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.
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Volume 19, Number 12 (December 1901)
Winton J. Baltzell
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, January 27, 1756-December 5, 1791
Mozart: An Appreciation
Mozart as Piano Writer
On the Study of Mozart's Sonatas
Listener to Mozart's Works
Newly-Discovered Portrait of Mozart
Mozart's Genius
Impress of Mozart On Musical History
Suggestions for Programs from Mozart's Works
Art of Mozart
Mozart Literature
Children's Page
Mozart Evening
Biographical Sketch
Mozart: Boy and Man
Mozart Revival
Mozart as a Worker
Violin
Joachim Bowing
Some Interesting Statements (interview with Camilla Urso)
Teaching the Beginner
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Volume 18, Number 01 (January 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
What is Classical Music?
Parable
Parental Indulgence
Schumann's Early Loves
Originality in Teaching
Schumann: A Vanishing Star
Tone
Teaching Tonality
True Story: A Tale of a Music Student
Last Work
Studio Comfort
What is the Scale of this Passage?: Practical Hints for a Prompt Reply to this Common and Often Perplexing Questions
Musical Impurity
Methods
Relation of the Music Department to the College
Musical Heredity
Indiscriminate Advice and Its Evils
Anitra's Dance
Teacher of Music: His Character and His Training (A Symposium)
Russian School of Music
Illustration in Teaching: Some Practice Examples
Pieces, Exercises or Etudes—Which?
Dignity of our Profession
When Shall We Begin with Classical Music?
What to Use with a Beginner
Musical Outlook at Manila
Women as Tuners
Report of the Pennsylvania Federation of Women
Intellectual Side of Music in Amateur Clubs
How to Practise in a Cold Church
Items of Guild News
Boy Choir Singers
Notes of Cases from the Records of a Voice Hospital, Part 6
Studying Singing in Europe
Management of Breath
To an Amateur Singer
Collateral Charms of Music
Moritz Moszkowski
Childhood Songs, II
Great Fault of the American Student
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Volume 18, Number 02 (February 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Foolish Ambition
National Disease
Home Piano
Organ Contest at Kipley's Corners
A. Schmoll
Wise and Otherwise
Faults of the American Girl
Why Do I Study Music?
Things the Music Student Should Remember
How to Get Up Concerts in Small Towns
Alphorisms
Beware of Conceit
Why Teachers Lose Pupils
Duel Between Liszt and Chopin
Chat with Amateurs
Wasted Opportunities
Great Teacher and His Method
Jealousy Among Musicians
As a Man Thinketh, So He Is
Vitality of Interpretation
Don't Ignore Discipline
Musical Culture Within the Profession
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Volume 18, Number 03 (March 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Fourth-Finger Question
Musical Nuggets
Success in Music
Music Sketches
In My Music Room
Sixty-Minute Lesson
Apt Illustration
St. Cecilia
What St. Cecilia Represents in Music
St. Cecilia in Art and Poetry
Apotheosis of St. Cecilia
To the Would-Be Musician
Chord-Playing
Real Value of Recommendations
What Method Do You Teach?
Something About the Popular Music of To-day
Nature's Course with the Child
Individual Who is a Problem
Pupil's Personal Responsibility
Honor to Whom Honor is Due
Aesthetic Versus Structural Analysis
Schumann's Sayings
Turning Music Pages
Why We Are Not More Musical
Advice to the Student of Harmony
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Volume 18, Number 04 (April 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Careful Teaching Results in Careful Practice
Enterprising Farmer
Leschetizsky and His Method
Don't Rush into Print
Mind-Property
Why? A Prince Among Questions
First Studies in Music Biography: Johann Sebastian Bach
Helping Musicians by Hopnotic Science
Recent Reminiscences of Liszt
Experiences and Observations from the Class-Room
Frauds
Wanted: Results!
From the Little Child's Stand-Point
Chopin Funeral March
How to Accompaniy at Sight
Letters to Pupils
Selections from L. Köhler's Literary Works
Conceited Pupil
Surrounded by Music
Secret of Success
Advice to the Student of Harmony
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Volume 18, Number 05 (May 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Studio Experience: Professional Courtesy
Greatest Difficulty for the Piano
Pertinent Points for Earnest Students
Remoteness of Things
Scharwenka Anecdote
How to Handle Stubborn Pupils
Too High Aims
Franz Peter Schubert
Chronological Summary of Schubert's Works
Schubert's Rank as a Composer and His Influence on the Romantic School
Sadness of Schubert's Life
Schubert and the German Lied
Schubertiana
Man Schubert
Schubert's Orchestral Compositions
On Schubert in Relation to Harmony, Melody, and Rhythm
Few Aphorisms on Schubert by Robert Schumann
Franz Schubert and His Pianoforte Compositions
Discipline via Affection
Characteristics of Schubert's Genius
Listen and Learn
Nervous System and Its Influence Upon the Singer
Rossini's and Verdi's Ideas on a Singer's Requirements
On the Art of Singing
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Volume 18, Number 06 (June 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Music Teaching as a Business
Obstacles Melt Before Determination
Some Traits of Character Resulting from the Study of Music
How to Prevent a Piece Becoming Tiresome Before Learned
Does Music Pay?
Basis of Success in Music Teaching
Ages of Some Prominent Pianists
Two Characteristics of the Best Methods of Teaching Music
Schubert's Sayings
Child-Study: The Teacher's Privilege and Duty
Educational Value of Concerts
Procession of the Phantoms
Dialogue Concerning Freaks
Teacher's Equipment
Mlle. Chaminade on Piano-Playing
Musical Busybodies
Advantages of House-to-House Teaching
Music Teachers Are Born, Not Made
Music as She is Spelt
First Age of a Musician
Developing Expression
Experiences and Observations from the Class-Room
Eccentricity and Business
Obituary of Ferdinand Dewey
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Volume 18, Number 07 (July 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Artist and the Machine
Dr. William Mason's Memoires
Tale of a Would-Be Musician
Whims and Fancies of Celebrated Musicians
Sir George Grove and Schubert
How of It
Early Composers and Copyrights of this Country
Collateral Summer Reading for Musicians
Educational Value of Program Music
Some Selected Quotes for Singers from Musical Mosaics
Patti's Advice to Singers
Adventures of a Musician
Hints to Play Triplets and Chords
Curious Discovery of a Genius
Advice to the Student of Harmony: Original Work
Saint-Saens and the Phonograph
Fashions in Pianos
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Volume 18, Number 08 (August 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Piano-Hands
Systematic Study
Vacation and Recreation Thoughts
Profitable Vacation
Pianoforte Playing as a Study
Renewing the Store of Teaching Materials
Bird's-Eye View
Some Reflections on Rhythm and Its Study
Relation of Master and Pupil in Musical History
Length of the Lesson Hour
Process of Learning a Piece
Social Demands Upon Musicians
Analysis of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite
Anton Rubinstein
True Test of a Teacher
Experiences and Observations from the Class-Room
Forget Your Music While on Your Vacation
Great Composers and their Love for Nature
Value of Public-School Music
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Volume 18, Number 09 (September 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Music in American Colleges
Harvard University
Yale University
Wellesley College
Tufts Collge
Northwestern University
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
Library of Congress: Music Department
Country Music Teacher
Value of the Concrete in Teaching
On the Value of the Study of Instrumentation to the Pianist
Thinking Art
Beginner's Difficulties
Seven Ages of a Musician
Golden Thoughts from Ruskin
Pianist's Library
Some Pedagogical Aspects of Music Teaching
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Volume 18, Number 10 (October 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Common-Sense in Music
What is a Lesson Worth?
Restlessness and Repose
Personal Maganetism
Mission of the Studio
Mental and Muscular Activity
Old Beethoven Program
Music in American Colleges
University of Michigan
Princeton University
Smith College
Amherst College
Oberlin University
Adelph College
Reproduction of Orchestral Effects on the Pianoforte
Serious Purpose in Music Study
Push Forward
Rebinding Music Books
Absolute Pitch
Individuality in Teaching
Primary Teaching
What and the Why of the Choice of Music
Soft Pedal
Obscure Teaching Terms
Harmony—Yesterday and To-day
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Volume 18, Number 11 (November 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Slow Practice
Difference in Fractions
Teaching: Its Purpose and Its Influence upon Music at Large
Ideas for Teaching Children
True Basis of Teaching
Playing or Non-Playing Teachers
Mental Attitude of Teacher and Pupil
Letter to a Young Composer
Primary Teaching, Part 2
How to Begin the Study of Bach
Teacher's Fertility
Home-Circle Critics
Some Points of Success
Talking Lessons Not All
Rapid Memorization of Key Signatures
Art of Holding Pupils
Look up to Bach
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Volume 18, Number 12 (December 1900)
Winton J. Baltzell
Is Wagner Wearisome?
Richard Wagner
Has Europe Discovered A Great Pedagogue?
Romantic Story of Wagner's Life
Suggestions for Wagner Study
Wagner and Operatic Reform
Present State of the Wagner Question
Wagneriana
Memory Among the Blind
Literature of Wagner
Wagner's Influence on Piano Composition
Outline Sketch of Richard Wagner's Life
Wagner Craze
Wagner's Harmonic Methods
How to Meet the New In Art
Outline Sketch of Wagner's Operas
Popularization of Wagner's Music
Esthetic Value of Wagner's Works
True Spirit of Advanced Study
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Volume 17, Number 01 (January 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Forms of Musical Memory
Training of Musical Listeners
Comments by Emil Liebling
Piano for Everybody
Playing Duets with Other Instruments
Problems
Struggle for a Public Career
Let Your Moderation be Known
Speed of Thought
Plea for Simplicity
Charity That is Kind
Some Thoughts by Busoni on Piano Playing
What One Man Did
Word to Aspiring Composers
Should the Last Note under a Slurred Group be Played Staccato
Uncharitableness Among Musicians
Common Sense in Piano Teaching
Blasts from the Ram's Horn, for Musicians
Frederic Francois Chopin
Critical Estimate of Chopin's Pianoforte Compositions
Harping on One String
Count Zichy and the Cultivation of the Left Hand
First Two Years of Piano
How to Succeed in Music Study for Amateurs
Study of the Reed-Organ
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Volume 17, Number 02 (February 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Should the Last Note under a Slurred Group be Played Staccato
One Step Toward Success
Playing for Parents
Self-Playing Pianos
Story of Paderewski's Minuet
Beethoven's American Biographer
American in Music
Covering Ground
On the Revival of Mozart's Works
Musical Millennium
Interesting Incident
On the Expediency of Playing Without Looking at the Keyboard
Nervous Pupils
Comments by Emil Liebling
Some Common Faults
Teachers and Pupils
Word of Encouragement to Young Pianists
How to Treat Pupils Who Have Previously Studied with Another Teacher (Symposium)
Foundation Teaching
Street-Organ as a Musical Educator
Am I a Good Teacher? How Can I Improve?
The Invasion of Vulgarity in Music
Would-Be Teachers
Studio Experiences
The Transformation of a Genius, from a Musician's Diary
Making Mistakes
Am I Musical?
What They Would Like to See
Science and the Vocal Art
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Volume 17, Number 03 (March 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Loving-Cup to Dr. Mason
What a Composition Means
Education and Its Demands Upon the Modern Teacher
People to Cultivate
Training of the Ear
Popularity of Vocal Over Instrumental Music
Common-Sense Chat
Good Teacher Versus Good Player
Transformation of a Genius from a Musician's Diary
Opposition to the Violin for Girls
How to Get People to Attend Pupils' Recitals
Teaching as a Specialty
Status of Music-Study in America
Rubinstein's Theory of Practice
Curved Thumb
How to Treat Pupils Who Have Previously Studied with Another Teacher (Symposium)
Matter of Temperament
On Special Editings and Annotations
Some Salient Points in Leschetitzky's Teaching
Concerts in Art Galleries
Modern Pianism
Other Side of Study Abroad
Business Side of Music Teaching
Science and Vocal Art
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Volume 17, Number 04 (April 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Tool or the Worker?
Synopsis of the Programs of the Twenty-First Annual Convention of the MTNA
Humoreske
Blundering of Piano-Pupils
Great Players and Practice
Opportunities for Musicians
Descriptive Music: A Parody
Wasting Tons of Energy
Some Common Drawbacks to Successful Teaching
Trying New Music
Some Salient Points in Leschetizky's Teaching
Bach's Thoroughness as a Teacher
Current of Musical Life
Random Thoughts
Comments by Emil Liebling: Musical Salamagundi
Musical Fakes and Fakers
Some Thoughts on Practical Harmony
Practice and Character Development
Education and Its Demands Upon the Modern Teacher
Record Book of Compositions and Works in Musical Literature
Beginning Aright
Thought and Feeling in Music Study
Drawbacks of Musical Study in Small Towns
After Weary Years: Musical Story
Exaggeration in Music
People's Orchestra
Who is Musical?
Teaching the Child
Studio Influences
Modern Song Writers
Singing in Time
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Volume 17, Number 05 (May 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Music and the American Public
American Virtuoso
American Composers
American as Musical Theorist
American Students
Foundations of Musical America
American Impatience
Americans in Musical Literature
Development of the Military Band in the United States
American Musical Instruments
Music Trades of America
Progress of the Middle West in Musical Art
Will American Composition Ever Possess a Distinctive Accent?
American Girl's Temperament in Relation to Music Study
Music Teaching in America and Abroad
Relation Between Pupil and Teacher
Musical Convention of New England: With a Backward Glance by the More Primitive Efforts for the Cause of Music
Musical Outlook for Women
American Idea
Where is the American Song?
American School of Singing
Nordica's Advice to Young Singers
Evolution of American Music
American Conservatories
American Harvest
Elementary Music Specialist in America
American Musical Antiquary
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Volume 17, Number 06 (June 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Musical Bigotry
The Pianist's Back
How to Lead Young Piano Pupils to the Study of Theory
Composer's Hard Work
Studio Experiences: Musical Environment
Prevalent Faults of American Teachers
Need of a Wider Musical Culture
Relation Between the Music Teacher and the Pupil
Voice and Vanity
Cecile Chaminade
Rag-Time Music
How Drudgery Can be Lightened
Personality and Piano Teaching
Comment on the Program of the Next MTNA Meeting
Rhythm, and its Relation to Music
Characteristic American Institution
American Students Abroad
Progress
Comments by Emil Liebling: Musical Salamagundi
How Many Million Years Would it Take
Ideal Summer School
Pupils Who Annoy
Origin of Gottschalk's Last Hope
Women's Philharmonic Society of New York
Harp as a Profession
Robert Franz
How to Spend the Half-Hour
Notes of Cases from the Records of a Voice Hospital
Consistent Energy
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Volume 17, Number 07 (July 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
J.S. Bach, 1685-1750
The Difference Between Polyphonic and Monophonic or Harmonic Music
Technic for Playing Bach: Its Bearing Upon Modern Piano Study
Study of Bach's Preludes and Fugues
Bach's Works in Relation to Modern Piano Study
On Interesting Students in the Works of Bach
Bach's Influence on the Musical World
Anecdotes of Bach
How to Enjoy Music
Musician's Reward
Mission of the Dull Pupil
Narrowness of Mind
On Harmony Teaching
Rhythm, and its Relation to Music
Music and National Characteristics
Art of Interesting Pupils
Getting Experience
Training of a Sensitive Ear
Rosenthal on Musical Training
Charity: A Discourse for Teachers and Musicians
American Music Students and German Café Life
Photographing Tone
Bach and His Music
Sebastian Bach's Triumph
How Music is Taught
How Shall We Study Music?
Theodore Thomas on Popular Music
Rhythmic Basis of the Music of Bach
Wednesday Morning Musicale of Nashville, Tenn.
Barnard Club
Bach Society of the Mississippi Industrial Institute
Review of Mr. Root's Article in the June Etude, Entitled How to Spend the Half-Hour
Bach and Vocal Music
Notes of Cases from the Records of a Voice Hospital, Part 2
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Volume 17, Number 08 (August 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
The Road to Parnassus
Songs for the Piano
Man Who Played the Cymbals: A Musical Story
Way to a Just Criticism
Strauss Waltz and the Critics
Courage, Young Teachers!
Creating Musical Atmosphere
Train Musicians Early
Song-Writing as a Profession
Musician's Marriage: A Study of Matrimony and Music
Revival of the Harpsichord
Artistic Playing in Simple Pieces
Should a Beginner be Taught Variety of Touch?
Choosing Music as a Profession
Rag-Time, II
Notes on Schumann's Soaring
Interpretation
Some Hints on the Use of the Pedals
Understand Music Before Playing It
Musical Atmosphere
Musician's Reading
Aphorisms on Music Education
Specialist in Music
Another Word about Gottschalk's Last Hope
Women as Organists
Pastor and the Young Man
What Method Do you Teach?
Vocal Blunders
How Not to Teach
Intensity
How to Accompany a Song at First Sight
What Gives a Voice Value?
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Volume 17, Number 09 (September 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Outlook
Musical Comments by Emil Liebling
Strenuous Life
Care for Personal Appearance
On Harmony Teaching
Pearls from the Proverbs of a Pianist
Our Musical Atmosphere
Acoustics as Part of a Musical Education
Method Versus Judgment
Science or Art?
Thought and Effect
Musician's Marriage: A Study of Matrimony and Music, Part 2
Regeneration of American Music
Protest of the Individual
On American Music
Importance of Combining Business with Art
Hint from the Kodak
Program for a Weekly Children's Class
Does Typewriting Interfere with Facility in Piano-Playing
Organ and Choir
Few Suggestions on Registration
Improvising
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Volume 17, Number 10 (October 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Ages of One Hundred Famous
Singers
On Program Printing
Unprofessional Advertising
Dumb Pianos
About Tuning
How Leschetizky Teaches Memorizing
Little Knowledge
First Step in the Instruction of Young Children
To a Piano (poem)
Mechanical Music
Honesty in Advertising
Actual Effect of Music Upon an Imagination
Types of Teachers, or Mayburn's Madness
Music or Notes?
Development of the Artistic Sense
Lost Ideals
Value of the Musical Magazine
How to Memorize
What Makes Music Successful?
Studio Experiences: Experiences with the Pedal
Uninterested Pupil
Conservatory and Private Teaching: Another Phase of the Subject
Musical Don'ts
What are Musical Clubs For?
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Volume 17, Number 11 (November 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Biographical Study
Do-Nothing
Many Methods: A Plea for Liberalism
Musical Items
Evil of Forcing Development
On Studying Sonatas
Unmusical People
Art of Interesting Pupils
Sophie Menter and Cécile Chaminade
Pitch Battle
Ideals for Piano Teachers
Scales Again: The Importance of Metronome and Accent
Too Much Thud!
How to Interest Children
Growth
Talk to Students
Choosing Music as a Profession
Blasts from The Ram's Horn
How to Become a Composer
Suggestions to Students Going Abroad
Who are Faddists?
Personality of the Opera Chorus
Suggestion to Pupils: Obedience
Best Way to Form a Good Teaching Connection
Voice Machine
Necessary Part of a Good Teacher's Equipment: The Value of Illustration
Intensity as a Factor in Piano Study
Why Go Abroad?
Practice and Health
Arrogant Teachers
Modern English Choral Writers
Teachers Should Play for Pupils
Study of Elocution a Help to the Musician
Questions in Musical History
Modern English Choral Writers (pictures)
About Minor Keys
Student's Incentive
On A Retiring Board for Amateurs
Future of the Lecture Recital
Musical Library A
Etude's Prize Library Contest
Program of Work for Coming Year of The Crescendo, Newburg, NY
Work of the National Federation of Musical Clubs, Memphis, Tenn.
Chips
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Volume 17, Number 12 (December 1899)
Winton J. Baltzell
Too Much Talent
Social Element in Success
Penalty of Genius
Narrow and Broad Pianoforte Instruction
Odds and Ends; or, Ideas on Many Subjects
Fallacious Notions
Teacher-Student
Musician's Life-Work
Study the Life of Schumann
Robert Schumann as a Composer for the Piano
Robert Schumann, Biographical
Piano Works of Robert Schumann
Point of Utility
Autobiographic Character of Schumann's Music
Side Lights on Schumann
Some Side Lights on the Making of a Musician
Songs of Schumann
Technical Demands of Schumann's Music
Schumann—The Man
Christmas Story
Successful Teacher
To the Girls Who Read The Etude
Education of Musicians
Do You Expect a Testimonial?
Clara Schumann
Childhood Songs
Timely Suggestions