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 25, Number 09 (September 1907)
Winton J. Baltzell
Business Man and Good Music
Technical Exercises, Etudes and Pieces: How to Use Them
Palestrina
Fallacy of Music Study Abroad
Practice that Develops Technic
Practical Hints by Bülow
To Teachers Who Do Not Play
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Volume 25, Number 10 (October 1907)
Winton J. Baltzell
Edvard Grieg
Eulogy Upon Grieg
Grieg's Twelve Most Popular Piano Pieces
Story of the Gavotte
Joseph Joachim: A Tribute to the Great Teacher, Artist, Man, Who Stood at the Educational Head of Musical Life in Berlin for a Half Century—His Remarkable Violin School and His Influence Upon His Pupils and Friends
Should Recital Music be Memorized?
Sevcik and Joachim
How Rubinstein Played the Piano
Edvard Grieg
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Volume 25, Number 11 (November 1907)
Winton J. Baltzell
Education of the Masters
Making the Lesson Hour More Profitable
Bach's Sons
Liszt as a Composer and as an Artist
Letter from a Teacher in New Zealand
How to Select a Piano
Teaching New Materials
Famous Italian Pupil of Franz Liszt
Advice to Young Teachers
Some Trials and Experiences of a German Teacher
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Volume 25, Number 12 (December 1907)
Winton J. Baltzell
Some of the World's Greatest Women Pianists: Short, Interesting Biographies and Appreciations of Great Performers from Clara Schumann to the Present Day
Evil of Too Difficult Music
Mozart's Christmas
Tact and Success
Discouraged?
Musical Americanisms
Christmas Greetings from Well-Known Musicians
Don't Get Discouraged
Progress—Past and Present
Our Repertoire Class
Reflections by the Way, Part 1
Disgrace to Music: A Protest Against the Practice of Subsidizing Pianists Employed by Some Piano Firms
Fraud Publishers Again
Modesty of Brahms
Important Events in Musical History
Scale Playing
Practical Hints for the Busy Teacher
Making a Piece Interesting
Necessity of Sympathy in Teaching Children
Teachers' Fads
Musical Alphabet
Secret of a Merry Christmas
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Volume 24, Number 01 (January 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
George Frederick Handel: The Making of Great Man in Music
Handel's Place in Musical History
Instrumental Music of Handel
Handel's Oratorios To-day
Handel Miscellany
Longevity of Musical Compositions
Vincent d'Indy
Two Ways of Teaching the Piano
Music Teaching and General Education
Practical Ideas Applied to the Teaching of Children
Story of the Water Music
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Volume 24, Number 02 (February 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Advent of Endowed Institutions in American Musical Education
Value of the Old Classics
Some Thoughts on Pedaling
Mark Hambourg and Leschetizky
Reading Music at Sight
Elements of Musical Appreciation
Gymnastic Wrist Exercises
Young Woman Pianist and Her Business Prospects
How to Memorize Music
Triumph of Counterpoint
Mark Hambourg's Suggestions for Music Students
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Volume 24, Number 03 (March 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Making a Modern Conservatory of Music: What an Endowment is Doing for the Institute of Musical Art, New York City
Polyphonic Music as Related to Modern Art and Education in Music
John Knowles Paine: The First of the Great American Composers
Medieval Musical Entertainment
Pianoforte Four-Hand Compositions
Secret of Successful Work
Some Mistakes in Teaching
How to Prepare and Conduct Class Meetings
Abt Vogler
Poems a Musician Should Know, with Suggestions for Their Study
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Volume 24, Number 04 (April 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Musical Life in New Orleans
How Tchaikovsky Composed
Experiences of a Music Student in Germany in 1905
Cultivate the Taste
Helps for Young Teachers
Position of the Hand in Piano Playing
Do We Play Enough for Our Pupils!
Small Conservatory
Tact in Teaching
Method of Gaining Speed in Playing
Piano and Its Influence on the Growth of Music
Do Musical Prodigies Last?
Music in Mexico
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Volume 24, Number 05 (May 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Chorus Conducting and Music Festival Organization: Talks with Mr. Emil Mollenhauer and Mr. George W. Stewart
Who Shall Select the Pupils' Music
Monument to Stephen Heller
Self-Control
Sigismond Stojowski and His Views on Piano Study
Evolution of the Leschetizky Method
Some of the Elements of a Good Teacher
Program Novelties for Music Clubs
More Extensive Pianoforte Repertoire
Necessity of Theoretical and Historical Study to the Pianist
Reading at Sight: Some Practical Suggestions
How Improvements in the Piano Affected Composition
How the Great Musicians Practice
Mozart's Manner of Composing
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Volume 24, Number 06 (June 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Making of an Artist: The Views of Alfred Reisenauer
Louis Köhler
Köhler's Technical Scheme
What is American Music?
Gluck and Lavater: How the Great Physiognomist Predicted the Composer's Career
Qualities of the Pianistic Hand
Notes on Rubinstein's Teaching
Handling of Piano Technic for Very Young Children
Study Value of the Pedal
Isadora Duncan and Her School for Classic Dancing
Studies in Prejudice: A Phase of Modern Art
Care to Practice, Then Careful Practice
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Volume 24, Number 07 (July 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Edouard Risler and His Playing of Beethoven's Sonatas
Suggestions for Chord Playing
Soirée at Richard Wagner's
What Does the Layman Hear in Music?
Making of an Artist: The View of Alfred Reisenauer
How an Opera Was Written
Schumann's Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12
Suggestions for Sight Reading Practice
Plea for Broad-Mindedness
Value of Imagination
Modern Virtuoso
Selection of Teaching Music
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Volume 24, Number 08 (August 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Exercises for the Sight Reading Class
Reminiscences of Celebrated Singers (interview with Giovanni Sbriglia)
Significance of Bach to Modern Music
Public Taste in Music as Shown by Summer Orchestra Programs
Teaching of the Minor Scales
Bach Awakening
Aphorisms from the Manuscript of the Late C.H. Richter
Story of Johann and Joseph Strauss
Pupils' Rhythmical Problems
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Volume 24, Number 09 (September 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Study of Sir Edward Elgar
First Steps in Teaching Technic
Festival in the Small Town: Its Value and How to Run One
Some Principles of Leschetizky's Teaching
Mozart as a Teacher, Player and Piano Composer
Interpretation of Bach's Works
Teaching Scales
Those Fits of Discouragement
Types of Concertgoers
Rubinstein on the Concert Platform
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Volume 24, Number 10 (October 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Making of a Russian Pianist (interview with Josef Lhévinne)
Qualities that Deterine Musical Worth
Two Remarkable Modern Compositions
Music Among the Hindoos
Study of Piano Technic from Bach to Clementi, Field and Cramer
Study of Piano Technic from Beethoven to Rubinstein
Thoughts on Modern Piano Technic
Manuel Garcia: His Life and Works
Interpretation of Bach's Works
Hindoo Air in the Sunday-School
Place of the Talking Machine in Music Teaching
Place of Mechanical Instruments in Musical Culture
Menace of Mechanical Music to a True Art
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Volume 24, Number 11 (November 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Richard Strauss: A Short Story of the Composer Whom James Huneker Calls An Anarch in Art
Hungarian Music and the Gipsies
Education of the Masters
Music and Mental Science
Babylonian Origin of Music as an Art and Science
Touch in Pianoforte Playing
Musical Education: What It Means
What is Good Taste in Music?
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Volume 24, Number 12 (December 1906)
Winton J. Baltzell
Glimpse at the Christmas of Some Noted European Churches
Practical Listening to Music
Folk Music as Related to Art Music
American Folk Songs
Songs of Christmas
Music and Other Arts
Suggestions for Playing Some Pianoforte Works of Schumann
Story of a Song
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Volume 23, Number 01 (January 1905)
Winton J. Baltzell
Fréderic François Chopin (Biographical Sketch)
Appreciation of Chopin: His Works Embody All Technical Forms
Chopin the Revolutionaire
Chopin the Teacher
Chopin the Man
Chopin the Poet of the Pianoforte
True Genius of Pianoforte Music: Exemplified in Chopin's Works
Making up a Chopin Program
Quality of Chopin's Genius
Musical Rhythm and Rhythmic Playing
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Volume 23, Number 02 (February 1905)
Winton J. Baltzell
Mrs. Bloomfield Zeisler on Study and Repertory
Interpretation: The Fine Art of Music
Alexander Glazunoff
Study of Theodore Thomas
Paderewski on Piano Teaching and Study
Business Details in Music Teaching
Publicity
I Pray Thee Have Me Excused: Some of the Reasons Pupils Give for Changing Their Instructors
Training in Musical Taste
Cranky Parent
Prime Factors in Students' Progress
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Volume 23, Number 03 (March 1905)
Winton J. Baltzell
Sir Hubert Parry and The Royal College of Music, London
Art Music in the Middle West; The Large Cities
Counting Time vs. Keeping Time
Alexander Scriabine
Public School Education in Music
Helps for New Teachers
Negro Melodies vs. Coon Songs
Some of the Drawbacks of Music Teaching
Second Thoughts on Music in the College and the University
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Volume 23, Number 04 (April 1905)
Winton J. Baltzell
Art Music in the Middle West: In the Smaller Towns and Cities
Pedaling
Conservatory and College: What Reciprocal Relations Do They Bear Educationally
Advantages and Disadvantages of Studying Music in Berlin
IMusical Faculty
Traditions of Musical Expression
Lesson by Isidor Philipp at the Paris Conservatory
Music in Fiction
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Volume 23, Number 05 (May 1905)
Winton J. Baltzell
Great Music Schools of London and the English System of Musical Examinations
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Descriptive Programs
Muscular Preparation for Pianoforte Technic
Suggestive Analyses
Young Pupil's Practice
Care of the Piano
Some Curious Musical Dictionaries
School Music in Relation to the Church and the Community
Fingering
Art and Dilettantism
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Volume 23, Number 06 (June 1905)
Winton J. Baltzell
Art of Piano Interpretation
Musical Conditions on the Pacific Coast: The Plethora of Teachers but Less Concentration of Effort than in the East
Failure: Its Causes and How to Overcome Them
English System of Examinations in Music
Suggestion for Sight Reading
How Strauss Composes a Song
Helps for New Teachers
Health of the Musician
Hygiene of the Hand
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Volume 23, Number 07 (July 1905)
Winton J. Baltzell
Study of Musical Conditions in the Southern States
Sir Edward Elgar
Practical Application of the Rudiments of Harmony to the Study of the Piano
Interpretation of Music Upon the Piano
Influence of the Music Teacher Upon the Pupil
On the Essence of the Beautiful in Piano-Playing
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Volume 23, Number 08 (August 1905)
Winton J. Baltzell
Practicable Promotion of Music in Small Places
Christian Sinding
Women in Music
Hans Christian Andersen and Music
Criticism of Popular Music
Should the Teacher of Music Give Free Lessons!
Summer Days in the Newberry Library, Chicago
Franz Schubert and His Coffee Mill
Lesson in Composition
Gaining Endurance
Practical Ideas Applied to the Teaching of Children
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Volume 23, Number 09 (September 1905)
Winton J. Baltzell
Summer Music Festival in America: Its Tendency to Promote a Musical Atmosphere
Emancipation of the Musician
Sense of Musical Beauty
On the Necessity of Better Music in Teaching
Ways and Means for the Development of Music in Small Towns
Music Teaching as a Profession and a Business
Modern Idea of Business System Applied to the Musical Life