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Volume 58, Number 12 (December 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Promissory Notes

Light That Shineth in Darkness

Carols for the Feast of Christmas

Music as an Avocation (interview with Mrs. Vincent Astor)

Bill of Musical Rights

Christmas Music in the Little Town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Unusual Customs in the Bustling Industrial City that Make Music a Religion, and Religion, Music

Radio Staff Pianist: What It Takes, and What He Makes

What Is Behind the Popular Song (interview with Eddie Cantor)

For Unto Us a Child Is Born: The Story of Handel's The Messiah

Musician Decorates for Christmas

Christ Reigns To-Day: A Hymn of Christian Faith

Quick Work! Remarkable Feats in …

Volume 58, Number 11 (November 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Scoring a Success

Middle Years

Great Painters and the Art of Music

Practicing on a Mental Keyboard

Vocal Training from a Famous Master (interview with Zinka Milanov)

What the Pianist of Tomorrow Must Possess (interview with Sigismond Stojowski)

Mystery of Sound Effects in the Radio Studio

Christmas Piano and the Nineteenth Hole

Clear and Distinct Piano Playing

Demand for Unusual Song Programs (interview with Eva Gauthier)

Radio Help Music Pronunciation

Practical Antidotes for Stage Fright

Master Lesson—Bird As Prophet, Op. 82, No. 7 by Robert Schumann

Mauro Giuliani

Why Copying of Copyrighted Music by Hand or Otherwise is Illegal

Volume 58, Number 10 (October 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Good Neighbor Policy

Armies of Singing Men

Take Time to Take Time

Good Singing is Natural (interview with Jussi Bjoerling)

Romance in Songs

How Ferruccio Busoni Taught (interview with Egon Petri)

Who Wrote That?

Basis of Violin Playing Today

What Shall I Sing? (interview with Eva Gauthier)

Getting a Start in a Small Town

Dissecting the Chromatic Scale

Dr. E.E. Hipsher Retires

Helps Toward Sight Reading

Sign That Paid

Getting Laughter Through Music: An Important Description of Works in Which Composers Have Stiven to Make Fun with Tones

Volume 58, Number 09 (September 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Permanent Wealth in Music Study

Conservatory in the Home

Opportunities for Opera Singers (interview with Edward Johnson)

Great Bells and Little Bells: A Story of Carillons

Requirements of Rhythm Playing (interview with Fred Waring)

Contralto of the String Family (interview with Emanuel Feuermann)

Kings of the Keyboard—Liszt and Rubinstein: A Vivid Picture of Great Moments in Late Victorian Days

Make Progress by Making Friends

Story of the Mystic Stick: The Part Played by the Baton in Musical History

Rotary Exercises Develop Piano Playing

Greatest of the Garcias: The Romance of Maria Malibran—The Great Prima Donna to Visit America

How to …

Volume 58, Number 08 (August 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Significant Musical Advance

Music and the World's Great Hour

Part Work and Part Play

Mental Approach to Singing (interview with Jessica Dragonette)

Music All Around the Fair

Story Book Recital

Hill Billy and River Songs at Their Source: Notes of an Active Collector in Discovering American Folk Songs

Music Can Work Miracles: Why Singing in the Bath tub is Good for Your Ego

Protecting Your Piano Investment: Milions and Millions of Dollars are Invested in Pianos in America, Yet Few Know How to Protect Their Instruments

Sound Track of Yesterday and Today

Miraculous Case of Blind Tom: The Enigma of …

Volume 58, Number 07 (July 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Champions

America's Pioneer A Cappella Choir of Youth

Music of the Walt Disney Cartoons (interview with Paul J. Smith)

Operatic Nomads in Opera Land: Do You Want to Sing in Opera in Italy? Here is How They Begin

Aeolian Harp—and How to Make It

Was Herbert Spencer Right?

Polka Again

Love of Music and How It Is Cultivated

First American Pianist: A New Orleans Prodigy—First American to Appear in European Concerts

Fate Was Their Fortune: How Destiny Remade The Lives of Famous Musicians

Napoleon Helps a Yankee Town

Their Toughest Spot: Getting the Right Start

Behind the Scenes in Radio …

Volume 58, Number 06 (June 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sure Fiddler at Seventeen

Agreeable Succession of Sounds

Road of Glory: A Spiritual Pageant in the Deep South That Rivals Green Pastures

Your Community Should Have a Public Music Library (interview with Dorothy Lawton)

Truth About the Mysterious Death of Peter Ilyich Tsychaikowsky

Invitation to Mr. Paderewski's Eightieth Birthday Party: A Birthday Cake with a Million Candles

Beethoven, the Eccentric

William C. Steere of Worcester, Massachusetts

Teaching Phrasing Through Rests

Stamp of Approval

Toscanini, Man and Legend

What Good Is the Middle Pedal?

Sumer Is I-Cumen In: How a Teacher Solved the Problem of Keeping Busy Through the Summer, by …

Volume 58, Number 05 (May 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Youth Cries, Wake Up America!

New Thing Came and They Would Not See

New Insights to the Mastery of Debussy: Three Striking Period Pictures

Breaking into Radio

Mr. Bach of 1940

Composers and Their Mothers

German Masters

Our Musical Presidents

How to Make Pupils' Recitals Fascinating: Stage Etiquette for Every Performing Musician

When Music is King: A Week When a Nation Turns Musical

Odyssey of Oscar Levant (interview with Levant, Oscar)

Volume 58, Number 04 (April 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Folk Songs

Time and Tune

Music Educators Constantly Progressing

Don't Fear Your Limitations (interview with Jarmila Novotná)

When J.P. Morgan Sang

By the Beautiful Blue Danube: The Story of the Most Popular Waltz Ever Written)

Amusing Musical Episodes

Renaissance of A Cappella Singing (interview with Baroness Georg Von Trapp)

Mr. Mathews' Treasure Box: How a Famous American Music Educator Preserved Musical Facts

How to Capitalize Music Memory

Using Imagination in Teaching

Musical Askit Baskit

Gaining Keyboard Velocity Through Touch Control

Liszt, the Patron Saint of Music

Volume 58, Number 03 (March 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cultural Olympics

Relief Through Change

Down to Mexico: The Picturesque Music of Our Sister Republic on the South

Heart of the Blues (interview with W.C. Handy)

Accompanists are Born, Not Made (interview with Coenrad V. Bos)

Irishman the Grandfather of Russian Music: The Singular Story of John Field, Pianist and Composer

Family Musical Museum: A Remarkable Swiss Group Which Has Attracted Wide Attention

How Much Musical Talent Has My Child? A Musical Intelligence Test for Children Which Any Musical Mother May Give at Home

Music—An Avocation for Men: A Soldier Talks to Boys About Men and Music

How the Oratorio …

Volume 58, Number 02 (February 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Debutante: How a Youthful Prima Donna Triumphed at Thirteen

Keystone of Our Nation

Ageless Tunes: Why Victor Herbert's Melodies Never Became Chestnuts

There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding: The Story of a Song that Earned Three Million Dollars (interviewh with Zo Elliott)

Amusing Musical Episodes

Discovering the Riches in Old Music (interview with Wanda Landowska)

Social Art: Eight Hands—Forty Fingers

Medallions of Russian Masters of Yesteryear (interview with Plotnikoff, Eugene)

How to Get and to Hold Pupils

Harpist and His Problems (interview with Marcel Grandjany)

Master Lesson—Chopin's Mazurka, Op. 24, No. 4 in B-flat Minor

Volume 58, Number 01 (January 1940), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Have You Youth Concerts in Your Community?

Music and the Dawn of a New Day

Making of a Name (interview with Arthur Judson)

Wartime Musical London, Paris and Brussels

Begin the Year with Music

Creating a Character in Opera (interview with Friedrich Schorr)

Dreams of Old Musical Vienna: How Musical History Was Made Over Cups of Coffee

Musical Triumphs in Motion Pictures: A History of the Art, from Jazz Singer to Today1

Current Films with Worth While Music

Making Five Finger Piano Technic Vital: A Highly Instructive Article for Younger Teachers

Training the Hands for Definite Goals

Why Not a …

Volume 57, Number 12 (December 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Secret of a Merry Christmas

What the World War Did for Music in Europe (interview with Granville Bantock)

Mistaken Idea

Amaryllis and Louis XIII

Dr. Damrosch on Musical Tolerance

Night Before Christmas. A Musical Playlet

Let Us Give the Piece a Rub

Pencil

Story of Major Bowes and His Amateur Hour: A Million Dollar Idea Carried Out by a Million Dollar Personality

How to Make Money by Teaching the Piano, Part 3

Billings' Best

Old Familiar Carols Game

Music Is My Hobby!: The Engaging Story of How Successful Business and Professional Men and Women Avoid Life Monotony and Insure Against …

Volume 57, Number 11 (November 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Heredity and Music

Success in Voice Study (interview with Nelson Eddy)

Radio Flashes

Practical Aids in Getting Pupils

Composing for the Radio

ASCAP's Giant Music Festival

Do You Know?

How I Mastered Eighty Piano Concertos (interview with Henrietta Schumann)

Helpful Pedal Exercises

Who Wrote America?

Short Cuts in Piano Technic: Valuable Ideas Derived from a Study of the Keyboard Philosophy of Tausig, Deppe, and de Pachmann

Music for the Pre-School Child

Fatigue Hour

Success for the Young Musician (interview with Jan Smeterlin)

Encouragement Versus Criticism

Make Your Practice Period Profitable

Use and Misuse of the Metronome

Music As an Anaesthetic …

Volume 57, Number 10 (October 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music, Now, More Than Ever

Youth and Music Disciline

How People Are Swayed by Song (interview with Mark Sullivan)

Shall We Educate the Parents?

Increasing the Attendance at Pupils' Recitals

Time, Only, Tells (interview with Paul Hindemith)

Tradegy of a Deaf Musician: The Dramatic Fate of Friedrich (Bedrich) Smetana

Some Reflections on Singing (interview with Maria Anderson)

Helpful Octaves

How to Make Money by Teaching the Piano

Musical Viking: New Vistas of the Life of Edvard Grieg

Magnificent Musical Undertaking

How to Make Polyphonic Playing Interesting: Practical Doorways to the Art of Performing Interwoven Melodies

Hungarian Dance, No. 6 by …

Volume 57, Number 09 (September 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practical Crime Prevention: Better Spend $5000 for a Band Than $50,000 for a Jail

Make Your Pupils' Recitals Fascinating

Getting Acquainted with the Keyboard

Style's the Thing (interview with John Brownlee)

Czerny, Master of Masters

Independent Finger Motion

Schumann Drill

Luring the Child to Love the Piano (interview with Marcele Chéridjian-Charrey)

Painless Review Work

Liszt Trick

Fascination of Two-Piano Playing (interview with Silvio Scionti)

Strange Music Makers

Threshold of Music: Borrowed Chords and Altered Chords

Are You Aiming for the Opera?

Volume 57, Number 08 (August 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musica Pan-America

Music of the Woodland: A Musical Playlet

History of the Marimba

Teaching the Little Tots: The Real Pre-School Age

Mind's Ear

Diversions of the Masters

How to Teach Broken Chords

Couldn't Fool Him on Pitch

Music Makers in Old New England: A Timely Review of Many Quaint Customs

Singers of the Soil: Including the Fascinating Story of Buckwheat or Shaped Notes

Jascha Heifetz Transposed to the Films

Color in Piano Styles

Music's Debt to the Poets

New Experiment with Music in Business

Scherzo from the Sonata in F Minor of Brahms—A Master Lesson

Volume 57, Number 07 (July 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Joy of Singing

Learning to Interpret Great Music (interview with Robert Casadesus)

Radio Flashes

Negro Stephen Foster: The First Published Biography of James A. Bland

New Genius Who Does Not See—Alex Templeton

How to Improve the Child's Reading Ability

Music Circus in Recital: A Program That Will Delight All Youngsters, and Intrigue the Boys

Having Fun with the Ears

Music from a Carpenter's Saw

Music as a Business Man Sees It (interview with Allan Hancock)

Our Insect Musicians

Wrist Lubrication

Abandoned Farms of Music Education

Threshold of Music: Keys That are Related—Sisters and Cousins and Aunts—Natural Laws That Guide the …

Volume 57, Number 06 (June 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Now That Commencement Is Here?

Learning How to Help Yourself (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)

Yes There is a Musical Market

Radio Flashes

Pianist, Know Your Fingers: A New Approach to Piano Technic

Democracy of Radio (interview with Stephen West)

Mother Goose, Mus. Doc.: A Dramatic Piano Recital

Vital Inner Structure of Music: Is Counterpoint the Dry Bones of the Tone Art?

Some Tuneful Towns in the United States

Astonishing New Instrument

Beethoven's Best Clothes (an Anecdote)

Musical Radical Reforms

Great Master's Principles of Composition: Balakirev's Clear and Practical Ideas Upon Musical Structure

New Lights on Giuseppe Verdi as Seen in …

Volume 57, Number 05 (May 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Quest for Ideals

New York World's Fair Music Festival

Staccato Star

Building and Use of a Vocal Instrument (interview with Kerstin Thorborg)

Bach's Musical Helpmate: A Graphic Picture of Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Notenbüch

World's Largest Carillon: Dedicated to Stephen Foster

My Old Kentucky Home: An Eighty-five Year Old Folk Song and Something of Its History

Threshold of Music: The Art of Musical Voyaging: Modulation

Ten Remarkable Years Before the Mike (interview with Virginia Rea)

Schumann's Hints to Young Musicians

Music Study Means Music Study (interview with Mischa Elman)

Forward March of Music

Volume 57, Number 04 (April 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums! (from Handel's Judas Maccabeus)

Renaissance of the Band (Interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)

What Do Bands Mean to America? (interview with Fred A. Holtz)

And the Band Won

New Concepts in Present Day Music (interview with Paul Whiteman)

America's Oldest Civic Band: One Hundred and Ten Years of Activity; and Still Flourishing

Sing With Your Heart (interview with Frieda Hempel)

Recent Record Releases

Tooting a Horn for Fifty Years (interview with B.A. Rolfe)

Eight Years Abroad With a Jazz Band

American Bandmaster Speaks—A Symposium

March of the Grail Knights: From Richard Wagner's Parsifal as …

Volume 57, Number 03 (March 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Quirks

Victor Herbert as I Knew Him: Memories of The Man and His Music

Simplicity as a Background for Art (interview with Guiomar Novaes)

Radio Flashes

Adult Piano Beginner: What Should be Done to Make the Hands Supple (interview with Isidor Philipp)

Hand and the Keyboard

William Mason—An American Master: High Lights in the World's Famous Piano Methods

Good Singing Must be Natural (interview with Bruna Castagna)

Recent Record Releases

Unknown Victor Herbert: Intimate Pictures of the Life of a Widely Loved Composer

Lazy Hand

Scrambling Pupil

Romance of Annie Laurie: The Story Behind One of the Most Famous …

Volume 57, Number 02 (February 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the Arts

Smart Attire for Concert and Recital (interview with Elizabeth Hawes)

Why Music Is the Most Popular of the Fine Arts

Let's Go to the Music Hall: How They Put on the Show in the World's Largest Theater

How to Play Notes

Music's Debt to Shakespeare

Recent Record Releases

Musical Foresight-Hindsight

Mystic Dances of the Far East

Music Elects a Governor

Threshold of Music: Linking Chords into Sentences—And Punctuating Them

Meaning of Musical Ornamentation: The Psychology Behind These Interesting Tonal Decorations in Music

Etude's Courses in Culture

Magnificent New The Mikado in Technicolor: A Cinema Presentation from …

Volume 57, Number 01 (January 1939), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Epic of Attainment

Amazing Musical World of To-day (interview with Walter Gieseking)

Going Through the Book

Moonlight Sonata: Fact, Fiction and Fancy

How to Abolish Fear Before Audiences: The Meaning of Mike-Fright

Men of the Orchestra: A Visit with the Individuals Who Produce the Music (interview with Mishel Piastro)

Spelling of Musical Notation: Musical Orthography Made Clear

Earning a Living Through Singing

Astonishing Invention of Musical Interest

New European Sound Reproducing Invention

Etude in C-sharp Minor by Chopin

Etude's Courses in Culture

Quest for Harmony in Decoration

Forward March of Music

Aids to Sight Reading

Another Use for Reward …

Violin Course: Grade 7, Exercises, 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: Exercises, number 701 through 753

Violin Course: Grade 6, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade , Advanced B: Exercises, number 601 through 656

Violin Course: Grade 5, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Violin Courses

A Lesson Book for the Violin Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 5, Advanced A: Exercises, number 501 through 556

Violin Course: Grade 8, Exercises, 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: Exercises, number 801 through 853

Violin Course: Grade 8, Studies, 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: Studies, number 801 through 870

Violin Course: Grade 6, 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 6, Advanced B: Lessons and Tests, number 101 through 120