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 31, Number 06 (June 1913)
James Francis Cooke
Plan of Scale Practice
Solving the Missed Lesson Problem: A Symposium Upon a Matter of Vital Importance to All Music Teachers
Importance of the First Impression
How I Made My Summer Vacation Profitable: A Timely Symposium from Busy Representative Teachers
Tolstoy's Great Love for Music
Are Great Pianists Always Nervous?
Making the Pupils' Recital Attractive: A New Idea for Progressive Music Workers
New Idea in Teaching the Touch
Instruments of the Orchestra
Balfe's Musicianship
How to Secure a Beautiful Tone at the Keyboard
Temperamental Playing
Developing an Instinctive Sense of Tone
Wisdom of Robert Schumann
Ten Working Rules
Old-Time Advances in Piano Playing
For the Suppression of Noise
Some Personal Recollections of Rossini
Things to Think About When You Select a Teacher
Some Practical Advice on the Use of the Pedal
Training Teachers to Get Results
Etude Master Study Page: The Real Grieg
Keeping One's Repertoire in Readiness
Importance of Appearance in Concert Work
Modern Virtuoso Conductor
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Volume 31, Number 07 (July 1913)
James Francis Cooke
Emperor's Operatic Rules
Getting a Start in Europe as a Virtuoso
Teaching Too Many Pupils
Story of the Orchestral Instruments Told for the General Music Love: The Woodwind Section
Wisdom of Felix Mendelssohn
Pen Picture of Brahms
How to Become a Sure-Fingered Pianist
How to Make Summers Musically Profitable
Commonsense Helps in Teaching Little Folks
Despondent Versus the Over-Sanguine Pupil
Compelling Independent Finger Action
Teaching Children to Use the Pedals
Legato and Staccato Playing
Liszt as a Russian Master Saw Him
Some Old Musical Legends
Playing for Our Friends
Combating the Missed-Lesson Evil (symposium)
Neglected Staccato
Metronome and Its Uses
Circular to Parents
Developing Elasticity in the Weakened Fingers
How Music Has Impressed Some Great Minds
Passing of F.S. Law
Well Known Composers of To-day—E.J. Decevée
Cleaning Up Mussy Octaves
Rooting Out Mistakes
Stop Rushing
How I Got My Pupils to Count Aloud
Business Conditions in Music
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Volume 31, Number 08 (August 1913)
James Francis Cooke
Tact in Selecting Teaching Pieces
Dvorák as I Knew Him
Making Your Surroundings Help You
Overheard at a Musical Convention: Opinions of Well-Known Teachers and Musicians
Qualities of a Pianist
Painting Pictures with Tonal Colors: An Instructive and Entertaining Discussion of Programme Music
Instruments of the Orchestra
Musician's Vacation: How to Make It a Restful One
Getting a Start as a Virtuoso in Europe
Romance of the Chopin Preludes
Spirit of the Valse
Wisdom of Liszt
Solving the Missed-lesson Problem
Saint-Säens on the Playing of Bach Fugues
Shall Music Teachers Be Licensed?
What Tchaikovsky Thought of the Great Musicians
Making Scale Study Practical
Anatomical Research into Composition
Practical Testimony as to the Value of Music in Mental Disorders
Slang of Music
Grieg Story
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Volume 31, Number 09 (September 1913)
James Francis Cooke
Lesson in Piano Playing from Sarah Bernhardt
Making an Operatic Career in Europe
Types of Musicians' Hands
Getting New Business: Dignified and Progressive Means for Securing Desirable Pupils for the Coming Season
Artist's Life: The Virtuoso's Career As It Really Is
Understanding the Music We Play
When Should the Piano Student Go Abroad? The Best and Quickest Way to Gain Results
Reed Organ: A Too Much Neglected Instrument
Penmanship and Piano Playing
Mozart from a French Viewpoint
First Lesson After Vacation
Correcting Waste in the Teachers' Business
Instruments of the Orchestra—No. 5: The Percussion Instruments and the Harp
Value of Sight-Playing
Wisdom of Richard Wagner: A Series of Carefully Selected Paragraphs form Wagner's Collected Works, Giving an Insight to the Philosophy of the Master
Compelling Practical Results from Practice
Schumann's Musical Wit
Well Known Composers of To-day—Alfred Wooler
How Beethoven Composed
Dreamers, Seers and Mystics in Music
Making a Good Start in Teaching
Some Things Every Music Lover Should Know About the Piano
Develop the Power of Discrimination in the Child
Too Much at One Lesson
Too Much Analysis of Finger and Arm Movements
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Volume 31, Number 10 (October 1913)
James Francis Cooke
Truths for Singing Teachers and Students
One Good Reason Why All Should Cultivate Music
Part That Health Plays in Musical Success
Physical Exercise to Strengthen the Pianist's Back
Help from Well-Known Teachers in Overcoming Obstacles
Fighting a Physical Difficulty
Getting Ahead by Asking Questions
Making Good in a Responsible Position
Find Why Others Have Failed
Real Service in Teaching
Doorsteps to Fame
Need for Logical Study
Lifting the Fingers in the Technic of Piano Playing
Developing the Music Worker's Brain Force
Why Strive for Useless Knowledge?
Uplift from Master Minds: Inspiring Thoughts for Daily Reflection of Earnest Music Workers
Artist's Life: The Virtuoso's Career As It Really Is
Etude Master Study Page: The Real Haydn
Listening to Orchestral Music
American Music Loses a Valued Worker
Well Known Composers of To-day—Alfred J. Silver
Instruments of the Orchestra—No. 6: The Complete Orchestra
Wherein Do I Fall? A Home Examination
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Volume 31, Number 11 (November 1913)
James Francis Cooke
Keeping Up the Enthusiasm
Memories of Franz Liszt
Great Composers and Politics
Von Bülow and the Liszt Concerto
Main Essentials of Dr. William Mason's Principles of Pianoforte Instruction
Liszt and Dr. Mason's Eyeglasses
Necessity for Daily Practice (interview with Raoul Pugno)
Making Teaching a Pleasure
Hints on Velocity
What the Pedal Does
How to Gain Confidence for Playing in Public
Simple Calisthenics Loosen the Wrist
How Should the Study of Harmony Benefit Piano Students?
Long-Suffering Accompanist
Ideas for Interesting Club Entertainments
Why Many Clubs Fail
Opera Evening in Costume
Composite Biographies
Fun in Analysis
Pupils' Recital That Paid
Difficulties of the Leger Lines
Etude Master Study Page—The Real Berlioz
Cordiality is Always Best
Musical Penmanship Leading to Legible Music Writing
Be Just to the Former Teacher
Making Students of Our Pupils
Strengthening the Weak
Use of Pieces in the First Year
Marking the Phrasing for Young Pupils
What an Opera House Costs in Europe
Interpretation of Bach
Seventeenth Century Musical Pessimist
Ear Training Through Scale Practice
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Volume 31, Number 12 (December 1913)
James Francis Cooke
Jenny Lind, Artist and Woman
How to Count Time
How They Protected Aged Musicians in the Seventeenth Century
Thoroughness in Music Study (interview with Camille Saint-Saëns)
Let Your Music Taste Reveal Your Character
Independent Finger Action
How Tunes are Made
European Musical Topics
Saving Indian Music from Oblivion
Helps in Scale Playing
Mendelssohn's Happy Christmas Spirit
We can Learn from Other Things
Our Humble Beginnigs in Music
Secret of Good Staccato Playing
Avoid Unnecessary Excitement at Pupils' Recitals
Should the Average Pupil Study Pianoforte Playing
How Chopin Played Chopin: Interesting Opinions of Modern Critics and Famous Contemporaries
Home for Retired Music Teaachers: An Interesting Description of rthe New Building Now Being Erected for the Preser Home for Retired Music Teachers in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Etude Master Study Page—The Real Bach
Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso: An Analytical Piano Lesson
Well Known Composers of To-day—Charles Whitney Coombs
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Volume 30, Number 01 (January 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Italy, the Home of Grand Opera (interview with Enrico Caruso)
Interpretation of Beethoven's Piano Masterpieces
Progress in Piano Playing (interview with Josef Holmann)
Beginnings of Opera
Ten Most Famous Opera Singers of the Last Century
Should American Opera Aspirants Study Abroad?
Bel Canto: The Foundation of All Successful Operatic Singing (interview with Bernice de Pasquali)
Prolific Opera Composer
Improving Arpeggio Chord Playing
Last Work of Wagner, Parsifal
Mystery of the Lethbridge Strad
$10,000 Stradivarius Violin Demolished by Unknown Fanatic
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Volume 30, Number 02 (February 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Probable Origin of Syncopation
Opera of the People (interview with Victor Herbert)
Boccherini and His Friends
If My Daughter Should Study for Grand Opera (interview with Andreas Dippel)
When Different Pupils Make the Same Mistakes
How a Great Operatic Production is Prepared: Opinions from Many Celebrated Specialists upon a Subject of Much Human Interest to all Music Lovers
Grand Opera as a Business
Self-Help in Voice Study (interview with Charles Dalmores)
Alphabet of the Opera Composers
Names of the Notes in Other Languages
Success at the First Lessons: Five Important Points for Teachers to Remember and Employ
Well-Known Composers of To-day—Frank P. Atherton
Donizetti of Scotch Descent
Books about Opera
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Volume 30, Number 03 (March 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Some Facts about Musical Ireland
Artistic Aims in Piano Playing (interview with Harold Bauer)
Chopin and the Tempo Rubato
Centurion Composers of Opera
Mendelssohn's Phenomenal Memory
Gluck's Operatic Ideals
How to Execute Mordents, Trills and Appoggiaturas
Modern Italian Opera: Its Tendencies and Its Composers
Offenbach's Remarkable American Experiences
Making a Success of the Pupils Recital: With Important Suggestions upon Overcoming Stage Fright
Ten Most Important Epochs in Musical History
Adventurous Composer of Maritana
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Volume 30, Number 04 (April 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Famous Standard Etudes: Their Value to the Teacher and to the Music Student
How George Bernard Shaw Learned to Play the Piano
Pitfalls in the Road to Musical Success
Daily Hints for Diligent Pupils
Perplexing Embellishments and Their Execution
Mental Technic of Memorizing
I Could Play it All Right at Home
Some Practical Helps to Sight Reading
How Small Hands May be Trained To Play Arpeggio Chords
Modern French and German Opera
Real Ole Bull, Personal Reminiscences
Little Known Musical Facts
Road to Expression (interview with Harold Bauer)
Well Known Composers of To-day—Robert M. Stults
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Volume 30, Number 05 (May 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Conquering the Stiff Wrist
Passing of W.S.B. Mathews
Important Points Frequently Neglected in the Study of Pianoforte Works
From Beethoven to Wagner
Mental Effect of Tones
Married Woman Pupil
Great Pianists at the Keyboard: A Lesson in Position (portraits)
Symposium on Position at the Keyboard
Some Secrets of Success in Playing in Public
Some Royal Musicians
Student Days with Dvorák
Well-Known Composers of Today—George Eggeling
Composers as Conductors
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Volume 30, Number 06 (June 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Clara Schumann's Father on Study
How Analysis Benefits the Piano Pupil (interview with Katharine Goodson)
Selecting Piano Studies that Insure Progress
Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Sappho
To Memorize or Not to Memorize
How Chopin Played: As told by Liszt, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Other Contemporaries
Hours with Leschetizky (interview with Lolita D. Mason)
Rubinstein's Bitter Valedictory
Tributes of Noted Musicians to the Memory of the Late W.S.B. Mathews
How the Mind Should Guide the Body in Practice
Dramatic Moments in the Careers of the Masters
Well-Known Composers of To-day—Charles Wakefield Cadman
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Volume 30, Number 07 (July 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Great Musicians on Their Contemporaries
Training of the Pianist of the Future (interview with Wilhelm Bachus)
Schumannisms
Musical History During the Piano Lesson
Modern Ideas on Broken-Chord Practice
Playing Duets with Schumann
How I Gave My First Lesson: A Symposium of Particular Interest to Your Teachers and Students Who Aspire to Be Teachers
Analysis Guide to Intelligent Musical Interpretation
Famous Mythological Characters in Music: Orpheus
Bishop Who Wrote Operas
Berlin's Concerts
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Volume 30, Number 08 (August 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Position at the Piano
Carnival Music
Busoni and the Press
Correct Position at the Keyboard: A Symposium
Characteristic Features of Russian Music
Reading Music Like a Book
Exciting Musical Career of Tillie Clapsaddle
Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Pan
His Majesty's Violins: A Story of Music at the Court of Louis XIV
Bright Sayings of Famous Masters
Odd Effect of Music on Animals
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Volume 30, Number 09 (September 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Need for a Good Position at the Keyboard
Interesting Vacation Trip to Mozart's Workshop
New Thoughts on the Physiology of Practice
His Majesty's Violins: A Tale of the Court of Louis XIV
Leschetizky on the Pedals
Why Should We Have Pieces for Left Hand Alone?
Pointers on Position at the Piano
Famous Mythological Characters in Music—Apollo
Some Personal Recollections of Chopin
Excessive Octave Practice
Well Known Composer Reaches Opus 1000—Arnold Sartorio
Some Conundrums on Musicians' Names
Women in the Orchestra
About Verdi's Operas
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Volume 30, Number 10 (October 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Master Study Page—The Real Beethoven, 1770-1827
Reminiscences of Some Famous Musicians
Famous Mythological Characters in Music
Selected Technical Truths from World Famous Pianists: Gems of Pedagogical Thought Crystallized in the Crucible of Time and Experience
Solving the Missed Lesson Problems
Wrist in Piano Playing
What Every Teacher Should Know About Teaching: Home-Study Hints on the Greatest of Arts
Selecting Standard Classics for the Study Season: Useful Pianoforte Pieces for Special Development
Jules Massenet, Eminent French Master, Passes Away
Death of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Well Known Composers of To-day—J. Lamont Galbraith
Wagner on How Mendelssohn Conducted Beethoven
Practical Hints on Securing New Teaching Business
Some Sayings of Liszt
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Volume 30, Number 11 (November 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Benefit of Playing in the Polyphonic Style
Master Study Page—The Real Gounod, 1818-1893
Keep the Finger Nails Trimmed
With the World's Great Educators—Rousseau
Selecting Standard Classics for the Study Season
Well Known Composers of To-day—W.D. Armstrong
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Volume 30, Number 12 (December 1912)
James Francis Cooke
Clear Chords
Importance of Fine Editions of the Classics
Don't Expect Everything of the Teacher
How Chopin Wrote the Preludes
Save Your Energy
Our Photogravure Supplement, Their Son
Advance of Vocal Art in America
Plan Your Season's Work Rightly
Training of the Rhythmic Sense
Triangle as a Teaching Help
Richard Wagner and Christmas
Painting with Tones
Musical Success Comes from Within
Etude Master Study Page—The Real Chopin
Stephen Heller as I Knew Him: Memories of Lessons with the Noted Composer Teacher
With the World's Great Educators
Love Affairs of Famous Composers
Law of Success in Musical Study
Mile-Posts in Pianistic Progress
Wit of Musicians
Try the Sunshine Cure
Pause, Its Use and Abuse
Studio at Christmas
Modern Fairy Tales
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Volume 29, Number 01 (January 1911)
James Francis Cooke
English Pianists and the Development of Piano Playing in England
English Composers of To-day
Influence of Oratorio Upon English Music
Short Biography of Frederick Corder
Beggar's Opera
Music at the English Universities
How Music in England Has Profited by Local Musical Examinations
England's Hospitality to Foreign Musicians
Short Biographical Notes on British Musicians
Value of Pianoforte Transcriptions
Lessons from Memorable Piano Recitals
English Folk-Songs
Well Known Composers of To-Day—Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Handel Failure
English Organist of the Past and Present
How Verdi Came to Write Aïda
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Volume 29, Number 02 (February 1911)
James Francis Cooke
Weber as a Teacher
How Shall We Make Our Pupils Practice?
Bizet's Masterpiece, Carmen
Music and Color
Epigrams from Schumann
Your First Public Appearance
William H. Sherwood
Some Piano Personalities
Selecting Compositions for Teaching Purposes
Thumb and the Little Finger in Piano Playing
Some Things Piano Owners Ought to Know
Musical Blunders of Famous Authors
Practical Points for the Young Teacher
Well Known Composers of To-Day—Henry Weyts
English Organist of the Past and Present
Decline of the Banjo
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Volume 29, Number 03 (March 1911)
James Francis Cooke
New Radiating Keyboard
Oldest Living Composer
Some Absurdities of Opera
First Compositions of the Masters
Gounod's Masterpiece, Faust
Some Recent Music for Piano
About Accompanying
Fundamental Principles of Piano Playing
Famous Extemporizing
Rogues' March
Helpfulness of Obedience: A Talk with Mothers of Music Students
Attitude of the Pupil
Great Philosopher on Music
Impediments to Interpretation
Little Known Irish Musician
Music and the American Boy
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Volume 29, Number 04 (April 1911)
James Francis Cooke
How Great German Singing Festivals Have Advanced the Art of Music in Germany and America
Conservatory at Leipsic
Program Music of Yesterday
Supernatural in German Musical Art
Some Important Things I Learned in Germany
Some Interesting Facts About Musical Magazines
Predominating Influence in the German Music of To-Day
Influence of Germany's Greatest Masters on the Musical Art of the World
As to Music Study in Europe
Wagner's Music-Drama, Lohengrin
America's Musical Debt to Germany
Great Gifts of the Centuries: Immortal Contemporaries in Music, Art and Literature
Gottschalk and Impressarios
Musician's Letter to an Ambitious Piano Student: Master Lessons in Piano Playing
German View of American Music
Student Days in Germany with W.H. Sherwood
Friends of Johann Sebastian Bach
Great Events in German Musical History
How Europe Regarded Us a Half a Century Ago
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Volume 29, Number 05 (May 1911)
James Francis Cooke
Influence of Germany's Greatest Masters on the Musicl Art of the World
Weber's Opera, Der Freischutz
Influence of the Folk-Song on German Musical Art (interview with Gustav Mahler)
Predominating Influence in the German Music of To-day
Some Important Things I Learned in Germany
Germany's Remarkable System of Music Schools: Music Schools of Northern Germany
What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School
Important Observations Upon Piano Practice
Ten Vital Tests in Finishing a Piece
Some Facts about Sopranos
Singers Who Lost Their Voices
How to Study a Song
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Volume 29, Number 06 (June 1911)
James Francis Cooke
Spirit of Life in Music—Rhythm
Real Musical Interest in the Czerny Studies
Balfe's Opera The Bohemian Girl
Famous German Conservatories: The Conservatories of Southern Germany
Analysis of Teaching Material: The Rondo Form
What is Expected of the Student in the German Music School
History and Uses of the Metronome
Hearing with the Eye
Beginner Specialist in Piano Teaching