Music Commons^™

Volume 53, Number 06 (June 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Nulla Dies Sine Linae (No Day Without Its Lines)

Violoncello as a Solo Instrument (interview with Beatric Harrison)

Sight Playing and to Improve It

Speed at the Piano Keyboard: Using Geometry to Help

Study Hints for the Advancing Student

Current Radio Programs

Visits to European Musical Shrines: Frankfort, Dresden, Stuttgart and Other Teutonic Music Centers

Organ Point or Pedal Point

Beethoven Advises a Piano Teacher

Altered Chords

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Evolution of the Piano Action

Lessons from Hearing Great Pianists

Learning to Pedal Effectively

Addison, The Spectator, on Eighteenth Century Music

Mother's Part

Developing a …

Volume 53, Number 05 (May 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and America's Greatest Problem

Palestrina, The Prince of Music: The Story of One of the Most Picturesque Figures

Reason for a Certain Theory of Fingering

Finger Exercises on Black Keys

Learning to Pronounce a Foreign Language: Something that Musicians Who Need Languages Should Know

Story of Musical Notation

Music of the Spains: Those Lands of Melody,Gaiety, Dancing, Chivalry and Song

Stars for Star Pupils: Rewards That Interest the Piano Pupil

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Beauty Through Wrist Action: A Study of Tonal Effects for Piano Students

Etude Music Study Expansion League

Have You Got Rhythm?: …

Volume 53, Number 04 (April 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mission Mass Chimes

Vast American Cultural Movement

Savoyard Saga: Comments Upon One of the Most Unusual Happenings in the History of Music in the Theater—The Fateful Combination of Gilbert, Sullivan and D'Oyly Carte at the Savoy Theater in London

Accent the Charm of Music: Why the First and Third Beats are Accented

Piano as a Broadcasting Instrument

Modern Tendencies in Music

Saving for Music Study

Evening With Ethelbert Nevin

Passing of a Great Diva

Cultivating a Dependable Memory

Grand Tradition of Opera (interview with Léon Rothier)

About Fifth Fingers, Ladies' Hands, and Camels' Backs

Helping the Parent to Help the …

Volume 53, Number 03 (March 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What I Learned from Broadcasting (interview with Nino Martini)

Relaxation Rather then Contraction

Short Course in Memory Training: Making Your Mind Work Along Right Lines

Why Music Should be Retained in the Public Schools: Music's Influence Upon Mankind

Beethoven's Estimate of His Fellow Musicians

One Way to Start a Pupil at the Very First Lesson

Pupils Everywhere: A Letter from a Practical Teacher Who Looked Depression Between the Eyes Until Depression Smiled Back with Success

Little Bach Program Recital

Do We Listen Creatively?

Charles Marie Widor, the Grand Old Man of French Music

Debussy and the Pedal Blur: The Lure …

Volume 53, Number 02 (February 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting Jobs through Music

Jennygrams: An Amusing Episode in American Musical History—How Barnum Turned Jenny Lind's American Début Into a Money Making Scheme

Dr. Brahms and Dr. Bilroth

Can Any Music Enthusiast Become a Master of the Piano?

Are You a Musical Parasite?

Musical Instruments of Old and Modern Cathay

Concerning the Jazz Question

Rules and Exceptions in Musical Theory

Music and Postage Stamps

Lilting Strains of the Waltz

Don't Save Time—Take It!

Music Everywhere: What the Radio is Doing for Musical America

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

How I Use My Etudes

Travelogue Recital

Glinka and …

Volume 53, Number 01 (January 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Broken Strings

Personal Conferences with Claude Debussy: A New Posthumous Interview, Introducing Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of Famous Writers and Musicians with the Master

Famous Czerny Study and How to Play It

Which Scale First

If You Were My Pupil (interview with Grete Stueckgold)

Mrs. B. Natural's Party: Children's Costume Recital or Musical Playlet

How Fast Shall I Practice

Rules and Exceptions in Music Theory, Part 1

Modern Piano Pedagogy

California's Musical Marvel

Piano Classes That Make Success

Gold Star Contest

Modern Bravura Playing of Octave-Chords

We Wish Our Teachers Wouldn't

Cherubini and the French Revolution

Changing Notes

Little Tale of …

Volume 52, Number 12 (December 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Progress in Piano Playing and Teaching (interview with Ossip Gabrilowitsch)

Letting the Pupil Select the Music

How to Write a Good Musical Advertisement

Removing the Jounce

Famous German Musical Centers: Leipzig, Part 2

Schumann Discovers a Young Genius

Etude Music Study Expansion League: Great Revival of Interest in Practice

Santa Claus' Surprise Party

American Singer's Opportunities (interview with Gladys Swarthout)

Rhythmic Drawing

What is the Basis of the Piano Technic of Today: Great Pianists Give Important Opinions

Christmas Again

Vital First Year of Music Study: Selecting Right Materials for Children

How to Improve Mind and Muscle Coördination

Square Holes for …

Volume 52, Number 11 (November 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Antique Spanish Pianoforte

Famous German Musical Centers: Leipzig

Sand Tables in Music Teaching

Don't You Know

Getting Pupils in 1763 (From Goethe's Boyhood)

Making the Trill Beautiful: Proper Diagnosis and Treatment Remove Ordinary Difficulties

Evening with the Waltz King

Cambridge the Beautiful: A Letter from an Etude Friend in Old Cambridge

How to Hold Your Pupils Longer

Musical Pepper Box

Musical Racketeers: The Claque and Its Long Career

Making the Piano Sing

Beyond the Measure Line

Changing Notes

Story of Elgar

Spreading Culture Through Prizes

Orchestral Tutti, Old and New

Pace Maker of the Keyboard: The Metronome as a Dominant …

Volume 52, Number 10 (October 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Regimentation

Secret of Modernist Music (interview with Arnold Schönberg)

Good Teaching Pieces

Acting Theory

Mother, Make Music Study Delightful

Two Manual Accordion As Compared to the Standard Piano Accordion

Stabat Mater and Its Illustrious Composers

Program Architecture

What Does the Public Really Want?

Two Tests for Musical Capacity

Mystic Land of Magic Music (playlet)

To Acquire a Beautiful Legato

Whims of Musicians

Musical Commas and Musical Comments

Etude Practice Clock

Music in the Old Dragon Empire

For Fluency in Arpeggios

Train the Memory

Season's Schedule of Club Events

Kitchen and the One-lined Staff

Those Key-Signatures!

Helpful Hint in …

Volume 52, Number 09 (September 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music Study for Adults (interview with Frederick B. Robinson)

What Geography Has to Do with Rhythm

Game of Musicians

Making a Fist

Teaching Accents

Maurice Ravel: The Man, The Musician, The Critic (interview with Maurice Ravel)

Beethoven, the Humorist

Kreisler and the Prodigy

Music Recreation and the Radio

What Makes a Good Touch

New Music for Ancient Plays

Practicing Difficult Passages

Story of Dixie and its Picturesque Composer

Parent Help in Music Study

Make Your Practice Period Worth While!

Bridge Strength for Pianists

Alabama's Share in Dixie

Cumulative Rewards

Technic Fun

Value of Similes

Volume 52, Number 08 (August 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Liszt Renounced the World

Arpeggio Practice

Energetic Fingers

How to Find the Keys and the Forms of the Minor Scales

Midsummer Musical Laughs

Jargon of Jazz: An Amusing Article Upon the New and Absurd Nomenclature Which Has Grown Up About the Jazz Orchestra

Music for the Local History Pageant

What Use is the Quarter Tone Scale? Is this Innovation in Modern Music Likely to Remain Merely a Curiosity?

Expressive Dictation

Remedy for Tense Muscles

Romance of Mendelssohn: A Favored Son of the Gods

Speeding Up the Left Hand

Wagner in Venice

Georges Bizet and the True Story of Carmen …

Volume 52, Number 07 (July 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Paderewski and Modern Piano Progress

Proper Care of School Pianos

Signor Patti and a Few Others: Notable Husbands of Famous Singers

Older Hands

Earliest Americans and their Music

To Overcome Mistakes in Note-Reading

How to Conduct a Piano Tournament

Music and Life

When Summer Comes Will Music Lag Behind? (interview with Harold Bauer)

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Some Piano Questions

Piano Lessons with Camille Saint-Saëns

Use of Music as a Healing Agent Among the Indians

Life Span of Famous Composers

Hint in Reading

Tambourine Corps

Signposts to Successful Piano Teaching

How …

Volume 52, Number 06 (June 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of New Russia (interview with Albert Coates

Do Snakes Like Music?

Ethelbert Nevin's A Day in Venice (Un Giorno in Venezia): A New Tone Film Presentation Which is Commanding National Attention

Give the Child a Good Piano

Staccato Accents

Baseball and Scales

Use the Metronome in Practicing Sight-reading

Novelty for Your Recital

National Element in Polish Music

Getting a Start in Music Teaching in the Country

How One Teacher Did It

Art of Program Making

Accompanist

Music of the Land of the Bourrée

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Experimenting With the …

Volume 52, Number 05 (May 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Singing Student's Vacation (interview with Sigrid Onegin)

New Piece

Holding Notes

Guiding Signs in Music

Making Piano Technic Simpler

Educational Running Mates: School and Music Teacher

Friendly Notes

When Interest Flags

Four-Year-Old Children Make Good Students

Intensive, Profitable Summer Vacation Music Study Calendar

Father of the Pianoforte: Clementi, 1752-1832

Dimished-Seventh Chords

Divine Purcell: Englands Most Distinctive Master Composer and His Music

Volume 52, Number 04 (April 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

There is No Royal Road to Singing! (interview with Göta Ljungberg)

Bass Drum

Chopin Odiosyncracy

How I Managed to Secure Pupils During The Depression

Dating Recitals for Success

Bandmaster Gilmore: The Indomitable Pat Whose Masterpiece was Probably When Johnny Comes Marching Home

London: A World Music Center

Chopin's Masterly Valse in A Flat, Op. 42: A Detailed Lesson Analysis

Music Popular at the Time of Lincoln

Cultivation of Musical Taste in a Small Town

Volume 52, Number 03 (March 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Student Hardships that Lead to Success (interview with Elisabeeth Rethberg)

Studying the Pianissimo

Musical Courtesy

Composer's Workshop: How Composers Employ Simple Devices to Expand Their Musical Ideas

Irish Quartet

On Choosing a Musical Career

Music and the Ritual of the Dance in Ceylon: The Subtropical Themes and Rhythms that Have an Undying Allure

Pride of Personal Performance

Musical Pepper Box

Helps to Better Sight Playing

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: Its Origin, History and Activities

Slighted Finger

Teach All Keys in the Early Grades

Piano Accordion Band

Conducting a Practical Studio Piano Contest

Problem of the Baby Violinist

Story of Aloha Oe …

Volume 52, Number 02 (February 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Education of a Conductor (interview with Bruno Walter)

Stage Fright and How to Cure It

Berlin, The Weltstadt of Music

Music and the Adult

From Bell Stand to Throne Room: A Remarkable Autobiographical Interview with the Eminently Successful American Negro Composer (interview with R. Nathaniel Dett)

Kindergarten Highway to Tone and Rhythm

New Approach to the Thumb-Under Problem

Conquering the Jazz Craze of Young Pianists

Four Times Twenty Musical Years

Old Friends are Best

Indian Drill for the Fingers

Violin Teaching Far From Ordinary: An Unroutined Routine of Violin Instruction (interview with Louis Persinger)

Provincial Opera in Italy

Devices for …

Volume 52, Number 01 (January 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Studying Music for the Joy of It (interview with Artur Bodanzky)

Old Friends are Best

Evening of Mozart: A Musical Play in Three Acts for Children and Adults

You Can Sing—If You Will! (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Coming Back Without Teacher

Why Not Give an Etude Radio Recital?

Music Supervisor's Forum

New Deal, the New Leisure, and Music

Interesting Stephen Heller

Here's a New One

Those Troublesome Octaves

Value of Music Study to a Business Woman

Ledger Lines and Spaces Simplified

Sight Reading Suggestions

Drilling for Independence …

Volume 51, Number 12 (December 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Crusade: The Parable of a King and a Mendicant

Spirit of Christmas in Music: Musical Lore of Noeltide from Many Lands

Music for Christmas

Perfect Practice Hour

Little Visit to European Musical Shrines: Vienna Capital of Music

Creating the Music Habit with Children (interview with Ernest Schelling)

When Handel's Messiah was First Given

What Could be Righted in Opera

Candle Light Christmas Mystery: The Music Selected and Arranged from Masters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Four Hands that Play as Two (interview with Josef Lhévinne and Rosina Lhévinne)

What I Have Learned as an Accompanist

Glance Behind the …

Volume 51, Number 11 (November 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Girl Who Wants to Sing (interview with Lily Pons)

Meet the Piano

How to Play Bach More Beautifully (interview with Harold Samuel)

Little Known Music of Cape Breton Island

When Should I Practice?

Platform Showmanship in Piano-Playing

More Greetings form Zealous Etude Enthusiasts

Mixed Rhythms

Best Method is Ecclectic, Part 2 (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Touch in Relation to Phrasing

Heinrich Heine and Music

Value of Discipline

Blind Tom Reminiscence

Neglected Triad

Story of The Rosary

Secret of Chopin's Playing

Little Journeys to Musical Shrines: A Club Calendar

Telling the World

Learning the Lower and Higher Notes

Touch System for …

Volume 51, Number 10 (October 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Modern Life (interview with Herriot, M. Ëdouard

Aid to Relaxation

Best Method is Eclectic (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Carloads of Pianos

Golden Anniversary Greetings

Rhythm and Accent

Tannhäuser: A Romantic Opera in Three Acts—Arranged as a Reading for Music Clubs

What is Wrong with the Piano?

Points in Pedaling

Singing School to School Symphony

Since Singing is So Goode a Thing

Expressive Piano Playing

Impressing the Accent

Personal Observations of Rimsky-Korsakoff

Plenty of Pupils

Glance Behind the Scenes of Radio Land

Chopin's Valse in E Minor (Posthumous): A Master Lesson

Musical Small Coal Man

Making the Bass Beautiful …

Volume 51, Number 09 (September 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Curse of Super-Worry

What I Think of Modern Music (interview with Maurice Ravel)

Touch and Accent: With their Values Carefully Defined

Then and Now

Remarkable American Musical Tradition: The Moravian Funeral Chorals at Salem

How Miss Watson Boosted Her Bank Account

How Great Composers Worked

What is Needed to Gain Success as a Pianist?

Musician Education: The Place of Music in General Education

How to Practice Arpeggios

Structure of Music: The Merits and Methods of Analysis

Musical Tower in Central America

Musical Activities in the U.S.S.R.

Having It Out with the Pupil's Parents

Going to Do's

To Overcome Defects in …

Volume 51, Number 08 (August 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Personality and Music

Centenary of Brahms, 1833-1933

Miniature Music Club

What Is a Tone Poem?

Annual Banquet of the National Moths' Association

Personal Reminiscences of Johannes Brahms

What a Musical Education May Cost

Why Richard Wagner Selected Bayreuth

Schubert and Beethoven

The Structure of Music: How Does the Composer Do His Work? What Form is to Music

Building a Large Music Class in a Country District

How to Use Seals

Musical Current Events Course

Volume 51, Number 07 (July 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Discipline versus Coddling

Summer Progress in Music Study (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)

Some Fallacious Theories

Is Music a Language?

Johannes Brahms—Portrait

Playing Duets with Brahms

Destiny and a Brahms Autograp

Music's Role in Healing: History Reveals the Curious Use of Music in Therapeutics

Structure of Music: Counterpoint—The Interweaving of Melodies

To Improve Octaves

Scottish Song Stories

Making Music Teaching Opportunities

Musical Tea

Genius of Jessie L. Gaynor: An Intimate Picture of Remarkable Figure in American Musical Education

Those Interesting Scales

Lost Schubert Masterpiece

Vacation Practice Schedule

Volume 51, Number 06 (June 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Organized, Profitable Summer Vacation Music Study: In Preparation for the Great Expansion Next Fall

Thomas Jefferson's Musical Interests: The Second President of the United States and His Violin

Summer Vacation Music Study Calendar

Granddaddies of the Viol Family

Intensive, Profitable Summer Vacation Music Study Calendar

Chant d'un Voyageur: The Unusual Music of the Theater in Spain

Buying a Piano Accordion

Musical Organization in New York State

Greenroom Lessons from Great Pianists: Intimate Observations by a Well-known Parisian European Critic

Singer's Indispensables

Structure of Music: The Most Wonderful Chord in Music

Staccato that Is Not Staccato

Volume 51, Number 05 (May 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musica Tonsoria

Music Now More than Ever (interview with William H. Woodin)

Several Points Worth While

How Weight Playing May Add to the Student's Resources

Why Great Artists Succeeded - Schumann-Heink

Michael Kelly Goes Abroad: An Amazing Musical Travelogue Over One Hundred Years Old Giving Intimate Glimpses of Haydn, Mozart, Glinck and Other Masters

Opera through the Centuries

Mozart and the B Minor Adagio

Can I Sing over the Radio?

For Busy People

Transposing at Sight

When it is Hard to Concentrate

Structure of Music - Modulation

Business Hints

Volume 51, Number 04 (April 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sixty-Five Years of Music Teaching

Extraordinary Case of Vladimir de Pachmann

Making Grand Opera Pay (interview with Fortune Gallo)

Chopin's Ancestral Home

Two Famous Springtime Piano Pieces and How to Play Them

To Accompany the Art Dance

High Spots in American Music

Chant d'un Voyageur: Liebes Würzburg

On the Value of Using All the Black Keys for Starting the Piano Pupil

European Music in the Land of the Rising Sun: A Study of Musical Conditions in Japan

Names and Notes

Hymn Playing Contest

1933 Wagner and Mozart Festivals in Germany

To Gain Smoothness and Velocity

Home Recitals

Musial Pepper Box

Volume 51, Number 03 (March 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Angel of Genius: Quando Si Canta, Non Si Pensa Male

Chant d'un Voyageur: Liebes Würzburg

Teaching the Little Finger of the Left Hand to Aim

Guess Who is the Composer: A Study of Mannerisms

Hill Billy Folk Music: A Little-Known American Type

Carrie Nation's Organ (photo)

Modulation

Janet's Musical Pilgrimage

Our Famous Marine Band

Structure of Music: The Vital Functions of Rhythm in Music

Piano Class Instruction Problems: Solved Through Experience

Foremost Composer of South America, Carlos Gomes: A Musician as a National Ideal

Games for the Musical Party

Sage of Jenny Lind

Putting a Program on the Air

Keeping …

Volume 51, Number 02 (February 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How the Germans Are Doing It

Grace in Crossing Hands

Professor Rimsky-Korsakov

Trading Music Lessons for Bread, Vegetables, and Mending When Cash is Scarce

Ear-Training on the Scales

Finger Independence and the Story of the Three-Legged Man

Improving the Reading and Rhythm

Conferences with Claude Debussy: Ingtroducing a Posthumously Published Interview with the Great French Master

Stories of Famous Concert Songs: On the Road to Mandalay

Cloud Dreams in Elysium: Curiosities from the Workshop of Celebrated Composers

Diet and Health for Singers (interview with Tito Schipa)

Hindrances to Artistic Piano Playing and How to Overcome Them

Structure of Music: The …

Volume 51, Number 01 (January 1933), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fountains of Youth

Inspiring Message to Students of Singing (interview with Lucrezia Bori)

Chant d'un Voyageur: Vienna, Capital of the Kingdom of Music

Four-Hand Players' Treasury

Musical Child of Fortune: Sigismund Thalberg

Music in Haunts of the Dragon

How Ought We to Practice?

Hindrances to Artistic Piano Playing and How to Overcome Them

Radio: A New Field for the Young Musician

Missed Lessons

Putting Old Etudes to Work

Structure of Music: How We Get the Minor Scale

Instrumentalist's Wardrobe (interview with Yolanda Mero)

Keyboard Aristocrats of Earlier Days: A Description of Two Unique Harpsichords of the Eighteenth Century

How One …