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Piano Course: Grade 4, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 4, Intermediate B: Compositions, number 401 through 460

Piano Course: Grade 1, Compositions, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 1, Preparatory A: Compositions, number 101 through 160

Piano Course: Grade 4, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 4, Intermediate B: Exercises, number 401 through 468

Piano Course: Grade 8, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 8, Graduate B: Exercises, number 801 through 853

Piano Course: Grade 2, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 2, Preparatory B: Exercises, number 201 through 258

Piano Course: Grade 7, Exercises, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 7, Graduate A: Exercises, number 701 through 753

Volume 46, Number 11 (November 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Revolution in American Musical Education

Milan, the Shrine of the Opera

Johann Sebastian Bach (Etching)

Master Themes the World Loves Best

Antidotes for Unnecessary Platform Fear

Race and Nation in Music

Scale Writing Drill for Young Pupils

Egyptian Music: Sonds of the Ancient Land of Mystery

First Year Ear Training

Volume 46, Number 10 (October 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mastering Irregular Rhythms

Page Turning for the Pianist

Two Centers in Piano Playing

Simplifying Note Reading

Young Beginner

Musical Home Reading Table

Eighteenth Century Italian Opera

Clara Schumann's Hands

Beethoven's Mother

Music in the City of Flowers

System in Study and Practice

Gounod's Definition

Veronese's Immortal Masterpice—Les Noces de Cana (The Marriage at Cana)

Story of the Ballet and Its Music

Schumann as Educator

Most Curious Page in American Musical History: An Early American Experiment in Communism with a Musical Background

Prerequisites for the Accompanist

Rhythmic Educational Value of the Toy Symphony

How to Get Up a Rhythmic Band

Exceptional …

Volume 46, Number 09 (September 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching Correct Pedaling

Incredible Mental Achievement

Music in the City of Flowers

Improve Your Stretch

Keyboard Facility and Agility

How to Extend Your Hand Without Injury

Beethoven Listening to the Muses—An Etching

Folk Element in Music: The Study of Nationality in Music

Cross Rhythm

Teaching the Use of the Pedal

Master Themes the World Loves Best

Most Amazing Achievement in the History of Music Study: The Remarkable Story of a Student Who Has Been Blind

Volume 46, Number 08 (August 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Means to an End

Band Without Music

Musical Education in the Home

Most Remarkable Orchestra in the World

Stiumulating the Desire to Compose

Modulation and Transposition

Raising the Price Imperceptibly

Touch It Up

Meet My Friend, Mr. Schubert!

Facsimile The Erlking

Summer Music Study

Rhythmic Educational Value of The Toy Symphony

How to Give a Rhythmic Kitchen Symphony

Rhythmic Studies in Rests

Tests that Turn Teaching Successward: A Vital Series of Pertinent Personal Questions Designed to Help Ambitious Teachers

Fourth and Fifth Fingers

Yes, I Teach 'Em Jazz

Scenes from the Childhood of Franz Schubert: A Musical Playlet for Children …

Volume 46, Number 07 (July 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hymn Playing Helpful

Musical Education in the Home

What Makes a Fine Piano

Evolution of Piano Playing and Virtuosity

Why Do I Study Music

On Describing a Piece

Efficiency in Piano Study

Speaking the Pupil's Language

Studio Ventillation

Tickling the Risibles

Grandeur that Was Rome

Point on Poise

Doorstep of Harmony: Showing How Simple and Delightful the Study May be Made for the Amateur

Frederic Chopin, an Etching

Queen and a Quarrel about Musicians

Making Arpeggios Interesting

33rd Annual Concert And Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 33rd Annual Concert and Commencement at Auditorium Theater (58 East Congress Street) held on June 16, 1928.

Volume 46, Number 06 (June 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Summer Study Count

Naples is a Song (Napoli é Una Canzone)

How to Study the Encore Song

Etching, Beethoven and Goethe

Secret of Extracting Tone Color from the Piano

One Hour at the Piano

Chord Conversion for Small Hands

Memorizing Notes on Staves

Practicing Away from the Piano (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

How to Free the Fourth and Fifth Fingers

Aids to Musicianship: Scientific Principles a Necessity for Perfection in Art

Accents

Volume 46, Number 05 (May 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musician and Fly

Maxims for Pianoforte Students

Matter of Hour Lessons

Largo from The New World Symphony

Oboe in the Kettle

History of a Best Seller

Rubinstein, the Leonine

Napoli E' Una Canzone

Ethics in the Musical Profession

Fifth Finger

Cinderella at the Piano

Wonderful New Etching of Johannes Brahms

One Hour at the Piano: A Highly Concentrated Plan of Study by a Famous London Teacher

Orchestral Innovations

How to Get the Right Number of Notes in Repeated Figures

Reading Chords Simplified

Keeping Right Tempo

Practical Memorizing

Making Note Reading Easy

Row Boat Playing

Self-Help Lesson in Modern Pedaling

Romance …

Volume 46, Number 04 (April 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is a Symphony Concert?

Musical Appreciation and Form

Taking an Inventory

Alleluia (Frontispiece)

Reinforce the Weak Spots

Aiming for It!

Do You Know That

Wrapping-Paper De Luxe

Teaching the Fundamentals of Music Through Improvisation

Accompanying as an Art

Uses and Abuses of the Pedals

Mozart (Etching)

Parental Influence in the Lives of Famous Musicians

Eighth Note

Whither the Trend of Music? (interview with Darius Milhaud)

Path of Music

Daily Exercises for the Busy Teacher

Keep It Up

Simplicity Thoughts

Finger Combinations Met With Every Day

Youngest Performer

Sight Reading

Phonograph Record as a Master Teacher

Fascinating Journals in Music …

Volume 46, Number 03 (March 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Double Notes for Strengthening the Fingers

Ear-Training the Child on His Own Pieces

Wagnerian Estimate of Mozart

Gilded Angel

Bad Company for a Gentleman's Sons

Baif Club

Taking up Music in Later Life (interview with John Erskine)

Training of a Virtuoso (interview with Moritz Rosenthal)

Not Quantity but Quality

Art and Music

We Have 'Phones!

Impression of Max Bruch's Tone-Poem, Kol Nidrei

Good Instrument for the Beginner

Franz Schubert—An Etching

New Lights on Scale Playing

Fairies in Music

Great Masters as Students of Music: Edward Grieg (1843-1907)

Why a Boy Should Study Music

Fun in Reading Notes

How Rimsky-Korsakoff Taught: …

Volume 46, Number 02 (February 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Music Colorful

Signs—Always Signs

Forefather of Pianoforte Technic: Czerny The Indispensable

Musical Education in the Home

Why not Write to the Young Pupil?

Radio and the Music Student

Relating Key and Note

Think Before You Play

Cushion for Aida

Sleep On It

Haydn and the Clarinet

Magic of Melody (interview with Eduard Poldini)

Musical Reading and Thinking

Finishing Touches in Piano Playing

Great Moments in Wagner's Nibelungen Triology

Wagner, the Eternal

Acquiring Realistic Technic

Musicians, Take Care of Your Ears

His Own Musician

Go Ahead!

Mélange from France

Romance of a Pioneer Prima Donna: Striking Pictures from the Life …

Volume 46, Number 01 (January 1928), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Playing Arpeggios

Finding the First-Bests

One Road to Good Piano Technic

Picture and Canvas

Checks—and Checks

Self-Study in the Art of Music (interview with Leopold Godowsky)

Musical Question of the Hour: Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Education

Schumann and His Mother

Measuring Musical Minds

What Makes the Musical Person?

Suspended Count

Beethoven's Life Tragedy: Dramatic Episodes in the Career of the Great Composer

New Piece

How a Mother Can Make the Child's Music Study Irresistibly Interesting: How Influences will Make or Ruin the Child's Musical Career

Composers at Work

Romance of Music in Palestine

Musical Reading Clubs

Power …

Piano Course: Grade 2, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 2, Preparatory B: Lessons and Tests, number 21 through 40

Piano Course: Grade 4, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 4, Intermediate B: Lessons and Tests, number 61 through 80

Piano Course: Grade 1, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 1, Preparatory A: Lessons and Tests, number 1 through 20

Piano Course: Grade 3, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 3, Intermediate A: Lessons and Tests, number 41 through 60

Piano Course: Grade 5, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 5, Advanced A: Lessons and Tests, number 81 through 100

Piano Course: Grade 6, Lessons And Tests, Sherwood Music School

Piano Courses

A Lesson Book for the Piano Courses administered by the Sherwood Music School's Extension Division.
Grade 6, Advanced B: Lessons and Tests, number 101 through 120

Volume 45, Number 11 (November 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Branding the Blunders

Mother Music

Musical Education in the Home

How Germany is Striving to Win Back Pre-War Musical Conditions

New Paths in Musical Art (interview with Alfredo Casella)

To Facilitate Note Reading

Aid to Memory and Expression

Mechanics of Art

Treat Your Piano Right: Respect Your Piano in the Home and in the Concert Hall if You Demand the Best Results

Introducing Cora and Dora

Showing an Interest in the Pupil

Teaching the Student to Think

Music as an Inspiration in Art (painting)

Something About Chord-Playing

Successful Radio Performance

Haunts of Great Masters n Vienna (etchings)

Light and Shade …

Volume 45, Number 10 (October 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Is Meant by Equal Temperament?

Have Contrast in Music

What Shall We Do With Bad Musicians?

Operatic Triumph Over Mountain-High Obstacles (interview with Madame Isang Tapales)

How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing?

Beethoven's Great Funeral March on the Death of a Hero (monument)

Happy Sides to Beethoven's Life

Fads and Fallacies in Modern Pianism

How to Teach Scales

Two Pianos

Queerest String Instrument in the World

Making Selections of Music for Beginners

Scottish and Other Folksong: Its Relation to Art Music

Translating Practice Into Pleasure

Amber Light for Reading Music

Easy Way to Understand the Triads: …

Volume 45, Number 09 (September 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Shall I Do With My Music? (interview with Howard Hanson)

For Mastering Scale-Like Passages

Evolution of the Staff

Learning the Pedals

Damrosch and New York Symphony

Launching the Musical Artist: How Great Pianists, Violinists and Singers are Presented to the Public

Music and Poetry in Autumn

Leschetizky's Vital Ideas

Some Observations on Practice

Hot and Cold—A Helpful Teaching Idea

How to Get Up a Little Musical Pageant in Your Town

Do Not Run Past the Signals

Scale Signature Design

Maintaining Interest

Short Compositions for the Piano

Building the Grand Staff

Curing Collapsible First Joints of Fingers

Stunts Do Not …

Volume 45, Number 08 (August 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Technic and Beauty in Piano Playing (interview the Guiomar Novaes)

Aim and Achievement

Position at the Keyboard

Perfect Twenty-Four

Mistakes Accompanists Make

Interesting the Boy in Practice

Musical Smiles

All About the Slur: Its Fifteen Uses in Music

Von Buelow in Chicago

Learning the Midas Touch from Schubert's Rosamunde

To Do, Or Not To Do

Interpretation of the Little Classics

Liszt's Impromptu Feat

For a Stiff Wrist

Necessity of Visual Musical Education

Whole Rest and Half Rest Gentlemen

Learning the Art of Conducting With the Aid of the Talking Machine

Something About Tone

Wagner a Nervous Conductor

Learning to Listen …

Volume 45, Number 07 (July 1927), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Nothing But Exercises for Six and One-half Years (interview with Tito Schipa)

Perfection Before Pedal

Why Stop Work When Lessons Stop?

Thought Provoker

Breaking-in the New Lesson

On Developing Good Taste Early

Weight Playing

Managing the Student and the Studio

Rhythmic Motions

It Pays to Advertise

Finger Gymnastics

How to Keep Pupils

Few Hints on Violin Playing (interview with Eddy Brown)

Flowers of Our Lost Romance

Improving the Diatonic Scale

Melody Writing for Little Folks

Your Ally—The Bulletin Board

Asparagus with Brahms

Such Hard Times

Putting Life Into Your Playing: Rhythmical Movement Applied to Technic

What the Cowboy Liked Best …

32nd Annual Commencement, Sherwood Music School

Commencement Programs

Program for the Sherwood Music School 32nd Annual Concert and Commencement at Auditorium Theater (58 East Congress Street) held on June 18, 1927.