Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 9-1-1916 Volume 34, Number 09 (September 1916) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 34, Number 09 (September 1916)." , (1916). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/628 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 617 THE ETUDE PRESSER’S MUSICAL MAGAZINE “If you own an Emerson” Electric Player Piano In the comfort of your own home, you can enjoy music CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER such as you hear when you attend a crowded concert 1916 given by a great pianist. —Music which, only a short time ago, was impossible Page The World ot Music. 621 except as performed by the artist himself. Editorial . 623 Stephen Poster's Versatility. 624 Talking Too Much.W. F. Unger 624 Some Musical Signposts.O. J. Heckman 624 Black and White Horses.lira. P. It. Turner 624 Recollections of Foster's Last Days.. .Mrs. P. Duer 625 An Intimate View of Stephen Foster. 626 The Training of the Thumb_Cuthbert A. Harris 627 The Shortest Way.Mme. Pupin 628 A Sight Reading Contest.H. R. Robinson 628 Stephen Foster's Romantic Career, Chas. A. Ingraham 629 Music’s Written Language.A. L. Manchester 630 The Advantage of Slow Practice.B. 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