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 71, Number 11 (November 1953)
Guy McCoy
Genius Begins with Maturity (interview with Yehudi Menuhin)
Paderewski as I Knew Him
Problems of a Genuine Musical Culture in America
Challenge of Operatic Performance on Television
Musical Critical Assault and Battery (an editorial)
Some Characteristics of Good Piano Teaching
Dance Accompanist
If You Hope for a Film Career (interview with Jeanette MacDonald)
Jacques Thibaud—In Memoriam
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Volume 71, Number 12 (December 1953)
Guy McCoy
Music at Christmas (Poem)
Performer—or Artist? (interview with Bidu Sayão)
Messiah Sunday (interview with Gordon Bachlund)
Backstage with the TV Scene Designer
Impressions of a Musical Journey to Africa
Ole Bull Returns to Pennsylvania
Rare Bit of Singing and Dancing
Much to Do About Conducting
What is Your Carol I.Q.?
Who Was this Christmas Outcast?
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Volume 70, Number 01 (January 1952)
Guy McCoy
Modern Harp Technique: Gestures Have a Vital Part in Playing the Harp (interview with Carlos Salzedo)
Flexible Staff-Pianist: The Musical Handyman of the Broadcasting Studios—That's the Staff Pianist
Joys of Sonata Playing
Lost Music of Yesterday
New Idea in Music Education
Why Not Women in Orchestras?
Gentle Giant
Power of Concentration
Musical Cop
Music Education in Elementary Schools
So Your Child Won't Practice
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Volume 70, Number 02 (February 1952)
Guy McCoy
Some Highlights of Artur Schnabel's Teaching
Singing Towers of North America
Young Career (interview with Barbara Gibson)
Hand and the Keyboard (interview with Artur Schnabel)
Strictly Professional Rural Delivery Service for Music Lessons
Genius of Artur Schnabel
Separate Preparation for Joint Concerts
Pops Recitals Prove Their Worth
How Musicians Can Save on Income Tax
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Volume 70, Number 03 (March 1952)
Guy McCoy
Points on Piano Teaching (interview with Isidore Philipp)
Master of Melody
Inspiration of Defeat
Accompanying the Ballet Class Audio-Visual Aids for the Music Educator
Your Voice After Fifty Years?
Bach and Bernie
Music from an Unstrung Violin Singing Towers of North America, Part 2
Give 'Em a Chance
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Volume 70, Number 04 (April 1952)
Guy McCoy
Getting Your Pupils to Practice: A Human Problem
Points on Piano Study Would You Like to Become a Successful Singer?
Touring Boy Choir
Here is Mary Garden
Short Cuts in Music Education
First Aid for the Amateur
Music for Main Street
Swedish Nightingale in America
Place of Technique in Advanced Study
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Volume 70, Number 05 (May 1952)
Guy McCoy
Hammer-Finger or Perfect Finger
Hear Yourself as Others Hear You (interview with Astrid Varnay) What Were They Doing, Daddy?
American Industry in Music
That New York Début Recital
Man—Handel
Disc-Jockeys and American Music (interview with Paul Whiteman)
Careers of Service in Sacred Song (interview with George Beverly Shea)
Theobald Böhm—A Tribute: How His Work Influenced the Development of the Modern Orchestra, and Widened the Scope of the Composer
Their Time Isn't Your Time
Improving Orchestral Musicianship (interview with Efrem Kurtz)
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Volume 70, Number 06 (June 1952)
Guy McCoy
Jean Sibelius—Master of Järvenpää
Music is an Indivisible Whole (interview with Nicole Henriot)
Choosing the Right Vocal Teacher
Contacts for Artist Students
Music at International Friendship Gardens
Casals' Approach to Teaching the Cello
I'll Take the Low Road Children Who Could Never Learn Music, But Did
Seventy Continuous Years in Music
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Volume 70, Number 07 (July 1952)
Guy McCoy
Highway to Heaven
Traditions and Methods (interview with Jean Casadesus)
What is Bel Canto?
After the Studio (interview with Eileen Farrell)
And What About the Electronic Carillon?
On Being a Concert Artist Male Chorus—Step-Child of Music?
Mrs. Music Teacher Speaks
Challenge to the Concert Violinist
Fun with Rhythm
Summer Scrap-Book
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Volume 70, Number 08 (August 1952)
Guy McCoy
Making of a Violinist (interview with Michael Rabin)
Piano Classes—More Work, But Worth It!
Municipal Band Extraordinary
Toy Symphony
To Those High School Juniors and Seniors, Why Not Music?
Wisdom from a Master Virtuoso
Building a Lending Library of Piano Music!
Let Them Sing!
Making the Organ Pay Dividends (interview with Richard Leibert)
Piano Lessons We All Enjoy Relaxation Through Music
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Volume 70, Number 09 (September 1952)
Guy McCoy
What To Do on the Stage? (interview with Jarmila Novotna)
Tucson Boys Chorus
Vocal Accompanying is a Specialty (interview with James Quillian)
Corner on Scales Your Child and the Practice Problem
Golden Chalices of Song
Backstage at . . . The Telephone Hour
Before Music Lessons Begin
Trends in Organs and Organ Music (interview with Flor Peeters)
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Volume 70, Number 10 (October 1952)
Guy McCoy
Young Conductor (interview with Thomas Schippers)
Denmark's Royalty Bows to the Ballet and Its Composers
Piano Study and the Schools
Language Problem in Singing (interview with Elena Nikolaidi)
Bread and Butter Music
Corner on Scales, Part 2
Building the Concert Program (interview with Eleanor Steber)
Music for the Making
Magic of the Harp
Choral Singing and the Solo Voice
Progress Chart—The Double Hit
Two Master Lessons—Sea Gardens (Cooke); Consolation in D-Flat (Liszt)
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Volume 70, Number 11 (November 1952)
Guy McCoy
Function of the Band (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)
Music in the Schools
Let the Child Teach You (interview with Henry Levine)
Evangelist of Music
Music, Prosperity, and Business
Carol Recital
Singing in the Movies: A Popular Singing Actress of the Films, Gives Sound Advice to Vocal Students Seeking a Career in Pictures (interview with Kathryn Grayson)
Parent, Teacher, Child—Triangle or Trio?
Speaking of Art-Song Writing
Singers Can Be Musicians, Too
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Volume 70, Number 12 (December 1952)
Guy McCoy
Christmas Love (Poem)
Concert Artist and His Community (interview with Alfredo de St. Malo)
Play Carols All-American, Too
Sixty Years Since Gilmore
Music Appreciation—Family Style
New Approach to Voice Training
Music: America's Global Ambassador of Good Will
Economics for the Music Teacher
Nativity: Christmas Program for Pianist and Narrator, Singer and Chamber Singers
Little Ol' Lady with Music in Her Soul
Adventures of a Piano Teacher
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Volume 69, Number 01 (January 1951)
John Briggs
Most Potent Musical Forces of the First Half of the Twentieth Century Were . . . Achille Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss, Paul Hindemith, Arturo Toscanni, George Gershwin, Bela Bartok, Serge Prokofieff, Jan Sibelius
What is Happening to Music in America
Modern Music: The First Half Century
Let's Give Them a Rest!: Five Overworked Piano Pieces by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff Should be Retired in Favor of Less-Hackneyed Numbers
Rhythm Makes the Music Go
How I Stage an Opera (interview with Margaret Webster)
Art of Mezza-Voce Singing
Some Thoughts on How to Perform Bach
Master Lesson on Handel's Sonata in D Major (Adagio and Allegro)
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Volume 69, Number 02 (February 1951)
John Briggs
Thoughts at 70
Music Teaching as a Profession
Jeanie Was a Lucky Girl
Origin of the Fugue
It's All Done with Muscles! (interview with Andor Foldes)
Singing Can Be Simple
That Inevitable Symphony
Deficit Master Lesson on Richard Strauss's Morgen
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Volume 69, Number 03 (March 1951)
John Briggs
Problem of Sincerity
There's Music in Stamps
Every Voice is a Problem
How Do You Look to Your Audience? (interview with Basil Rathbone)
Shall I Teach My Students Popular Music?
Don't Force the Issue!
Notes of an Amateur Violin Maker
Ernest Ansermet
Master Lesson on Handel's Sonata in D Major (Larghetto and Allegro)
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Volume 69, Number 04 (April 1951)
John Briggs
Dilemma in Detroit: Survivors of the Detroit Symphony Support Themselves with Odd Jobs and Look for a Successor to Sponsor Henry Reichhold
Zoltan Kodaly was my Teacher
How to Teach Adult Beginners
Music Has No Short-Cuts: Solid Careers Emerge Only for Unhurried, Systematic Training (interivew with Joseph Fuchs)
It's Free—It's Fun—It's Forum!
More About the Pharyngeal Voice: Widely-Used Method in the Golden Days of Italian Bel Canto
Class Piano Teaching Gets Results . . . A Successful Teacher Reveals the Formula She Has Developed Through Years of Trial and Error
Sing with Your Fingers
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Volume 69, Number 05 (May 1951)
John Briggs
Music at the Festival of Britain: Performers and Listeners Will Gather in England this Month for a Gala Once-in-a-Century Celebration
Singing Patrolmen: New York's Finest Sing to Prevent Traffic Accdients, to Welcome Visiting Dignitaries, and Just for the Fun of Singing
There's Music in Your Piano
Singer's Voice and the Sinuses of the Nose
Teaching is Selling Planning a Choral Rehearsal: For Best Results, Each Step Should be Carefully Mapped Out in Advance
Immortal Trifles, of Gilbert & Sullivan
Master Lesson on Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique
Program Note for Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring
How Sweet Adeline Got Its Name: America's Favorite Barber-shop Quartets Began as a Salute to a Touring Prima Donna
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Volume 69, Number 06 (June 1951)
John Briggs
Side of the Angels: The President of Julliard School, One of America's Outstanding Composers tells June Graduates
How to Succeed in Music
How Do I Get a Manager?
How to Get Started on Your Career as a Piano Teacher (interview with Arthur Judson)
Teachers I Have Known
How to Dress for a Concert
Make the Most of Your Recital Debut!: A Well-Chosen Program Can Help Your Professional Career to a Good Start
Too Many Languages
Great Kreisler Hoax
Accommodations are Plentiful This Year at the European Festivals
Aspen
Adventures of the Trill
Master Lesson on Johann Sebastien Bach's Gavotte from the E Major Violin Sonata
My Faults in Piano Playing Are These . . . Use this Handy Checklist to Get the Most Out of Each Piano Lesson
Teach with Flash Cards
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Volume 69, Number 07 (July 1951)
John Briggs
Bayreuth
Bayreuth 1876 . . . The First Festival
Richard Wagners Seen by the Press
Burrell Collection
Turbulent Life of Richard Wagner
Small Recitals Do Pay: A Tried and Workable Answer to the Question of How to Inspire Pupils to Practice
High Larynx—Hazard for Singers
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Volume 69, Number 08 (August 1951)
John Briggs
Young Man with an Idea
Forgotten Songs of Robert Burns
Musicians in the Woods
Let's Teach the Child How to Practice
Musician's Working Capital
Music Weaves Patterns
Bruckner and the St. Florian Organ
Decline of the Art of Singing: If Bel Canto is a Lost Art, It May be the Fault of Composers Rather than of Singers
Master Lesson on Schumann's Novellette, Op. 99, No. 90
Sing as You Speak
Capturing Interest in Music
Studio Rogues' Gallery
Story of the Baton
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Volume 69, Number 09 (September 1951)
John Briggs
Students Must Help Themselves
Get Rid of Your Stage Fright
Eddie Has Ears
Orchestra in Education
What TV Opera Needs (interview with Peter Herman Adler)
Don't Imitate Your Teacher: Vocal Students Often Copy the Mannerisims, Rather than the Virtues, of More Experienced Singers
Nebraska Farm Woman Takes Piano Lessons
Man Behind the Fiddler
Broadcasting a Student Workshop
Accompanist Sets the Mood
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Volume 69, Number 10 (October 1951)
John Briggs
Can Your Marching Band March?: Poor Band Performance Results form Inefficient Organization by the Director and His Bandsmen
Role of Harmonics in Music
You're an Army Organist Now
Bring Music Into Your Practice
Orchestra in Education, Part 2
How High the Mountains!
Technique of Conducting: The Best Conducting Achieves Maximum Musical Results with Minimum Effort
Springboard is Faith (interview with Jan Peerce)
Our Family Makes Music
Rigoletto at Indiana University Singer's Breath
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Volume 69, Number 11 (November 1951)
John Briggs
Fine Times Ahead for Music and Musicians
Pupils Talk it Over
Singing Voice—Speaking Voice
All Music Reading is Sight Reading
It's Time to Pay Tribute
Philosophy of Conducting (interview with Guido Cantelli)
School Music Teacher Speaks
Atonality Today Singer's Breath, Part 2
Musicians as Inventors
You Need More Than Talent!