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 48, Number 10 (October 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Majestry of Liszt
Spirit of Hungarian Music (interview with Yolanda Mérö)
Dots and Their Values
Little Visits to European Musical Shrines: Hungary's Rich Gifts to Music
Three Notes Against Two
Auditions for the Sound Films
Endless Fascination of Hungarian Gypsy Music
Hungerian National Instrument—The Czimbalalom: A Musical RelicWhose Ancestry May Be Traced Back to Nineveh
Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today
Eminent Hungarian Pianist
Notable Hungarian Musicians of Past and Present
Do You Like This Musical Club?
This Chromatic Age: Exercises that Prepare the Piano Student for a New Era in Which the Chromatic Scales Will be Used More than at Any Other Time in Musical History
Do You Like This Kind of Musical Club?
Contest: What Are Your Favorite Musical Compositions?
Liszt Rhapsodies
Why Great Artists Succeeded
Overdose of Interest
Logic in Choice of Fingering
Why Every Child Will be Benefited by the Study of the Piano
Teacher, the Pupil and the Untuned Piano
What the Study of Music Will Do
Advice to Has-Beens
What are Scales For?
What is Meant by Musical?
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Volume 48, Number 11 (November 1930)
James Francis Cooke
Faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, Season 1930-31
Critical Digest of Music and Masters
To Count or Not to Count
How to Organize and Start a Piano Class
Fascinating Musical Dances I Have Seen East of Suez
Mother's Hand Leads the Way: Changing the Practice Hour from Drudgery to Delight
Christmas Party
Teresa Carreño as Teacher: Memories of a Remarkable Woman and Musician
Are You Able to Play Trills?
Sparks from the Musical Anvil of Today
Beauty of Bach
Ivory and Ebony Gymnasium
How to Place the Piano
That Concert Cough
Snapshot Sight Reading
Teacher-Parent Coöperation
Tales from the Tuner
Security in Sight Reading
Introducing a Piano Selection
Modulation
How to Keep Wrist Relaxed in Playing Arpeggios
Rubber Bands for Scales
Aims for the Serious Student
Wagner and the Ducks
Music for the Crippled Children
Silent Sight Reading
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Volume 48, Number 12 (December 1930)
james Francis Cooke
Symphony of Christmas
Why I Prefer Concert to Opera (interview with Amelita Galli-Curci)
Reflections on Piano Playing
Miscellaneous Teaching Hints
Toward Facility
Buying Instruments for the Toy Orchestra
Music and Music Study in the Startling Seventies
What Piano Study Will Do for Children
Every Gentleman was a Musician Then: A Glance into the Delightful Musical Atmosphere of the Days of Samuel Pepys in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Musical Jargon of the Radio Clarified: A Popular Interpretation of Technical Terms Which are Heard Daily Over the Radio, Part 3
Critica Digest of Music and Masters of Music, Part 2
Keep Your Eye on the Drummer
Story of the Accordion
Melodies that Never Die
Piano Student Outside the Studio
Building a Pupil Repertoire
Pointing the Arms
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Volume 47, Number 01 (January 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Filing Sheet Music
Supremacy of Personality
Venice, the City of Dreams
Jean Philippe Rameau (Portrait)
Phrasing—A Key to Technical Problems
How Do You Play Double Thirds
What Is a Prelude?
Drills in Sharps and Flats
Meddlsome Neighbors
Deceptive Accidentals
Musical Menus
Why An Investment in Music Lessons Always Pays: The Cultural Value of Music
What Children Love
Turning Failure into Fortune (interview with Vernon Spencer)
To Make Weak Fingers Curve at the First Joint
Rhythmic Problem
Appreciation of Schubert
Musical Story
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Volume 47, Number 02 (February 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Painting with Notes
Soundless Practice
Transposition
Piano as a Home Investment: First in a Series of Frank Editorials Upon the Great Educational and Sociological Importance of this Indispensable Instrument
Take Your Foot Off the Pedal
How the Scale Grows
Keep Studying
Gateways to Accomplishment
Big We Wagner
Trail of a Jongleur: A Fascinating Tale of Wartime Musical Experiences
Cheap at the Price
Why Music is Really a Necessary Part of the Child's Education
Student's Debt to Radio
Note-Bound
Wagner, Voice of the 19th Century
Landing Safely After a Leap
Beat in Whistling
Time-Saving, Hand Moulding Exercises for Piano Students
Costume Recital: Its Preparation and Presentation
Sostenuto Pedal
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Volume 47, Number 03 (March 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Precise Fingering When Wagner Shot a Rabbit
Brahms as a School Boy
Mozart's Poverty
How Finck Discovered MacDowell
Pupil's Repertoire
Golden Age of Music Study Has Arrived: New Worlds for Music Lovers and Music Students
Musical Research
Triplets
Salient Points for Practice Hours
Music on the Moon-Kissed Riviera
Master Themes the World Loves Best
How the Young Liszt Taught
Left Hand First
Student's Repertoire
Little Recitals
Three Master Singers on Preparing for a Lyric Career
Making the Most of an Exercise
Famous Method of Touch
What are Grace Notes?
Mastering Chromatic Thirds
New Understanding of Italian Terms of Musical Expression
Studio Score Card
How to Develop the Sense of Rhythm
Examination Day
Aid to Sight-Reading
Music in the Bible
Romance of the Plan Song: The Abbey at Solesmes
Maintainng Technic with Limited Practice
Intervals and Tonic Chord
Two Sides to a Question
Aida: A Love-Tregedy of the Nile Arranged for Presentation as a Reading at Music Clubs
Music Teacher
How to Make the Piano Sing
Songs of Frédéric Chopin
Should Musicians Use Portraits in Advertising
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Volume 47, Number 04 (April 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Some Hints on Advertising
House of Accuracy
Learning Rapid Note-Reading
Accent
Charm of Musical Biography
When Pupils Choose Their Own Music
Playing for Others
Adult Beginner
Practice Hour Safeguards
Summer Music Schools
Music on the Moon-Kissed Riviera
Be Sure You Are Right
Bach an Architect of Music
New Light on Musical Acoustics
Teaching Intervals
Musical Cross-Examination
Have You Tried this Way?
Special Emphasis for the Chromatic Scale
Ten Commandements for Piano Students
Comprehensive Piano Lesson Report
Study in Bells, Chimes or Carillons as Related to National Life
Value of the Mental Picture
Wild Melodies from the Arctic
Unique Orchestra of the Air—Chinese Pigeon Whistles
What is Meant by Musical?
Where the Blame Rested
To Eliminate Pauses
Cardinal Principles of Weight Playing
Leading Pupils to Practice
Scientific Legato Playing
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Volume 47, Number 05 (May 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Chopin's Perfection of Detail
Fourten Prima Donnas of the Pianoforte
Inspiration Road
Practice Difficult Passages
Teaching the Values of Notes
Matter of Rests
Laugh or Two
Making Plain the Seventh Chord
Indexng as an Aid to Memorizing
How to Impress the First Lesson Upon the Child
Playing and Singing the First Piece
Music of Paris, the Inimitable
Octaves and Blocks
Relaxation
Favorite Musical Instruments of a Past Generation
On Ability to Sight-Read
Me and My Shadow
Broken Chords
Nothing to Practice
Saving Lost Motion in Piano Study
Simple Way of Teaching the Value of the Dot
To Learn Letters and Numbers of Scales
Symbolism of the Dance in the Far East
Five Points in Interpreting Popular Piano Masterpieces
Broadening the Horizon
Singing Towers
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Volume 47, Number 06 (June 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Mozart's Musical Portrait of a Lady
Solo Hate Campaign
Sousa Got the Cash!
Rubinstein in Edinburgh
Sheet Music Clinic
Story of Strings and Keys or From Monochord to Pianoforte
Fundamentals of Beautiful Piano Playing
Charm of Stephen Heller: An Interesting Discussion of the Work of a Man Who Strove to Make Educational Studies Beautiful
Making Scales Interesting
Velocity and the Metronome
How to Play Beethoven
How Schubert's Music Reflected the Poems He Chose for Settings
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Volume 47, Number 07 (July 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Richard of the Footlights: A Personal Visit to Bayreuth
When the Child Pedals
Well-Known Time Troubles
Page Turning
I Want to Learn to Write a Song
Helps for the Nervous Musician
Getting a Good Start
Playing with Weight
Scales at the First Lesson
Fashions in Fingering and Common Sense
Physically Weak Pupil
Musicians are a Healthy Lot
Teaching the Alberti Bass
Bogus Tunes
Musical Pilgrimage to Haiti, the Island of Beauty, Mystery and Rhythm
Musicians of the Month
Visual History Series—Great Symphonists
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Volume 47, Number 08 (August 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Father Bach: A Personal Visit to the Home of Bach and a Sketch of Some of the Smaller Compositions of the Master
How Shall We Study Bach?
Cleaning Up Slovenly Playing
Polyphonically Speaking
Bird Repertoires
How I Graduated as a Music Bachelor at Fifty-Nine
Building Scale Technic
Pianist and Patent Office: Odd Mechanical Contrivances Designed to Help Pianists
Universal Schubert
Thirty Great Opera Composers
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Volume 47, Number 09 (September 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Brussels, the Musical Gem of Europe
Report Cards for Piano Pupils
Practical Considerations in Pianoforte Interpretation (interview with Walter Gieseking)
Philadelphia's Amazing Operatic Situation
Centenary of Rubinstein
Future of Music in Moviedom (interview with Erno Rapée
Music Idealism in the United States: An Address Delivered at the Anglo-American Conference on Music at Lausanne, Switzerland, August, 1929
Master Lesson on the Chopin Etude Opus 25, No. 2
Paragraphs form Schubert's Diary
Jazz—Whither Bound?
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Volume 47, Number 10 (October 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Chinese Scale
How We Make Our Music Study Club a Success or L'Etude de Musique; the Club with 100% Attendance
Those Forgotten Exercises
Native Orchestra of India
Harmonica—The Flying Wedge in Introducing Music
America's Greatest Song Writer
Romance of the Harp
Picking Up the Threads
Opera in English and its Advocates
How to Master Chopin's Butterfly Etude
Tie: How to Explain It to Children: The
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Volume 47, Number 11 (November 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Woman and Music: Twin Souls of Civilization
Children of a Great Romance: A Meeting with the Daughters of Robert and Clara Schumann
Good Habit
I'd Like to, But—
Arpeggios and Their Fingerings
What Great Music Owes to Woman
Correction and Kindness
Much-Abused Spring Song
Love of Beethoven
Benefits from Music Study
How Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler Taught
Handicaps, Which Discourage Good Piano Playing
American Girl's Chance in Opera (interview with Rosa Ponselle)
Fundamental Art Secrets in Piano Playing (interview with Elly Ney)
Notable Musical Women
Blessed is the Musical Woman
Troublesome Rhythms
Mothers of Great Musicians: The Story of the Women Who Have Influenced Great Masters in Their Youth
Practical Use for the Radio in Music Study
Dumb Hand-Show
Noted Women in Musical History: Inspirers—Creators—Interpreters
Art of Playing for the Radio: Its Bearing Upon the Great Future for the Musical Home, Music Teachers, Music Pupils and Musical Education (interview with Lolita Cabrera Gainsborg)
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Volume 47, Number 12 (December 1929)
James Francis Cooke
Romance of the Christmas Carol
Music, Munich and the Mad King, Part 1
Pedagogic Principles of Piano Playing: As Prepared for the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris
Decade of The Six: Based on an Interview with the Distinguished French Composer, Arthur Honegger, One of The Six
Secrets of a Master Technic
Self-Study in Music
Changes in Piano Teaching in Fifty Years
Getting Correct Hand Position
To Overcome Poor Fingering
Lure of Japanese Music, Part 1
Are You Making Your Scales Real Ladders to Success: A Review of Common-sense Pedagogical Procedure for Intermediate Students and Some Novel Suggestions for Advanced Students
Master Themes the World Love Best
How to Handle the Whole-Tone Scale
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Volume 46, Number 01 (January 1928)
James Francis Cooke
Playing Arpeggios
Finding the First-Bests
One Road to Good Piano Technic
Picture and Canvas
Checks—and Checks
Self-Study in the Art of Music (interview with Leopold Godowsky)
Musical Question of the Hour: Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Education
Schumann and His Mother
Measuring Musical Minds
What Makes the Musical Person?
Suspended Count
Beethoven's Life Tragedy: Dramatic Episodes in the Career of the Great Composer
New Piece
How a Mother Can Make the Child's Music Study Irresistibly Interesting: How Influences will Make or Ruin the Child's Musical Career
Composers at Work
Romance of Music in Palestine
Musical Reading Clubs
Power that Reaches the Goal of Musical Success
Security in Intermediate Notes
Reading Rhythm
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Volume 46, Number 02 (February 1928)
James Francis Cooke
Making Music Colorful
Signs—Always Signs
Forefather of Pianoforte Technic: Czerny The Indispensable
Musical Education in the Home
Why not Write to the Young Pupil?
Radio and the Music Student
Relating Key and Note
Think Before You Play
Cushion for Aida
Sleep On It
Haydn and the Clarinet
Magic of Melody (interview with Eduard Poldini)
Musical Reading and Thinking
Finishing Touches in Piano Playing
Great Moments in Wagner's Nibelungen Triology
Wagner, the Eternal
Acquiring Realistic Technic
Musicians, Take Care of Your Ears
His Own Musician
Go Ahead!
Mélange from France
Romance of a Pioneer Prima Donna: Striking Pictures from the Life of a Traveling Singer in the Middle of the Last Century When the Stage Was Sometimes a Cock-Pit
Is the Attitude Changing?
First Ventures into the Third Position: A Fine Work-a-day Article for Earnest Students
Lesson on Chords
Haydn in London
Too-Eager Pupil
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Volume 46, Number 03 (March 1928)
James Francis Cooke
Double Notes for Strengthening the Fingers
Ear-Training the Child on His Own Pieces
Wagnerian Estimate of Mozart
Gilded Angel
Bad Company for a Gentleman's Sons
Baif Club
Taking up Music in Later Life (interview with John Erskine)
Training of a Virtuoso (interview with Moritz Rosenthal)
Not Quantity but Quality
Art and Music
We Have 'Phones!
Impression of Max Bruch's Tone-Poem, Kol Nidrei
Good Instrument for the Beginner
Franz Schubert—An Etching
New Lights on Scale Playing
Fairies in Music
Great Masters as Students of Music: Edward Grieg (1843-1907)
Why a Boy Should Study Music
Fun in Reading Notes
How Rimsky-Korsakoff Taught: An Intimate Personal Picture Showing the Enormously Painstaking Teaching Methods Employed in Russian Conservatories
Schumann Soldiers' March and The Wild Horseman
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Volume 46, Number 04 (April 1928)
James Francis Cooke
What is a Symphony Concert?
Musical Appreciation and Form
Taking an Inventory
Alleluia (Frontispiece)
Reinforce the Weak Spots
Aiming for It!
Do You Know That
Wrapping-Paper De Luxe
Teaching the Fundamentals of Music Through Improvisation
Accompanying as an Art
Uses and Abuses of the Pedals
Mozart (Etching)
Parental Influence in the Lives of Famous Musicians
Eighth Note
Whither the Trend of Music? (interview with Darius Milhaud)
Path of Music
Daily Exercises for the Busy Teacher
Keep It Up
Simplicity Thoughts
Finger Combinations Met With Every Day
Youngest Performer
Sight Reading
Phonograph Record as a Master Teacher
Fascinating Journals in Music Land
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Volume 46, Number 05 (May 1928)
James Francis Cooke
Musician and Fly
Maxims for Pianoforte Students
Matter of Hour Lessons
Largo from The New World Symphony
Oboe in the Kettle
History of a Best Seller
Rubinstein, the Leonine
Napoli E' Una Canzone
Ethics in the Musical Profession
Fifth Finger
Cinderella at the Piano
Wonderful New Etching of Johannes Brahms
One Hour at the Piano: A Highly Concentrated Plan of Study by a Famous London Teacher
Orchestral Innovations
How to Get the Right Number of Notes in Repeated Figures
Reading Chords Simplified
Keeping Right Tempo
Practical Memorizing
Making Note Reading Easy
Row Boat Playing
Self-Help Lesson in Modern Pedaling
Romance of the Dot: The Seventeen Functions of Music's Smallest Sign
Memorizing by Strategy
Young Teacher's Instruction Books
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Volume 46, Number 06 (June 1928)
James Francis Cooke
Making Summer Study Count
Naples is a Song (Napoli é Una Canzone)
How to Study the Encore Song
Etching, Beethoven and Goethe
Secret of Extracting Tone Color from the Piano
One Hour at the Piano
Chord Conversion for Small Hands
Memorizing Notes on Staves
Practicing Away from the Piano (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)
How to Free the Fourth and Fifth Fingers
Aids to Musicianship: Scientific Principles a Necessity for Perfection in Art
Accents
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Volume 46, Number 07 (July 1928)
James Francis Cooke
Hymn Playing Helpful
Musical Education in the Home
What Makes a Fine Piano
Evolution of Piano Playing and Virtuosity
Why Do I Study Music
On Describing a Piece
Efficiency in Piano Study
Speaking the Pupil's Language
Studio Ventillation
Tickling the Risibles
Grandeur that Was Rome
Point on Poise
Doorstep of Harmony: Showing How Simple and Delightful the Study May be Made for the Amateur
Frederic Chopin, an Etching
Queen and a Quarrel about Musicians
Making Arpeggios Interesting
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Volume 46, Number 08 (August 1928)
James Francis Cooke
Means to an End
Band Without Music
Musical Education in the Home
Most Remarkable Orchestra in the World
Stiumulating the Desire to Compose
Modulation and Transposition
Raising the Price Imperceptibly
Touch It Up
Meet My Friend, Mr. Schubert!
Facsimile The Erlking
Summer Music Study
Rhythmic Educational Value of The Toy Symphony
How to Give a Rhythmic Kitchen Symphony
Rhythmic Studies in Rests
Tests that Turn Teaching Successward: A Vital Series of Pertinent Personal Questions Designed to Help Ambitious Teachers
Fourth and Fifth Fingers
Yes, I Teach 'Em Jazz
Scenes from the Childhood of Franz Schubert: A Musical Playlet for Children
Massenet Rehearsing Manon—Painting
Music of the Great Out-of-Doors: Scenes of Forest, Mountain, Lake and River in the Music Room Material for a Midsummer Nature Recital
Home, Sweet Home: Famous Song One Hundred and Five Years Old
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Volume 46, Number 09 (September 1928)
James Francis Cooke
Teaching Correct Pedaling
Incredible Mental Achievement
Music in the City of Flowers
Improve Your Stretch
Keyboard Facility and Agility
How to Extend Your Hand Without Injury
Beethoven Listening to the Muses—An Etching
Folk Element in Music: The Study of Nationality in Music
Cross Rhythm
Teaching the Use of the Pedal
Master Themes the World Loves Best
Most Amazing Achievement in the History of Music Study: The Remarkable Story of a Student Who Has Been Blind
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Volume 46, Number 10 (October 1928)
James Francis Cooke
Mastering Irregular Rhythms
Page Turning for the Pianist
Two Centers in Piano Playing
Simplifying Note Reading
Young Beginner
Musical Home Reading Table
Eighteenth Century Italian Opera
Clara Schumann's Hands
Beethoven's Mother
Music in the City of Flowers
System in Study and Practice
Gounod's Definition
Veronese's Immortal Masterpice—Les Noces de Cana (The Marriage at Cana)
Story of the Ballet and Its Music
Schumann as Educator
Most Curious Page in American Musical History: An Early American Experiment in Communism with a Musical Background
Prerequisites for the Accompanist
Rhythmic Educational Value of the Toy Symphony
How to Get Up a Rhythmic Band
Exceptional Speed and How to Acquire It
Encourage the Older Students
Late Pupil