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Volume 34, Number 12 (December 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Locating the Notes on the Keyboard

Make Your Circular Hit the Mark

Keeping the Voice in Prime Condition

Some Truths about Touch and Tone

Famous Legends of Famous Music: And Incidentally Some Famous Lies About Well-Known Pieces

Beethoven's Appearance and Personality

If I Had to Begin All Over Again: A Remarkably Interesting Symposium with Contributions from Distinguished Musicians

What an Olden Time Bard Looked Like

Composer: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life849

Tempo: The Ruling Force in Music

Teaching Ideals of Three Master Violinists

Teaching Expression to Children

Danger in Tuning the Piano Too High

Four Roads …

Volume 34, Number 11 (November 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the American Girl Should Know About an Operatic Career

Last Days of Stephen Foster

Half Hour of Daily Technic

Useful Addition to the Gallery Collecton

Superlative Importance of Tempo

Some Interesting Musical Historical Facts

Hundred-Dollar Lesson

Difficult Pronunciations

Scale Wheel

Composer: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Great Composers and the Harp

Study with Beads

Studio Visiting Days

Beethoven and the Blind Girl

Learning a Piece by Forgetting It

Musician's Worry Habit

Master Lesson for Earnest Students on Mendelssohn's Charming Spinning Song

What Kind of Music is Best?

How Verdi Sought to Avoid Pomp Even in …

Volume 34, Number 10 (October 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting Results Through Right Practice: A Talk to Students

Points to Remember in Sight Reading

What's Wrong with My Piece

Teacher and His Business

Building of Music: A Practical Lesson in the Principles of Musical Form

Self-Help Road to Success in Music

Overcoming Stage Fright

Common Sense in Pianoforte Touch and Technic

Why Should I Study Theory

Some Facts About Pitch

Composer and the Organ Grinder: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

What Every Student Should Know About Phrasing

Learning to Depend Upon One's Self

Honor to the Teacher

George Noyes Rockwell

Master Lesson—Mendelssohn's Scherzo in E …

Volume 34, Number 09 (September 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Stephen Foster's Versatility and Industry

Talking Too Much

Some Musical Signposts

Personal Recollections of the Last Days of Stephen Foster

Intimate View of Stephen Foster

Sense of Rhythm

Intelligent Training of the Thumb

Find the Shortest, Quickest and Easiest Way to Do Things

Spurring Up a Slow Pupil

Stephen C. Foster's Romantic Career

Music's Written Language

How to Show Pupils the Advantages of Slow Practice

Compounded Measures

Popularizing Good Music

Some Curious Musical Instruments Used by Savage Tribes

Beauty and Originality in Haydn's Pianoforte Sonatas

Generosity of Franz Liszt

Two Great Musical Innovators, Liszt and Paganini

Are You a Solomaniac? …

Volume 34, Number 08 (August 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Instruments of Mythology

What Time Means to the Musician

Some Facts About Rubinstein

Was Liszt the Paganini of the Piano?

More About American Musical Atmosphere

Dr. Cornelius Rübner on American Musical Atmosphere

Training of the Thumb in Pianoforte and Organ Playing

Three Helpful Devices with Which Piano Students Should be Familiar

Music in America During Revolutionary Times

How One Mother Kept the Home Together

Necessary Little Instrument for Every Piano

Habit Formation in Relation to Pianoforte Playing

Philadelphia Movement in Music

Notation of Silence

Systematize Children's Practice

Curious Facts About Music

Real Help for the Pupil

Musical Memorizing To-day …

Volume 34, Number 07 (July 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Success Guides for Young Teachers

Practice Hour Filled with Pleasure

Part the Piano Should Play in Musical Education

What Should be the Attitude of the Layman Toward Music

Most Subtle Secret of Success

Live Teacher—Am I One?

Teaching the Use of the Bass Clef

Practice the Hard Parts Separately

Beginning at Both Ends

Effect of Mechanical Instruments Upon Musical Education: A Symposium from Noted American Educators Upon a Question of Wide Significance

Royal Performers on the Flute

Real Meaning of Rhythm

Useful Finger Exercise

Discouraging the Pupil

Can There Be Any Real New Music?

How Parents Can Help

First Requisites …

Volume 34, Number 06 (June 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the American Musical Public Needs (interview with Josef Stransky)

Geography of Opera

Correct Musical Diagnosis

Tragic Ending of Enrique Granados

Negro in the World of Music

Can Poetic Playing and Singing Be Taught?

Proper Age for Beginning Music

Different Kinds of Touch the Student Should Master

Story of the Piano in Pictures

World Music of To-morrow: A Prospect of the Nature of Our Musical Progress Based Upon the Musical Tendencies of To-day

Gift of Observation in Piano Study

When Grandmother Taught Me Music

Eye and the Ear: Shall the Student Learn to Play by Ear?

Some Interesting Beginnings in …

Volume 34, Number 05 (May 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sanity and Insanity in Modern Musical Composition

Classified List of Some Futurist and Modernist Composers

Will the Music of Ultra-Modernists Survive? A Symposium by Eminent Musicians

Some Examples of Cubist Art by Recognized Futurists

Thoroughness in Hungarian Music Study

Talented Pupil Who Wastes His Time

Redundant Practice

Efficiency Principle in Piano Study

How Edward Grieg Found Success

Boundaries of Beauty in Musical Art

Three Trinities in Music

Firsts in American Musical History

How to Play Thirds and Sixths—A Study in Advanced Technic

Facts About Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord

Use Musical Terms Precisely

Rebuilding on Old Foundations

Creoles and their Music

How …

Volume 34, Number 04 (April 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Studies in Advanced Technic

Spirit of the Piece

Practical Ideas in Teaching, Culled from a Famous Authority

Flush of Nervousness

Marvels of Sound: Some Wonders of Acoustics with Which Music Lovers Should be Familiar

Sound Facts for Busy Readers

Universality in Piano Teaching Methods

Developing Musical Volume of Tone

One Way of Getting More Pupils

Monotone

Musical Day in Nature: A Lecture Recital Program for Students and Teachers

Working Creed for the Music Teacher

Plan for the Systematic Review of Old Pieces

What To Do When a Teacher Cannot Be Had

History of Notation and the Young Student

Holding …

Volume 34, Number 03 (March 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Radical Methods in Modern Pianoforte Study

Remarkable Pianoforte Arrangements of Franz Liszt

Artistic Origin of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words

Liszt in Fiction: A Romance in Which the Great Pianist is the Central Figure

Practicing with One Hand

Shakespeare's Music the World Over

Clara Schumann's Debt to Johannes Brahms

Muscular Mastery of the Keyboard

Every One Can Memorize Music: That is, if Everyone Will Work Hard Enough, Long Enough and in the Right Way

Thoroughness in Memorizing Music

Misleading Musical History

Sibelius and the Music of Modern Finland

Teaching Pupils the Musical Alphabet

Nervousness versus Karma: A Much-Needed Parable for Timid …

Volume 34, Number 02 (February 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Happy Side of Music Teaching

Blind Handel and His Blind Helper

Piano Subito

You and the Other Teacher

Elementary Study of Pianoforte Technic

Teacher's Nerve Destroyers

Hands and the Pianist

Away from the Piano

Science of Pianoforte Practice

Establishing a Definite Technic

Single Little Mistake

Leisure Hour Facts for Music Workers

What is Expected of the Accompanist?

Foundation of Smooth Scale Playing

Practicing Backward

Musical Facts for Spare Moments

Early Drill in Sight Reading

Ten Points in Extemporization

Place of the Nocturne in Musical Art

Pertinent Questions for Conscientious Teachers

Interesting Facts About Finnish Music

When Should I Practice?

Three …

Volume 34, Number 01 (January 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Preparing for the Virtuoso's Career

Chopin in Fiction

Chopiniana: Chopin's Character, Temperament and Art Etched in Interesting Facts from

Music in the Danish Capital

Aid to Sight Reading

On the Gentle Art of Advertising

Arm-Control in Piano Playing

Don'ts for the Mothers of Music Pupils

Letting the Pupil Select Music

Should a Teacher Evolve His Own Method, or Use That of His Instructor?

How to Gain Power, Sweetness and Expression in Singing

Matter of American Musical Atmosphere

Practical Ideas in a Nutshell

Wisdom of Leschetizky: Statements from His Personal Expressions on Pianoforte Playing

Have I Musical Talent?

Use of the …

Volume 33, Number 12 (December 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

To Avoid Inaccuracy

Beethoven

Sense of Touch in Music

Opportunities and Limitations in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Rudolph Ganz)

Teaching Backward Children

Nervousness and the Pedal

When and How to Memorize

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life: Not a Needless Accomplishment

Let the Mind Rule the Memory

Many Music Teachers Retire in Comfort

Lines of Improvement in Modern Pianoforte Playing and Teaching

Scales, Scales, Scales, Every Day

Pianist's Vocabulary

First Steps in Sight-Reading

Gloria's Great Chance: A Story of Music and Christmas

Giving Greater Value

Popular Musical Mis-conceptions: Some Musical Conventions Which Should be Exploded

Why Study Harmony

Relation …

Volume 33, Number 11 (November 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Boy Who Would Not Practice

Beethoven Piano in America

Four Essentials of Daily Practice

Power of Suggestion in Music

First Performance of Handel's Messiah, The

Franz Liszt—The Last Word in Piano Playing: Some Unpublished Aphorisms

Fingering the Minor Scales

At What Age Should the Pupil Start

Beginnings of Modern Instrumentation

MacDowell's Distinguished Career: A Collection of Interesting Personal Recollections and Comments Throwing New Light Upon Phases of the Activity of MacDowell as a Composer Pianist and as a Teacher

Edvard Grieg and His Own Compositions

Artistic Musical Temperament: And What a Few Kings Did in the Tonal Art

Beautiful Folk …

Volume 33, Number 10 (October 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Student Days with Edvard Grieg

Modern University-Trained Composer

Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Prose Reading Arranged from the Famous Drama by Henrik Ibsen, with Musical Accompaniment by Edvard Grieg

Development of the Romantic Folk-Songs of Scandinavia

Full Hour Lesson

Concise Biographical Dictionary of Scandinavian Musicians

Use of Finger Exercises in the Early Grades

Foundations in Touch for the Beginner

Ferdinand Hiller's Tribute to Robert Schumann

Blossom Time in Pianoforte Literature (interview with Percy Grainger)

Selecting the Pupil's Music

Some Occult Aspects of Music

How Liszt Encouraged Saint-Saëns

Scandinavian Musical Activities in the United States

Getting the Right Kind of a Start …

Volume 33, Number 09 (September 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Modernism in Pianoforte Study (interview with Percy Grainger)

Better Understanding of Crescendo

Musical Obligation to the Child

Right Studio Equipment

Dramatic Scenes from the Operas

Passing of Paul Wachs

How to Introduce Scales to the Tiny Tot

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life

Be the Architect of Your Own Technic

Sensible Practice Hints

Value of Scales

Music from the Cradle to the Grave

Piano Study as an Aid to Good Health

Tonal Technical Practice

Straightening Out the Strausses

How to Start a Musical Kindergarten

Mothers, Do You Need These Don’t's?

Deeds Not Words!

When Is a Piano in Tune?

Volume 33, Number 08 (August 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the Great War Will Mean to Music in America

Doing Away with the Useless in Piano Playing

How to Get Established in a New Town

Are Teachers Careless in Details?

Easy Scale Memorizing

Music Teaching and Common Sense

Interesting Musical Facts

Musical Tendencies which Must be Observed

Remedies for Musical People Who Are Nervous (interview with Alberto Jonás)

Saint-Saëns on Gounod's Faust

Must the Teacher Also be a Fine Pianist?

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life

Why Memorizing is Always Desirable

From the Professor's Standpoint

Passing of a Great Pianist

Studying Tone Values in Piano Playing

Strengthening Weak …

Volume 33, Number 07 (July 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Developing Automatic Muscular Sense

Let Money Making be Secondary

Nervousness in Piano Playing (interview with Alberto Jonás)

Musical Recollections of Four Score Years

Thinking Practice

Getting the Right Viewpoint in Teaching Music

Needed Reforms in the Essentials of Piano Technic

Question of Pianos

Aim of Productive Practice

Paths of Reform in Musical Education

Interesting Civic Movement in Music

Enriching the Means of Tone Production

Aim Above the Mark!

Present Day Pianist's Goal

Danger of Short Cuts in Music

Music a Numan Necessity in Modern Life (symposium)

Elements of Beauty in Rhythm

How to Acquire Rapidity?

Romance of Our National Anthem: …

Volume 33, Number 06 (June 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hand Cramp and How It May Be Remedied

Real Vacation for the Music Worker

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life (symposium)

Why the Musician Should Develop the Gift of Making Friends

Special Practice in Staccato

American Pageant

What the Composers Are Doing

Profitable Practice versus Wasted Practice (interview with Alexander Lambuert)

Benefits of Ensemble Playing

Dramatic Scenes from the Operas

Function of Piano Studies

Emotional and Picturesque in Music

May Drumming Be of Some Value?

Principles for Fingering the Major and Minor Scales

Etude Master Study Page—Richard Strauss

Well Known Composers of To-day—Elmer S. Hosmer

C Sharp Minor Waltz …

Volume 33, Number 05 (May 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Vagaries of Modern Harmony

Instead of Recitals

Little Problems in Human Nature Connected with Music Teaching

After the Musicale

Is Music Always Inspired?

Uniformly Well-Trained Pupils

Insuring Progress in Music Study (interview with Mark Hambourg)

Time for Practice

Some Pitfalls in Sight-Reading

Music Standardization in Missouri

Dramatic Scenes from the Operas

Defense of Classic Forms in Music

Playing Before One's Friends

Musician's Beginnings

Why Is It I Do Not Get Pupils?

What the Father Should Realize About Music Study

Practical Suggestion for Pupil Efficiency

What to Look for in Scale Playing

Characteristics of Polish Music

Musical Genius and Insanity: Great …

Volume 33, Number 04 (April 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Ideas for Busy Music Workers

Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life: Not a Needless Accomplishment (symposium)

Making Music the Language of the Child

How Schumann and Mendelssohn Regarded Poverty

How Long Should We Practice?

Don't Evade the Difficult Tasks

Practice Materials Leading to a Complete Technic

Influence of Music on the Body

Simplicity of Success

Rotary Arm Movement in Piano Playing: A Widely Accepted Technical Discovery of Dr. William Mason

Brahms as a Pianist and as a Conductor

Forgotten Belgian Composer

Better Understanding of Tempo Rubato

Musical Girl and The Vision, The

Manifestations of the Composers' Characters in …

Volume 33, Number 03 (March 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

John Milton, Composer

Your List of Memorized Pieces

Study of Studies Old and New: Observations upon Technical Elements of Style in Piano Playing

Keep the Emotions Alive with Music

New Educational System Attracting Wide Attention: Emile Jacques-Dalcroze and His Method of Rhythmic Development

Musical Education in Poland Yesterday and To-day

Making Play of Music Study

What Music in the Public Schools Is Accomplishing!

Architecture in Music: An Instructive Analogy between Music Building and House Building

Gentle Art of Composition

Once-in-a-While Lesson

Short Cuts to Sight Reading

Haydn and Marionette Music

Etude Master Study Page—Weber

Music in Wartime

Power of Encouragement …

Volume 33, Number 02 (February 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Instructive One Minute Paragraphs for Busy Music Workers

Facts About Musical Belgium

To Develop Pearly Runs

Mendelssohn's Interested Listener

Haydn, Dvorak and the Anglican Chant

Masonic Symbolism in the Magic Flute

Pair of Devices for Maintaining Interest

How the Chinese Sang to their Ancestors

Soul of Robert Schumann

Breadth in Musical Art Work (interview with Ignace Jan Paderewski)

Maintaining a High Standard of Efficiency

Music of Proud and Chivalrous Poland: With Special Contributions from Mme. Marcella Sembrich and Leopold Stowski

Beauty of Poland's National Music

Chopin—Poland's National Poet

Popular Fallacies Regarding Tone

Concentration, the Secret of Progress in Music Study …

Volume 33, Number 01 (January 1915), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Human Need for Music in Daily Life (interview with Walter Damrosch)

Appreciation of Tone Quality

When to Use the Pedal

Mastering Irregular Rhythmic Groups

Outlook for the Young American Composers (interview with Mrs. H.H.A. Beach)

Stimulating Questions for Teachers

Recent Notable Progress in American Music

How Breadth of Training Helps the Teacher

Ten Lesson Preliminaries

Respect for Music Teachers

Effect of the Great War on Music Here and Abroad

What is a Practical Lesson

How Classification Helps in Music Study

Get the Musical Alphabet Down Pat

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford's Recollections of Famous Musicians and Teachers

Common Parental Mistake

How …

Practical Versification, Or The Art Of Verse Writing, N. W. Allphin

Stone-Campbell Books

A plain and practical treatise on the rules of versification and the elementary principles of verse writing.

Volume 32, Number 12 (December 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Mozart Could Do as a Child

America's Greatest Musical Need (Symposium)

Personal Initiative in Piano Study (interview with Theodore Leschetisky)

Some Leschetizky Principles of Piano Playing

How They Used to Study in the Olden Days

How to Make Piano Playing Interesting

Remarkable Contrast in Salon Music

Vitality in Teaching

Convenience and Comfort in the Home for Retired Music Teachers

Leopold Auer's Principles of Violin Playing

Plea for the Most American of Instruments

Harmony That is Not Harmony

Artistic Piano Touch and How to Achieve It

European Musical Topics in War Times

Musical Frauds and Fictions

German and Italian Influences …

Volume 32, Number 11 (November 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Canada

Edward MacDowell as a Teacher of Pianoforte: How the Most Eminent of American Composers Gave Instruction at the Keyboard

Waiting for Inspiration

What is America's Greatest Musical Need? A Symposium by Eminent American Musicians

Romance of Stephen Collins Foster

Three Principles of Musical Memorizing

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Wm. Mason

Interesting Studies in Piano Touch

Legion of Music Workers in America: A Wonderful Record Which Should Stir the Patriotic Pride of All American Music Lovers

To-morrow in American Music (interview with John Philip Sousa)

How to Develop Sight-Reading

Musical War Code Puzzle

How to Make Piano …

Volume 32, Number 10 (October 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Opening the Season: Ideas Mined from Real Teaching Experience

Common Sense at the Pupils' Recital

Opera and Tunes

Save Beethoven from his Friends

Beginning Work in Interpretation

Which is the Better Teacher—The Virtuoso Without Teaching Experience or the Experienced Teacher Who Does Not Pretend to be a Brilliant Performer? (symposium)

Waltz King

Salon Music of the Past and Present

Best of the new Music Issued by the Leading Publishers

How Shall I Go About Publishing My Piece? Advice and Warning

Scale Playing in Double Notes

Playing for Nothing

Key to Teaching Efficiency

Some Interesting Facts About Frederick Kuhlau

Long Distance …

Volume 32, Number 09 (September 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tributes to the Memory of Hans Engelmann: Widely Loved Composer of Over 3000 Pianoforte Pieces

Salon and Its Music in France

Adjusting Technic to the Daily Needs

Dance Yesterday and To-Day

Sigismund Thalberg: Prince of the Salon

Preparing the Mind for Active Mental Work

Importance of the Speaking Voice to Singers

Developing the Greatest Possible Volocity in Scale Playing

Fifth Triennial Congress of the International Musical Society

Are We Diseased with Tremelo?

More About Standardization

Law and the Profits

Chord Playing Made Simple

Etude Master Study Page—The Strauss Family

Advantage of Psychology to Piano Teachers

Some Pupils We Meet

Most …

Volume 32, Number 08 (August 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tributes to the Memory of Hans Engelmann

Raising Your Rate of Tuition

Chief Musical Forces of the Nineteenth Century

Busy Teacher

Debussy's Unconventionality

Plea for More Rational Teaching

Star of Technic

Credit to the Conservatory

Coming of the Minnesingers

Between Lesson Thoughts

Musical Thought and Action in the Old World

French Opera in America

Seeing with a Child's Eyes

Awakening and Developing Musical Ability

Economize in Energy

Awakening Interest in Dull Pupils

Tone Production by Means of the Pressure Touch

Diplomacy and the Interfering Mother

Making Music Interesting to the General Public: What 3000 Pianoforte Recitals Have Taught Me

Lending …