Safe Way of Stretching the Small Hand, A[13]
Sensible Scheme of Playing for Pleasure, A[161]
Sex of the Piano Teacher, The[143]
Should Piano Students Try to Compose?[108]
Slurs and Accents Not Related[63]
Small Notes under Large Ones[70]
Some Pieces for a Girl of Fourteen[75]
Speed and Smoothness in Trilling[73]
Staffs are Independent of Each Other, The[66]
Starting a Child's Musical Training[138]
Stiff Wrists in Playing Octaves[33]
Student Who Cannot Play Fast Music, The[151]
Student Who Wants to Compose, The[108]
Student with a Fondness for the Pedal, The[42]
Study of Mendelssohn, The[85]
Study of Operatic Transcriptions, The[91]
Study of the Scales, The[51]
Study of the Scales is very Important, The[50]
Studying Counterpoint by One's Self[107]
Take a Month's Rest Every Year[56]
Taking Liberties With the Tempo[89]
"Tenuto" Dash and Its Effect, The[69]
Text-books on Harmony[106]
There Are Dangers in Using a Metronome[59]
There Is Only One Minor Scale[109]
Tied Staccato Notes[69]
Tilt of the Hand in Playing Scales, The[6]
Time to Devote to Technical Exercises[47]
To Gain Facility in Sight-Reading[117]
To Keep Errors from Creeping in[116]
To Play a Glissando Passage[29]
To Prevent Sore Finger-tips After Playing[20]

To Produce a Softer Tone[43]
To Produce Good Legato[23]
To Strengthen the Weak Finger, Use It[18]
To Work up a Fast Tempo[53]
Too Much "Method"[144]
Trill Begins on the Melodic Note, A[72]
Twenty-five Not Too Late to Begin[139]
Two Hands Playing Difficult Rhythms, The[97]
Universal System of Marking Fingering, The[27]
Use of the Pedal for Colouring, The[39]
Use Pedal With Caution In Playing Bach[41]
Using the Two Pedals at Once[43]
Value of Clementi's "Gradus" To-day, The[95]
Value and Correct Practice of Phrasing, The[98]
Value of Going to Concerts, The[153]
Value of Heller's Studies, The[93]
Watch Your Breathing[55]
Weak Fingers of the Left Hand, The[18]
Well-Tempered Piano Scale, The[137]
What a Dot May Mean[77]
What a Double Dot Means[62]
What Does "Technique" Mean?[3]
What Is the Best of Chopin?[86]
What Is the Difference Between the Major and Minor Scales?[110]
"What Is the Matter with My Scales?"[14]
What the Leschetizky Method Is[144]
What the Object of Study Should Be[135]
What to Do with an Unemployed Hand[21]
When an Accidental Is in Parentheses[66]

When Playing Octaves[31]
When Reading Over a New Piece[51]
When the Fingers Seem Weak[18]
When to Keep Away from the Piano[132]
When to Play for People[120]
When Tremolo Proves Unduly Fatiguing[11]
When Two Fingers Have the Same Note[79]
Where Outside Criticism Is Desirable[143]
Where the Accent Should Be Placed[78]
Which Fingers Demand Most Attention?[16]
Which Should Come First—Conception or Technique?[103]
Why Rag-time Is Injurious[134]
Why So Many Different Keys?[105]
Why the Pianist Should Study Harmony[104]
Why the Piano Is So Popular[128]
Why Two Names for the "Same" Key?[67]
"Wonder Children" as Pianists[152]
Wrist Staccato at a High Tempo[21]
Wrist Stroke In Long Octave Passages[32]

INDEX

A flat, key of, [67].
Impromptu in, [78], [87].
Chopin's Ballade in, [162].
A sharp, key of, [67].
difference between, and B flat, [137].
Accent, where the, should be placed, [78].
Accenting a mordent, [70].
Accents, slurs and, not related, [63].
Accidental, how long an, affects a note, [64].
when an, is in parentheses, [66].
Accompaniment, [118].
Accompaniments, in left-hand waltz, [17].
Accompanist, [118], [119], [164].
Accompanying, at sight, [117].
a soloist, [118].
the art of, [118].
Action, of the wrist, [9].
of the arm, [11].
of the little finger, [17].
a piano extreme in, [36].
how tight to keep the piano's, [37].
of a beginner's piano, [37].
a too heavy, [38].
too light an, [38].
Adagio, [60].
Advantage, of legato over staccato, [22].
of universal fingering, [27].
Affected movements at the piano, [126].
Age, and physical development of the beginner, [138], [139].
Age of the student, immaterial, [139].
Aid, books that, the student working alone, [155].
Allegretto grazioso, [77].
Allegro, [60].
America, can music be studied in, [148].
"American" fingering, [27].
Andante, [60].
Appassionata, the last movement of the, [76].
Appoggiatura, [72].
Arm, action of the, [11].
play chords with a loose, [11].
Arms, premature fatigue in the, [33].
Arpeggio, [3], [9].
Art, of accompanying, the, [118].
the canons of, [125].
Attention, which fingers demand most, [16].
Auber, [136].
Auxiliary, position of, note in a trill, [72].
Average, speed, [59].
tempo, [60].
Avocation, music as a profession or as an, [156].
B flat minor, Chopin's Prelude in, [95].
B sharp, [64], [65].
Bach, use pedal with caution in playing, [41].
the beginner in, music, [80].
in touch with, [81].
Bach, Philipp Emanuel, [88].

Bach's, music, [80], [81].
preludes, [67], [82].
fugues, [67], [82], [83].
Bad music, [133].
Baermann, Carl, [94].
Ballade, Chopin's, in A flat, [102].
Baltzell, "History of Music," by, [150].
Barcarolle, Chopin's, [88].
Beethoven, the sonatas of, [83], [85].
Beethoven's Sonatina, opus 49, [59].
Fifth Symphony, [69].
Sonata Pathètique, [70].
"Moonlight Sonata," [76].
sonatas, [83].
order of studying, sonatas, [83].
Sonata, opus 28, [84].
style, [85].
first and last sonatas, [90].
Beginner's, the action of a, piano, [37].
Bendel's "Zephyr," [53].
Berceuse, Chopin's, opus 57, [86].
Berens, [95], [143].
Berlin, [118].
Berlioz, [91], [136].
Best, how to play the octaves, [29].
morning is the, time to practise, [46].
way to work up a quick tempo, [54].
what is the, of Chopin, [86].
the, book of instruction for a beginner, [93].
the, way to improve sight-reading, [117].
the, piano hand, [130].
the, physical exercise for the pianist, [131].
nothing but the, will do, [141].
Biting the finger-nails, [19].
Blumenstuck, Schumann's, [79].
"Blurring," [23].
Body, general position of the, [4].
Books, of Etudes, [93], [94].
that aid the student working alone, [155].
Brahms, [162].
Breathing, [55].
Broad-tipped fingers, [20].
Bulow, [17].
Büssler, [106].
C flat, [67].
C sharp, key of, [67].
C sharp major, Bach's fugue in, [83].
C sharp minor movement, the, [58].
Cantabile passages, [7].
Cantata, [112].
Chaminade, Toccata by, [111].
Chaminade's "Air de Ballet," No. 1, [70].
Chopin, Polonaise, opus 53, [74].
a disputed, reading, [78].
Life of, [86].
the best of, [86].
Etude by, [94].
Etudes in C minor, [95].
Chopin's works, [23], [79].
Prelude, No. 15, [58].
Valse, opus 42, [61].
Polonaise, opus 58, [74].
Polonaise, opus 26, No. 1, [77].
Nocturne in F sharp, [78].
Impromptu in A flat, opus 29, [78], [87].
charm of, touch, [86].
Chants Polonais, [88].
Fantasy Impromptu, [88], [97].
Barcarolle, [88].
Nocturne, opus 27, No. 2, [88], [162].

Chopin's works for a popular concert, [88].
Ballade in A flat, [162].
Chord, rolled, marked "secco," [70].
in the Waltz in E minor, [89].
Chords, play, with a loose arm, [11].
Chromatic,
the, scale [28].
thirds, [35].
accidental, signs, [66], [67].
Classics, "modified," [148].
Clementi, [81].
Clementi's "Gradus ad Parnassum," [95].
Sonatina, opus 37, [96].
"Colour," of various keys, [137].
Colouring, [39], [44], [137].
Composer, piano-study for, [128].
as to one, [160].
Composers, the greatest, as pianists, [91].
Composition, [108], [130].
Conception, difference between, and rubato, [102].
Conceptions, different, [102].
Concert, Chopin's works for a popular, [88].
etudes, [94].
work, [156].
career, [162].
Concerto, the Grieg, [35].
Concerts, the value of going to, [153].
Conservatory, individual teacher or, [142].
Conductor, piano-study for, [128].
Correct practice of phrasing, [98].
Counterpoint, studying, [107], [142].
Cramer Etudes, the, [17], [45].
C-scale fingering, [28].
Counterpoint, studying, by one's self, [107].
Counting, [50].
Course, proper, for a little girl, [146].
Criticism, where outside, is desirable, [143].
Curved fingers, [6], [7].
Czerny, [45], [81].
D flat, key of, [67].
arrangement of Bach's Fugues, [83].
Damper pedal, the, [43].
Dance, music, [134].
Liszt's, of the Gnomes, [58].
Dangers in using a metronome, [59].
Dash, "tenuto," and its effect, [69].
Diatonic, thirds, [35].
sequel, [73].
Different, conceptions, [102].
rhythms, [97].
keys, [105].
Difference, between "finger staccato" and other kinds, [22].
in playing trills, [74].
between conception and rubato, [102].
between major and minor scales, [109].
Difficulty of playing repetition notes, [34].
Doppio movement, in Chopin's Nocturne in F sharp, [78].
Dot, double, [62].
what a, may mean, [77].
Double notes, [35].
thirds, [35].
dot, [62].
flat, [64], [65].
flats, [65].
sharp, [65].

Dumb piano, playing on a, [38].
Duple time, [96], [98].
E minor, Waltz in, [89].
E sharp, [64].
Ear, let your, guide your pedalling, [41].
Easiest way to memorize, [113].
Edition, Peters's, of Chopin, [79].
Edition, Steingräber, of Beethoven, [84].
Education, general musical, [141].
Element, personal, and the metronome, [58].
"English" fingering, [27].
Erlking, Liszt arrangement of the, [32].
Errors, to keep, from creeping in, [116].
Ethical, [135].
Etudes, Cramer, [17], [45].
octave, [30].
for advanced players, [94].
good intermediate books of, [94].
by Ruthardt, [94].
twelve, for technique and expression, [94].
concert, [94].
by Baermann, [94].
of Chopin, [95].
by Kessler, [95].
by Berens, [95], [143].
by Heller, [143].
Sternberg's, [155].
Example, force of, [104].
Exercise, best physical, [131].
Exercises, stretching, [12], [13].
technical, [47].
for the beginner, [93].
good finger, [93].
F, Melody in, [79].
F minor, Chopin's Ballades in, [86].
F sharp, key of, [67].
Chopin's Nocturne in, [78].
Fantastic Fairy Tales, [92].
Fantasy Impromptu, Chopin's, [88], [97].
Fatigue, premature, in the arms, [33].
Faulty touch, [8], [43].
Fifth Symphony, Beethoven's, [69].
Finger, the middle, [16].
technique, [16].
the little, [17].
the weak, [18].
touch, [19].
staccato, [22].
exercises, [93].
Fingering, English, [27].
universal, [27].
American, [27].
the chromatic scale, [28].
C-scale, [28].
Finger-nails, biting the, [19].
Fingers, position of, [6].
the other, [16].
fourth and fifth, [16].
weak, [18].
broad-tipped, [20].
needed to play a mordent, [28].
Finger-stroke, high, [7], [23], [24].
Finger-tips, sore, [20].
"wiping" the keys with the, [35].
Firm legato touch, [24].
Flat, double, [65].
Flats, double, [65].
Fugue, definition of a, [82].
Fugues, Bach's, [82].
G flat, key of, [67].
G minor,
Chopin's Ballade in, [86].
Brahms's Rhapsody in, [162].
Gavotte in A, the, [44].
General, technique, [3].
rule about the pedal, [39].
musical education, [141].
Glissando, the, [29].
to play a, passage, [29].
Gluck-Brahms, [44].
Godowsky, transcriptions by, [23].
Godowsky's pupils, [149].
Going to concerts, value of, [153].
Grace notes, [61].
"Gradus ad Parnassum," Clementi's, [95].
Grieg Concerto, the, [35].
Halévy, [136].
Hand, position of, [6].
stretching the, [12].
small, [13].
unemployed, the, [21].
genuine piano, [130].
Hands, two at once, [25].
playing with cold, [49].
Harmonic, clarity, [41].
turns, [105].
Harmony, study of, [104].
relation of, to piano-playing, [105].
textbooks on, [106].
Haydn, [75].
Heller, etudes by, [143].
Heller's studies,value of, [93].
opus 154, [94].
"History of Music," [150].
Importance of the right teacher, [140].
Impromptu, Chopin's, in A flat, [78].
Chopin's Fantasy, opus 66, [88], [97].
Instrument, the, [35].
Intermediate, good, books of etudes, [94].
International piano pitch, [136].
International pitch, [136].
Key, two names for the same, [67].
Keys, why so many different, [105].
"colour" of various, [137].
Kuhlau Sonatinas, [75].
Kullak's, Octave School, [31].
"Method of Octaves," [34].
Learning, to modulate, [107].
to accompany at sight, [117].
the art of accompanying, [118].
Legato, [22], [23].
advantage of, [22].
touch, [24].
meaning of, [24].
Leschetizky method, the, [144].
Lessons, teachers, and methods, [140].
number of, depends on progress, [147].
frequent, and shorter, [147].
Liadow, "Music Box" by, [92].
"Life of Chopin," the, [86].
"Limping," [25].
Liszt, [130], [158].
Liszt's, Dance of the Gnomes, [58].
transcription of Chants Polonais, [88].
Little finger, action of the, [17].
Loud counting, [50].
MacDowell, Sonatas, [162].
Major, difference between, and minor scales, [109], [110].
Marking a rest, in, [99].
Marks and Nomenclature, [57].
Mason's "Touch and Technique", [155].

Masters cannot be studied in order, [90].
Mazurka, [111].
Mazurkas, Chopin's, [86].
Melody in F, the, [79].
Memorize, easiest way to, [113].
in order to, easily, [115].
Memory, playing from, [112].
the, [112].
Mendelssohn, the study of, [85].
Mendelssohn's "Spring Song," [77].
Menuet, [111].
Method, too much, [144].
Leschetizky, [144].
Methods, teachers, lessons and, [140].
Metronome, markings, [57], [59].
personal element and the, [58].
dangers in using a, [59].
Meyerbeer, [136].
Minor, difference between major and, scales, [109].
only one, scale, [109].
Miscellaneous questions, [150].
"Modified Classics," [148].
Modulate, learning to, [107].
Mood and tempo in the A flat Impromptu, [87].
"Moonlight Sonata," the, [76].
Mordent, fingers needed to play a, [28].
accenting a, in a sonata, [70].
Morning practice on the piano, [45].
Moscheles, Etudes by, [94].
Motif, meaning and use of, [68].
"Moto perpetuo," [112].
Mozart, [46], [75].
Mozart's art, [160].
Music, the beginner in Bach, [80].
modern piano, [92].
bad, [133].
the company that one keeps in, [133].
can, be studied in America, [148].
how to get, published, [150].
as a profession, [156].
how much you can get from, [157].
"Music Box," the, [92].
Music schools and private teachers, [141].
Nocturne, Chopin's, in F sharp, [78].
opus 27, No. 2, [88], [162].
Nocturnes, Chopin's, [86].
Nomenclature, marks and, [57].
Note, auxiliary, [72].
when two fingers have the same, [79].
Notes repetition, [34].
double, [35].
slurred, [62].
tied staccato, [69].
small, under large ones, [70].
syncopated, [71].
Object of study, [135].
Octave, chords, [11].
Kullak's, School, [31].
in extended, playing, [32].
passages, [32].
Octaves, [29].
rapid, [30].
when playing, [31].
wrist, [31], [32].
arm, [31].
stiff wrists in playing, [33].
Operatic transcriptions, [91].
Order of studying Beethoven's Sonatas, [83].
Other fingers, the, [16].