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Volume 60, Number 12 (December 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Operatic Proving Grounds

Star Eternal—Poem

Interesting Problems in Music Making (interview with Bronislaw Huberman)

Thrilling Possibilities of the Amateur Orchestra (interview with Leopold Stokowski)

Discrimination at the Keyboard (interview with Alec Templeton)

Twas the Night Before Christmas—Notograph

Lullaby. A Requested Editorial Disquisition

How Scales and Arpeggios Help Sight Reading

World's War Call for Music: Striking Contrast Between the Songs of Totalitarianism and the Songs of Freedom

Essentials of Vocal Art (interview with Emilio de Gogorza)

Christmas Carol Broadsides: When Christmas Song Sheets Were Hawked in the Streets

Have You Piano Hands?

Music Masters Memorialized by the Mails

Technic of the …

Volume 60, Number 11 (November 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Church and Chancel

New American Symphonist

Duty—Honor—Country: A Story of Music at West Point—Its Great Choir—Its Grand Organ—Its Famous Band

Our Nervous Pupils

In Everything Give Thanks: Thanksgiving 1942

Making Practice Painless

Background for Opera (interview with Bruno Walter)

Profitable Piano Practice (interview with Edward Kilenyi)

Challenge for Younger Organists

Keyboard Mechanics from a Virtuoso's Standpoint (interview with José Iturbi)

How to Improve Orchestral Playing (interview with Frank J. Black)

Nine Brothers Make a Choir

Amusing Musical Episodes

Progress with the Boy Choir

How Analysis Helps Piano Study

Master Lesson on Chopin's Prelude in A Major

Technic …

Volume 60, Number 10 (October 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Education in Advertising

Campus Glee Clubs Promote Morale

Music Marches with Uncle Sam (interview with Emanuel Feuermann)

America's Needs in Opera (interview with Giovanni Martinelli)

Life with a Musical Father: How a Genius Cared for the Training of His Children (interview with Suzanne Bloch)

Ancient Music and Dance in Modern Ceylon

Opera, War, and Wagner: How Much did Wagner Influence Hitler's War?

Daily Music Hours Popular at a Great University: Students Demand Good Music Three Times a Day

Fast Five Fingers

Goals in Music Study (interview with Francisco Mignone)

Yes, Music Can Begin at Forty: Start To-Day and You May …

Volume 60, Number 09 (September 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Selling Your Musical Ability

Our Young Musical Army

President John Quincy Adams' Picturesque Musical Impressions: A Quaint and Highly Pituresque Outlook of the Sixth President of the United States Upon Music in the Early Years of the Past Century

How Chopin Really Looked: Only Photograph Come to Light

Successful Singing (interview with Vivian della Chiesa)

Woods Used in Musical Instruments

Music in Switzerland

Profitable Musical Calling of Women: A Condition Which Should Open a Large, Well-Paid Field for Trained Musical Workers

Oldest Music Store in America

Rapid Sight Playing: A Practical Method to Produce Quick Results

Disney's New Musical Picture …

Volume 60, Number 08 (August 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Right Kind of Relaxation

Climbing to Musical Success

Music, Morale, and Elsa Maxwell

Amazing Garcias, Part 2

Creative Technic for the Pianist (interview with Claudio Arrau)

Forgotten Swiss Opera is Revived

Forward March with Music

Black Key Rote Playing Prior to Sight Reading: A New Teaching Device Found Fascinating to Little Ones

Why and When Do Teachers Really Fail?

Rhythm of the Malaguena

Music for Defense

Paganini, Champion of Restlessness

Maladjusted Child in Music Instruction: Can the Abnormal Child Be Brought Back to Normalcy Through Music?

Strauss Waltzes Give a Ball for the Instruments of the Orchestra

Enlisting Music for …

Volume 60, Number 07 (July 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music—A Prime Wartime Necessity!

When Opportunity Knocks

Music for the Fun of It (interview with Elizabeth Mitchell)

William M. Felton, Obituary

Antidote for Worry

Human Metronome

Sixty Years Among the Masters (interview with Alexander Gretchaninoff)

Allez-Oop! Circus Music Goes Classical, Including Interviews with Merle Evans, Circus Super-Bandmaster, and the Well Known American Operatic Baritone, Robert Ringling, Mus. Doc.

Magic Metal: Romantic Traditions of the Bells

Simplified Clef Reading

Sidelights on the Scale: The Modern Scale Fingering

How to Facilitate the Acquisition of Technic

Music Unites the Americas: A Review of a Memorable Musical Educational Congress

Don’t's in Stage Comportment

War …

Volume 60, Number 06 (June 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dated Music

Much of the Extremely Unpleasant Music We Hear These Days Under the Alias of 'Modern' Should be Referred to the Narcotic Board for Investigation . . .

Our President Speaks for Music

Making Opera Democratic (interview with Mrs. August Belmont)

Philharmonic Distinguishes Youth

Hoot Mon! the Pipers Are Comin': All About Pipes, Pipers and Piping

Hey Day of Brahms and Schumann

Musical Saga of Samoa

More Music, More Defense: How Amplified Music is Stepping Up Defense Products

Notable Domestic Musical Triumph in the Far Northwest

Nasal Tone

Counterpoint in Plain Language: Part 1: Gentlemen, Old Bach is Here! …

Volume 60, Number 05 (May 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Results

Musical Reciprocity

Four Score—and Then! (interview with Walter Damrosch)

Sing It Again!: Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!—The Romance of a Great American Patriotic Hymn

Twenty-five Busy Women Keep Up Their Music: Farmingham Housewive Find New Interest in the Art

Striking New Concert Gowns of Leading Singers, to Say Nothing of a Noted Harpist

Comedy in Grand Opera (interview with Salvatore Baccaloni)

Acquiring Skill in the Reading of Music

Inter-American Music Week for 1942

Care of Music

Thomas Britton the Small-Coal Man

What About that Whole Tone Scale?

General Tubman, Composer of Spirituals: An Amazing Figure in American Folk Music

Highlights …

Volume 60, Number 04 (April 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music a Permanent Art

Sir Thomas Beecham Has His Say: A Striking Feuilleton Upon England's Distinguished Orchestral Conductor

Shepherds' Pipes for Modern Players

Easter, the Alleluja Season

Bombs, Bands and Bonds: Los Angeles County Band Sells Thousands of Dollars Worth a Day

Rhythm Must Be Felt: Learn the Secrets of Rhythm by Tapping It

Handel's Messiah Two Centuries Old: A Colorful Picture of the Development of the World's Most Famous Oratorios

Jánossys and Johnsons

Look Your Best to Capture Public Favor: Crank Up Your Curls and Exercise Off the Bulge if You Would Succeed with the Public

Save the Child …

Volume 60, Number 03 (March 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Proud to Be a Go-Between

Forward March with Music!

Highlights in the Art of Teaching the Piano

Practical Steps Toward Better Singing (interview with Emma Otero)

Dedicated to _______

How I Became an Opera Conductor (interview with Edwin McArthur)

Returning to Vocal Fundamentals

Cultural Value of Magazines in America: The Report of an Exhaustic Scientific Survey Conducted by Purdue University and Directed by Dr. H.H. Remmers and Dr. W.A. Kerr

Recognition for the Composer

Dear Harp of My Country: Tom Moore the Irish Minstrel

Have You a Song in Your Heart?

Outstanding Achievements of Negro Composers

Try It in Your …

Volume 60, Number 02 (February 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On the American Plan

Why They Succeeded

They Fiddle for Fun

Adventures in Music (interview with Ethel Barrymore)

Forward March with Music—Symposium

How to Improve Vocal Culture (interview with Kerstin Thorborg)

Marimbas to the Front

Amusing Musical Episodes

Intimate Visit to the Home of Ignace Jan Paderewski

Making Musicians in the Schools

Music: a Life Ideal in War-torn Russia

How to Transpose and Modulate

Fascinating Art of Practicing

Technic of the Month—Repeated Chords with Arpeggios (to be used with Czerny, Opus 335, No. 40)

Stolz Repudiates Hitlerism

What the Great Masters Thought of the Mandolin and Guitar

Birth of Sweet …

Volume 60, Number 01 (January 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

She Delivers the Goods

Friendship and the New Year: Delightful Musical Notographs

Music Through the Year

What Music Means to Helen Keller

How Many Music Teachers Have We?

Metronome Accents

Building Vocal Surety (interview with Stella Roman)

Stage Fright Need Not Be a Bogie! (interview with Louis E. Bisch)

Fortunes in Melody: The Composer Comes Out of the Attic—If You Hit it Right the World is Yours

Busy Piano Teacher's Multum in Parvo

Position of Teacher

Minute Check-ups

Amusing Musical Episodes

Everlasting Fifths: A Matter of Notable Interest to Musicians

Music: A Life Ideal in War-torn Russia

Roger Giles, Surgin, …

Volume 59, Number 12 (December 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Metropolitan Star

World Hope, Poem

Music Should Speak from the Heart (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

How Music Has Helped in My Life (interview with Lionel Barrymore)

Yes, We Have Music in Hawaii

Historic Musical Friendship: Haydn and Mozart in Their Personal Relations

Defense Worker's Magnificent Musical Opportunity: An Editorial

Preparedness Leads to Success (interview with Frederick Jagel)

Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 4

Christmas Music Through the Ages

Facing Your Audience

Substitute for the Missed Lesson

Memorizing Plan That Works

Unifying Piano Study (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)

Technic of the Month—Legato Chords (Czerny, Opus 335, No. 28)

Volume 59, Number 11 (November 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Town Hall Hallmark

Psalm of Thanksgiving

Revival of the Ancient Recorder (interview with Irmgard Lehrer)

Music Versus Professionalism (interview with Raymond Gram Swing)

Music Teachers Honor Memory of Theodore Presser

Vocal Problems and Breath Technic (interview with Margit Bokor)

New Instrument Opportunities for Piano Teachers

Some Things I Have Learned from Teaching (interview with Harold Bauer)

Intimate Tribute to Paderewski

My Teacher is a Lady—

Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 3

From the Largest Prison in the World

Do Not Spend Too Long a Time on One Piece

She Studied with Liszt: Including an Authentic List of the Pupils of Liszt …

Volume 59, Number 10 (October 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

School Music Broadcasts Everywhere

Musical Pharmacopoeia

Our Musical Good Neighbor Policy (interview with Elsie Houston)

Music As a Life Asset (interview with John A. Warner)

Complications in the Music of Richard Strauss (interview with Rose Pauly)

Musical Life in Cairo (interview with Harry Mayer)

Better Results in Choral Group Work (interview with Irving Landau)

How to Get Up a Musical Paper

Your Private Box at the Opera

Why I Left My Teacher

Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 2

Mastering Mixed Rhythms

Music Study Now a Great National Asset: What Music Does to Your Character and How It Does It

Air by …

Volume 59, Number 09 (September 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music at Bryn Mawr

Putting Assets to Work

Will Beethoven Stop Hitler?

My Most Momentous Musical Moment

Not as Written

Leader of the Famous Six (interview with Darius Milhaud)

Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 1

Musical Independence for America (interview with Rudolph Ganz)

Wanted Immediately: An Army of Musical Enthusiasts

Poise at the Piano

Great Musical Women of Yesterday

Putting Songs Across the Footlights (interview with Nino Martini)

Technic of the Month—Sixths

Volume 59, Number 08 (August 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Youth Overcomes a Handicap

Subconscious Musical Education

Thomas Jefferson's Life-Long Love of Music

Qualities a Pianist Must Possess (interview with Artur Schnabel)

Symphony of the Sawdust: Thirty Years with a Circus Band (interview with Merle Evans)

Music That Little Folks Like: A Word to Composers

Coaching for Opera (interview with Wilfred Pelletier)

John Philip Sousa As an Author: The Famous Bandmaster-Composer Wrote Five Books Which Had a Large Sale

Ignace Jan Paderewski, 1860-1941

Father of the Viennese Operetta: Franz von Suppé and the Viennese Operettists

Technic of the Month—Simple Broken Chord Passages

Volume 59, Number 07 (July 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the World's Great Hour

National Defense Demands Music

Music the Navy Needs (interview with Lt. Charles Benter)

Boy—the Piano—The Spirit of the Game

New England Idyl

Modest Moussorgsky's Last Hours (Short Pages from Family Memoirs)

Golden Jubilee Banquet

Finding Opportunity on the Concert Stage (interview with S. Hurok)

Army Song Book Makes Its Bow

Music in Britain's War (interview with Betty Humby)

Will the Orchestra Be Modernized? Introducting a Conference with the Late Emanuel Moore, Inventor of the Double Keyboard Piano

Technic of the Month—Thirds in Five Finger Groups

Volume 59, Number 06 (June 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Economics of Piano Study

Music As a Social Force

Problems of the Advanced Piano Student (interview with Artur Rubinstein)

Teaching the Teens

Musical Development in the Philippines

How Fast Shall I Play It? The Rhythms and Speeed of the Classics

What theLittle Mother Did: In Which the Great American Baritone Tells Why Students of Singing Should Study the Piano

You Can’t Get Away from It!

Making Practice Profitable (interview with Mischa Elman)

Morning Music and What It Meant: Some Ineresting Known Facts About Ancient Concerts and Their Givers

Four Strong Foundations: The Importance of Proper Hand, Wrist, Arm and Forearm …

Volume 59, Number 05 (May 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Money Cannot Buy It

Men, Women and Song

Approaching an Operatic Role (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Our Friends, the Music Critics (interview with Alberto Jonás)

Making Sure of Your Song

Creators of a Famous Song

Let's Make it a 'Tiptoe' Study

Help for the Poor Sight Reader

Rather, Frances Taylor

Silent Practice: An Aid to the Soft Accompaniment Touch

Sidney Lanier: Poet, Man and Musician

Why Was Leschetizky Great? The Gist of the Methods of the Famous Viennese Pedagog Who Brought More Eminent Pupils than any Other Teacher Since Liszt

How to Get Children to Practice

Music to the Front …

Volume 59, Number 04 (April 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Finnish Fighter

Blow! Joshua! Blow!

Economizing Energy at the Keyboard (interview with Ruth Slenczynski)

Music in Peru, the Land of the Incas

Learning How to Compose

I Saw Musical Vienna Fall (interview with Robert Stolz)

What Really Is Modern Music?

Musical Films

Schubert Again Enters the Films

Go Back to the Piano! A Lively Article from a Sensible Mother Who Found Her Own Way Back

Acquiring a Light Thumb

Outer and the Inner Ear

Queer One Tone Music of the Lapps

Piano Practice as a Game

Learning How to Act in Opera (interview with Leopold Sachse)

Music in War-Torn Greece …

Volume 59, Number 03 (March 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Country Music Goes to Town

How Do They Do It?

Jazz—the Music of Exile: An English Opinion Which Credits the Jewish Race as Well as the Negro Race with American Jazz

Why Al Smith Likes Music: The Musical Credo of a Striking Individualist

Battle of Music

ASCAP's Reply to its Critics

Famous Composers Rally to ASCAP

Strength of Fingers, Strength of Thought (interview with Rudolf Serkin)

Art and Life in Indian Music (interview with Ish-ti-Opi)

New Dress Every Day

How to Make the Melody Speak

Teaching Tone Quality

My Country's Music—'Tis of Thee!

Master Lesson on Bach's Fantasie in C …

Volume 59, Number 02 (February 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Star Enters Her 'Teens

Morning at Valley Forge

Lord Byron in Romantic Music

Reaching Your Goal at the Keyboard (interview with Percy Grainger)

Earlier God Bless America

Singing Success without Money or Manager

Brahms' Prickly Pet

Language of the Composer (interview with Béla Bartók)

Musical Ear

Lure for the Musical Child

Origin of The Star-Spangled Banner

Practical Hints for Training the Conductor (interview with Nicholai Malko)

Pirating Parnassus: Tune Borrowing in Tin Pan Alley

Technic of the Month—More Invaluable Czerny Studies

Volume 59, Number 01 (January 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Blessings in Their Train

Art of Piano Ensemble (interview with Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff)

Gettting a Song Published

Our Musical Beginnings in the Southwest

America's Musical Bank

Proper Care of the Piano

Success Can Be Won Without Money (interview with John Charles Thomas)

Golden Wedding Anniversary at The Presser Home

Only Ladies' Bagpipe Band in America

How John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Practices

How I Prepare a Radio Program (interview with André Kostelanetz)

Piano Ensembles Attract Fine Attention

Soft Pedal Problem

How Music Helped Me to Avoid the Asylum

Better Sight Reading

Musical Travelogues of Latin-America

Cradle of Composers: What …

Volume 58, Number 12 (December 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Promissory Notes

Light That Shineth in Darkness

Carols for the Feast of Christmas

Music as an Avocation (interview with Mrs. Vincent Astor)

Bill of Musical Rights

Christmas Music in the Little Town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Unusual Customs in the Bustling Industrial City that Make Music a Religion, and Religion, Music

Radio Staff Pianist: What It Takes, and What He Makes

What Is Behind the Popular Song (interview with Eddie Cantor)

For Unto Us a Child Is Born: The Story of Handel's The Messiah

Musician Decorates for Christmas

Christ Reigns To-Day: A Hymn of Christian Faith

Quick Work! Remarkable Feats in …

Volume 58, Number 11 (November 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Scoring a Success

Middle Years

Great Painters and the Art of Music

Practicing on a Mental Keyboard

Vocal Training from a Famous Master (interview with Zinka Milanov)

What the Pianist of Tomorrow Must Possess (interview with Sigismond Stojowski)

Mystery of Sound Effects in the Radio Studio

Christmas Piano and the Nineteenth Hole

Clear and Distinct Piano Playing

Demand for Unusual Song Programs (interview with Eva Gauthier)

Radio Help Music Pronunciation

Practical Antidotes for Stage Fright

Master Lesson—Bird As Prophet, Op. 82, No. 7 by Robert Schumann

Mauro Giuliani

Why Copying of Copyrighted Music by Hand or Otherwise is Illegal

Volume 58, Number 10 (October 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Neighbor Policy

Armies of Singing Men

Take Time to Take Time

Good Singing is Natural (interview with Jussi Bjoerling)

Romance in Songs

How Ferruccio Busoni Taught (interview with Egon Petri)

Who Wrote That?

Basis of Violin Playing Today

What Shall I Sing? (interview with Eva Gauthier)

Getting a Start in a Small Town

Dissecting the Chromatic Scale

Dr. E.E. Hipsher Retires

Helps Toward Sight Reading

Sign That Paid

Getting Laughter Through Music: An Important Description of Works in Which Composers Have Stiven to Make Fun with Tones

Volume 58, Number 09 (September 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Permanent Wealth in Music Study

Conservatory in the Home

Opportunities for Opera Singers (interview with Edward Johnson)

Great Bells and Little Bells: A Story of Carillons

Requirements of Rhythm Playing (interview with Fred Waring)

Contralto of the String Family (interview with Emanuel Feuermann)

Kings of the Keyboard—Liszt and Rubinstein: A Vivid Picture of Great Moments in Late Victorian Days

Make Progress by Making Friends

Story of the Mystic Stick: The Part Played by the Baton in Musical History

Rotary Exercises Develop Piano Playing

Greatest of the Garcias: The Romance of Maria Malibran—The Great Prima Donna to Visit America

How to …

Volume 58, Number 08 (August 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Significant Musical Advance

Music and the World's Great Hour

Part Work and Part Play

Mental Approach to Singing (interview with Jessica Dragonette)

Music All Around the Fair

Story Book Recital

Hill Billy and River Songs at Their Source: Notes of an Active Collector in Discovering American Folk Songs

Music Can Work Miracles: Why Singing in the Bath tub is Good for Your Ego

Protecting Your Piano Investment: Milions and Millions of Dollars are Invested in Pianos in America, Yet Few Know How to Protect Their Instruments

Sound Track of Yesterday and Today

Miraculous Case of Blind Tom: The Enigma of …

Volume 58, Number 07 (July 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Champions

America's Pioneer A Cappella Choir of Youth

Music of the Walt Disney Cartoons (interview with Paul J. Smith)

Operatic Nomads in Opera Land: Do You Want to Sing in Opera in Italy? Here is How They Begin

Aeolian Harp—and How to Make It

Was Herbert Spencer Right?

Polka Again

Love of Music and How It Is Cultivated

First American Pianist: A New Orleans Prodigy—First American to Appear in European Concerts

Fate Was Their Fortune: How Destiny Remade The Lives of Famous Musicians

Napoleon Helps a Yankee Town

Their Toughest Spot: Getting the Right Start

Behind the Scenes in Radio …