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Volume 65, Number 12 (December 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Down (Poem)

Silent Night, Holy Night!

America's Great Peace Hymn: The Story of America, the Beautiful and Its Composer, Samuel A. Ward

Amazing Subterranean Oratorio Performance: An Astonishing Account of a Notable Concert 750 Feet Underground in a Fabulous American Cavern Fairyland

Keep It Natural! (interview with Eileen Farrell)

Revival of the English Carol

What Gives a Violin Tone?

Joyous Mendelssohn (1809-1847): An Anniversary Sketch of the Brilliant Career of Felix Mendelssohn

Young People in Music (interview with Malcolm Sargent)

What the Singer Needs for a Career in Radio (interview with Jane Wilson)

Volume 65, Number 11 (November 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mr. Smith and Music

Yes—You Can Compose Music!

Preserving the Voice (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Harp as a Career (interview with Elaine Vito)

Ninety Years in Music (Mr. and Mrs. Crosby Adams)

My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part 3

Building of the Paulist Choristers (interview with William J. Finn)

Passing of The Little Flower

Special Music for Weddings and for Memorial Services

Band, Orchestra and Chorus

Choral Cultism

Music Links Them All: The Unique Power of the Tone Art to Draw People Together

Master Lesson on Chopin's Prelude, Op. 28, No. 8

Volume 65, Number 10 (October 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Seeking the Bubble

Violin Has Been My Life (interview with Zino Francescatti)

Music and Philately

Learning to Understand Bach

Techniques of Damper-Pedaling

My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part 2

Tales of Isidor Philipp: The French Master Recounts Anecdotes of the Conservatoire and

Romance of John Howard Payne and His Immortal Song, Home, Sweet Home

Volume 65, Number 09 (September 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Keeping Young With Music

Romance of Home, Sweet Home and Its Author: The American Actor and Poet Who Wrote the Words Was One of the Distinctive Figures of His Day

What About the Woman Violinist? (interview with Evelyn)

My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part I

Teacher's Round Table

Practical Side of Piano Practicing

Can You Set a Standard?

Pedals—The Soul of the Pianoforte

Schumann's Whims (Grillen), Op. 12, No. 4 (Master Lesson)

Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Matter of Degrees

Roads to Memorizing Piano Music

Heart of the 'Cello (interview with Gregor Piatigorsky)

Observations of an Artist on Tour (interview with Ray Lev)

Securing a Good Piano Tone (interview with Earl Blair)

Variations on a Given Theme

True or False in Harmony Land

Importance of the Piano for the Organist

Building Finger Efficiency in Piano Study

Developing the Tenor Voice (interview with Frederick Jagel)

Volume 65, Number 07 (July 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Moods

Ever Play in a String Quartet?

Musical Tour of Europe Today (interview with Marjorie Lawrence)

They Hail from the Red River Valley: The Amphion Chorus of Northern Minnesota and Dakota Records Success Formula for Male Choruses in the Average American City

Radio Conducting As a Career (interview with Henry Weber)

Hearing and Musicianship (interview with Curtis H. Muncie)

Theory Behind Music: Teaching Children to Understand the Background of the Art

Developing the Boys' Choir (interview with Coleman Cooper)

Volume 65, Number 06 (June 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art and Advertising

Tiny Tots' Adventures in Theory

Virtuoso in the Jungle (interview with Leonard Pennario)

Music Teacher Takes a Vacation

Song That Named Four Towns

Etude in Calcutta

Mrs. Mascagni Turns the Trick

Romantic Career of Michael Kelly: Mozart's Irish-Singer Friend

He Fought His Way to the Top Down Under: How Bernard Thomas Heinze Became Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Pedaling—the Stepchild of Piano Study

Technical Proficiency in Singing (interview with Lucrezia Bori)

Volume 65, Number 05 (May 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Voice of the Village Square

Tribute Dinner to a Great Conductor

Make the Right Start! (interview with Risé Stevens)

Was Music a Gift of Religion?

Beginning the Scale on Each Degree

Technique for the Amateur Pianist

Roy Newman, American Composer (1890-1946)

Master Lesson on Raff's Cavatina

Wonder of Bells

What About the Electric Organ? (interview with Ethel Smith)

Volume 65, Number 04 (April 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eighty Memorable Years

Bringing Delight to Music Study

Singer Faces the World (interview with Maria Jeritza)

God's Apostle of Music Dr. Eben Tourjée, Musical Pioneer: The Story of the Founder of America's First Conservatory of Music as Told by His Nephew

Is Sacred Music Progressing?

My First and Last Lesson with Ignace Jan Paderewski

Musikwiz—True or False?

Arm and Its Relation to the Keyboard (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

Essence of Music Study (interview with Leonard Bernstein)

Volume 65, Number 03 (March 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Lean on Yourself

Master Speaks of the Masters: Isidor Philipp Evokes Great Names of the Past

Sound Vocal Development (interview with Rose Bampton)

New Responsibilities for Musical Groups

How to Read to Music (interview with Frieda Peycke)

Avoid Musical Provincialism

Recognition for Army, Navy, and Marine Musicians

Cello—Virtuosity or Musicianship? (interview with Joseph Schuster)

Selling Music to the General Public

Interpretations in Jazz (interview with Duke Ellington)

Business on the Side: A Philadelphia Business Man Who Organized His Own Symphony Orchestra For the Joy of Conducting Makes Business His Avocation

Technique of Arriving (interview with Rudolph Ganz)

What's the Name, …

Volume 65, Number 02 (February 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mind That Carried Music to Millions (Edison)

My Father and Music

Musical Kleptomaniacs

Basic Purpose of Music Teaching (interview with Maryla Jonas)

Basic Pieces in the Student's Repertoire

Secret of Singing (interview with Christopher Lynch)

Controlling Tempo and Dynamics

Breathing in Relation to Vocal Expression

What Industry Can Do for Music

Hymn Accompaniments

School Music--For All!

Viola

How Management Builds Artists (interview with Frederick C. Schang)

Conducting is an Art (interview with Désiré Defauw)

Volume 65, Number 01 (January 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music's Part in World Peace

Preparation for the Operatic Career (interview with Martial Singher)

Musical Visit with Einstein

Wit and Humor of Musicians, Part 3

Accompanist's Background and Equipment7

Music: Crime Cure?

Opera Revived in the Heart of the 1859 Gold Rush

Handicaps Did Not Stop Them

Master Lesson on the C.P.E. Bach Solfeggieto in C Minor

Stars and Stripes Forever: Sousa's Magnificent March Chosen for the RCA Victor Billionth

Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

So This Is Our Christmas! (editorial)

Musical Dates of the Pre-Christian Period

Christmas Crib: The World-wide Adoption of the Holy Scene in the Manger

Secret of Song Speech (interview with Conrad Thibault)

Story of Christmas: As Told by the Titles of Christmas Carols and Songs

Wit and Humor of Musicians (Part Two)

What Hotels Mean to Music

Music Study Promotes Happy Homes: A Psychologist Discovers Notable Facts

Fiddler in the Sky

Spinet Rules in the 1947 Piano Field (Pictures)

Unknown Liszt Portrait

Volume 64, Number 11 (November 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Artistic Temperament

H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Becomes a Bachelor of Music

Music Rhythms Affect Brain Rhythms

How Peace Came to Zdeborice

How Melodies Come (interview with Oscar Straus)

What is American Music

Wit and Humor of Musicians

Piano Fundamentals

And So to Music: A Delightfully Quaint and Picturesque Glimpse of Music in England in the Seventeenth Century as Seen Through the Eyes of Samuel Pepys

Developing Technique (interview with Simon Barere)

Flowers of Puerto Rico

Americans Spend Billions for Music

Cellist Looks Ahead (interview with Edmund Kurtz)

. . . Right Good Partners, Too (Gilbert & Sullivan)

Volume 64, Number 10 (October 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Wanted—a Million Pianos

Music's Significant Place in Modern Life (interview with Harry S. Truman)

How I Taught Alec Templeton (interview with Margaret Humphrey)

Humor in Music (interview with Alec Templeton)

Stars and Stripes Forever Around the World

Bland Memorial Dedicated: Negro Minstrel Who Wrote Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Honored by Governor William M. Tuck and Virginians

Significance of the Bland Memorial

Important Announcement

Piano Student's Problem of Memorizing

Volume 64, Number 09 (September 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Riots

How to Improve Your Sight Reading

Personal History in Music (interview with Vincent Sheean)

New Keys to Practice (VIII)

Effect of Music on History

Dressing for the Concert Stage (interview with Vyvyan Donner)

As in a Mirror

Report to the Nation (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

Yehudi Menuhin's Magic Bow

Publishing a Popular Song (interview with Helmy Kresa)

Overcoming Piano Difficulties by Exaggeration

What Is the Outlook for a One-Armed Pianist? (interview with Paul Wittgenstein)

Competitions

Volume 64, Number 08 (August 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Need for Leadership

Was Wagner Influenced by Schubert?

My Life With Music (interview with Helen Hayes)

Hints on the Organ Recital

Making Discarded Music Useful

Why Not Enjoy Elizabethan Keyboard Music?

Do You Want to Become a Radio Singer? (interview with Reinhold Schmidt)

Tune Up, Neighbors!

Technic—Basic Need for Good Playing: A Stimulating Factor in Velocity Work

Every Music Lesson is Expandable

Start Singing. Wherever You Are! (interview with Donald Dame)

Military Polonaise of Frédéric Chopin, A Master Lesson

Sight Reading

Volume 64, Number 07 (July 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Raising the Music Teacher's Income

Claque in Grand Opera: From Looking for a Bluebird

Prepare for Good Luck! (interview with Eleanor Steber)

Basic Foundations of a Permanent Technique: Oft Neglected Phases of Piano Study of Real Significance to All Students and Teachers

Too Late for What?: A Guide to Adults Who Don't Expect to Make Carnegie Hall, But Who Can Get Lots of Fun From Their Playing

Knight of Music

Do You Want to Arrange Music for Radio? (interview with Percy Faith)

Changing Values in Harmony

Operatic Side of Shakespeare

Volume 64, Number 06 (June 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Does Music Develop Character?

Practical Program Idea

Helping Pupils to Create

Review Music Book

New Keys to Practice

Preparation for Potsdam (interview with Eugene List)

Dramatic Last Hours of Mozart

University Training for Motion Picture Musicians

Amazing Tour of Jenny Lind

Battistini, the Incomparable Master of Bel Canto

Well, I Do Declare!: Musical Instruments throughout the World (Section 6)

Musicians in World War II (interview with Yehudi Menuhin)

Sing, Ye Citizens! (interview with Herbert Huffman)

Volume 64, Number 05 (May 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Your Soul

Musicians and Digestion: Physical Influences on the Efficiency of Composers, Musicians, and Singers

Music Brings New Joy to Life and Work: Planned Music Service, in Ever-Expanding Measure, is Revolutionizing Condition in Offices, Banks, Factories, and Public Places (interview with Harry E. Houghton)

Look Into Your Piano

Play the Cello and Look Pretty

Servants of the Muses: Ten Great Musical Educators

Control of the Voice (interview with Lansing Hatfield)

Magic of Sound: Sound, Which is Necessary to Life, Can Be Constructive or Destructive; Scientists Are Now Working on its Beneficial Effects

New Thoughts on Voice Care (interview …

Volume 64, Number 04 (April 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Finding the Right Place

Sustaining the Pupil's Interest

Paper Shortage—Our Joint Problem

Before There Was a Copyright

Little Touch of God's Finger (interview with Lauritz Melchior)

Three Contemporary English Composers (William Walton, Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten)

Pietro Mascagni—A Tragic Figure?

Pink Slips, Prizes, and Perfection

Know Your Instrument! (interview with Egon Petri)

Servants of the Ideal: Ten Great Educators

Negro Spiritual: A Lively Leaven in the American Way of Life

Claude Debussy as a Music Critic

What the Audience Should Give to an Artist (interview with Mme. Mana-Zucca)

Volume 64, Number 03 (March 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Quality of Great Music

How Opera Hit G.I. Joe

Want to Be a Band Leader?

Teaching Music Means Teaching Taste (interview with Robert Casadesus)

What About That Song You Have Written? (interview with Helmy Kresa)

Rhythmic Background of the Orchestra (interview with David Grupp)

Band Questions Answered

What of the Shrines of Yesteryear?: Weimar, Home of the Great Franz Liszt

Latin-American Music in the United States

Notable Friend of Music (interview with Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)

This Business of Conducting

Volume 64, Number 02 (February 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Greatest Teacher in the World

Etude Spring Festival of Music

Three Ravels: Personal Souvenirs of the Great French Composer

Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (Part 2) (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)

Harp in College and University Training

Potentates as Musicians

New Radio Shows Feature Younger Artists

Etude Music Lover's Bookshelf

Teacher's Round Table

Well, I Do Declare!: Musical Instruments Throughout the World (Section 2)

Teaching the Singer to Become an Interpretative Artist (interview with Lotte Lehman)

Louis-Hector Berlioz' Picturesque Memoirs

Perfecting Piano Technique (interview with Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson)

Volume 64, Number 01 (January 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Year Opportunity

New Keys to Practice

Don't Be Dowdy!

Short Digest in Scale Practice

Philosophy of Vocal Study (interview with Maggie Teyte)

Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)

Paying Our Debt to America (interview with Henry H. Reichhold)

Good and Bad Punctuation in Phrasing

Reform in Music Teaching (interview with Heitor Villa-Lobos)

Worth Your Weight: Common Sense in Weight Playing

Parent-Teacher Groups for Music Studios

Developing the Staff Pianist for Radio (interview with H. Leopold Spitalny)

Volume 63, Number 11 (November 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Three Centuries of Thanksgiving

Magic of Melody

Making the Met: Which is 1945 Slang for Securing an Opportunity to Appear as Soloist at the Metropolitan Opera House with the Opera Company of the Metropolitan Opera Association (interview with Edward Johnson)

Principles I Learned from Tobias Mathay (interview with Ray Lev)

Music Teacher's Day in a Boom Town

Class Teaching in Applied Music

Overcoming the Handicaps of the Adult Piano Beginner

Who Should Play the Harp? (interview with Edward Vito)

Volume 63, Number 10 (October 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Concert in Berlin

Mendelssohn's Religious Faith

Modern Device for Teaching the Scales

Music Down Under: Many Surprises in Musical Activity in Australia

Wine of Islam: Coffee, Coffee Houses, and Music

There's a Future in Radio, IF

Britain Produces New Operatic Success

Piano Never Talks Back

What Do You Know About the Symphony Orchestra?: A Practical Quiz for Classes and Clubs

Technic of Music Listening: Channels Through Which the Fine Art Reaches the Emotions

What! Not Able to Read Music?

Choral Art for America (interview with Robert Shaw)

Volume 63, Number 09 (September 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Make It Clear

Distinguished American Guitarist Celebrates Eighty-fifth Birthday

As to Music Appreciation

Our Musical Good Neighbor, Brazil (interview with Olga Coelho)

From a Studio Window: Observations Based on Thirty Years of Teaching at Illinois Conservatory of Music, Mount Holyoke College, and Northfield School for Girls

Musical Advance in China (Part Two)

Superstitious Musicians

The Greeks and Musical Therapeutics: On Their Use of Music to Curb the Passions, Improve the Complexion, and Cure Diseases

The Background of Background Music: How NBC's Experts Fit Music to the Mood and Action of Dramatic Shows

What's Wrong With Our Concert Halls?

Does Music …

Volume 63, Number 08 (August 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Good is Art?

Here Comes the Band

Have You Met Her?

Art of Duo Singing (interview the Victoria Anderson and Viola Morris)

Beethoven's Martinet Teacher

Let's Clarify Music Teaching! (interview with Leo Reisman)

Mr. Piano Writes His Autobiography

Building an Orchestra (interview with Karl Krueger)

Place of Music in Military Hospitals: With Particular Reference to Its Use During Convalescence and Reconditioning of Men with Wartime Injuries

Things Some Teachers Ought to Know

Adult Beginners Want to Learn

Music in New China

Volume 63, Number 07 (July 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Great American Musical Ideal: The Splendid Record of The Edward MacDowell Association at Peterborough, New Hampshire, in Fostering the Productions of Representative American Creative Workers

Hawaii's Other Music

Chopin As a Teacher of Pianoforte: The Great Master Taught Regularly Four and Five Hours Daily

Teague Designed Piano for the White House

Helpful Exercises for the Pianist's Hand

Making Practice a Game: Did You Ever Try to Teach a Child Before It was Five Years of Age?

Hints for the Young Conductor (interview with Frank J. Black)

When Artistic Lightning Strikes: A Feuilleton Upon Genius and Artistic Temperament by One Who …

Volume 63, Number 06 (June 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Supreme Service of Music

Spectacular Meyerbeer

Childhood in Valhalla (interview with Friedelind Wagner)

Four Ways to Save Waste Paper

Governor Dewey Hails Music

Secret of Leschetizky

Beginning, Middle, and Ending: A Fundamental Art Principle Which, if Universal, Will Assist in Giving Balance and Climax to Your Interpretations

Relax!—Then What?

You're Not Too Old to Play the Piano

Music in the Post-War Curriculum

America's Musical Yesterday

Be Your Own Guide! (interview with Dorothy Kirsten)