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Volume 37, Number 12 (December 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music of the Vatican (interview with Canon Monsignore Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri)

Be Ambitious

Organize in Your Own Town

How to Prepare a Number in a Given Time

What About Your Left Hand?

Accentuation

Borrowed Chords and Fancy Chords

Conquering the Hard Spots

Moving Ahead

Musical Classics for the Millions: A Present-day Revolution in Methods of Musical Dissemination Which is Bound to Have Far-reching Results, Through the Movies and Music (interview with Hugo Riesenfeld)

Habit is Second Nature

No Such Thing as Miracles

Studio Revelations

Fingering

Relative Value of Accent in Pianoforte Playing

I Can't Memorize Music!

Introducing the Pupil to …

Volume 37, Number 11 (November 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Echoes of Musical Czecho-Slovakia (interview with Josef Stransky)

Real Tendencies of Czecho-Slovak Music

If at First You Don't Succeed

Playing Without Looking at the Keys

Birth of the Czecho-Slavék Republic through Song

Invitation to Song: A Literal Translation of a Poem by Tablonsky

How the Name Bohemian Came Into False Repute

Bedrich Smetana, Founder of Modern Czecho-Slovak Music

Thumbnail Biography of Antonin Dvorék

Dvorák as I Knew Him

Great Masters as Music Teachers

Do Your Fingers Follow Your Eye?

Marks of Expression

Why Music is the Soul of Czechoslovakia

Neckache

Working Through Opposites

Czecho-Slovak Popular Music

How to Make a …

Volume 37, Number 10 (October 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

National and Radical Impressions in the Music of To-day and Yesterday (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Rudoph E. Schirmer

Interpretation

Few Teaching Hints

Appreciations of Rachmaninoff from Famous Musicians in America

New Thoughts on Memorizing Music

Beethoven—Iconoclast, Democrat, Genius

Joiners in Music

Psychology and the Child

The Art Spiritual: A Fine, Reflective Article Upon the Possibilities of the Tonal Art

Studio Problem (A Dialogue)

Less Nervousness Now

Musical Monkeys and the Piano Touch

Authentic Biography of Rachmaninoff

Let the Parents Know

How to Administer Rewards

Secret of Success of Great Musicians

Don't Sit Too Close

New Method of Piano Practice

Minor …

Volume 37, Number 09 (September 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Strong Fingers, Strong Arms, Strong Technic: Physical Culture Exercises Backed with Right Living Help to Build Sound Technical Background

Musical Pharmacopoeia

Pacemaker

Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition: The Minor Key and Other Musical Matters

Leaving Out Notes

Be True to Your Own Musical Tastes

Rules and Scales

Favorite Instruments of Great Composers

How to Learn a Short Passage Quickly

Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians

Practical Study of Arpeggios: How the Least Possible Contraction of the Muscles, Combined with the Greatest Possible Control of Weight, Will Produce the Best Results in the Shortest Time

Why Rhythm is …

Volume 37, Number 08 (August 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Intimate Glimpses of Grieg and Dvorák

Cause of Satisfactory Piano Playing

Beethoven's Tardy Fame

Habit Lessens Fatigue

That Awkward Fourth Finger

Ten Famous Rules Ten Years After: A Thoroughly Democratic Artistic Senate of Men and Women of Experience Epitomize Their Best Thoughts on Piano Practice

New Ideals of Pianistic Art

Mentally Photographing Music

Let There Be Tunes

Luck and Success

Plan of Musical Study for the Busy

Birds as Inspiration for Great Composers

American Opera One Hundred Years Ago

What Jazz Is, and Why

One Great Source of Mastery

Pianist and the Relaxation Fad

Music Teacher's Prescription Box

Origin of …

Volume 37, Number 07 (July 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Pathetique of Tschaikowski

Opening Number of Our Recital

How to Choose a Piano

Making the Pupil's Interest Wider

Don't Give Up Music at the Altar: A Symposium by Noted Women in Music

Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition

What Do You Put Into Your Music?

Jamie's First Piano Lesson

Drudgery of Teaching

Ear Imperial: Why Ear Training is of Paramount Importance

Moods of Temperament

Time Directions and Their Meaning

How the Art of Playing the Piano Developed

Enthusiastic Teaching

Prosperity and Business Methods of Great Composers

Some Facts About the Nocturne

Interest Through Opera

Secrets of Success of Great …

Volume 37, Number 06 (June 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Professional Accompanist

Ten Golden Rules for Piano Study

Pianist and Time Values

Imperfection of the Musical Scale

Silent Rhythm

How to Study the Two-Voiced Inventions of Bach

Rock Bottom of Pianistic Progress

Talking and Doing

Muscular Action in Piano Playing

Make Technic Your Servant—Not Your Master

Practical and Helpful Ideas from the National Convention of the Music Teachers' National Association: What Active Teachers are Thinking and Saying

When Nero was Studying Singing

Out—Back at 2.30

Bible Operas

Cultivating Confidence in the Child

Famous Salon Compositions and Their Composers: Pieces Everybody Knows and the Musicians Who Wrote Them

Making the Summer …

Volume 37, Number 05 (May 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Helps in Teaching Note Reading

Launching the Beginner

Practical Examinations at Home

Individualism in Piano Study (interview with Ethel Leginska)

Setting the Standard

Silly? Or No Ear for Music?

Confidence in One's Art

Are You One of These?

Golden Age of Singing

Fall of the Walls of Jericho

Program Making

Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition: The Dominant Seventh

Music in the Wilds

Like Attracts Like

Getting Results in Arpeggio Teaching

Why Some American Artists Don't Get On: From a Manager's Point of View

What Do You Want, Big Names or Real Music?

Memorizing Your Piece

Most Powerful Effect …

Volume 37, Number 04 (April 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Characteristic Mistakes of Young Piano Pupils

Teaching Children to Play

Inspiration of Ensemble Playing

Where Music Comes From

I Don't Like This Piece

Correct Position at the Key Board

More About Raising the Teacher's Income: Why the Music Teacher is Entitled to Larger Fees for Services

Awakening the Disinterested Pupil

What's in a Bell

True Reward of Good Work

Secrets of Success of Great Musicians

Proper Understanding of the Style of Several Master Composers

How to Practice Broken Chords: Modern Ideas Upon the Principle of the Minimum of Muscular Contraction and the Maximum of Controlled Weight Applied to an Everyday …

Volume 37, Number 03 (March 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Anton Dvorák in the Class Room

Who is the Composer?

Marvelous Hand

Question of the Virtuoso Conductor

Music Teachers, Awake!

Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-Operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers

Practical Repertoire

Small Children and Big Words

Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition

What Are You Getting Out of Your Music Lessons?

Your Pupil's First Year in Scale Work

Little Discoverers

Proper Understanding of the Style of Several Master Composers …

Volume 37, Number 02 (February 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Are You Loyal to Your Art?

How to Play Two Notes Against Three and Other Unusual Rhythmic Combinations

What Helped Me Most in My Career

How to Correct Common Rhythmic Blunders

Weak Spot in Piano Teaching

String Wind Instrument

Technical Roads to Piano Success

Pieces that Advertise the Teacher

He Didn't Have to Learn

Secrets of Success of Great Musicians

Touch in Piano Playing

Leo Ornstein, Composer and Pianist

Overtures, Past and Present

When and How to Begin the Study of Bach

Bach for Beginners

Neglected Bass Note

Telling the Pupil How to Practice

Has the Art of the Piano …

Volume 37, Number 01 (January 1919), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Imitation in Teaching Music

Scales Two Octaves Apart

What Kind of Accompanist Are You?

Learning How to Compose

Two Pianos vs. One

Don't Discourage Your Pupils

Look Out for the Second Finger

America's Greatest Musical Opportunity

Put Sixty Minutes Into Your Hour

Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-Operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers

Eye Strain and Mind-Wandering

Broken Chords Disguised by Changing Notes

What Octave Studies Should Follow Those of Czerny?

Are …

When He Gave Me You (Mother Of Mine), Bob Murphy, Elmore White, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A sad looking woman sitting in a rocker looking out of the window at night with a full moon in the sky.

First line of song: From time to time, in every clime, blessings come from above

First line of chorus: God put the stars in the Heaven, Gave us the Sun's smiling ray

Andanto moderato

Valse moderato (slowly with expression)

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Venetian Moon Song"

Lyric by Bob Murphy

Music by Elmore White

1 score, (6p), 31x23 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & CO, New York & Detroit

Pretty Little Cinderella, Blanche Franklyn, Nathaniel Vincent, Jack Mills Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Waltz Moderato

Refrain (tenderly)

Tone Poem by Blanche Franklyn

Musical Setting By Nathaniel Vincent

Front cover: Cinderella in a ball gown holding the hand of an elegantly dressed man.

First line of song: Pretty little Cinderella, lost a slipper made of gold sad was her flight

First line of Chorus: Pretty little Cinderella really lived a life of woe,

1 score (6p.), 30x23 cm

Published by Jack Mills Inc., New York

Dardanella, Felix Bernard, Johnny S. Black, Fred Fisher, Mccarthy & Fisher Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A lady on her side looking at the sky.

First line of song: Down be-side the Dar-da-nel-la Bay, Where Oriental breezes play, There lives a lonesome maid, Armenian

First line of chorus: Oh sweet Dar-da-nel-la, I love your harem eyes,

Lento e tranquillo

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Buddha"

Music by Felix Bernard and Johnny S. Black

Words by Fred Fisher

Dardanella Song Published as an Instrumental Number

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by McCarthy & Fisher Inc., New York

I'M Forever Blowing Bubbles, Jaan Kenbrovin, John William Kellette, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a young girl with a smile on her face and a lot of bubbles surrounding her.

First line of song: I'm dreaming dreams I'm scheming schemes I'm building castles high

First line of chorus: I'm forever blowing bubbles pretty bubbles in the air

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Tell Me Why"

Words by Jaan Kenbrovin and John William Kellette

Valse lente

Operatic edition

Posed especially by Miss June Caprice famous Albert Cappellani screen star

Music by Jaan Kenbrovin and John William Kellette

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & …

Where The Water-Lilies Grow, Gustave Khan, Raymond B. Egan, Richard A. Whiting, Jerome H. Remick & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A lake with lily pads and a frog with birds in the sky.

First line of song: Tonight the candle lights are gleaming within a cottage far away

First line of chorus: I love that stray place out of the way place Nestling near a shady brook

Allegretto

Lyric by Gustave Khan and Raymond B. Egan

Music by Richard A. Whiting

1 score, (4p.), 30x24 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York

Bye-Lo, Ray Perkins, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of a young child wearing a bonnet yawning with the wilderness and two birds on a tree branch in the background.

First line of song: Little pickaninny, on his mammy's knee, twilight shadows falling low

First line of chorus: Bye- lo, your eyes are closin', hon'

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Down By The Meadow Brook"

Moderato

Words & Music by Ray Perkins

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Waterson Berlin & Synder Co, New York

Old Fashioned Garden, Cole Porter, T. B. Harms & Francis, Day, & Hunter

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: no cover art

First line of song: One summer day I chanced to stray to a garden of flow'rs blooming wild

First line of chorus: It was an old fashioned garden

Include sheet music samples from the song "Was It A Dream?" and "Little Log Cabin Of Dreams"

Moderato

Lyrics & Music By Cole Porter

1 score, (7p.), 29x23 cm

Published by T.B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, New York

The Red Lantern (Shine On Red Lantern), Fred Fisher, Mccarthy & Fisher Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman wearing a traditional Chinese formal dress made of rich fabric with a huge peacock feather hat with dangling jewels and embroidery inset into a red lantern.

First line of song: The Chinese tell a story that's full of mystic glory, of the Orient, a tale of wonderment

First line of chorus: Shine on Red Lantern, through the gloomy night, over fields of white, shine on Red Lantern, over poppies bright, where she sleeps tonight

Moderato

Includes sheet music sample from the song "I Found The End Of The Rainbow"

As featured with the …

In A Kingdom Of Our Own, George M. Cohan, Stephen Idor Szinnyey, William Cary Duncan, Anselm Goetzl, Julian Mitchell, Sam Forrest, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a man's side profile with him wearing a red bandana. There is also a silhouette of the man wearing a crown.

First line of song: To a kingdom, to a kingdom, to a kingdom our own

First line of chorus: In a kingdom of our own, with little cupid on the throne

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Kiss Me Again"

Allegro moderato

Lyric and Music by George M. Cohan

Cohan & Harris presents The Cohanized Opera Comique in Three Acts The Royal Vagabond

Book by Stephen Idor Szinnyey and William Cary Duncan

Lyrics …

Me-Ow, Harry D. Kerr, Mel B. Kaufman, Sam Fox Publishing Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a cat letting out a big me-ow with a full moon behind him. Includes silhouette of 4 other cats.

First line of song: Joe Brown's wife was lone-some and blue

First line of chorus: All night long Angora sang his song, Me-ow, Me-ow, he gave a cabaret, but just one tune he'd play

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Howdy"

Words by Harry D. Kerr

Music by Mel B. Kaufman

1 score, (4p), 34x27 cm

Published by Sam Fox Publishing Co, Cleveland,Ohio

Don't You Remember The Time?, W. R. Williams, Will Rossiter

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a rectangular frame with a girl sitting in front of a fireplace reading a letter with blue flowers surrounding her.

First line of song: Just down the lane, over the stile, Under the old oak tree

First line of chorus: When the shadows fall, and the stars begin to peep, when the little birds, and the flowers fall a sleep, memory brings back a picture complete, Dear little girlie of mine.

Includes sample sheet music from the song "Russian Rag".

Valse Andante

Words and Music by W.R. Williams Composer/Writer of "I'd Love To Live In …

Your Eyes Have Told Me So, Gustave Kahn, Egbert Van Alstyne, Walter Blaufuss, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a title bordered by flowers

First line of song: I know my lips have never met your lips in sweet caress

First line of chorus: I saw your eyes your wonderful eyes with love light

Voice Allegro Moderato

Valse lento con espressione

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Tell Me (Tell Me Why)

Medium Key F, Mezzo or Baritone

Lyric by Gustave Kahn and Egbert Van Alstyne

Music by Walter Blaufuss

Piano, Moderato

1 score, (6p), 31x24 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & CO, Detroit

When A Feller Needs A Friend!!, Bernie Grossman, Jos. W. Stern Jr., Billy Frisch, Jos. W. Stern & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: In the center of the cover is a man sitting, holding a pen and paper, looking forward, with the words "Briggs". To the left is a cartoon drawing of a dog. To the right is a cartoon drawing of a man in a hat. In the upper left corner, there is a picture of a boy staring at a girl. In the bottom lower left corner is a picture of a boy standing with his arms behind his back. In the upper right corner is a picture of a mother taking care of her son. In the bottom …

Jazz Baby, Blanche Merrill, M. K. Jerome, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a couple dancing in the center with other couples behind them dancing.

First line of song: My daddy was a ragtime trombone player, my mammy was a ragtime cabareter

First line of chorus: I'm a Jazz baby, I want to be jazzing all the time

Includes sheet music samples from the song "The Music Of Wedding Chimes"

Moderato

Words by Blanche Merrill

Music by M. K. Jerome

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Synder Co, New York

What Is The Harm In A Bit Of A Walk, Elmer Clifton, Norman Mcneil, Jerome H. Remick & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: In the center is a picture of a circular portrait of a teenage girl surrounded by six rectangular full body pictures of her in various poses

Moderato

First line of song: Listen little girl my head's in a whirl and I think the blame should fall on you

First line of chorus: What is the harm in a bit of walk my dearie what is the harm in a bit of a walk with me

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Some Sunny Day"

Introduced by Dorothy Gish In the screen production of "Boots"

Words by Elmer …

Meet Me In Bubble Land, Gasper Nathan, Joseph Manne, Isham Jones, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a man and a woman floating in bubbles while staring at each other.

First line of song: I've been dreaming dreams of childhood, and the games we used to play

First line of chorus: Meet me tonight in Bubble Land, So far away from Trouble Land

Valse Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "I'll Be Happy When The Preacher Makes You Mine", "And He'd Say Oo-La La! Wee-Wee", "Mickey", and "Oh! The Woman In Room 13"

Words By Gasper Nathan & Joseph Manne

Music By Isham Jones as sung in the Winter Garden …

When It's Honeysuckle Time In Honeyland, Jeff Branen, Jimmie Hollis, Joe Morris Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover:A portrait of a girl looking straight wearing a flower crown made of honeysuckle. Two birds are sitting together on one of the leaves.

First line of song: Honey dear can't you hear the honey suckles calling I'll soon be on my way,

First line of chorus: When it's honey-suckle time in honey-land and the bees are buzzing' round the vine,

Tempo di Marcia

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Try This Over on Your Piano"

Lyric by Jeff Branen

Music by Jimmie Hollis

1 score, (4p.), 30x23 cm

Published by Joe Morris Music Co., New York

How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm? (After They've Seen Paree?), Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, Walter Donaldson, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a man looking at a paper smoking a pipe and a woman standing on top of an automobile, kicking her leg up with a drink in her hand. There is another lady sitting on top of the automobile next to her reaching out to the crowd with her drink, while the couple driving looks into each others eyes while the woman caresses the man's face. Behind the automobile is a barrel of cider being carried on a cart. There is a man leaning up against the barrel and another sitting on it with his glass …