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Volume 42, Number 06 (June 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fundamentals That Lead to Musicianly Pianoforte Playing

Misplaced Bars

Walking for Teachers and Students

Eisteddfod

Boston's Musical Past

How Much Do Appearances Count?

What the Great Masters of Music Have Done for Little Folks: Famous Sets of Pieces Which Children Should Have an Opportunity to Learn

Starvation Methods for Students

Counterfelts in Musical History

Easiest Way

Episodes in the Life of a Famous Conductor: Pen Pictures from the Autobiography of Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra

Tremolo

Prepare Your Lessons, Teachers!

Finger Stretching and Strenghtening Exercises

Pointers for the Beginning Teacher of Music

Away from the Half-Hour …

Volume 42, Number 05 (May 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Souvenirs of Famous Musicians

Music Student, Prepare to Teach

Maxims for the Music Teacher

Simplifying Accidentals

Better Way to Count

Pointers for Teaching the Bass Notes

Build Well

What is the Purpose of Music? What is the Influence of the Tonal Art on Mankind?

Forcing Habit

Effective Method in Teaching

Memory Work and Public Performance

Table for Correct Fingering of Common-Chord Arpeggios

Walking Time

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons

Handel Shrine

Three Ways for Practicing the Scale

Sidelights of Human Nature

Teach First the Effect—The Method Afterward

Virtuoso Pianists and Virtuoso Conductors

To the Earnest Pupil

Quick …

Volume 42, Number 04 (April 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

If Franz Liszt Should Come Back Again (interview with Moritz Rosenthal)

Stiff Thumb

Use of Damper Pedal for Young Pianists

Scales for the Little Ones

Distinctive Traits of Great Masters

How a Great French Poet Inspired a German Genius: Wagner's Letter from the Poet Baudelaire

Mastering a New Piece of Music

How Much Technic

In Tune with the Laws of Sound—Voices are Born and Then Made

Fun in Music

Who Wrote Amaryllis?

When Should Pupils Discontinue Music Lessons

Common Musical Sense

Motet That Stopped Storms

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons

Some Don'ts for the Teacher

Idealism in …

Volume 42, Number 03 (March 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

World Court of Eminent Musicians Discuss the Ten Great Masterpieces: Probably the Most Distinguished Group of Composers, Interpreters and Musical Authorities Ever Assembled in Such a Symposium

Beginner and the Pedal: Bringing Charm to the First Stages of Piano Playing

How to Observe the Signature Correctly

Violin Student's Fundamentals (interview with Otakar Sevcik)

Musical Telepathy

Fall-board Protector

Too Old for Music Study?

Interest! Initiative!

Test for the First Year Piano Student

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing

Left-Hand Faults

Student Helps

Curious Facts About the Names of Musical Instruments

Press Hard

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Double Cure

For the Teacher …

Volume 42, Number 02 (February 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music, Musicians and Music-Lovers: Some Notable Personalities as Seen by the Distinguished Modernist

Savez-Vous?

Think It Out Yourself

Composer of the Famous Fifth Nocturne

What Are My Earning Possibilities in Music?

Hints on Passing Musical Examinations

Using Our Best Gift

Scales Day by Day

After-School Pupil

Thresholds of Vocal Art, Part 2 (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)

Pointers on Chart Teaching?

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons, Practical Advice for the Young Teacher

Early Beginning in Theory

Boys' Recital

Basic Principles in Piano Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Stumbling Block in Reading

If Liszt Came Back Again?

Starting That …

Volume 42, Number 01 (January 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Inspirational Moments: Comments of Contemporary Music Lovers

Thresholds of Vocal Art (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)

Berlioz's Pot-Boiling Period

Meyerbeer's Industry

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Ancient Musical Faction

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons

Praise of a Poor Piano: A Paradox

Half-Hour a Day

What is the Signature?

Humor of Richard Wagner

Life Helps and Inspiration from Noted Contemporaries

Poor Beethoven!

Overture Hints

Personal Glimpses of the Masters

Necessary Points in Gaining Control: Many Little Points in Getting a Grasp Upon the Practical Phases of Pianoforte Playing, by Adopting Sensible Devices

Style

Helping Neglected Muscles

Community Teachers' Recital …

Volume 41, Number 12 (December 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Robert Schumann

Basic Principles of Piano Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Great Composers and Their Predominant Moods

How the Rural Music Teacher Can Stimulate Interest

What the Metropolitan Music Critic Looks for Most

Boney Structure of the Hand

Manna-Zucca (Biographical)

Echoes from the Work Shop

Legato Touch

Favorite Instruments of the Great Composers

Out of Tune—Out of Music

Should Piano Playing Undergo a Radical Reform? (interview with Vladimir de Pachmann)

Do It Again

How to Avoid Fumbling at the Keyboard

Beethoven's Novelties in Instrumentation

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Unheard Practice

Importance of Accompanying

Play as You Think—Think as You …

Volume 41, Number 11 (November 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Adults and Piano Playing: Problems of the Student Who Seeks to Develop His Playing When Past the Age of Twenty (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)

Stretching Exercises

Word Pastel Portraits of Chopin

Chopin's Tempo Rubato

Helpful Hints to Disheartened Students

How Masterpieces are Made: Distinctive Methods Used by the Great Masters

Is the Modern Piano a Perfect Instrument?

Why Musical Prodigies Usually Retire Early in Life

Form in Music

Save Your Energy

Trapping the Parent

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Why Not?

Secret of Efficiency

Opportunities of the Music Supervisor

Development of Touch

Practical Ideas on the …

Volume 41, Number 10 (October 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Our Fortieth Anniversary: Four Decades in the History of the Theo. Presser Company

Chronological Histoy of The Etude Music Magazine and the Theo. Presser Company

Fortieth Anniversary Prophecies and Greetings: World Famous Composers, Teachers, Critics and Interpretive Artists Have Something to Say About Music Forty Years from Now

Letter from the Leipzig Conservatory

Get Pleasure!

Momentous Musical Meeting: Thomas A. Edison and Lt. Comm. John Philip Sousa Meet for the First Time and Talk Upon Music

Music and Organized Labor

Important to Remember

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing

Studio Notes

True or False? Can You Decide?

Daily Health Exercises Especially …

Volume 41, Number 09 (September 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Vital Point Piano Students Miss: Things that Young Pianists Forget (interview with Frederic Lamond)

Training Eyes and Ears

Taking Care of the Piano: Expert Advice by the National Association of Piano Tuners

Colorful Practice

Success and the Music Teacher's Health: What the Teacher Must Do to Keep Fit

Rubber Stamps that Help

Piano Playing Up to Date

Musical History Intelligence Test: Question on the Lives of the Great Composers

Is This the Golden Age of Voice? (interview with Madame Lucrezia Bori)

Master Singers on Tone Production—Symposium

Serious Piano Student's Ultimate Goal

Look at Your Music Shelf

Simplified Reading for …

Volume 41, Number 08 (August 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Leaves from a Virtuoso's Note Book: Practical Study Ideas form Personal Contact with Liszt and Rubinstein (interview with Alexander Siloti)

First Use of the Damper

Tell How Teacher

Making Programs Atrractive

Secret of Caruso's Glorious Voice: What Made the Voice of the Greatest of Tenors so Wonderful and Powerful

Really Use Your Magazines

Need of Muscular Freedom

Carnivals in Music

Transposing Exercises to Build Technic

Demolishing Criticism

Musical Vistas: Sketches from a Busy Musical Life

Swimming to Music

Those Pictured Walls

Ten Be's that Do Not Sting

True of False! Which? Musical Screws to Adjust

Musical Debt ot Aristocracy

Join …

Volume 41, Number 07 (July 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Poetry and Practice (interview with Guiomar Novaes)

Lesson from the Birds

Teachers' Obligation to Public

Music Teacher's Obligation to the General Public

Seven Things to Keep Little Musicians Interested

False Tendencies in Present-day Piano Teaching

Right Attitude

Slow Movement

Musician's Social Cheque

Memorizing through Writing

How It's Done

Praise and Its Value

Musical Temperament

Sonata in Musical Literature

Oriental Music

Self-Training in Sight Reading

Making Class Work Profitable with Music Pupils

Thinkn Do

Musical History Intelligence Test: Question on the Lives of the Great Composers

From a Teacher's Letter

Tennis for Technic

Creating Interest in a Beginner

How to Organize …

Volume 41, Number 06 (June 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Labor: Comments from Famous Americans Upon the Need for Music in Business

Famous Industrial Bands

Team Work with Pupils

Origin of Marks of Expression

Correspondence Column

Keeping at the Front as Hard as Getting There

Abnormal Music vs. Sane Music

Time Cards for Busy Students

Study of the Hand in Piano Playing

Common-Sense Arpeggio Study

Facts about Bars

What is the Best Fingering

How to Overcome Nervousness

Musical Joy Within

Here Comes the Bride: A Junetime Story of the Great Wedding Music of Yesterday and To-day for the Church and for the Home

How Long Shall I Hold …

Volume 41, Number 05 (May 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How I Got Rid of Nervousness in Public

How Mother Collected Her Bills

How Shall We Study

Why Do I Make Mistakes? How Can I Correct Them?

Don’t's for Parents

How Russian Students Work (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

A Plea for the Can't-plays

Why Do Not More Men Take Up Music? Some Thoughts on the Feminization of Music, Yeserday and To-day

Musical History Intelligence Test: Question on the Lives of the Great Composers

Primary Methods in Music

Trick of Confidence

On the Perfecting of the Fourth and Fifth Fingers

Training the Fingers for Quick Results in Accuracy and Speed

Musical …

Volume 41, Number 04 (April 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Selection of Pieces

What is Good Singing?

Why We Should Sing the Master Songs

Yodeling in the Alps

New Lights on the Art of the Piano (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Practical Practice

Teacher in Feathers

Anthems to Kill Time

America's Favorite Hymns: A Discussion Representing the Entire Country Resulting from 32,000 Hymn Titles Sent to The Etude

Romance of Hymns and Tunes

Artistic Production of Octaves

Securing the Mother's Coöperation

Untangling Minor Scales

Making Scales Fascinating

Stirring the Pupil's Imagination

Mystery of Inspiration (interview with Rudolf Friml)

How Can We Interest the Beginner?

Original Rock of Ages

From Broadway to …

Volume 41, Number 03 (March 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chances of the American Girl in Grand Opera (interview with Giulio Gati-Casazza)

Musical Scrap Book

How to Conduct a Music Memory Contest

Look Out for the Runner-up

Making Cans Out of Can'ts

Six Cardinal Points in Trill Playing

Training In

Practical Means for Developing Better Violin Playing (interview with Albert Spalding)

No Duke Need Apply

Home of Yankee Doodle

Make the Minutes Count

Young Musician and a College Position

Singing Your Piano Pieces

When Octaves Leap-Frog

Finding Fun in Teaching

Producing the Staccao and Legato

Lure of Mozart

Highest Pleasure in Music

Poetic and Melodic Gifts of the Negro

Examples …

Volume 41, Number 02 (February 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting a Start as a Virtuoso (interview with Mischa Levitzki)

Practice Rules

Cultivated Eccentricities of Musicians: Their Futility

Turning Old-Fashioned Musical Traditions Upside Down

Musical Biographical Catechism Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters—Robert Schumann

Parents of Famous Composers

Word of Praise—The Fairy Wand

Finger Liberty Through Scale Playing

How Caruso Practiced Daily

Show Interest in Your Pupils

Poison for Omitted Sharps and Flats

Memorize at Least Twenty Pieces

Musicians and Brain Collapse

Make the First Lesson Exciting

Five Fertile Years of Music

Some Vagaries of Counting

Your Successor

What the Young Composer Must Know

Greater Value of Technical Studies

Build …

Volume 41, Number 01 (January 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of Keeping the Voice (interview with Giuseppe de Luca)

Simple Facts in Developing a Musical Memory

Ear Training for Beginners

Teaching a Five-Year-Old

Knowing the Scales

How I Earned My Musical Education: A Series of Personal Experiences from Real Music Workers

Memorizing Our Moods

Sight Reading

That Heavy Thumb

When the Contralto Was a Curiosity

Every-Day Pianistic Blunders and How to Cure Them

Eyes and No Eyes

Positive Results form Positive Routine

Secret of Staccato

Historic Musical Memories: How Famous Musicians Have Kept Immense Numbers of Musical Compositions in Their Minds for Long Periods of Time

How to Laugh …

Volume 40, Number 12 (December 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Technique and Hand Training

Christmas Music, Past and Present

Music and the Arts

Whole-Tone Scale in Interlocking Octaves

Appeal of the Contralto

Device for Teaching Notes to Beginners

Musical Jealousy

Feel the Rhythm

How Music Clubs are Helping American Music

Behind the Scenes with Artists, Part 5

Particular Treatment of the Turn

Regular Lesson Plan for Teacher and Pupil

Most Important Musical Step

How Interest Stamps Musical Pictures on Your Mind

Foot Stools and Music Teachers

Just What Really is Practice?

Clinic on Footlight Fever

Relaxation Tests

Are You Guilty of the Double Movement?

Home Town Musical Comedy

Practicing Backwards …

Volume 40, Number 11 (November 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting the Right Start in Piano Playing

How to Acquire Technic in Musical Theory

Is the Teacher Without a Music Club as Successful as the Teacher with a Music Club?

What to Do at Children's Musical Parties

Scale Guide

Limitations of the Piano Keyboard

Piano Manners at the Pupils' Recital

Lesson on Chopin's Famous Raindrop Prelude, Opus 28, No. 15: A Practical Reduction of Notes to Dollars and Cents

Starting at the Cradle

Full Pay or Half a Mass

Recorder

Metamorphosis of Charles

Now and Then

Routine for Practical Teacher

Glimpses of Present Day Piano Study (interview with Myra Hess) …

Volume 40, Number 10 (October 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Funniest Experience I Ever Had in Opera: A Symposium in Which Many Operatic Celebrities Have Taken Part

Wagner in Parisian Days: Striking Pen Portraits of the Great Masters as Seen by a Brilliant Contemporary

American Music and Composers

Thanksgiving Hymn from Japan

Hand, Tone, Technic

Human Element in Fine Piano Playing (interview with Ernest Schelling)

What Have I a Right to Expect From My Teacher?

Are American Artists Being Denied a Square Deal in Their Own Country

How I Acquired a Relaxed Trill

Measuring Progress

Spread Chords

Names of Scale Degrees and Their Meaning

Some Impressions of the Music of …

Volume 40, Number 09 (September 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music—The Joy and Need of Every Man (interview with Frank Crane)

Getting There Without a Teacher

Don't Stuff the Pupil

Staccato Marks, Touches and Tones

Undisturbed Practice

Basis of Musical Imagination

Marche aux Flambeaux

How to Get a Start in Chautauqua

Abuses the Teacher Should Not Tolerate

Encourage Melody Writing

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Bring Out the Main Thought in Piano Playing: How the Suppression of the Superfluous Helps

How to Develop Legato Wthout Using the Pedal: A Real Test of Your Ability at the Keyboard

Value of Chords for Beginners

Planning a Recital

Making …

Volume 40, Number 08 (August 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the Modern Chautauqua is Doing for Music of All Kinds Everywhere in Our Country

Behind the Scenes with Artists, Part 2: Do Artists Practice Pure Technic?

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

When Mendelssohn Became a Journeyman

Paderewski and the Paper-Hangers

How to Get the Greatest Results form Practice

Italian Musical Terms

Meaning of Sub-Mediant

Some Personal Recollections of Hans Guido Von Bulow: Master in Black and White

Are You a Musical Nurse to Your Child?

Sound Reproducing Machine Records and the Private Teacher: An Intensive Study in Interpretation

Building Up a Class in a …

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 …