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Volume 75, Number 05 (May-June 1957), Guy Mccoy
Volume 75, Number 05 (May-June 1957), Guy Mccoy
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Josef Hofmann, 1876-1957
Igor Stravinsky, Approaching his 75th Birthday, is Truly a Colossus of Modern Music
Music in the High School Gym
Good Vocal Habits (interview with Renata Tebaldi)
What Power Professional Criticism
Thalberg's Erard: A Discovery
An Intriguing Account of the Various Operational Details Requiring Careful Attention . . . Behind the Opera Curtain
Books on American Music: A Selected Bibliography
Music in the Schools
Choral Potential From the Baroque Era
Music to Link Mankind: The Story of the Formation of an Important Body Having to Do with International Relations
Volume 57, Number 01 (January 1939), James Francis Cooke
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 …
Volume 56, Number 12 (December 1938), James Francis Cooke
Volume 56, Number 12 (December 1938), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Christmas Love (poem)
Her Christmas Piano
What Music Has Done for Me (interview with William Allen White)
Lessons with Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Piano Virtuoso and Conductor: An Apostle of Beauty in Piano Playing
Four Octave Practice Helps
Christmas in Many Lands: A Television Christmas Recital
Lady of the Court of Henry XV (portrait)
Threshold of Music: Natural Laws That Guide the Flow of Chords
What Now for Music Teachers? A Nationwide Symposium: Eminent Members of the Music Teachers' National Association, to be in Convention in Washington During the Present Month, Discuss an Important Subject in Advance
Overcoming a Musical Crisis
Let's …
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 54, Number 01 (January 1936), James Francis Cooke
Volume 54, Number 01 (January 1936), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Singer's Art (interview with Feodor Chaliapin)
What Makes a Successful Pianoforte Piece
Music of the Buddhist Devil Dancers
Consort of Musick at Dame Percy's: An Outline for a Recital in Honor of Washingotn's Birthday
New Glimpses into the Life of Chopin
Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training
Harmonica Band: What Does it Offer
Music in Modern Home Life
Beethoven's Love of Nature
Volume 53, Number 07 (July 1935), James Francis Cooke
Volume 53, Number 07 (July 1935), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Musical Prosperity Leads the Way
Distinctly American Vocal Problems (interview with Queena Mario)
Star Spangled Banner: Our National Anthem, Enshrined in the Hearts of all Patriotic Americans
Violinist's Summer (interview with Mischa Elman)
Geography of the Piano: Where the Piano Comes From
Failures that Triumphed
Romances of Great Musicians: Romance in the Life of Mozart
Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training
Increasing the Resources of the Piano (interview with Walter Gieseking)
Music of the Congo: An Interesting Romance of the Music of Darkest Africa
Music Study Extension Course
Volume 52, Number 09 (September 1934), James Francis Cooke
Volume 52, Number 09 (September 1934), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Music Study for Adults (interview with Frederick B. Robinson)
What Geography Has to Do with Rhythm
Game of Musicians
Making a Fist
Teaching Accents
Maurice Ravel: The Man, The Musician, The Critic (interview with Maurice Ravel)
Beethoven, the Humorist
Kreisler and the Prodigy
Music Recreation and the Radio
What Makes a Good Touch
New Music for Ancient Plays
Practicing Difficult Passages
Story of Dixie and its Picturesque Composer
Parent Help in Music Study
Make Your Practice Period Worth While!
Bridge Strength for Pianists
Alabama's Share in Dixie
Cumulative Rewards
Technic Fun
Value of Similes
Volume 48, Number 08 (August 1930), James Francis Cooke
Volume 48, Number 08 (August 1930), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Gentle Art of Taking Time to Live!
Little More Beethoven, Please: The Pianoforte Sonata in A Flat, Op. 26
Scale Charts
Seeing Music as a Whole: Where Many Fail
Left Hand Difficulties
What's the Matter with our Music? (interview with Geraldine Farrar)
Most Useful of All Fingering Rules
Middle C
Precise Contact
Piano Teacher's Dictionary of Touch
Brothers and Sisters
Music of the Waltz and Its Creators
Workable Report Slip
Small Threads in the Musical Tapestry
Preparedness of Attack as an Aid to Sight Reading
Camouflage Scales
New Theory of Pianoforte Tone Production
Arranging Music for Toy Orchestras
Musical Sport …
Volume 48, Number 03 (March 1930), James Francis Cooke
Volume 48, Number 03 (March 1930), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Why Every Boy Should Study Music (interview with Herbert J. Tily)
Rare Portrait of Edward MacDowell
Ten Ideas from Edward MacDowell
Notable Musical Women
Developing the Student's Interpretative Ability
Playing Grace-Notes Without Distorting the Rhythm
Beethoven's Love Letters
Music of the Passion Play of Oberammergau: A Graphic Description Based on Presentations as Witnessed by the Writer in 1889, 1910, 1920
Arpeggios
Practicing and Playing
Teaching a Correct Position of the Hand
You Cannot Get Along without Scales
Marriage of Figaro: Adapted for Presentation as a Reading at Musical Clubs
Curing the Hustler
Points in Good Piano Playing
Volume 48, Number 02 (February 1930), James Francis Cooke
Volume 48, Number 02 (February 1930), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Master Teacher
Tragedy of Moussorgsky: The Dramatic Story of the Most Curious Figure in Music History
Tavern Music
Struggle of the Negro Musician
Chord Reading
Grandaddies of Our Pianos
Notable Musical Women
Master Discs
Development of the Left Hand
Light and Shade in Piano Playing
How Music Came to be Written: Musical Pioneers Who First Divised the Notation System
Handel and Beethoven: The Pillars of Our Modern Musical Structure
Don't Don't!: Why Some Teachers Are to Blame for the Failure of their Students
Portamento Touch
Volume 47, Number 06 (June 1929), James Francis Cooke
Volume 47, Number 06 (June 1929), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Mozart's Musical Portrait of a Lady
Solo Hate Campaign
Sousa Got the Cash!
Rubinstein in Edinburgh
Sheet Music Clinic
Story of Strings and Keys or From Monochord to Pianoforte
Fundamentals of Beautiful Piano Playing
Charm of Stephen Heller: An Interesting Discussion of the Work of a Man Who Strove to Make Educational Studies Beautiful
Making Scales Interesting
Velocity and the Metronome
How to Play Beethoven
How Schubert's Music Reflected the Poems He Chose for Settings
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 46, Number 09 (September 1928), James Francis Cooke
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 01 (January 1928), James Francis Cooke
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 …
Volume 45, Number 04 (April 1927), James Francis Cooke
Volume 45, Number 04 (April 1927), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
How to Use the Weight and Relaxation Method
Were Bach, Mozart and Schubert Poorly Paid
Musical Note
Points on Practicing
Drawing and Accenting
Secret of Touch or How to Extract the Most Beautiful Tone from the Pianoforte
Substituting Flats for Sharps
Music Creed
Another Use for the Metronome
Shifting the Staves
Can I Learn to Count?
Hints on Rapid, Flexible Playing
Training the Brain to Remember and Reproduce Music
Avoiding After-Pressure on the Keys
Starting a Miniature Conservatory
Getting the Pupil to Think
Aiding the Late Beginner
Great Masters as Students—Beethoven
For Stretching the Hand
Aristoxenus The Modern
Jumping the …
Volume 45, Number 03 (March 1927), James Francis Cooke
Volume 45, Number 03 (March 1927), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Debussy: His Significance in the History of Piano Literature
Setting High Standards
What Music Does to Youth
Study of Octave Playing
Power of the Dot in Music
How to Estimate the Right Tempo
Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions as a Foundation for Polyphonic Playing
Art of Giving an Interesting Lesson
Getting Right Down to Business
Graded Scrap Books
Quiet Practice
What Active Musi Workers are Thinking and Saying
Viewpoints and Side Lights: Concerning Minor Keys
Bugbear Turned to Account
Excellent Program of Compositions by Amercan Women
Sharps and Flats Contest
What Music is Doing for College Students
Haydn's Opinion …
Volume 44, Number 12 (December 1926), James Francis Cooke
Volume 44, Number 12 (December 1926), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Art of Clarity in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Harold Samuel)
Teaching the Adult Beginner
Counting for Balky Pupils
How to Teach the Notes on the Grand Staff Beginning with Middle C
Don't Hurry! The Tortoise Won
Music-Sharing Plan
Leschetizky Memorial Dedicated
Interesting Ways of Giving Harmony Examination
How Kullak Taught Octaves
When to Practice Each Hand Alone
Practice Audiences
Good Equipment Necessary for Good Instruction
Schubert the Modernist
Young Student's Measure
Relative Minors
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and How to Play Them
Musical Postcards
Schubertiana
Character Study of George Frederic Handel
Last Lesson First
Golden Age of Music: Henry T. Finck's …
Volume 44, Number 09 (September 1926), James Francis Cooke
Volume 44, Number 09 (September 1926), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Did Beethoven Jazz?
Laughing Chorus
Music on the Other Side of the World (interview with Mischa Levitzki)
Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters
How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing
Lesson with Chopin
Litle Help on the C Scale Fingering
Remarkable Art of Georges Bizet
When the Wrong Note is It
Teach Both Staffs from the Beginning
Musical Bank Account
Memorial to Louis C. Elson
Magic of Details
Why Not More Home Group Music?
Musical Instruments of Yesteryear
Magnifying Pedal
On Always Progressing
Lessons Away from the Piano
Striking Wrong Notes
Bach at the Organ
Select the Proper …
Volume 44, Number 05 (May 1926), James Francis Cooke
Volume 44, Number 05 (May 1926), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, and How to Play Them
Getting Technic Away from the Keyboard
Vitality in Practice
I Am Music
Silent Practice
Study of Scales
Speeding Up Sight Reading
Going to Opera and Concerts in Europe
Syncopation
Teaching the Child to Listen
Study in Rhythm
Chopin as a Master of Form
Reading the Bass Clef
Notable Musical Program: The Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial, 1776-1926
How Can I Raise the Standard of My Playing? Some Experiments in the Fundamentals of Passage-Playing
Making Changes in Tempo
Time Keeper
First Steps in Transposition
On Selecting Music for Pupils
What Great Men Said About Chopin
Art …
Volume 38, Number 03 (March 1920), James Francis Cooke
Volume 38, Number 03 (March 1920), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Musical Aftermath of the Great War (interview with Walter Damrosch)
Catchy Fourth
Getting Ahead in Music
Method versus Methods: A Practical Talk to Teachers from a Renowned European Pedagog
Murdering Your New Piece
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Secret of a Good Musical Memory: Successive Steps in Acquiring the Art of Remembering Music
Piano Teacher's Best Advancement
Home-Made Metronome
Classic Piano Playing from Beethoven to the Modern
Hints for Your Repertoire
Ill-Founded Conclusion Concerning the Great Mozart
Every Music Student Should Learn How to Accompany
Right Kind of Musical History
Do You Want a Flexible Wrist?
What Instrument …
Volume 37, Number 10 (October 1919), James Francis Cooke
Volume 37, Number 10 (October 1919), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
National and Radical Impressions in the Music of To-day and Yesterday (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)
Rudoph E. Schirmer
Interpretation
Few Teaching Hints
Appreciations of Rachmaninoff from Famous Musicians in America
New Thoughts on Memorizing Music
Beethoven—Iconoclast, Democrat, Genius
Joiners in Music
Psychology and the Child
The Art Spiritual: A Fine, Reflective Article Upon the Possibilities of the Tonal Art
Studio Problem (A Dialogue)
Less Nervousness Now
Musical Monkeys and the Piano Touch
Authentic Biography of Rachmaninoff
Let the Parents Know
How to Administer Rewards
Secret of Success of Great Musicians
Don't Sit Too Close
New Method of Piano Practice
Minor …
Volume 37, Number 01 (January 1919), James Francis Cooke
Volume 37, Number 01 (January 1919), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Imitation in Teaching Music
Scales Two Octaves Apart
What Kind of Accompanist Are You?
Learning How to Compose
Two Pianos vs. One
Don't Discourage Your Pupils
Look Out for the Second Finger
America's Greatest Musical Opportunity
Put Sixty Minutes Into Your Hour
Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-Operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers
Eye Strain and Mind-Wandering
Broken Chords Disguised by Changing Notes
What Octave Studies Should Follow Those of Czerny?
Are …
Volume 36, Number 09 (September 1918), James Francis Cooke
Volume 36, Number 09 (September 1918), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Music in Industry
Music, Just for the Fun of It
Musical Contagion
Greatest Musical Asset
Development of Rhythmic Sense in the Music Student
Circumstance and the Artist
Keyboard Maxims of Master Pianists of Today and Yesterday
Why and How to Read at Sight
Two Lessons a Week Versus One
When the Professor Got Back from His Vacation
Thoroughness in Little Things
Some Practical Psychology for Piano Teachers
Scale Honor Roll
Is the Sonata Form Exhausted?
Ties and No Ties
Pupils Whose Parents are Interested
Knack in Securing Agility and Velocity
Don't Neglect the Short Piece
Music's Debt to Gifted Amateurs …
Volume 36, Number 08 (August 1918), James Francis Cooke
Volume 36, Number 08 (August 1918), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Possibilities of Negro Music
Definite Progress
How Beethoven Worked
Gounod's Romantic Philanthropy
Reflection of Neatness
Sense Touch
What Gives Brilliancy to Pianoforte Playing?
Is Standardization in Piano Technic Really Worth While?
How Much Value Do You Receive From Your Practicing?
Music Teacher Worth While
Are We Cutting Off Our Musical Noses?
What Shall We Do with German Music?
Riches No Enemy Can Take Away
Music Rally in Philadelphia
Democracy of Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Debt of All Musicians to the First Great Master to Uphold the Dignity of His Profession in the Presence of Arrogance of the Aristocracy
How to …
Volume 35, Number 12 (December 1917), James Francis Cooke
Volume 35, Number 12 (December 1917), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Automatic Faculty in Piano Playing
How to Attain Freedom of the Fingers
Mass of Christ
Footlight Fear and Fever
Important Steps in the Educational Work of an Opera Singer
Three Measure Rhythm
Christmas Carols
Reading Detached Chords
Are the Black Keys Poisonous to the Thumb?
Time to Rest and a Time to Grow
Musical Reputations and How They are Achieved
Is Compulsory Music Study Advisable?
Successful Study of Octaves
Can You Pass This Normal Test?
Some Pianos I Have Known
Practice Individual Tones in a Chord
Beethoven's Characteristics as a Pianist
How to Study Two Against Three
Pianographs
Hints on …
Volume 33, Number 12 (December 1915), James Francis Cooke
Volume 33, Number 12 (December 1915), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
To Avoid Inaccuracy
Beethoven
Sense of Touch in Music
Opportunities and Limitations in Pianoforte Playing (interview with Rudolph Ganz)
Teaching Backward Children
Nervousness and the Pedal
When and How to Memorize
Music a Human Necessity in Modern Life: Not a Needless Accomplishment
Let the Mind Rule the Memory
Many Music Teachers Retire in Comfort
Lines of Improvement in Modern Pianoforte Playing and Teaching
Scales, Scales, Scales, Every Day
Pianist's Vocabulary
First Steps in Sight-Reading
Gloria's Great Chance: A Story of Music and Christmas
Giving Greater Value
Popular Musical Mis-conceptions: Some Musical Conventions Which Should be Exploded
Why Study Harmony
Relation …
Volume 32, Number 10 (October 1914), James Francis Cooke
Volume 32, Number 10 (October 1914), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Opening the Season: Ideas Mined from Real Teaching Experience
Common Sense at the Pupils' Recital
Opera and Tunes
Save Beethoven from his Friends
Beginning Work in Interpretation
Which is the Better Teacher—The Virtuoso Without Teaching Experience or the Experienced Teacher Who Does Not Pretend to be a Brilliant Performer? (symposium)
Waltz King
Salon Music of the Past and Present
Best of the new Music Issued by the Leading Publishers
How Shall I Go About Publishing My Piece? Advice and Warning
Scale Playing in Double Notes
Playing for Nothing
Key to Teaching Efficiency
Some Interesting Facts About Frederick Kuhlau
Long Distance …
Volume 30, Number 10 (October 1912), James Francis Cooke
Volume 30, Number 10 (October 1912), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Master Study Page—The Real Beethoven, 1770-1827
Reminiscences of Some Famous Musicians
Famous Mythological Characters in Music
Selected Technical Truths from World Famous Pianists: Gems of Pedagogical Thought Crystallized in the Crucible of Time and Experience
Solving the Missed Lesson Problems
Wrist in Piano Playing
What Every Teacher Should Know About Teaching: Home-Study Hints on the Greatest of Arts
Selecting Standard Classics for the Study Season: Useful Pianoforte Pieces for Special Development
Jules Massenet, Eminent French Master, Passes Away
Death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Well Known Composers of To-day—J. Lamont Galbraith
Wagner on How Mendelssohn Conducted Beethoven
Practical Hints on Securing New …
Volume 30, Number 01 (January 1912), James Francis Cooke
Volume 30, Number 01 (January 1912), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Italy, the Home of Grand Opera (interview with Enrico Caruso)
Interpretation of Beethoven's Piano Masterpieces
Progress in Piano Playing (interview with Josef Holmann)
Beginnings of Opera
Ten Most Famous Opera Singers of the Last Century
Should American Opera Aspirants Study Abroad?
Bel Canto: The Foundation of All Successful Operatic Singing (interview with Bernice de Pasquali)
Prolific Opera Composer
Improving Arpeggio Chord Playing
Last Work of Wagner, Parsifal
Mystery of the Lethbridge Strad
$10,000 Stradivarius Violin Demolished by Unknown Fanatic
Volume 29, Number 12 (December 1911), James Francis Cooke
Volume 29, Number 12 (December 1911), James Francis Cooke
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Making Regular Progress
Presto Paragraphs
Recollections of My Musical Childhood
Acquiring a Good Touch
Is Woman's Musical Talent Really Limited?
Simplicity of Harmony
How Musical Sounds Come to Us
Glory of Beethoven
Mental Pictures in Music
Chopin's Revolutionary Etude
Do Americans Need More Technic?
Training the Crossing Fingers in scale Playing
Reminders
How Piano Playing Has Progressed (interview with Josef Hofmann)
Posing at the Pianoforte
Mystery of the Lethbridge Strad: A Christmas Story of Musical Life in a Great City
Lisztiana
What Franz Liszt Did for the Music of the Church
Franz Liszt as I Knew Him
Well Known Composers …