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Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Christmas Comes (poem)

Handbells—Ancient Art Revived

Sing Ho for Christmas

I Learned To Sing By Accident (interview with Mario Lanza)

Swing Into Your Tone

Don’t Plan To Be a Conductor! (interview with Ernest Ansermet)

Why Do We Call Them Carols?: Songs of Christmas Link Today with the Ancient Past

It's the Same Old Claque: Then and Now—New York or Paris—

Relax and Improvise! (interview with Grace Castagnetta)

Concerning Spiccato, Sautille Arpeggios and Articifial Harmonics

Does Your Band Play in Tune?

What Is Your Vocal Problem?

Organ Practice and How To Get It

Master Lesson On the Sarabande and Bourrées …

Volume 67, Number 01 (January 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On Keeping a Musical Diary

Eugène Ysaÿe as a Teacher (interview with Jeannette Ysaÿe)

Musical Fireworks Behind the Iron Curtain

Composer Needs Determination and Faith (interview with William Grant Still)

Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties: Haycyon Days at Harvard

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 7)

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music, Part 2

Do Musicians Live Longer Than Others?

Volume 66, Number 12 (December 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Little Lights of Christmas (Poem)

Sibelius Today: A Flight to Helsingfors to Visit Finland's Master Including a Conference with the Composer of Finlandia

Musical Christmas of Yesteryear

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography, Part 6

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music

Christmas Music—A Universal Language

Test Your Teaching Methods

Great Russian Music of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Tcherepnine)

My First Day at the Conservatoire de Paris

Igor Stravinsky and the Greek Tragedy

Music Means Joy in Chinese: The Chinese Cultural Theater Group Affords an Opportunity for Americans to Learn of Cathay

Comeback—Words and Music

Volume 66, Number 11 (November 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Te Deum Laudamus

Needs of the Young Singer (interview with Giuseppe Valdengo)

Shake Hands With the School!: How the Teacher May Profit by Keeping in Touch With the Day School

Christ and Etude

This is Berlin

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist, A Centenary Biography, Part 5

Stumbling Into Music (interview with Douglas Taylor)

Richard L. Austin (Obituary)

Jenny Lind's Vocal Exercises: Additional Advice from a Great Singer of the Past, Supplementing the Article in the Etude from February 1948

People's Song to Their God: A Delightful Picture of the Medieval Origin of the Gregorian Chant

Make Your Christmas Music …

Volume 66, Number 10 (October 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Amusements Safe for Youth

Music Teachers National Association

Let Your Ear Be Your Master! (interview with Ferruccio Tagliavini)

Domestic Musical Trinity: Parent—Teacher—Pupil

How the Master Composers Composed

New Ideas on Musical Memory, Sight Reading, and Programs

Musikwiz Matching Test

Musical Children: Prodigies or Monsters?

Letter from Pepito Arriola

About the Oboe

Zal, the Secret of Chopin's Genius

Know Your Own Worth

I Do Not Die Altogether

Volume 66, Number 09 (September 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Passing of a Noted American Artist

Reflections on Music Teaching (interview with Artur Schnabel)

Don't Fear Memorizing!

Piano Virtuoso in Spite of Himself: Noteworthy Extracts from Harold Bauer's Memoirs

Advertising Value of Classical Music: How An Experiment in Music and Jewels Brought Out Provable Facts That for Certain Commercial Purposes Great Masterpieces Stimulate Interest in Business Institutions

Are You a Violin Teacher?

Great British Brass Band Movement

Revival of the Bach Arias

Carrying a Spear in Grand Opera: How the Cohorts Behind the Footlights See the Art

Imitation—Its Use and Abuse (interview with Set Svanholm)

Letter from An Etude Friend: …

Volume 66, Number 08 (August 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphysis

Building the Glee Club (interview with Kay Holley)

Entirely New Motion Picture Experience!: The History of La Traviata

Paderewski—Pianist and Patriot

Sense of Tempo

Music for a Ballet (A Notagraph)

Let Music Help Make the Peace

Are We Music Educators?

Revolutionary New Process in Recording and Reproducing

Concerning the Contrabass (interview with Philip Sklar)

Are You a Violin Teacher?

Band—What Is Its Future? (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

Practicing Away From the Piano

Volume 66, Number 07 (July 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Memorable Anniversary

America's Most Popular Anthem

Rules for Practice

Greatness

America Goes to the Ballet (interview with Aaron Copland)

Chopin's Piano Method, An Anthology

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography

Bank Notes and Music Notes: How an Organist Has Contributed to the Atmosphere of the Country House

That Liszt Cadenza: How to Study the Cadenza for Liszt's Liebestraum

Practice Can Make Perfect

Musicianship Through Education (interview with Harriet Cohen)

Volume 66, Number 06 (June 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eternal Chopin

Orchestra As a Municipal Asset (interview with Harl McDonald)

Nest of the Nightingales: An Exquisite Musical Fairy Story

How Can I Become a Pianist? (interview with Artur Rubinstein)

Romeo and Juliet of the Mountains: How Music and Drama Ended the Notorius Hatfield and McCoy Feud

Natural—or Impossible! (interview with Cloe Elmo)

Concert Hall in Your Home

Approach to Elementary String Class Teaching

Pride of the Navy

Shifting—Sliding—Change of Position

Wednesday Afternoon With the Cecilians

Basis for Piano Technique

Volume 66, Number 05 (May 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

I've Got to Make a Speech

Was This the First Music Manuscript?

Rounding the Circle (interview with Regina Resnik)

Scenes from the Life of Rossini: A Remarkable Picture Produced in Italy, Celebrating the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Composer's Birth

My Twenty Favorite Records and Why, Part 2

Education as Emancipation (interview with Harold Bauer)

Oldest Musical Organization in the World: Emperor Hirohito's Court Orchestra

Encouraging Legato Singing

What the Nazis Did to Chopin's Piano

New Fingering Principles of Value to Teacher and Student

Integrating Music Study (interview with Charles Münch)

Volume 66, Number 04 (April 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art of Suggesting

Post-War Opera in Italy: A Musical Snapshot

Training for Artistry (interview with Claudio Arrau)

Capitalizing Your Musical Ability (interview with Fred Waring)

Chopin and the Chopin Renaissance

Edward Ellsworth Hipsher Obituary

My Twenty Favorite Records and Why

Brakes and Breaks (interview with Walter Hendl)

André Gide, Prince of Letters, and Musician

First Performance of Handel's Messiah

Magic of Delius: Was Sir Thomas Beecham Right?

Volume 66, Number 03 (March 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Wife Begins at Forty-Plus

Spare Time Orchestras: Musical Amateurs of Notable Ability

Training of An Artist (interview with Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff)

Rachmaninoff As I Knew Him

Irregular Rhythms in Chopin

Joys of the String Quartet

Making a Specialty of Teaching Adults (interview with Nat D. Kane)

Toward a Sounder Philosophy of Musical Education (interview with Erich Leinsdorf)

Pennsylvania Dutch Music at Ephrata: A Musical Anomaly, Part 2

How Joseffy Taught the Piano

Colorful Harp Effects With the Organ

Opera and the Balakirevs

Romance of Famous Bells

Tops at Twenty-Two (interview with Elliott Lawrence)

Interesting Letter From a Home …

Volume 66, Number 02 (February 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

I Have Taught Myself to Sing

Learning How to Sing

Candid Musical Snapshots of Post-War Europe

Backstage With a Concert Tuner

Pennsylvania's Colonial Influence on American Musical History, Part 1

New Music for an Ancient Land

Singing Builds Character

Playing by Touch

Keeping Up Mendelssohn

Advancing the 'Cello Section, Part 1

Bands: Past—Present—Future

Chamber Music and Its Role in Musical Education

Master Painter on Masters of Music

Imagination and Technique (interview with Jésus Maria Sanromá)

Volume 66, Number 01 (January 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Whither Away?

Mysteries of Middle-C: A Reminiscence

Prevention is Better Than Cure! (interview with Bidú Sayão)

Young Music Must Have New Tools

Mozart, the Musical Flower of the Rococo Period: How the Historical Background of a Composer Affects His Music

Odd Musical Instruments: Grotesque Tonal Curiosities from Different Lands

Can We Tame the Boogie-Woogie Bogey?

Why Bach Has Become a Must for Piano Students

Art of Expression: Tone Production and Tone Shading, Part 1

An American Musical Policy

Heart of the Song (interview with Clara Edwards)

Fellowship Song Book: Revised., International Christian Youth Fellowship Commission Of The Disciples Of Christ

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.

"The People Will Live On" : From "The People, Yes", By Carl Sandburg : A Composition For Chorus, Orchestra And Narrator, Leighton M. Edelman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Volume 65, Number 12 (December 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Down (Poem)

Silent Night, Holy Night!

America's Great Peace Hymn: The Story of America, the Beautiful and Its Composer, Samuel A. Ward

Amazing Subterranean Oratorio Performance: An Astonishing Account of a Notable Concert 750 Feet Underground in a Fabulous American Cavern Fairyland

Keep It Natural! (interview with Eileen Farrell)

Revival of the English Carol

What Gives a Violin Tone?

Joyous Mendelssohn (1809-1847): An Anniversary Sketch of the Brilliant Career of Felix Mendelssohn

Young People in Music (interview with Malcolm Sargent)

What the Singer Needs for a Career in Radio (interview with Jane Wilson)

Volume 65, Number 11 (November 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mr. Smith and Music

Yes—You Can Compose Music!

Preserving the Voice (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Harp as a Career (interview with Elaine Vito)

Ninety Years in Music (Mr. and Mrs. Crosby Adams)

My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part 3

Building of the Paulist Choristers (interview with William J. Finn)

Passing of The Little Flower

Special Music for Weddings and for Memorial Services

Band, Orchestra and Chorus

Choral Cultism

Music Links Them All: The Unique Power of the Tone Art to Draw People Together

Master Lesson on Chopin's Prelude, Op. 28, No. 8

Volume 65, Number 10 (October 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Seeking the Bubble

Violin Has Been My Life (interview with Zino Francescatti)

Music and Philately

Learning to Understand Bach

Techniques of Damper-Pedaling

My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part 2

Tales of Isidor Philipp: The French Master Recounts Anecdotes of the Conservatoire and

Romance of John Howard Payne and His Immortal Song, Home, Sweet Home

Volume 65, Number 09 (September 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Keeping Young With Music

Romance of Home, Sweet Home and Its Author: The American Actor and Poet Who Wrote the Words Was One of the Distinctive Figures of His Day

What About the Woman Violinist? (interview with Evelyn)

My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part I

Teacher's Round Table

Practical Side of Piano Practicing

Can You Set a Standard?

Pedals—The Soul of the Pianoforte

Schumann's Whims (Grillen), Op. 12, No. 4 (Master Lesson)

Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Matter of Degrees

Roads to Memorizing Piano Music

Heart of the 'Cello (interview with Gregor Piatigorsky)

Observations of an Artist on Tour (interview with Ray Lev)

Securing a Good Piano Tone (interview with Earl Blair)

Variations on a Given Theme

True or False in Harmony Land

Importance of the Piano for the Organist

Building Finger Efficiency in Piano Study

Developing the Tenor Voice (interview with Frederick Jagel)

Volume 65, Number 07 (July 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Moods

Ever Play in a String Quartet?

Musical Tour of Europe Today (interview with Marjorie Lawrence)

They Hail from the Red River Valley: The Amphion Chorus of Northern Minnesota and Dakota Records Success Formula for Male Choruses in the Average American City

Radio Conducting As a Career (interview with Henry Weber)

Hearing and Musicianship (interview with Curtis H. Muncie)

Theory Behind Music: Teaching Children to Understand the Background of the Art

Developing the Boys' Choir (interview with Coleman Cooper)

Volume 65, Number 06 (June 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Art and Advertising

Tiny Tots' Adventures in Theory

Virtuoso in the Jungle (interview with Leonard Pennario)

Music Teacher Takes a Vacation

Song That Named Four Towns

Etude in Calcutta

Mrs. Mascagni Turns the Trick

Romantic Career of Michael Kelly: Mozart's Irish-Singer Friend

He Fought His Way to the Top Down Under: How Bernard Thomas Heinze Became Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Pedaling—the Stepchild of Piano Study

Technical Proficiency in Singing (interview with Lucrezia Bori)

Volume 65, Number 05 (May 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Voice of the Village Square

Tribute Dinner to a Great Conductor

Make the Right Start! (interview with Risé Stevens)

Was Music a Gift of Religion?

Beginning the Scale on Each Degree

Technique for the Amateur Pianist

Roy Newman, American Composer (1890-1946)

Master Lesson on Raff's Cavatina

Wonder of Bells

What About the Electric Organ? (interview with Ethel Smith)

Volume 65, Number 04 (April 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eighty Memorable Years

Bringing Delight to Music Study

Singer Faces the World (interview with Maria Jeritza)

God's Apostle of Music Dr. Eben Tourjée, Musical Pioneer: The Story of the Founder of America's First Conservatory of Music as Told by His Nephew

Is Sacred Music Progressing?

My First and Last Lesson with Ignace Jan Paderewski

Musikwiz—True or False?

Arm and Its Relation to the Keyboard (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

Essence of Music Study (interview with Leonard Bernstein)

Volume 65, Number 03 (March 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Lean on Yourself

Master Speaks of the Masters: Isidor Philipp Evokes Great Names of the Past

Sound Vocal Development (interview with Rose Bampton)

New Responsibilities for Musical Groups

How to Read to Music (interview with Frieda Peycke)

Avoid Musical Provincialism

Recognition for Army, Navy, and Marine Musicians

Cello—Virtuosity or Musicianship? (interview with Joseph Schuster)

Selling Music to the General Public

Interpretations in Jazz (interview with Duke Ellington)

Business on the Side: A Philadelphia Business Man Who Organized His Own Symphony Orchestra For the Joy of Conducting Makes Business His Avocation

Technique of Arriving (interview with Rudolph Ganz)

What's the Name, …

Volume 65, Number 02 (February 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mind That Carried Music to Millions (Edison)

My Father and Music

Musical Kleptomaniacs

Basic Purpose of Music Teaching (interview with Maryla Jonas)

Basic Pieces in the Student's Repertoire

Secret of Singing (interview with Christopher Lynch)

Controlling Tempo and Dynamics

Breathing in Relation to Vocal Expression

What Industry Can Do for Music

Hymn Accompaniments

School Music--For All!

Viola

How Management Builds Artists (interview with Frederick C. Schang)

Conducting is an Art (interview with Désiré Defauw)

Volume 65, Number 01 (January 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music's Part in World Peace

Preparation for the Operatic Career (interview with Martial Singher)

Musical Visit with Einstein

Wit and Humor of Musicians, Part 3

Accompanist's Background and Equipment7

Music: Crime Cure?

Opera Revived in the Heart of the 1859 Gold Rush

Handicaps Did Not Stop Them

Master Lesson on the C.P.E. Bach Solfeggieto in C Minor

Stars and Stripes Forever: Sousa's Magnificent March Chosen for the RCA Victor Billionth

Classical Music In Early Kentucky, 1850-1889, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

No abstract provided.

Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

So This Is Our Christmas! (editorial)

Musical Dates of the Pre-Christian Period

Christmas Crib: The World-wide Adoption of the Holy Scene in the Manger

Secret of Song Speech (interview with Conrad Thibault)

Story of Christmas: As Told by the Titles of Christmas Carols and Songs

Wit and Humor of Musicians (Part Two)

What Hotels Mean to Music

Music Study Promotes Happy Homes: A Psychologist Discovers Notable Facts

Fiddler in the Sky

Spinet Rules in the 1947 Piano Field (Pictures)

Unknown Liszt Portrait