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Volume 38, Number 11 (November 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

From Liszt to Leschetizky: Forty Years with Great Pianists

Unmusical Fugue

Chart for Remembering Key Signatures

Music and the Home

Practical Exercises in Modern Phrasing

Tonal Perception

Don't Be Fooled by Applause

How Can I Study the Art of Instrumentation?

Preparedness: The Secret of Speed

Getting Results in Pianoforte Study: Some Modern Ways of Reaching the Goal Through New Artistic Means

Musical Misnomers

Lessons We Dread

Early Hours for Practice

Passing on the Credit

Some Tricky Musical Signs, Ties, Slurs and Accidentals

Planning Practice to Get Best Results

Why are Sharps Harder than Flats

Effective Finger Exercises

Fingers versus Brains …

Volume 38, Number 10 (October 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Soul of the American Indian

Keyboard Masters of Other Years

Does Your Piano Need a Scavenger?

Light Touch

American Indian's Music Idealized

Great Possibilities of American Music Clubs

Places That Don't Sound Right and What to Do With Them

Shall I Take Up Music as a Profession?

Be Generous with Praise

Impressions of Indian Music as Heard in the Woods, Prairies, Mountains and Wigwams

Passing of Carlos Troyer, Musician and Explorer: Famous Friend of the Indians and the Notable Work He Accomplished

Interesting Facts About the Indians

Indian Musicians in the Modern World

Lieurance Program

Collectors of Native American …

Volume 38, Number 09 (September 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Hold Your Audience

Injured Right Hand a Blessing

Playing in the Right Octave

How to Make Your Practice Time Less Tedious

Music Composition as a Field for Women (interview with Carrie Jacobs-Bond)

Why Underpay the Music Teacher?

Early Fall Recital

Does Your Pupil Know What Music to Bring to the First Fall Lesson?

Painless Musical Bookkeeping

Opening Gun of the Teaching Season: What a Teacher Must Do to Insure a Prompt Start and a Full Class

Gradual Hand Stretching Exercise

All About Variations

Some Hints on Modern Fingering

Ultra-Modern Music Explained: Unusual Futurist Harmony and Form Discussed

Remembering …

Volume 38, Number 08 (August 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Three Touches Employed in Melody Playing

How to Create New Teaching Business

Direct Method in Music Study

Basis of Success in Music Reading

Fighting Fate to Triumph

Never Too Late

To Parents—Don't Give Up Your Music

To the Pupil Without a Teacher

School and Studio: Studies in the Cirriculum of the Public School Which Compare with Musical Studies

Practical Aspects of Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with M. Alfred Cortot)

Accenting Compound Measures

By-Product of Counting Aloud

Passing Notes

How Much Do You Practice?

More Advanced Technical Exercises and the Relation of Technical Exercises to Studies

Starting Them In

First Steps …

Volume 38, Number 07 (July 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Know How in the Art of Singing (interview with Mary Garden)

Summer Activities of the Music Teacher

Music and Mechanics

Why Use the Letter C in 4/4 Time?

What Every Piano Student Should Know About Pedaling

Technic or No Technic? Which?

Best Remedy I Have Ever Found for Nervousness in Public Performance

Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians

Good Beginning

Memories of Rubinstein and Liszt

Why Go to Pieces?

Make Your Left Hand Intelligent

Musical Patriotism

Strengthening the Weaker Digits

Where Does Father Come In?

Helpful Hints on Arpeggio Fingering

Illustration and Story in Piano Teaching

That Loud Pedal …

Volume 38, Number 06 (June 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Must I Go Through to Become a Prima Donna? (interview with Geraldine Farrar)

More Income for Music Teachers: How and Why One Teacher Made Good at an Increased Price

Count the Cost

Musical Genius Everywhere

Child's First Piano Lesson

How to Get Your First Pupils

Compelling Force in Musical Success (interview with Alberto Jonás)

What Shall I Teach?

Most Simple Way of Teaching Lines and Spaces

Scale Maxims

Hint on Memorizing

New Pianistic Beauties Through New Pedal Effects

Did You Say You Couldn't Memorize Music? Read This!

Taking American Music Seriously

Temperature and Practice

Let the Light Fall Right …

Volume 38, Number 05 (May 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Tendencies in Pianistic Art (interview with Benno Moiseiwitsch)

Note on Interpretation

How to Write Characteristic Music

Some Big Thoughts from a Great Writer

Slow Scales

Don't be Fooled by Fake Memory Systems

Technic versus Interpretation in Piano Study

Those Tiresome Five-Finger Exercises!

Teaching in the Language of Do

What Do You Mean by Musical Expression?

Well-tuned Piano

Start the Fashion of Punctuality

How the Great Masters Practiced

Interest at the Very Beginning

Dictating Music

Mystery of Genius

New Pianistic Beauties by New Pedal Effects

Tone-Deaf Pupils

Will Ragtime Turn to Symphonic Poems (interview with Major Rupert Hughes)

Some Interesting …

Volume 38, Number 04 (April 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music for the Man of To-day (interview with Rupert Hughes)

Don't Be Discouraged

Need for Wrist Freedom

Psychic Influence in Modern Music

Slow Practice the First Step on the Road to Virtuosity

Romance of a Famous Song: Judge Galloway's The Gypsy Trail

Recipes for Profitable Practice

Piano Playing of To-day

Temperament, Technic and Tact in Accompanying

Some Important Facts About Studying Real Composition

Introducing Yourself to the Pupil

Scales in Four Octaves

Getting the Most from Technical Exercises

Hateful Half Hour' Practice and Some Ways of Overcoming It

How Some Composers Compose

Attention as a Factor in Piano Study

Why …

Volume 38, Number 03 (March 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Aftermath of the Great War (interview with Walter Damrosch)

Catchy Fourth

Getting Ahead in Music

Method versus Methods: A Practical Talk to Teachers from a Renowned European Pedagog

Murdering Your New Piece

Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians

Secret of a Good Musical Memory: Successive Steps in Acquiring the Art of Remembering Music

Piano Teacher's Best Advancement

Home-Made Metronome

Classic Piano Playing from Beethoven to the Modern

Hints for Your Repertoire

Ill-Founded Conclusion Concerning the Great Mozart

Every Music Student Should Learn How to Accompany

Right Kind of Musical History

Do You Want a Flexible Wrist?

What Instrument …

Volume 38, Number 02 (February 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Notable Group of American Musical Educators

Etudes of Chopin and How They Ought to be Practiced

Multiple Rhythm

Indispensables in Pianistic Success

Some Errors and How I Corrected Them

What is Shape in Music

All Sorts and Conditions of Pupils

Is Playing by Ear Harmful? Play What You See, See What You Play; Play What you Hear, Hear What You Play; See What You Hear, Hear What You See

Key Relationship and Key Signatures

Hearing Wrong Fingering

Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians

High-Grade Concerts in a Small Town

Gather Memories! The True Story of a Musician Who Did …

Volume 38, Number 01 (January 1920), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Indispensables in Pianistic Success (interview with Josef Hofmann)

Irregular Rhythms

Records That Help the Music Teacher

Qu-est-ce Que Vous Voulez?

Don't Be Too Awfully Dignified

Three Rs of Sight Reading

Musical Embellishments

Taking Stock

Conquer Your Bête Noire

Inter-relationship of the Ear and the Eye

Some Practical Hints on Pedaling

Dressing the Part

Lines and Spaces

Musical Pot-Boilers: Facts about the Mental Tasks Which Great Masters Have Been Forced to Undertake to Earn a Bare Existence

Difficulty in Piano Music

After the Novelty Has Gone

Clairvoyance, Spiritism and Occultism in Music

Sensations in the Spotlight

Blazing New Trails

Will Richard …

Wond'ring, Lee David, B.D. Nice & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman in a white high low dress, standing in front of a window with the curtains pulled back

First line of song: Absence makes hearts grow founder, that may be well and true

First line of chorus: Wondering all through the day, since you're away, just where you can be

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Romance" and " Tents Of Arabs"

Song by Lee David Composer of "Romance" & "Tents of Arabs"

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

Published by B.D. Nice & Co, New York

Whispering, Malvin Schonberger, John Schonberger, Sherman, Clay, & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a couple with their backs turned with the man's arm around the women and two birds kissing above them

First line of song: Honey I have something to tell you and it's worth while

First line of Chorus: Whispering while you cuddle near me, whispering

Moderato

Vamp

Includes sheet music samples from songs "Louisiana", "Algiers", and "Do You Know?"

Lyrics by Malvin Schonberger

Music by John Schonberger

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

Published by Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco

Whip-Poor-Will, Bud De Sylva, Guy Bolton, Clifford Grey, Jerome Kern, T. B. Harms Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A woman wearing a apron wishing the dishes and a man wearing tux drying the dishes

First line of song: Memory takes me back a way to an early childhood day.

First line of chorus: Whip-poor-will, I used to love to hear you call to me.

Con moto

Burthen

Words by Bud De Sylva

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr's Production of Marilynn Miller and Leon Errol in the Musical Comedy Sally

Book & Lyrics by Guy Bolton & Clifford Grey

Music by Jerome Kern

Duet (Sally and Blair)

1 score, (8p), 30x24 cm

Published by T. B. Harms Co., New …

Broadway Rose, Eugene West, Martin Fried, Otis Spencer, Fred Fisher Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Includes Fox Trot arrangement for the chorus.

Front cover: A picture of a woman looking in a circular mirror powdering her face. The woman's reflection is shown in the mirror.

First line of song: A pretty flower grows along old Broadway

First line of chorus: Broadway Rose, there's a tear in your eyes, Broadway Rose, seems I oft' hear you sigh

Moderato

Words by Eugene West

Music by Martin Fried & Otis Spencer

Fine Art Edition

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

Published by Fred Fisher Inc, New York

Some Little Bird, Haven Gillespie, Lindsay Mcphail, Egbert Van Alstyne, Van Alstyne And Curtis

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: Two birds slitting on tree branches; two other birds flying out of a bird house

First line of song: Love comes like a little bird, singing songs you never heard,

First line of chorus: Some little bird is calling you___oo

Chorus: poco rit. a tempo

Moderato

Includes sheet music sample from the song "Dreamy Paradise"

Words & Music by Haven Gillespie, Lindsay McPhail & Egbert Van Alstyne

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

Published by Van Alstyne and Curtis, Toledo

Margie, Benny Davis, Con Conrad, J. Russell Robinson, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of tribal flower designs

First line of song: You can talk about your love affairs, Here's one I must tell to you

First line of chorus: My little Margie, I'm always thinking of you

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Wishing" and "Bright Eyes"

Lyric by Benny Davis

Music by Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson

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

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Synder Co, New York

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, Sidney D. Mitchell, George W. Meyer, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of a man

First line of song: When my daily work is thru and I'm all alone there are times I'm sad and blue

First line of chorus: I can hear my Mammy praying "Now I lay me down to sleep"

Includes sample sheet music from song "Emaline"

Moderato

Lyric by Sidney D. Mitchell

Music by George W. Meyer

Operatic Edition

Introduced in The Midnight Rounders

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

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

Where The Lazy Mississippi Flows, Alexis French, Rollo De Freyne, Chappelle & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a full moon overlooking a couple in a canoe while the man plays a guitar.

First line of song: Nights I'm always dreaming, dreams of far away

First line of chorus: Where the lazy Mississippi flows into the sea

Tempo di Valse

Includes sheet music from the songs "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise", "Smile Through Your Tears", and "On Miami Shore"

Words by Alexis French

Music by Rollo de Freyne

Refain Piu Lento (Lazy) Violin or Voice

1 score, (8p), 31x23 cm

Published by Chappell & Co, New York

I'M Waiting For Tomorrow To Come, Frank Davis, Frank Hawelka, Max Prival, A. J. Stasny Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A cabin house with the light house with a lot of snow.

First line of song: I am waiting for tomorrow to come _Yes but tomorrow seems like years

First line of chorus: I am waiting for tomorrow to come, but tomorrow seems like years,

Moderato

Slowly with expression

Words by Frank Davis

Music by Frank Hawelka and Max Prival

Voice Obbligato

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

Published by A.J. Stasny Music Co., New York

Dreamy Slumber Time, H. C. Weasner, D. H. Hawthorne, H. C. Weasner & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a church along side a country lane with a white gate and trees surrounding it

First line of song: When the twilight shadows softly come and go

First line of chorus: When the nightingale is singing, and calling its mate

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Old Fashioned Roses", "When Mother Sang Hush-A-Bye, O", and "Somewhere In Loveland with You"

Words by H.C. Weasner

Music by D.H. Hawthorne

1 score, (4p.) 30x23 cm

Published by H. C. Weasner & Co., New York

Tripoli (On The Shores Of Tripoli), Paul Cunningham, Al Dubin, Irving Weill, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a boat with huge sails in choppy water. There are several other boats behind it along with a town in the background.

First line of song: Open the portals of memory, let the old honeymoon glow

First line of chorus: Floating on the bay at Tripoli, sweethearts you and I

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "One More Day" and "The Night Wind"

Moderately with expression

Waltz Ballad

Lyric by Paul Cunningham and Al Dubin

Music by Irving Weill

Refrain: Tenderly

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

Published by M. Witmark & Sons

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 …