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 21, Number 11 (November 1903)
Winton J. Baltzell
Music Study in German Art Centers: Dresden
Training of a Piano Teacher
Train the Musical Sense
What Teachers Should Be: The Personal Element of Success
Use of Pianoforte Studies
Command of the Keyboard: The Principles of Fingering
About Octave Practice
Make the Practice-Hour Count
Hanslick's Impressions of Famous Violinists: Vieuxtemps in Vienna, 1854
Technic of Spohr and Joachim
Mr. Kneisel's Experiment
Pieces for Technical Purposes
Musical Aphorisms by Eugene Thayer
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Volume 21, Number 12 (December 1903)
Winton J. Baltzell
Christmas and Christmas Music: A Study of Human Nature
Christmas Thoughts for Musicians
Richard Strauss and His Works: A Talk with the Composer
For the Christmas Recital
Demand for Brevity in Music
Our Picture Supplement
Captains of Music
Early Christmases in Musical History
Old Fogy Abroad: He Revisits the Paris Conservatoire
Proper Care of the Piano
Music and Religion
Theodore Leschetizky
Health of the Musician
In the Interlude
Counter-Surprise; Or, Christmas Eve at Plowville
Christmas in the Eighteenth Century
Christmas Piano
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Volume 20, Number 01 (January 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Joseph Hofmann on Piano Technic and Piano Practice
Guiding Thoughts for 1902 from Leading Musicians
In Mozartland with Old Fogy
Problems of Music Education
Ideal Music School
Place of Routine in Music Work
Woman Music Teacher in a Large City
Two Choices
Ideals
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Volume 20, Number 02 (February 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Edouard Zeldenrust on the Training of an Artist
Music Education: Its Problems and Needs
Guiding Thoughts for 1902 (symposium)
Teacher's Preparation of the Pupil's Lesson
The Term Sonata
Choice of Technic for a Composition
Value of Nuance
Women and Originality
Character in Practice
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Volume 20, Number 03 (March 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Harold Bauer on the Study of the Piano
Artistic Freedom
Musical Appreciation
Comparative Composition
Development of Rhythm
Musical Pioneers
Discipline of the Thumb
Prime Necessity in Music Education
Relation of the Teacher Toward the Pupil
Sight Reading
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Volume 20, Number 04 (April 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Three English Women Composers
Young Man in Music
Criticism of J.S. Bach by a Contemporary
Graduate Recitals: The What and the How
Habit of Counting Correctly
On Instruction in First and Second Grades
Training of Music Teachers
Economy for the Advanced Student and the Teacher
Value of Writing Down One's Impressions
Initial Difficulties in the Student's Work
Intellectual Requirements of the Music-Student
Curving the Fingers
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Volume 20, Number 05 (May 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Liszt as a Musical Influence
Liszt, the Musical Liberal
Liszt as Pianist and Composer
Liszt as a Teacher
Transcriptions for the Piano by Liszt
Robert Schumann on Liszt's Playing
Necessity for Business Adaptability
Lesson on Bach
Victor Hugo Celebration
What to Learn in the Biography of a Composer
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Volume 20, Number 06 (June 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Unsatisfactory Pupil and His Lack of Innate Rhythm
Treatment of the Thumb
Use of Finger Exercises
Saint-Saëns on Melody and Harmony
What Constitutes a Musical Communitys
How Bach Played
Was Old Fogy a Liszt Pupil?
Preparation for the Day's Work
Some of the Easier Chopin Nocturnes
Paderewski on Scale-Playing
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Volume 20, Number 07 (July 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Edward Macdowell on the Relations of Music and Poetry
Inter-Relation of Touch and Tone Effect
Aphorisms by Theodore Gouvy
Borodine's Account of Liszt's Playing
Feeling of Rhythm
Pedagogic Gleanings Selectec by Heinrich Germer
Education of the Listener
Octave Playing and Its Technicr
Analysis of Grieg's Berceuse, Op.28, No. 1
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Volume 20, Number 08 (August 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Foreign Musical Atmosphere: London
Composers' Pecularities
Are Teachers Teaching?
Time for Practice
Playing in Public
Reflections for Teachers and Students
Never Give Up the Fight
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Volume 20, Number 09 (September 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie and the Royal Academy of Music, London
Opportunity and Ambition
Value and Meaning of Creative Work
Mistakes of Musicians as Seen by an Outsider
Essential Characteristics of Teaching Pieces for the Lower Grades
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Volume 20, Number 10 (October 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Making of an Artist: A Talk with Mark Hambourg
Ear-Training and Use of the Damper Pedal
Essential Conditions Making for Beauty of Tone in Piano-Playing
For the Young Composer
Keep a Dictionary Handy
Pupil's Rights
Technic vs. Interpretation in Piano Playing
Musician as Missionary
How to Keep Pupils
Beautiful Tone
Repertory Building as a Stimulus to Music Study
Fourth Finger in Arpeggios
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Volume 20, Number 11 (November 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Making of an Artist: Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Study of Successful Musicians
Use of the Thumb in Pianoforte Playing
Personal Experience the Best Teacher
Collection of Tuition Fees
Making Progress
How Schubert Composed
Piano-Player's Position
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Volume 20, Number 12 (December 1902)
Winton J. Baltzell
Best Living Composers
Perennial Romanticism
Music as it Exists in the United States: A General Survey
Choral Societies as a Factor in Musical Progress
What the Pedagogues Have Done for Modern Music
Influence of the Modern Orchestra
Musical Journalism as a Factor in Modern Music
What Some Persons Expect of a Pupil
Popular Instrumental Music
Popular Ballad and its Influence
Cradle Song
Modern Theory Teaching
Old Fogy is Pessimistic
Commercialism a Stumbling-Block
First Flights of a Singer: A Story Founded upon the Career of a Prominent American Singer
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Volume 19, Number 01 (January 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Music in the Twentieth Century
Melody Writing, Part 2
How I Teach Piano
Musical Diagnosis
On Teaching Counterpoint
For Would-Be Critics
Professional Standard in Piano-Teaching
Four Attributes of a Good Teacher
Silent Sight-Reading
Experiences and Observations from the Class-Room, Part 7
Music and Money
Plain Talks on Matters Musical, Part 1
Revolt of the Pianoforte
Comparative Piano-Methods
Before the Concert: A Story of Artist Life
Collateral Education Necessary to Modern Musicianship
Manuscripts of the Music-Masters
Some Points of Success, Part 2
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Volume 19, Number 02 (February 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Death of Verdi
Right Methods of Study
Keeping Close to the Art of Music
What Makes a Successful Student!
First Lessons in Music Biography
Selling Strength
Sir J. Frederick Bridge
Musical Sermon on a Modern Text
Musical Method the Means of Genuine Time-Saving in the Pianist's Art
How Art Pays
How to Overcome Common Faults in Piano Playing
Theoretic Side of a Musical Education
What Modern Education Means
Collateral Education Necessary to Modern Musicianship, Part 2
Small Things
Comparative Piano-Methods, Part 2
Some Curious Definitions, Not Authentic
Plain Talks on Matters Musical, Part 2
What Makes the Artist
Outlook into the Musical Future
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Volume 19, Number 03 (March 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Musical Socieites in Smaller Towns
Rules for Young Composers
How I Teach Piano
As to Tradition in Music
Industry of Genius
False Alarm
Qualities of a Superior Pianist
Making the Most of It
Self-Control
Fable for Graduates
Ear-Training
How to Manage a Teacher
Way to Make the American People Musical
Successful Teacher
Purposeful Doing
Ludwig Schytte
Technical Practice
Pseudonyms of Musicians
Genuine Enthusiasm in Teaching
Some Elements in a Musical Education
Habit in its Relation to Student Life
Old Industries
Law of Student Life
Faults of American Students
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Volume 19, Number 04 (April 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Piano Orchestra
Brief Rules on Child-Teaching in Music
Something to Know
Old Pieces
Music the Language of Expression
Unity of Purpose
Memorizing
Artistic Purpose
Place of Ridicule in Teaching
Personal Relation of Teacher and Pupil
Selection of a Teaching Field
Feel What You Play
Perserverance as Taught by the Lives of the Masters
Different Ways of Knowing a Piece by Heart
Pianists and Composers Who Have Made History
Piano-Cases
Height of the Piano-Chair
Tonality
Formation of Habits of Study
Make a Companion of a Book
Sticking at It
Old Industries
For the Older Student
University Education for a Musician
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Volume 19, Number 05 (May 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
When Should Expression be Taught?
Touch and Tone
Raising the Standard of Musical Culture
Verdi's Advice
Emulation as a Factor in the Private Teacher's Work
Acquiring the Method of a Teacher Quickly
Liberation
Choosing a Music Teacher
Study in Concentration
Loose Use of the Term Technic
Composer's Individuality
Success Maxims
Teaching in Schools
Advice to Young Teachers
Cost of a Technic and How to Reduce It
Unconscious Combativeness
Teachers, Old and Young
Fingering and Its Evolution
Harmonics on the Piano
Art of Listening
Mr. David Bispham on the Study of the English Song
Two Classes of Music Lovers
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Volume 19, Number 06 (June 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Music as a Culture-Study
Paradoxes in Piano-Practice
Modest Music-Teacher
How Shall We Study?
Future of Music in America
Liszt's Sight-Reading
Practice Versus Rehearsal
Differences in the Fingers
How to Be a Success
Creating an Interest in Technic
Art for Art's Sake: A Study of the Music Profession
Musical Moss-Backs
Madame Schumann-Heink: The Study of the German Song
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Volume 19, Number 07 (July 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Summer Study or Summer Rest
Hartwell-Jones (Hamilton Gray)
What Fashion Does for Music
Between Seasons
Summer and Post-Graduate Work for Teachers
Children's Classes as Suitable for Summer Work
Summer Musical Classes for Juveniles
New Light on Summer Study
Development of Music in the South During the Past Twenty Years
Study Abroad No Guarantee of Success at Home
Thorough Practice on Old Pieces
Some Peculiar Teachers
Artistic Temperament
Some Definitions of Music
If I Were a Young Music Teacher
Long Hair and Pianism: A True Story
Mr. Pol Plançon: The Study of the French Song
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Volume 19, Number 08 (August 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Irritability of the Music Teacher
Musical Misfits
Tact and Self-Control
Suggested Classics for the Teaching Repertoire
Exploitation of the Prodigy
Art of Living: For the Musician
Our National Failing
Play in All Keys
Choice of a Teacher
Persistence and Work
Prevalent Fallacies
Music as Mental Discipline
Music for Music's Sake
Musical Ideals for the Twentieth Century
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Volume 19, Number 09 (September 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Selected List of Works by Women Composers
Concerning the Actual Decay of the Art of Song
Woman's Share in the Musical Civilization of the Public
Woman's Sphere in Music-Teaching
Woman's Contribution to Musical Literature
Advantages Women Have Over Men for Entering a Professional Career
Women as Composers in the Future
Woman's Contribution to Musical Scholarship
Some Ideals in Musical Education
Ideal Matinee Musicale and Its Management
Madame Lillian Nordica: Woman in Music
Women as Concert-Organists
Women as Organists
Women as Choir-Director
Women as Organ-Students
Necessity of Harmony and Counterpoint to Women Who are Organists
Woman's Position in the Violin-World
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Volume 19, Number 10 (October 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Useless Difficulties
Mechanical Accessories in Piano-Forte-Teaching
Our Pupils as Social Acquaintances
Waste in Musical Education
Orchestral Manner in Piano-Playing
Know the Meaning of Musical Terms
Blunder of Ambitious Students
McKinley
Interludes in Various Keys
Art of Learning to Study
First Studies in Music Biography
What Justifies the Choice of Music as a Profession?
English Women in the Orchestra
Women as Orchestral Players: An American Point of View
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Volume 19, Number 11 (November 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Musician Abroad: Some French and Scottish Characteristics
Death of Frederic Archer
Texts for Musical Setting
Higher Duty of Teaching
Conservatory or Studio?
Object of Practice
Exact Thinking in Music-Study
Teacher's Influence: Its Effect on the Community
Advantages of Concert Going
Should We Use Classical or Popular Music?
Why the Piano is Unpopular
Pupils' Recitals as an Aid to Character Building
Prices According to Size