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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 08 (August 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chronologial Progress in Musical Art (interview with Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky)

Beethoven's Literary Education

I Will

Backing Up

Musical Fundamentals Which Every Student Should Know

Bugaboo of Memorizing

Enthusiastic and Popular Teacher

To Keep Up a Repertoire

Teach by Comparisons

Competent Chopin Commentaries

Music and Morocco

Pupils' Time Wasters

Paris Grand Opera House

Caruso's Meeting with Puccini

Research

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land, Part 2

Real Chopin

Teaching the Sharps and Flats

Your Teacher Enjoys

Geometric Gymnastics

Improving a Pupil's Sense of Rhythm

Planting a Musical Garden

Helping the Beginner

Well-Known Transcriptions and Arrangements for Piano

Give Me Little Classics

Unique …

Volume 44, Number 07 (July 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Our Own Musical To-Morrow

Why the World Needs Music (interview with Henry Van Dyke)

Unnecessary Movement

In Defense of Etudes

Keys' Sang

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and How to Teach Them, Part 3

Make Friends of Your Instruments

When You Play That Piece

Let's Pretend

Great Men and the Power of Music

Fascinating Journeys in Music Land

Practice Won't Wait Said Rubinstein

Do You Listen?

Education of the Average Student in Music

Romanticism in Music

Practicing Versus Playing

Student Takes Stock

Musicians and Their Hair

Professional Etiquette

Indoor Relay Race in Scales

One Key at a Time

Unused Faculties

Self Help …

Volume 44, Number 06 (June 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Everything Counts in Your Musical Success (interview with Lawrence Tibbett)

Vale, Melodeon!

Profitable Lesson in Playing Double Notes

Women's Orchestras in 18th Century Italy

Simple Help for Scale-Mastery

Attention and Getting Along

Practical Point for Practical Teachers

Getting the Hang of the Rhythm

Various Ways of Writing Dots and Their Corresponding Touches

Rightly Learned Piece

Learning the Keyboard

How Words Help

Musical Biographical Catechism: Tiny Life Stories of Great Masters

Adult Beginner and His Problems

For the Musically Slow

Selecting Compositions for Your Pupils

Cyril Scott and His Ego

How to Play Correctly Two Notes Against Three

Thumb Drill of …

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 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

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 44, Number 02 (February 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin: A Eulogy Upon the Greatest of Polish Musicians

Chopin's Estimate of Other Musicians

Six Don’t's for Young Students

Chopin Pilgrimage in the Mediterranean

What the Piano Teacher Must Know

Interesting Class Lessons

Vary the Position

Present-Day Significance of Chopin

Inspirational Moments

Climaxes in Chopin's Art

Character Study of Chopin

Chopin Reflections

Episodes on the Life of Chopin: Milestones, Musical and Otherwise, in the Career of the Most Famous Master of Piano Music

First Lesson on the Keyboard

Can You Discriminate?

Genius of Chopin

Chopin Character Lines

Chopin and Schumann Play Quits

Chopin Chronology

That New Composition

Advice on the …

Volume 44, Number 01 (January 1926), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tributes from Eminent Men and Women to Theodore Presser

How to Teach the Major and Minor Scales

Suggestion for Orchestra Goers

Some Aspects of America's Advance in the Musical Art (interview with Owen Wister)

Practice Hour for the Rusty Housewife

Character Study of Theodore Presser the Man: Biography of Theodore Presser as it Appears in Who's Who for 1925

Inspirational Moments

What Part Has Modernism in Present Day Piano Study

Teaching Old Pianists New Tricks

Touch

Utilizing Sensations

Life Appreciations of Theodore Presser from Those Who Knew Him

Opus-Numbers

Adaptable Wrist-Action

Practical Fingering Illustrated for Individual Needs: A Self-Help for …

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 …

Volume 42, Number 11 (November 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Why is So Much Piano Playing Dull and Uninteresting to Listen To?

Serious Danger to Some Young Students in Large Cities

Another Way with Arpeggios

What Chance Has the Adult Beginner in Music?

How Ought Bach to be Played?

Keyboard Motions that Insure Better Piano Playing

Infinite Pains and Genius

What Studies Shall I Use?

Virtuosity Discounted in England

Origin of Creole Rhythms

Two Against Three Exercise

Use the Dictionary

Is Bach Dull?

Bernhard Hamblen

How Famous Virtuosos Hypnotize Audiences

Useful Triad

To Acquire Speed with Accuracy and Without Hesitation

Improving Hand Stretch

Power of Music: What Great Minds Have …

Volume 42, Number 10 (October 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Recollections of Master Musicians and Master Pianists Whom I Have Known

What a Music Lesson Should Contain

Some Effects of Music

Pranks on Parnassus: How Great Composers Have Seen the Humorous and Joyous Side of Life

Finding the Right Fingers in the Right Time

Crossing Hands

Study Stimulants

From Wonderchild To Diva (interview with Marcella Sembrich)

Mirrors for Hand Position

Syncopated Pedal

Lesson on Stems

How to Go About Studying Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Progressive Order in Which to Take Up Each Number

Something About Accents

Immortals Protest Against Jazz: Brahms, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Rubinstein and Schubert Strike for their Right

Things …

Volume 42, Number 09 (September 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Schumann—The Master of Child Music: Why Schumann's Muisc Has Had Such a Great Influence on the Education of the Young

Small-Hands Pupil

Making Practice Pleasant

What Touch Shall I Use in Phrasing? A Much-Needed Discussion of an Everyday Musical Problem

Helpful Hints on Practicing

Velvet Tone

Runaway Warhorses

Turning Music Noiselessly

What Effect is Jazz Likely to Have Upon the Music of the Future? (interview with Percy Grainger)

Why Chopin Used a Metronome

Sharps and Flats for Little Ones

Sight-Reading Without a Teacher

Will You Pay the Price

Teach Coöperation by the Use of Two Pianos

Carrots for a Donkey …

Volume 42, Number 08 (August 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Where is Jazz Leading America: Opinions of Famous Men and Women In and Out of Music (Symposium)

Learning to Memorize: A Pianoforte Lesson

Story of the Trill, or Shake

Making Exercises Interesting

Legato—Plus Ears

Is the Triangle a Musical Instrument

What is Jazz Doing to American Music? (interview with Paul Whiteman)

Strike Once, Not Twice

Lincoln Sets Students an Example

Things to Teach My Pupils Every Day

Drill-Master or Music Teacher

Give Your Favorite Exercise a Rest

Musical Nation

Children as Imitators

American Dance Music is Not Jazz

What Gottschalk Said to Carreno

Stop, Look, Listen!

Jazz—Lowbrow and Highbrow

Hand-Made …

Volume 42, Number 07 (July 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Facts About Music and Shakespeare

How Schubert Found Inspiration From a Coffee Mill

How Queen Elizabeth Played the Virginal

Value of Two-Finger Exercises

Changes of Key

Unrest in Study

Self-Help, Eight Weeks' Intensive Summer Course in Pianoforte Study

Grand Piano Gives a Lesson

Don't Interrupt Pupils

Spring Day, a Pitch-Pipe and Some Ear-Training

How Little Italy Requires Its Funeral Marches

Pigeon-Toed Hands and Fingers with Arched Insteps

Musical Dialogue

Haydn's Gay Heart

Tchaikowski's Strange Marriage

Indecent Music

Moment's Notice Repertoire

How a Famous Engineer Studies a New Composition: A Practical Talk on Study Analysis

Listening to Learn from Master Pianists …

Volume 42, Number 06 (June 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fundamentals That Lead to Musicianly Pianoforte Playing

Misplaced Bars

Walking for Teachers and Students

Eisteddfod

Boston's Musical Past

How Much Do Appearances Count?

What the Great Masters of Music Have Done for Little Folks: Famous Sets of Pieces Which Children Should Have an Opportunity to Learn

Starvation Methods for Students

Counterfelts in Musical History

Easiest Way

Episodes in the Life of a Famous Conductor: Pen Pictures from the Autobiography of Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra

Tremolo

Prepare Your Lessons, Teachers!

Finger Stretching and Strenghtening Exercises

Pointers for the Beginning Teacher of Music

Away from the Half-Hour …

Volume 42, Number 05 (May 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Souvenirs of Famous Musicians

Music Student, Prepare to Teach

Maxims for the Music Teacher

Simplifying Accidentals

Better Way to Count

Pointers for Teaching the Bass Notes

Build Well

What is the Purpose of Music? What is the Influence of the Tonal Art on Mankind?

Forcing Habit

Effective Method in Teaching

Memory Work and Public Performance

Table for Correct Fingering of Common-Chord Arpeggios

Walking Time

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons

Handel Shrine

Three Ways for Practicing the Scale

Sidelights of Human Nature

Teach First the Effect—The Method Afterward

Virtuoso Pianists and Virtuoso Conductors

To the Earnest Pupil

Quick …

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 42, Number 03 (March 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

World Court of Eminent Musicians Discuss the Ten Great Masterpieces: Probably the Most Distinguished Group of Composers, Interpreters and Musical Authorities Ever Assembled in Such a Symposium

Beginner and the Pedal: Bringing Charm to the First Stages of Piano Playing

How to Observe the Signature Correctly

Violin Student's Fundamentals (interview with Otakar Sevcik)

Musical Telepathy

Fall-board Protector

Too Old for Music Study?

Interest! Initiative!

Test for the First Year Piano Student

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing

Left-Hand Faults

Student Helps

Curious Facts About the Names of Musical Instruments

Press Hard

Chats with Serious Piano Students

Double Cure

For the Teacher …

Volume 42, Number 02 (February 1924), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music, Musicians and Music-Lovers: Some Notable Personalities as Seen by the Distinguished Modernist

Savez-Vous?

Think It Out Yourself

Composer of the Famous Fifth Nocturne

What Are My Earning Possibilities in Music?

Hints on Passing Musical Examinations

Using Our Best Gift

Scales Day by Day

After-School Pupil

Thresholds of Vocal Art, Part 2 (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)

Pointers on Chart Teaching?

What to Teach at the Very First Lessons, Practical Advice for the Young Teacher

Early Beginning in Theory

Boys' Recital

Basic Principles in Piano Playing (interview with Josef Lhévinne)

Stumbling Block in Reading

If Liszt Came Back Again?

Starting That …