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 50, Number 09 (September 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Band in Modern Education (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)
Structure of Music: How We Get the Natural Scale
Lesson from Liszt in 1832
Romance of Ole Bull
Essentials in Class Piano Teaching
Brighter Prospects for American Music: America Now Leads the World in Music
Why Great Artists Succeeded—Teresa Carreño
Pianist of the Future: A Thought-Provoking Article by the Well Known San Francisco Teacher
Millions and Millions for Musical Education: Foundations Grant Inspiring Security to Music Workers
How to Produce an Operetta: With Particular Directions for High Schools and Colleges (interview with Louis Woodson Curtis)
Seven Fine Reasons for Studying Music
Rubinstein's Melody in F
New Way to Enlarge the Music Class
Velocity, Made Easy
Notes—Rests—Time
How to Play Hymns
Selling the Idea of Music Study
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Volume 50, Number 10 (October 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Leschetizky Days
Step-Children of Piano Technic
My Ten Favorite Etude Music Magazine Musical Compositions and Why I Prefer Them
Number Your House: An Aural Game for the Class-room
How Music Has Helped the Stars: Many Movie Celebrities Practical Musicians
Structure of Music: The Story of the Intervals
Interesting Musical Centenaries of 1932
Score Reading with Discs
Popularity of the Rhythm Band: Experts Tell How One May be Organized and Trained
Little Tales of Music Study Accomplishment
Martha or The Market Girl of Richmond: A Comedy of the Classes of Britain
Stories of Famous Concert Songs
Coloratura Contralto (interview with Sigrid Onegin)
Fairy Folk Recital
Eye, Ear and Hand
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Volume 50, Number 11 (November 1932)
James Francis Cooke
Master Lesson on the Carnaval, Op. 9, by Robert Schumann
Difficult Rhythms Made Easy
Ideal Piano Hand
Concentrated Technic for High School Piano Students
Saint-Saëns, the Remarkable
Home Missionary
Responsibility
Elephants, Trees and Piano Keys
Structure of Music: How We Get the Chords, and How They Intermingle
Sphere of the Conductor (interview with Henry Hadley)
Have We Lost Something Through Over-Relaxation in Piano Study? A Discussion in Practical Piano Teaching
Haydn and His Birthplace
Pianists, Be Ambidextrous
Value of Our School Band and Orchestra (Contest)
Keeping Very Little Pupils Amused
Practical Use of Suggestions
Teaching Hints
Patriotic Costume Recital
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Volume 50, Number 12 (December 1932)
James Francis Cooke
What Does Christmas Music Mean to You?
Visit with Belgium's Musical Queen
Master Lesson on the Carnaval, Op. 9 of Robert Schumann, Part 2
Art of Singing (interview with Benjamin Gigli)
Use of Reward Cards, The
Man who Wrote Silent Night
Music Teachers' National Association Annual Meeting
Relaxing of Tight Wrists
Musical Pepper Box
For Stiff Hands
Chant d'un Voyageur: Capital of the Kingdom of Music
Art of Copying Music
How I Live and Work (interview with Menuhin Yehudi)
My Piano: An Appreciation
Stories of Famous Concert Songs: Mana-Zucca's Own Story of I Love Life (interview with Mana-Zucca)
Structure of Music: How and Why Scale Steps Are Sometimes Altered
What Do We Mean by Classic?
Early Nativity Carols
Finger Independence and Melody Playing
Mozart's Birthplace Today
Muffling the Piano for Practice
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Volume 49, Number 01 (January 1931)
James Francis Cooke
Ultimate Musical Choice
Musical Life in Festive Copenhagen
Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 7
Educating the New Musical Public
Lepold Auer's Great Legacy to Art
Reflections on the Art of Piano Playing
Present Day Musical Films and How They are Made Possible
Airways of Music
Technic of Scale Playing
Marimba
Triumphant Advance of Music
Master Lesson on the Impromptu in A Flat, Opus 29, of Chopin
Game of Correcting Melodies
Minor Family
Light and Agile Thumb
Teaching Fundamentals to Young Students
Tchaikovsky's School Days
Accent in Scale and Arpeggio Practice
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Volume 49, Number 02 (February 1931)
James Francis Cooke
When I Arrived in the Metropolis
Social Art of Music (editorial)
Leschetizky as I Knew Him
Music Study in Paris
Report Card for Piano Work
Musik der Zeit: An Editorial Discussion of Present Day Gargoyles of Dissonance
Putting the Spirit into Spirituals
Accompanist
How Dvorák Taught Composition
Tie and Slur Confusion
Young Pupil Meditates
Educating the New Musical Public
Musical Greeting
Reports for Music Pupils
Music Versus Noise
Relaxing the Shoulders
Transposing for the Uninitiated
Remembering the Pupil
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Volume 49, Number 03 (March 1931)
James Francis Cooke
Amazing Idiosyncrasies of Richard Wagner: Demi-God or Demi-Demon
Hearing Inwardly
Those Troublesome Grace Notes
Can You Tell?
Quicker Results Through Weight Playing
Does Radio Broadcasting Require a Special Technic?
Stockholm the Magnificent
Some Origins of the Harp
Simile, Segue and Sempre
Dynamics and Expression
Playing the Piano with the Minimum of Muscular Effort
How to Develop Technic
Grandma Fry Adds a New Stunt
Educating the New Musical Public
Are You Old Enough to Remember?
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Volume 49, Number 04 (April 1931)
James Francis Cooke
Should the Piano have Two Keyboards (interview with Winifred Christie)
Eliminating Nerves When Playing in Public
Listen for Color in Your Piano Playing
Tchaikovsky on Mozart
Little Visits to European Musical Shrines: Stockholm the Magnificent
What Music Owes to Alessandro Scarlatti: Bach's Italian Predecessor and What He Did
International Musical Conference: Musical England and America to Meet on Shores of Lake Geneva
Right Piece for the Right Pupil at the Right Time
Ornaments and their Interpretation
Romance of Bells
Music of Hindu Temples
Breathing for Voice Production
Educating the New Musical Public
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Volume 49, Number 05 (May 1931)
James Francis Cooke
International Appreciation of Ignace Jan Paderewski: World Famous Pianists and Teachers Greet the Renowned Master in His Hour of Greatest Triumph
Some Fundamentals of Natural Octave Playing
Important Association and a Great Cause
Student Days of George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
How Harmony Helps the Music Student
Pedal Markings
Picture from the Past
Lest We Forget, Lest We Forget: Important Musical Historical Figures of the Picturesque Past
Freak Scales: Curious Musical Systems Used by Modern Composers
Wagner's Death-Dreams of His Own Walhalla (Picture)
Master Lesson Upon Chopin's Aeolian Harp Etude, Op. 25, No. 1
Singing Intelligently in English
Garcia's Second Discovery
Opera before Opera
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Volume 49, Number 06 (June 1931)
James Francis Cooke
Fame Overnight! (interview with Lily Pons)
Why Modern Music is Modern—And What, Please, is Atonal Music? (interview with Nicholas Slonimsky)
Physical Revitalization of Musicians: New Scientific Health and Diet Discoveries Which Are Startling the World
Should the Child Begin Piano Study at the Age of Five
Rage of the Rumba
Secrets of the Staccato Touch
Three Costly Mistakes
Playing the Piano by Touch
Time-Saving Method to Keep Up Old Pieces
Educating the New Musical Public
Most Important Point in Singing
Coming Musical Awakening
Improvised Opera
Clothespins or Hammers
Graded Courses and Prizes
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Volume 49, Number 07 (July 1931)
James Francis Cooke
Did this Musician Re-Make Spain?
Let the Amateur Make Music (interview with Harold Bauer)
Hold the Pedal
Systematic Memorizing
Variety, the Secret of Practice
The Right Way and Wrong Way to Interpret Syncopation
Collapsible Piano
Musical Highlights in China and Japan
Romance of Alessandro Stradella: A Story of One of the Most Picturesque Figures in the History of Music
Save Material
Music in the Home: A Family Concert
That Awful Fourth Finger
Homage to Gounod (Picture)
Class Piano Instruction Questionnaire
Six in One
Romance of Ben Bolt
Why Study the Leipzig Cantor's Inventions?
Some Music Specters
Key Signatures in a Nutshell
Great Physician Speaks for Music
Developing Finer Pupils
What Difference the Edition?
Geraldine Farrar's Musical Babyhood
Peaceful Practice
Strengthening Arpeggio Technic
Thing Well Done
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Volume 49, Number 08 (August 1931)
James Francis Cooke
Planning for a Prosperous Season
Talk on the Talkies, A (interview with Lawrence Tibbett)
How to Learn to Play at Sight
More Greetings for Paderewski
Johannes Brahms, Etching
Piano Lessons from Masters of Yesteryear
Two Famous MacDowell Pieces
To Make the Left Hand Agile
Mozart the Prodigy (1756-1791)
Swiss Music Festival in the Bernese Oberland
Reading Between the Lines in Music: What is Implied is Often More Important than the Notes Themselves
Interesting Piano-Accordion (interview with Pietro Deiro)
Use of Phonograph in the Practice Hour
Imagination as Shown in Some Piano Pieces
Economizing the Practice Hour
Bell Music, Today and Yesterday
Featuring Material for Junior Music Summer School
Analyzing a Piece
Sparks from the Musical Anvil
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Volume 49, Number 09 (September 1931)
James Francis Cooke
Television and Radio To-day
What the Band Means to Your Home Community (interview with John Philip Sousa)
How Expression is Achieved at the Keyboard Through Accent: The Agógic Accent in Expression
Beethoven as a Violinist, Portrait
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra: Its Origin and History
Report Card Form
Practical and Profitable Piano Recital
America's Giant Strides in Music for Youth
To Judge the Pupil's Progress
Twenty September Business Hints for Practical Teachers of Music
New Fashioned Dry Goods Advertising
Tone Color
Schumann's Immortal Words
On the Interpretation of Bach
Notes and Rests that Go Together
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Volume 49, Number 10 (October 1931)
James Francis Cooke
Could Richard Wagner Have Passed a Mus. Bac. Examination?
Music in Present Day Soviet Russia (interview with Edwin A. Fleisher)
Black Notes: When the Thumb and Little Finger May Be Used on Them
Three Wonder Workers in Piano Technic
Training the Prodigy (interview with Efrem Zimbalist)
Picture Awards for Scrap-books
Neglected Phases of Piano Study
Playing Postman
Billboard Man
Royal Musicians
Art of Singing for the Radio: Tricks of the Microphone Easily Mastered
School Music Department
Coördinating the Grade School and High School Instrumental Music Program
Imperishable Romance of St. Cecilia
Training Pupils for Public Appearance
When Not to Practice
Tricky Rhythms
Musical Game of Composers
Treasure Hunt
Piano: Then and Now
History Cards
Country Class
Getting Prospective Music Students
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Volume 49, Number 11 (November 1931)
James Francis Cooke
Visit to the Home of Eduard Schütt
Novelties for the Piano
Practical Way of Acquiring Tecnic
Ginger Up Your Brains with Music: Being Some Effects of the Tone Art
Breaking into Metropolitan Opera by the Back Door
Some Popular Confusions
Building Scales Before Playing Them
Why Great Artists Succeed—Jascha Heifetz
Is Culture Progressing in Musical Art? (interview with Moriz Rosenthal)
Philadelphia Orchetra: Its Origin and History
Elusive Counter-Theme
Music of the Clarinet
Developing a True Sense of Rhythm
Music Work Counters
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Volume 49, Number 12 (December 1931)
James Francis Cooke
George Bernard Shaw Talks on Modern Music: Europe's Most Famous Writer and Music Critic Discusses Many Interesting Things in the Shavian Fashion
How Well Do You Know Your MacDowell?
Humorous Situations in Wagner Music Drama Performances
Music Teachers National Association
Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 18
Visit to Musical Oxford
Impression by Repetition
Christmas Eve in Bach's Church
Sparks from the Musical Anvil
Very First Lessons at the Keyboard
Message of Music
Requirements of the Radio Singer
Unusual Crayon Portrait of Brahms
Brahms as I Knew Him
Childrens' Christmas Recital
From Liszt to Einstein: Reminiscences of Notable Figures in the Musical World
Piano Dentistry
Postage Stamps and Music
Rhythm Ratio
Rapid Calculation
Rhythm Instruments and Rhythm
To Cure the Habit of Hurrying
Sing, Then Play
Remembering Definitions
Chord Relationship
That Finishing Touch
Not too Much First
Correcting a Mistake
Etude Recital
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Volume 48, Number 01 (January 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Music and Brains
New Apsects of American-Indian Music
How Much Technic is Indispensable?
Designing Natural Fingerings
Pertinent Advice to Practical Pianists
Notable Careers of the Esterhazy Family: An Account of the Remarkable Hungarian Family Which Extended Enormous Assistance to Musical Art, Through Its Benefactions to Composers and Players, Including Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert
Centenary of the Accordion
Art of Making Playing Beautiful (interview with George Copeland)
Up-to-Date Ideas on Improving Piano Touch: How to Practice Thirds, Sixths and Octaves
Beethoven's Minuet in G
Brace for Broken Rhythm
Arpeggio Drill
Parent's Part
Tips Important
Teaching Note Values
Musical Home Reading Table
Paderewski and Poland
Ideals for Beginners
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Volume 48, Number 02 (February 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Master Teacher
Tragedy of Moussorgsky: The Dramatic Story of the Most Curious Figure in Music History
Tavern Music
Struggle of the Negro Musician
Chord Reading
Grandaddies of Our Pianos
Notable Musical Women
Master Discs
Development of the Left Hand
Light and Shade in Piano Playing
How Music Came to be Written: Musical Pioneers Who First Divised the Notation System
Handel and Beethoven: The Pillars of Our Modern Musical Structure
Don't Don't!: Why Some Teachers Are to Blame for the Failure of their Students
Portamento Touch
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Volume 48, Number 03 (March 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Why Every Boy Should Study Music (interview with Herbert J. Tily)
Rare Portrait of Edward MacDowell
Ten Ideas from Edward MacDowell
Notable Musical Women
Developing the Student's Interpretative Ability
Playing Grace-Notes Without Distorting the Rhythm
Beethoven's Love Letters
Music of the Passion Play of Oberammergau: A Graphic Description Based on Presentations as Witnessed by the Writer in 1889, 1910, 1920
Arpeggios
Practicing and Playing
Teaching a Correct Position of the Hand
You Cannot Get Along without Scales
Marriage of Figaro: Adapted for Presentation as a Reading at Musical Clubs
Curing the Hustler
Points in Good Piano Playing
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Volume 48, Number 04 (April 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Hail to the Music of Spain
Marvelous Musical Story of Barcelona (interview with Pablo Casals)
Rhythm and Technic, the Keys to Interpretation (interview with José Iturbi)
Glossary of Spanish Musical Terms and Related Words
Holy Week in Seville
Music, An Indespensible Human Need
Some Modern Spanish Composers
Night in Granada
Consistent Sight Reading
Slurring Slips
Ceaseless Charm of the Music of Spain
Notable Musical Women
Monsalvat—The Land of the Holy Grail
Peteneras of Seville
That is a Zarzuela?
Habañera from Carmen
Spain's Musical Message to American Mothers
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Volume 48, Number 05 (May 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Fighting Deadly Uniformity
Will the Radio and Talking Pictures Compel a Revolution in Methods of Teaching Singing?
Special Exercise in Double Thirds for Independence of Fingers
Child's Native Love of Music
Musical Value of Silence: How to Play Rests Effectively
Why Slow Practice Helps
Piano Study for Adult Beginners
Romance of the Guitar (interview with Andrés Segovia)
Great Masters as Students (Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893)
Double Notes
Rhythm and Technic, the Keys to Interpretation (interview with José Iturbi)
Opus—Key—Composer
How Has the Piano as an Instrument Developed in the Last Half Century?
Master Lesson on the Famous Fantasia in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Forty Miles to a Teacher
Glimpses of Bizet
By Their Works We Shall Know Them
Mozart as a Prodigy Composer
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Volume 48, Number 06 (June 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Melodic Genius of Ethelbert Nevin (interview with Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin (Anne Paul Nevin)
Gluck and Marie Antoinette (picture)
Radio as an Educational Factor: For Artist Musicians and Music Students
Getting the Most Out of Self-Study
Practicing for the Spring Recital
Three Vital Points in Piano Mastery: Practice Hints to Pianoforte Students
How to Start a Class
Flowers, Music and Sunbeams
Romance of the Guitar
Wisdom of a Great Teacher: Karl Merz
Wagner and the Ominous Number 13
Study Schedule
Enlarging the Pupil's Musical Vocabulary
Story of Annie Laurie
Accompanist Who Aids and Abets
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Volume 48, Number 07 (July 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Religious Taboos on Music
Cosima Saga: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who, as the Daughter of Liszt and the Wife and Widow of Wagner, was the Most Discussed Musical Personaltiy of Her Sex in the World of Opera
When Special Patience is Needed
Be a Self-Starter
Talk with the Ambitious Harmony Student
To the Measure of the Mind
Twin Scales
First Scale
Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio
Haunts of Great Musicians in Vienna—Etchings
Curious Story of Jacques Offenbach, the Kind of Opera Bouffe: How the Son of a Poor Jewish Cantor Revolved in the Wheel of Fate
Commander John Philip Sousa Tells of His Tour With the Offenbach Orchestra
High Points in Practical Technic (interview with Harold Samuel)
Tricks Instead of Tasks
Romance of the Guitar (interview with Andrés Segovia)
Some Notation Facts Every Student Should Know
Is Tradition Reliable?
Individual Musical Dictionaries
Aphorisms from the Note Book of a Music Student
Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today
Music and Mathematics
Speaking Voice Beautiful
Melodies of the Mind
Practice in Pantomime
True and False Pedal Effects
Practice Pledge
Creation Before Concentration
Richard Strauss and Work
After You, Gentlemen
Tchaikovsky's Musical Profession
President Hoover Relates the Incident Which Inspired the Famous March
Henry Albert Lang, 1854-1930
How's Your Ear?
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Volume 48, Number 08 (August 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Gentle Art of Taking Time to Live!
Little More Beethoven, Please: The Pianoforte Sonata in A Flat, Op. 26
Scale Charts
Seeing Music as a Whole: Where Many Fail
Left Hand Difficulties
What's the Matter with our Music? (interview with Geraldine Farrar)
Most Useful of All Fingering Rules
Middle C
Precise Contact
Piano Teacher's Dictionary of Touch
Brothers and Sisters
Music of the Waltz and Its Creators
Workable Report Slip
Small Threads in the Musical Tapestry
Preparedness of Attack as an Aid to Sight Reading
Camouflage Scales
New Theory of Pianoforte Tone Production
Arranging Music for Toy Orchestras
Musical Sport of Other Days: Canons, Rounds and Catches
Family of Accents
Beethoven's Improvisations
Archbishop of Salzburg
Brahms vs. Popper
Advice from Schumann-Heink
Wanted: A Teacher with Imagination
Explaining the Phrase
Making It Fun for Beginners
Scales for the Younger Pupil
Clearness in Playing
For the Pupil Who Just Can Not Count
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Volume 48, Number 09 (September 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Why the World Needs Bands (interview with John Philip Sousa)
Modern Questions in the Study of Harmony
Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today
Curious Lure of Chinese Music
Oral Drills in Intervals
Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 3
Percussion—The Pulse of Music
Technical Problems in a Nutshell
Overcoming Difficulties in Memorizing
Open the New Musical Season Brillantly by Spreading the Gospel of Music-Study
Odd Facts about Sound
Case for Modern Music
Master Lesson on Chopin's Polonaise in C Minor, Op. 40, No. 2
Keeping the Interest in Piano Study
Radio, Pupil and Teacher