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Volume 58, Number 06 (June 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sure Fiddler at Seventeen

Agreeable Succession of Sounds

Road of Glory: A Spiritual Pageant in the Deep South That Rivals Green Pastures

Your Community Should Have a Public Music Library (interview with Dorothy Lawton)

Truth About the Mysterious Death of Peter Ilyich Tsychaikowsky

Invitation to Mr. Paderewski's Eightieth Birthday Party: A Birthday Cake with a Million Candles

Beethoven, the Eccentric

William C. Steere of Worcester, Massachusetts

Teaching Phrasing Through Rests

Stamp of Approval

Toscanini, Man and Legend

What Good Is the Middle Pedal?

Sumer Is I-Cumen In: How a Teacher Solved the Problem of Keeping Busy Through the Summer, by …

Volume 58, Number 05 (May 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Youth Cries, Wake Up America!

New Thing Came and They Would Not See

New Insights to the Mastery of Debussy: Three Striking Period Pictures

Breaking into Radio

Mr. Bach of 1940

Composers and Their Mothers

German Masters

Our Musical Presidents

How to Make Pupils' Recitals Fascinating: Stage Etiquette for Every Performing Musician

When Music is King: A Week When a Nation Turns Musical

Odyssey of Oscar Levant (interview with Levant, Oscar)

Volume 58, Number 04 (April 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Folk Songs

Time and Tune

Music Educators Constantly Progressing

Don't Fear Your Limitations (interview with Jarmila Novotná)

When J.P. Morgan Sang

By the Beautiful Blue Danube: The Story of the Most Popular Waltz Ever Written)

Amusing Musical Episodes

Renaissance of A Cappella Singing (interview with Baroness Georg Von Trapp)

Mr. Mathews' Treasure Box: How a Famous American Music Educator Preserved Musical Facts

How to Capitalize Music Memory

Using Imagination in Teaching

Musical Askit Baskit

Gaining Keyboard Velocity Through Touch Control

Liszt, the Patron Saint of Music

Volume 58, Number 03 (March 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cultural Olympics

Relief Through Change

Down to Mexico: The Picturesque Music of Our Sister Republic on the South

Heart of the Blues (interview with W.C. Handy)

Accompanists are Born, Not Made (interview with Coenrad V. Bos)

Irishman the Grandfather of Russian Music: The Singular Story of John Field, Pianist and Composer

Family Musical Museum: A Remarkable Swiss Group Which Has Attracted Wide Attention

How Much Musical Talent Has My Child? A Musical Intelligence Test for Children Which Any Musical Mother May Give at Home

Music—An Avocation for Men: A Soldier Talks to Boys About Men and Music

How the Oratorio …

Volume 58, Number 02 (February 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Debutante: How a Youthful Prima Donna Triumphed at Thirteen

Keystone of Our Nation

Ageless Tunes: Why Victor Herbert's Melodies Never Became Chestnuts

There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding: The Story of a Song that Earned Three Million Dollars (interviewh with Zo Elliott)

Amusing Musical Episodes

Discovering the Riches in Old Music (interview with Wanda Landowska)

Social Art: Eight Hands—Forty Fingers

Medallions of Russian Masters of Yesteryear (interview with Plotnikoff, Eugene)

How to Get and to Hold Pupils

Harpist and His Problems (interview with Marcel Grandjany)

Master Lesson—Chopin's Mazurka, Op. 24, No. 4 in B-flat Minor

Volume 58, Number 01 (January 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Have You Youth Concerts in Your Community?

Music and the Dawn of a New Day

Making of a Name (interview with Arthur Judson)

Wartime Musical London, Paris and Brussels

Begin the Year with Music

Creating a Character in Opera (interview with Friedrich Schorr)

Dreams of Old Musical Vienna: How Musical History Was Made Over Cups of Coffee

Musical Triumphs in Motion Pictures: A History of the Art, from Jazz Singer to Today1

Current Films with Worth While Music

Making Five Finger Piano Technic Vital: A Highly Instructive Article for Younger Teachers

Training the Hands for Definite Goals

Why Not a …

Volume 57, Number 12 (December 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Secret of a Merry Christmas

What the World War Did for Music in Europe (interview with Granville Bantock)

Mistaken Idea

Amaryllis and Louis XIII

Dr. Damrosch on Musical Tolerance

Night Before Christmas. A Musical Playlet

Let Us Give the Piece a Rub

Pencil

Story of Major Bowes and His Amateur Hour: A Million Dollar Idea Carried Out by a Million Dollar Personality

How to Make Money by Teaching the Piano, Part 3

Billings' Best

Old Familiar Carols Game

Music Is My Hobby!: The Engaging Story of How Successful Business and Professional Men and Women Avoid Life Monotony and Insure Against …

Volume 57, Number 11 (November 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Heredity and Music

Success in Voice Study (interview with Nelson Eddy)

Radio Flashes

Practical Aids in Getting Pupils

Composing for the Radio

ASCAP's Giant Music Festival

Do You Know?

How I Mastered Eighty Piano Concertos (interview with Henrietta Schumann)

Helpful Pedal Exercises

Who Wrote America?

Short Cuts in Piano Technic: Valuable Ideas Derived from a Study of the Keyboard Philosophy of Tausig, Deppe, and de Pachmann

Music for the Pre-School Child

Fatigue Hour

Success for the Young Musician (interview with Jan Smeterlin)

Encouragement Versus Criticism

Make Your Practice Period Profitable

Use and Misuse of the Metronome

Music As an Anaesthetic …

Volume 57, Number 10 (October 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music, Now, More Than Ever

Youth and Music Disciline

How People Are Swayed by Song (interview with Mark Sullivan)

Shall We Educate the Parents?

Increasing the Attendance at Pupils' Recitals

Time, Only, Tells (interview with Paul Hindemith)

Tradegy of a Deaf Musician: The Dramatic Fate of Friedrich (Bedrich) Smetana

Some Reflections on Singing (interview with Maria Anderson)

Helpful Octaves

How to Make Money by Teaching the Piano

Musical Viking: New Vistas of the Life of Edvard Grieg

Magnificent Musical Undertaking

How to Make Polyphonic Playing Interesting: Practical Doorways to the Art of Performing Interwoven Melodies

Hungarian Dance, No. 6 by …

Volume 57, Number 09 (September 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Crime Prevention: Better Spend $5000 for a Band Than $50,000 for a Jail

Make Your Pupils' Recitals Fascinating

Getting Acquainted with the Keyboard

Style's the Thing (interview with John Brownlee)

Czerny, Master of Masters

Independent Finger Motion

Schumann Drill

Luring the Child to Love the Piano (interview with Marcele Chéridjian-Charrey)

Painless Review Work

Liszt Trick

Fascination of Two-Piano Playing (interview with Silvio Scionti)

Strange Music Makers

Threshold of Music: Borrowed Chords and Altered Chords

Are You Aiming for the Opera?

Volume 57, Number 08 (August 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musica Pan-America

Music of the Woodland: A Musical Playlet

History of the Marimba

Teaching the Little Tots: The Real Pre-School Age

Mind's Ear

Diversions of the Masters

How to Teach Broken Chords

Couldn't Fool Him on Pitch

Music Makers in Old New England: A Timely Review of Many Quaint Customs

Singers of the Soil: Including the Fascinating Story of Buckwheat or Shaped Notes

Jascha Heifetz Transposed to the Films

Color in Piano Styles

Music's Debt to the Poets

New Experiment with Music in Business

Scherzo from the Sonata in F Minor of Brahms—A Master Lesson

Volume 57, Number 07 (July 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Joy of Singing

Learning to Interpret Great Music (interview with Robert Casadesus)

Radio Flashes

Negro Stephen Foster: The First Published Biography of James A. Bland

New Genius Who Does Not See—Alex Templeton

How to Improve the Child's Reading Ability

Music Circus in Recital: A Program That Will Delight All Youngsters, and Intrigue the Boys

Having Fun with the Ears

Music from a Carpenter's Saw

Music as a Business Man Sees It (interview with Allan Hancock)

Our Insect Musicians

Wrist Lubrication

Abandoned Farms of Music Education

Threshold of Music: Keys That are Related—Sisters and Cousins and Aunts—Natural Laws That Guide the …

Volume 57, Number 06 (June 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Now That Commencement Is Here?

Learning How to Help Yourself (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Yes There is a Musical Market

Radio Flashes

Pianist, Know Your Fingers: A New Approach to Piano Technic

Democracy of Radio (interview with Stephen West)

Mother Goose, Mus. Doc.: A Dramatic Piano Recital

Vital Inner Structure of Music: Is Counterpoint the Dry Bones of the Tone Art?

Some Tuneful Towns in the United States

Astonishing New Instrument

Beethoven's Best Clothes (an Anecdote)

Musical Radical Reforms

Great Master's Principles of Composition: Balakirev's Clear and Practical Ideas Upon Musical Structure

New Lights on Giuseppe Verdi as Seen in …

Volume 57, Number 05 (May 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Quest for Ideals

New York World's Fair Music Festival

Staccato Star

Building and Use of a Vocal Instrument (interview with Kerstin Thorborg)

Bach's Musical Helpmate: A Graphic Picture of Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Notenbüch

World's Largest Carillon: Dedicated to Stephen Foster

My Old Kentucky Home: An Eighty-five Year Old Folk Song and Something of Its History

Threshold of Music: The Art of Musical Voyaging: Modulation

Ten Remarkable Years Before the Mike (interview with Virginia Rea)

Schumann's Hints to Young Musicians

Music Study Means Music Study (interview with Mischa Elman)

Forward March of Music

Volume 57, Number 04 (April 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums! (from Handel's Judas Maccabeus)

Renaissance of the Band (Interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

What Do Bands Mean to America? (interview with Fred A. Holtz)

And the Band Won

New Concepts in Present Day Music (interview with Paul Whiteman)

America's Oldest Civic Band: One Hundred and Ten Years of Activity; and Still Flourishing

Sing With Your Heart (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Recent Record Releases

Tooting a Horn for Fifty Years (interview with B.A. Rolfe)

Eight Years Abroad With a Jazz Band

American Bandmaster Speaks—A Symposium

March of the Grail Knights: From Richard Wagner's Parsifal as …

Volume 57, Number 03 (March 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Quirks

Victor Herbert as I Knew Him: Memories of The Man and His Music

Simplicity as a Background for Art (interview with Guiomar Novaes)

Radio Flashes

Adult Piano Beginner: What Should be Done to Make the Hands Supple (interview with Isidor Philipp)

Hand and the Keyboard

William Mason—An American Master: High Lights in the World's Famous Piano Methods

Good Singing Must be Natural (interview with Bruna Castagna)

Recent Record Releases

Unknown Victor Herbert: Intimate Pictures of the Life of a Widely Loved Composer

Lazy Hand

Scrambling Pupil

Romance of Annie Laurie: The Story Behind One of the Most Famous …

Volume 57, Number 02 (February 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the Arts

Smart Attire for Concert and Recital (interview with Elizabeth Hawes)

Why Music Is the Most Popular of the Fine Arts

Let's Go to the Music Hall: How They Put on the Show in the World's Largest Theater

How to Play Notes

Music's Debt to Shakespeare

Recent Record Releases

Musical Foresight-Hindsight

Mystic Dances of the Far East

Music Elects a Governor

Threshold of Music: Linking Chords into Sentences—And Punctuating Them

Meaning of Musical Ornamentation: The Psychology Behind These Interesting Tonal Decorations in Music

Etude's Courses in Culture

Magnificent New The Mikado in Technicolor: A Cinema Presentation from …

Volume 57, Number 01 (January 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Epic of Attainment

Amazing Musical World of To-day (interview with Walter Gieseking)

Going Through the Book

Moonlight Sonata: Fact, Fiction and Fancy

How to Abolish Fear Before Audiences: The Meaning of Mike-Fright

Men of the Orchestra: A Visit with the Individuals Who Produce the Music (interview with Mishel Piastro)

Spelling of Musical Notation: Musical Orthography Made Clear

Earning a Living Through Singing

Astonishing Invention of Musical Interest

New European Sound Reproducing Invention

Etude in C-sharp Minor by Chopin

Etude's Courses in Culture

Quest for Harmony in Decoration

Forward March of Music

Aids to Sight Reading

Another Use for Reward …

Volume 56, Number 12 (December 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Love (poem)

Her Christmas Piano

What Music Has Done for Me (interview with William Allen White)

Lessons with Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Piano Virtuoso and Conductor: An Apostle of Beauty in Piano Playing

Four Octave Practice Helps

Christmas in Many Lands: A Television Christmas Recital

Lady of the Court of Henry XV (portrait)

Threshold of Music: Natural Laws That Guide the Flow of Chords

What Now for Music Teachers? A Nationwide Symposium: Eminent Members of the Music Teachers' National Association, to be in Convention in Washington During the Present Month, Discuss an Important Subject in Advance

Overcoming a Musical Crisis

Let's …

Volume 56, Number 11 (November 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony a Day

Apprentice Years of a Master (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)

Threshold of Music: A Stormy Seventh—And Some Even More Complex Chords

Awakening of Ebenezer Scrooge: A Playlet in Three Acts Adapted from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Stephen Foster of Tin Pan Alley in Other Days: The Magic Story of America's Most Loved Composer of Folk Songs

What Music in Sing Sing Prison Means in the Lives and Reclamation of Many Inmates

Three Notographs

Madrigals of the Days of Good Queen Bess: Polyphonhic Masterpieces of the Elizabethan Era Formerly Heard by Few But Now Heard by Millions Over …

Volume 56, Number 10 (October 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Maintaining Radio Interest

Conductor and His Orchestra (interview with John Barbirolli)

Hour of Charm: The Most Unusual Girls Orchestra of the Times (interview with Phil Spitalny)

Master as Seen by His Wife (interview with Aino Sibelius)

Threshold of Music: The Most Famous Chord in Music: The Dominant Seventh

Three Notes Against Two

Major John A. Warner: New York State's Notable Musical Police Superindentant

Training the Little Finger

Rhythm for Clearness

Caring for the Vocal Instrument (interview with Giovanni Martinelli)

Practice Is Playing

Some Two Thousand Year Old Wisdom on the Tone Art

Strike the Nail on the Head

Game of …

Volume 56, Number 09 (September 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Marimba Supersedes Xylophone

How Can We Best Serve Our Students (interview with Geraldine Farrar)

About Pieces for Two Pianos: A Discussion of Musical Works Rapidly Rising in Popularity

Hymns in Teaching Harmony

Threshold of Music: When Four Notes Get Together—Seventh Chords

Modern Marimba and Its Relation to the Xyloophone (interview with Yoichi Hiraoka)

Do Not Cast the Old Aside

Chord Twins

Picturesque Prague—Home of Dvorák and Smetana

Transposing by Numbers

What Did Bach Mean: How Each of His Motives Construes a Thought

Hand and the Memory

Mazurka in F-sharp Minor of Chopin

Compactness With Comfort: Everyone Who Wants a Studio …

Volume 56, Number 08 (August 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mass Music and the Masses

Personal Recollections of Anton Rubinstein

Folk Tunes of England

Queen of American Pianists: Some Unpublished Memoirs of Madame Carreño (interview with Elizabeth Sterling)

Art of Ensemble Playing (interview with Adolf Busch)

Threshold of Music: The Seven-Storied House of Chords

Combine the Arts

World's Most Famous Song: The Story of Home, Sweet Home—The Song Immortal

When Your Child Won't Practice: Practical Suggestions to Parents of Children Who are Practice Problems

Yes, Teacher, You Are in Business: A Frank Discussion of the Teacher's Approach to a Clientele

New York Tour Attracts Music Lovers

America Demands Glamour: Edward …

Volume 56, Number 07 (July 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Piano and To-morrow

Passing of a Genius

Carve Out Your Own Career (interview with Ferde Grofé)

Righting the Left Hand

First Eighth Notes

Art Means Preparation (interview with Bidu Sayao)

Fatigue Demon

Radio Flashes

Women in Orchestras: Famous and Brilliant Conductors of the Fair Sex

Relaxation is Mental

Social Dancing and Its Music

Important Practical Helps for the Vocalist (interview with Isidore Luckstone)

Threshold of Music: Triads, and How They are Put Together

Making Two Part Inventions Interesting

Music and Dancing in Siam: Quaint and Curious Arts of a Far Eastern Kingdom

New Attractions Scheduled for Tour: International Music Festival …

Volume 56, Number 06 (June 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Young Lochinvar

Be Ready for Your Opportunity (interview with Eugene Ormandy)

Diatonic or Chromatic?

Operetta and the Sound Film (interview with Jeanette MacDonald)

Developing a Better Staccato Touch

Radio Flashes

Music of Marching Men up to 1865

Piano Parties Are Fun: How to Conduct a Simple Studio or Home Gathering for Music Pupils

Threshold of Music: Triads, and How They are Put Together

Mozart's Great Romance: The Youthful Love Story of a Beloved Master of Music

Making the Glissando Easy

Recent Record Releases

Oldest Authentic Voice Method

Great Music at Popular Prices: How the New Friends of Music Triumphed (interview …

Volume 56, Number 05 (May 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Liszt's Green Gloves

Song of Praise for Grace Before Meals

Goal is Always Music (interview with Yehudi Menuhin)

Operatic Spectacles Two Centuries Ago—Pictorial

Musical Memory: Why, When and Where: How They Memorize at the Paris Conservatoire

Arpeggio Fingerings

How to Start a Prosperous Summer School: How a Teacher in a Small Vermont City Built a Prosperous Summer School Despite the Depression

Making Pupils' Recitals Interesting

Threshold of Music: A Melodic Alphabet—The Major Scale

Forgotten Fingers

In Defense of Mendelssohn

Some Be's for Your Studio Hive

School Accompanist: How th e Piano Teacher May Enrich His Pupil's Experience

Important Steps in …

Volume 56, Number 04 (April 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How Can I Help?

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Composers and Stylists: This Able Composer and Teacher of Chicago, Writes for Those Who Feel the Impulse to Compose

Personal Trip Through Musical Paris

Wagner and the Box Office: A Story of Musical Trends (interview with Artur Bodanzky)

Etude Prize Winners in the Contest Why I Take the Etude

He Never Took Lessons

Interesting Falsetto

O Promise Me

Story of a Great Librettist: Eugene Scribe and the Opera

Threshold of Music: A Melodic Alphabet—The Major Scale

Mr. Maier's Seventy-Five Test Questions

Dressing up the Studio Performance: Suggestion on Costuming, Make-Up, and Photography

Eliminating …

Volume 56, Number 03 (March 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hacks Who Become Masters

Career in Radio: Soprano Soloist of the Critics Service Radio Hour of the National Broadcasting Company (interview with Lucille Manners)

Let Us Have More Piano Duets

Romance of Easter Carols: Music of the Great Restival of the Resurrection

Personal Memory of Ippolitoff-Ivanoff

Story of the Gloria Patri, Glory Be to the Father

Civic Value of a Music Hobby: Justice of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Founder and Conductor of the City Amateur Symphony Orchestra (interview with Leopold Prince)

Student Repertoires

Threshold of Music: The Simplest Chord in Music—The Major Triad

Bugles over …

Volume 56, Number 02 (February 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Australia's New Day in Music

Musical Life in Australia (interview with Richard Crookes)

Melody Study a Stimulant

All About Four Hand Music

Music Written about Abraham Lincoln

Progressive Steps to Velocity

Title Page, Josef Hofmann's Début

Getting Joy out of Life (interview with Ralph T. Senter)

Flash! Walter Winchell Talks on ASCAP

Mrs. G. Waddington Snore Acquires a Classic: A Monoloque for Recitation at Musical Gatherings

Missed Lesson Cure

How to Break into Print: Practical Suggestions for Young Composers

From Jungle to Symphony Hall: An Extraordinary Musical Life

Switzerland Will Have an Interesting Musical Season

Holding Over the Tied Notes

Volume 56, Number 01 (January 1938), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Saga of Virgil W. Bork: The Remarkable Story of a Successful Musician Who Was Brought up Under Ground and Now Directs the Large Union Band and Orchestra in Roselle, New Jerse

Language of Music, Harmony at Your Doosteps

Once a Week Musical Club

Art of the Violin Lies Under the Surface (interview the Joseph Szigeti)

Music of War Torn China

Do You Practice Too Much?: A Well Known Musical Pedagog and Business Executive Discusses This Very Practcal Subject

Music According to Webster

From Typist to Prima Donna: An Inspiring Story of Success Because an Artist Refused to Compromise with Obstacles