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Volume 32, Number 07 (July 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Putting the Thumb Under

Elgar's Self-Instruction

Noble Contempt for Melody

Can There Be Any Really New Music?

Concert Pitch

Significant Phases of Modern French Music

Piano Technic of the Past, Present and Future

Ear Training for Young Pianists

Getting a Start in the Concert Field

Correcting the Stiff Wrist

Selecting the Right Instruction Book

Constant Growth in Music Study (interview with Katharine Goodson)

On Marking Pupils' Music

Making the Study of Pieces Attractive

Garden of Composers: How to Give an Outdoor Recital

Practical Concentration in Piano Study

Etude Master Study Page: Rossini

Home Music Culture Hour

Finding Profit in Scale …

Volume 32, Number 06 (June 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Drill Interesting

Helpful Pedal Exercise

Appreciation of Contemporary Music (interview with Claude Debussy)

Scales and the Child

High Teaching Ideals of American Musical Pedagogs

Qualifications for Positions in Summer Hotel Orchestras

Nature of the Difference Between the Classical and the Romantic Schools

Teaching the Lines and Spaces

Point in Musical History

Begin Music Study Early

Concentration in Music Study (interview with Olga Samaroff)

Have I Real Talent?

Leading the Pupil to See the Beauty of it All

Diagnosing the Talents of the New Pupil

Interesting Aspects of the Romances of Frederic Chopin

Art of Transposing

How the Music Teachers …

Volume 32, Number 05 (May 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

First Studies in Double Notes

Memorizing Music Successfully (interview with Ossip Gabrilowitsch)

How Gounod Surprised Berlioz

Charles Marie Widor: Dean of French Organ Masters

Method in Sight Reading

Balance in Rhythmic Movement

Study Harmony from Piano Playing

Wit of Malibran

Best of the New Music Issued by the Leading Publishers: Selected, Graded and Recommended to The Etude Readers

Prima Donna of To-Day and Yesterday

Interesting the Boy Pupil

Chopin as a Virtuoso: How Chopin's Playing Impressed His Hearers

Ballet in France

Masters Who Have Failed as Opera Composers

Musical Thought and Action in the Old World

How to Develop Concentration …

Volume 32, Number 04 (April 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

School Debussy Has Established

Personal Recollections of Gounod (interview with Emma Eames)

Grand Prix de Rome and Those Who Have Won It

Concise Dictionary of French Musicians

What the Piano Student is Expected to Accomplish at the Paris Conservatoire

Intimate View of Massenet

Rise of Modern French Music

Some Points for Beginner-Teachers

Tragic Career of Bizet

Arrest Richard Wagner

Disseminating General Musical Knowledge in Country Districts and Small Towns

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Saint-Saëns

Brief History of Music in France

Salaries Paid the Teachers at the Paris Conservatory

Development of Accuracy in Pianoforte Playing

How Paderewski Practiced

How to …

Volume 32, Number 03 (March 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Devices that Make Sight Reading Easy

Chopin's Last Surviving Pupil Gives Recollections of His Master

Leading the Pupil to Think While Practicing (interview with Harold Bauer)

Comfort at the Keyboard

Self-Development and Piano Playing

Mozart's Personal Appearance

Pioneers of American Music

Ornamentation in Music

Pros and Cons of Correspondence Instruction in Music: A Far Reaching Symposium on a Much Discussed Subject

Some Things the Student Should Know about Mozart's Works

Liszt's Original Compositions

Music and Abstract Ideas

Foundation Stones of Good Piano Technic

Tragic Character of the Music of Russia

Recollections of Celebrated Musicians (interview with Henry Schradieck)

Exercises …

Volume 32, Number 01 (January 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Year's Greetings form Well Known American Composers

Talk with the Girl Who Would be a Prima Donna (interview with Nellie Melba)

Cheerfulness in the Lesson

To the Memory of Mathilde Marchesi, 1826-1913

Physical Side of Technical Development

Progress in Music Study (interview with Emil Sauer)

Musical Thought and Action Abroad

Pupils from a Farming District

Hints in Teaching Sight-reading

Attaining Technical Proficiency

To-day with Mozart in Salzburg

Lesson in Exact Terminology

Dot and the Double Dot

Operatic Choral Prayer

Recent Progress in Teaching Methods

Story of the Famous Singer Who Gave Richard Wagner His Ideals

Is Musical Theory Necessary? …

Volume 31, Number 12 (December 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Jenny Lind, Artist and Woman

How to Count Time

How They Protected Aged Musicians in the Seventeenth Century

Thoroughness in Music Study (interview with Camille Saint-Saëns)

Let Your Music Taste Reveal Your Character

Independent Finger Action

How Tunes are Made

European Musical Topics

Saving Indian Music from Oblivion

Helps in Scale Playing

Mendelssohn's Happy Christmas Spirit

We can Learn from Other Things

Our Humble Beginnigs in Music

Secret of Good Staccato Playing

Avoid Unnecessary Excitement at Pupils' Recitals

Should the Average Pupil Study Pianoforte Playing

How Chopin Played Chopin: Interesting Opinions of Modern Critics and Famous Contemporaries

Home for Retired …

Volume 31, Number 11 (November 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Keeping Up the Enthusiasm

Memories of Franz Liszt

Great Composers and Politics

Von Bülow and the Liszt Concerto

Main Essentials of Dr. William Mason's Principles of Pianoforte Instruction

Liszt and Dr. Mason's Eyeglasses

Necessity for Daily Practice (interview with Raoul Pugno)

Making Teaching a Pleasure

Hints on Velocity

What the Pedal Does

How to Gain Confidence for Playing in Public

Simple Calisthenics Loosen the Wrist

How Should the Study of Harmony Benefit Piano Students?

Long-Suffering Accompanist

Ideas for Interesting Club Entertainments

Why Many Clubs Fail

Opera Evening in Costume

Composite Biographies

Fun in Analysis

Pupils' Recital That Paid

Difficulties of …

Volume 31, Number 10 (October 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Truths for Singing Teachers and Students

One Good Reason Why All Should Cultivate Music

Part That Health Plays in Musical Success

Physical Exercise to Strengthen the Pianist's Back

Help from Well-Known Teachers in Overcoming Obstacles

Fighting a Physical Difficulty

Getting Ahead by Asking Questions

Making Good in a Responsible Position

Find Why Others Have Failed

Real Service in Teaching

Doorsteps to Fame

Need for Logical Study

Lifting the Fingers in the Technic of Piano Playing

Developing the Music Worker's Brain Force

Why Strive for Useless Knowledge?

Uplift from Master Minds: Inspiring Thoughts for Daily Reflection of Earnest Music Workers

Artist's …

Volume 31, Number 09 (September 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Lesson in Piano Playing from Sarah Bernhardt

Making an Operatic Career in Europe

Types of Musicians' Hands

Getting New Business: Dignified and Progressive Means for Securing Desirable Pupils for the Coming Season

Artist's Life: The Virtuoso's Career As It Really Is

Understanding the Music We Play

When Should the Piano Student Go Abroad? The Best and Quickest Way to Gain Results

Reed Organ: A Too Much Neglected Instrument

Penmanship and Piano Playing

Mozart from a French Viewpoint

First Lesson After Vacation

Correcting Waste in the Teachers' Business

Instruments of the Orchestra—No. 5: The Percussion Instruments and the Harp

Value of …

Volume 31, Number 08 (August 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tact in Selecting Teaching Pieces

Dvorák as I Knew Him

Making Your Surroundings Help You

Overheard at a Musical Convention: Opinions of Well-Known Teachers and Musicians

Qualities of a Pianist

Painting Pictures with Tonal Colors: An Instructive and Entertaining Discussion of Programme Music

Instruments of the Orchestra

Musician's Vacation: How to Make It a Restful One

Getting a Start as a Virtuoso in Europe

Romance of the Chopin Preludes

Spirit of the Valse

Wisdom of Liszt

Solving the Missed-lesson Problem

Saint-Säens on the Playing of Bach Fugues

Shall Music Teachers Be Licensed?

What Tchaikovsky Thought of the Great Musicians

Making …

Volume 31, Number 07 (July 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Emperor's Operatic Rules

Getting a Start in Europe as a Virtuoso

Teaching Too Many Pupils

Story of the Orchestral Instruments Told for the General Music Love: The Woodwind Section

Wisdom of Felix Mendelssohn

Pen Picture of Brahms

How to Become a Sure-Fingered Pianist

How to Make Summers Musically Profitable

Commonsense Helps in Teaching Little Folks

Despondent Versus the Over-Sanguine Pupil

Compelling Independent Finger Action

Teaching Children to Use the Pedals

Legato and Staccato Playing

Liszt as a Russian Master Saw Him

Some Old Musical Legends

Playing for Our Friends

Combating the Missed-Lesson Evil (symposium)

Neglected Staccato

Metronome and Its Uses …

Volume 31, Number 06 (June 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Plan of Scale Practice

Solving the Missed Lesson Problem: A Symposium Upon a Matter of Vital Importance to All Music Teachers

Importance of the First Impression

How I Made My Summer Vacation Profitable: A Timely Symposium from Busy Representative Teachers

Tolstoy's Great Love for Music

Are Great Pianists Always Nervous?

Making the Pupils' Recital Attractive: A New Idea for Progressive Music Workers

New Idea in Teaching the Touch

Instruments of the Orchestra

Balfe's Musicianship

How to Secure a Beautiful Tone at the Keyboard

Temperamental Playing

Developing an Instinctive Sense of Tone

Wisdom of Robert Schumann

Ten Working Rules

Old-Time Advances …

Volume 31, Number 05 (May 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Recollections of Famous Musicians

Counting Habit

Practical Hints to Pupils

Great Operatic Romances Adapted for the Piano

How Chopin's Funeral March Was Written

Plagiarism in Music

Important Secret of Touch

How Diabelli Curbed Beethoven

Story of the Orchestra Instruments told for the General Music Lover

Pianist's Part in Ensemble Playing

Teacher's Attitude for Success

Natural Progressive Methods with Beginners

Character of Beethoven's Music

Secrets of Artistic Phrasing

Where the Dictionary Helps

Striking Modern Ideas on Music as a Curative Force

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Schumann

What Does it Mean to Practice

In Dr. Harmony's Doorway

Mark Hambourg on the …

Volume 31, Number 04 (April 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chord Analysis

Self-Expression in Piano Study (interview with Max Pauer)

Music of the People in Russian Masterpieces (interview with Modeste Altschuler)

Developing a Child's Taste for Music

Parental Opposition to the Musical Career

Secrets of Artistic Phrasing

Handel the Autocrat

Developing Patience in Music Teaching

Spohr on Beethoven as a Conductor

Pianoforte Music by Some of the Modern Russian Composers

When Criticism is Justified

Problem of the Left Hand

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Schubert

Success in Class Teaching: How to Conduct Special Classes in Musical Subjects

What the Teacher Should Memorize

How Some Famous Musical Pieces Got Their Names …

Volume 31, Number 03 (March 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Amusing Experiences with Eccentric Pupils

Music of the People in Rusian Masterpieces (interview with Modest Altschuler)

Russian Folk-Songs Relating to Marriage

Age to Begin Piano Study

Pianoforte Music by Some of the Modern Russian Composers

Music Teacher and the Doctor

Famous Russian Pianists on the Art of Piano Study: Interesting Opinions of Great Virtuosos Which Give Practical Help to the Student

Some Common Musical Terms Relating to Experssion

All About the Interval

Art of Pianoforte Playing in Russia (interview with Josef Lhevinne)

Why They Lost Their Pupils

Chopin's Lamentable Affliction

What Russia Has Done for the Violin

Modern Masters in …

Volume 31, Number 02 (February 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Conserve Your Nerve Force

How Piano is Studied in France

Slow Movement

Chopin's Characteristics

Application fo Efficiency to Piano Playing

Preparing the Hands for Keyboard Mastery

Errors in Print

Giuseppe Verdi: Composer, Patriot and Philanthropist

Learning to Listen

Importance of Accent

Why are Consecutive Fifths Objectionable?

Vitalizing the Practice Period

What the Piano Teacher Can Do For the Reed Organ Pupil

Why We Have so Few Good Sight Readers

Success in Concert Singing (interview with Clara Butt)

Rhythmic Importance of Accent

Runs

Master Study Page—Handel

With the World's Great Educators—Herbert Spencer

Give the Boy a Chance

Well-Known Composers of To-day—John …

Volume 31, Number 01 (January 1913), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Personal Recollections of Famous Musicians

How Fine Editions Help the Student and the Teacher

Place of Technic in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

What Significance Has the Weight of the Arm in Piano Playing?

Making a Start as a Music Teacher

Delightful Home for Retired Music Teachers

Then and Now: Thirty Years of Advance in Musical America (symposium)

With the World's Great Educators—Herbart

Hugo Wolf's Method of Composition

Positive vs. Negative Teaching

Musical Thought and Action in the Old World

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Brahms

Well Known Composers of To-day—George Dudley Martin

Why Must I Practice Slowly?

Rubinstein's …

Hackleman's Quartettes And Choruses For Mixed, Male And Female Voices Especially Adapted To Church Quartettes, Choirs, And Volunteer Choruses, And For Convention And Revival Use, W. E. Hackleman

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Volume 30, Number 12 (December 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Clear Chords

Importance of Fine Editions of the Classics

Don't Expect Everything of the Teacher

How Chopin Wrote the Preludes

Save Your Energy

Our Photogravure Supplement, Their Son

Advance of Vocal Art in America

Plan Your Season's Work Rightly

Training of the Rhythmic Sense

Triangle as a Teaching Help

Richard Wagner and Christmas

Painting with Tones

Musical Success Comes from Within

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Chopin

Stephen Heller as I Knew Him: Memories of Lessons with the Noted Composer Teacher

With the World's Great Educators

Love Affairs of Famous Composers

Law of Success in Musical Study

Mile-Posts in Pianistic …

Volume 30, Number 11 (November 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Benefit of Playing in the Polyphonic Style

Master Study Page—The Real Gounod, 1818-1893

Keep the Finger Nails Trimmed

With the World's Great Educators—Rousseau

Selecting Standard Classics for the Study Season

Well Known Composers of To-day—W.D. Armstrong

Volume 30, Number 10 (October 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Master Study Page—The Real Beethoven, 1770-1827

Reminiscences of Some Famous Musicians

Famous Mythological Characters in Music

Selected Technical Truths from World Famous Pianists: Gems of Pedagogical Thought Crystallized in the Crucible of Time and Experience

Solving the Missed Lesson Problems

Wrist in Piano Playing

What Every Teacher Should Know About Teaching: Home-Study Hints on the Greatest of Arts

Selecting Standard Classics for the Study Season: Useful Pianoforte Pieces for Special Development

Jules Massenet, Eminent French Master, Passes Away

Death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Well Known Composers of To-day—J. Lamont Galbraith

Wagner on How Mendelssohn Conducted Beethoven

Practical Hints on Securing New …

Volume 30, Number 09 (September 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Need for a Good Position at the Keyboard

Interesting Vacation Trip to Mozart's Workshop

New Thoughts on the Physiology of Practice

His Majesty's Violins: A Tale of the Court of Louis XIV

Leschetizky on the Pedals

Why Should We Have Pieces for Left Hand Alone?

Pointers on Position at the Piano

Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Apollo

Some Personal Recollections of Chopin

Excessive Octave Practice

Well Known Composer Reaches Opus 1000—Arnold Sartorio

Some Conundrums on Musicians' Names

Women in the Orchestra

About Verdi's Operas

Volume 30, Number 08 (August 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Position at the Piano

Carnival Music

Busoni and the Press

Correct Position at the Keyboard: A Symposium

Characteristic Features of Russian Music

Reading Music Like a Book

Exciting Musical Career of Tillie Clapsaddle

Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Pan

His Majesty's Violins: A Story of Music at the Court of Louis XIV

Bright Sayings of Famous Masters

Odd Effect of Music on Animals

Volume 30, Number 07 (July 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Great Musicians on Their Contemporaries

Training of the Pianist of the Future (interview with Wilhelm Bachus)

Schumannisms

Musical History During the Piano Lesson

Modern Ideas on Broken-Chord Practice

Playing Duets with Schumann

How I Gave My First Lesson: A Symposium of Particular Interest to Your Teachers and Students Who Aspire to Be Teachers

Analysis Guide to Intelligent Musical Interpretation

Famous Mythological Characters in Music: Orpheus

Bishop Who Wrote Operas

Berlin's Concerts

Volume 30, Number 06 (June 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Clara Schumann's Father on Study

How Analysis Benefits the Piano Pupil (interview with Katharine Goodson)

Selecting Piano Studies that Insure Progress

Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Sappho

To Memorize or Not to Memorize

How Chopin Played: As told by Liszt, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Other Contemporaries

Hours with Leschetizky (interview with Lolita D. Mason)

Rubinstein's Bitter Valedictory

Tributes of Noted Musicians to the Memory of the Late W.S.B. Mathews

How the Mind Should Guide the Body in Practice

Dramatic Moments in the Careers of the Masters

Well-Known Composers of To-day—Charles Wakefield Cadman

Volume 30, Number 05 (May 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Conquering the Stiff Wrist

Passing of W.S.B. Mathews

Important Points Frequently Neglected in the Study of Pianoforte Works

From Beethoven to Wagner

Mental Effect of Tones

Married Woman Pupil

Great Pianists at the Keyboard: A Lesson in Position (portraits)

Symposium on Position at the Keyboard

Some Secrets of Success in Playing in Public

Some Royal Musicians

Student Days with Dvorák

Well-Known Composers of Today—George Eggeling

Composers as Conductors

Volume 30, Number 04 (April 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Famous Standard Etudes: Their Value to the Teacher and to the Music Student

How George Bernard Shaw Learned to Play the Piano

Pitfalls in the Road to Musical Success

Daily Hints for Diligent Pupils

Perplexing Embellishments and Their Execution

Mental Technic of Memorizing

I Could Play it All Right at Home

Some Practical Helps to Sight Reading

How Small Hands May be Trained To Play Arpeggio Chords

Modern French and German Opera

Real Ole Bull, Personal Reminiscences

Little Known Musical Facts

Road to Expression (interview with Harold Bauer)

Well Known Composers of To-day—Robert M. Stults

Volume 30, Number 03 (March 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Facts about Musical Ireland

Artistic Aims in Piano Playing (interview with Harold Bauer)

Chopin and the Tempo Rubato

Centurion Composers of Opera

Mendelssohn's Phenomenal Memory

Gluck's Operatic Ideals

How to Execute Mordents, Trills and Appoggiaturas

Modern Italian Opera: Its Tendencies and Its Composers

Offenbach's Remarkable American Experiences

Making a Success of the Pupils Recital: With Important Suggestions upon Overcoming Stage Fright

Ten Most Important Epochs in Musical History

Adventurous Composer of Maritana

Volume 30, Number 02 (February 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Probable Origin of Syncopation

Opera of the People (interview with Victor Herbert)

Boccherini and His Friends

If My Daughter Should Study for Grand Opera (interview with Andreas Dippel)

When Different Pupils Make the Same Mistakes

How a Great Operatic Production is Prepared: Opinions from Many Celebrated Specialists upon a Subject of Much Human Interest to all Music Lovers

Grand Opera as a Business

Self-Help in Voice Study (interview with Charles Dalmores)

Alphabet of the Opera Composers

Names of the Notes in Other Languages

Success at the First Lessons: Five Important Points for Teachers to Remember and Employ

Well-Known Composers of …