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Volume 48, Number 06 (June 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Melodic Genius of Ethelbert Nevin (interview with Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin (Anne Paul Nevin)

Gluck and Marie Antoinette (picture)

Radio as an Educational Factor: For Artist Musicians and Music Students

Getting the Most Out of Self-Study

Practicing for the Spring Recital

Three Vital Points in Piano Mastery: Practice Hints to Pianoforte Students

How to Start a Class

Flowers, Music and Sunbeams

Romance of the Guitar

Wisdom of a Great Teacher: Karl Merz

Wagner and the Ominous Number 13

Study Schedule

Enlarging the Pupil's Musical Vocabulary

Story of Annie Laurie

Accompanist Who Aids and Abets

Volume 48, Number 05 (May 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fighting Deadly Uniformity

Will the Radio and Talking Pictures Compel a Revolution in Methods of Teaching Singing?

Special Exercise in Double Thirds for Independence of Fingers

Child's Native Love of Music

Musical Value of Silence: How to Play Rests Effectively

Why Slow Practice Helps

Piano Study for Adult Beginners

Romance of the Guitar (interview with Andrés Segovia)

Great Masters as Students (Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893)

Double Notes

Rhythm and Technic, the Keys to Interpretation (interview with José Iturbi)

Opus—Key—Composer

How Has the Piano as an Instrument Developed in the Last Half Century?

Master Lesson on the Famous Fantasia in C Minor by …

Volume 48, Number 04 (April 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hail to the Music of Spain

Marvelous Musical Story of Barcelona (interview with Pablo Casals)

Rhythm and Technic, the Keys to Interpretation (interview with José Iturbi)

Glossary of Spanish Musical Terms and Related Words

Holy Week in Seville

Music, An Indespensible Human Need

Some Modern Spanish Composers

Night in Granada

Consistent Sight Reading

Slurring Slips

Ceaseless Charm of the Music of Spain

Notable Musical Women

Monsalvat—The Land of the Holy Grail

Peteneras of Seville

That is a Zarzuela?

Habañera from Carmen

Spain's Musical Message to American Mothers

Volume 48, Number 03 (March 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Why Every Boy Should Study Music (interview with Herbert J. Tily)

Rare Portrait of Edward MacDowell

Ten Ideas from Edward MacDowell

Notable Musical Women

Developing the Student's Interpretative Ability

Playing Grace-Notes Without Distorting the Rhythm

Beethoven's Love Letters

Music of the Passion Play of Oberammergau: A Graphic Description Based on Presentations as Witnessed by the Writer in 1889, 1910, 1920

Arpeggios

Practicing and Playing

Teaching a Correct Position of the Hand

You Cannot Get Along without Scales

Marriage of Figaro: Adapted for Presentation as a Reading at Musical Clubs

Curing the Hustler

Points in Good Piano Playing

Volume 48, Number 02 (February 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Master Teacher

Tragedy of Moussorgsky: The Dramatic Story of the Most Curious Figure in Music History

Tavern Music

Struggle of the Negro Musician

Chord Reading

Grandaddies of Our Pianos

Notable Musical Women

Master Discs

Development of the Left Hand

Light and Shade in Piano Playing

How Music Came to be Written: Musical Pioneers Who First Divised the Notation System

Handel and Beethoven: The Pillars of Our Modern Musical Structure

Don't Don't!: Why Some Teachers Are to Blame for the Failure of their Students

Portamento Touch

Volume 48, Number 01 (January 1930), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Brains

New Apsects of American-Indian Music

How Much Technic is Indispensable?

Designing Natural Fingerings

Pertinent Advice to Practical Pianists

Notable Careers of the Esterhazy Family: An Account of the Remarkable Hungarian Family Which Extended Enormous Assistance to Musical Art, Through Its Benefactions to Composers and Players, Including Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert

Centenary of the Accordion

Art of Making Playing Beautiful (interview with George Copeland)

Up-to-Date Ideas on Improving Piano Touch: How to Practice Thirds, Sixths and Octaves

Beethoven's Minuet in G

Brace for Broken Rhythm

Arpeggio Drill

Parent's Part

Tips Important

Teaching Note Values

Musical Home Reading Table …

Volume 47, Number 12 (December 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Romance of the Christmas Carol

Music, Munich and the Mad King, Part 1

Pedagogic Principles of Piano Playing: As Prepared for the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris

Decade of The Six: Based on an Interview with the Distinguished French Composer, Arthur Honegger, One of The Six

Secrets of a Master Technic

Self-Study in Music

Changes in Piano Teaching in Fifty Years

Getting Correct Hand Position

To Overcome Poor Fingering

Lure of Japanese Music, Part 1

Are You Making Your Scales Real Ladders to Success: A Review of Common-sense Pedagogical Procedure for Intermediate Students and Some Novel Suggestions for Advanced …

Volume 47, Number 11 (November 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Woman and Music: Twin Souls of Civilization

Children of a Great Romance: A Meeting with the Daughters of Robert and Clara Schumann

Good Habit

I'd Like to, But—

Arpeggios and Their Fingerings

What Great Music Owes to Woman

Correction and Kindness

Much-Abused Spring Song

Love of Beethoven

Benefits from Music Study

How Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler Taught

Handicaps, Which Discourage Good Piano Playing

American Girl's Chance in Opera (interview with Rosa Ponselle)

Fundamental Art Secrets in Piano Playing (interview with Elly Ney)

Notable Musical Women

Blessed is the Musical Woman

Troublesome Rhythms

Mothers of Great Musicians: The Story of the Women Who …

Volume 47, Number 10 (October 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chinese Scale

How We Make Our Music Study Club a Success or L'Etude de Musique; the Club with 100% Attendance

Those Forgotten Exercises

Native Orchestra of India

Harmonica—The Flying Wedge in Introducing Music

America's Greatest Song Writer

Romance of the Harp

Picking Up the Threads

Opera in English and its Advocates

How to Master Chopin's Butterfly Etude

Tie: How to Explain It to Children: The

Volume 47, Number 09 (September 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Brussels, the Musical Gem of Europe

Report Cards for Piano Pupils

Practical Considerations in Pianoforte Interpretation (interview with Walter Gieseking)

Philadelphia's Amazing Operatic Situation

Centenary of Rubinstein

Future of Music in Moviedom (interview with Erno Rapée

Music Idealism in the United States: An Address Delivered at the Anglo-American Conference on Music at Lausanne, Switzerland, August, 1929

Master Lesson on the Chopin Etude Opus 25, No. 2

Paragraphs form Schubert's Diary

Jazz—Whither Bound?

Volume 47, Number 08 (August 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Father Bach: A Personal Visit to the Home of Bach and a Sketch of Some of the Smaller Compositions of the Master

How Shall We Study Bach?

Cleaning Up Slovenly Playing

Polyphonically Speaking

Bird Repertoires

How I Graduated as a Music Bachelor at Fifty-Nine

Building Scale Technic

Pianist and Patent Office: Odd Mechanical Contrivances Designed to Help Pianists

Universal Schubert

Thirty Great Opera Composers

Volume 47, Number 07 (July 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Richard of the Footlights: A Personal Visit to Bayreuth

When the Child Pedals

Well-Known Time Troubles

Page Turning

I Want to Learn to Write a Song

Helps for the Nervous Musician

Getting a Good Start

Playing with Weight

Scales at the First Lesson

Fashions in Fingering and Common Sense

Physically Weak Pupil

Musicians are a Healthy Lot

Teaching the Alberti Bass

Bogus Tunes

Musical Pilgrimage to Haiti, the Island of Beauty, Mystery and Rhythm

Musicians of the Month

Visual History Series—Great Symphonists

Volume 47, Number 06 (June 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mozart's Musical Portrait of a Lady

Solo Hate Campaign

Sousa Got the Cash!

Rubinstein in Edinburgh

Sheet Music Clinic

Story of Strings and Keys or From Monochord to Pianoforte

Fundamentals of Beautiful Piano Playing

Charm of Stephen Heller: An Interesting Discussion of the Work of a Man Who Strove to Make Educational Studies Beautiful

Making Scales Interesting

Velocity and the Metronome

How to Play Beethoven

How Schubert's Music Reflected the Poems He Chose for Settings

Volume 47, Number 05 (May 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin's Perfection of Detail

Fourten Prima Donnas of the Pianoforte

Inspiration Road

Practice Difficult Passages

Teaching the Values of Notes

Matter of Rests

Laugh or Two

Making Plain the Seventh Chord

Indexng as an Aid to Memorizing

How to Impress the First Lesson Upon the Child

Playing and Singing the First Piece

Music of Paris, the Inimitable

Octaves and Blocks

Relaxation

Favorite Musical Instruments of a Past Generation

On Ability to Sight-Read

Me and My Shadow

Broken Chords

Nothing to Practice

Saving Lost Motion in Piano Study

Simple Way of Teaching the Value of the Dot

To Learn Letters and …

Volume 47, Number 04 (April 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Hints on Advertising

House of Accuracy

Learning Rapid Note-Reading

Accent

Charm of Musical Biography

When Pupils Choose Their Own Music

Playing for Others

Adult Beginner

Practice Hour Safeguards

Summer Music Schools

Music on the Moon-Kissed Riviera

Be Sure You Are Right

Bach an Architect of Music

New Light on Musical Acoustics

Teaching Intervals

Musical Cross-Examination

Have You Tried this Way?

Special Emphasis for the Chromatic Scale

Ten Commandements for Piano Students

Comprehensive Piano Lesson Report

Study in Bells, Chimes or Carillons as Related to National Life

Value of the Mental Picture

Wild Melodies from the Arctic

Unique Orchestra of …

Volume 47, Number 03 (March 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Precise Fingering When Wagner Shot a Rabbit

Brahms as a School Boy

Mozart's Poverty

How Finck Discovered MacDowell

Pupil's Repertoire

Golden Age of Music Study Has Arrived: New Worlds for Music Lovers and Music Students

Musical Research

Triplets

Salient Points for Practice Hours

Music on the Moon-Kissed Riviera

Master Themes the World Loves Best

How the Young Liszt Taught

Left Hand First

Student's Repertoire

Little Recitals

Three Master Singers on Preparing for a Lyric Career

Making the Most of an Exercise

Famous Method of Touch

What are Grace Notes?

Mastering Chromatic Thirds

New Understanding of Italian Terms of Musical Expression …

Volume 47, Number 02 (February 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Painting with Notes

Soundless Practice

Transposition

Piano as a Home Investment: First in a Series of Frank Editorials Upon the Great Educational and Sociological Importance of this Indispensable Instrument

Take Your Foot Off the Pedal

How the Scale Grows

Keep Studying

Gateways to Accomplishment

Big We Wagner

Trail of a Jongleur: A Fascinating Tale of Wartime Musical Experiences

Cheap at the Price

Why Music is Really a Necessary Part of the Child's Education

Student's Debt to Radio

Note-Bound

Wagner, Voice of the 19th Century

Landing Safely After a Leap

Beat in Whistling

Time-Saving, Hand Moulding Exercises for Piano Students

Costume …

Volume 47, Number 01 (January 1929), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Filing Sheet Music

Supremacy of Personality

Venice, the City of Dreams

Jean Philippe Rameau (Portrait)

Phrasing—A Key to Technical Problems

How Do You Play Double Thirds

What Is a Prelude?

Drills in Sharps and Flats

Meddlsome Neighbors

Deceptive Accidentals

Musical Menus

Why An Investment in Music Lessons Always Pays: The Cultural Value of Music

What Children Love

Turning Failure into Fortune (interview with Vernon Spencer)

To Make Weak Fingers Curve at the First Joint

Rhythmic Problem

Appreciation of Schubert

Musical Story

Volume 46, Number 12 (December 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Don't Make Counting a Bugbear

Tuning Forks and Canary Birds

Question and Answer Department

Music of Christmas Dawn

World's Tribute to Franz Schubert (pictures)

World Bows in Homage of Franz Schubert: A Graphic Word Picture of the Great Schubert Festival at Vienna

Studio Slogan

Essence of Opera or Almanzor and Imogen, An Opera in Three Acts

How to Play Repeats

Musicians—Painting

Why a Conductor?: Some Hints to the Layman

Teaching the Triads

Style in Singing

Master Themes the World Loves Best

Evolution of Piano Playing and Virtuosity, Part 6

Maintaining Concentration in Practice

Milan, the Shrine of the Opera, Part …

Volume 46, Number 11 (November 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Revolution in American Musical Education

Milan, the Shrine of the Opera

Johann Sebastian Bach (Etching)

Master Themes the World Loves Best

Antidotes for Unnecessary Platform Fear

Race and Nation in Music

Scale Writing Drill for Young Pupils

Egyptian Music: Sonds of the Ancient Land of Mystery

First Year Ear Training

Volume 46, Number 10 (October 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mastering Irregular Rhythms

Page Turning for the Pianist

Two Centers in Piano Playing

Simplifying Note Reading

Young Beginner

Musical Home Reading Table

Eighteenth Century Italian Opera

Clara Schumann's Hands

Beethoven's Mother

Music in the City of Flowers

System in Study and Practice

Gounod's Definition

Veronese's Immortal Masterpice—Les Noces de Cana (The Marriage at Cana)

Story of the Ballet and Its Music

Schumann as Educator

Most Curious Page in American Musical History: An Early American Experiment in Communism with a Musical Background

Prerequisites for the Accompanist

Rhythmic Educational Value of the Toy Symphony

How to Get Up a Rhythmic Band

Exceptional …

Volume 46, Number 09 (September 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching Correct Pedaling

Incredible Mental Achievement

Music in the City of Flowers

Improve Your Stretch

Keyboard Facility and Agility

How to Extend Your Hand Without Injury

Beethoven Listening to the Muses—An Etching

Folk Element in Music: The Study of Nationality in Music

Cross Rhythm

Teaching the Use of the Pedal

Master Themes the World Loves Best

Most Amazing Achievement in the History of Music Study: The Remarkable Story of a Student Who Has Been Blind

Volume 46, Number 08 (August 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Means to an End

Band Without Music

Musical Education in the Home

Most Remarkable Orchestra in the World

Stiumulating the Desire to Compose

Modulation and Transposition

Raising the Price Imperceptibly

Touch It Up

Meet My Friend, Mr. Schubert!

Facsimile The Erlking

Summer Music Study

Rhythmic Educational Value of The Toy Symphony

How to Give a Rhythmic Kitchen Symphony

Rhythmic Studies in Rests

Tests that Turn Teaching Successward: A Vital Series of Pertinent Personal Questions Designed to Help Ambitious Teachers

Fourth and Fifth Fingers

Yes, I Teach 'Em Jazz

Scenes from the Childhood of Franz Schubert: A Musical Playlet for Children …

Volume 46, Number 07 (July 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hymn Playing Helpful

Musical Education in the Home

What Makes a Fine Piano

Evolution of Piano Playing and Virtuosity

Why Do I Study Music

On Describing a Piece

Efficiency in Piano Study

Speaking the Pupil's Language

Studio Ventillation

Tickling the Risibles

Grandeur that Was Rome

Point on Poise

Doorstep of Harmony: Showing How Simple and Delightful the Study May be Made for the Amateur

Frederic Chopin, an Etching

Queen and a Quarrel about Musicians

Making Arpeggios Interesting

Volume 46, Number 06 (June 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Summer Study Count

Naples is a Song (Napoli é Una Canzone)

How to Study the Encore Song

Etching, Beethoven and Goethe

Secret of Extracting Tone Color from the Piano

One Hour at the Piano

Chord Conversion for Small Hands

Memorizing Notes on Staves

Practicing Away from the Piano (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

How to Free the Fourth and Fifth Fingers

Aids to Musicianship: Scientific Principles a Necessity for Perfection in Art

Accents

Volume 46, Number 05 (May 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musician and Fly

Maxims for Pianoforte Students

Matter of Hour Lessons

Largo from The New World Symphony

Oboe in the Kettle

History of a Best Seller

Rubinstein, the Leonine

Napoli E' Una Canzone

Ethics in the Musical Profession

Fifth Finger

Cinderella at the Piano

Wonderful New Etching of Johannes Brahms

One Hour at the Piano: A Highly Concentrated Plan of Study by a Famous London Teacher

Orchestral Innovations

How to Get the Right Number of Notes in Repeated Figures

Reading Chords Simplified

Keeping Right Tempo

Practical Memorizing

Making Note Reading Easy

Row Boat Playing

Self-Help Lesson in Modern Pedaling

Romance …

Volume 46, Number 04 (April 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is a Symphony Concert?

Musical Appreciation and Form

Taking an Inventory

Alleluia (Frontispiece)

Reinforce the Weak Spots

Aiming for It!

Do You Know That

Wrapping-Paper De Luxe

Teaching the Fundamentals of Music Through Improvisation

Accompanying as an Art

Uses and Abuses of the Pedals

Mozart (Etching)

Parental Influence in the Lives of Famous Musicians

Eighth Note

Whither the Trend of Music? (interview with Darius Milhaud)

Path of Music

Daily Exercises for the Busy Teacher

Keep It Up

Simplicity Thoughts

Finger Combinations Met With Every Day

Youngest Performer

Sight Reading

Phonograph Record as a Master Teacher

Fascinating Journals in Music …

Volume 46, Number 03 (March 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Double Notes for Strengthening the Fingers

Ear-Training the Child on His Own Pieces

Wagnerian Estimate of Mozart

Gilded Angel

Bad Company for a Gentleman's Sons

Baif Club

Taking up Music in Later Life (interview with John Erskine)

Training of a Virtuoso (interview with Moritz Rosenthal)

Not Quantity but Quality

Art and Music

We Have 'Phones!

Impression of Max Bruch's Tone-Poem, Kol Nidrei

Good Instrument for the Beginner

Franz Schubert—An Etching

New Lights on Scale Playing

Fairies in Music

Great Masters as Students of Music: Edward Grieg (1843-1907)

Why a Boy Should Study Music

Fun in Reading Notes

How Rimsky-Korsakoff Taught: …

Volume 46, Number 02 (February 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Music Colorful

Signs—Always Signs

Forefather of Pianoforte Technic: Czerny The Indispensable

Musical Education in the Home

Why not Write to the Young Pupil?

Radio and the Music Student

Relating Key and Note

Think Before You Play

Cushion for Aida

Sleep On It

Haydn and the Clarinet

Magic of Melody (interview with Eduard Poldini)

Musical Reading and Thinking

Finishing Touches in Piano Playing

Great Moments in Wagner's Nibelungen Triology

Wagner, the Eternal

Acquiring Realistic Technic

Musicians, Take Care of Your Ears

His Own Musician

Go Ahead!

Mélange from France

Romance of a Pioneer Prima Donna: Striking Pictures from the Life …

Volume 46, Number 01 (January 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Playing Arpeggios

Finding the First-Bests

One Road to Good Piano Technic

Picture and Canvas

Checks—and Checks

Self-Study in the Art of Music (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Musical Question of the Hour: Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Education

Schumann and His Mother

Measuring Musical Minds

What Makes the Musical Person?

Suspended Count

Beethoven's Life Tragedy: Dramatic Episodes in the Career of the Great Composer

New Piece

How a Mother Can Make the Child's Music Study Irresistibly Interesting: How Influences will Make or Ruin the Child's Musical Career

Composers at Work

Romance of Music in Palestine

Musical Reading Clubs

Power …