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Volume 35, Number 07 (July 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Get Control of Your Nerves

Jenny Lind, The Incomparable

Key to Success

Discord of Sweet Sounds

To Avoid Scratching in Violin Playing

Thoroughness in Operatic Preparation (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Let Your Piece Sing to You

Accuracy in Piano Playing—How to Teach it to Children

Controlled Relaxation

Why Should My Boy Study Music?

Electrical Music

Practical Steps in Tone Production: How the Player's Tone May be Enriched and Developed

Pianograms

Head, Heart and Head

High Lights in the Life of Handel—Significant and Interesting Human and Professional Characteristics of the Composer of the Messiah

How to Use The Etude's …

Volume 35, Number 06 (June 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Freak Minds in Modern Music

Keep a Journal

How to Go About Sight-Reading

Saving Time in Practice

Idealism in Music Study (interview with Teresa Carreño)

Yesterday and To-day

What Pieces?

From Finger-Tips to Shoulder

Why Advanced Pupils Lose Inspiration

Acquiring Accuracy in Musical Terms: Correct Definitions and Right Applications

Musical Curiosity

Review Week

Why Not a Daily Song Hour

Scale Contest

Art and Common Sense in Accompanying

Accelerando

Closing Address

Watch Your Hands

Names of Musicians Phonetically Pronounced

What Every Music Student Should Know About Phrasing

Nine Fundamental Divisions of Daily Practice

Symphony: Its Chief Characteristics and How to Recognize …

Volume 35, Number 05 (May 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Symphony Orchestras in the United States

Memorable Performance

Certainly, I'll Play!

How Staccato Practice Puts a Snap in Playing

Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Band

How Beethoven Spiritualized Musical Form

Is the Symphony Played Out?

Two Brilliant American Composers

Aids to Good Timekeeping

Concise Dictionary of Noted Symphonic Composers

Richard Wagner as a Symphonist

New Scale Fingerings

Rise of the American Symphony

Does Teaching Make You Nervous?

Fifteen Vital Steps in Teaching Young Children

Have You a Self-Starter?

Scales and Baseball

Final Steps in Memorizing

How to Start a Local Symphony Orchestra

How Much Did You Practice?

Colored Pencils in …

Volume 35, Number 04 (April 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Aspects of the Art of Music (interview with Thomas A. Edison)

Simple Psychological Helps in Music Teaching

Haydn's Amusing Tribute to a Faithful Dog

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Value of Historical Knowledge in the Appreciation of Music

Snap Shots in a Musical Library

Irish Folk Song that Aids Interpretation

Difficult Pronunciations

Carmen: Arranged for Presentation in Reading Form at Musical Clubs

Expanding the Small Hand

Beethoven to Czerny

Getting Pupils through Printers' Ink: A Practical Advertising Man Talks

Rare Musical Facts

Syncopated Biographies: Musical Life Stories Pleasantly Told

Exercises for Developing the Hands for Piano Touch and Technic …

Volume 35, Number 03 (March 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Vital Phases of Piano Technic

Justice for the Teacher

What the Musician Must Do To Conserve Good Health

Efficient Practice

Too Much Theory

Difficult Pronunciations

Spirit and Technic of the Pianoforte Pedals

Tolstoi Throws a Bomb into Art and Music: The Arch-Iconoclast of Russia Severly Criticises Some Modern Musical and Artistic Conventions

Some Facts About Russian Church Music

Learning the Key Signatures

Some Obstacles in the Way of Standardization

Early French, Italian and German Composers of Interest to Present-day Pianists

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Masters

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Ranz …

Volume 35, Number 02 (February 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Success in Chorus Conducting: Hints, Aids and Advice to Leaders by the Foremost English Choral Conductors

Melody Hunting

Keep a Lesson Book

Surmounting Stubborn Passages: An Analysis of Technical Difficulties

Twelve Factors in Successful Teaching

When Interest Lags

Rest as Climax

Personality at the Lesson

Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Italian Masters

Curiosities of Music

Modern Italian Operatic Composers

How Psychology Can Help the Musician

Chopiniana

Haydn's Boyhood Pride

High Lights in the Lives of Great Master: Haydn

Keeping Up the Interest in Scale Playing

Delicate Hand

Parting of Haydn and Mozart

Most Difficult Musical Composition

Advantages …

Volume 35, Number 01 (January 1917), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Self-Expression at the Keyboard

Difficult Pronunciations

Limitations of Touch on the Piano

Gospel of Clean Keys

Musical and Cultural Education of the Modern Pianist

Maxims for Parents of Musical Children

Berlioz's First Meeting with Mendelssohn—And Its Sequel

Fountain of Inspiration for Masters

Mozart's Appearance and Personality

Have You These Five Qualities of the Progressive Teacher?

Causes of Some American Opera Failures

John Philip Sousa Inspects the Home for Retired Music Teachers

How Brahms and Liszt Welcomed Their Friends

Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Hints for the Singer's Daily Practice (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

Neat Method …

Somewhere In France Is The Lily, Jos. E. Howard, Philander Johnson, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of man in the bottom right corner. The face of a woman inserted into a Fleur de Lis in the middle of the page with bombs bursting in the sky and silhouettes of soldiers on the battle field.

First line of song: One day as morning shed its glow Across the eastern sky,

First line of chorus: Somewhere in France is the Lily, close by the English Rose,

Marziale

Includes sheet music samples from the songs " Witmark Black and White Series", "I'm Longing for Someone to Love Me", and "I'm Going to Folow the Boys". …

What Shall I Say?, Fiske O'Hara, Bartley Costello, Cass Freedom, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of a man looking straight with a big smile on his face.

First line of song:There's a speech I've been trying to make ev'ry day. But my tongue just gets tied till the girl gets away,

First line of chorus: But what will I say,

Operatic Edition

Allegretto

Augustus Pitou Presents Fiska O'Hara In A New Romantic Comedy The man From Wicklow by Anna Nichols

Lyrics by Fiske O'Hara and Bartley Costello

Music by Cass Freeborn

1 score, (4p.), 30x23 cm

Published by Leo, Feist Inc., New York

The Magic Of Your Eyes, Arthur A. Penn, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: no cover art

First line of song: In the twilight as the sun sinks low, comes the hour I dream of you

First line of chorus: Oh, the magic of your eyes!

Slowly and Tenderly

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Within The Leaves", "The Choice", "Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin', Caroline", "Honey, If Yo' Only Knew", and "My Rosary For You"

To Eleanor

Sung by Mr. Charles Harrison

Lyric and Music by Arthur A. Penn Composer of "Carissima," "Yokohama Maid," (Operetta) "The Salt of The Sea For Me" etc.

The Witmark Black and White Series

1 …

If You Look In Her Eyes, Otto Harback, Louis A. Hirsch, James Montgomery, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman flying an bi-plane while six other women sit and dance on it while throwing flowers.

First line of song: A maiden's lips no longer express things that she'd have you know

First line of chorus: She'll tell you what you're to do, dear, if you'll look in her eyes

Includes sheet music sample from the song " Kiss Me Again"

Moderato

Lyrics by Otto Harbach

Music by Louis A. Hirsch

Lines for Grace Douglas and one Madeline Manners

Cohan & Harris Present The Musical Play Going Up

Book by Otto Harbach and James …

Climbing The Ladder Of Love, Abe Olman, Ray Walker, Ray Sherwood, Forster Music Publisher Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of three hearts on a ladder with a couple kissing in the top one, the man looking at the woman in the middle one , and two kids a boy and a girl in the bottom heart.

First line of song: Picture a babe in a cradle that mother is singing to rest

First line of chorus: For you climb on the arms of your mother, then climb on your daddy's knee

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "I'm Going Over the Hills to Virginia"

Words and Music by Abe Olman, Ray Walker, and Ray …

Hawaiian Butterfly, George A. Little, Billy Baskette, Joseph Santly, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of a man wearing a tux facing forward and a woman above him wearing a hat facing the left direction. Includes the words Brice & King at the bottom of the photo. There is a palm tree and butterfly on each side of the photo. The sun is setting over the water. The bordering around the front cover includes starfish, sea horses and clam shells.

First line of song: Somewhere in Hawaii, I'm sending a wire to someone waiting there for me, among the flowers

First line of chorus: Beautiful Hulu, down in dreamy Honolulu, I …

(Good-Bye And Luck Be With You) Laddie Boy, Will D. Cobb, Gus Edwards, The Gus Edwards Music House

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of woman sadly looking at a man dressed in a military uniform. She has one hand resting on his chest while red, white, and blue ribbon surround them.

First line of song: War in the air blare bugles blare

First line of chorus: Good-bye and luck be with you Laddie boy, Laddie boy what ever your name may be

Includes sheet music samples from the songs " Rose Maries", "School Days", and "Romance"

Marcia

Words by Will D. Cobb

Music by Gus Edwards

1 score, (4p.), 33x26 cm

Published by The Gus Edwards Music House, New …

You're Some Pretty Doll, Clarence Williams, Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a couple pulling back holding onto each others hands under a tree in the moonlight

First line of song: Now listen Dolly come over here there's something I must whisper in your ear

First line of chorus: You're so pretty Oh! so pretty you're some pretty doll, you've got the kind of eyes that seem to talk

Words and Music by Clarence Williams

1 score, (4p), 31x24 cm

Published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. New York

Volume 34, Number 12 (December 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Locating the Notes on the Keyboard

Make Your Circular Hit the Mark

Keeping the Voice in Prime Condition

Some Truths about Touch and Tone

Famous Legends of Famous Music: And Incidentally Some Famous Lies About Well-Known Pieces

Beethoven's Appearance and Personality

If I Had to Begin All Over Again: A Remarkably Interesting Symposium with Contributions from Distinguished Musicians

What an Olden Time Bard Looked Like

Composer: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life849

Tempo: The Ruling Force in Music

Teaching Ideals of Three Master Violinists

Teaching Expression to Children

Danger in Tuning the Piano Too High

Four Roads …

Volume 34, Number 11 (November 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the American Girl Should Know About an Operatic Career

Last Days of Stephen Foster

Half Hour of Daily Technic

Useful Addition to the Gallery Collecton

Superlative Importance of Tempo

Some Interesting Musical Historical Facts

Hundred-Dollar Lesson

Difficult Pronunciations

Scale Wheel

Composer: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

Great Composers and the Harp

Study with Beads

Studio Visiting Days

Beethoven and the Blind Girl

Learning a Piece by Forgetting It

Musician's Worry Habit

Master Lesson for Earnest Students on Mendelssohn's Charming Spinning Song

What Kind of Music is Best?

How Verdi Sought to Avoid Pomp Even in …

Volume 34, Number 10 (October 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Getting Results Through Right Practice: A Talk to Students

Points to Remember in Sight Reading

What's Wrong with My Piece

Teacher and His Business

Building of Music: A Practical Lesson in the Principles of Musical Form

Self-Help Road to Success in Music

Overcoming Stage Fright

Common Sense in Pianoforte Touch and Technic

Why Should I Study Theory

Some Facts About Pitch

Composer and the Organ Grinder: A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life

What Every Student Should Know About Phrasing

Learning to Depend Upon One's Self

Honor to the Teacher

George Noyes Rockwell

Master Lesson—Mendelssohn's Scherzo in E …

Volume 34, Number 09 (September 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Stephen Foster's Versatility and Industry

Talking Too Much

Some Musical Signposts

Personal Recollections of the Last Days of Stephen Foster

Intimate View of Stephen Foster

Sense of Rhythm

Intelligent Training of the Thumb

Find the Shortest, Quickest and Easiest Way to Do Things

Spurring Up a Slow Pupil

Stephen C. Foster's Romantic Career

Music's Written Language

How to Show Pupils the Advantages of Slow Practice

Compounded Measures

Popularizing Good Music

Some Curious Musical Instruments Used by Savage Tribes

Beauty and Originality in Haydn's Pianoforte Sonatas

Generosity of Franz Liszt

Two Great Musical Innovators, Liszt and Paganini

Are You a Solomaniac? …

Volume 34, Number 08 (August 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Instruments of Mythology

What Time Means to the Musician

Some Facts About Rubinstein

Was Liszt the Paganini of the Piano?

More About American Musical Atmosphere

Dr. Cornelius Rübner on American Musical Atmosphere

Training of the Thumb in Pianoforte and Organ Playing

Three Helpful Devices with Which Piano Students Should be Familiar

Music in America During Revolutionary Times

How One Mother Kept the Home Together

Necessary Little Instrument for Every Piano

Habit Formation in Relation to Pianoforte Playing

Philadelphia Movement in Music

Notation of Silence

Systematize Children's Practice

Curious Facts About Music

Real Help for the Pupil

Musical Memorizing To-day …

Volume 34, Number 07 (July 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Success Guides for Young Teachers

Practice Hour Filled with Pleasure

Part the Piano Should Play in Musical Education

What Should be the Attitude of the Layman Toward Music

Most Subtle Secret of Success

Live Teacher—Am I One?

Teaching the Use of the Bass Clef

Practice the Hard Parts Separately

Beginning at Both Ends

Effect of Mechanical Instruments Upon Musical Education: A Symposium from Noted American Educators Upon a Question of Wide Significance

Royal Performers on the Flute

Real Meaning of Rhythm

Useful Finger Exercise

Discouraging the Pupil

Can There Be Any Real New Music?

How Parents Can Help

First Requisites …

Volume 34, Number 06 (June 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What the American Musical Public Needs (interview with Josef Stransky)

Geography of Opera

Correct Musical Diagnosis

Tragic Ending of Enrique Granados

Negro in the World of Music

Can Poetic Playing and Singing Be Taught?

Proper Age for Beginning Music

Different Kinds of Touch the Student Should Master

Story of the Piano in Pictures

World Music of To-morrow: A Prospect of the Nature of Our Musical Progress Based Upon the Musical Tendencies of To-day

Gift of Observation in Piano Study

When Grandmother Taught Me Music

Eye and the Ear: Shall the Student Learn to Play by Ear?

Some Interesting Beginnings in …

Volume 34, Number 05 (May 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sanity and Insanity in Modern Musical Composition

Classified List of Some Futurist and Modernist Composers

Will the Music of Ultra-Modernists Survive? A Symposium by Eminent Musicians

Some Examples of Cubist Art by Recognized Futurists

Thoroughness in Hungarian Music Study

Talented Pupil Who Wastes His Time

Redundant Practice

Efficiency Principle in Piano Study

How Edward Grieg Found Success

Boundaries of Beauty in Musical Art

Three Trinities in Music

Firsts in American Musical History

How to Play Thirds and Sixths—A Study in Advanced Technic

Facts About Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord

Use Musical Terms Precisely

Rebuilding on Old Foundations

Creoles and their Music

How …

Volume 34, Number 04 (April 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Studies in Advanced Technic

Spirit of the Piece

Practical Ideas in Teaching, Culled from a Famous Authority

Flush of Nervousness

Marvels of Sound: Some Wonders of Acoustics with Which Music Lovers Should be Familiar

Sound Facts for Busy Readers

Universality in Piano Teaching Methods

Developing Musical Volume of Tone

One Way of Getting More Pupils

Monotone

Musical Day in Nature: A Lecture Recital Program for Students and Teachers

Working Creed for the Music Teacher

Plan for the Systematic Review of Old Pieces

What To Do When a Teacher Cannot Be Had

History of Notation and the Young Student

Holding …

Volume 34, Number 03 (March 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Radical Methods in Modern Pianoforte Study

Remarkable Pianoforte Arrangements of Franz Liszt

Artistic Origin of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words

Liszt in Fiction: A Romance in Which the Great Pianist is the Central Figure

Practicing with One Hand

Shakespeare's Music the World Over

Clara Schumann's Debt to Johannes Brahms

Muscular Mastery of the Keyboard

Every One Can Memorize Music: That is, if Everyone Will Work Hard Enough, Long Enough and in the Right Way

Thoroughness in Memorizing Music

Misleading Musical History

Sibelius and the Music of Modern Finland

Teaching Pupils the Musical Alphabet

Nervousness versus Karma: A Much-Needed Parable for Timid …

Volume 34, Number 02 (February 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Happy Side of Music Teaching

Blind Handel and His Blind Helper

Piano Subito

You and the Other Teacher

Elementary Study of Pianoforte Technic

Teacher's Nerve Destroyers

Hands and the Pianist

Away from the Piano

Science of Pianoforte Practice

Establishing a Definite Technic

Single Little Mistake

Leisure Hour Facts for Music Workers

What is Expected of the Accompanist?

Foundation of Smooth Scale Playing

Practicing Backward

Musical Facts for Spare Moments

Early Drill in Sight Reading

Ten Points in Extemporization

Place of the Nocturne in Musical Art

Pertinent Questions for Conscientious Teachers

Interesting Facts About Finnish Music

When Should I Practice?

Three …

Volume 34, Number 01 (January 1916), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Preparing for the Virtuoso's Career

Chopin in Fiction

Chopiniana: Chopin's Character, Temperament and Art Etched in Interesting Facts from

Music in the Danish Capital

Aid to Sight Reading

On the Gentle Art of Advertising

Arm-Control in Piano Playing

Don'ts for the Mothers of Music Pupils

Letting the Pupil Select Music

Should a Teacher Evolve His Own Method, or Use That of His Instructor?

How to Gain Power, Sweetness and Expression in Singing

Matter of American Musical Atmosphere

Practical Ideas in a Nutshell

Wisdom of Leschetizky: Statements from His Personal Expressions on Pianoforte Playing

Have I Musical Talent?

Use of the …

On The Arm Of The Old Armchair, Bobby Heath, Arthur Lange, The Joe Morris Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a boy inset in an armchair picture frame. There are green and white stripes in the background.

First line of song: My girl lives in the country, she's just an old fashioned girl, but she's not slow

First line of chorus: On the arm of the old arm chair

Includes sheet music sample from the song "There's a Quaker down in Quaker Town"

Words by Bobby Heath

Music by Arthur Lange

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by The Joe Morris Music Co, New York

You're The Best Little Mother That God Ever Made, J. Keirn Brennan, Ernest R. Ball, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of bolded times new roman letters

First line of song: When twilight comes down, It is then, mother dear, I long for you most

First line of chorus: God made you, dear mother, and then broke the mold

Moderato

Tenderly

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin", "I Come to Thee", and "It Was For Me"

Lyric by J. Keirn Brennan

Music by Ernest R. Ball

Played in Eb

1 score, (6p), 32x27 cm

Published by M. Witmark & Sons, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London

The Ghost Of The Ukulele, James Brockman, Jack Smith, John Brockman Music Pub. Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of two guys in tuxes standing together looking in the left direction in a circle frame with palm trees and ghost carrying ukuleles dancing in the back ground.

First line of song: Last night in dreams I could plainly see, the land of Honolulu far across the sea.

First line of chorus: That's the ghost, that's the ghost of the Ukulele strumming gayly

Allegretto Moderato

By James Brockman and Jack Smith

The Hit of Shubert's Production "Show of Wonders"

Sung by Howard & Howard at the Winter Garden New York City

1 score, (4p.), 33x26 cm …