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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 …

Volume 38, Number 01 (January 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Indispensables in Pianistic Success (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Irregular Rhythms

Records That Help the Music Teacher

Qu-est-ce Que Vous Voulez?

Don't Be Too Awfully Dignified

Three Rs of Sight Reading

Musical Embellishments

Taking Stock

Conquer Your Bête Noire

Inter-relationship of the Ear and the Eye

Some Practical Hints on Pedaling

Dressing the Part

Lines and Spaces

Musical Pot-Boilers: Facts about the Mental Tasks Which Great Masters Have Been Forced to Undertake to Earn a Bare Existence

Difficulty in Piano Music

After the Novelty Has Gone

Clairvoyance, Spiritism and Occultism in Music

Sensations in the Spotlight

Blazing New Trails

Will Richard …

Volume 37, Number 12 (December 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Vatican (interview with Canon Monsignore Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri)

Be Ambitious

Organize in Your Own Town

How to Prepare a Number in a Given Time

What About Your Left Hand?

Accentuation

Borrowed Chords and Fancy Chords

Conquering the Hard Spots

Moving Ahead

Musical Classics for the Millions: A Present-day Revolution in Methods of Musical Dissemination Which is Bound to Have Far-reching Results, Through the Movies and Music (interview with Hugo Riesenfeld)

Habit is Second Nature

No Such Thing as Miracles

Studio Revelations

Fingering

Relative Value of Accent in Pianoforte Playing

I Can't Memorize Music!

Introducing the Pupil to …

Volume 37, Number 11 (November 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Echoes of Musical Czecho-Slovakia (interview with Josef Stransky)

Real Tendencies of Czecho-Slovak Music

If at First You Don't Succeed

Playing Without Looking at the Keys

Birth of the Czecho-Slavék Republic through Song

Invitation to Song: A Literal Translation of a Poem by Tablonsky

How the Name Bohemian Came Into False Repute

Bedrich Smetana, Founder of Modern Czecho-Slovak Music

Thumbnail Biography of Antonin Dvorék

Dvorák as I Knew Him

Great Masters as Music Teachers

Do Your Fingers Follow Your Eye?

Marks of Expression

Why Music is the Soul of Czechoslovakia

Neckache

Working Through Opposites

Czecho-Slovak Popular Music

How to Make a …

Volume 37, Number 10 (October 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

National and Radical Impressions in the Music of To-day and Yesterday (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Rudoph E. Schirmer

Interpretation

Few Teaching Hints

Appreciations of Rachmaninoff from Famous Musicians in America

New Thoughts on Memorizing Music

Beethoven—Iconoclast, Democrat, Genius

Joiners in Music

Psychology and the Child

The Art Spiritual: A Fine, Reflective Article Upon the Possibilities of the Tonal Art

Studio Problem (A Dialogue)

Less Nervousness Now

Musical Monkeys and the Piano Touch

Authentic Biography of Rachmaninoff

Let the Parents Know

How to Administer Rewards

Secret of Success of Great Musicians

Don't Sit Too Close

New Method of Piano Practice

Minor …

Volume 37, Number 09 (September 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Strong Fingers, Strong Arms, Strong Technic: Physical Culture Exercises Backed with Right Living Help to Build Sound Technical Background

Musical Pharmacopoeia

Pacemaker

Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition: The Minor Key and Other Musical Matters

Leaving Out Notes

Be True to Your Own Musical Tastes

Rules and Scales

Favorite Instruments of Great Composers

How to Learn a Short Passage Quickly

Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians

Practical Study of Arpeggios: How the Least Possible Contraction of the Muscles, Combined with the Greatest Possible Control of Weight, Will Produce the Best Results in the Shortest Time

Why Rhythm is …

Volume 37, Number 08 (August 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Intimate Glimpses of Grieg and Dvorák

Cause of Satisfactory Piano Playing

Beethoven's Tardy Fame

Habit Lessens Fatigue

That Awkward Fourth Finger

Ten Famous Rules Ten Years After: A Thoroughly Democratic Artistic Senate of Men and Women of Experience Epitomize Their Best Thoughts on Piano Practice

New Ideals of Pianistic Art

Mentally Photographing Music

Let There Be Tunes

Luck and Success

Plan of Musical Study for the Busy

Birds as Inspiration for Great Composers

American Opera One Hundred Years Ago

What Jazz Is, and Why

One Great Source of Mastery

Pianist and the Relaxation Fad

Music Teacher's Prescription Box

Origin of …

Volume 37, Number 07 (July 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Pathetique of Tschaikowski

Opening Number of Our Recital

How to Choose a Piano

Making the Pupil's Interest Wider

Don't Give Up Music at the Altar: A Symposium by Noted Women in Music

Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition

What Do You Put Into Your Music?

Jamie's First Piano Lesson

Drudgery of Teaching

Ear Imperial: Why Ear Training is of Paramount Importance

Moods of Temperament

Time Directions and Their Meaning

How the Art of Playing the Piano Developed

Enthusiastic Teaching

Prosperity and Business Methods of Great Composers

Some Facts About the Nocturne

Interest Through Opera

Secrets of Success of Great …