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Volume 37, Number 06 (June 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Professional Accompanist

Ten Golden Rules for Piano Study

Pianist and Time Values

Imperfection of the Musical Scale

Silent Rhythm

How to Study the Two-Voiced Inventions of Bach

Rock Bottom of Pianistic Progress

Talking and Doing

Muscular Action in Piano Playing

Make Technic Your Servant—Not Your Master

Practical and Helpful Ideas from the National Convention of the Music Teachers' National Association: What Active Teachers are Thinking and Saying

When Nero was Studying Singing

Out—Back at 2.30

Bible Operas

Cultivating Confidence in the Child

Famous Salon Compositions and Their Composers: Pieces Everybody Knows and the Musicians Who Wrote Them

Making the Summer …

Volume 37, Number 05 (May 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Helps in Teaching Note Reading

Launching the Beginner

Practical Examinations at Home

Individualism in Piano Study (interview with Ethel Leginska)

Setting the Standard

Silly? Or No Ear for Music?

Confidence in One's Art

Are You One of These?

Golden Age of Singing

Fall of the Walls of Jericho

Program Making

Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition: The Dominant Seventh

Music in the Wilds

Like Attracts Like

Getting Results in Arpeggio Teaching

Why Some American Artists Don't Get On: From a Manager's Point of View

What Do You Want, Big Names or Real Music?

Memorizing Your Piece

Most Powerful Effect …

Volume 37, Number 04 (April 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Characteristic Mistakes of Young Piano Pupils

Teaching Children to Play

Inspiration of Ensemble Playing

Where Music Comes From

I Don't Like This Piece

Correct Position at the Key Board

More About Raising the Teacher's Income: Why the Music Teacher is Entitled to Larger Fees for Services

Awakening the Disinterested Pupil

What's in a Bell

True Reward of Good Work

Secrets of Success of Great Musicians

Proper Understanding of the Style of Several Master Composers

How to Practice Broken Chords: Modern Ideas Upon the Principle of the Minimum of Muscular Contraction and the Maximum of Controlled Weight Applied to an Everyday …

Volume 37, Number 03 (March 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Anton Dvorák in the Class Room

Who is the Composer?

Marvelous Hand

Question of the Virtuoso Conductor

Music Teachers, Awake!

Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-Operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers

Practical Repertoire

Small Children and Big Words

Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition

What Are You Getting Out of Your Music Lessons?

Your Pupil's First Year in Scale Work

Little Discoverers

Proper Understanding of the Style of Several Master Composers …

Volume 37, Number 02 (February 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Are You Loyal to Your Art?

How to Play Two Notes Against Three and Other Unusual Rhythmic Combinations

What Helped Me Most in My Career

How to Correct Common Rhythmic Blunders

Weak Spot in Piano Teaching

String Wind Instrument

Technical Roads to Piano Success

Pieces that Advertise the Teacher

He Didn't Have to Learn

Secrets of Success of Great Musicians

Touch in Piano Playing

Leo Ornstein, Composer and Pianist

Overtures, Past and Present

When and How to Begin the Study of Bach

Bach for Beginners

Neglected Bass Note

Telling the Pupil How to Practice

Has the Art of the Piano …

Volume 37, Number 01 (January 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Imitation in Teaching Music

Scales Two Octaves Apart

What Kind of Accompanist Are You?

Learning How to Compose

Two Pianos vs. One

Don't Discourage Your Pupils

Look Out for the Second Finger

America's Greatest Musical Opportunity

Put Sixty Minutes Into Your Hour

Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-Operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers

Eye Strain and Mind-Wandering

Broken Chords Disguised by Changing Notes

What Octave Studies Should Follow Those of Czerny?

Are …

Volume 36, Number 12 (December 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How Washington Irving Revelled in the Music of Christmas

Be a Live Wire

Are You a Good Salesman?

How to Keep Fit for a Successful Public Appearance

Never Louder Than Lovely

Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers

Know Your Piano

Mental Rehearsal

What is Temperament?

Price: Can You Pay It?

Humorous Musical Interruptions

Music That is Too Difficult

Mysterious Middle Pedal: A Most Interesting and Helpful Article …

Volume 36, Number 11 (November 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Programs of Works by Women Composers from Contemporary American Publishers

Famous Musical Women of the Past

From the Bottom Up

What the Life of an Artist Means

Musical Celebrities Sell Liberty Bonds (picture)

To the Girl Who Wants to Compose

Music as a Vocation for Women

Mother's Part in the Child's Musical Training

Two Types of Violin Playing

List of Well-Known Women Composers

Story of America's Largest Musical Organization: The National Federation of Musical Clubs

Small Hands and Their Extraordinary Possibilities

Technic of Study

Volume 36, Number 10 (October 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spain the Eldorado of Music

Thomas à Becket

Beethoven and Hero Worship

Music Interest of the American Man of To-Morrow

Help in Interpretation

How Can I Make My Practice More Intelligent?

Musical Thermometer

Imperial Opera

Rhythmless Pupils

Stems, Tails and Hooks: A Lesson in Exact Notation

Cultivating a Perfect Staccato Touch

Value of Visiting Lessons

High Lights in the Life of Grieg: Interesting Phases in the Career of the Great Norwegian Master

Thumb and Its Agility

Accompanied Trill

How to Read at Sight and Memorize at the Same Time

Finishing Steps

Second Nature in Music

Interesting Suggestion for Advanced Pupils …

Volume 36, Number 09 (September 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Industry

Music, Just for the Fun of It

Musical Contagion

Greatest Musical Asset

Development of Rhythmic Sense in the Music Student

Circumstance and the Artist

Keyboard Maxims of Master Pianists of Today and Yesterday

Why and How to Read at Sight

Two Lessons a Week Versus One

When the Professor Got Back from His Vacation

Thoroughness in Little Things

Some Practical Psychology for Piano Teachers

Scale Honor Roll

Is the Sonata Form Exhausted?

Ties and No Ties

Pupils Whose Parents are Interested

Knack in Securing Agility and Velocity

Don't Neglect the Short Piece

Music's Debt to Gifted Amateurs …

Volume 36, Number 08 (August 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Possibilities of Negro Music

Definite Progress

How Beethoven Worked

Gounod's Romantic Philanthropy

Reflection of Neatness

Sense Touch

What Gives Brilliancy to Pianoforte Playing?

Is Standardization in Piano Technic Really Worth While?

How Much Value Do You Receive From Your Practicing?

Music Teacher Worth While

Are We Cutting Off Our Musical Noses?

What Shall We Do with German Music?

Riches No Enemy Can Take Away

Music Rally in Philadelphia

Democracy of Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Debt of All Musicians to the First Great Master to Uphold the Dignity of His Profession in the Presence of Arrogance of the Aristocracy

How to …

Volume 36, Number 07 (July 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Composers Compose

Where Not to Use the Pedal

Spirit of the Masters—Preparation for the Study of Chopin, Debussy and Modern Composers

How to Get Your Music Published

Let's Have More Charity in Criticism

Important Uses for Music

Mistakes Cannot Be Corrected in Public

Foundation Steps in Practicing Scales

What Eurythmics Means

Vacation Rest for Music Teachers

Fighting to Get a Start

Choice of Material for Developing Interpretation: An Article of Particular Summer Self-Study Value to Teachers and Advanced Students

Learning How to Teach the Pianoforte

Why Do They Do It?

Etude Master Study Page: Composers of Music of Wide …

Volume 36, Number 06 (June 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Schumann and Liszt

Absolute Time: A Study of the Heart Beat in Relation to Rhythm

How Fast and How Slow

Make Your Summer Count

Art of Simplifying

How to Become a Good Teacher

Why Bach?

Coining New Words

Let's Have More Music Than Ever: The United States Government Recognizes a Great Need

Music as a War Need

Toy Drum and a Tin Whistle

Music in Wartime

Ragging Good Music

That Weak Measure

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Russian Composers

Artistic and Educational Importance of the Polyphonic Music of Bach …

Volume 36, Number 05 (May 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Benjamin Franklin's Musical Side

Letter from General Hugh L. Scott

Slavery to the Keyboard

Piano's Future Assured

Practice the Bass

Music Now More Than Ever: Eminent Men and Women in Many Walks of Life Earnestly Urge Music as a Present National Need

Interesting Way to Teach Phrasing

Music Teachers' Desk

Love Letter from Mozart to his Wife

Get in Touch with the Other Professions

Personality and Interpretation

César Franck After Twenty-five Years

Haydn's Souvenirs of London

High Wrist and Low Wrist

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn

Home Without Music

Find Joy in …

Volume 36, Number 04 (April 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Their Ancestry

How Long is the Life of a Piano?

Price of Success

How to Locate the Keys by Touch

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Bach, Haydn and Mozart

Time and Rhythm

Fun in Music

Are You Musically Educated?

Questionnaire for the Average Music Teacher of the Average Child

All About Accent

Different Types of Song Accompaniment

Emotional Effect Through Rhythm and Phrasing

Open Door to Opera

Value of Finger Staccato

Musicians Short Folk

Why Some Music Lessons are Dull

What to Do When You Cannot Secure A Good Teacher: Self Help Hints for Active Music …

Volume 36, Number 03 (March 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Use and Abuse of Five Finger Exercise

Tact in Teaching Technic

Counting Aloud

Let Your Ears Save Your Eyes

Public Performance of Etude Music

Are You Getting into a Rut: An Important Symposium

How Do Composers Compose?

Centenary of the Great Educational Classic for the Piano

How to Use the Etude's Educational Supplement

Bach in Burlesque

Little Lights and Shadows of Music Teaching

Music, the Painter of Pictures in Moods: A Highly Entertaining and Instructive Discussion of the Subject

Rare Effect in Advanced Pianoforte Playing

Scale Study Without Monotony

Some Interesting Things About the Gavotte

Fighting Musical Obstacles in the …

Volume 36, Number 02 (February 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Have You a Self Starter?

Rates of Tempo in the Past and Present

Can Ugly Music be Beautiful?

Get Rid of Fear

Two-Fold Vitality of Anglo-Saxon Music

Developing the Tactile Sense

Success with the Adult Beginner at the Piano

Do Not Attempt the Impossible

Hands, Hands, Hands: Some Interesting Facts for Teachers and Pupils About the Pianist's Tools

Accent Scales Right

Making Pupils Musicians

What Should a Teacher Know?

Irregular Groups that Baffle Pianists: How to Play Combined Accents, Times and Rhythms in Pianoforte Composition

Case of Richard Wagner vs. Democracy: Should the Operas of Richard Wagner be Debarred in …

Volume 36, Number 01 (January 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Folk Music: A Negligible Quantity

Beethoven's Advice to a Piano Teacher

New Year Advice from Famous Pianists: Study Epigrams of the Foremost Present Day Virtuosos Selected for this Issue

Too Much Preparation

Well Tempered

Every Teacher's New Year Resolution

Work Out Your Own Salvation

Legato Playing with Pedal and Without

Case Against Don’ts

Beauties in the Music of the American Indian (interview with Thurlow Lieurance)

Little Thinking Machines

Where the Left Hand Ends and the Right Hand Begins

What is Elasticity in Piano Playing?

Greatest Shortcomings of the Average Student

Is Slow Practice Overdone?

Helpful Routine in Sight Reading …

Volume 35, Number 12 (December 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Automatic Faculty in Piano Playing

How to Attain Freedom of the Fingers

Mass of Christ

Footlight Fear and Fever

Important Steps in the Educational Work of an Opera Singer

Three Measure Rhythm

Christmas Carols

Reading Detached Chords

Are the Black Keys Poisonous to the Thumb?

Time to Rest and a Time to Grow

Musical Reputations and How They are Achieved

Is Compulsory Music Study Advisable?

Successful Study of Octaves

Can You Pass This Normal Test?

Some Pianos I Have Known

Practice Individual Tones in a Chord

Beethoven's Characteristics as a Pianist

How to Study Two Against Three

Pianographs

Hints on …

Volume 35, Number 11 (November 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cure for Musical Pessimism

Simplifying Counting

Why Not Encourage Everyone to Play?

Nervousness in Public Performance and How to Overcome It

Practical Thoughts on Modern Pianoforte Study

Two Ways of Using the Metronome

Some Foundation Principles of Piano Technic, Which May Be Applied to Any Method

Economy of Time at Lessons

Keeping the Brain Strong and Fit

How to Judge a New Piece

High Lights from a Musical Convention: Extracts from Important Addresses Made at the Last Convention of the Music Teachers' National Association

How to Keep Your Piano in Playable Condition

Some Essential Points in Beautiful Playing and How …

Volume 35, Number 10 (October 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Just What Syncopation is

Value of Polyphonic Playing

Greater Results With Less Effort

How to Interest Unmusical People in Music

Some Elementary Truths in Song Interpretation

Curiosities of Notation

Tension and Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

How We Got the Flat and the Natural

Remarkable Cures of Melancholia Through Music

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern English Composers

Mysteries of Music

How to Help Your Pupil to Remember Your Corrections

Value of Versatility in Teaching

Seek Clearness of Musical Outline

How to Get Artistic Effects in Touch: Staccato, Legato and Marcato

Story of the Magic Fire Music

Good Taste …

Volume 35, Number 09 (September 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Four Good Reasons Why Musicians Do Not Succeed

Lack of Concentration

Goals in Scale Playing

How I Regained a Lost Voice: A Practical Experience in Voice Placing (interview with Evan Williams)

How to Increase the Music Class: Approved Methods Employed by Leading Teachers in Securing New Pupils Through Dignified, Legitimate Means

Business Principles for the Musician

Musical Setting

La Marseillaise

Animated Touch

Notes on Piano Playing to Teachers of Children

Learning Music in the Most Rapid, Thorough and Scientific Manner: Important Psychological Principles Deduced from Thousands of Laboratory Experiments Made Simple and Practical for Music Students and Music Teachers

Musician's …

Volume 35, Number 08 (August 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Accomplishments

Simple Cure for Stage-Fright

How to Regain Your Technic

Paths to an American National School of Music (interview with Reginald de Koven)507

Bracelet of Fifths

Getting the Most from Five-finger Exercises

Sharp Major Scale Signature

How the Masters Sought Humor in Music

Echo Exercise

Spasmodic Performance

Up-to-Date Points from an Up-to-Date Teacher

How Can We Do Our Bit?

New Material and New Methods in Musical Composition

Non Plus Ultra

Playing Close to the Keys Versus the High Finger Stroke

Teresa Carreño (obituary)

High School Credits in Texas

How Shall I Play Phrases Properly?—With Special Illustrations Taken from Modern …

Volume 35, Number 07 (July 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Get Control of Your Nerves

Jenny Lind, The Incomparable

Key to Success

Discord of Sweet Sounds

To Avoid Scratching in Violin Playing

Thoroughness in Operatic Preparation (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Let Your Piece Sing to You

Accuracy in Piano Playing—How to Teach it to Children

Controlled Relaxation

Why Should My Boy Study Music?

Electrical Music

Practical Steps in Tone Production: How the Player's Tone May be Enriched and Developed

Pianograms

Head, Heart and Head

High Lights in the Life of Handel—Significant and Interesting Human and Professional Characteristics of the Composer of the Messiah

How to Use The Etude's …

Volume 35, Number 06 (June 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Freak Minds in Modern Music

Keep a Journal

How to Go About Sight-Reading

Saving Time in Practice

Idealism in Music Study (interview with Teresa Carreño)

Yesterday and To-day

What Pieces?

From Finger-Tips to Shoulder

Why Advanced Pupils Lose Inspiration

Acquiring Accuracy in Musical Terms: Correct Definitions and Right Applications

Musical Curiosity

Review Week

Why Not a Daily Song Hour

Scale Contest

Art and Common Sense in Accompanying

Accelerando

Closing Address

Watch Your Hands

Names of Musicians Phonetically Pronounced

What Every Music Student Should Know About Phrasing

Nine Fundamental Divisions of Daily Practice

Symphony: Its Chief Characteristics and How to Recognize …

Volume 35, Number 05 (May 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony Orchestras in the United States

Memorable Performance

Certainly, I'll Play!

How Staccato Practice Puts a Snap in Playing

Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Band

How Beethoven Spiritualized Musical Form

Is the Symphony Played Out?

Two Brilliant American Composers

Aids to Good Timekeeping

Concise Dictionary of Noted Symphonic Composers

Richard Wagner as a Symphonist

New Scale Fingerings

Rise of the American Symphony

Does Teaching Make You Nervous?

Fifteen Vital Steps in Teaching Young Children

Have You a Self-Starter?

Scales and Baseball

Final Steps in Memorizing

How to Start a Local Symphony Orchestra

How Much Did You Practice?

Colored Pencils in …

Volume 35, Number 04 (April 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Aspects of the Art of Music (interview with Thomas A. Edison)

Simple Psychological Helps in Music Teaching

Haydn's Amusing Tribute to a Faithful Dog

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Value of Historical Knowledge in the Appreciation of Music

Snap Shots in a Musical Library

Irish Folk Song that Aids Interpretation

Difficult Pronunciations

Carmen: Arranged for Presentation in Reading Form at Musical Clubs

Expanding the Small Hand

Beethoven to Czerny

Getting Pupils through Printers' Ink: A Practical Advertising Man Talks

Rare Musical Facts

Syncopated Biographies: Musical Life Stories Pleasantly Told

Exercises for Developing the Hands for Piano Touch and Technic …

Volume 35, Number 03 (March 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Justice for the Teacher

What the Musician Must Do To Conserve Good Health

Efficient Practice

Too Much Theory

Difficult Pronunciations

Spirit and Technic of the Pianoforte Pedals

Tolstoi Throws a Bomb into Art and Music: The Arch-Iconoclast of Russia Severly Criticises Some Modern Musical and Artistic Conventions

Some Facts About Russian Church Music

Learning the Key Signatures

Some Obstacles in the Way of Standardization

Early French, Italian and German Composers of Interest to Present-day Pianists

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Masters

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Ranz …

Volume 35, Number 02 (February 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Success in Chorus Conducting: Hints, Aids and Advice to Leaders by the Foremost English Choral Conductors

Melody Hunting

Keep a Lesson Book

Surmounting Stubborn Passages: An Analysis of Technical Difficulties

Twelve Factors in Successful Teaching

When Interest Lags

Rest as Climax

Personality at the Lesson

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Italian Masters

Curiosities of Music

Modern Italian Operatic Composers

How Psychology Can Help the Musician

Chopiniana

Haydn's Boyhood Pride

High Lights in the Lives of Great Master: Haydn

Keeping Up the Interest in Scale Playing

Delicate Hand

Parting of Haydn and Mozart

Most Difficult Musical Composition

Advantages …

Volume 35, Number 01 (January 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Self-Expression at the Keyboard

Difficult Pronunciations

Limitations of Touch on the Piano

Gospel of Clean Keys

Musical and Cultural Education of the Modern Pianist

Maxims for Parents of Musical Children

Berlioz's First Meeting with Mendelssohn—And Its Sequel

Fountain of Inspiration for Masters

Mozart's Appearance and Personality

Have You These Five Qualities of the Progressive Teacher?

Causes of Some American Opera Failures

John Philip Sousa Inspects the Home for Retired Music Teachers

How Brahms and Liszt Welcomed Their Friends

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Hints for the Singer's Daily Practice (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

Neat Method …