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 37, Number 03 (March 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Anton Dvorák in the Class Room
Who is the Composer?
Marvelous Hand
Question of the Virtuoso Conductor
Music Teachers, Awake!
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
Practical Repertoire
Small Children and Big Words
Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition
What Are You Getting Out of Your Music Lessons?
Your Pupil's First Year in Scale Work
Little Discoverers
Proper Understanding of the Style of Several Master Composers
Why We Labor to Acquire Technic
Larger Income for Music Teachers: Intelligent Means of Meeting Increased Cost of Living
Plea for the Child's Music Instinct
How Musical Was Saint Cecilia?
When to Begin Piano Lessons
Aphorisms and Anecdotes for Ambitious Students
Successful Piano Practice
Bad Temper and Good Teaching
Pupil and the Soldier
Practical, Brain-Building Value of Piano Study
Making Resourceful Fingers
Little Known Gounod Work
Inextinguishable Star
Adapting Method to Pupil
Mechanical Development
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Volume 37, Number 04 (April 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Characteristic Mistakes of Young Piano Pupils
Teaching Children to Play
Inspiration of Ensemble Playing
Where Music Comes From
I Don't Like This Piece
Correct Position at the Key Board
More About Raising the Teacher's Income: Why the Music Teacher is Entitled to Larger Fees for Services
Awakening the Disinterested Pupil
What's in a Bell
True Reward of Good Work
Secrets of Success of Great Musicians
Proper Understanding of the Style of Several Master Composers
How to Practice Broken Chords: Modern Ideas Upon the Principle of the Minimum of Muscular Contraction and the Maximum of Controlled Weight Applied to an Everyday Problem
Putting Life into Compositions
What Every Piano Student Should Know
Famous Conflicts Between Celebrated Musicians
Counting
Hands I Have Met
Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition: How to Use Inversions, and What Part Writing Means
Psychological Bridge Between Light and Music
Lesson from the Lumberjack
Danse Macabre
Pertinent Paragraphs for Pianists
Major and the Minor Scale
Pulling Up the Weeds
Scale Bee
New Rules for Fingering the Major Scales
Word to Speeding Pianists
Important Chord and Its Use
Piano Stool vs. Bench
Good Piano
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Volume 37, Number 05 (May 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Helps in Teaching Note Reading
Launching the Beginner
Practical Examinations at Home
Individualism in Piano Study (interview with Ethel Leginska)
Setting the Standard
Silly? Or No Ear for Music?
Confidence in One's Art
Are You One of These?
Golden Age of Singing
Fall of the Walls of Jericho
Program Making
Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition: The Dominant Seventh
Music in the Wilds
Like Attracts Like
Getting Results in Arpeggio Teaching
Why Some American Artists Don't Get On: From a Manager's Point of View
What Do You Want, Big Names or Real Music?
Memorizing Your Piece
Most Powerful Effect in Music
Gaining the Pupil's Sympathy at the First Lesson
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians—Anton Rubinstein
From an Old Musician's Wallet
Building Up an Octave Technic: How to Play Octaves Smoothly, Rapidly and Tirelessly
Hints on the Study of Octaves, Thirds and Sixths
Pre-Practice Paragraphs
Do Not Condemn Music of Futurists!
Society and Musical Success: How Social Savoir-Faire Helps the Young Music Worker in the Upward Climb
New York State Music Teachers' Association Examinations for Teachers
On Recent Improvements in Piano Teaching
Playing from Memory
Painting Lesson
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Volume 37, Number 06 (June 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Professional Accompanist
Ten Golden Rules for Piano Study
Pianist and Time Values
Imperfection of the Musical Scale
Silent Rhythm
How to Study the Two-Voiced Inventions of Bach
Rock Bottom of Pianistic Progress
Talking and Doing
Muscular Action in Piano Playing
Make Technic Your Servant—Not Your Master
Practical and Helpful Ideas from the National Convention of the Music Teachers' National Association: What Active Teachers are Thinking and Saying
When Nero was Studying Singing
Out—Back at 2.30
Bible Operas
Cultivating Confidence in the Child
Famous Salon Compositions and Their Composers: Pieces Everybody Knows and the Musicians Who Wrote Them
Making the Summer Months Profitable
Eye to Business
Eminent Musicians Who Have Succeeded in Other Pursuits
Musings of a Myopic Musician
Plea from Señor Jonás for Better Music for Children
Small Child's Comfort at the Piano
Secret of the Success of Great Musicians
Music Publishing from Behind the Scenes
Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition
Rarest Thing in Music
Pupil—Student—Scholar
Promotion Recital
One More Help
Little Dispute
Some Things to Consider in Ensemble Playing
Finger Equalization in Piano Study
Getting Off the Track
Entertaining Musical Minutes
Fear Thoughts and Music
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Volume 37, Number 07 (July 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Pathetique of Tschaikowski
Opening Number of Our Recital
How to Choose a Piano
Making the Pupil's Interest Wider
Don't Give Up Music at the Altar: A Symposium by Noted Women in Music
Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition
What Do You Put Into Your Music?
Jamie's First Piano Lesson
Drudgery of Teaching
Ear Imperial: Why Ear Training is of Paramount Importance
Moods of Temperament
Time Directions and Their Meaning
How the Art of Playing the Piano Developed
Enthusiastic Teaching
Prosperity and Business Methods of Great Composers
Some Facts About the Nocturne
Interest Through Opera
Secrets of Success of Great Musicians
How to Become a Good Sight Reader: Simple Processes Whereby the Average Musician May Become Able to Read Correctly and Rapidly
Opera Revivals
Control Your Voice While Teaching
Giovanni Romilli
Manner of Playing
Playing with Closed Eyes
Ensemble Class
Why and How of Pedalling
Instrumentalists' Physique
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Volume 37, Number 08 (August 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Intimate Glimpses of Grieg and Dvorák
Cause of Satisfactory Piano Playing
Beethoven's Tardy Fame
Habit Lessens Fatigue
That Awkward Fourth Finger
Ten Famous Rules Ten Years After: A Thoroughly Democratic Artistic Senate of Men and Women of Experience Epitomize Their Best Thoughts on Piano Practice
New Ideals of Pianistic Art
Mentally Photographing Music
Let There Be Tunes
Luck and Success
Plan of Musical Study for the Busy
Birds as Inspiration for Great Composers
American Opera One Hundred Years Ago
What Jazz Is, and Why
One Great Source of Mastery
Pianist and the Relaxation Fad
Music Teacher's Prescription Box
Origin of Some Masterpieces of Music
Never Too Young to Begin
Youth's Day of Opportnity
Best Relaxation Exercise
Making Pupils Work
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians—Tschaikovsky
Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition: The Minor Key and Other Musical Matters
Stupid Pupil
What is the Best Way to Read a Piece of Music the First Time?
Velocity in Scale Playing
Platform Nervousness—Its Cure
How to Understand Conflicting Accidentals
Piano vs. Instruments of Small Repertoire
Pleasure of Memorizing
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Volume 37, Number 09 (September 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Strong Fingers, Strong Arms, Strong Technic: Physical Culture Exercises Backed with Right Living Help to Build Sound Technical Background
Musical Pharmacopoeia
Pacemaker
Year in the Fundamentals of Musical Composition: The Minor Key and Other Musical Matters
Leaving Out Notes
Be True to Your Own Musical Tastes
Rules and Scales
Favorite Instruments of Great Composers
How to Learn a Short Passage Quickly
Secrets of the Success of Great Musicians
Practical Study of Arpeggios: How the Least Possible Contraction of the Muscles, Combined with the Greatest Possible Control of Weight, Will Produce the Best Results in the Shortest Time
Why Rhythm is So Important
Putting Pep in Piano Pupil's Playing
Have You Mastered the Quiet Hand?
How to Learn to Transpose
Five Health Hints for the Music Student
Pianist Must Feel
Price of Lessons
Discouragement and Its Antidote
de Pachmann's Secret
Louis Adolphe Coerne
Thumb Drill of the Right Kind
Why Children Should Study Music
Proper Use of the Forte Pedal
Music After Business Hours
Sure Cure for Footlight Fear
Side Lights on Memorizing
Freemasonry of Music
Good Manners Before an Audience
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Volume 37, Number 10 (October 1919)
James Francis Cooke
National and Radical Impressions in the Music of To-day and Yesterday (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)
Rudoph E. Schirmer
Interpretation
Few Teaching Hints
Appreciations of Rachmaninoff from Famous Musicians in America
New Thoughts on Memorizing Music
Beethoven—Iconoclast, Democrat, Genius
Joiners in Music
Psychology and the Child
The Art Spiritual: A Fine, Reflective Article Upon the Possibilities of the Tonal Art
Studio Problem (A Dialogue)
Less Nervousness Now
Musical Monkeys and the Piano Touch
Authentic Biography of Rachmaninoff
Let the Parents Know
How to Administer Rewards
Secret of Success of Great Musicians
Don't Sit Too Close
New Method of Piano Practice
Minor Opera Composers
Music of the Japanese
Transposing Five-Finger Exercises
Left-Hand Accuracy
Rachmaninoff's Fragments
Twelve Vital Points to Remember When Practicing
More Income for Music Teachers
Tell the Pupil the Whole Truth
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Volume 37, Number 11 (November 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Echoes of Musical Czecho-Slovakia (interview with Josef Stransky)
Real Tendencies of Czecho-Slovak Music
If at First You Don't Succeed
Playing Without Looking at the Keys
Birth of the Czecho-Slavék Republic through Song
Invitation to Song: A Literal Translation of a Poem by Tablonsky
How the Name Bohemian Came Into False Repute
Bedrich Smetana, Founder of Modern Czecho-Slovak Music
Thumbnail Biography of Antonin Dvorék
Dvorák as I Knew Him
Great Masters as Music Teachers
Do Your Fingers Follow Your Eye?
Marks of Expression
Why Music is the Soul of Czechoslovakia
Neckache
Working Through Opposites
Czecho-Slovak Popular Music
How to Make a Simple Metronome
Teachers Round Table
Pen Pictures of Dvorák
A. Louis Scarmolin
Imitation and Creation
Soulful Fingers
Drudgery of It
Belated Contribution
Musical Terms Frequently Mispronounced
Practicing Efficiently
Orchestral Triangle as an Aid to Rhythm
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Volume 37, Number 12 (December 1919)
James Francis Cooke
Music of the Vatican (interview with Canon Monsignore Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri)
Be Ambitious
Organize in Your Own Town
How to Prepare a Number in a Given Time
What About Your Left Hand?
Accentuation
Borrowed Chords and Fancy Chords
Conquering the Hard Spots
Moving Ahead
Musical Classics for the Millions: A Present-day Revolution in Methods of Musical Dissemination Which is Bound to Have Far-reching Results, Through the Movies and Music (interview with Hugo Riesenfeld)
Habit is Second Nature
No Such Thing as Miracles
Studio Revelations
Fingering
Relative Value of Accent in Pianoforte Playing
I Can't Memorize Music!
Introducing the Pupil to the Pedals
Crippled Piano Lesson
Gloachino Rossini
Thinking a Difficulty Right
Why the Violin Cannot Be Taught by Mail
Disadvantages of Utilizing Old Music
Music Teacher and the Dollar
Experience Book
Ready! Aim! Fire!
Some Remarkable Musical Families
Keeping Compositions in Playable Form
Vanity Cases
Here and There in the Music World
Signor Lusius Nero, Tyrant and Tenor: How Another Kaiser of Another Day Imagined He was a Great Artist: The Megalomania of Caesar Nero Compared with that of Kaiser Wilhelm II
Gounod's Varied Accomplishments
Teachers' Round Table
What's the Use of Scales?
Eraser and the Darning Needle
Music Tide: The Morning of a New Day in American Music
Gauging Your Audience
Musical Comprachicos
Scatter Sunshine in Your Music
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Volume 36, Number 01 (January 1918)
James Francis Cooke
American Folk Music: A Negligible Quantity
Beethoven's Advice to a Piano Teacher
New Year Advice from Famous Pianists: Study Epigrams of the Foremost Present Day Virtuosos Selected for this Issue
Too Much Preparation
Well Tempered
Every Teacher's New Year Resolution
Work Out Your Own Salvation
Legato Playing with Pedal and Without
Case Against Don’ts
Beauties in the Music of the American Indian (interview with Thurlow Lieurance)
Little Thinking Machines
Where the Left Hand Ends and the Right Hand Begins
What is Elasticity in Piano Playing?
Greatest Shortcomings of the Average Student
Is Slow Practice Overdone?
Helpful Routine in Sight Reading
Learning to Listen
Classic Mistakes
How Clara Schumann Studied: With a Note on the Romance of Clara and Robert Schumann
Artistic Reasons for Use of the High Finger Stroke
Vitalize Your Piano Playing
Vocal Study in Sunny Italy (interview with Pasquale Amato)
Special Pianoforte Touches and Their Application
Inexpensive Cure
How Polyphonic Playing Helps
Ideal for Piano Practice
Should Youth Restrict the Teachers?
High Lights in the Life of Liszt: Intimate Word-Pictures of the Work of the Master Pianist
Some Neglected Classics Which Deserve Attention
Music and the Movies
Avoid the Pitfalls
Plays 5,595 Notes Within Four Minutes
Alphabetical List of Practice Hints
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Volume 36, Number 02 (February 1918)
James Francis Cooke
Have You a Self Starter?
Rates of Tempo in the Past and Present
Can Ugly Music be Beautiful?
Get Rid of Fear
Two-Fold Vitality of Anglo-Saxon Music
Developing the Tactile Sense
Success with the Adult Beginner at the Piano
Do Not Attempt the Impossible
Hands, Hands, Hands: Some Interesting Facts for Teachers and Pupils About the Pianist's Tools
Accent Scales Right
Making Pupils Musicians
What Should a Teacher Know?
Irregular Groups that Baffle Pianists: How to Play Combined Accents, Times and Rhythms in Pianoforte Composition
Case of Richard Wagner vs. Democracy: Should the Operas of Richard Wagner be Debarred in America Now?
Hints for the Progressive Teacher
Forcing a Child to be Musical
Musical Futurists of the Past
Two Familiar Mistakes
Adding Charm to a Child's Piano Study
Practical Thoughts on Modern Pianoforte Study
Phenomenon of Blind Tom: The Most Remarkable Instance of the Operation of the Sub-consicious Mind in Music
Stroke Position
Distribution of Notes Between the Hands
Maxims from Masters
From Mechanical Foundation to Artistic Triumph
Musical Expression
Beethoven and Count Rasoumowsky
Constant Finger Activity
Success in Teaching Sight Playing
From Flats to Sharps
Will There Always be Pianists?
The Play's the Thing?
Russian Invasion
To Preserve Your Voice, Keep Your Temper
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Volume 36, Number 03 (March 1918)
James Francis Cooke
Use and Abuse of Five Finger Exercise
Tact in Teaching Technic
Counting Aloud
Let Your Ears Save Your Eyes
Public Performance of Etude Music
Are You Getting into a Rut: An Important Symposium
How Do Composers Compose?
Centenary of the Great Educational Classic for the Piano
How to Use the Etude's Educational Supplement
Bach in Burlesque
Little Lights and Shadows of Music Teaching
Music, the Painter of Pictures in Moods: A Highly Entertaining and Instructive Discussion of the Subject
Rare Effect in Advanced Pianoforte Playing
Scale Study Without Monotony
Some Interesting Things About the Gavotte
Fighting Musical Obstacles in the South
Teaching a March as a Patrol
Artists to be Admitted to Presser Home in Germantown
Striving to Please
High Lights in the Life of Dvorák: Interesting Little Known Facts About the Great Bohemian Master
Pedal and its Mysteries
Speeding up Your Octaves
How the Musician Should Provide for Old Age
Who Wrote the Patriotic Songs?
Will the Price of Music Lessons Advance?
Investigate New Music
Gist of the Subject of Touch
Enrico Bossi
Gems of Advice from Deppe
Fight in Defense of Music
Muscle Stretching Exercises that Save Time
Encouragement to Small Musical Communities
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Volume 36, Number 04 (April 1918)
James Francis Cooke
Their Ancestry
How Long is the Life of a Piano?
Price of Success
How to Locate the Keys by Touch
Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Bach, Haydn and Mozart
Time and Rhythm
Fun in Music
Are You Musically Educated?
Questionnaire for the Average Music Teacher of the Average Child
All About Accent
Different Types of Song Accompaniment
Emotional Effect Through Rhythm and Phrasing
Open Door to Opera
Value of Finger Staccato
Musicians Short Folk
Why Some Music Lessons are Dull
What to Do When You Cannot Secure A Good Teacher: Self Help Hints for Active Music Lovers
Four Indispensable Steps in the First Piano Lessons—Keys, Notes, Hand Position, Rhythm
Little Time Troubles Untangled: Practical Helps in Every-day Problems Encountered by Both Students and Teachers
What Makes a Good Melody?
Little Diversions of Amateur Musicians
How to Make Ear-training Attractive to the Young Student
Some Intimate Thoughts on Piano Study (interview with Arthur Friedheim)
Is Slow Development Best
Obscure Teachers of Famous Pupils
Stop, Look, Listen
Don't Neglect Salon Music
Famous Brothers Among the Masters
Keeping the Hands in Good Playing Condition
How to Get Real Results from a Czerny Study
Keep Your Aspirations High With the Joy of the Arts
Don't be in a Hurry
Ward Stephens (with portrait)
Self-Inspection at the Keyboard
Correct and Erroneous Ideas of Phrasing
Tolstoi on the Touch of Genius
Loss and Gain in Changing Teachers
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Volume 36, Number 05 (May 1918)
James Francis Cooke
Benjamin Franklin's Musical Side
Letter from General Hugh L. Scott
Slavery to the Keyboard
Piano's Future Assured
Practice the Bass
Music Now More Than Ever: Eminent Men and Women in Many Walks of Life Earnestly Urge Music as a Present National Need
Interesting Way to Teach Phrasing
Music Teachers' Desk
Love Letter from Mozart to his Wife
Get in Touch with the Other Professions
Personality and Interpretation
César Franck After Twenty-five Years
Haydn's Souvenirs of London
High Wrist and Low Wrist
Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn
Home Without Music
Find Joy in Your Music Lessons
Important Steps in the Growth of the Piano
Talk About the Turn
Some Interesting Things About Applause at Concerts and at the Opera
Don't Neglect the Average Child in Music (interview with W.H. Neidlinger)
How to Distinguish the True Teacher from the Quack
Do You Make Music a Puzzle?
National Need for Music in Wartime: A Public Meeting Which Should Find Its Prototype in All Parts of Our Country
Meaning and Value of True Legato
Few Helpful Hints to Young Teachers
For Those Who Have Made a Bad Start
Arpeggios Written in Small Notes
What is the Commonest Error on the Piano?
Master-Lesson on Chopin's Nocturne in B Minor
Right and Wrong of Writing Music
How the Chinese Sing When They Talk
Wagner's Real Musical Ancestor
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Volume 36, Number 06 (June 1918)
James Francis Cooke
Spirit of the Masters: Preparing for the Study of Schumann and Liszt
Absolute Time: A Study of the Heart Beat in Relation to Rhythm
How Fast and How Slow
Make Your Summer Count
Art of Simplifying
How to Become a Good Teacher
Why Bach?
Coining New Words
Let's Have More Music Than Ever: The United States Government Recognizes a Great Need
Music as a War Need
Toy Drum and a Tin Whistle
Music in Wartime
Ragging Good Music
That Weak Measure
Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Russian Composers
Artistic and Educational Importance of the Polyphonic Music of Bach and Palestrina
Relaxing the Muscles in Piano Playing
Passing of Debussy
Beware of Small Loses
Inspiration of a Goal
Have You Learned
Practical Helps in Organizing a Summer Holiday Music-Study Class: How Hundreds of Teachers May Bring the Inspiration of Fine Music to Their Communities and Turn Their Vacations into Liberty Bonds
High Lights in the Life of Johan Sebastian Bach
Some Points on How Rubinstein Taught
Charm of Bach's Preludes
When Are Octaves Not Octaves?
Do You Sit Properly?
Master Lesson on Tchaikovsky's Song Only a Yearning Heart
Fingerings That Insure Better Results With Less Practice
How the Young Music Teacher May Realize Success
Piano and the Child
Famous Piano Duettists
Spare the Pedal
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Volume 36, Number 07 (July 1918)
James Francis Cooke
When Composers Compose
Where Not to Use the Pedal
Spirit of the Masters—Preparation for the Study of Chopin, Debussy and Modern Composers
How to Get Your Music Published
Let's Have More Charity in Criticism
Important Uses for Music
Mistakes Cannot Be Corrected in Public
Foundation Steps in Practicing Scales
What Eurythmics Means
Vacation Rest for Music Teachers
Fighting to Get a Start
Choice of Material for Developing Interpretation: An Article of Particular Summer Self-Study Value to Teachers and Advanced Students
Learning How to Teach the Pianoforte
Why Do They Do It?
Etude Master Study Page: Composers of Music of Wide Human Appeal
Musical Reputation that Pays: How to Become Known to the Public in the Right Way
Constructive Pedal Technic
Making a Town Musical
Slow Practice—Constructive and Otherwise
Humanity's Musical Emblem
Town Saved by Music
Teaching Trinity
Conquering Difficulties Beforehand
Occupational and Ceremonial Songs Among the Indians
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Volume 36, Number 08 (August 1918)
James Francis Cooke
Possibilities of Negro Music
Definite Progress
How Beethoven Worked
Gounod's Romantic Philanthropy
Reflection of Neatness
Sense Touch
What Gives Brilliancy to Pianoforte Playing?
Is Standardization in Piano Technic Really Worth While?
How Much Value Do You Receive From Your Practicing?
Music Teacher Worth While
Are We Cutting Off Our Musical Noses?
What Shall We Do with German Music?
Riches No Enemy Can Take Away
Music Rally in Philadelphia
Democracy of Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Debt of All Musicians to the First Great Master to Uphold the Dignity of His Profession in the Presence of Arrogance of the Aristocracy
How to Enjoy Your Reed Organ
How Shall We Meet Our New Fall Pupils?
Mental Grasp and Silent Practice
Breaking of Ties
Present of Lute Strings
Don't Hurt the Pupil's Eyesight
Making Practicing An Art
Love and Enthusiasm Method
Timely Thoughts from Berlioz
Co-ordination in Piano Playing
Spinning Wheel in Music
Light as a Feather and as Heavy as Lead
Impossible Music Dictionary: A Midsummer Madness for Performers Upon All Manner of Instruments from the Siberian Bazoo to the Genuine Klondlike Organ with the Human Voice
Music Publishers Who Have Been Practical Musicians
Allowing the Pupil to Choose a Piece
Let the Teacher Select a Piece
Helpful Hand Hints
Benefits Derived from Summer Music Study
Marvels of Human Hearing
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Volume 36, Number 09 (September 1918)
James Francis Cooke
Music in Industry
Music, Just for the Fun of It
Musical Contagion
Greatest Musical Asset
Development of Rhythmic Sense in the Music Student
Circumstance and the Artist
Keyboard Maxims of Master Pianists of Today and Yesterday
Why and How to Read at Sight
Two Lessons a Week Versus One
When the Professor Got Back from His Vacation
Thoroughness in Little Things
Some Practical Psychology for Piano Teachers
Scale Honor Roll
Is the Sonata Form Exhausted?
Ties and No Ties
Pupils Whose Parents are Interested
Knack in Securing Agility and Velocity
Don't Neglect the Short Piece
Music's Debt to Gifted Amateurs
Do You Really Know Beethoven's Sonatas?
Robbed Time
Many Interesting Facts About the Tarantella: Historic Dance Which Has Inspired Many Composers
Wagner Trial Again
Business-Like Fall Beginning
Is German Music at a Standstill?
Helps in Training the Thumb
Pointed Paragraphs on Practice
How Do We Memorize?
Five Ways of Securing Voluntary Practice
Inventory of Your Teaching Assets
Dividends form Education
Human Side of Johann Sebastian Bach
Putting the Like into Learn
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Volume 36, Number 10 (October 1918)
James Francis Cooke
Spain the Eldorado of Music
Thomas à Becket
Beethoven and Hero Worship
Music Interest of the American Man of To-Morrow
Help in Interpretation
How Can I Make My Practice More Intelligent?
Musical Thermometer
Imperial Opera
Rhythmless Pupils
Stems, Tails and Hooks: A Lesson in Exact Notation
Cultivating a Perfect Staccato Touch
Value of Visiting Lessons
High Lights in the Life of Grieg: Interesting Phases in the Career of the Great Norwegian Master
Thumb and Its Agility
Accompanied Trill
How to Read at Sight and Memorize at the Same Time
Finishing Steps
Second Nature in Music
Interesting Suggestion for Advanced Pupils
Art of Playing Accompaniments
What is a Good Piano-Hand?
Saving a Precious Half Hour
Women in Music
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Volume 36, Number 11 (November 1918)
James Francis Cooke
Programs of Works by Women Composers from Contemporary American Publishers
Famous Musical Women of the Past
From the Bottom Up
What the Life of an Artist Means
Musical Celebrities Sell Liberty Bonds (picture)
To the Girl Who Wants to Compose
Music as a Vocation for Women
Mother's Part in the Child's Musical Training
Two Types of Violin Playing
List of Well-Known Women Composers
Story of America's Largest Musical Organization: The National Federation of Musical Clubs
Small Hands and Their Extraordinary Possibilities
Technic of Study
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Volume 36, Number 12 (December 1918)
James Francis Cooke
How Washington Irving Revelled in the Music of Christmas
Be a Live Wire
Are You a Good Salesman?
How to Keep Fit for a Successful Public Appearance
Never Louder Than Lovely
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
Know Your Piano
Mental Rehearsal
What is Temperament?
Price: Can You Pay It?
Humorous Musical Interruptions
Music That is Too Difficult
Mysterious Middle Pedal: A Most Interesting and Helpful Article Upon the Sustaining Pedal and Its Various Uses
Proper Playing of Broken Harmony
Practical Aids in Sight Reading
Unnecessary Eye Strain
High Lights in the Life of Schubert: Word Pictures of the Great Genius of Song
Does Music Age?
Legato Octaves, Thirds and Sixths
Charles Dickens, the Humorist of Music: Laughable Musical Descriptions by the Great Author
Build a Foundation for Your Dream Castle
What Do You Pay for Your Lessons?
Proverb of the Successful Teacher
Wrong Notes and How They Come to Be
Importance of Regular Practice
Stupidest Student
Is Genius Essential to Keyboard Mastery?
Making Broken Chords Whole Again
One Wrong Note is Waste
Sleeping Memory
Some Secrets in Time Saving
Self-Help
How Chopin Played His Famous Etude in A Flat, Op. 25, No. 1
Two Useful Exercises
Tonograms
Why Men Should Study Music
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Volume 35, Number 01 (January 1917)
James Francis Cooke
Self-Expression at the Keyboard
Difficult Pronunciations
Limitations of Touch on the Piano
Gospel of Clean Keys
Musical and Cultural Education of the Modern Pianist
Maxims for Parents of Musical Children
Berlioz's First Meeting with Mendelssohn—And Its Sequel
Fountain of Inspiration for Masters
Mozart's Appearance and Personality
Have You These Five Qualities of the Progressive Teacher?
Causes of Some American Opera Failures
John Philip Sousa Inspects the Home for Retired Music Teachers
How Brahms and Liszt Welcomed Their Friends
Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life
Hints for the Singer's Daily Practice (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)
Neat Method of Binding Sheet Music
Rubinstein and the Modernists
Persistent Purfesser
Liszt's Tribute to Hungarian Gypsy Art
Music Study and School Work
Need of Musicianship Among Pianists
Successful Teachers and Successful Teaching
Help in Little Rhythmical Problems
Frederick Woodman Root
Accompanists Who Pound
Facts About Russian Masters
Hands Together
Time Saving Devices at the Beginning of the Year
Fay Foster
Is My Pedaling Correct?
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Volume 35, Number 02 (February 1917)
James Francis Cooke
Success in Chorus Conducting: Hints, Aids and Advice to Leaders by the Foremost English Choral Conductors
Melody Hunting
Keep a Lesson Book
Surmounting Stubborn Passages: An Analysis of Technical Difficulties
Twelve Factors in Successful Teaching
When Interest Lags
Rest as Climax
Personality at the Lesson
Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Italian Masters
Curiosities of Music
Modern Italian Operatic Composers
How Psychology Can Help the Musician
Chopiniana
Haydn's Boyhood Pride
High Lights in the Lives of Great Master: Haydn
Keeping Up the Interest in Scale Playing
Delicate Hand
Parting of Haydn and Mozart
Most Difficult Musical Composition
Advantages of a Practice Book
Making the Prelude and the Postlude Interesting
Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life
William Wallace Gilchrist
Modesty of Brahms
More about Community Music
Practical Hints on Elementary Transposing
Practical Advertisement
Exciting Career of Tartini
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Volume 35, Number 03 (March 1917)
James Francis Cooke
Vital Phases of Piano Technic
Justice for the Teacher
What the Musician Must Do To Conserve Good Health
Efficient Practice
Too Much Theory
Difficult Pronunciations
Spirit and Technic of the Pianoforte Pedals
Tolstoi Throws a Bomb into Art and Music: The Arch-Iconoclast of Russia Severly Criticises Some Modern Musical and Artistic Conventions
Some Facts About Russian Church Music
Learning the Key Signatures
Some Obstacles in the Way of Standardization
Early French, Italian and German Composers of Interest to Present-day Pianists
Etude Master Study Page: A Group of Modern Masters
Composer, A Powerful and Fascinating Romance of Modern Musical Life
Ranz des Vaches
Practice the Hands Separately
Spirit of the Polonaise
Facts for Busy Music Workers
Story of the Irish National Tune
Training Pupils to Hear Themselves Play