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 73, Number 10 (October 1955)
Guy McCoy
Folk Music in Civilization
In Memorium - Mrs. Eduard MacDowell (1857-1956)
Wallingford Riegger—Composer and Pedagog
Loring Club
Bach of High Fidelity (interview with Robert D. Darrell)
Glenn Gould, A Début and a Personality
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Volume 73, Number 11 (November 1955)
Guy McCoy
Vienna State Opera Re-opens
More Than Teaching (interview with Lotte Lehmann)
Musical Tour Through Europe Boris Goldovsky's New
Deal in Opera Trends in Piano Playing (interview with Benno Moiseiwitsch)
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Volume 73, Number 12 (December 1955)
Guy McCoy
I Heard the Bells
Christmas Concerts at Grand Central
It Shouldn't be a Battle (interview with Otto Harbach)
Soviet Russia's Top Pianist Makes Sensational Début in America
To Cosima—With Love
Great Church Rebuilds Its Organ
Orchestra in the Daily Life of Your School
Music Postage Bill Passes Senate
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Volume 72, Number 01 (January 1954)
Guy McCoy
Albert Schweitzer, The Man and Musician Music and the Rose Parade
New Year of Musical Opportunities (an editorial)
Meet Miss Hebden—Canadian Ambassadress for Music
Making of a Conductor (interview with Dimitri Mitropoulos)
Advice from the Golden Age (interview with Giovanni Martinelli)
Pianist Finds Himself (interview with Seymour Lipkin)
Old Opera with New Ways
Choir with a Vision
New Life for Old Music
Master Lesson on Schubert's Moment Musical in A-Flat, Op. 94, No. 6
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Volume 72, Number 02 (February 1954)
Guy McCoy
Approach to Beethoven (interview with Claudio Arrau)
Music's Royal Heritage: From Early Times to the Present Royalty has Bestowed Many Favors and Much Assistance to Music and Musicians
Personal Reminiscences of Jacques Thibaud
Pre-Kindergarten School
Chopin's Influence on Modern Music
Preparing for an Operatic Career (interview with Camilla Williams)
Playing the Church Service
Music Comes to the Little Red School House: A Unique Arrangement Which Has Proved Its Worth in Bringing Music to Children Who Otherwise Would be Deprived of It
William Kapell—An Informal Sketch By His Teacher
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Volume 72, Number 03 (March 1954)
Guy McCoy
Have Fun Improvising! (interview with Alec Templeton)
Those Mitchell Choirboys
Use of the Flutes in the Works of J.S. Bach
Trossingen—The Little Town That Lives By Music
Piano Recitals of Tomorrow
Prepare Now for Summer Music Study (an editorial)
Slezaks—Father and Son Chopin's Influence on
Modern Music (Part 2)
J.S. Bach: Two-Part Invention in C Minor—Bach, A Master Lesson
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Volume 72, Number 04 (April 1954)
Guy McCoy
Rachmaninoff As I Knew Him
What I Learned Singing in Competitions (interview with Carol Smith)
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (an editorial)
Down Upon the Suwannee
Sir Thomas Beecham—Musical Philanthropist
Do You Know How Your Piano is Tuned and Why?
What Price Vocal Longevity
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Volume 72, Number 05 (May 1954)
Guy McCoy
Concerning Interpretation (interview with Paul Badura-Skoda)
Key to Grieg's World: Bergen's First International Festival
Protecting the World's Most Valuable Musical Instrument (an editorial)
And Sweetly Trilled the Fipple Flute
Mr. Opera Takes a Curtain
Small Start (interview with Claramae Turner) Those Four-Year Olds Who Bang the Baldwin
Too Old? Don't You Believe It!
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Volume 72, Number 06 (June 1954)
Guy McCoy
Problems of the Concertmaster
Tarheel Orchestra Takes to the Road
Destiny and Genius
Boys' Choir of Morelia
Haydn: The Man Who Overcame Success
General Who Set Victory to Music
Music Eases the Work Load
So Your Child Has Musical Talent?
Music at Ocean Grove (interview with Walter D. Eddowes)
Summer Instrumental Music Program
Bayreuth—Today and Yesterday
A.G.O. Convenes What To Do About the Left-Handed Violin Beginner
Master Lesson on Bach's Fugue in C-Sharp Minor
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Volume 72, Number 07 (July 1954)
Guy McCoy
Ideas for the Piano (interview with Hilde Somer)
Neighborhood Music Settlement
Opera in Canada
Credit of the Music Teacher (an editorial)
Role of Music in Israel (interview with Jacques Singer)
Is the Falsetto False?
Musical Ghosts Linger Not Here!
Pointers for the Church Organist (interview with Joseph W. Clokey)
Let Them Make Songs of Their Own
They Sing for Pleasure
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Volume 72, Number 08 (August 1954)
Guy McCoy
Harpsichord To-Day (interview with Ralph Kirkpatrick)
How Important is Music?
Beethoven and Bubble Gum
Bells from Across the Seas
Rural Music: It's Not All Hillbilly
Magic of Leopold Auer (interview with Benno Rabinof)
Making Good as a Music Teacher (an editorial)
How to Sing More Fluently (interview with Crystal Waters)
San Francisco's New Musical Leader (interview with Enrique Jorda)
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Volume 72, Number 09 (September 1954)
Guy McCoy
Choral Problems and Choral Clinics (interview with Peter J. Wilhousky)
Music and the Mechanically Minded Student
Contemporary Musical Creation in Education
Recitals: To Have or Not to Have Them
Breaking a Boston Symphony Tradition
So Paderewski Played the Trombone! (an editorial)
Once in a Century Mid-Summer Idyll—Salzburg
London's Unique New Festival Hall
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Volume 72, Number 10 (October 1954)
Guy McCoy
Liszt's Treasures in Washington
How to Write Good Tunes
Dance Art Develops a Notation
Fascinating Ensemble of Flute and Organ
Story of MTNA
Results Count!
Is There an Italian Method? (interview with Fedora Barbieri)
Present Aims and Objectives in Choral Music
Ernest Bloch Sonata: A Descriptive Analysis
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Volume 72, Number 11 (November 1954)
Guy McCoy
On Teaching Bach
With Chopin in Japan
Barber Shop Brotherhood
Waukesha's Plan Pays Off
First Step Is . . . Honesty (interview with Richard Tucker)
Story of MTNA, Part 2
School Orchestra Today: What Successful School Orchestra Teachers Believe
Make This a Happy Musical Thanksgiving (an editorial)
Practicing and Teaching (interview with Erica Morini)
Empiricism and Science in Teaching Voice Production
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Volume 72, Number 12 (December 1954)
Guy McCoy
World's Most Holy Hour—Poem
Challenge to America
Christmas Concerto
Minimum Instrumental Performance Requirements for Music Education Majors
Lillian Baldwin and the Cleveland Story
American Academy of Teachers of Singing
Orchestra Department
Important Rôle of the String Orchestra in School Music
Christmas with the Composers
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Volume 71, Number 01 (January 1953)
Guy McCoy
America is Coming Alive Musically, Says the Widow of Edward A. MacDowell (interview with Marian Nevins MacDowell)
Sousa Marches On: Interesting and Exciting Facts Connected with the Production of the Spectacular Technicolor Film, The Stars and Stripes Forever, Based on the Life of America's Famous Band Leader
Just Supposin' (Editorial)
Musicians of Bali
Immortal Bohemian
Cadence Inflection or Speech Inflection in Musical Performance
Role of Parents in this Matter of Practicing
It Isn't Luck Alone (interview with Mildred Miller)
Oh Doctor, My Throat!
New World of Sound
Drama of Drums
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Volume 71, Number 02 (February 1953)
Guy McCoy
Ability and Training (interview with Ezio Pinza)
Your Musical Dawn is at Hand (interview with Boris Goldovsky)
Security for Music Teachers (Editorial)
Midland Makes Its Own Music
Gershwin is Here to Stay
Healthy Habit of Doubting (interview with Jan Smeterlin)
Ten Years at Tanglewood
Who Are the World's Greatest Piano Teachers?
Back Stage with the Film Music Composer: Intereesting Highlights on the Complicated Technical Problems Involved in Producing Background Music for the Screen (interview with Dimitri Tiomkin)
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Volume 71, Number 03 (March 1953)
Guy McCoy
Exercises in Musicianship (interview with Alec Templeton)
Grand Old Man of Swedish Music
Steps to Artistic Vocal Success (interview with Crystal Waters)
Flowers That Bloom in the Spring (interview with S.M. Chartock)
You Must Be the Song As You Sing It (interview with Paul Breisach)
In Search of Chopin (book review)
Teaching Rhythm to Instrumental Beginners
What About Student Practice on the Church Organ?
Audience Education for Chamber Music
What is Rubato?
Let's Make Our Students Want to Practice
Make Teaching a Business
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Volume 71, Number 04 (April 1953)
Guy McCoy
America, Involved in Music, is Becoming Great in Music (interview with Aaron Copland)
How to Begin Practicing a Piece Music Should Serve the Community (interview with Leon Barzin)
Why Not a Community Boy Choir?
Attack and Emission in Singing
Greatness of Pablo Casals
Last Living Pupil of Franz Liszt (interview with Sophie Charlotte Gaebler)
New Records—The Phonograph Discovers the Organ
Radio City's Unseen Experts
Decentralization in Music is Necessary!
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Volume 71, Number 05 (May 1953)
Guy McCoy
Little Orchestra (interview with Thomas Scherman)
Wedding Bells and Harp Strings
Solving Problems at Two Pianos (interview with Arthur Whittemore)
Solving Problems at Two Pianos (interview with Jack Lowe)
To the Glory of the Lord
Music of Old Hawaii Should
We Have a Minsitry of Fine Arts? (interview with Fausto Cleva)
You CAN Play by Heart
Don't Look for Short Cuts! (interview with George London)
Importance of Sight Reading
Letter to My Pupil's Mother
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Volume 71, Number 06 (June 1953)
Guy McCoy
Grand Manner in Piano Playing: A Tribute to Emil Sauer
Flutist's Technical Problems (interview with John Wummer)
Amazing Versatility of American Singers (interview with Blanche Thebom)
Edvard Grieg As I Knew Him (interview with Schak, Bull)
Creative Genius—Who Knows? Do You Put the Words Across? (interview with James Melton)
Pipe Organ Tone from an Electronic Organ
Listen to Yourself! (interview with Grant Johannesen)
Music to Live By
What Have You Got to Sell?
Know These Pianists?
Legends of Ancient Bells
Song Sharks Are at it Again
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Volume 71, Number 07 (July 1953)
Guy McCoy
Road to Musicianship (interview with Mischa Elman)
Good Health is a Major Asset to the Vocal Artist (interview with David Poleri)
Pennies in the Tambourine (An editorial)
Well-Tempered Piano Tuner (interview with John H. Steinway)
Master of Masters—A Tribute to Arcangelo Corelli
That Cancelled Lesson
Career as a Mortuary Organist (interview with Gene Driskill)
Music Out of Old Mexico
Child is Father to the Man: An Authoritative Discussion of the Question When to Begin Vocal Instruction with Children
Democratic Process in Music: An Intelligent Discussion of the Pros and Cons of Group Instruction
Music of the Coronation Service
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Volume 71, Number 08 (August 1953)
Guy McCoy
Impressions of Bayreuth (interview with Astrid Varnay)
Bright Lantern: New Methods for Piano Teachers
Lully—Master Musician
Children Designed This Opera Production
Do's and Dont's for Parents
Making Friends Through Music (An editorial)
America's Rich Musical Heritage (interview with Annabel Morris Buchanan)
Mastering the Cello (interview with Aldo Parisot)
Music Therapy—A New Occupational Horizon
Faulty Rendering of Appogiaturas
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Volume 71, Number 09 (September 1953)
Guy McCoy
Preparation for Opera (interview with Licia Albanese)
What Can Technical Instruction Achieve?
Piano Art of Ferruccio Busoni
What the Junior Music Festival Can Do For Your State
Mental Practice (interview with Aldo Ciccolini)
Must You Sing?
Symphony of Bells: An Authoritative Discussion of a New Development in the Electronic Carillion Field
Place of the Non-Concertizing Artist in America's Music
Marketing the Music Manuscript
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Volume 71, Number 10 (October 1953)
Guy McCoy
American Way of Life in Art (interview with Lauritz Melchior)
Revival at the Opéra
Century of Tradition
Piano Triumphs
Korea Concerto
Must You Sing? (Part 2)