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Volume 43, Number 12 (December 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music the Humanizer

Tinsel and Gold of Opera

Studying Aloud

Collapsible Fingers

How to Prepare for Playing in Concerts

Artistic Execution of Octaves

Don't Discourage the Pupil by Beginning all Over Again

Facts about Early Musicians

Brahms, Tausig and Some Variations

Your Chances of Scaling the Operatic Heights (interview with Maria Jeritza)

Two Geniuses in One Apartment

Touch that Thrills

Brahms on Composing Songs

Dictionary Dick

Keyboard Guides

New Ideas on Study and Practice (interview with Percy Grainger)

Some Suggestions for Sightreading

Keep Sweet

Relaxed Piano Playing

Steps Upward

Landing on Skips

Need for Merry Music

Rising Tide of Musical …

Volume 43, Number 11 (November 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Singer and the Church

Analysis and the Synthesis as Related to Theory and Practice

Vocal Introspection

Technic of Singing

Italian Aspect of the Art of Pianoforte Playingn (interview with Maria Carreras)

Try Praise

Four Charming Pupils' Recitals

Contemporary Musical Comments

Digging and Plodding in Music: How Work Solves Many Student Problems

Counting Contest

Class Lessons and Accenting

Private Box

Writing Harmony Exercises

Amateur Composers

Musical Peep-Hole Museum

How to Organize a Community Chorus: Practical Advice Based Upon Wide Experience Here and Abroad

Arabian Music

Missed Lesson, Again

Debutante's Publicity

Most Important Element in Piano Technic: How to Avoid Nervous Breakdown …

Volume 43, Number 10 (October 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Talks on Playing the Piano

Inspirational Moments with Cultured Minds that Love Music

To Promote Clean Playing

Tone Color Explained: Why Does the Same Note Sound Differently When Played by Different Instruments? What are Harmonics?

You Are Responsible

Touch Piano Playing

Little Life Stories of the Great Masters—Verdi

Teaching With Enthusiasm

Principles of Fingering in Piano Playing

Eternal Vigilance the Price of Technic

Ferdinand Himmelreich

Piano in Modern Music

Why Wagner Triumphed: An Understanding of the Ideals and Principles Which He Pursued Indefatigably

What About Class Instruction?

Music Teacher's Debt to the Automobile

Little Facts from Musical History

Master Thoughts …

Volume 43, Number 09 (September 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Play an Artistic Accompaniment

How Health Affects the Memory

Musical Maxims

Rebuilding a Long-Neglected Piano Technic

How Music is Saving Thousands From Permanent Mental Breakdown: Remarkable Results of Experiments and Investigations Now Being Conducted in Large Hospitals for Mental Diseases and In Penal Institutions (interview with Willem van de Wall)

Small Talent

Musical Spelling Bee

Teacher's Turn

Those Excuses!

Music of the Spheres: How the Musician May Develop His Soul Through the Study of the Stars

How Goldmark Won a Hearing

Talking Machine and Small Children

Finger Taps

Imagination in Playing

Helpful Hint for Teachers

Those Little Feet …

Volume 43, Number 08 (August 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Modern Ideas in Pianoforte Technic (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)

Developing a Sense of Rhythm

What Schubert Thought About

There is Music in the Air

Mirth and Music: A Midsummer Page of Merriment and Wit of the Famous Musicians, Taken from the Recent Highly Entertaining Book, Musical Laughs

Reading Music by Groups

Your Musical Memory—How to Enlarge It

Carmen's Half Century

Schubert's Daily Round

Virtuosity Versus Musicianship

Motives

Naming the Note Family

Systematic Practice Plan

Mastering Forearm Movements

John Brown, of John Brown's Body

Mean and Cranky

How to Select a Teacher

American Renaissance of Johann Sebastian Bach (interview with …

Volume 43, Number 07 (July 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Era of Great Orchestral Conductors in America

Gottschalk Bit His Nails

Everlasting Fight for Good Music

Those Fourth and Fifth Fingers

First Steps in Memorizing

Use of the Pedals

Feel the Rhythm

What is Thematic Development?

Another Way to Memorize

Practice of Arpeggios

Felix Le Couppey

Tempest, A Musical Play

Help to Acquire a Brilliant Technic

Contagious Short Motive

Von Buelow and His Vidow

Can I Learn to Conduct?: Practical Hints on Conducting Orchestras and Choruses

Four Charming Pupils' Recitals

Protect Your Friends From This Monstrous Musical Swindle

True-False Examination in Music

Miss Blank's Method

When to Leave a Teacher

Volume 43, Number 06 (June 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Master Secret of a Great Teacher (interview with Alexander Brailowsky)

Rossini's Musical Opinions

Inspirational Moments with Eminent Friends of Music

Indefatigable Czerny

Running Down Bad Habits

Most Important Principle in Piano Practice: What Rubinstein Said Was the Greatest Thing He Could Teach His Pupils

Value of Togetherness

How to Make Practice Interesting

Reaching the Boy Through Good Music: Notable Work Conducted in Junior Orchestras, Boy Bands and Harmonica Clubs

Suggestions for Summer Work

Tears of Berlioz

Beautifying Octaves

Musical Americana

Keyboard Tricks of Great Virtuosi

How Gottschalk Avoided Stage-Fright

Weight-Playing

What the Music Student Should Know About the Minor Scale …

Volume 43, Number 05 (May 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Makes Piano Playing Difficult?

How the Busy Teacher Can Develop His Hearing

Lessonettes

My Card System

Practicing for Perfection

Prelude to Practice

Beat Before the First

What is Music?

I Simply Cannot Memorize: Of Course You Can If You Know How and Sincerely Desire to Memorize

Train Scale

Putitng Pep into Piano Practice

Fascinatng Facts from Musical History

New Ways of Studying Runs

Child's First Lesson

Learning How to Finger: How to Avoid Brain Waste and Time Waste by Knowing Just Which Digits to Employ

Do Not Anticipate

Ten Times

Scientific Reviewing

What Are Really the World's Greatest Masterpieces …

Volume 43, Number 04 (April 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How I Came to Love Music (interview with Edward W.Bok)

Piano Keyboard for Young Beginners

Education Is Learning to Do

Saint-Saëns' Marche Heroique

Don't Expect the Teacher To Do It All

Introduction and Prelude

One Way to Memorize

Studio Staccatos

Breaking Off in Playing

Ingredients of a Great Pianist

How Sound Differs From Noise

Needed Musical Innovations

Self Instruction in the Art of Touch

Father of the Pianoforte

How to Become an Expert in Piano Technic

Great Composers' Love of Flowers: With Suggestions for a Springtime Flower-Music Recital

Pointer Instead of Pencil

Trill in the Works of the Masters

How …

Volume 43, Number 03 (March 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making of a Virtuoso Violinist (interview with Leopold Auer)

How Haydn Got His Job

How Von Weber Looked

Keep Your Piano in Tune

Famous London Physician on the Healing Power of Music

Exaggeration

Curbing the Music Student's Mania for Speed

Musical Bed Rock

For Pupils Slow in Reading Notes

Scientific Hand and Finger Placement, and Other Essentials to Artistic Success

Learning the Staff

What Practice Really Is

Analysis Without Harmony

Teaching the Scale to a New Pupil

What It Means to Put Over a Popular Song

Golden Slowness

Pedal Pointers

Deportment at the Piano

Set Your Mark High

Pirates on …

Volume 43, Number 02 (February 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tests of Rhythm

Interpretation for the Child

Smallest Interval

Bass Bothers Me

How Not to Practice

Promise with a Purpose

Melody and Accompaniment with One Hand

What Should the Musician Know About Business?

Play Often

Inspirational Moments

Short Cuts to Piano Proficiency: Four Simple Measures of Technic to be Practiced in Many Different Ways

Crossing the Hands

Tone-Color for the Amateur Pianist

Time-Keeping in Music

How to Bring an Earlier Technic Up to Date

Analyzing Melodies

Keeping a Repertoire Fresh

Side Lights

Musicians Do Not Sleep Enough

Avoiding Monotony in Scale Practice

Substitution of Fingers

Resourceful Piano

Vanquished Conductor

Why …

Volume 43, Number 01 (January 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Errors that Young People Make

Limbering Up Exercise

Repose in Teaching

Just Wondering

Playing Class

Touch and Hearing

Finger Elastic Touch

Scale Practice

So-Called Soft Pedal

Keeping Your Teaching Alive by Constant Study

Taking Stock of Ourselves

Be an Optimistic Teacher

Why Make Music Hideous? Down with the Uglifyers of Music

When is a Melody?

About the Trill

Accent—The Life Pulse in Music

How Mozart Composed

Giving a Musicale

Strengthening the Fingers

What Radio Means to the Music Student

Pointers on Beginner's Practice

Fear of Black Notes

When Practice is Practice

Body Touch

Concerts in Africa

Why is There So …