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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 …

Were I, Nan Terrell Reed, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Carrie Jacobs-Bons & Son

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A bouquet composed of a yellow and pink flowers with leaves, painted.

First line of song: Were I a leaf I'd like to be a scarlet one up on a tree,

Moderato, con moto

High

Words by Nan Terrell Reed

Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Includes sheet music samples from the song "The Hand of You"

1 score, (6p.), 30x23 cm

Published by Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son, California

A Love Song, Zelda Sears, Harold Levey, Ira Hards, Harms Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a little girl in a circular picture frame starring off into the distance, while below her a prince on a royal throne is being entertained by a man with a guitar sitting at his feet.

First line of song: The moon across thy casement, love, hath thrown a silver bar

First line of chorus: The song of yesterday is hushed in silence

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses"

Moderato (con amore)

Words by Zelda Sears

Music by Harold Levey

Henry W. Savage presents The Only Mitzi in …

I Never Miss The Sunshine (I'M So Used To The Rain), Neil Pardette, Norman Jay Harvey, Joe Morris Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A woman wearing a dress looking to the right direction holding a hat with a sunset and clouds behind her.

First line of song: You want to say goodbye, don't try to tell me why,

First line of chorus: I never miss the sunshine, I'm so used to the rain,

Moderato

Lyric by Neil Pardette

Melody by Norman Jay Harvey

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

Published by Joe Morris Music Co., New York

Orange Blossoms, Noble Cain, H. T. Fitzsimons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a girl holding a harp sitting on a blue crescent moon with stars around her.

First line of song: When the orange blossoms cling, unopened in the spring, in slumber profound and deep

First line of chorus: When the orange blossoms bloom in California, they remind me of you

Moderato grazioso

Music by Noble Cain

Orange Blossoms from Once in a Blue Moon A Musical Romance

1 score, (8p.), 31x24 cm

Published by H. T. FitzSimons, Chicago

Wonderful One, Dorothy Terriss, Paul Whiteman, Ferdie Grofe, Marshall Neilan, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A rectangular picture of a man sitting. He is wearing a suit and tie.

First line of song: My wonderful one, whenever I'm dreaming, Love's love light a gleaming, I see

Valse moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Saw Mill River Road"

Popular edition

Paul Whiteman's Sensational Waltz Hit

Words by Dorothy Terriss Author of "Three O'Clock in the Morning", etc.

Music by Paul Whiteman and Ferdie Grofe

Adapted from a Theme by Marshall Neilan

Sung by John McCormack, Victor Record NO.961

1 score, (6p), 31x23 cm

Published by Leo Feist, New York

I'M Living A Life Of Shadows (Bring Back The Sunshine To Me), William Witol, American Music Pub. Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a man sitting in a chair in front of a fireplace depressed with his head in his palm thinking about a women who is standing above the chair. A dog is standing next to his chair.

First line of song: We all can dream, love, think and scheme how to make fortune smile

First line of chorus: I'm living a life of shadows since I lost my girl

Includes sheet music sample from the songs "My Oriental Dream"

Waltz Moderato

Words and Music by William Witol

A catchy waltz melody

1 score, (6p.), 30x23 cm …

I Cried For You Now It's Your Turn To Cry Over Me, Arthur Freed, Gus Arnheim, Abe Lyman, Sherman, Clay & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of stripes and flowers.

First line of song: I remember other days how I used to weep over things you said to me I couldn't even sleep.

First line of chorus: I cried for you now it's your turn to cry over me

Includes sheet music samples from the songs " After Every Party" and "Other Lips"

Moderato

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

Published by Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco

Deep In Someone's Heart, Zelda Sears, Harold Levey, Ira Hards, Julian Alfred, Harms Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a girl looking off to the corner in a circular picture frame. Below her a man on a raised platform is sitting cross crossed watching another man play the guitar.

First line of song: Woman's place they say is in the home.

First line of chorus: Deep in someone's heart, there to dwell apart

Moderato

Words by Zelda Sears

Music by Harold Levey

Henry W. Savage presents The Only Mitzi in "The Magic Ring" A Fantastic Comedy With Music

Staged by Ira Hards

Dances arranged by Julian Alfred

Book and Lyrics by Ira Hards

1 …

Who's Sorry Now, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder, Waterson, Berlin, & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a young couple. The boy is wearing a suite and holding a hat and the girl is in a dress wearing a hat holding an umbrella down to her side. There are trees and flowers in the background. There is a big circular portrait of Josef Diskay in the middle.

First line of song: You smiled when we parted, It hurt me somehow, I thought there was nothing worth while.

First line of chorus: Who's sorry now? Who's sorry now? Who's heart is aching for breaking each vow?

Valse moderato

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples …

Sunshine Of Mine "I Call You Sunshine", Jack Chapmane, Harry Kelly, Art Beiner, Ted Browne Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a women in a dress with a big skirt bottom holding a bird, while another flies above it. There is a fountain of to the right.

First line of song: Mary, you're a wonder dear you came like a summer's day

First line of chorus: I call you sunshine you came just like sunshine.

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Ireland Is Heaven To Me" and "I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland"

Moderato

By Jack Chapman, Harry Kelly, & Art Beiner

Respectfully Dedicated to Miss Mary Murray of Chicago, Ill.

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm …

Nine O' Clock Sal, Jack Leroy, Billy Hays, Jim Leary, Nelson Ingham, Joe Morris Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman standing, in a dress, resting her arm on a picture of a men's orchestra. A sign in the picture identifies them as the Unique Orchestra from Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The other arm resting under her chin. Also there is a clock striking 9 o'clock in the upper right corner.

First line of song: Back in the town I was born in, folks go to bed about nine

First line of chorus: Nine o'clock Sal, nine o'clock pal, you're just the girl for me

Moderato

Includes sheet music sample form the song "Just For …

Tripping Along (With You And Me), Jerry Sullivan, Harry Hosford, Jack Mills Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of an orchestra.

First line of song: I have looked around, now at last you're found.

First line of chorus: Tripping along our merry way, tripping along all thru the day

Valse moderato

Includes sheet music samples from songs "It's a Man (Ev'ry Time) It's a Man", "That Golondrina Melody", "Miami Moon", "Dream Away", "Smile Again Kathleen Mavourneen", and "Out Where The Blue Begins"

Words and Music by Jerry Sullivan and Harry Hosford

Frank Westphal and his Orchestra

Big Radio Hit

1 score, (8p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Jack Mills Inc, New York

Every Night I Cry Myself To Sleep Over You, Howard Johnson, Leo. Wood, Irving Bibo, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front Cover: A picture of a girl in bed crying holding a letter. Portrait of a man in the lower right corner.

First line of song: Nights are long and life's all wrong since you went away

First line of chorus: Every night I cry myself to sleep over you

Moderato

Slowly

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Saw Mill River Road", "Linger Awhile", and "When Lights Are Low"

Words and Music by Howard Johnson, Leo. Wood, and Irving Bibo

Popular Edition

Successfully Introduced by Stuart Barrie famous organist

1 score, (6p), 31x23 cm

Published by Leo Feist, New …

Swingin' Down The Lane, Gus Kahn, Isham Jones, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a couple walking down a pathway lined with trees with a house off to the back. Includes a portrait of a man in a rectangular box with the words Isham Jones.

First line of song: There's a nightingale callin out where moon-beans are fallin

First line of chorus: Everybody hand in hand, swingin down the lane, everybody feelin' grand

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "River Shannon Moon", "Crying For You", "Wonderful One"

Lyric by Gus Kahn

Music by Isham Jones

Popular Edition

An Old Fashioned Song With a Fox Trot Swing

"You …

Drei Beliebte Kinderlieder, Lena Stein-Schneider

Musical Performances

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Volume 40, Number 12 (December 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Technique and Hand Training

Christmas Music, Past and Present

Music and the Arts

Whole-Tone Scale in Interlocking Octaves

Appeal of the Contralto

Device for Teaching Notes to Beginners

Musical Jealousy

Feel the Rhythm

How Music Clubs are Helping American Music

Behind the Scenes with Artists, Part 5

Particular Treatment of the Turn

Regular Lesson Plan for Teacher and Pupil

Most Important Musical Step

How Interest Stamps Musical Pictures on Your Mind

Foot Stools and Music Teachers

Just What Really is Practice?

Clinic on Footlight Fever

Relaxation Tests

Are You Guilty of the Double Movement?

Home Town Musical Comedy

Practicing Backwards …

Volume 40, Number 11 (November 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting the Right Start in Piano Playing

How to Acquire Technic in Musical Theory

Is the Teacher Without a Music Club as Successful as the Teacher with a Music Club?

What to Do at Children's Musical Parties

Scale Guide

Limitations of the Piano Keyboard

Piano Manners at the Pupils' Recital

Lesson on Chopin's Famous Raindrop Prelude, Opus 28, No. 15: A Practical Reduction of Notes to Dollars and Cents

Starting at the Cradle

Full Pay or Half a Mass

Recorder

Metamorphosis of Charles

Now and Then

Routine for Practical Teacher

Glimpses of Present Day Piano Study (interview with Myra Hess) …

Volume 40, Number 10 (October 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Funniest Experience I Ever Had in Opera: A Symposium in Which Many Operatic Celebrities Have Taken Part

Wagner in Parisian Days: Striking Pen Portraits of the Great Masters as Seen by a Brilliant Contemporary

American Music and Composers

Thanksgiving Hymn from Japan

Hand, Tone, Technic

Human Element in Fine Piano Playing (interview with Ernest Schelling)

What Have I a Right to Expect From My Teacher?

Are American Artists Being Denied a Square Deal in Their Own Country

How I Acquired a Relaxed Trill

Measuring Progress

Spread Chords

Names of Scale Degrees and Their Meaning

Some Impressions of the Music of …

Volume 40, Number 09 (September 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music—The Joy and Need of Every Man (interview with Frank Crane)

Getting There Without a Teacher

Don't Stuff the Pupil

Staccato Marks, Touches and Tones

Undisturbed Practice

Basis of Musical Imagination

Marche aux Flambeaux

How to Get a Start in Chautauqua

Abuses the Teacher Should Not Tolerate

Encourage Melody Writing

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Bring Out the Main Thought in Piano Playing: How the Suppression of the Superfluous Helps

How to Develop Legato Wthout Using the Pedal: A Real Test of Your Ability at the Keyboard

Value of Chords for Beginners

Planning a Recital

Making …

Volume 40, Number 08 (August 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the Modern Chautauqua is Doing for Music of All Kinds Everywhere in Our Country

Behind the Scenes with Artists, Part 2: Do Artists Practice Pure Technic?

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

When Mendelssohn Became a Journeyman

Paderewski and the Paper-Hangers

How to Get the Greatest Results form Practice

Italian Musical Terms

Meaning of Sub-Mediant

Some Personal Recollections of Hans Guido Von Bulow: Master in Black and White

Are You a Musical Nurse to Your Child?

Sound Reproducing Machine Records and the Private Teacher: An Intensive Study in Interpretation

Building Up a Class in a …

Volume 40, Number 07 (July 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Plow-Boy to Parsifal: The Remarkable Career of an Indiana Farmer's Boy Who Never Heard a Grand Opera Until Two Years After He was Married (interview with Orville Harrold)

Mixing Music with Brains: The Only Road to Success Hereafter

Making Habits That Help

Learning Bass Notes Simplified

How to Be Happy Though Practicing

Keeping Ahead of You Fingers

Dialogue on Scales

Ouija Board and Piano Practice

Verdi's Thoughts on Art

Some Secrets of Readng at Sight

Four Hand Playing

How Le Couppey Taught

Important Point in Phrasing

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop, Part 9

Full-Measure Rest

How They Put …

Volume 40, Number 06 (June 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Radio Music for Everybody (interview with J. Andrew White)

How Kullak Got Back

Goldmark Avec Suite

Musicale at Dickens'

Hepling the Careless Pupil

Simple Facts About Harmony That Every Music Lover Should Know

Character in Sound

Legend of The Moonlight Sonata

Capture the Child's Magical Interest Early

Reminiscences of a Famous Prima Donna

Indicating Mistakes

Silent Music Lesson

Phrasing Made Simple for Earnest Piano Students

Is This the Ideal Position at the Piano?

Paganini Demanded Skill

Why Popular Songs Don't Last

Symphonies in Color—Silent Music

Practical Musical Note-Books

Helping a Limping Pupil

Know the Notes

Something About the Pause

Little …

Volume 40, Number 05 (May 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Many Roads to Artistic Playing (interview with Alexander Siloti)

Realizing Your Musical Ideals

Recorder: Intimate Glimpses of Famous Contemporaries

Music Facts from Plutarch's Lives

Mañana

Practical Technic for the Beginner

How Long is a Note

Cover to Protect Sheet Music

Hymn Values

Music in the Age of Seneca

Promoting Keyboard Accuracy

Taking Advantage

Rubinstein's Hungry Years

When Simplifying Why Not Simplify?

Pupils Who Discontinue

Time Saving Ideas in Pianoforte Practice

All About the Waltz

Music and Money

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

Remedies for Nervousness in Public Performances

Choking the Muse

Common Musical Matters in a New Guise

Maelzel …

Volume 40, Number 04 (April 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Beginnings in Vocal Art (interview with Emma Calvé)

Camille Saint-Saëns Parting Advice on Piano Study

Be Your Own Surgeon

Memory of a Great Conductor

What Berlioz Thought of Us

Too Much Practice is Waste: How to Get Results Without Nerve Drain and Muscular Fatigue by Employing Scientific Methods

Artist is Always Ready

Making Pupils Count

Fraudulent Musical Masterpieces

What Did the Ancients Mean by Music of the Spheres

Some New Facts about the Creator of the Nocturne: John Field of Dublin

Paste This in Your Instruction Book: Common Sense Hints to Piano Students

About Triplets

What Makes a Great …

Volume 40, Number 03 (March 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is the Most Important Work to Which the Music Clubs of America May Devote Their Efforts? A Nation-Wide Symposium

Beginnings of American Music: A Sketch of Our Musical Endeavor Up to the Early Years of the Last Century

What Our Music Clubs Need Most

Ingrowing Musical Clubs

Music Students in Small Towns

Getting More Pupils

Slow Practice with Exaggerated Accents

Opera a Year

What the National Federation of Musical Clubs is Doing to Help in Making America a Musical Nation

Heredity and Music

Club: A Municipal Personality

Beacon Lights of Opera, To-Day and Yesterday: Graphic Sketches of the Masters …

Volume 40, Number 02 (February 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Most Remarkable Pianoforte Recital Ever Given

Spirit of Chopin

More Reasons Why She Couldn't Hold Her Pupils

Remarkable Mind of Camille Saint-Saëns: Passing of the Great French Composer at Advance Age: A Review of his Works as Reflected from Some of His Writings, and From the Writings of His Friends

What the Teacher Should Demand

Saint-Saëns' Last Public Address

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

What Guido Suffered

How I Overcame the Greatest Obstacle in My Career, Symposium

Handel's Sensitive Ear

Unavoidable Practice

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

Exercises to Prevent Arm Strain

Vioin and the …

Volume 40, Number 01 (January 1922), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Would I Take Up Music Again? Symposium

Best Hand Position

Don't Threaten your Child

Should Grade Teachers Specialize in Music?

What Makes Piano Playing Interesting

Rehearse Phrases, Not Fragments

Teaching Rhythm in Class Lessons

Scale Solitaire

New Paths and Visions in Musical Progress (interview with Richard Strauss)

Chicago or Bayreuth

Robert Huntington Terry (photograph)

Musical Biographical Catechism : Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Little Lessons from a Master's Workshop

What the Piano Student Could Learn from the Violin Teacher

Humor and Music Teaching

Story of the Turn: Practical Advice Upon How to Play Such Embellishments

Most Helpful Piano Lesson …

Who Cares?, Jack Yellen, Milton Ager, Ager, Yellen & Bornstein, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a man in a tux.

First line of song: Everybody has got somebody to tell their troubles to

First line of chorus: Who cares if my heart is aching?

Moderato

Words by Jack Yellen

Music by Milton Ager

Al. Jolson's Sensational Hit in Messrs. Lee & J.J. Shubert's Production of the Musical Extravaganza "Bombo"

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

Published by Ager, Yellen & Bornstein, Inc, New York