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Volume 36, Number 09 (September 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Industry

Music, Just for the Fun of It

Musical Contagion

Greatest Musical Asset

Development of Rhythmic Sense in the Music Student

Circumstance and the Artist

Keyboard Maxims of Master Pianists of Today and Yesterday

Why and How to Read at Sight

Two Lessons a Week Versus One

When the Professor Got Back from His Vacation

Thoroughness in Little Things

Some Practical Psychology for Piano Teachers

Scale Honor Roll

Is the Sonata Form Exhausted?

Ties and No Ties

Pupils Whose Parents are Interested

Knack in Securing Agility and Velocity

Don't Neglect the Short Piece

Music's Debt to Gifted Amateurs …

Volume 36, Number 08 (August 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Possibilities of Negro Music

Definite Progress

How Beethoven Worked

Gounod's Romantic Philanthropy

Reflection of Neatness

Sense Touch

What Gives Brilliancy to Pianoforte Playing?

Is Standardization in Piano Technic Really Worth While?

How Much Value Do You Receive From Your Practicing?

Music Teacher Worth While

Are We Cutting Off Our Musical Noses?

What Shall We Do with German Music?

Riches No Enemy Can Take Away

Music Rally in Philadelphia

Democracy of Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Debt of All Musicians to the First Great Master to Uphold the Dignity of His Profession in the Presence of Arrogance of the Aristocracy

How to …

Volume 36, Number 07 (July 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Composers Compose

Where Not to Use the Pedal

Spirit of the Masters—Preparation for the Study of Chopin, Debussy and Modern Composers

How to Get Your Music Published

Let's Have More Charity in Criticism

Important Uses for Music

Mistakes Cannot Be Corrected in Public

Foundation Steps in Practicing Scales

What Eurythmics Means

Vacation Rest for Music Teachers

Fighting to Get a Start

Choice of Material for Developing Interpretation: An Article of Particular Summer Self-Study Value to Teachers and Advanced Students

Learning How to Teach the Pianoforte

Why Do They Do It?

Etude Master Study Page: Composers of Music of Wide …

Volume 36, Number 06 (June 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Schumann and Liszt

Absolute Time: A Study of the Heart Beat in Relation to Rhythm

How Fast and How Slow

Make Your Summer Count

Art of Simplifying

How to Become a Good Teacher

Why Bach?

Coining New Words

Let's Have More Music Than Ever: The United States Government Recognizes a Great Need

Music as a War Need

Toy Drum and a Tin Whistle

Music in Wartime

Ragging Good Music

That Weak Measure

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Russian Composers

Artistic and Educational Importance of the Polyphonic Music of Bach …

Volume 36, Number 05 (May 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Benjamin Franklin's Musical Side

Letter from General Hugh L. Scott

Slavery to the Keyboard

Piano's Future Assured

Practice the Bass

Music Now More Than Ever: Eminent Men and Women in Many Walks of Life Earnestly Urge Music as a Present National Need

Interesting Way to Teach Phrasing

Music Teachers' Desk

Love Letter from Mozart to his Wife

Get in Touch with the Other Professions

Personality and Interpretation

César Franck After Twenty-five Years

Haydn's Souvenirs of London

High Wrist and Low Wrist

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn

Home Without Music

Find Joy in …

Volume 36, Number 04 (April 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Their Ancestry

How Long is the Life of a Piano?

Price of Success

How to Locate the Keys by Touch

Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Bach, Haydn and Mozart

Time and Rhythm

Fun in Music

Are You Musically Educated?

Questionnaire for the Average Music Teacher of the Average Child

All About Accent

Different Types of Song Accompaniment

Emotional Effect Through Rhythm and Phrasing

Open Door to Opera

Value of Finger Staccato

Musicians Short Folk

Why Some Music Lessons are Dull

What to Do When You Cannot Secure A Good Teacher: Self Help Hints for Active Music …

Volume 36, Number 03 (March 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Use and Abuse of Five Finger Exercise

Tact in Teaching Technic

Counting Aloud

Let Your Ears Save Your Eyes

Public Performance of Etude Music

Are You Getting into a Rut: An Important Symposium

How Do Composers Compose?

Centenary of the Great Educational Classic for the Piano

How to Use the Etude's Educational Supplement

Bach in Burlesque

Little Lights and Shadows of Music Teaching

Music, the Painter of Pictures in Moods: A Highly Entertaining and Instructive Discussion of the Subject

Rare Effect in Advanced Pianoforte Playing

Scale Study Without Monotony

Some Interesting Things About the Gavotte

Fighting Musical Obstacles in the …

Volume 36, Number 02 (February 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Have You a Self Starter?

Rates of Tempo in the Past and Present

Can Ugly Music be Beautiful?

Get Rid of Fear

Two-Fold Vitality of Anglo-Saxon Music

Developing the Tactile Sense

Success with the Adult Beginner at the Piano

Do Not Attempt the Impossible

Hands, Hands, Hands: Some Interesting Facts for Teachers and Pupils About the Pianist's Tools

Accent Scales Right

Making Pupils Musicians

What Should a Teacher Know?

Irregular Groups that Baffle Pianists: How to Play Combined Accents, Times and Rhythms in Pianoforte Composition

Case of Richard Wagner vs. Democracy: Should the Operas of Richard Wagner be Debarred in …

Volume 36, Number 01 (January 1918), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Folk Music: A Negligible Quantity

Beethoven's Advice to a Piano Teacher

New Year Advice from Famous Pianists: Study Epigrams of the Foremost Present Day Virtuosos Selected for this Issue

Too Much Preparation

Well Tempered

Every Teacher's New Year Resolution

Work Out Your Own Salvation

Legato Playing with Pedal and Without

Case Against Don’ts

Beauties in the Music of the American Indian (interview with Thurlow Lieurance)

Little Thinking Machines

Where the Left Hand Ends and the Right Hand Begins

What is Elasticity in Piano Playing?

Greatest Shortcomings of the Average Student

Is Slow Practice Overdone?

Helpful Routine in Sight Reading …

When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose, Marian Gillespie, Florence Methven, Leo Feist

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of two roses

First line of song: Deep in my heart I hold for you A tender though so sweet and true

First line of chorus: Dear little rose, with your heart of gold

Moderato tranquillo

Refrain Moderato tranquillo espressivo

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "By The Campfire", "Sing Me Love's Lullaby", "My Pavo Real Girl", "The Radiance in Your Eyes", "Give Me All of You"

Lyric by Marian Gillespie

Music by Florence Methven

The Melody Ballad Hit of "The Better 'Ole"

Medium in Eb

1 score, (6p), 31x23 cm

Published by Leo Feist, …

Comin' Thro' The Rye (Select Scotch & Irish Songs), Bainbridge Crist, Carl Fischer

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of different Irish symbols, women playing instruments, and men conversing.

First line of song: Gin a body meet body, comin thro the rye

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Yesteryear" and "Tell Me"

Allegretto, con civetteria

Carl Fischer Edition

Old Scottish Melody Harmonized and Edited by Bainbridge Crist

Medium Voice in G

Superior Ed. 5459

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

Published by Carl Fischer, New York

My Belgian Rose (Ma Rose Belge), George Benoit, Robert Levenson, Ted Garton, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front Cover: A woman smiling while wearing pearls and holding flowers

First line of song: Rose of Belgium, drooping so low, lift up your head, for we love you so.

First line of chorus: Belgian Rose my drooping Belgian Rose for every hour of sorrow you've had, You'll have a year in which to be glad,

Moderato

By George Benoit, Robert Levenson and Ted Garton

French Text by Louis Delamarre (Federation De L'Alliance Francaise)

Includes French lyrics

1 score, (4p), 27x17 cm

Published by Leo Feist, New York

My Son!, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a decorative circle in the middle of the page with words on top of it.

First line of song: My son! I proudly see him marching by, My only son, who goes maybe to die

Maestoso

High key (original)

Being sung by Madame Ernestine Schumann- Heink

Words & Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond

1 score, (8p.), 35x28 cm

Published by Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son, Chicago

It Must Be Love, Gus Kahn, Egbert Van Alstyne, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portraits of a man and a woman with roses above the woman's head and between the two. Below the women are the words Leila McIntyre and below the man are the words John Hymans

First line of song: She was a lonely maid, he heard her sighing

First line of chorus: It's such a funny little feeling, a feeling I just can't explain

Moderato

Lyric by Gus Kahn

Music by Egbert Van Alstyne

On the bottom of page 2 are the words: Win the war with bread and lead

Leila McIntrye

John Hyams

On the bottom of …

A Little Bit Of Sunshine (From Home), Ballard Macdonald, Joe Goodwin, James F. Hanley, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a sailor with a mischievous smile on his face inset into a frame. At the bottom of the photo are the words W. J. Reilly U.S.S. Michigan. Surrounding the frame are letters and ink pens. In the bottom left corner there are two sailors reading letters to each other and in the bottom right corner a soldier is seen showing another solder a picture of a baby.

First line of song: Say, neighbor, did you write to say "Hello!" To Frank and Jim and Joe

First line of chorus: Just a bit of sunshine, A …

Oh Helen!, Charles R. Mccarron, Carey Morgan, Jos. W. Stern & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman's side profile with a pinup hairstyle. Also she is wearing an off the shoulder garment with dangling earrings in her hair.

First line of song: Willie Meek tho' good at grammar, when he'd speak he'd always stammer

First line of chorus: Oh Hel__ Oh Hel__ Oh Helen please be mine

Allegro moderato

A Comedy Stuttering Song

By Charles R. McCarron and Carey Morgan Writers of "I'm Glad I Can Make You Cry" and "I'm Crazy About My Daddy"

Sung Successfully by Sophie Tucker

1 score, (4p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Jos. W. Stern …

Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia, Grant Clarke, Milton Ager, George W. Meyer, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: Five female heads facing forward intertwined with leaves.

First line on song: Down in Georgia there are peaches, waiting for you yes, and each is sweet as any peach that you could reach for on a tree,

First line of chorus: Ev-'ry thing is peaches down in Georgia, what a peach of a clime,

Moderato

Popular Edition

Words by Grant Clarke

Music by Milton Ager and George W. Meyer

War Edition

1 score, (4p.), 27x18 cm

Published by Leo Feist, New York

Annie Laurie (Select Scotch & Irish Songs), Bainbridge Crist, Carl Fischer

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A border of Irish colonial art that consist of instruments, women playing instruments, and two men talking .

First line of song: Maxwelton braes are bonnie, where early fa's the dew

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Yesteryear" and "Tell Me"

Moderato assai

Played in Medium

Harmonized and Edited by Bainbridge Crist

Carl Fischer Edition

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

Published by Carl Fischer, New York

Oh Frenchy (Oh! Frenchy), Sam Ehrlich, Con Conrad, Broadway Music Corporation

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: In a shape of a heart framed within a heart frame, in the middle of the page, there is a drawing of a soldier sitting in a chair and a women in a nursing uniform standing staring at each other,

First line of song: Rosie Green was a village queen who enlisted a a nurse She waited for a chance and left for France with an Ambulance,

First line of chorus: Frenchy, Oh Frenchy, Frenchy, although your language is so new to me, when you say "Oui oui, la la"

Marcia moderato

Words by Sam Ehrlich

Music by …

How The Wedding Bells Will Ring When The Boys Come Marching Home, Al. Wilson, Ted Fiorito, Joe Morris Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of bells, flowers, and a church. Also photo of a women with the words Esther Coryl of Grindell & Esther

First line of song: It's all over, It's all over, and they'll soon be coming home

First line of chorus: How the wedding bells will ring, when the boys come marching home

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "When The Sun Goes Down In France" and "When Tony Goes Over The Top"

Words by Al. Wilson

Music by Ted Fiorito

Allegro moderato



Published by Joe Morris Music Co, New York

Some Lonesome Night, Grant Clarke, Geroge Whiting, George W. Meyer, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A man sitting down thinking and faces of three women above him in the sky.

First line of song: I've been hearing around, that you're throwing me down, tell me can it be true?

First line of chorus: Some lone-some night, "Mister Blues" will get you.

Moderato

Popular Edition

Includes sheet music sample from the song "God Spare our Boys Over There"

Patriotic War Edition

Words by Grant Clarke and George Whiting

Music by George W. Meyer

1 score, (4p), 26x17 cm

Published by Leo Feist, New York

My Angel Of The Flaming Cross, Byron Gay, Sunset Publishing Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A girl wearing a veil looking up looking like she is about to pray, a cross is behind her and an angel flying on her left side.

First line of song: On a home-bound transport, as the sun was sinking low,stood a wounded soldier

First line of chorus: There's an angel over there an angel from I know not where smiling sweetly thru her tears shes drove my fear away.

Moderato espressivo

Refrain

Song by Byron Gay

Words and Music by Byron Gay

1 score, (4p.), 34x27 cm

Published by Sunset Publishing Co., New York

They Were All Out Of Step But Jim, Irving Berlin, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of three ladies waving to soldiers marching by in parade formation. One solider is waving to the women. There is also a portrait of two women sitting facing forward in an oval inset with the words The Dream Girls Marie, Hortense.

First line of song: Jimmy's mother went to see her son, marching along on parade

First line of chorus: Did you see my little Jimmy marching, with the soldiers up the avenue?

Marcia

The Dream Girls Marie, Hortense

Includes sheet music samples from the song "I Cannot Bear To Say Goodbye"

1 score, (4p.), 35x27 …

Waiting, Harry L. Cort, George Stoddard, Robert Marks, Harold Orlob, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: Six woman wearing big dresses holding hands dancing and a man wearing a tux standing in the middle smoking.

First line of song: Of all the girls I've met, there's never been one yet,

First line of chorus: I will be waiting for you dear, always,

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the song "When the Shadows Fall?

John Cort offers the successful musical comedy Listen Lester

Book and lyrics by Harry L. Cort and George Stoddard

Staged by Robert Marks

Music by Harold Orlob

Includes sheet music samples from the song "When the Shadows Fall"

1 score, …

Ua37/4 Funeral March Heroica, Franz Strahm

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Sheet music for Franz Strahm's original composition Funeral March Heroica written in memorial of the fallen heroes of the World War I American Expeditionary Forces.

Volume 35, Number 12 (December 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Automatic Faculty in Piano Playing

How to Attain Freedom of the Fingers

Mass of Christ

Footlight Fear and Fever

Important Steps in the Educational Work of an Opera Singer

Three Measure Rhythm

Christmas Carols

Reading Detached Chords

Are the Black Keys Poisonous to the Thumb?

Time to Rest and a Time to Grow

Musical Reputations and How They are Achieved

Is Compulsory Music Study Advisable?

Successful Study of Octaves

Can You Pass This Normal Test?

Some Pianos I Have Known

Practice Individual Tones in a Chord

Beethoven's Characteristics as a Pianist

How to Study Two Against Three

Pianographs

Hints on …

Volume 35, Number 11 (November 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cure for Musical Pessimism

Simplifying Counting

Why Not Encourage Everyone to Play?

Nervousness in Public Performance and How to Overcome It

Practical Thoughts on Modern Pianoforte Study

Two Ways of Using the Metronome

Some Foundation Principles of Piano Technic, Which May Be Applied to Any Method

Economy of Time at Lessons

Keeping the Brain Strong and Fit

How to Judge a New Piece

High Lights from a Musical Convention: Extracts from Important Addresses Made at the Last Convention of the Music Teachers' National Association

How to Keep Your Piano in Playable Condition

Some Essential Points in Beautiful Playing and How …

Volume 35, Number 10 (October 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Just What Syncopation is

Value of Polyphonic Playing

Greater Results With Less Effort

How to Interest Unmusical People in Music

Some Elementary Truths in Song Interpretation

Curiosities of Notation

Tension and Relaxation in Pianoforte Playing

How We Got the Flat and the Natural

Remarkable Cures of Melancholia Through Music

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern English Composers

Mysteries of Music

How to Help Your Pupil to Remember Your Corrections

Value of Versatility in Teaching

Seek Clearness of Musical Outline

How to Get Artistic Effects in Touch: Staccato, Legato and Marcato

Story of the Magic Fire Music

Good Taste …

Volume 35, Number 09 (September 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Four Good Reasons Why Musicians Do Not Succeed

Lack of Concentration

Goals in Scale Playing

How I Regained a Lost Voice: A Practical Experience in Voice Placing (interview with Evan Williams)

How to Increase the Music Class: Approved Methods Employed by Leading Teachers in Securing New Pupils Through Dignified, Legitimate Means

Business Principles for the Musician

Musical Setting

La Marseillaise

Animated Touch

Notes on Piano Playing to Teachers of Children

Learning Music in the Most Rapid, Thorough and Scientific Manner: Important Psychological Principles Deduced from Thousands of Laboratory Experiments Made Simple and Practical for Music Students and Music Teachers

Musician's …

Volume 35, Number 08 (August 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Real Accomplishments

Simple Cure for Stage-Fright

How to Regain Your Technic

Paths to an American National School of Music (interview with Reginald de Koven)507

Bracelet of Fifths

Getting the Most from Five-finger Exercises

Sharp Major Scale Signature

How the Masters Sought Humor in Music

Echo Exercise

Spasmodic Performance

Up-to-Date Points from an Up-to-Date Teacher

How Can We Do Our Bit?

New Material and New Methods in Musical Composition

Non Plus Ultra

Playing Close to the Keys Versus the High Finger Stroke

Teresa Carreño (obituary)

High School Credits in Texas

How Shall I Play Phrases Properly?—With Special Illustrations Taken from Modern …