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Volume 43, Number 06 (June 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Master Secret of a Great Teacher (interview with Alexander Brailowsky)

Rossini's Musical Opinions

Inspirational Moments with Eminent Friends of Music

Indefatigable Czerny

Running Down Bad Habits

Most Important Principle in Piano Practice: What Rubinstein Said Was the Greatest Thing He Could Teach His Pupils

Value of Togetherness

How to Make Practice Interesting

Reaching the Boy Through Good Music: Notable Work Conducted in Junior Orchestras, Boy Bands and Harmonica Clubs

Suggestions for Summer Work

Tears of Berlioz

Beautifying Octaves

Musical Americana

Keyboard Tricks of Great Virtuosi

How Gottschalk Avoided Stage-Fright

Weight-Playing

What the Music Student Should Know About the Minor Scale …

Volume 43, Number 05 (May 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Makes Piano Playing Difficult?

How the Busy Teacher Can Develop His Hearing

Lessonettes

My Card System

Practicing for Perfection

Prelude to Practice

Beat Before the First

What is Music?

I Simply Cannot Memorize: Of Course You Can If You Know How and Sincerely Desire to Memorize

Train Scale

Putitng Pep into Piano Practice

Fascinatng Facts from Musical History

New Ways of Studying Runs

Child's First Lesson

Learning How to Finger: How to Avoid Brain Waste and Time Waste by Knowing Just Which Digits to Employ

Do Not Anticipate

Ten Times

Scientific Reviewing

What Are Really the World's Greatest Masterpieces …

Volume 43, Number 04 (April 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How I Came to Love Music (interview with Edward W.Bok)

Piano Keyboard for Young Beginners

Education Is Learning to Do

Saint-Saëns' Marche Heroique

Don't Expect the Teacher To Do It All

Introduction and Prelude

One Way to Memorize

Studio Staccatos

Breaking Off in Playing

Ingredients of a Great Pianist

How Sound Differs From Noise

Needed Musical Innovations

Self Instruction in the Art of Touch

Father of the Pianoforte

How to Become an Expert in Piano Technic

Great Composers' Love of Flowers: With Suggestions for a Springtime Flower-Music Recital

Pointer Instead of Pencil

Trill in the Works of the Masters

How …

Volume 43, Number 03 (March 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making of a Virtuoso Violinist (interview with Leopold Auer)

How Haydn Got His Job

How Von Weber Looked

Keep Your Piano in Tune

Famous London Physician on the Healing Power of Music

Exaggeration

Curbing the Music Student's Mania for Speed

Musical Bed Rock

For Pupils Slow in Reading Notes

Scientific Hand and Finger Placement, and Other Essentials to Artistic Success

Learning the Staff

What Practice Really Is

Analysis Without Harmony

Teaching the Scale to a New Pupil

What It Means to Put Over a Popular Song

Golden Slowness

Pedal Pointers

Deportment at the Piano

Set Your Mark High

Pirates on …

Volume 43, Number 02 (February 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tests of Rhythm

Interpretation for the Child

Smallest Interval

Bass Bothers Me

How Not to Practice

Promise with a Purpose

Melody and Accompaniment with One Hand

What Should the Musician Know About Business?

Play Often

Inspirational Moments

Short Cuts to Piano Proficiency: Four Simple Measures of Technic to be Practiced in Many Different Ways

Crossing the Hands

Tone-Color for the Amateur Pianist

Time-Keeping in Music

How to Bring an Earlier Technic Up to Date

Analyzing Melodies

Keeping a Repertoire Fresh

Side Lights

Musicians Do Not Sleep Enough

Avoiding Monotony in Scale Practice

Substitution of Fingers

Resourceful Piano

Vanquished Conductor

Why …

Volume 43, Number 01 (January 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Errors that Young People Make

Limbering Up Exercise

Repose in Teaching

Just Wondering

Playing Class

Touch and Hearing

Finger Elastic Touch

Scale Practice

So-Called Soft Pedal

Keeping Your Teaching Alive by Constant Study

Taking Stock of Ourselves

Be an Optimistic Teacher

Why Make Music Hideous? Down with the Uglifyers of Music

When is a Melody?

About the Trill

Accent—The Life Pulse in Music

How Mozart Composed

Giving a Musicale

Strengthening the Fingers

What Radio Means to the Music Student

Pointers on Beginner's Practice

Fear of Black Notes

When Practice is Practice

Body Touch

Concerts in Africa

Why is There So …

Volume 42, Number 12 (December 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Acquiring a Technic of Interpretation

Public Library

Inspirational Moments

Why a Musical Italy?

Ring Out, Ye Bells!: How to Secure Bell Effects in Piano Music

Illustration and Demonstration in Teaching

Exercises for Development of Extensors

Triumph of Grieg: How the Great Norwegian Composer Has Gained Permanent Recognition

Seven Practices to Conquer Difficulties

Play Days of Musicians

Are You Going Caroling This Christmas? Revival of a Mediaeval Custom Which is Sweeping the Country: Stories of the Most Famous Christmas Carols and Christmas Folk Songs

Musical Class Training

Giving the Fingers a Vacation

Waking Dozing Students

Determination Masters Piece

Rubinstein's Master Methods …

Volume 42, Number 11 (November 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Why is So Much Piano Playing Dull and Uninteresting to Listen To?

Serious Danger to Some Young Students in Large Cities

Another Way with Arpeggios

What Chance Has the Adult Beginner in Music?

How Ought Bach to be Played?

Keyboard Motions that Insure Better Piano Playing

Infinite Pains and Genius

What Studies Shall I Use?

Virtuosity Discounted in England

Origin of Creole Rhythms

Two Against Three Exercise

Use the Dictionary

Is Bach Dull?

Bernhard Hamblen

How Famous Virtuosos Hypnotize Audiences

Useful Triad

To Acquire Speed with Accuracy and Without Hesitation

Improving Hand Stretch

Power of Music: What Great Minds Have …

Volume 42, Number 10 (October 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Recollections of Master Musicians and Master Pianists Whom I Have Known

What a Music Lesson Should Contain

Some Effects of Music

Pranks on Parnassus: How Great Composers Have Seen the Humorous and Joyous Side of Life

Finding the Right Fingers in the Right Time

Crossing Hands

Study Stimulants

From Wonderchild To Diva (interview with Marcella Sembrich)

Mirrors for Hand Position

Syncopated Pedal

Lesson on Stems

How to Go About Studying Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Progressive Order in Which to Take Up Each Number

Something About Accents

Immortals Protest Against Jazz: Brahms, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Rubinstein and Schubert Strike for their Right

Things …

Volume 42, Number 09 (September 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Schumann—The Master of Child Music: Why Schumann's Muisc Has Had Such a Great Influence on the Education of the Young

Small-Hands Pupil

Making Practice Pleasant

What Touch Shall I Use in Phrasing? A Much-Needed Discussion of an Everyday Musical Problem

Helpful Hints on Practicing

Velvet Tone

Runaway Warhorses

Turning Music Noiselessly

What Effect is Jazz Likely to Have Upon the Music of the Future? (interview with Percy Grainger)

Why Chopin Used a Metronome

Sharps and Flats for Little Ones

Sight-Reading Without a Teacher

Will You Pay the Price

Teach Coöperation by the Use of Two Pianos

Carrots for a Donkey …

Volume 42, Number 08 (August 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Where is Jazz Leading America: Opinions of Famous Men and Women In and Out of Music (Symposium)

Learning to Memorize: A Pianoforte Lesson

Story of the Trill, or Shake

Making Exercises Interesting

Legato—Plus Ears

Is the Triangle a Musical Instrument

What is Jazz Doing to American Music? (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Strike Once, Not Twice

Lincoln Sets Students an Example

Things to Teach My Pupils Every Day

Drill-Master or Music Teacher

Give Your Favorite Exercise a Rest

Musical Nation

Children as Imitators

American Dance Music is Not Jazz

What Gottschalk Said to Carreno

Stop, Look, Listen!

Jazz—Lowbrow and Highbrow

Hand-Made …

Volume 42, Number 07 (July 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Facts About Music and Shakespeare

How Schubert Found Inspiration From a Coffee Mill

How Queen Elizabeth Played the Virginal

Value of Two-Finger Exercises

Changes of Key

Unrest in Study

Self-Help, Eight Weeks' Intensive Summer Course in Pianoforte Study

Grand Piano Gives a Lesson

Don't Interrupt Pupils

Spring Day, a Pitch-Pipe and Some Ear-Training

How Little Italy Requires Its Funeral Marches

Pigeon-Toed Hands and Fingers with Arched Insteps

Musical Dialogue

Haydn's Gay Heart

Tchaikowski's Strange Marriage

Indecent Music

Moment's Notice Repertoire

How a Famous Engineer Studies a New Composition: A Practical Talk on Study Analysis

Listening to Learn from Master Pianists …

Volume 42, Number 06 (June 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fundamentals That Lead to Musicianly Pianoforte Playing

Misplaced Bars

Walking for Teachers and Students

Eisteddfod

Boston's Musical Past

How Much Do Appearances Count?

What the Great Masters of Music Have Done for Little Folks: Famous Sets of Pieces Which Children Should Have an Opportunity to Learn

Starvation Methods for Students

Counterfelts in Musical History

Easiest Way

Episodes in the Life of a Famous Conductor: Pen Pictures from the Autobiography of Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra

Tremolo

Prepare Your Lessons, Teachers!

Finger Stretching and Strenghtening Exercises

Pointers for the Beginning Teacher of Music

Away from the Half-Hour …

Volume 42, Number 05 (May 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Souvenirs of Famous Musicians

Music Student, Prepare to Teach

Maxims for the Music Teacher

Simplifying Accidentals

Better Way to Count

Pointers for Teaching the Bass Notes

Build Well

What is the Purpose of Music? What is the Influence of the Tonal Art on Mankind?

Forcing Habit

Effective Method in Teaching

Memory Work and Public Performance

Table for Correct Fingering of Common-Chord Arpeggios

Walking Time

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons

Handel Shrine

Three Ways for Practicing the Scale

Sidelights of Human Nature

Teach First the Effect—The Method Afterward

Virtuoso Pianists and Virtuoso Conductors

To the Earnest Pupil

Quick …

Volume 42, Number 04 (April 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

If Franz Liszt Should Come Back Again (interview with Moritz Rosenthal)

Stiff Thumb

Use of Damper Pedal for Young Pianists

Scales for the Little Ones

Distinctive Traits of Great Masters

How a Great French Poet Inspired a German Genius: Wagner's Letter from the Poet Baudelaire

Mastering a New Piece of Music

How Much Technic

In Tune with the Laws of Sound—Voices are Born and Then Made

Fun in Music

Who Wrote Amaryllis?

When Should Pupils Discontinue Music Lessons

Common Musical Sense

Motet That Stopped Storms

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons

Some Don'ts for the Teacher

Idealism in …

Volume 42, Number 03 (March 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

World Court of Eminent Musicians Discuss the Ten Great Masterpieces: Probably the Most Distinguished Group of Composers, Interpreters and Musical Authorities Ever Assembled in Such a Symposium

Beginner and the Pedal: Bringing Charm to the First Stages of Piano Playing

How to Observe the Signature Correctly

Violin Student's Fundamentals (interview with Otakar Sevcik)

Musical Telepathy

Fall-board Protector

Too Old for Music Study?

Interest! Initiative!

Test for the First Year Piano Student

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing

Left-Hand Faults

Student Helps

Curious Facts About the Names of Musical Instruments

Press Hard

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Double Cure

For the Teacher …

Volume 42, Number 02 (February 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music, Musicians and Music-Lovers: Some Notable Personalities as Seen by the Distinguished Modernist

Savez-Vous?

Think It Out Yourself

Composer of the Famous Fifth Nocturne

What Are My Earning Possibilities in Music?

Hints on Passing Musical Examinations

Using Our Best Gift

Scales Day by Day

After-School Pupil

Thresholds of Vocal Art, Part 2 (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)

Pointers on Chart Teaching?

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons, Practical Advice for the Young Teacher

Early Beginning in Theory

Boys' Recital

Basic Principles in Piano Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Stumbling Block in Reading

If Liszt Came Back Again?

Starting That …

Volume 42, Number 01 (January 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Inspirational Moments: Comments of Contemporary Music Lovers

Thresholds of Vocal Art (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)

Berlioz's Pot-Boiling Period

Meyerbeer's Industry

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Ancient Musical Faction

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons

Praise of a Poor Piano: A Paradox

Half-Hour a Day

What is the Signature?

Humor of Richard Wagner

Life Helps and Inspiration from Noted Contemporaries

Poor Beethoven!

Overture Hints

Personal Glimpses of the Masters

Necessary Points in Gaining Control: Many Little Points in Getting a Grasp Upon the Practical Phases of Pianoforte Playing, by Adopting Sensible Devices

Style

Helping Neglected Muscles

Community Teachers' Recital …

Volume 41, Number 12 (December 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Robert Schumann

Basic Principles of Piano Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Great Composers and Their Predominant Moods

How the Rural Music Teacher Can Stimulate Interest

What the Metropolitan Music Critic Looks for Most

Boney Structure of the Hand

Manna-Zucca (Biographical)

Echoes from the Work Shop

Legato Touch

Favorite Instruments of the Great Composers

Out of Tune—Out of Music

Should Piano Playing Undergo a Radical Reform? (interview with Vladimir de Pachmann)

Do It Again

How to Avoid Fumbling at the Keyboard

Beethoven's Novelties in Instrumentation

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Unheard Practice

Importance of Accompanying

Play as You Think—Think as You …

Volume 41, Number 11 (November 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Adults and Piano Playing: Problems of the Student Who Seeks to Develop His Playing When Past the Age of Twenty (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)

Stretching Exercises

Word Pastel Portraits of Chopin

Chopin's Tempo Rubato

Helpful Hints to Disheartened Students

How Masterpieces are Made: Distinctive Methods Used by the Great Masters

Is the Modern Piano a Perfect Instrument?

Why Musical Prodigies Usually Retire Early in Life

Form in Music

Save Your Energy

Trapping the Parent

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Why Not?

Secret of Efficiency

Opportunities of the Music Supervisor

Development of Touch

Practical Ideas on the …

Volume 41, Number 10 (October 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Our Fortieth Anniversary: Four Decades in the History of the Theo. Presser Company

Chronological Histoy of The Etude Music Magazine and the Theo. Presser Company

Fortieth Anniversary Prophecies and Greetings: World Famous Composers, Teachers, Critics and Interpretive Artists Have Something to Say About Music Forty Years from Now

Letter from the Leipzig Conservatory

Get Pleasure!

Momentous Musical Meeting: Thomas A. Edison and Lt. Comm. John Philip Sousa Meet for the First Time and Talk Upon Music

Music and Organized Labor

Important to Remember

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing

Studio Notes

True or False? Can You Decide?

Daily Health Exercises Especially …

Volume 41, Number 09 (September 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Vital Point Piano Students Miss: Things that Young Pianists Forget (interview with Frederic Lamond)

Training Eyes and Ears

Taking Care of the Piano: Expert Advice by the National Association of Piano Tuners

Colorful Practice

Success and the Music Teacher's Health: What the Teacher Must Do to Keep Fit

Rubber Stamps that Help

Piano Playing Up to Date

Musical History Intelligence Test: Question on the Lives of the Great Composers

Is This the Golden Age of Voice? (interview with Madame Lucrezia Bori)

Master Singers on Tone Production—Symposium

Serious Piano Student's Ultimate Goal

Look at Your Music Shelf

Simplified Reading for …

Volume 41, Number 08 (August 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Leaves from a Virtuoso's Note Book: Practical Study Ideas form Personal Contact with Liszt and Rubinstein (interview with Alexander Siloti)

First Use of the Damper

Tell How Teacher

Making Programs Atrractive

Secret of Caruso's Glorious Voice: What Made the Voice of the Greatest of Tenors so Wonderful and Powerful

Really Use Your Magazines

Need of Muscular Freedom

Carnivals in Music

Transposing Exercises to Build Technic

Demolishing Criticism

Musical Vistas: Sketches from a Busy Musical Life

Swimming to Music

Those Pictured Walls

Ten Be's that Do Not Sting

True of False! Which? Musical Screws to Adjust

Musical Debt ot Aristocracy

Join …

Volume 41, Number 07 (July 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Poetry and Practice (interview with Guiomar Novaes)

Lesson from the Birds

Teachers' Obligation to Public

Music Teacher's Obligation to the General Public

Seven Things to Keep Little Musicians Interested

False Tendencies in Present-day Piano Teaching

Right Attitude

Slow Movement

Musician's Social Cheque

Memorizing through Writing

How It's Done

Praise and Its Value

Musical Temperament

Sonata in Musical Literature

Oriental Music

Self-Training in Sight Reading

Making Class Work Profitable with Music Pupils

Thinkn Do

Musical History Intelligence Test: Question on the Lives of the Great Composers

From a Teacher's Letter

Tennis for Technic

Creating Interest in a Beginner

How to Organize …

Volume 41, Number 06 (June 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Labor: Comments from Famous Americans Upon the Need for Music in Business

Famous Industrial Bands

Team Work with Pupils

Origin of Marks of Expression

Correspondence Column

Keeping at the Front as Hard as Getting There

Abnormal Music vs. Sane Music

Time Cards for Busy Students

Study of the Hand in Piano Playing

Common-Sense Arpeggio Study

Facts about Bars

What is the Best Fingering

How to Overcome Nervousness

Musical Joy Within

Here Comes the Bride: A Junetime Story of the Great Wedding Music of Yesterday and To-day for the Church and for the Home

How Long Shall I Hold …

Volume 41, Number 05 (May 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How I Got Rid of Nervousness in Public

How Mother Collected Her Bills

How Shall We Study

Why Do I Make Mistakes? How Can I Correct Them?

Don’t's for Parents

How Russian Students Work (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

A Plea for the Can't-plays

Why Do Not More Men Take Up Music? Some Thoughts on the Feminization of Music, Yeserday and To-day

Musical History Intelligence Test: Question on the Lives of the Great Composers

Primary Methods in Music

Trick of Confidence

On the Perfecting of the Fourth and Fifth Fingers

Training the Fingers for Quick Results in Accuracy and Speed

Musical …

Volume 41, Number 04 (April 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Selection of Pieces

What is Good Singing?

Why We Should Sing the Master Songs

Yodeling in the Alps

New Lights on the Art of the Piano (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Practical Practice

Teacher in Feathers

Anthems to Kill Time

America's Favorite Hymns: A Discussion Representing the Entire Country Resulting from 32,000 Hymn Titles Sent to The Etude

Romance of Hymns and Tunes

Artistic Production of Octaves

Securing the Mother's Coöperation

Untangling Minor Scales

Making Scales Fascinating

Stirring the Pupil's Imagination

Mystery of Inspiration (interview with Rudolf Friml)

How Can We Interest the Beginner?

Original Rock of Ages

From Broadway to …

Volume 41, Number 03 (March 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chances of the American Girl in Grand Opera (interview with Giulio Gati-Casazza)

Musical Scrap Book

How to Conduct a Music Memory Contest

Look Out for the Runner-up

Making Cans Out of Can'ts

Six Cardinal Points in Trill Playing

Training In

Practical Means for Developing Better Violin Playing (interview with Albert Spalding)

No Duke Need Apply

Home of Yankee Doodle

Make the Minutes Count

Young Musician and a College Position

Singing Your Piano Pieces

When Octaves Leap-Frog

Finding Fun in Teaching

Producing the Staccao and Legato

Lure of Mozart

Highest Pleasure in Music

Poetic and Melodic Gifts of the Negro

Examples …

Volume 41, Number 02 (February 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting a Start as a Virtuoso (interview with Mischa Levitzki)

Practice Rules

Cultivated Eccentricities of Musicians: Their Futility

Turning Old-Fashioned Musical Traditions Upside Down

Musical Biographical Catechism Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters—Robert Schumann

Parents of Famous Composers

Word of Praise—The Fairy Wand

Finger Liberty Through Scale Playing

How Caruso Practiced Daily

Show Interest in Your Pupils

Poison for Omitted Sharps and Flats

Memorize at Least Twenty Pieces

Musicians and Brain Collapse

Make the First Lesson Exciting

Five Fertile Years of Music

Some Vagaries of Counting

Your Successor

What the Young Composer Must Know

Greater Value of Technical Studies

Build …

Volume 41, Number 01 (January 1923), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of Keeping the Voice (interview with Giuseppe de Luca)

Simple Facts in Developing a Musical Memory

Ear Training for Beginners

Teaching a Five-Year-Old

Knowing the Scales

How I Earned My Musical Education: A Series of Personal Experiences from Real Music Workers

Memorizing Our Moods

Sight Reading

That Heavy Thumb

When the Contralto Was a Curiosity

Every-Day Pianistic Blunders and How to Cure Them

Eyes and No Eyes

Positive Results form Positive Routine

Secret of Staccato

Historic Musical Memories: How Famous Musicians Have Kept Immense Numbers of Musical Compositions in Their Minds for Long Periods of Time

How to Laugh …