Etude Magazine was published by Theodore Presser Company between 1883 and 1957. It was a staple for music teachers throughout the country, providing articles related to music history, new developments in music, and practical teaching techniques, as well as musical scores from the classics and new pieces for beginning to advanced students. Begun as an aid for piano teachers, the magazine grew to include information and literature for vocal and instrumental enthusiasts as well. Not only is the series important to the musician, but it provides an insight into the culture itself, including the impact of the development of the car, radio, and television, and expands to world music and the influence of world wars on that culture.
This offering of searchable .pdf scans of the Etude Magazine is made available by Dr. Pam Dennis of Gardner-Webb University. These scans are to be used for research only and are not to be reproduced. Attribution should be given to this website and to its compiler, when using for research. These issues are available under permission from the Theodore Presser Company as they appeared in Etude Magazine.
Dr. Pam Dennis's Index to the articles published in the Etude magazine, 1883-1957: Part 1 and Part 2 are available in the Gardner-Webb Faculty and Staff Book Gallery.
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Volume 52, Number 08 (August 1934)
James Francis Cooke
When Liszt Renounced the World
Arpeggio Practice
Energetic Fingers
How to Find the Keys and the Forms of the Minor Scales
Midsummer Musical Laughs
Jargon of Jazz: An Amusing Article Upon the New and Absurd Nomenclature Which Has Grown Up About the Jazz Orchestra
Music for the Local History Pageant
What Use is the Quarter Tone Scale? Is this Innovation in Modern Music Likely to Remain Merely a Curiosity?
Expressive Dictation
Remedy for Tense Muscles
Romance of Mendelssohn: A Favored Son of the Gods
Speeding Up the Left Hand
Wagner in Venice
Georges Bizet and the True Story of Carmen
Memorizing Set-ups
Stepping-Stones to Success
Mother and Child Duets
Learning the Bass Staff Easily
Teaching Tiny Children to Read Music
Encouraging the Adult Beginner
Piano Accordion as a Musiclal Instrument
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Volume 52, Number 09 (September 1934)
James Francis Cooke
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
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Volume 52, Number 10 (October 1934)
James Francis Cooke
Music and Regimentation
Secret of Modernist Music (interview with Arnold Schönberg)
Good Teaching Pieces
Acting Theory
Mother, Make Music Study Delightful
Two Manual Accordion As Compared to the Standard Piano Accordion
Stabat Mater and Its Illustrious Composers
Program Architecture
What Does the Public Really Want?
Two Tests for Musical Capacity
Mystic Land of Magic Music (playlet)
To Acquire a Beautiful Legato
Whims of Musicians
Musical Commas and Musical Comments
Etude Practice Clock
Music in the Old Dragon Empire
For Fluency in Arpeggios
Train the Memory
Season's Schedule of Club Events
Kitchen and the One-lined Staff
Those Key-Signatures!
Helpful Hint in Teaching Scales
When the Piano Sings Legato
Sousa Personalities
Last Hours of Frédéric Chopin
Bank of Music
First and Last Measures
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Volume 52, Number 11 (November 1934)
James Francis Cooke
Antique Spanish Pianoforte
Famous German Musical Centers: Leipzig
Sand Tables in Music Teaching
Don't You Know
Getting Pupils in 1763 (From Goethe's Boyhood)
Making the Trill Beautiful: Proper Diagnosis and Treatment Remove Ordinary Difficulties
Evening with the Waltz King
Cambridge the Beautiful: A Letter from an Etude Friend in Old Cambridge
How to Hold Your Pupils Longer
Musical Pepper Box
Musical Racketeers: The Claque and Its Long Career
Making the Piano Sing
Beyond the Measure Line
Changing Notes
Story of Elgar
Spreading Culture Through Prizes
Orchestral Tutti, Old and New
Pace Maker of the Keyboard: The Metronome as a Dominant Factor in Systematic Practice
Progressing or Slipping? Which? How Atavism Affects Our Success and Hapiness
Violinist or Fiddler? (interview with Albert Spalding)
Grimaces and Gestures
Programs that Promise Novelty
Musical Nuggets
Varying the Monthly Contest
Schubert and Beethoven
Playing with Closed Eyes
Assembling Your Teaching Material: An Elastic System
Developing Dependable Sight Reading
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Volume 52, Number 12 (December 1934)
James Francis Cooke
Progress in Piano Playing and Teaching (interview with Ossip Gabrilowitsch)
Letting the Pupil Select the Music
How to Write a Good Musical Advertisement
Removing the Jounce
Famous German Musical Centers: Leipzig, Part 2
Schumann Discovers a Young Genius
Etude Music Study Expansion League: Great Revival of Interest in Practice
Santa Claus' Surprise Party
American Singer's Opportunities (interview with Gladys Swarthout)
Rhythmic Drawing
What is the Basis of the Piano Technic of Today: Great Pianists Give Important Opinions
Christmas Again
Vital First Year of Music Study: Selecting Right Materials for Children
How to Improve Mind and Muscle Coördination
Square Holes for Square Pegs: Studio Types and How to Treat with Them
Musical Memorizing
Knowing What One Has to Work For
How One Teacher Kept Pianistically Fit on Forty-Five Minutes a Day
Rhythm for Three Against Two
Bouquet for Wodell
Musical Pepper Box
Moszkowski on Memory
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Volume 51, Number 01 (January 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Fountains of Youth
Inspiring Message to Students of Singing (interview with Lucrezia Bori)
Chant d'un Voyageur: Vienna, Capital of the Kingdom of Music
Four-Hand Players' Treasury
Musical Child of Fortune: Sigismund Thalberg
Music in Haunts of the Dragon
How Ought We to Practice?
Hindrances to Artistic Piano Playing and How to Overcome Them
Radio: A New Field for the Young Musician
Missed Lessons
Putting Old Etudes to Work
Structure of Music: How We Get the Minor Scale
Instrumentalist's Wardrobe (interview with Yolanda Mero)
Keyboard Aristocrats of Earlier Days: A Description of Two Unique Harpsichords of the Eighteenth Century
How One Teacher is Meeting the Financial Depression
Descriptive Titles
Hymn Playing as an Approach to Interpretation
Make Recitals Entertaining
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Volume 51, Number 02 (February 1933)
James Francis Cooke
How the Germans Are Doing It
Grace in Crossing Hands
Professor Rimsky-Korsakov
Trading Music Lessons for Bread, Vegetables, and Mending When Cash is Scarce
Ear-Training on the Scales
Finger Independence and the Story of the Three-Legged Man
Improving the Reading and Rhythm
Conferences with Claude Debussy: Ingtroducing a Posthumously Published Interview with the Great French Master
Stories of Famous Concert Songs: On the Road to Mandalay
Cloud Dreams in Elysium: Curiosities from the Workshop of Celebrated Composers
Diet and Health for Singers (interview with Tito Schipa)
Hindrances to Artistic Piano Playing and How to Overcome Them
Structure of Music: The Facts and Mysteries of Melody
Fit the Child to the Piece
Mystery Melodies
Twilight of a Musical God: In Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Death of Wagner
When Two Notes Bump
Cultivating an Accurate Technic
Leading Schools of Violin Playing: Their Contribution to the Progress of Violin Art
Leisurely Practice to Avoid Tension
Master Lesson on Brahms' Rhapsody, Op. 79, No. 2
Rhythm Bands Stimulate Public Schools
Too Old to Learn—When?
Story Pieces
Hocus-Pocus
Signs and Wonders in Music Land
Broken Music
New Ways to Master Old Problems
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Volume 51, Number 03 (March 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Angel of Genius: Quando Si Canta, Non Si Pensa Male
Chant d'un Voyageur: Liebes Würzburg
Teaching the Little Finger of the Left Hand to Aim
Guess Who is the Composer: A Study of Mannerisms
Hill Billy Folk Music: A Little-Known American Type
Carrie Nation's Organ (photo)
Modulation
Janet's Musical Pilgrimage
Our Famous Marine Band
Structure of Music: The Vital Functions of Rhythm in Music
Piano Class Instruction Problems: Solved Through Experience
Foremost Composer of South America, Carlos Gomes: A Musician as a National Ideal
Games for the Musical Party
Sage of Jenny Lind
Putting a Program on the Air
Keeping the Attention of an Audience
Dvorák's Slavonic Dance, Op.79, No. 10, A Master Lesson
Leggiero Applied to Scales
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Volume 51, Number 04 (April 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Sixty-Five Years of Music Teaching
Extraordinary Case of Vladimir de Pachmann
Making Grand Opera Pay (interview with Fortune Gallo)
Chopin's Ancestral Home
Two Famous Springtime Piano Pieces and How to Play Them
To Accompany the Art Dance
High Spots in American Music
Chant d'un Voyageur: Liebes Würzburg
On the Value of Using All the Black Keys for Starting the Piano Pupil
European Music in the Land of the Rising Sun: A Study of Musical Conditions in Japan
Names and Notes
Hymn Playing Contest
1933 Wagner and Mozart Festivals in Germany
To Gain Smoothness and Velocity
Home Recitals
Musial Pepper Box
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Volume 51, Number 05 (May 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Musica Tonsoria
Music Now More than Ever (interview with William H. Woodin)
Several Points Worth While
How Weight Playing May Add to the Student's Resources
Why Great Artists Succeeded - Schumann-Heink
Michael Kelly Goes Abroad: An Amazing Musical Travelogue Over One Hundred Years Old Giving Intimate Glimpses of Haydn, Mozart, Glinck and Other Masters
Opera through the Centuries
Mozart and the B Minor Adagio
Can I Sing over the Radio?
For Busy People
Transposing at Sight
When it is Hard to Concentrate
Structure of Music - Modulation
Business Hints
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Volume 51, Number 06 (June 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Organized, Profitable Summer Vacation Music Study: In Preparation for the Great Expansion Next Fall
Thomas Jefferson's Musical Interests: The Second President of the United States and His Violin
Summer Vacation Music Study Calendar
Granddaddies of the Viol Family
Intensive, Profitable Summer Vacation Music Study Calendar
Chant d'un Voyageur: The Unusual Music of the Theater in Spain
Buying a Piano Accordion
Musical Organization in New York State
Greenroom Lessons from Great Pianists: Intimate Observations by a Well-known Parisian European Critic
Singer's Indispensables
Structure of Music: The Most Wonderful Chord in Music
Staccato that Is Not Staccato
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Volume 51, Number 07 (July 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Discipline versus Coddling
Summer Progress in Music Study (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)
Some Fallacious Theories
Is Music a Language?
Johannes Brahms—Portrait
Playing Duets with Brahms
Destiny and a Brahms Autograp
Music's Role in Healing: History Reveals the Curious Use of Music in Therapeutics
Structure of Music: Counterpoint—The Interweaving of Melodies
To Improve Octaves
Scottish Song Stories
Making Music Teaching Opportunities
Musical Tea
Genius of Jessie L. Gaynor: An Intimate Picture of Remarkable Figure in American Musical Education
Those Interesting Scales
Lost Schubert Masterpiece
Vacation Practice Schedule
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Volume 51, Number 08 (August 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Personality and Music
Centenary of Brahms, 1833-1933
Miniature Music Club
What Is a Tone Poem?
Annual Banquet of the National Moths' Association
Personal Reminiscences of Johannes Brahms
What a Musical Education May Cost
Why Richard Wagner Selected Bayreuth
Schubert and Beethoven
The Structure of Music: How Does the Composer Do His Work? What Form is to Music
Building a Large Music Class in a Country District
How to Use Seals
Musical Current Events Course
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Volume 51, Number 09 (September 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Curse of Super-Worry
What I Think of Modern Music (interview with Maurice Ravel)
Touch and Accent: With their Values Carefully Defined
Then and Now
Remarkable American Musical Tradition: The Moravian Funeral Chorals at Salem
How Miss Watson Boosted Her Bank Account
How Great Composers Worked
What is Needed to Gain Success as a Pianist?
Musician Education: The Place of Music in General Education
How to Practice Arpeggios
Structure of Music: The Merits and Methods of Analysis
Musical Tower in Central America
Musical Activities in the U.S.S.R.
Having It Out with the Pupil's Parents
Going to Do's
To Overcome Defects in Counting
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Volume 51, Number 10 (October 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Music and Modern Life (interview with Herriot, M. Ëdouard
Aid to Relaxation
Best Method is Eclectic (interview with Leopold Godowsky)
Carloads of Pianos
Golden Anniversary Greetings
Rhythm and Accent
Tannhäuser: A Romantic Opera in Three Acts—Arranged as a Reading for Music Clubs
What is Wrong with the Piano?
Points in Pedaling
Singing School to School Symphony
Since Singing is So Goode a Thing
Expressive Piano Playing
Impressing the Accent
Personal Observations of Rimsky-Korsakoff
Plenty of Pupils
Glance Behind the Scenes of Radio Land
Chopin's Valse in E Minor (Posthumous): A Master Lesson
Musical Small Coal Man
Making the Bass Beautiful
Grieg's Picturesque Environment Reflected in His Music
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Volume 51, Number 11 (November 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Girl Who Wants to Sing (interview with Lily Pons)
Meet the Piano
How to Play Bach More Beautifully (interview with Harold Samuel)
Little Known Music of Cape Breton Island
When Should I Practice?
Platform Showmanship in Piano-Playing
More Greetings form Zealous Etude Enthusiasts
Mixed Rhythms
Best Method is Ecclectic, Part 2 (interview with Leopold Godowsky)
Touch in Relation to Phrasing
Heinrich Heine and Music
Value of Discipline
Blind Tom Reminiscence
Neglected Triad
Story of The Rosary
Secret of Chopin's Playing
Little Journeys to Musical Shrines: A Club Calendar
Telling the World
Learning the Lower and Higher Notes
Touch System for Sight Readers
Ruined Piano Felts
Simple Device for Protecting Upright Pianos
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Volume 51, Number 12 (December 1933)
James Francis Cooke
Christmas Crusade: The Parable of a King and a Mendicant
Spirit of Christmas in Music: Musical Lore of Noeltide from Many Lands
Music for Christmas
Perfect Practice Hour
Little Visit to European Musical Shrines: Vienna Capital of Music
Creating the Music Habit with Children (interview with Ernest Schelling)
When Handel's Messiah was First Given
What Could be Righted in Opera
Candle Light Christmas Mystery: The Music Selected and Arranged from Masters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Four Hands that Play as Two (interview with Josef Lhévinne and Rosina Lhévinne)
What I Have Learned as an Accompanist
Glance Behind the Scene of Radio Land, Part 2
Composer of Carmen as a Pianist Georges Bizet at the Keyboard
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Volume 50, Number 01 (January 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Lesson on the Chopin Scherzo in B Flat Minor
Very First Lessons at the Keyboard: Practical Advice to Active Teachers
What Music Offers Boys
Do You Know?
Tournament Tickets
Legacy from Pan
Missed Lessons
Bit of Psychology
Matching Musical Terms
Pied Piper of India
Original Manuscript of Home, Sweet Home
Music Student's Tools and Technic
Disadvantageous Bench
Outside Music Report
Stunt Lesson
Hawaii's Musical Background
Some Popular Musical Misconceptions
Schubert and American Romance
Musical Lotto
New Work by a Notable American Composer
Agencies for Helping the Musician
Boy Night
To Develop the Left Hand
How to Make Review a Pleasure
Honor Pin for Hundred Percenters
Octave Mastery
Counting
Concerning Sight Reading
Practice Pointers
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Volume 50, Number 02 (February 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Music in Washington's Day: A Historical Sketch
Rest or Silence?
Outline and Atmosphere in Piano Playing (interview with José Iturbi)
Enemies of Your Piano and How to Fight Them
Establishing Music School Standards in America
How the Famous Safonoff Taught Scales
Robert Burns, the Song Writer
From Circus Band to Symphony Orchestra: A Remarkable Story of Triumph Over Apparently Insurmountable Difficulties (interview with Adolph Hirschberg)
Our First Musical Ambassador: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Music Supervisors' Forum
Putting Heart Into the Tone
Merry Singers of Medieval Times
Preparing Pieces for a Recital
Some Russian Backgrounds in Music
Are Student Recitals a Bore?
Order—The First Law of Music Study
Novel Method of Advertising
Scale Families
Skimming Habit
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Volume 50, Number 03 (March 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Musical Tragedy of the Duke of Wellington
Technic the Outgrowth of Musical Thought (interview with Vladimir Horowitz)
Absurd Phrasing
Teacher's Creed
Radio and Musical Education
Beginning Pedal
On Writing a Successful Concert Song
Character Study
Composers and Music
How To Encourage Piano Pupils to Practice
Importance of a Certain Fingering
Up in the Air
Minuet in Music
Teaching New Arpeggios
Community Recital
What to Do With the Poorly Prepared Pupil
Gift of Something to Do
Amateur Organizations
Message to Parents about the Piano
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Volume 50, Number 04 (April 1932)
James Francis Cooke
America's Momentous Contribution to Public School Music
Interpretation Depends on Talent and Personality (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)
Cleveland Orchestra
Hats Off, Ladies, A Master
Fine Art of Accompanying (interview with Charles Gilbert Spross)
Effects of Music on Wild Animals
King of Instruments? (interview with John Philip Sousa)
Catechism for an Hour's Practice: For Intermediate Grades
Conditions Affecting the Development of an American Music
Publicity for the Small Town Music Teacher
Are the Blind Superior to Seeing in Hearing?
Listening Beforehand
Getting the Most From the Metronome in Piano Study
Shoot Straight at the Target
Marimba-Xylophone
Piano Class Teacher and the Parent
Group Teaching and Piano Study
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Volume 50, Number 05 (May 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Most Precious Thing
Visit to Norway, The Home of Grieg and Sinding
Scenes from the Life of Franz Joseph Haydn
What Every Music Lover Should Know about Rests
Simplifying the Rote to Note Process
This Music Teacher Laughed at the Depression: How a Teacher in a Mid-Western City so Manages His Activities That He Has More Work Than He is Able to Do
Day in the Country: A New Recital Idea
Pupil's Waterloo
Singing it in Thirds
What Parents Can Do to Further the Musical Education of the Child
Antonin Dvorák (Drawing)
Difference between Harmony and Counterpoint
How Many Can You Answer?
Easing Mastery of Irregular Rhythms
Piano Comes into Its Own! The
Teaching Helps that Cost Nothing
When Our Great Granddaddies Went to Concerts: Early Musical Entertainments in America
Half Million Dollars Per Year in Music Scholarships
Notebook of Observations
Pianist Should Know Other Instruments
Curing the Stumble Habit
Composing Their Own Exercises
Set the Alarm Clock
Radio as a Help in Learning Absolute Pitch
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Volume 50, Number 06 (June 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Chant d'un Voyageur: A Series of Intimate Sketches of Musical Scenes in Many Lands
Just One Hundred Years Ago: Being a Musical Chronicle of the Year 1832
By the Waters of Minnetonka: Stories of Famous Concert Songs! (interview with Thurlow Lieurance)
Music Lessons for the Four-Year-Old
Half Million Dollars in Musical Scholarships
Edison and Music
Music Makers in the Day of Good Queen Bess
High Lights in World's Famous Piano Methods
Music Supervisors' Forum
Chopsticks: A Musicological Mystery
Russian Invitation to American Musicians
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Volume 50, Number 07 (July 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Chant d'un Voyageur: A Series of Intimate Musical Sketches
How Everyone May Memorize Music
Musical Skyscrapers
Importance of Elimination in Teaching
Weight Touch
What they Wanted
What the Musician Should Know about Broadcasting
Music as a Cure for Mental Depression
American Operatic Mecca: An Account of the Extraordinary Accomplishments of the Ravinia Opera Company
Keeping Time
Forefather of Pianoforte Technic
Mechanical Side of Piano Playing
Education of Adam Henry in Music: the Training of a Real Boy
Turning Morning Hours to Profit
Divine Chopin
What Do People Listen to on the Radio
One Way to Gain a Larger Class
Practice
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Volume 50, Number 08 (August 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Play With the Piano, Not At It! (interview with Myra Hess)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot? The Romance of a Famous Spiritual
Charm of Arpeggios
Artistic Pedaling and How to Achieve It
John Hoppner's Famous Contemporary Portrait of Franz Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn, Disciple of Cheer: The World is Celebrating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth
Triple Terms
From the Cradles of Musical Art: Musical Instruments in the Pictorial Art of Italy
Russia, the Musical Question Mark of the World
What Shall I Get from the Study of an Instrument
Music of the Tanbark Ring
Monthly Tests