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Volume 68, Number 09 (September 1950), John Briggs
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 56, Number 05 (May 1938), James Francis Cooke
Volume 56, Number 05 (May 1938), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Liszt's Green Gloves
Song of Praise for Grace Before Meals
Goal is Always Music (interview with Yehudi Menuhin)
Operatic Spectacles Two Centuries Ago—Pictorial
Musical Memory: Why, When and Where: How They Memorize at the Paris Conservatoire
Arpeggio Fingerings
How to Start a Prosperous Summer School: How a Teacher in a Small Vermont City Built a Prosperous Summer School Despite the Depression
Making Pupils' Recitals Interesting
Threshold of Music: A Melodic Alphabet—The Major Scale
Forgotten Fingers
In Defense of Mendelssohn
Some Be's for Your Studio Hive
School Accompanist: How th e Piano Teacher May Enrich His Pupil's Experience
Important Steps in …
Volume 54, Number 07 (July 1936), James Francis Cooke
Volume 54, Number 07 (July 1936), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Romance of In the Gloaming
Road to Correct Fingering
Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training
Short Cuts to Easy Practice
First Love of Franz Liszt
At What Age Shall My Child Begin to Learn the Piano?
Different Bach
Developing Interest in Practicing
Stamps for Success
Sources of Beethoven's Inspiration
Secrets of the Conductor (interview with Fritz Reiner)
Musical Make-Believe
How the Tuner Can Help You
Indefinable Liszt (interview with Frederick Lamond)
How About Figured Bass?
Safe Rule for Clear Pedaling
Musicians and Their Food
Pitfalls in Teaching Piano Tone Production
Pupil's Piano
Progressive Music Chart
Darkness Before Dawn …
Volume 52, Number 08 (August 1934), James Francis Cooke
Volume 52, Number 08 (August 1934), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
When Liszt Renounced the World
Arpeggio Practice
Energetic Fingers
How to Find the Keys and the Forms of the Minor Scales
Midsummer Musical Laughs
Jargon of Jazz: An Amusing Article Upon the New and Absurd Nomenclature Which Has Grown Up About the Jazz Orchestra
Music for the Local History Pageant
What Use is the Quarter Tone Scale? Is this Innovation in Modern Music Likely to Remain Merely a Curiosity?
Expressive Dictation
Remedy for Tense Muscles
Romance of Mendelssohn: A Favored Son of the Gods
Speeding Up the Left Hand
Wagner in Venice
Georges Bizet and the True Story of Carmen …
Volume 50, Number 01 (January 1932), James Francis Cooke
Volume 50, Number 01 (January 1932), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Lesson on the Chopin Scherzo in B Flat Minor
Very First Lessons at the Keyboard: Practical Advice to Active Teachers
What Music Offers Boys
Do You Know?
Tournament Tickets
Legacy from Pan
Missed Lessons
Bit of Psychology
Matching Musical Terms
Pied Piper of India
Original Manuscript of Home, Sweet Home
Music Student's Tools and Technic
Disadvantageous Bench
Outside Music Report
Stunt Lesson
Hawaii's Musical Background
Some Popular Musical Misconceptions
Schubert and American Romance
Musical Lotto
New Work by a Notable American Composer
Agencies for Helping the Musician
Boy Night
To Develop the Left Hand
How to Make Review a Pleasure …
Volume 48, Number 10 (October 1930), James Francis Cooke
Volume 48, Number 10 (October 1930), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Majestry of Liszt
Spirit of Hungarian Music (interview with Yolanda Mérö)
Dots and Their Values
Little Visits to European Musical Shrines: Hungary's Rich Gifts to Music
Three Notes Against Two
Auditions for the Sound Films
Endless Fascination of Hungarian Gypsy Music
Hungerian National Instrument—The Czimbalalom: A Musical RelicWhose Ancestry May Be Traced Back to Nineveh
Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today
Eminent Hungarian Pianist
Notable Hungarian Musicians of Past and Present
Do You Like This Musical Club?
This Chromatic Age: Exercises that Prepare the Piano Student for a New Era in Which the Chromatic Scales Will be Used More …
Volume 47, Number 03 (March 1929), James Francis Cooke
Volume 47, Number 03 (March 1929), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Precise Fingering When Wagner Shot a Rabbit
Brahms as a School Boy
Mozart's Poverty
How Finck Discovered MacDowell
Pupil's Repertoire
Golden Age of Music Study Has Arrived: New Worlds for Music Lovers and Music Students
Musical Research
Triplets
Salient Points for Practice Hours
Music on the Moon-Kissed Riviera
Master Themes the World Loves Best
How the Young Liszt Taught
Left Hand First
Student's Repertoire
Little Recitals
Three Master Singers on Preparing for a Lyric Career
Making the Most of an Exercise
Famous Method of Touch
What are Grace Notes?
Mastering Chromatic Thirds
New Understanding of Italian Terms of Musical Expression …
Volume 44, Number 04 (April 1926), James Francis Cooke
Volume 44, Number 04 (April 1926), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Hungary' Love for Music
Waiting for Inspiration
Slow Down
Don't Play Your Hardest Pieces in Public
Regular Practice Counts
Psychology of Reading Music at Sight
Dead Notes
Little Life Stories of the Great Masters
Strength of Silence
Hungary, the Land of Rhythm and Melody (interview with Yolanda Mëro)
Reveling in Music
Chord Playing
Imitation in Musical Compositions
Aids for the Slow Reader
Irresistible Lure of Gypsy Music
Practical Method of Teaching Treble and Bass Notes
Five Reasons Why You Should Study the Piano
Nervousness
Get a Musical Education First (interview with Margarete Matzenauer)
Our Musical Esperanto
On Temper in Piano …
Volume 44, Number 03 (March 1926), James Francis Cooke
Volume 44, Number 03 (March 1926), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Under No Consideration Would I Give Up Music (interview with Ralph Modjeski)
Are Scales Worth-While?
Winter Musicales
Equal Finger Development
Most Musical Town in the World
Mixing Heart with Art
Getting the Student's Measure
Some Points in Pianoforte Duet Playing
Thought Starters
Chopin's Preludes as Interpreted by Liszt
Hard Pierce!
Helps Along the Road
True Chopin
Slow Practice on Old Pieces
Resolves for the New Year
Some Inspirations of Composers
Little Life Stories of the Great Masters
Chopin Reflections
Chopin in His Last Years
Can Expressive Playing be Taught?
Teach Children to Compose
Music of Ireland
Music Teachers' Organizations Honor …
Volume 42, Number 04 (April 1924), James Francis Cooke
Volume 42, Number 04 (April 1924), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
If Franz Liszt Should Come Back Again (interview with Moritz Rosenthal)
Stiff Thumb
Use of Damper Pedal for Young Pianists
Scales for the Little Ones
Distinctive Traits of Great Masters
How a Great French Poet Inspired a German Genius: Wagner's Letter from the Poet Baudelaire
Mastering a New Piece of Music
How Much Technic
In Tune with the Laws of Sound—Voices are Born and Then Made
Fun in Music
Who Wrote Amaryllis?
When Should Pupils Discontinue Music Lessons
Common Musical Sense
Motet That Stopped Storms
What to Teach at the Very First Lessons
Some Don'ts for the Teacher
Idealism in …
Volume 39, Number 04 (April 1921), James Francis Cooke
Volume 39, Number 04 (April 1921), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Eminent Educational Experts Endorse the Golden Hour
Golden Hour: America's Most Serious Problem—A Possible Solution in Which You May Have a Vital Part
Modern Roads to Vocal Success (interview with Julia Claussen)
Sharps, Flats, Naturals
Helpful Criticism
Accent on the Third Beat
Cast Iron Methods
Lingering Lovingly on Details
Experience Plus Enthusiasm
Practical Phases of Pianoforte Technic (interview with Josef Lhevinne)
Taste
Inspiration in Piano Playing
Patience in the Study of Music
Studios, Yesterday and To-day
Psychology of Dress in Public Appearance
Alla Breve
What Was Liszt's Technic Life?
Interest Power in Music
Dialogue on the Pedals
Four Daily Practice …
Volume 38, Number 11 (November 1920), James Francis Cooke
Volume 38, Number 11 (November 1920), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
From Liszt to Leschetizky: Forty Years with Great Pianists
Unmusical Fugue
Chart for Remembering Key Signatures
Music and the Home
Practical Exercises in Modern Phrasing
Tonal Perception
Don't Be Fooled by Applause
How Can I Study the Art of Instrumentation?
Preparedness: The Secret of Speed
Getting Results in Pianoforte Study: Some Modern Ways of Reaching the Goal Through New Artistic Means
Musical Misnomers
Lessons We Dread
Early Hours for Practice
Passing on the Credit
Some Tricky Musical Signs, Ties, Slurs and Accidentals
Planning Practice to Get Best Results
Why are Sharps Harder than Flats
Effective Finger Exercises
Fingers versus Brains …
Volume 38, Number 08 (August 1920), James Francis Cooke
Volume 38, Number 08 (August 1920), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Three Touches Employed in Melody Playing
How to Create New Teaching Business
Direct Method in Music Study
Basis of Success in Music Reading
Fighting Fate to Triumph
Never Too Late
To Parents—Don't Give Up Your Music
To the Pupil Without a Teacher
School and Studio: Studies in the Cirriculum of the Public School Which Compare with Musical Studies
Practical Aspects of Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with M. Alfred Cortot)
Accenting Compound Measures
By-Product of Counting Aloud
Passing Notes
How Much Do You Practice?
More Advanced Technical Exercises and the Relation of Technical Exercises to Studies
Starting Them In
First Steps …
Volume 38, Number 07 (July 1920), James Francis Cooke
Volume 38, Number 07 (July 1920), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Know How in the Art of Singing (interview with Mary Garden)
Summer Activities of the Music Teacher
Music and Mechanics
Why Use the Letter C in 4/4 Time?
What Every Piano Student Should Know About Pedaling
Technic or No Technic? Which?
Best Remedy I Have Ever Found for Nervousness in Public Performance
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Good Beginning
Memories of Rubinstein and Liszt
Why Go to Pieces?
Make Your Left Hand Intelligent
Musical Patriotism
Strengthening the Weaker Digits
Where Does Father Come In?
Helpful Hints on Arpeggio Fingering
Illustration and Story in Piano Teaching
That Loud Pedal …
Volume 37, Number 07 (July 1919), James Francis Cooke
Volume 37, Number 07 (July 1919), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Pathetique of Tschaikowski
Opening Number of Our Recital
How to Choose a Piano
Making the Pupil's Interest Wider
Don't Give Up Music at the Altar: A Symposium by Noted Women in Music
Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition
What Do You Put Into Your Music?
Jamie's First Piano Lesson
Drudgery of Teaching
Ear Imperial: Why Ear Training is of Paramount Importance
Moods of Temperament
Time Directions and Their Meaning
How the Art of Playing the Piano Developed
Enthusiastic Teaching
Prosperity and Business Methods of Great Composers
Some Facts About the Nocturne
Interest Through Opera
Secrets of Success of Great …
Volume 34, Number 08 (August 1916), James Francis Cooke
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 03 (March 1916), James Francis Cooke
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 33, Number 11 (November 1915), James Francis Cooke
Volume 33, Number 11 (November 1915), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Boy Who Would Not Practice
Beethoven Piano in America
Four Essentials of Daily Practice
Power of Suggestion in Music
First Performance of Handel's Messiah, The
Franz Liszt—The Last Word in Piano Playing: Some Unpublished Aphorisms
Fingering the Minor Scales
At What Age Should the Pupil Start
Beginnings of Modern Instrumentation
MacDowell's Distinguished Career: A Collection of Interesting Personal Recollections and Comments Throwing New Light Upon Phases of the Activity of MacDowell as a Composer Pianist and as a Teacher
Edvard Grieg and His Own Compositions
Artistic Musical Temperament: And What a Few Kings Did in the Tonal Art
Beautiful Folk …
Volume 32, Number 09 (September 1914), James Francis Cooke
Volume 32, Number 09 (September 1914), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Tributes to the Memory of Hans Engelmann: Widely Loved Composer of Over 3000 Pianoforte Pieces
Salon and Its Music in France
Adjusting Technic to the Daily Needs
Dance Yesterday and To-Day
Sigismund Thalberg: Prince of the Salon
Preparing the Mind for Active Mental Work
Importance of the Speaking Voice to Singers
Developing the Greatest Possible Volocity in Scale Playing
Fifth Triennial Congress of the International Musical Society
Are We Diseased with Tremelo?
More About Standardization
Law and the Profits
Chord Playing Made Simple
Etude Master Study Page—The Strauss Family
Advantage of Psychology to Piano Teachers
Some Pupils We Meet
Most …
Volume 31, Number 11 (November 1913), James Francis Cooke
Volume 31, Number 11 (November 1913), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Keeping Up the Enthusiasm
Memories of Franz Liszt
Great Composers and Politics
Von Bülow and the Liszt Concerto
Main Essentials of Dr. William Mason's Principles of Pianoforte Instruction
Liszt and Dr. Mason's Eyeglasses
Necessity for Daily Practice (interview with Raoul Pugno)
Making Teaching a Pleasure
Hints on Velocity
What the Pedal Does
How to Gain Confidence for Playing in Public
Simple Calisthenics Loosen the Wrist
How Should the Study of Harmony Benefit Piano Students?
Long-Suffering Accompanist
Ideas for Interesting Club Entertainments
Why Many Clubs Fail
Opera Evening in Costume
Composite Biographies
Fun in Analysis
Pupils' Recital That Paid
Difficulties of …
Volume 31, Number 08 (August 1913), James Francis Cooke
Volume 31, Number 08 (August 1913), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Tact in Selecting Teaching Pieces
Dvorák as I Knew Him
Making Your Surroundings Help You
Overheard at a Musical Convention: Opinions of Well-Known Teachers and Musicians
Qualities of a Pianist
Painting Pictures with Tonal Colors: An Instructive and Entertaining Discussion of Programme Music
Instruments of the Orchestra
Musician's Vacation: How to Make It a Restful One
Getting a Start as a Virtuoso in Europe
Romance of the Chopin Preludes
Spirit of the Valse
Wisdom of Liszt
Solving the Missed-lesson Problem
Saint-Säens on the Playing of Bach Fugues
Shall Music Teachers Be Licensed?
What Tchaikovsky Thought of the Great Musicians
Making …
Volume 31, Number 07 (July 1913), James Francis Cooke
Volume 31, Number 07 (July 1913), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Emperor's Operatic Rules
Getting a Start in Europe as a Virtuoso
Teaching Too Many Pupils
Story of the Orchestral Instruments Told for the General Music Love: The Woodwind Section
Wisdom of Felix Mendelssohn
Pen Picture of Brahms
How to Become a Sure-Fingered Pianist
How to Make Summers Musically Profitable
Commonsense Helps in Teaching Little Folks
Despondent Versus the Over-Sanguine Pupil
Compelling Independent Finger Action
Teaching Children to Use the Pedals
Legato and Staccato Playing
Liszt as a Russian Master Saw Him
Some Old Musical Legends
Playing for Our Friends
Combating the Missed-Lesson Evil (symposium)
Neglected Staccato
Metronome and Its Uses …
Volume 29, Number 09 (September 1911), James Francis Cooke
Volume 29, Number 09 (September 1911), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Centenary of Franz Liszt—Founder of Modern Pianism: A Recent Analysis of the Technical and Artistic Traits of the Greatest of Piano Masters
What Schubert was Paid for His Songs
How Thinking Ahead Helps Memorizing and Sight Reading
Revealing the Composer's Hidden Meaning (interview with Sigismund Stojowski)
Prime Minister's Tribute to Music
Music Teachers for Piano-Player Owners
Left-Hand Recital
Flotow's Tuneful Opera Martha
How to Gain Muscular Control at the Keyboard
Clara Schumann's Memories of Mendelssohn's Piano Playing
Progress in American Musical Education
Well-Known Composers of To-Day—Richard Ferber
Getting Ready for the Musical Club Season: First Steps in Starting a Musical …
Volume 28, Number 11 (November 1910), James Francis Cooke
Volume 28, Number 11 (November 1910), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Some Approximate Pronunciations of the Names of French Musicians
How Verdi Preserved His Originality
Lessons with Franz Liszt
Weber's Mistake
Cultivating Musical Taste in the Public Schools
Tschaikowski's Ideals
Triumph of Edward MacDowell
Wagner on Mendelssohn and Schumann
Beware of Fraudulent Publishers
Survival of the Fittest in Music: How the Great Works of the Tonal Art Remain Through the Centuries, While Those of Less Value Are Doomed to More or Less Certain Oblivion
Just Ordinary Miss Brown: The Story of an Old-fashioned Teacher and How She Got Real Results While Others Failed
What to Do at the First Lesson: The …
Volume 28, Number 08 (August 1910), James Francis Cooke
Volume 28, Number 08 (August 1910), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Chopin: Pre-Eminent Genius of the Pianoforte
Modern Pioneers in the Art of Piano-Playing
Etude Debate: Shall Music Teachers be Required to Pass an Examination Before They are Permitted to Teach?
Pentatonic Scales in Famous Song
When the Mother Interferes
Laying the Foundation for Velocity: How Great Speed May be Attained if the Right Beginning is Made
Characteristic Dance Forms: Notes Upon Famous National Dances
Wagner's Opera Tannhäuser
Mendelssohn the Fortunate
Some Delicate (?) Contemporary Criticisms of Wagner's Early Works
How I Overcame Stage Fright
Encores at Pupils' Recitals
Rossini the Humorist: Epigrams and Wit of the Most Whimsical of the …
Volume 28, Number 04 (April 1910), James Francis Cooke
Volume 28, Number 04 (April 1910), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Musical Faults Americans Must Correct (symposium)
How Tschaikowski Spent His Days
Neglected Details in Pianoforte Study (interview with Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni)
Personal Glimpses of Moszkowski as a Teacher
Weber's Description of Beethoven
Some Familiar Teaching Pieces by Franz Liszt
To the Young Musician Who Would Compose (interview with Liza Lehmann)
Mendelssohn at Work
Diatonic Scale in the Works of the Masters
How Helen Keller Appreciates Music
Common Mistakes in Tempo and Rhythm
What Early England Gave to Music
How to Enjoy a Symphony
Plain Talk on Starting a Teaching Business
Tschaikowski and Rubinstein
Volume 27, Number 06 (June 1909), James Francis Cooke
Volume 27, Number 06 (June 1909), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
How to Study a New Piece: Suggestions for Cultivating Strength and Endurance Without Running the Risk of Injuring the Hands in Octave Playing
Schumann and Chopin
Recollections of Franz Liszt
How to Use the Etude Gallery
Carl Czerny: A Short Review of the Life and Work of the Teacher of Liszt and Leschetizky
Cheap Teachers Always Expensive
Von Bülow's Memory
How Verdi Entered the Musical Profession
Chronological Sketch of Joseph Haydn's Life
Card System as a Music Teacher's Aid
Why Class Teaching Sometimes Fails
Securing a Desirable Teaching Location
Story of Ballestrieri's Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata
Volume 26, Number 07 (July 1908), James Francis Cooke
Volume 26, Number 07 (July 1908), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Dr. Robert Goldbeck, Prominent German-American Musician and Educator, Deceased
Lessons with Kullak: How the Great German Pedagogue Taught
Questionable Advantages of Foreign Study
Is the Piano a Disadvantage in Early Musical Education? (Symposium)
Correct Pronunciation of the Names of Well-Known Musicians
Acquisition of a Loose Wrist
How the Music Teacher is Hampered by Pupils' School Work
Necessity of a Vacation for Musicians and Students
Musical Development Late in Life
Educational Value of Musical Postal Cards
Egotism in Music
Reginald de Koven upon Night Work
Volume 26, Number 05 (May 1908), James Francis Cooke
Volume 26, Number 05 (May 1908), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Student Days in Weimar With Liszt: Reminiscences of an American Virtuoso and Teacher Who Won the Interest of the Greatest Master of the Keyboard
Extending the Compass of a Hand Without Injury
Securing Pupils
Helpful Ideas for the Younger Piano Teacher
Difficulties of Teachers in Small Towns
Leopold Godowsky on Natural Technic
Retaining the Loyalty of Old Pupils
Rise of the Virtuoso
Necessity of Credentials for Music Teachers
Some Essentials of Pianoforte Tone Production
Good Way to Teaach Odd Rhythms
Mothers as Assistant Teachers
Volume 26, Number 04 (April 1908), James Francis Cooke
Volume 26, Number 04 (April 1908), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Newly Discovered Sketch by Mozart with its Musical Explanation
Sustained Finger Exercises
Co-öperation of Teacher and Student
Stimulating the Pupil's Ambition
Autobiography of a Rhapsody of Liszt
Suggestions Relating to Scale Fingering
Some Factors that Aid Good Teaching
Thirty-minute Lesson
Wagner's Witty Remarks on the Oratorio in England
Difficulties of the Young Music Teacher
What Should the Amateur Pianist be Taught of Harmony
Allow the Student to Develop His Own Ideas
Remodeling the Old Teacher's Work: How Great Tact Should be Used in Making Changes