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Volume 69, Number 06 (June 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Side of the Angels: The President of Julliard School, One of America's Outstanding Composers tells June Graduates

How to Succeed in Music

How Do I Get a Manager?

How to Get Started on Your Career as a Piano Teacher (interview with Arthur Judson)

Teachers I Have Known

How to Dress for a Concert

Make the Most of Your Recital Debut!: A Well-Chosen Program Can Help Your Professional Career to a Good Start

Too Many Languages

Great Kreisler Hoax

Accommodations are Plentiful This Year at the European Festivals

Aspen

Adventures of the Trill

Master Lesson on Johann Sebastien Bach's Gavotte from …

Volume 69, Number 05 (May 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music at the Festival of Britain: Performers and Listeners Will Gather in England this Month for a Gala Once-in-a-Century Celebration

Singing Patrolmen: New York's Finest Sing to Prevent Traffic Accdients, to Welcome Visiting Dignitaries, and Just for the Fun of Singing

There's Music in Your Piano

Singer's Voice and the Sinuses of the Nose

Teaching is Selling Planning a Choral Rehearsal: For Best Results, Each Step Should be Carefully Mapped Out in Advance

Immortal Trifles, of Gilbert & Sullivan

Master Lesson on Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique

Program Note for Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring

How Sweet Adeline Got Its Name: America's Favorite …

Volume 69, Number 04 (April 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dilemma in Detroit: Survivors of the Detroit Symphony Support Themselves with Odd Jobs and Look for a Successor to Sponsor Henry Reichhold

Zoltan Kodaly was my Teacher

How to Teach Adult Beginners

Music Has No Short-Cuts: Solid Careers Emerge Only for Unhurried, Systematic Training (interivew with Joseph Fuchs)

It's Free—It's Fun—It's Forum!

More About the Pharyngeal Voice: Widely-Used Method in the Golden Days of Italian Bel Canto

Class Piano Teaching Gets Results . . . A Successful Teacher Reveals the Formula She Has Developed Through Years of Trial and Error

Sing with Your Fingers

Volume 69, Number 03 (March 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Problem of Sincerity

There's Music in Stamps

Every Voice is a Problem

How Do You Look to Your Audience? (interview with Basil Rathbone)

Shall I Teach My Students Popular Music?

Don't Force the Issue!

Notes of an Amateur Violin Maker

Ernest Ansermet

Master Lesson on Handel's Sonata in D Major (Larghetto and Allegro)

Volume 69, Number 02 (February 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Thoughts at 70

Music Teaching as a Profession

Jeanie Was a Lucky Girl

Origin of the Fugue

It's All Done with Muscles! (interview with Andor Foldes)

Singing Can Be Simple

That Inevitable Symphony

Deficit Master Lesson on Richard Strauss's Morgen

Volume 69, Number 12 (December 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Day of Days (Poem)

What Do Christmas Carols Mean to You?

New Horizon for Piano Teachers: The Elementary Classroom Teacher Needs a Background of Piano Study

Christmas at the Panama Canal

Play Lessons for the Pre-School Age

What I've Learned in Judging Competitions (interview with Jesus Maria Sanroma)

Grass Roots of Opera in America: Colleges and Universities Set the Pace in Creating Opera Centers Throughout U.S.

Special Christmas Programs Are Rewarding

Covered Tone—What is It?

This Choir Goes Big Time: Doctors, Lawyers, Salesmen, Housewives, Salesladies—All Join Their Voices in This Inspired Group

Do You Teach Piano or Piano Music?

Volume 69, Number 01 (January 1951), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Most Potent Musical Forces of the First Half of the Twentieth Century Were . . . Achille Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss, Paul Hindemith, Arturo Toscanni, George Gershwin, Bela Bartok, Serge Prokofieff, Jan Sibelius

What is Happening to Music in America

Modern Music: The First Half Century

Let's Give Them a Rest!: Five Overworked Piano Pieces by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff Should be Retired in Favor of Less-Hackneyed Numbers

Rhythm Makes the Music Go

How I Stage an Opera (interview with Margaret Webster)

Art of Mezza-Voce Singing

Some Thoughts on How to Perform Bach …

Volume 68, Number 12 (December 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Gifts for the Music Lover

Story of Notation: Byzantine Neumes, Jewish Cantillation Signs and a 10th-Century Monk's Clever Idea Contributed to the Evolution of the System We Know Today

I Want a Christmas Story

Albert Schweitzer Was My Teacher (interview with Lucie Chenevert Lawson)

How to Write a Song (interview with Sigmund Romberg)

Student Recital . . . 1950 Style

Christmas Music in Mexico

Technique and Musicianship

It's Easy to Read Music

Master Lesson on Chopin

Mazurkas in F Major and G Sharp Minor

How Many Christmas Songs Do You Know?

Volume 68, Number 11 (November 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

In Defense of Kirsten Flagstad

Good Singing Takes Time (interview with Giuseppe De Luca)

Pipers of the Highlands

Truth About Conducting Horse & Buggy

Teacher All-Star Circus Band

How Jean de Reszke Taught Singing

Master Lesson on Chopin's Etude in F Minor

How to Build a Piano Class

Pharyngeal Voice

Volume 68, Number 10 (October 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Geroge Gershwin . . . as I Knew Him

What Every Parent Should Know

How Jean de Reszke Taught Singing

Will Your Students Succeed in Music?: Psychologic Testing Has Eliminated the Guess-Work in Evaluating Pupils' Innate Musical Talent

Breathing is Everything Exit—The Church Quartet

Faust and the Devil

Master Lesson on Chopin's Etude in A-Flat Major

Volume 68, Number 09 (September 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Audiences I Have Known

Arnold Schoenberg's New World of Dodecaphonic Music

Tuner's Tantrum

Music is My Hobby

I Learned Piano at 50

Master Lesson on Shostakovitch's Polka from The Golden Age

Volume 68, Number 08 (August 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Delius in America

Interlochen Holiday

What to Do About the Child Prodigy

When Chautauqua Hit South Branch

School for Conductors

How Schumann Became a Composer

Opportunity Starts in Your Home Town

Invent Your Own Exercises

Master Lesson on Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor

Organ Questions

New Records Artist's Obligation

Music is My Hobby (Edward J. Doyle)

Volume 68, Number 07 (July 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Johann Sebastian Bach . . . His World What Bach Edition Shall I Play?

What Sort of Man Was J.S. Bach?

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Teacher Draft for a Well-Appointed Church Music (from The Bach Reader)

Search for Bach's Grave

Heirs to Bach's Genius Instruments of Bach's Day

I've Always Wanted to Play the Piano

WQXR . . . Radio's Wonder Station

Volume 68, Number 06 (June 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tanglewood: A Mountain Holiday, Summer Study for Gifted Students and One of America's Most Glorious Music Festivals

Opportunities for the Music Counselor

What is Singing?

Master Your Flute Tone (interview with Julius Baker)

Athletes at the Keyboard Wedding

Etiquette for the Organist

Deafness Comes Hard to Music-Lovers, but They Can Hear Now

Master Lesson on Chopin's Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1

Volume 68, Number 05 (May 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Music in Europe Rain, Rats and Red Tape

Teen-Age Symphony: Fifty-five New York Youngsters, Ages 10-17,Play a Full-Scale Concert Season

He Brought Us Orchestral Music

Gaoler Played the Organ: Being a True and Faithful Account of Ye Versatile Doings of Peter Pelham, a Musician of Williamsburg in Ye Olden Time

Come with Me to Antoine's in Jacmal on the Island of Haiti Where the Mysterious Voodoo Drums are Made

Operatic Daughter (interview with Claudia Pinza)

Volume 68, Number 04 (April 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Story of Parsifal

Blueprint for Public School Music

Toscanini Tours

America Art of Choral Conducting

Changing Voice—A Symposium

How I Play the 'Cello (interview with Garbousova, Raya)

School Band: A Challenge Questions and Answers

Teacher's Roundtable

Master Lesson on Tchaikovsky's April

Volume 68, Number 03 (March 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Richards Strauss . . . Conducting is a Difficult Business

Modern Piano Musical Metaphysics . . . Its Cause and Cure

How to Build a Voice Psychologists

Evaluate Music

So You Want to be a Piano Teacher

Structure of Music Clarence Dickinson—Pioneer of Church Music

Let's Simplify the Liebestraum Cadenzas Master Lesson on Brahms' Intermezzo in E-Flat Major, Op. 117,

No. 1 Musical Medicos

For TV Thrillers

Volume 68, Number 02 (February 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Oklahoma Wizard

What Chopin Really Thought of Liszt

Record Your Performances . . . On a High Note: The Secret of Free, Effortless Top Tones—A Studio Tested Formula

Opera Isn't Dead

Volume 68, Number 01 (January 1950), John Briggs

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Social Implications of Piano Study: Leadership, Cooperation, Self-Confidence—These Benefits of Piano Training Make For a Well-Adjusted Personality

Ballet . . . A New Freedom

How to Choose a Violin

Don't Take Your Music Too Seriously (interview with Alec Templeton)

What is Your Vocal Problem?

Ninety We Lose: Children Aren't Little

Men and Women—Look at Piano Lessons from Their Point of View

Musician's Worst Enemy—The Common Cold

Voices Aren't Made . . . They Grow

What Music Teachers Forget to Teach

My First Big Opportunity (interview with Mario Lanza)

How to Play a Melody

Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Christmas Comes (poem)

Handbells—Ancient Art Revived

Sing Ho for Christmas

I Learned To Sing By Accident (interview with Mario Lanza)

Swing Into Your Tone

Don’t Plan To Be a Conductor! (interview with Ernest Ansermet)

Why Do We Call Them Carols?: Songs of Christmas Link Today with the Ancient Past

It's the Same Old Claque: Then and Now—New York or Paris—

Relax and Improvise! (interview with Grace Castagnetta)

Concerning Spiccato, Sautille Arpeggios and Articifial Harmonics

Does Your Band Play in Tune?

What Is Your Vocal Problem?

Organ Practice and How To Get It

Master Lesson On the Sarabande and Bourrées …

Volume 66, Number 12 (December 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Little Lights of Christmas (Poem)

Sibelius Today: A Flight to Helsingfors to Visit Finland's Master Including a Conference with the Composer of Finlandia

Musical Christmas of Yesteryear

Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography, Part 6

Mania for Speed by Performers of Music

Christmas Music—A Universal Language

Test Your Teaching Methods

Great Russian Music of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Tcherepnine)

My First Day at the Conservatoire de Paris

Igor Stravinsky and the Greek Tragedy

Music Means Joy in Chinese: The Chinese Cultural Theater Group Affords an Opportunity for Americans to Learn of Cathay

Comeback—Words and Music

Volume 65, Number 12 (December 1947), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Down (Poem)

Silent Night, Holy Night!

America's Great Peace Hymn: The Story of America, the Beautiful and Its Composer, Samuel A. Ward

Amazing Subterranean Oratorio Performance: An Astonishing Account of a Notable Concert 750 Feet Underground in a Fabulous American Cavern Fairyland

Keep It Natural! (interview with Eileen Farrell)

Revival of the English Carol

What Gives a Violin Tone?

Joyous Mendelssohn (1809-1847): An Anniversary Sketch of the Brilliant Career of Felix Mendelssohn

Young People in Music (interview with Malcolm Sargent)

What the Singer Needs for a Career in Radio (interview with Jane Wilson)

Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

So This Is Our Christmas! (editorial)

Musical Dates of the Pre-Christian Period

Christmas Crib: The World-wide Adoption of the Holy Scene in the Manger

Secret of Song Speech (interview with Conrad Thibault)

Story of Christmas: As Told by the Titles of Christmas Carols and Songs

Wit and Humor of Musicians (Part Two)

What Hotels Mean to Music

Music Study Promotes Happy Homes: A Psychologist Discovers Notable Facts

Fiddler in the Sky

Spinet Rules in the 1947 Piano Field (Pictures)

Unknown Liszt Portrait

Violin Course: Grade 7, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Lessons and Tests, number 121 through 140

Violin Course: Grade 8, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Lessons and Tests, number 141 through 160

Volume 63, Number 12 (December 1945), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Song for a New World (Poem)

World Christmas Carols

Legend of Switzerland's Native Instrument

Queen Receives the Queen (Marjorie Lawrence)

Music's March of Victory (interview with Beardsley, Ruml)

Revolution in Opera (interview with Laszlo Halasz)

How Records Helped Win the War

Christmas Carol

Edison's Contribution to Musical Appreciation

George Eliot—Musician

Getting a Piece Ready for Public Performance

Wayfaring Minstrel (interview with Burl Ives)

Volume 62, Number 12 (December 1944), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dawn on the Horizon

Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves

Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)

Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge

How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)

Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes

If Parents Had Had Their Way

Music as a Living, Human Element

New York's First Opera

What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words

Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)

Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music

Katherine Ruth Heyman—A …

Volume 61, Number 12 (December 1943), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Christmas Canticle (Poem)

Piano When Peace Comes (interview with Lucien Wulsin)

Hints for the Young Violinist (interview with Carroll Glenn)

Turning the Searchlight on Musical Harmonies

Music and the Americas of Tomorrow (interview with James Rowland Angell)

Jitterbugs of Yesteryear: Dancing Madness through the Ages

Save Your Old Etudes: They are Valuable

Carols at Christmas

Music and War Manpower

Story of Beethoven's Adelaide

Don't Wreck—Build: How Destructive Criticism May be Turned into Profitable Criticism

Singing with Philosophy (interview with Igor Gorin)

Process of Weight Release in Piano Playing

Modern Ballet and Its Music

Technic of the Month—Prelude in B major, …

Volume 60, Number 12 (December 1942), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Operatic Proving Grounds

Star Eternal—Poem

Interesting Problems in Music Making (interview with Bronislaw Huberman)

Thrilling Possibilities of the Amateur Orchestra (interview with Leopold Stokowski)

Discrimination at the Keyboard (interview with Alec Templeton)

Twas the Night Before Christmas—Notograph

Lullaby. A Requested Editorial Disquisition

How Scales and Arpeggios Help Sight Reading

World's War Call for Music: Striking Contrast Between the Songs of Totalitarianism and the Songs of Freedom

Essentials of Vocal Art (interview with Emilio de Gogorza)

Christmas Carol Broadsides: When Christmas Song Sheets Were Hawked in the Streets

Have You Piano Hands?

Music Masters Memorialized by the Mails

Technic of the …

Volume 59, Number 12 (December 1941), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Metropolitan Star

World Hope, Poem

Music Should Speak from the Heart (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)

How Music Has Helped in My Life (interview with Lionel Barrymore)

Yes, We Have Music in Hawaii

Historic Musical Friendship: Haydn and Mozart in Their Personal Relations

Defense Worker's Magnificent Musical Opportunity: An Editorial

Preparedness Leads to Success (interview with Frederick Jagel)

Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 4

Christmas Music Through the Ages

Facing Your Audience

Substitute for the Missed Lesson

Memorizing Plan That Works

Unifying Piano Study (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)

Technic of the Month—Legato Chords (Czerny, Opus 335, No. 28)