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James Francis Cooke (November 14, 1875, Bay City, Michigan – March 3, 1960, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) was an American music educator. He was a pianist, composer, playwright, journalist, author (including novels and of books on musical history and theory), a president of Theodore Presser music publishers from 1925 to 1936, and editor of The Etude music magazine from 1907 to 1950, or 1913 to 1956. He taught piano for more than twenty years in New York, led choral clubs and taught voice. He also gave music-topic lectures. (From Wikipedia) More about James Francis Cooke:
| | Books by James Francis Cooke: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960, ed.: Master Rules for Successful Piano Practice (Philadelphia: T. Presser Co., c1910), contrib. by Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Amy Fay, John J. Hattstaedt, Emil Liebling, Louis G. Heinze, Perlee V. Jervis, Ernest R. Kroeger, Alexander Lambert, B. J. Lang, F. H. Shepard, William H. Sherwood, Marie von Unschuld, Charles E. Watt, Leopold Winkler, Francis L. York, J. De Zielinski, Robert Schumann, and Ernest Lent (page images at HathiTrust)
Additional books by James Francis Cooke in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Great pianists on piano playing (T. Presser Co., 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Great pianists on piano playing; study talks with foremost virtuosos (Theo. Presser co., 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Great pianists on piano playing : study talks with foremost virtuosos (AMS Press, 1976) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Great Singers on the Art of Singing: Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists (Gutenberg ebook)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Great singers on the art of singing : educational conferences with foremost artists : a series of personal study talks with the most renowned opera concert and oratorio singers of the time, especially planned for voice students (T. Presser, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: How to memorize music [with helpful hints by world famous musicians] (T. Presser Co., 1948) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Italian lakes : suite for the pianoforte (T. Presser, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Mastering the scales and arpeggios : a complete and practical system for studying the scales and arpeggios from the most elementary steps to the highest attainable degree of velocity and artistic perfection ... (T. Presser Co., 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Music masters old and new; a series of educational biographies of the greatest musicians from Bach and Handel to the present time (Theo. Presser Co., 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Musical travelogues (Theodore Presser, 1934) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Standard history of music; a first history for students at all ages: (T. Presser, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Standard history of music; a first history for students at all ages; forty illustrated story lessons in the development of musical art ... including an appendix upon club organization and management, together with a map of musical Europe. (T. Presser Co., 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Standard history of music; forty-three illustrated story lessons in the development of musical art, adapted for beginners, musical clubs, private teaching, classwork and general reading, including an appendix upon club organization and management, together with a map of musical Europe (Theodore Presser company, 1936) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Cooke, James Francis, 1875-1960: Young folks' picture-history of music (Theodore Presser co., 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
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