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Volume 45, Number 12 (December 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sharps and Flats

On Extemporization

How One Community Solved the Recital Problem

Do Your Fingers Kick Out?

Overcoming Indifference

Christmas Everywhere

Seven Reasons Why You or Members of Your Family Should NOT Study the Piano

César Franck Violin Sonata (painting)

Dissonances and Un-Dissonances: A Chapter Dealing with Euphonious and Cacophanous Tone Groupings

Music That is in Every Man (interview with Roxy)

Potential Sound Always Present

Rut of Separate Hand Practice

Things That Lend Brilliance to Piano Playing

Haunts of Great Masters in Vienna (etchings)

Pelicans and the Piano: A New Revelation of the Significance of Practical Musical Training

Roads to …

Volume 45, Number 11 (November 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Branding the Blunders

Mother Music

Musical Education in the Home

How Germany is Striving to Win Back Pre-War Musical Conditions

New Paths in Musical Art (interview with Alfredo Casella)

To Facilitate Note Reading

Aid to Memory and Expression

Mechanics of Art

Treat Your Piano Right: Respect Your Piano in the Home and in the Concert Hall if You Demand the Best Results

Introducing Cora and Dora

Showing an Interest in the Pupil

Teaching the Student to Think

Music as an Inspiration in Art (painting)

Something About Chord-Playing

Successful Radio Performance

Haunts of Great Masters n Vienna (etchings)

Light and Shade …

Volume 45, Number 10 (October 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Is Meant by Equal Temperament?

Have Contrast in Music

What Shall We Do With Bad Musicians?

Operatic Triumph Over Mountain-High Obstacles (interview with Madame Isang Tapales)

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing?

Beethoven's Great Funeral March on the Death of a Hero (monument)

Happy Sides to Beethoven's Life

Fads and Fallacies in Modern Pianism

How to Teach Scales

Two Pianos

Queerest String Instrument in the World

Making Selections of Music for Beginners

Scottish and Other Folksong: Its Relation to Art Music

Translating Practice Into Pleasure

Amber Light for Reading Music

Easy Way to Understand the Triads: …

Volume 45, Number 09 (September 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Shall I Do With My Music? (interview with Howard Hanson)

For Mastering Scale-Like Passages

Evolution of the Staff

Learning the Pedals

Damrosch and New York Symphony

Launching the Musical Artist: How Great Pianists, Violinists and Singers are Presented to the Public

Music and Poetry in Autumn

Leschetizky's Vital Ideas

Some Observations on Practice

Hot and Cold—A Helpful Teaching Idea

How to Get Up a Little Musical Pageant in Your Town

Do Not Run Past the Signals

Scale Signature Design

Maintaining Interest

Short Compositions for the Piano

Building the Grand Staff

Curing Collapsible First Joints of Fingers

Stunts Do Not …

Volume 45, Number 08 (August 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Technic and Beauty in Piano Playing (interview the Guiomar Novaes)

Aim and Achievement

Position at the Keyboard

Perfect Twenty-Four

Mistakes Accompanists Make

Interesting the Boy in Practice

Musical Smiles

All About the Slur: Its Fifteen Uses in Music

Von Buelow in Chicago

Learning the Midas Touch from Schubert's Rosamunde

To Do, Or Not To Do

Interpretation of the Little Classics

Liszt's Impromptu Feat

For a Stiff Wrist

Necessity of Visual Musical Education

Whole Rest and Half Rest Gentlemen

Learning the Art of Conducting With the Aid of the Talking Machine

Something About Tone

Wagner a Nervous Conductor

Learning to Listen …

Volume 45, Number 07 (July 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Nothing But Exercises for Six and One-half Years (interview with Tito Schipa)

Perfection Before Pedal

Why Stop Work When Lessons Stop?

Thought Provoker

Breaking-in the New Lesson

On Developing Good Taste Early

Weight Playing

Managing the Student and the Studio

Rhythmic Motions

It Pays to Advertise

Finger Gymnastics

How to Keep Pupils

Few Hints on Violin Playing (interview with Eddy Brown)

Flowers of Our Lost Romance

Improving the Diatonic Scale

Melody Writing for Little Folks

Your Ally—The Bulletin Board

Asparagus with Brahms

Such Hard Times

Putting Life Into Your Playing: Rhythmical Movement Applied to Technic

What the Cowboy Liked Best …

Volume 45, Number 06 (June 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Staccato, the Spice of Music

Keeping Up One's Music

What Effect Has Jazz Upon Present Day Music and Composers?

Magical Symbols of Notation

Glimpse of Jenny Lind

Association of Teacher and Pupil

Power of Accidentals Outside the Measure

Perfection of the Pianist

Polka

Timepiece of Music

Problem of Mixed Time

How the Musician Should Deal with Nerves

Listening In

Musical Vacation

Slow Scale Practice

Can You Tell?—Quiz

How to Give a Delightful Summer Musicale

Phonograph Master Class

Romance of the Scales

Charles Wakefield Cadman All-American Composer

Lucy Learns the Art of Dancing: A Humorous Recitation

Too Big for Him

How …

Volume 45, Number 05 (May 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Secret of Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

What Music Thinkers Think

Ten Rules for Writing Music

Simple Ear Test

Making a Musical Start

Can You Tell? Contest

How to Play Glissandos

Vanishing Folksong

Teaching Scales to Young People

Make the Pupils Do the Work

Early Steps in Music

Pedal Study

One Perfect Number

More Questions from Teachers, Answered

Phenomena of the Wonder Child: Musical Prodigies of Today and Yesterday

Form in Music

Famous Liszt Cadenza Simplified

Gymnasium of the Singers: Technic That Produces Definite Results

Let the Pupils Do It

Scientific Grading

Bel Canto Legend

Leschetizky and the Invalid

My …

Volume 45, Number 04 (April 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Use the Weight and Relaxation Method

Were Bach, Mozart and Schubert Poorly Paid

Musical Note

Points on Practicing

Drawing and Accenting

Secret of Touch or How to Extract the Most Beautiful Tone from the Pianoforte

Substituting Flats for Sharps

Music Creed

Another Use for the Metronome

Shifting the Staves

Can I Learn to Count?

Hints on Rapid, Flexible Playing

Training the Brain to Remember and Reproduce Music

Avoiding After-Pressure on the Keys

Starting a Miniature Conservatory

Getting the Pupil to Think

Aiding the Late Beginner

Great Masters as Students—Beethoven

For Stretching the Hand

Aristoxenus The Modern

Jumping the …

Volume 45, Number 03 (March 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Debussy: His Significance in the History of Piano Literature

Setting High Standards

What Music Does to Youth

Study of Octave Playing

Power of the Dot in Music

How to Estimate the Right Tempo

Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions as a Foundation for Polyphonic Playing

Art of Giving an Interesting Lesson

Getting Right Down to Business

Graded Scrap Books

Quiet Practice

What Active Musi Workers are Thinking and Saying

Viewpoints and Side Lights: Concerning Minor Keys

Bugbear Turned to Account

Excellent Program of Compositions by Amercan Women

Sharps and Flats Contest

What Music is Doing for College Students

Haydn's Opinion …

Volume 45, Number 02 (February 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Every Music Lover Should Know About the Band

Encourage Expression

Distinguishing Between Whole and Half Rests

Scale Contests

Patriotism in Music

Adult Beginner

Only One Chance

Some Other Values

Banish Monotony

Common Sense in Piano Study

Life Stories of Great Masters

Dullard of Finger Family

Coney to Carnegie: In Which He Tells What Determination and Hard Work May Do for the Young Singer

Painting a Fugue

Keeping in Daily Touch with the Pupil

Grieg and the Royal Decoration

Theory of Major and Minor Keys for Beginners

Foot-Work at the Piano

Making Music Lessons Interesting

Playing Teacher

Just Before Playing …

Volume 45, Number 01 (January 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the State (Editorial)

Giving Vitality to the Phrase: Showing How Better Accenting Makes Better Playing

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Why Count?

Practical Acoustics for Musicians

Eight Ways for Making One's Playing Musicianly

More I Practice, the Worse I Get

Russian Amateurs

Conservation of Energy in Music Readin

Robert Schumann

New Picture of Edward MacDowell

Another Way to Teach Harmony

Good Music—Bad Piano

Breath Marks

Mental Aids to Memorizing

Put On the Brakes

High Calling of the Teacher

Playing Accompaniments

Useful Test

How Music Theory Helps Music Lovers

Counting Aloud

Baffling Difficulty

What Assignments …

Volume 44, Number 12 (December 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of Clarity in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Harold Samuel)

Teaching the Adult Beginner

Counting for Balky Pupils

How to Teach the Notes on the Grand Staff Beginning with Middle C

Don't Hurry! The Tortoise Won

Music-Sharing Plan

Leschetizky Memorial Dedicated

Interesting Ways of Giving Harmony Examination

How Kullak Taught Octaves

When to Practice Each Hand Alone

Practice Audiences

Good Equipment Necessary for Good Instruction

Schubert the Modernist

Young Student's Measure

Relative Minors

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and How to Play Them

Musical Postcards

Schubertiana

Character Study of George Frederic Handel

Last Lesson First

Golden Age of Music: Henry T. Finck's …

Volume 44, Number 11 (November 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Character Sketch of Schubert

Franz Schubert as Others Saw Him

Marriage of Rhythm and Rubato

What Does Technic Mean to You?

Question of More Pep

Scaling the Technic Ladder

Gaining Pupil's Confidence

Piano Lesson in Vaudeville

Mental Tests

Quo Vadis Piano?: Which Way is Pianistic Art Turning?

For Lycidas is Dean, Young Lycidas—Milton

Thoughts from Schubert

Teacher—Mother—Pupil

Musician's Library

Wisdom of Women Musical Workers: What Women Musicians are Thinking

Some Unconsidered Details Often Neglected

Inspiring Confidence

Schubert's Life in Anecdote

Schubert in Romance

How to Read Music Accurately, Rapidly and Comfortably

Why and When the Fourth Finger

Practicing New Scales …

Volume 44, Number 10 (October 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Don't! An Article for Budding Professionals

Selling One's Service

Music That Endures

Safe and Sane Memorizing

Daddy's Musical Family

Variety in Recitals

Solving Rhythmical Riddles

How to Improve Your Sight Reading

Can I Develop Absolute Pitch?

When Shall I Stop Learning?

Marvel of the Human Voice: How Natural Methods of Training Produce Exceptional Results (interview with Oscar Saenger)

Engaging a New Music Teacher

Faithful Pupil

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land

Personality of Rameau

Making the Most of the First Year

Dictionary Habit

Practical Lessons in Hand Culture

Little Life Stories of Great Masters: Biographies in Catechism Form

Queer Notation

Aids …

Volume 44, Number 09 (September 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Did Beethoven Jazz?

Laughing Chorus

Music on the Other Side of the World (interview with Mischa Levitzki)

Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing

Lesson with Chopin

Litle Help on the C Scale Fingering

Remarkable Art of Georges Bizet

When the Wrong Note is It

Teach Both Staffs from the Beginning

Musical Bank Account

Memorial to Louis C. Elson

Magic of Details

Why Not More Home Group Music?

Musical Instruments of Yesteryear

Magnifying Pedal

On Always Progressing

Lessons Away from the Piano

Striking Wrong Notes

Bach at the Organ

Select the Proper …

Volume 44, Number 08 (August 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chronologial Progress in Musical Art (interview with Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky)

Beethoven's Literary Education

I Will

Backing Up

Musical Fundamentals Which Every Student Should Know

Bugaboo of Memorizing

Enthusiastic and Popular Teacher

To Keep Up a Repertoire

Teach by Comparisons

Competent Chopin Commentaries

Music and Morocco

Pupils' Time Wasters

Paris Grand Opera House

Caruso's Meeting with Puccini

Research

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land, Part 2

Real Chopin

Teaching the Sharps and Flats

Your Teacher Enjoys

Geometric Gymnastics

Improving a Pupil's Sense of Rhythm

Planting a Musical Garden

Helping the Beginner

Well-Known Transcriptions and Arrangements for Piano

Give Me Little Classics

Unique …

Volume 44, Number 07 (July 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Our Own Musical To-Morrow

Why the World Needs Music (interview with Henry Van Dyke)

Unnecessary Movement

In Defense of Etudes

Keys' Sang

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and How to Teach Them, Part 3

Make Friends of Your Instruments

When You Play That Piece

Let's Pretend

Great Men and the Power of Music

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land

Practice Won't Wait Said Rubinstein

Do You Listen?

Education of the Average Student in Music

Romanticism in Music

Practicing Versus Playing

Student Takes Stock

Musicians and Their Hair

Professional Etiquette

Indoor Relay Race in Scales

One Key at a Time

Unused Faculties

Self Help …

Volume 44, Number 06 (June 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Everything Counts in Your Musical Success (interview with Lawrence Tibbett)

Vale, Melodeon!

Profitable Lesson in Playing Double Notes

Women's Orchestras in 18th Century Italy

Simple Help for Scale-Mastery

Attention and Getting Along

Practical Point for Practical Teachers

Getting the Hang of the Rhythm

Various Ways of Writing Dots and Their Corresponding Touches

Rightly Learned Piece

Learning the Keyboard

How Words Help

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Adult Beginner and His Problems

For the Musically Slow

Selecting Compositions for Your Pupils

Cyril Scott and His Ego

How to Play Correctly Two Notes Against Three

Thumb Drill of …

Volume 44, Number 05 (May 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, and How to Play Them

Getting Technic Away from the Keyboard

Vitality in Practice

I Am Music

Silent Practice

Study of Scales

Speeding Up Sight Reading

Going to Opera and Concerts in Europe

Syncopation

Teaching the Child to Listen

Study in Rhythm

Chopin as a Master of Form

Reading the Bass Clef

Notable Musical Program: The Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial, 1776-1926

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing? Some Experiments in the Fundamentals of Passage-Playing

Making Changes in Tempo

Time Keeper

First Steps in Transposition

On Selecting Music for Pupils

What Great Men Said About Chopin

Art …

Volume 44, Number 04 (April 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hungary' Love for Music

Waiting for Inspiration

Slow Down

Don't Play Your Hardest Pieces in Public

Regular Practice Counts

Psychology of Reading Music at Sight

Dead Notes

Little Life Stories of the Great Masters

Strength of Silence

Hungary, the Land of Rhythm and Melody (interview with Yolanda Mëro)

Reveling in Music

Chord Playing

Imitation in Musical Compositions

Aids for the Slow Reader

Irresistible Lure of Gypsy Music

Practical Method of Teaching Treble and Bass Notes

Five Reasons Why You Should Study the Piano

Nervousness

Get a Musical Education First (interview with Margarete Matzenauer)

Our Musical Esperanto

On Temper in Piano …

Volume 44, Number 03 (March 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Under No Consideration Would I Give Up Music (interview with Ralph Modjeski)

Are Scales Worth-While?

Winter Musicales

Equal Finger Development

Most Musical Town in the World

Mixing Heart with Art

Getting the Student's Measure

Some Points in Pianoforte Duet Playing

Thought Starters

Chopin's Preludes as Interpreted by Liszt

Hard Pierce!

Helps Along the Road

True Chopin

Slow Practice on Old Pieces

Resolves for the New Year

Some Inspirations of Composers

Little Life Stories of the Great Masters

Chopin Reflections

Chopin in His Last Years

Can Expressive Playing be Taught?

Teach Children to Compose

Music of Ireland

Music Teachers' Organizations Honor …

Volume 44, Number 02 (February 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin: A Eulogy Upon the Greatest of Polish Musicians

Chopin's Estimate of Other Musicians

Six Don’t's for Young Students

Chopin Pilgrimage in the Mediterranean

What the Piano Teacher Must Know

Interesting Class Lessons

Vary the Position

Present-Day Significance of Chopin

Inspirational Moments

Climaxes in Chopin's Art

Character Study of Chopin

Chopin Reflections

Episodes on the Life of Chopin: Milestones, Musical and Otherwise, in the Career of the Most Famous Master of Piano Music

First Lesson on the Keyboard

Can You Discriminate?

Genius of Chopin

Chopin Character Lines

Chopin and Schumann Play Quits

Chopin Chronology

That New Composition

Advice on the …

Volume 44, Number 01 (January 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tributes from Eminent Men and Women to Theodore Presser

How to Teach the Major and Minor Scales

Suggestion for Orchestra Goers

Some Aspects of America's Advance in the Musical Art (interview with Owen Wister)

Practice Hour for the Rusty Housewife

Character Study of Theodore Presser the Man: Biography of Theodore Presser as it Appears in Who's Who for 1925

Inspirational Moments

What Part Has Modernism in Present Day Piano Study

Teaching Old Pianists New Tricks

Touch

Utilizing Sensations

Life Appreciations of Theodore Presser from Those Who Knew Him

Opus-Numbers

Adaptable Wrist-Action

Practical Fingering Illustrated for Individual Needs: A Self-Help for …

Volume 43, Number 12 (December 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music the Humanizer

Tinsel and Gold of Opera

Studying Aloud

Collapsible Fingers

How to Prepare for Playing in Concerts

Artistic Execution of Octaves

Don't Discourage the Pupil by Beginning all Over Again

Facts about Early Musicians

Brahms, Tausig and Some Variations

Your Chances of Scaling the Operatic Heights (interview with Maria Jeritza)

Two Geniuses in One Apartment

Touch that Thrills

Brahms on Composing Songs

Dictionary Dick

Keyboard Guides

New Ideas on Study and Practice (interview with Percy Grainger)

Some Suggestions for Sightreading

Keep Sweet

Relaxed Piano Playing

Steps Upward

Landing on Skips

Need for Merry Music

Rising Tide of Musical …

Volume 43, Number 11 (November 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Singer and the Church

Analysis and the Synthesis as Related to Theory and Practice

Vocal Introspection

Technic of Singing

Italian Aspect of the Art of Pianoforte Playingn (interview with Maria Carreras)

Try Praise

Four Charming Pupils' Recitals

Contemporary Musical Comments

Digging and Plodding in Music: How Work Solves Many Student Problems

Counting Contest

Class Lessons and Accenting

Private Box

Writing Harmony Exercises

Amateur Composers

Musical Peep-Hole Museum

How to Organize a Community Chorus: Practical Advice Based Upon Wide Experience Here and Abroad

Arabian Music

Missed Lesson, Again

Debutante's Publicity

Most Important Element in Piano Technic: How to Avoid Nervous Breakdown …

Volume 43, Number 10 (October 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Talks on Playing the Piano

Inspirational Moments with Cultured Minds that Love Music

To Promote Clean Playing

Tone Color Explained: Why Does the Same Note Sound Differently When Played by Different Instruments? What are Harmonics?

You Are Responsible

Touch Piano Playing

Little Life Stories of the Great Masters—Verdi

Teaching With Enthusiasm

Principles of Fingering in Piano Playing

Eternal Vigilance the Price of Technic

Ferdinand Himmelreich

Piano in Modern Music

Why Wagner Triumphed: An Understanding of the Ideals and Principles Which He Pursued Indefatigably

What About Class Instruction?

Music Teacher's Debt to the Automobile

Little Facts from Musical History

Master Thoughts …

Volume 43, Number 09 (September 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Play an Artistic Accompaniment

How Health Affects the Memory

Musical Maxims

Rebuilding a Long-Neglected Piano Technic

How Music is Saving Thousands From Permanent Mental Breakdown: Remarkable Results of Experiments and Investigations Now Being Conducted in Large Hospitals for Mental Diseases and In Penal Institutions (interview with Willem van de Wall)

Small Talent

Musical Spelling Bee

Teacher's Turn

Those Excuses!

Music of the Spheres: How the Musician May Develop His Soul Through the Study of the Stars

How Goldmark Won a Hearing

Talking Machine and Small Children

Finger Taps

Imagination in Playing

Helpful Hint for Teachers

Those Little Feet …

Volume 43, Number 08 (August 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Modern Ideas in Pianoforte Technic (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

Developing a Sense of Rhythm

What Schubert Thought About

There is Music in the Air

Mirth and Music: A Midsummer Page of Merriment and Wit of the Famous Musicians, Taken from the Recent Highly Entertaining Book, Musical Laughs

Reading Music by Groups

Your Musical Memory—How to Enlarge It

Carmen's Half Century

Schubert's Daily Round

Virtuosity Versus Musicianship

Motives

Naming the Note Family

Systematic Practice Plan

Mastering Forearm Movements

John Brown, of John Brown's Body

Mean and Cranky

How to Select a Teacher

American Renaissance of Johann Sebastian Bach (interview with …

Volume 43, Number 07 (July 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Era of Great Orchestral Conductors in America

Gottschalk Bit His Nails

Everlasting Fight for Good Music

Those Fourth and Fifth Fingers

First Steps in Memorizing

Use of the Pedals

Feel the Rhythm

What is Thematic Development?

Another Way to Memorize

Practice of Arpeggios

Felix Le Couppey

Tempest, A Musical Play

Help to Acquire a Brilliant Technic

Contagious Short Motive

Von Buelow and His Vidow

Can I Learn to Conduct?: Practical Hints on Conducting Orchestras and Choruses

Four Charming Pupils' Recitals

Protect Your Friends From This Monstrous Musical Swindle

True-False Examination in Music

Miss Blank's Method

When to Leave a Teacher