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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 …

Our Flag, Frank Lawrence, William J. Guard, Carl Fischer

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

First line of song: In every land beneath the sun There floats a flag its people cherish

First line of chorus: With stars from heaven's blue with stripes of red and white

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "There is a Lady Sweet and Kind" and "Behave Yourself Before Folk!"

Refrain: March tempo

Patriotic Song

Words by Frank Lawrence Jones

Music by William J. Guard

Dedicated to Miss Sophie Braslau

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

Published by Carl Fischer, New York

The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise, Eugene Lockhart, Ernest Seitz, Chappell-Harms, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art.

First line of song: Down in the lazy west rides the moon, Warm as a night in June

No.4 in Eb

Rather slowly

Slowly-but with a certain swing espressivo

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Roses of Picardy" and "If Winter Comes"

Words by Eugene Lockhart

Music by Ernest Seitz

1 score, (6p.), 30x22 cm

Published by Chappell-Harms, Inc., New York

Sunshine And You, Mrs. C. E. Brandon, Mr. C. E. Brandon, Weile Pub. Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a women's side profile in a circular feather like frame with a rectangular checker board pattern in the back, and a smaller oval in the bottom left corner of a man.

First line of song: I've roamed this wide world over since I left you to seek my fortune far across the sea

First line of chorus: Down in the valley where the robin red breast flew

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "I Love You.", "Memories of Virginia", and "Evening Brings Memories Of You"

Valse Moderato

Words and Music by Mr. and Mrs. …

If They'd Only Give Old Ireland To The Irish, Queenie Hewlett, Ben M. Jerome, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a cottage home with a brick fence surrounded by shrubs, flowers and trees. There is also a portrait of a man in a suit.

First line of song: My soul is a storm tossed ship, and my heart is a broken mast, there's a grievance I've had, handed down by my dad, tis a grievance will stick to the last

First line of chorus: If they'd only give old Ireland to the Irish, that is my wish

Moderato

Lyric by Queenie Hewlett

Music by Ben. M. Jerome

Operatic Edition

Augustus Pitou presents Fiske Ohara in …

When The Roses Bid Summer Good-Bye, Stephen W. Meidam, J. R. Shannon, Vandersloot Music Publishing Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A field full of piles of corn tied up like tepees with a cloud above them and pumpkins on the ground. There are also two roses on the front cover.

First line of song: When golden grain is waving to twilight's magi croon,

First line of chorus: When the roses bid summer good-bye, when they harvest moon floats in the sky,

p a tempo

Moderato

Moderato-Slowly and Tenderly

Lyric by Stephen W. Meidam

Music by J. R. Shannon

1 score, (4p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Vandersloot Music Publishing Co., Pennsylvania

Volume 36, Number 12 (December 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How Washington Irving Revelled in the Music of Christmas

Be a Live Wire

Are You a Good Salesman?

How to Keep Fit for a Successful Public Appearance

Never Louder Than Lovely

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

Know Your Piano

Mental Rehearsal

What is Temperament?

Price: Can You Pay It?

Humorous Musical Interruptions

Music That is Too Difficult

Mysterious Middle Pedal: A Most Interesting and Helpful Article …

Volume 36, Number 11 (November 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Programs of Works by Women Composers from Contemporary American Publishers

Famous Musical Women of the Past

From the Bottom Up

What the Life of an Artist Means

Musical Celebrities Sell Liberty Bonds (picture)

To the Girl Who Wants to Compose

Music as a Vocation for Women

Mother's Part in the Child's Musical Training

Two Types of Violin Playing

List of Well-Known Women Composers

Story of America's Largest Musical Organization: The National Federation of Musical Clubs

Small Hands and Their Extraordinary Possibilities

Technic of Study

Volume 36, Number 10 (October 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spain the Eldorado of Music

Thomas à Becket

Beethoven and Hero Worship

Music Interest of the American Man of To-Morrow

Help in Interpretation

How Can I Make My Practice More Intelligent?

Musical Thermometer

Imperial Opera

Rhythmless Pupils

Stems, Tails and Hooks: A Lesson in Exact Notation

Cultivating a Perfect Staccato Touch

Value of Visiting Lessons

High Lights in the Life of Grieg: Interesting Phases in the Career of the Great Norwegian Master

Thumb and Its Agility

Accompanied Trill

How to Read at Sight and Memorize at the Same Time

Finishing Steps

Second Nature in Music

Interesting Suggestion for Advanced Pupils …