flow of Chords

What Now for Music Teachers? A Nationwide Symposium: Eminent Members of the Music Teachers' National Association, to be in Convention in Washington During the Present Month, Discuss an Important Subject in Advance

Overcoming a Musical Crisis

Let's …

Volume 56, Number 11 (November 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony a Day

Apprentice Years of a Master (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)

Threshold of Music: A Stormy Seventh—And Some Even More Complex Chords

Awakening of Ebenezer Scrooge: A Playlet in Three Acts Adapted from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Stephen Foster of Tin Pan Alley in Other Days: The Magic Story of America's Most Loved Composer of Folk Songs

What Music in Sing Sing Prison Means in the Lives and Reclamation of Many Inmates

Three Notographs

Madrigals of the Days of Good Queen Bess: Polyphonhic Masterpieces of the Elizabethan Era Formerly Heard by Few But Now Heard by Millions Over …

Volume 56, Number 10 (October 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Maintaining Radio Interest

Conductor and His Orchestra (interview with John Barbirolli)

Hour of Charm: The Most Unusual Girls Orchestra of the Times (interview with Phil Spitalny)

Master as Seen by His Wife (interview with Aino Sibelius)

Threshold of Music: The Most Famous Chord in Music: The Dominant Seventh

Three Notes Against Two

Major John A. Warner: New York State's Notable Musical Police Superindentant

Training the Little Finger

Rhythm for Clearness

Caring for the Vocal Instrument (interview with Giovanni Martinelli)

Practice Is Playing

Some Two Thousand Year Old Wisdom on the Tone Art

Strike the Nail on the Head

Game of …

Volume 56, Number 09 (September 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Marimba Supersedes Xylophone

How Can We Best Serve Our Students (interview with Geraldine Farrar)

About Pieces for Two Pianos: A Discussion of Musical Works Rapidly Rising in Popularity

Hymns in Teaching Harmony

Threshold of Music: When Four Notes Get Together—Seventh Chords

Modern Marimba and Its Relation to the Xyloophone (interview with Yoichi Hiraoka)

Do Not Cast the Old Aside

Chord Twins

Picturesque Prague—Home of Dvorák and Smetana

Transposing by Numbers

What Did Bach Mean: How Each of His Motives Construes a Thought

Hand and the Memory

Mazurka in F-sharp Minor of Chopin

Compactness With Comfort: Everyone Who Wants a Studio …

Volume 56, Number 08 (August 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mass Music and the Masses

Personal Recollections of Anton Rubinstein

Folk Tunes of England

Queen of American Pianists: Some Unpublished Memoirs of Madame Carreño (interview with Elizabeth Sterling)

Art of Ensemble Playing (interview with Adolf Busch)

Threshold of Music: The Seven-Storied House of Chords

Combine the Arts

World's Most Famous Song: The Story of Home, Sweet Home—The Song Immortal

When Your Child Won't Practice: Practical Suggestions to Parents of Children Who are Practice Problems

Yes, Teacher, You Are in Business: A Frank Discussion of the Teacher's Approach to a Clientele

New York Tour Attracts Music Lovers

America Demands Glamour: Edward …

Volume 56, Number 07 (July 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Piano and To-morrow

Passing of a Genius

Carve Out Your Own Career (interview with Ferde Grofé)

Righting the Left Hand

First Eighth Notes

Art Means Preparation (interview with Bidu Sayao)

Fatigue Demon

Radio Flashes

Women in Orchestras: Famous and Brilliant Conductors of the Fair Sex

Relaxation is Mental

Social Dancing and Its Music

Important Practical Helps for the Vocalist (interview with Isidore Luckstone)

Threshold of Music: Triads, and How They are Put Together

Making Two Part Inventions Interesting

Music and Dancing in Siam: Quaint and Curious Arts of a Far Eastern Kingdom

New Attractions Scheduled for Tour: International Music Festival …

Volume 56, Number 06 (June 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Young Lochinvar

Be Ready for Your Opportunity (interview with Eugene Ormandy)

Diatonic or Chromatic?

Operetta and the Sound Film (interview with Jeanette MacDonald)

Developing a Better Staccato Touch

Radio Flashes

Music of Marching Men up to 1865

Piano Parties Are Fun: How to Conduct a Simple Studio or Home Gathering for Music Pupils

Threshold of Music: Triads, and How They are Put Together

Mozart's Great Romance: The Youthful Love Story of a Beloved Master of Music

Making the Glissando Easy

Recent Record Releases

Oldest Authentic Voice Method

Great Music at Popular Prices: How the New Friends of Music Triumphed (interview …

Volume 56, Number 05 (May 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Liszt's Green Gloves

Song of Praise for Grace Before Meals

Goal is Always Music (interview with Yehudi Menuhin)

Operatic Spectacles Two Centuries Ago—Pictorial

Musical Memory: Why, When and Where: How They Memorize at the Paris Conservatoire

Arpeggio Fingerings

How to Start a Prosperous Summer School: How a Teacher in a Small Vermont City Built a Prosperous Summer School Despite the Depression

Making Pupils' Recitals Interesting

Threshold of Music: A Melodic Alphabet—The Major Scale

Forgotten Fingers

In Defense of Mendelssohn

Some Be's for Your Studio Hive

School Accompanist: How th e Piano Teacher May Enrich His Pupil's Experience

Important Steps in …

Volume 56, Number 04 (April 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How Can I Help?

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Composers and Stylists: This Able Composer and Teacher of Chicago, Writes for Those Who Feel the Impulse to Compose

Personal Trip Through Musical Paris

Wagner and the Box Office: A Story of Musical Trends (interview with Artur Bodanzky)

Etude Prize Winners in the Contest Why I Take the Etude

He Never Took Lessons

Interesting Falsetto

O Promise Me

Story of a Great Librettist: Eugene Scribe and the Opera

Threshold of Music: A Melodic Alphabet—The Major Scale

Mr. Maier's Seventy-Five Test Questions

Dressing up the Studio Performance: Suggestion on Costuming, Make-Up, and Photography

Eliminating …

Volume 56, Number 03 (March 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hacks Who Become Masters

Career in Radio: Soprano Soloist of the Critics Service Radio Hour of the National Broadcasting Company (interview with Lucille Manners)

Let Us Have More Piano Duets

Romance of Easter Carols: Music of the Great Restival of the Resurrection

Personal Memory of Ippolitoff-Ivanoff

Story of the Gloria Patri, Glory Be to the Father

Civic Value of a Music Hobby: Justice of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Founder and Conductor of the City Amateur Symphony Orchestra (interview with Leopold Prince)

Student Repertoires

Threshold of Music: The Simplest Chord in Music—The Major Triad

Bugles over …

Volume 56, Number 02 (February 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Australia's New Day in Music

Musical Life in Australia (interview with Richard Crookes)

Melody Study a Stimulant

All About Four Hand Music

Music Written about Abraham Lincoln

Progressive Steps to Velocity

Title Page, Josef Hofmann's Début

Getting Joy out of Life (interview with Ralph T. Senter)

Flash! Walter Winchell Talks on ASCAP

Mrs. G. Waddington Snore Acquires a Classic: A Monoloque for Recitation at Musical Gatherings

Missed Lesson Cure

How to Break into Print: Practical Suggestions for Young Composers

From Jungle to Symphony Hall: An Extraordinary Musical Life

Switzerland Will Have an Interesting Musical Season

Holding Over the Tied Notes

Volume 56, Number 01 (January 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Saga of Virgil W. Bork: The Remarkable Story of a Successful Musician Who Was Brought up Under Ground and Now Directs the Large Union Band and Orchestra in Roselle, New Jerse

Language of Music, Harmony at Your Doosteps

Once a Week Musical Club

Art of the Violin Lies Under the Surface (interview the Joseph Szigeti)

Music of War Torn China

Do You Practice Too Much?: A Well Known Musical Pedagog and Business Executive Discusses This Very Practcal Subject

Music According to Webster

From Typist to Prima Donna: An Inspiring Story of Success Because an Artist Refused to Compromise with Obstacles

Volume 55, Number 12 (December 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Joy of Christmas Morning: A Merry Christmas to Etude Friends Everywhere!

Unseen Forces (interview with Charles R.Gay)

Christmas at Mrs. Santa Claus' Home: A Story Recital for Children

Memorybook Pages of a Musical Pilgrim: Presenting Messages and Music from Many States, Part 4: I Hear America Singing—Out West and Up North

Marimba Moves into the Parlor

Swing! Swing! Swing!: The Last Word in X Music

Musical Lure of the Ballet

Lessons from Beethoven's Sketch Book

Plea for the Real Debussy (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

New Ideas on Octave Playing: A Fresh and Interesting Discussion

Musical Sandwich

Singer's Equipment: The …

Volume 55, Number 11 (November 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Justice for Genius

This is Walter Damrosch Speaking: The Eminent Conductor Give His Opinions Upon Opera, American and Otherwise (interview with Walter Damrosch)

Typewriter and the Piano

Learning Lines and Spaces

Tuneful Tweddle

Claude Debussy's American Born Teacher: His Contribution to Modern Music

How I Increased My Enrollment

Bringing the Symphony Orhcestra to Moving Picture Patrons

Gospel of Relaxation

Universality of the Piano: The Indispensable Instrument and its Place in Art

Repetition in Musical Composition: Its Important Function in the Tonal Art

Pilgrimages with Franz Liszt, in Rome, Budapest, and Weimar, 1881 to 1884, Reminiscences of His Pupil

Mystic Dances …

Volume 55, Number 10 (October 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Psychologists and Professors

Mind and Music (interview with Walter B. Pitkin)

My Work is Easy: Eleven Year Old Genius of the Piano (interview with Ruth Slenczynski)

Helping the Teacher to Get More Business: A Letter from a Piano Dealer to the Teacher

How to Make a Better Band (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

My First Success: The Great Norwegian Master Tells the Romantic Story of His Student Days in Leipzig

End of an Important Musical Era

Kitchen Symphony Orchestra: A Recital Program Novelty

First Use of the Piano in a Concert

Music After Marriage: A Few Words to Musical Wives …

Volume 55, Number 09 (September 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Grand Crusade

Need of Musical Pioneers

Bach and Modern Keyboard Technic

Studio Waiting Room

Queen Victoria and Music: England's Queen-Empress Studied Voice with the Great Lablache for Two Decades

Address to an Entering Class

Practice as an Art

New Gateways to Opera (interview with Lee Pattison)

Can Perfect Pitch be Acquired?: Research into the Baffling Problem of Absolute Pitch Memory

What Adult Beginners Need for Rapid Progress: Helps for This Rapidly Growing Class

Ideal Teacher for the Ideal Instrument

Their Toughest Spot: Laughing at Rejection Letters

Immortal Beautiful Blue Danube Waltzes: The Seventieth Anniversary of this Johann Strauss Masterpiece

Do …

Volume 55, Number 08 (August 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Supreme Court Problem in Music

Glance at the Music of Hawaii

Tin Pan Alley Moving West

Meet Doctor Fizzle

Some Differences Between Teaching and Educating Music Students (interview with Angela Diller)

Clergyman Visits Oberammergau

Evenings with The Etude

How Shall My Pupil Sit: A Plea for the Conservation of Eyesight and the Use of Seating Equipment Designed to Aid Correct Posture and to Lessen the Expenditure of Excessive Nerve Vitality When Practicing

Making of an Orchestra Conductor

Larynx and the Voice: An Abstract of an Address by the Most Distinguished of Throat Specialists Which is Here Given its First Publication …

Volume 55, Number 07 (July 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Song of the American Revolution

Heldentenor, or Heroic Tenor (interview with Lauritz Melchior)

Answers to Brain Teasers Musical Intelligence Test

Bunched Finger Playing

Star Spangled Banner: With Photographs from the Celebrated Historical Collection of William Thompson

Longfellow's Influence on Musical Composition

America: A National Anthem Which Finds Lodgment in the Heart of Every True American

Double Purpose Exercise

Making Friends with the Wrist: An Important Phase of Pianoforte Playing

Playing Pa to Sleep at Three A.M.

Playing the Four Note Chord

Effect of Music on Wild Animals

How America Lost Chopin: A Romance of the Poet of the Piano

Cambridge …

Volume 55, Number 06 (June 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Television, When?

Schumann's Forest Scenes

How Do We Behave at the Piano?

They Didn't Eat with Liszt

Color Effects in Pianoforte Playing

How One Teacher Got Ahead of The Big Bad Wolf

One Jump Ahead of the Times

Summertime Pageant Recital for Young People

Brain Teasers Intelligence Test for Music Lovers

Approach to Scales

Fifteen Years in Radio (interview with Milton J. Cross)

Training the Thumbs

Incorrect Phraseology

Enfants Terribles of Pianist's Hands

More Be's For Your Musical Hive

Scale Preparation

Moscheles in Scotland: A Very Entertaining Account of His Meeting with Sir Walter Scott

Verdi Renaissance

Wild Music of …

Volume 55, Number 05 (May 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Care of the Voice (interview with Gertrud Wettergren)

Bagpipes of Braemar

Do You Know?

Business Efficiency for the Music Teacher

Mediocrity and Mastery

Benjamin Franklin Discourses on Music

Relative Minor Recognition Device

X Marks the Spot

Is There a Last Word in Piano Technic?

Why and How of Memorizing Music

Ich Liebe Dich (interview with Grieg, Fru Edvard)

From Woods and Fields: A Piano Playlet for Small Children, Suitable for a Spring Recital

Grand Manner in Piano Playing (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)

Discovering a Masterpiece: How Two Musical Sleuths of Britain found Rosamunde

Few Frank Words to the Young Composer …

Volume 55, Number 04 (April 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Travel

America's Vast New Musical Awakening (interview with Nikolai Sokoloff)

Chopin as a Teacher

List's Singing Tone

Von Weber, Tone Poet of Romanticism

May Day Play Recital: Ten Games with Music

American Singers and the German Lied (interview with Grete Stueckgold)

Dramatizing Piano Duets

Geometry and Speed of Motion: At the Piano Keyboard in the Playing of Chromatic Passages

Two Roads to Acquaintance with Musical Form

Recital Program that Took

Studio Bulletin Board

It's An Art to Tune a Piano

Nocturne in C Minor by Chopin: A Master Lesson

Neglected Senses

Musical Sewing Cards

Profession a Business

Why …

Volume 55, Number 03 (March 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hydra-Headed Music License Monster

Visit to the Home of Sibelius

Art of Musical Penmanship

Yes, Practice Makes Perfect

On Building a Piano Technic

Music Vacations

Plantation Echoes In Which the Author Describes a Visit to a Negro Folk Music-Drama, the Most Pimitive of American Negro Musics Given Each Year in Charleston, South Carolina

Early Musical Influences in My Life

Musical Mathematics: How to Add and Multiply Notes

Strangest of the Arts

Verb To Be in Music

Keeping the Musical Memory Fresh

Remarkable Abbé (Abt) Vogler: Hero of Browning's Famous Poem

All-Purpose Exercise for the Busy Teacher

Some Be's for Your …

Volume 55, Number 02 (February 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Enesco Talks on Menuhin

How the Piano is Coming Back

How to Become a Better Pianist (interview with Isidor Philipp)

Advantages of a Poor Piano

Role of Music in Prisons

Tour of Early Keyboard Instruments in the Nation's Capital

Cure for Musicians' Cramp

Catering to America's Musical Tastes (interview with David Rubinoff)

Graceful Gavotte: A Dance to Which Several Influences Have Contributed

Pupil's Right

Benjamin Franklin's Interest in Music

Teaching Interpretation Through Thought Force

Old Music Arrives; Order Sent in '87 Is Filled by Firm

Czerny's Many-Sided Etude, Number Sixty-Five

Measure for Measure

Aids in Overcoming Finger Stiffness

Relating Music …

Volume 55, Number 01 (January 1937), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Superstitions in Music

Musical Food for Millions (interview with Erno Rapée)

Brighter Scale Practice

Increasing the Activity of the Fingers

Magical and Misunderstood Art of Reviewing

Romance of the Sweetest Story Ever Told

Tooting Your Own Horn: The Most Difficult Instrument for the Musician to Learn

My Toughest Spot: Taking Things as They Come

Getting the Perspective in Teaching

Composing for Pictures (interview with Erich Korngold)

Strongest Carillon in the World

First Steps in Musical Transposition

Approach to Interpretation

Berceuse Op. 57 of Chopin

Autumn Days in the Presser Gardens

Brahms Selfless Musician

Arpeggio Drill

Volume 54, Number 12 (December 1936), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sentiment vs. Sentimentality: A Short History (1900-1936) of the Development of the Ability of the American Student to Express Himself through Music (interview with Rudolph Ganz)

Nativity: A Musical Pageant Arranged for High School Glee Clubs

Manager States His Case (interview with Lawrence Evans and Jack Salter)

Good Lesson Tree

For Scale Practice and Hand Position

From a One-Fingered Virtuoso

Musical Aeroplane Trip Around the World: Music Visits to Many Nations in Story Recital Form

Yuletide Carolles Olde and Newe: Often on Legends with a Whimsy Background

Fundamentals in Advertising

Reflections from a Busy Musical Life (interview with Alexander T. …