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 39, Number 02 (February 1921)
James Francis Cooke
Acquiring a Vocal Repertoire (interview with Alma Gluck)
Cause and Cure of Nervousness
Soul Exercises
How the Scale Should be Practiced Every Day
Average Amateur Pianist
Early Teaching Material
Lines and Spaces
Select the Best Fingering
Poor Performance and Its Sequel
Curve of Improvement in Practice
How to Get the Most Out of Your Music Lesson
Acquiring a Repertoire
Folly of Giving Too Difficult Music to Students
Thematic Index
Historical Music Study
Introduction to the Keyboard
Secret of Success of Great Musicians
Learning By Ear
Keeping Up
Don't Be Discouraged
Chords I Have Met
Emotional Control in Playing
How to make a Child's Practice Hour Count for More
Nerves and Nervousness at the Recital
Have You Come to the Standstill Point? Why a Great Majority of Piano Students Fail to Advance Beyond Certain Grades
Classical? What Does It Really Mean?
Legend of a Famous Lieurance Song By the Waters of Minnetonka
William M. Felton: A Rising Composer with a Fine Melodic Gift
Simple Pedal Rules
Don'ts for the Student
Keep Your Piano Tuned
Achievement Through Imitation
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Volume 39, Number 03 (March 1921)
James Francis Cooke
Practical Phases of Modern Pianoforte Study
Mercenary Methods and the Result
Teacher Who Makes You Work
Some Common Failings and Their Correction
Young at Seventy, Old at Forty
Be Comfortable While You Teach: A Word of Advice to Young Teachers
Steps in Learning to Compose
Learning to Like the Classics
Perspective in Teaching
Arm Relaxation Applied to Finger Work
Life Maxims of Great Musicians
Negative Criticism and Why It Fails
Soul of Poland in Music
Is the Development of High Speed Desirable in the Study of Scales and Arpeggios?
Getting Ready for a Recital
Unfair Competition
Suggestions to Young Concert Artists
Orchestral Paint Box
Two Mothers and Two Daughters
Different Method
What is the Best Method?
Which Fingers Have You?
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Relations of the Arts
Right Word
Irresistible Personality
Training the Muscular Sense in Piano Playing
Beethoven Anecdotes
Connecting Musicians with Banks
Heed the Fingering
Mark the Counts with Roman Numerals
Are you Stagnating at Forty—Try Music
Prejudiced Pupils
Music Necessarily a Slow Growth
Steps in Sight-Reading
Music in the Harem
How to Keep From Being Discouraged
When the Player-Piano Balks
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Volume 39, Number 04 (April 1921)
James Francis Cooke
Eminent Educational Experts Endorse the Golden Hour
Golden Hour: America's Most Serious Problem—A Possible Solution in Which You May Have a Vital Part
Modern Roads to Vocal Success (interview with Julia Claussen)
Sharps, Flats, Naturals
Helpful Criticism
Accent on the Third Beat
Cast Iron Methods
Lingering Lovingly on Details
Experience Plus Enthusiasm
Practical Phases of Pianoforte Technic (interview with Josef Lhevinne)
Taste
Inspiration in Piano Playing
Patience in the Study of Music
Studios, Yesterday and To-day
Psychology of Dress in Public Appearance
Alla Breve
What Was Liszt's Technic Life?
Interest Power in Music
Dialogue on the Pedals
Four Daily Practice Hours
Sharp Tools
Fast Practice in Slow Tempo: A Hint Towards the Acquiring of Brilliancy in Performance
Play with Your Head
Marring the Musical Text by Improvisations
Use Duets to Teach: Time and Expression
Where the Blame Lies
Secrets of Success of Great Musicians
Autocratic Teaching
Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales
Didactics vs. Object Study
James Gibbons Huneker (In Memoriam)
Sousa's Latest and Greatest March Keeping Step with the Union
Hero in the Cause of Music
Why Our School Systems of the Past Have Not Done More to Diminish Crime: Famous Police Detective and Crime Expert Substantiates Need for The Golden Hour
Musical Opportunities in Motion Picture Theaters
Honor and Music
Card System for Retaining Pieces
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Volume 39, Number 05 (May 1921)
James Francis Cooke
Golden Hour
Letters from Eminent Americans Endorsing The Golden Hour
Parents, Do You Do Your Part?
Handy Definitions
Variety in Scale Practice
Gymnastics in the Bass
What is the Most Difficult Thing in Piano Playing? (interview with Ignaz Friedman)
Muscle and Piano Playing
What Method Do You Use?
Sky the Limit
Musicians and the General Public
Gossec's Grim Humor
One Minute with Ludwig van Beethoven: Selected Quotations
Making Melodies and Addressing Them Properly
Sight Reading in the More Difficult Keys
Introduction in Scale Practice: A Practical Plan
Repeated Keys: An Interesting Effect in Piano Playing Worthy of Study by Ambitious Students
Music and Commercialism
Remedies for Hand Care
Shiftless Shifting
Piano Fatigue
Birds as Singes and Music Teachers
Plea for More Imagination
Good Taste in Dress for the Woman Music Teacher
How Can I Develop a Musical Touch?
Then and Now
Technique and Mechanism
Head Work That Counts
Essentials of Pianistic Success
Musician and Education
Home Life of Mendelssohn
Silent Bow Practice
Pure Instinct
Dvorák as I Knew Him
Pillars of Success
Read the Lower Notes First
Twelve Foundation Stones for Your Record Collection
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Volume 39, Number 06 (June 1921)
James Francis Cooke
New Aspects of the Art of Singing in America (interview with Reinald Werrenrat)
Fingering of Major Scales
Teaching Music Through Feeling
Studio Thoughts
Fingering Facts for Self-Help Pupils
Saving Energy in Practice
Von Bülow's Concert Hat
Success Steps in Piano Teaching
Sight Reading and Musicianship
What Method Shall I Study? What Method Shall I Teach?
How the Piano Sings
Fair Price for Lessons
Fingering Scales in Flats
Magic of the Keyboard: Virtuoso Tricks in Piano Playing
Playing Teacher
Do You Lose Your Music?
Liszt's Playing
Shall the Classics be First or Last?
Very Little Ones
Where Long Finger Nails Fall Short
Some Interesting Comments on Dvorák's Humoresque
Why Slow Practice is the Secret of the Higher Velocity: Just How to Practice to Attain Great and Accurate Rapid Passages
Minuet and the Scherzo
Practice Hour
What the Teacher Should Believe
Cure for Slovenly Piano-Playing
How Young Teachers May Successfully Introduce Touch and Technic
Glimpses of Great Masters at Home
Hints for Chord Reading
Hypodermic for Clementi
Two Neighborhood Impressions
Art of Playing Accompaniments
Is the Musical Mind Allied with the Subconscious Mind?
Modesty of Composers
Lessons of the Accompaniment
Memorizing Quickly
Meyerbeer's Bill
New Romili Song
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Volume 39, Number 07 (July 1921)
James Francis Cooke
Freedom in Music Teaching Methods (interview with Erno Dohnanyi)
What the Word Sissy Did
Deep Breathing vs. Nervousness
Motives and Melodies
Rural Music Teacher's Pay
How They Earned a Musical Education
Weak Fingers
Musical Innovations
Counting Aloud
Daily Supervised Practice
Quality and Color in Piano Playing: How to Make Your Playing Beautiful by the Legitimate Use of Color Effects
Ten Cardinal Points in Legato Piano Playing
Are You Taking or Are You Studying Music?
Check Up Your Hand Position
Speed Mania
Noise, the Disease of the Century
How Primary Pupils May Learn to Read Rapidly
Line a Day
Art of Sight Playing
Story Helped
One Minute with Mozart
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Pre-Keyboard Study
Don't Disregard Imitation
Come Out of Your Shell
How to Handle the Nervous Pupil
Should Musical Critics be Abolished?
Make Friends of Your Pupils
Fits Like a Glove
Classifying the Pupil
Over Practice
All About the Rondo
Assisting Nature
Save Time
For Pupils Who are Backward in Memorizing
Vitality in Music
One Minute with Schumann
George L. Spaulding
One Minute with Bach
Making the Left Hand Do Its Share
Delicate Years
How to Break a Bad Habit
Little Musical Facts
Economy in Music Teaching
When a Song Saved a War
Early Enthusiasm
Handel's Characteristic Temper
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Volume 39, Number 08 (August 1921)
James Francis Cooke
Momentous Musical Anniversary: P.M.T.A. Celebrates Thirtieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of a Movement Which Has Become Country Wide
Greatest Thing in Technic: Dr. William Mason's Vast Technical Vision
Musical Brain-Storms and Their Results
Heyday of Music
Vocal Masterpieces for the Masses (interview with Henri Scott)
Sustaining Pedal and What It Does to Piano Music
Musical Explorer
Pianist's Vitality
Keeping Up Interest in Your Music Club
Color Effects in Piano Playing
Don'ts for Scale Playing
Bug-Bear of Dotted Notes
Variety in Scale Practice
Bad Manners at Concerts
Look Up!
Variety at Lessons
Something New in Music Temperament and Musical Understanding
How Much Shall We Do For Our Pupils
Don't Try to Fool the Pupil
Efficiencies Which Attract Success in Music Teaching
From a Young Teacher's Note Book
One Minute with Von Weber
Magic of Order
Don't Flirt with Success
Putting Expression in Your Piano Playing
Difficulties in Playing that You Must Conquer
Musical Facts for Busy Readers
One Minute with Wagner
Mental Laziness
Fault-Finding Habit
Conducting Without Scores
Can I Become a Good Sight Reader?
Joy in Music
Dot and Double Dot
One Minute with Berlioz
Do Any of These Hit You?
Technic Tablets
Impertinent Points on How Not to Practice
Lord's Fiddle
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Volume 39, Number 09 (September 1921)
James Francis Cooke
How to Develop Staccato Touch
Twenty Don'ts for Piano Teachers
Motives and Measure Bars
Square Deal for Teachers: Let Us Have a Better Financial Status for the Professional Musician
No Missed Lessons
Wrong Thing
Teaching Table Exercises to Beginners
Practical Ideas on Artistic Pedaling
Counting for a Star
Wise Selection of Piano Teaching Materials
Thumb on the Black Keys
Music and the Student's Health
One Minute with Haydn
Piano Teacher and His Success
Starting the Fire
Essense of Musical Memorizing
Parting Word
Getting Real Happiness from Your Music: Psychology and the Young Musician
Holding Young Child's Interest
Why Some Organists Fall Into a Rut
Illustrations that Prod Interest
Seven Keys to Listening
Modern Violin Studies
Eye Training for Music Students
Read, Read, Read
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians: Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
First Aid to Interpretation
Art of Accent
Things to Remember about the Mordent
Some Practical Ideas on Starting Beginners
Genius and Fingering
Increasing the Expansion
Horizontal Themes
To the End of the World
Here and There in Music
Good Idea
Talk to Boys Who Don't Want Music
Music Student and Public Library
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Volume 39, Number 10 (October 1921)
James Francis Cooke
Glimpses of Genius (interview with Percy Grainger)
Mother and the Musical Boy
Telling is Not Teaching
Verdi's Thoughts on Art
My Star Soloist
From a Master's Workshop: Little Lessons in Musicianship
Lesson in Chopin Interpretation
Five-Year Old Pupil
Teachers' Fees Should Not be Lowered
Ten Musical Failures and Why They Failed
Ambidexterity in Piano Playing
Too Much Self Help
Mastering Mistakes: Common Errors and Shortcomings of Piano Students and How to Overcome Them
Ten Thoughts for Music Students
Five Wasted Years
Eliminating Stiffness in Piano Playing: Knocking Down the Blank Wall in the Way of Progress in Grade Three
Individual Training
Take it Home and Practice It Some More
Pupil Who Yawns
Here and There in the Field of Music: An Intimate Page of Fact, Humor and Comment with the Great Music Makers of To-day and Yesterday
Some Stereotyped Faults in Piano Playing
Mother's Help in Practice
Story of Automatic Music: Some Things About the Player-Piano that Will Interest the Everyday Music Lover
Punctuated Playing
One Minute With Liszt
True Musician
Know What You Teach
Music Print and Reading
Child's Practice Room
When Should the Scales Be Taught
Keeping Up Your Technic When Without a Piano
One Minute With Gluck
Playing for Pupils
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Volume 39, Number 11 (November 1921)
James Francis Cooke
Pianist's Palette
Recorded Music
From a Master's Workshop
Practice Plan that Brings Results
How Genius Discounts Handicaps
Emphasizing Different Voices
Studio Stories that Hit the Spot
Demand the Noblest Ideals
How One Mother Got Time for Music Stories
Finale: Yesterday and Today
Better Elocution in Your Piano Playing
Little Learning Not Always a Dangerous Thing
Interesting Your Pupils
Knowing the Keyboard
Here and There in the Field of Music: An Intimate Page of Fact, Humor and Comment with the Great Music Makers of To-day and Yesterday
Harmony, Not a Dry and Difficult Subject
Visit to the Presser Home for Retired Music Teachers
Secrets of Style and Charm in Piano Playing: Emotional Problems for the Student
Marathon Composers
Music Facts for Busy Readers
Human Interest Element in Teaching
Critic in the Next Room
Tolstoi on Universal Melody
Wake Up, Miss America
Begin Piano Studies as Early as Possible
First Aid for Stiff Wrists
I Can't Find Time to Practice
Musical Scrap Book
Rossini's Irrepressible Wit
Where There is a Will There is a Way
What Schumann Foresaw
Famous Marches
Musical Evenings
Musical Sabotage
One Musical Minute with Carlyle
When the Penguins Couldn't Stand Jazz
How Offenbach Got Back at Wagner
Why I Left My Teacher
Steel Master's Extravagance
Few Don'ts for Parents
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Volume 39, Number 12 (December 1921)
James Francis Cooke
Hour of Triumph
200 or 200,000
Tchaikowsky on Brahms
Value of Written Work
Music an Ideal Christmas Present (interview with John Philip Sousa)
Keep Your Methods Fresh
Teachers' Round Table
How the Masters Practiced
Seven Rules for Position at the Keyboard
Camille Saint-Saëns, To-Day and Yesterday
Will Piano Exercises Overcome Deformities of the Hand?
Liszt's Business
Save Your Breath?
Heart Music and Art Music
Advance with Every Lesson
Get the Musical Idea
Comparative Musical History Dates
Here and There in the Field of Music: An Intimate Page of Facts, Humor and Comment with the Great Music Makers of To-day and Yesterday
When Rubinstein was Too Nervous to Play
Weak Fingers
Adeste Fideles
From a Master's Workshop: Little Lessons in Musicianship, Part 2
Charles Kingsley on Music
Thin Ice
Passing of Pedagogical Punishment
Origin of the Motif
Modern Versus Antiquated Methods of Piano Technic
Musical Scrap Book
Queen of Night
Making Your Thumb Behave
One Musical Minute with Pope
Making Music Legal
Franklin's Notable Musical Invention for Which Both Beethoven and Mozart Composed
Odd Musical Facts for Busy Readers
Beethoven and Capricornus
Unfair Competition
Is the Piano Hurting Welsh Choral Music?
Music of the Moslem Maid
When You Do It, Mean It
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Volume 38, Number 01 (January 1920)
James Francis Cooke
Indispensables in Pianistic Success (interview with Josef Hofmann)
Irregular Rhythms
Records That Help the Music Teacher
Qu-est-ce Que Vous Voulez?
Don't Be Too Awfully Dignified
Three Rs of Sight Reading
Musical Embellishments
Taking Stock
Conquer Your Bête Noire
Inter-relationship of the Ear and the Eye
Some Practical Hints on Pedaling
Dressing the Part
Lines and Spaces
Musical Pot-Boilers: Facts about the Mental Tasks Which Great Masters Have Been Forced to Undertake to Earn a Bare Existence
Difficulty in Piano Music
After the Novelty Has Gone
Clairvoyance, Spiritism and Occultism in Music
Sensations in the Spotlight
Blazing New Trails
Will Richard Wagner's Battle Never End?
Gymnasium of the Soul: A Musical Education is Essential for All
Two Songs of Great Wars: A Contrast
Making of Melodies and Tunes
Few Thoughts on Technic
Rossini and the Asparagus
How Much Purpose?
Over-Ambitious Efforts
What's in a Name: Composers—Performers—Take Note
New Dance for Everybody
Some Important Things to Know About the Care of the Piano
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Volume 38, Number 02 (February 1920)
James Francis Cooke
Notable Group of American Musical Educators
Etudes of Chopin and How They Ought to be Practiced
Multiple Rhythm
Indispensables in Pianistic Success
Some Errors and How I Corrected Them
What is Shape in Music
All Sorts and Conditions of Pupils
Is Playing by Ear Harmful? Play What You See, See What You Play; Play What you Hear, Hear What You Play; See What You Hear, Hear What You See
Key Relationship and Key Signatures
Hearing Wrong Fingering
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
High-Grade Concerts in a Small Town
Gather Memories! The True Story of a Musician Who Did Not
How to Start a Community Chorus in a Country Village
Relaxation and Subsequent Action
Making the Mind Concentrate
Music After the War: A Critical Estimate of What Kind of Music We May Now Expect After the Greatest Upheaval in History
How a Great Pedagog Taught a Famous Daughter
Note Reading and Keyboard Drill
Have the Scale Degrees Different Effects?
Definitions for Pianists
Don't Manufacture Difficulties
His Satanic Majesty in Opera
Musical Dictionary
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Volume 38, Number 03 (March 1920)
James Francis Cooke
Musical Aftermath of the Great War (interview with Walter Damrosch)
Catchy Fourth
Getting Ahead in Music
Method versus Methods: A Practical Talk to Teachers from a Renowned European Pedagog
Murdering Your New Piece
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Secret of a Good Musical Memory: Successive Steps in Acquiring the Art of Remembering Music
Piano Teacher's Best Advancement
Home-Made Metronome
Classic Piano Playing from Beethoven to the Modern
Hints for Your Repertoire
Ill-Founded Conclusion Concerning the Great Mozart
Every Music Student Should Learn How to Accompany
Right Kind of Musical History
Do You Want a Flexible Wrist?
What Instrument Shall I Choose? Practical Advice to Parents, Students and Music Lovers
Friendly Rivals
Examination by Father Bach
Healthy Rivalry in Music Study
To Grieg's Butterfly: An Impression After Hearing the Composition Played by a Noted Pianist
Dr. Smith N. Penfield
Why He Didn't Get the Pupil
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Volume 38, Number 04 (April 1920)
James Francis Cooke
Music for the Man of To-day (interview with Rupert Hughes)
Don't Be Discouraged
Need for Wrist Freedom
Psychic Influence in Modern Music
Slow Practice the First Step on the Road to Virtuosity
Romance of a Famous Song: Judge Galloway's The Gypsy Trail
Recipes for Profitable Practice
Piano Playing of To-day
Temperament, Technic and Tact in Accompanying
Some Important Facts About Studying Real Composition
Introducing Yourself to the Pupil
Scales in Four Octaves
Getting the Most from Technical Exercises
Hateful Half Hour' Practice and Some Ways of Overcoming It
How Some Composers Compose
Attention as a Factor in Piano Study
Why Can't I Play, After I Have Studied for Years?
Improved Method to Facilitate Sight Reading
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Sense of Touch in Piano Playing
Avoid Playing Upon an Imperfect Piano
Word of Encouragement
Ring Laden Fingers
Pedal Trill
Selecting a Phonograph
Fifty-Nine Muscles
Knowledge as a Factor in the Enjoyment of Music
Some Cold Facts about Musical Education
Can My Musical Memory Be Bettered
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Volume 38, Number 05 (May 1920)
James Francis Cooke
New Tendencies in Pianistic Art (interview with Benno Moiseiwitsch)
Note on Interpretation
How to Write Characteristic Music
Some Big Thoughts from a Great Writer
Slow Scales
Don't be Fooled by Fake Memory Systems
Technic versus Interpretation in Piano Study
Those Tiresome Five-Finger Exercises!
Teaching in the Language of Do
What Do You Mean by Musical Expression?
Well-tuned Piano
Start the Fashion of Punctuality
How the Great Masters Practiced
Interest at the Very Beginning
Dictating Music
Mystery of Genius
New Pianistic Beauties by New Pedal Effects
Tone-Deaf Pupils
Will Ragtime Turn to Symphonic Poems (interview with Major Rupert Hughes)
Some Interesting Facts About Famous Women Musicians
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Modern Piano Pedagogy
Auto-Suggestion
About Pedals
Your Mental Musical Temperature
Raise the Standard
Folk Songs for Children
He Plays with His Thumbs
Examine Your Teaching Repertory
Coöperative Studios
Hearing Wrong Fingering
Musician Transplanted
Effect of Prohibition
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Volume 38, Number 06 (June 1920)
James Francis Cooke
What Must I Go Through to Become a Prima Donna? (interview with Geraldine Farrar)
More Income for Music Teachers: How and Why One Teacher Made Good at an Increased Price
Count the Cost
Musical Genius Everywhere
Child's First Piano Lesson
How to Get Your First Pupils
Compelling Force in Musical Success (interview with Alberto Jonás)
What Shall I Teach?
Most Simple Way of Teaching Lines and Spaces
Scale Maxims
Hint on Memorizing
New Pianistic Beauties Through New Pedal Effects
Did You Say You Couldn't Memorize Music? Read This!
Taking American Music Seriously
Temperature and Practice
Let the Light Fall Right
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Last Days of Great Composers: Romantic Moments Rarely Told for Music Lovers
Nature's Springtime Symphonies and Soloists
Types of Pianists
Fighting Nervousness
Some Interesting Things About Melodic Form
How I Started a Piano Class in a Small Town
Thoughts for Ambitious Students
Operatic Twins
Development of Finger Independence
Some Astonishing Effects of Music Upon the Body
Balance and Musicianship
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Volume 38, Number 07 (July 1920)
James Francis Cooke
Know How in the Art of Singing (interview with Mary Garden)
Summer Activities of the Music Teacher
Music and Mechanics
Why Use the Letter C in 4/4 Time?
What Every Piano Student Should Know About Pedaling
Technic or No Technic? Which?
Best Remedy I Have Ever Found for Nervousness in Public Performance
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Good Beginning
Memories of Rubinstein and Liszt
Why Go to Pieces?
Make Your Left Hand Intelligent
Musical Patriotism
Strengthening the Weaker Digits
Where Does Father Come In?
Helpful Hints on Arpeggio Fingering
Illustration and Story in Piano Teaching
That Loud Pedal Again!
Bad Debts How the Music Teacher May Collect Them
Best Way to Play Phrases
Looking at the Keys
Boys' Week in a Music School
Leschetizky's Wonderful Memory
Rubinstein's Blunders
How Czerny Taught
Bargain Music Lessons
Does Home Sickness Produce Musical Art Works?
Quaint and Curious Musical Facts
Czerny's Cats
Making Musical Muscle
What is Musical Interpretation?
Rossini at the Keyboard
Prophets in Their Own Country
When Wagner Failed
Daring Innovation
Lamperti's Parrots
Life's Music
When Musical Typewriters Come Into Vogue
Ridiculous Waste Motion
Most Wonderful Musical Instrument
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Volume 38, Number 08 (August 1920)
James Francis Cooke
Three Touches Employed in Melody Playing
How to Create New Teaching Business
Direct Method in Music Study
Basis of Success in Music Reading
Fighting Fate to Triumph
Never Too Late
To Parents—Don't Give Up Your Music
To the Pupil Without a Teacher
School and Studio: Studies in the Cirriculum of the Public School Which Compare with Musical Studies
Practical Aspects of Modern Pianoforte Study (interview with M. Alfred Cortot)
Accenting Compound Measures
By-Product of Counting Aloud
Passing Notes
How Much Do You Practice?
More Advanced Technical Exercises and the Relation of Technical Exercises to Studies
Starting Them In
First Steps in Memorizing
How to Concentrate in Music Study
Practical Suggestions in Teaching Beginners the Pianoforte
Saving Hours at the Keyboard
How Many Pieces Should a Pupil Learn During the Year?
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Novel Scale Schemes
Americanization, Women's Clubs and Music
Making Your Playing Articulate
Sliding the Thumb
Color and Music
Interesting Experiment for the Teaching of Touch by Weight
Meaning of Salon Music
Build Them Up
Overheard in a Music Store
When Technic Reached Its Boundaries
Who is the Composer?
Musical Moving Pictures
Epoch-Making Works
Remarkable Helpmeet
Wasting Precious Time
Early Début
Keynotes from the Past
Conventions
Have You Paid the Price?
Living History
Program Hint
Just Think
How Advertising May Become 200% Investment for the Music Teacher
Ear-Guided Fingers
Correct Enunciation
Make Your Program Attractive
Hitting the Right Notes
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Volume 38, Number 09 (September 1920)
James Francis Cooke
How to Hold Your Audience
Injured Right Hand a Blessing
Playing in the Right Octave
How to Make Your Practice Time Less Tedious
Music Composition as a Field for Women (interview with Carrie Jacobs-Bond)
Why Underpay the Music Teacher?
Early Fall Recital
Does Your Pupil Know What Music to Bring to the First Fall Lesson?
Painless Musical Bookkeeping
Opening Gun of the Teaching Season: What a Teacher Must Do to Insure a Prompt Start and a Full Class
Gradual Hand Stretching Exercise
All About Variations
Some Hints on Modern Fingering
Ultra-Modern Music Explained: Unusual Futurist Harmony and Form Discussed
Remembering the Scales
Legato—Staccato
Practical Fingering and How to Study It
Charm of Proportion in Music
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Late in Life Beginner
Established Practice Hour
Order and Efficiency
Pianist's Triplet
Hearing Yourself
That Precautionary Accidental
Musical Notation, New and Old
Beethoven's Terrible Sincerity
Thoroughness and Enthusiasm
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Volume 38, Number 10 (October 1920)
James Francis Cooke
Musical Soul of the American Indian
Keyboard Masters of Other Years
Does Your Piano Need a Scavenger?
Light Touch
American Indian's Music Idealized
Great Possibilities of American Music Clubs
Places That Don't Sound Right and What to Do With Them
Shall I Take Up Music as a Profession?
Be Generous with Praise
Impressions of Indian Music as Heard in the Woods, Prairies, Mountains and Wigwams
Passing of Carlos Troyer, Musician and Explorer: Famous Friend of the Indians and the Notable Work He Accomplished
Interesting Facts About the Indians
Indian Musicians in the Modern World
Lieurance Program
Collectors of Native American Indian Melodies
Saving Indian Music and Legend from Annihilation
Concerning Contests
American Indian Music: Selected by Leading Publishers Especially for School, Club and Concert Use
How Many Parts are There?
Speed in Practice
Recent Developments in the Study of Indian Music
Possible Remedy for Some Musicians' Nervous Troubles
Giving the Left Hand a Chance
Problem of Music in the College
Fixing a Piece
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Volume 38, Number 11 (November 1920)
James Francis Cooke
From Liszt to Leschetizky: Forty Years with Great Pianists
Unmusical Fugue
Chart for Remembering Key Signatures
Music and the Home
Practical Exercises in Modern Phrasing
Tonal Perception
Don't Be Fooled by Applause
How Can I Study the Art of Instrumentation?
Preparedness: The Secret of Speed
Getting Results in Pianoforte Study: Some Modern Ways of Reaching the Goal Through New Artistic Means
Musical Misnomers
Lessons We Dread
Early Hours for Practice
Passing on the Credit
Some Tricky Musical Signs, Ties, Slurs and Accidentals
Planning Practice to Get Best Results
Why are Sharps Harder than Flats
Effective Finger Exercises
Fingers versus Brains
Melody—Its Characteristic Features and Construction
Keeping Your Mind on One Thing
Power of Penciled Notes in the Right Place
With Closed Eyes
Grieg's Norwegian Bridal Procession, A Master Lesson
Music in Aboriginal Africa
Three Devices for Interesting Boys in Music
Little Antipathies Among Musicians
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Volume 38, Number 12 (December 1920)
James Francis Cooke
Self Study in the Art of Singing (interview with Mme. Amelita Galli-Gurci)
Harsh Chords in the Bass and What To Do With Them
Rubinstein, Master of Tone
Environment and the Child's Musical Life
Ten-Toned Scales
Harmonious Blacksmith
Revolutionary Etude: A Christmas Story of Music and the Great Unrest
Getting Results in Pianoforte Study
Doing too Much for Students
Like Flying to a Bird
Schubert and Schubart
Bringing Out the Master's Meaning
Some Interesting Things to Know About Playing Scales, Chords and Arpeggios
Marking Accidentals
Apple-pie-ano
Christmas Festival of Peace, Music and Good Cheer
Practical Exercises in Weight Playing
How to Pedal Fundamental Basses
Justice for the Piano
Mandatory Technic
Words of Wisdom from Schumann
Rubinstein's Teaching Aphorisms
Home-Life of the Schumanns
Why Live Your Pupil's Musical Life for Him
Delicacy of Touch—True and False
How Our Music is Invading the Orient
Have You Tried These Strain Minimizers?
Every Detail Counts
Mozart's Happiness
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Volume 37, Number 01 (January 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Imitation in Teaching Music
Scales Two Octaves Apart
What Kind of Accompanist Are You?
Learning How to Compose
Two Pianos vs. One
Don't Discourage Your Pupils
Look Out for the Second Finger
America's Greatest Musical Opportunity
Put Sixty Minutes Into Your Hour
Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-Operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers
Eye Strain and Mind-Wandering
Broken Chords Disguised by Changing Notes
What Octave Studies Should Follow Those of Czerny?
Are You a Victim of Stage Fright?
Deciphering the Secrets of the Printed Page
That Same Mistake
Easiest Way to Find the Name of a Key
Does Poverty Help Musical Genius?
Unaccompanied Melody in Pianoforte Music
Conducting a Small Conservatory
Pros and Cons of the Small Conservatory
What Method Do You Use?
Charles W. Landon—Obituary
Avoid Long Studies
New Definition of a Fugue
Measuring Youth
Learn to Think Music
Magnetism and Charm of the True Artist
Aids to Flexibility of the Hand Tissues
Parents as Music Teachers
Saving in Music Buying
Repertoire of the Piano for One Hand Only
Some Lax Piano Teaching of Other Days
Mastering Things
Keeping Time with the Foot
Keeping the Piano in Tune
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Volume 37, Number 02 (February 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Are You Loyal to Your Art?
How to Play Two Notes Against Three and Other Unusual Rhythmic Combinations
What Helped Me Most in My Career
How to Correct Common Rhythmic Blunders
Weak Spot in Piano Teaching
String Wind Instrument
Technical Roads to Piano Success
Pieces that Advertise the Teacher
He Didn't Have to Learn
Secrets of Success of Great Musicians
Touch in Piano Playing
Leo Ornstein, Composer and Pianist
Overtures, Past and Present
When and How to Begin the Study of Bach
Bach for Beginners
Neglected Bass Note
Telling the Pupil How to Practice
Has the Art of the Piano Reached Its Zenith or Is it Capable of Further Development? A Historic Conference Conducted through the Co-Operation of a Group of the Foremost Pianists of the Day in the Interests of Etude Readers
Study of Piano Concertos
To Stop or Not to Stop
Cultivating Sureness in Playing Intervals
Checks on the Bank of Kindness: A Plea for the Teacher
How Long Should the Wires of a Piano Last
Those Long, Long Lessons!
Wonderful Renaissance of Giuseppe Verdi
Efficiency Test for Wide-Awake Teachers
Rôle of the Cadenzas
Hourly Recital
Plea for General Musicianship to Further the Efficiency of the Teacher
Student's Attitude Toward Exercises
Etude Master Lesson Series: Beethoven's Rondo in C Major