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 16, Number 01 (January 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
Suggestions for the Musical Youth
How Shall We Teach Notation to Beginners
The Gospel of Work
Musical Memory in Its Relation to Pianoforte Playing
How to Make a Living
Problem of American Teaching
Song Writers of the Day
One-Sided Musicians
Nothing But a Name!
Success is the Reward of Toil
Musical Listener
Sight-Reading
Art of Self-Criticism
Helpful Letters to Young Musicians
Cost of Study Abroad
Factors of Musical Expression
Sight-reading in Pianoforte Instruction
Why Do You Take Music Lessons?
Principles of Musical Pedagogy
Thoroughness in Primary Work
Music Education
Moral Influence of Music
Convenient Maxims, Formulas, etc. for Voice Teaching
Letter from Randegger
Vocal Possibilities Among the Blind
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Volume 16, Number 02 (February 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
How to Make a Living
American Student
Principles of Musical Pedagogy
Life of a Pianoforte—How to Preserve It
Musical Listener
Children and Music
Music Teacher Analyzed
Thumb
How a Composer Works
Stumbling Blocks
In My Easy Chair
Romantic Side of Bach
How to Work up Concerts in the Smaller Cities
Mental Technic: A Suggestion
Key-Character a Fallacy
Ear Training
Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers
Pen Picture
Crime Against Art
Open Your Eyes
How to Maintain Pupils' Interest
Happy Medium
Old Italian Method
Study of Musical Literature
Listening Well
Professional Code
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Volume 16, Number 03 (March 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
Rubinstein's Thoughts and Aphorisms
Music versus Trade as a Means of Livelihood
Musical Pauperism
Musical Listener
Professional Piano Students
Principles of Musical Pedagogy
Classic and Romantic Defined
Story of a Musical Meteor
Louis Köhler's Notes on Practicing
Playing by Ear—A Bane or Benefit?
Bach the Originator of Fingering
Overcrowded Musical Profession
Originality in a Young Composer
What Can We Do
Test of Time
Do Something for Yourself
Listening to Music
My Pupils
Abuse of Tempo
Some Essentials for Music Students
Piano Beginner of Yesterday and of To-day
Training the Teachers
Stumbling-Blocks
How to Make Pupils' Recitals Attractive
Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers
Melba Story
How the Tone of the Piano is Affected by Furnishings
Self-Exaltation
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Volume 16, Number 04 (April 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
Mendelssohn
Aptitude for Teaching
Musical Listender
My Pupils
From the Pedal, Deliver Us!
Train Both Hands
Puzzle in Musical History
Modern vs. Classical
Principles of Musical Pedagogy
Carl Koelling
Liberation of the Ring Finger
Stepping-Stones
Summer Teaching: An Experience
Stray Thoughts
Baneful Influence: The Pupil's Piano
Miscellaneous Program by American Composers
Drudgery Made Interesting
Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers
Personal Apparel of the Music Teacher
How to Make Music Studios Attrative
Louis Köhler's Notes on Practicing
How to Win and Keep an Audience
Marvelous Memories
Music as a Profession vs. Musical Dilettantism
Mistakes Do Not Hurt
Choosing a Vocal Teacher
Do Not Take Too Much Breath
Hygienic Utility of Singing
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Volume 16, Number 05 (May 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
Social Status of the Musician
Enthusiasm
Thirteen Mistakes
Poor Old Blind Tom
Letters to Dead Musicians—Frederic Chopin
Wonderful Orchestra
Modern Musical Machines
Study of Pieces
Reed Organ
Boon for Composers
Need of Higher Education for Musicians
Some Hindrances to Fellowship Among Musicians
What is Meant by Playing with Expression?
Ability and Amiability: Two Important Factors in Teaching
What Made Me a Musician
Proper Age for Beginning the Study of Music
Preparing for a Pupil's Recital
Manners, Morals, and Music
Advantages for Music Students in the Various Music Centers
Chapter on Scales
Nature's Music
How to Make Music Studios Attractive
Beautiful Device
That Thank You Business: From the Teacher's Standpoint
Professional Rivalry
Thinking in Music
Young Music Teacher
Writing for the Press
Albert Bach on Breathing
Temperament
Voice as a Factor in Our Civilization
Temptations to Egotism
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Volume 16, Number 06 (June 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
Persistency
Broader Musicianship Needed
Do Teachers Teach?
Music a Moral Force
Listening to Music
Repose
Musical Amateur
American Musician
Something for Nothing
Those Wicked Musicians
How is Art to Survive?
Improvement of the Musical Condition of America
Pronunciation of Russian Names
Josef Hofmann
Mendelssohniana
Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers
How to Make Music Studios Attractive
Give Yourself Royally
Music and the Intellect
Teaching, a Business
Two Distinct Classes of Pupils
The Technical Terms of Harmony
Music Makes Character
Chapter on Arpeggios
Rhythmic Practice
Principles of Musical Pedagogy: Letters to a Young Music Teacher
Music and Manners
Art of Singing
What Repertory Shall I Teach?
Singing in a Chorus
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Volume 16, Number 07 (July 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
When Only Men Played
Great Masters as They Reveal Themselves
Professor Quack (A Sketch from Life)
How One Boy Practiced
How to Make Music Studios Attractive
Studio Experiences
Value and Practice of Advertising Among Professional Musicians
Mechanical Musical Instruments
Expression in Playing and Its Conditions
Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers
No Time For Study
Principles of Musical Pedagogy
Puzzle in Music Notation
Teaching Pupils to Think
Anybody Can Teach a Beginner
Wit of Composers
Music-Study and Manual-Practice
Ear Training
Good Voice or Good Singer
Song
Fine Art of Enunciation
Training for the Stage
Musical Blues
Those Four Neglected Keys
Marvelous Musical Memory
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Volume 16, Number 08 (August 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
Cultivate the Love of Nature
The Subjective Player
Music and Progressiveness
Rusting and Rusticity
Culture: A Suggestion for Summer
The Teacher Not Everything
Pioneer American Pianist: Gottschalk—His Work, Artistic Standing, and Financial Circumstances; A Statement as to His Poverty Corrected
Letter from Sousa
Value and Practice of Advertising Among Professional Musicians
Professional Courtesy
Environment as an Educational Factor
Encores
Individuality in Art
Teaching a Necessity
Present and Abiding Duty for the Music Teachers
Rhythm the Basis of Melody
Gladstone's Interest in Music
Prize Medal System
Two Schools of Organ Playing
How to Make Music Studios Attractive
Studio Experiences
Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers
Development of Taste
Great Teachers
Passing of the Soloist
Exact Ear in Singing
Ages of Composers
Scherzoso
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Volume 16, Number 09 (September 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
John Comfort Fillmore (obit)
Frivolous Pupils
Scherzoso
Capacity for Teaching
Musical Taste
Why?
Minor Scales
Conservatory the Public School of Music
Twelve Business Maxims
New Teaching Season
How to Buy a Piano
Reading at Sight vs. Artistic Playihg
Mechanical Aids to Piano Study
Another Teaching Ability
Modernizing Classics
How to Understand Music
Parental Interference
Value and Practice of Advertising Among Professional Musicians
Pedalmania
Time Brings Changes
Teaching the First Piece
Anton Rubinstein
Rubinstein as I Knew Him
On Selecting a Teacher
Introspect
Principles of Musical Pedagogy
Self-Criticism
True Music Teachers vs. Pin-Money-Makers
Charlatanism in Music
Aimlessness Among Musicians
Inspiration
Song Analysis
Vocal Literature
Shock of the Glottis
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Volume 16, Number 10 (October 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
Curious Musical Incidents
Overcoming Nervousness
Musical Library
Studio Experiences
How to Keep the Beginning Interested
Outposts of Music
Phase of Music Study in Paris
Kindly Feeling Among Musicians
Musician and the Man
Successful Teacher
Genius Among Students
How to Teach Time
Choosing a Musical Career
Pecularlities of the Piano
Ensemble Playing
How to Overcome So-Called Drudgery
Simple Repertoire
Utility of Music
Tone and Touch
Fragile Possession
Birth of Chopin's Funeral March
Training of the Ear
Fictitious Values
Paderewski on the Physical Side of Piano-Playing
On the Legato in Pianoforte-Playing
What the Mason System Has Done for Me
Raw Material
Technic Hints
Singing at Sight
Song Analysis
Breathing in Songs
Love Songs
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Volume 16, Number 11 (November 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
Music and Fashion
Never-Say-No Clubs
Critical Comment
Duet Playing
Some of the Best Thoughts on Music
Self-Study
How to Use the Mason System
Learning a New Piece
Tact: One of the Factors of Success in Music
Studio Experiences
Influence of Beethoven's Deafness on His Music
Appeal to the Musicians of the Country for the Music Teachers' National Association
Epigrams
Pupils On Show
Experiment in Lecture Recitals
Sincerity of Purpose
Helps to the Home Student
Symposium—Is the Teaching Season Growing Shorter
Nervous Prostration
More Power to His Arm
Sousa's March Form
Modern Music Teacher
Perplexing Problem
How Many Pupils Have You Got?
Basis of Pianoforte Technic: Hand Gymnastics as Relief from Keyboard Exercises—A Working Schedule of Gymnastics for Teaching Purposes
Letter from Mr. Mathews
Too Much Practice
Study of Scales
Harmony in its Relation to Piano-Playing
Some Weak Points in the Conservatory System
How Progress is Made
Road to Expressive Playing
How to Practice
On the Influence of Organ-Playing Upon a Pianist
Needs of the Vocal Profession To-Day
Convenient Maxims, Formulas, etc. for Voice Teaching
Registers
Modern Artistic Singing
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Volume 16, Number 12 (December 1898)
Winton J. Baltzell
Comments by Emil Liebling
Danger of Premature Introduction of Classical Music
Some Thoughts on Teaching the Pianoforte
Great Players and Great Teachers
Don'ts
Symposium: Is the Teaching Season Growing Shorter?
Origin of the Baton
Critical Comment
Factors in a Teacher's Success
Behind the Scenes in Art-Life
Violins and Girls
Hearing Music as a Factor in Musical Education
Attempting the Impossible
Technic and Emotion
Sin Against Good Taste
Writing of the Requiem: The Story of Mozart's Masterpiece
Originality Impossible
Good Advice
Nervousness Before Appearing in Public
Methods and Results
Eclecticism in Music
Home Influence on Pupils
Memorizing is Such Hard Work
Credit To Whom Credit is Due
Changes in Musical Taste
Troublesome Relic
Youthful Martyrs of the Keyboard
Two Great Pianists
Does it Pay to Borrow Money?
Musical Puzzle
Chats with Voice Teachers
Chats with Voice Students
Convenient Maxims
Registers
Hygienic Value of Singing
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Volume 15, Number 01 (January 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Mr. Emil Liebling's Bach Course
Common Sense of Piano Teaching
Should Teachers Employ Collectors?
Souls or Stomachs, Which?
Singing the Counts
Music in its Relation to Health
Nervous Pupil
Boston as Musical Center for the Student
Cincinnati as a City for the Music Student
Talent and Intelligence Contrasted
What Method Do You Teach?
Should a Singing-Teacher Be Able to Sing?
One of Bob's Tramps: A Musical Tale
Talk About Some Early German Folk-Songs
High Prices Realized from Songs
Blasts from The Ram's Horn
Musical Listener
Wanted—A New System of Musical Notation
Better Understanding
That First Lesson
Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life
Pianism According to Modern Requirements
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Volume 15, Number 02 (February 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Musical items
Music Study in Chicago
New York, the Place for the Music Student
Wm. H. Sherwood Writes
Studio Meditations
Bridge between Mechanism and Esthetic Piano Playing
Personal Power and Influence
Class-Work for the Piano-Student
Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life
Broken Stairways
Johannes Brahms
The Use and Abuse of the Piano-Forte Pedal
Are Exercises Necessary?
Komikal Kadenza
Recitals, Pro and Con
One Type
Letters to Teachers
Marchesi's Opinion of American Voices
Musical Listener
Fools
Harmonic Analysis: An Aid to Piano Students
Trials of a Student
Pleas for Mediocre Talent
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Volume 15, Number 03 (March 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Musical Listener
Clayton Johns
On Choosing Music
First Lessons
Why We Have So Few Musicians
Some Wholesome Truths for Teachers
Sieveking's Mode of Practice
W.J. Henderson
Study the Nature of Melody
How Long Should One Practice?
Henry T. Finck
Soul of Music
Music Scrap-Book
Beginning and Development of Pianoforte Playing
Common Sense in Music
Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life
Why Study Harmony?
Queer Traits of Great Musicians
Art of Programme-Making
Louis C. Elson
Backward Pupils
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Volume 15, Number 04 (April 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Modern Musical Definitions
Have I Talent?
Peculiarities of Popular Teachers
Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life
Chat with Students on the Purpose of Study
Teachers Who Scold
How Do We Listen?
Ring-Finger
Hearing Colors
Musical Listener
Reading Course: Outline of Psychology
Leschetizky as a Teacher: Reminiscences of a Pupil
Keep Your Temper
Great Thoughts About the Hands
Dull Pupil
Concerning Practice and Other Points of Interest to Students
Calvé on American Musicians
Pianofore Study: Hints on Piano Playing
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Volume 15, Number 05 (May 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Points in Music Teaching
Music Education
Play with Brains
Pianoforte Study: Hints on Piano Playing
Massage as a Means for Developing Suppleness in the Fingers
Music for Piano Students
Like unto a Magnet
Rubinstein's Thoughts
My Fellow-Students
Music Cure Again
Appogiaturas and Passing Notes
Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life
Death of Brahms
Wasted Efforts
Good Advice for Composers
Hypocrisy in Music
Modern Music, or Feed for Thought
Ruskin on Music
Value of an Objective Point
Art of Playing Accompaniments
Use of Slow Piano Practice
Find Your Proper Niche
Vehicle of Music
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Volume 15, Number 06 (June 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Pianoforte Study: Hints on Piano Playing
Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life
Musical Vitiation
What Our Profession Needs
Original of Chopin's Funeral March
Means Available in Piano Teaching
Anecdote of Liszt
Thoughts on Expression
Mistaken
Comments on Two Important Subjects
Finger Quality in Piano Playing
Selection of Teachers
Folk-Music
Three Golden Rules
Pupils' Musicales
Musical Listener
Tragic Side of Music Study
Music Education
Practicing the Hands Separately
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Volume 15, Number 07 (July 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Musical Listener
Means Available in Piano Teaching
Truths in a Nut-Shell
Plagiarism in Music
Child Nature
Learn to Think
Some Passing Notes
Forty Good Resolutions for the Music Student
Usefulness of Some Recent Composition
Common Mistake and Its Deplorable Results
Recreation in Music
Character Will Out
Student Life in Berlin
My Fellow-Students
Memorizing
Moonlight Sonata: Or, What's in a Name?
Plea for Idealism in Music
Touch: Physical, Physiological, and Esthetic
Art of Preparing a Programme
Benefit of Seeing and Hearing Concert and Opera
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Volume 15, Number 08 (August 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Piano and Our Girls
For Juvenile Recital: When Malindy Sings (poem)
Protecting the Artistic Sense
Can a Poor Ear be Improved?
Pianoforte Study
Whither Are We Drifting: Realism in Music
Wit of Composers
Musical Stage Fright
Bach Anecdotes
Liszt and Tausig
Story Teller: For Summer Reading
Counting Time
My Fellow-Students
Aids in Teaching Time Values
Guide to Pianists
Musical Listener
Automatism in Technic
Promising Indication
Musical Inconsistencies
Day's Practice
Appreciative Audience
Plea for Pimary Instruction in Harmony
Thoughts about the Most Salient Features of Music Life—Teaching and Otherwise
Truly Great Musician
How Music Affects Some People
Remarkable Definitions
Study the Essentials
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Volume 15, Number 09 (September 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Would-Be Paderewski
Music No Hindrance to Getting On
Some Don'ts for Students Who are Going to Germany to Study Music
Playing in Public
From Recent Programmes
Neglected Essential: Music and Languages
Self-Exaltation
Time Values
Flowers by the Wayside
Not Yourself, But Your Art
Four Stages of Student Life
Physical Exercises an Aid to Artistic Piano Playing
How a Pupil Rose to Success
Should Piano Students Attend Piano Recitals?
For the Student's Encouragement
Reading New Music
Extracts from Reinecke's Hints to Music Students
Materials and Workmanship
Ear Training
Study on Phrasing
Reed Organ as an Aid in Piano Instruction
Musical Listener
How Leschetizsy Teachers
Elevation of Musical Taste
About Pianists' Hands
How to Keep the Piano Bright
Charles S. Brainard (Obit.)
How to Cultivate the Ear
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Volume 15, Number 10 (October 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
On the Virtues of India-Rubber: A Pupil's Plea
Piano and the Left Hand
Tale with a Moral
Women as Piano Tuners
You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can Not Make Him Drink
Greatest Dates in Music
Impositions on Musicians
Music Teacher and His Work
Piano and Pianist at the Summer Hotel
Feel Music: Think Music
Business Side of Music: About Piano Commissions, etc.
Pilgrim of Art
Development in Firmness of Rhythm
Would-Be Paderewski
Wasting a Pupil's Time
Brains and Music
Oddities of Great Musicians
Aphorisms of Art-Philosophy
Neglected Pianoforte Compositions
At the Musicale
I Have Finished my Education
Recollections of Gottschalk
Concering the Use of the Pedal
Laying the Foundation
Plea for Expression in Music
Some Practical Ideas on Teaching Rhythm
The Art Nearest the Heart
Beethoven Sonatas: Arranged in Progressive Order According to Movements
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Volume 15, Number 11 (November 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
Song Writers of the Day
American Conservatories
Genius
Playing by Ear
Leschetizky on Technic
Talent-Pianistic Talent
Education
How to Teach: How to Study
Verdi's First Success
Adolphe Henselt as a Teacher
How Chopin Played
Wise Teacher
Why We Lose Interest in Certain Pieces
Melba's First Concert
Dullard's Service to Art
Beautiful Thought
Plea for Broader Musicianship
Musical Listener
A Popular Readig Course for a Some-what Advanced Student
Would-Be Paderewski
Three Suggestions
Every Man His Own Critic
Odd Musical Creature
Ten Cardinal Points in the Early Musical Education
What We Get Out of Music
Songs and Song Making
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Volume 15, Number 12 (December 1897)
Winton J. Baltzell
How to Make a Living
Apology for the Piano
Remedy Suggestion
Song Writers of the Day
Bit of Biography
Talent for Technic is not Musical Talent
Musical Listener
Monomaniac in Music
How to Teach—How to Study
Are We Not Giving Too Much Thought to the Technical Side of Music, Thereby Losing Sight of the True Meaning of the Art?
Treatment of Unpromising Pupils
Cathedral Chimes at Christmas Eve
Strongest Thing in the World
Music Touched His Heart
What a Music Teacher Ought to Know
Starting Pupils Aright
Mozart and Pure Beauty
How to Study
Would-Be Paderewski
Keeping Up with the Times
Enthusiasm; Energy; The Only Short Road to Success: the Divinity of Music
Personality of the Teacher
Moral Influence of Music
Artistic Singing
Legato
How to Sing an English Ballad
What Vocalists Should Eat
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Volume 14, Number 01 (January 1896)
Theodore Presser
Ultra Sensitive
Rambling Talk
Hints for the Studio: How to Gain the Greatest Good from Pupil Recitals
Faults in the Editions of Chopin's Works
Make Study Interesting
Failures
Mechanical Aids for Piano Playing
Description of Beethoven's Pastoral Sonata
Thinking Sound
How We Have Progressed
Study of Music Criticism
Interview with a Pianist (interview with M. Henri Falckes)
Niccolai von Wilm
Piano Nuisance
Estimate of Bach
Should Music Teachers Be Performers?
How Is it Pronounced?
Irregular Groups
What is the Effect of Touch on the Piano?
Plea for Keeping Time
Paderewski Technic