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 14, Number 02 (February 1896)
Theodore Presser
What Is It to Be Musical?
Jean Louis Micodé
Developing Musical Feeling
Wanted—A Looking-Glass for Teachers
Attention is Genius
Musical Education—How to Procure One at Little Cost
Tact and Success
Much Neglected Staccato Practice
Requisites for a Vocal Teacher
Two Teachers and What They Did
Schwigzebeer's Fatal Mistake
What All Should Know: A Few Facts about Modern Music and Musicians
Anecdotes About Von Bülow
Concerning Ear Training
Commendable List of Music—Grade I to X
Something More of Paderewski
Cast of Liszt's Hand
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
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Volume 14, Number 03 (March 1896)
Theodore Presser
Anecdotes About Rubinstein
Method in Piano Teaching
Some Valuable Information
Metronome, Its Use
Bülow as Liszt's Pupil
Music Teaching in a Small Town
How Parents Often Prevent Their Child's Advancement
No Genius Without Work
Word on Playing From Memory
Cornelius Gurlitt
Avoid Over-Fatigue
What Becomes of All the Music Pupils?
Two Ways to Win
To Interest in Scale Practice
Chapter on Musical Education
Professional Courtesy Among Musicians
Have We Competent Teachers
Mlle. Chaminade
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Volume 14, Number 04 (April 1896)
Theodore Presser
Where Ignorance is Bliss—!
Selecting a Piano
Art of Singing Applied to the Piano
Maxims for Young Teachers
Dr. Mason and the Pressure Touch
Appeal
Some Elements Necessary to the Success of a Pupil of the Pianoforte
For Amateurs: What is a Theme and Counter Theme in Music?
Half-Baked Musicians
Faults of Pianists
Selection of Pieces for Teaching
Cultivation of Memory in Piano Students
Something for Every One
How Gounod Managed the Church Committee
Paderewski's Hands
How to Combine the Art and the Business of Music
Am Beyond the Mark to Hit the Mark
Woman's Future
Music Lesson with Variations
Rocks and Sand-Bars in a Teacher's Life
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Volume 14, Number 05 (May 1896)
Theodore Presser
Fidelity to Music
What is the Use of a Musical Education
Plea for the Other Side
Musical Hypocrisy
Sober Chat
Breadth in Teaching
Will-Power and Success
Paderewski in His Daily Life
Genius
Place of Music in Education
Musical Thermometer
Don't Crush Individuality
Selection of Pieces
Technic or Not Technic
Three Bad Cases—Remedies Applied—Results
Washing a Piano
American Composer of the Future
To Amateurs
Good Playing Makes Classic Music Popular
Should Pupils Hear Their Pieces?
Letters to Pupils
Real Paderewski
Two Worthy Objects
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Volume 14, Number 06 (June 1896)
Theodore Presser
Johann Sebastian Bach and George F. Root Monument Fund
Gounod's Visit to Mendelssohn
On the Interpretation of Chopin's Works (prize essay)
Teachers Ignorant and Erudite (prize essay)
Does the Acquisition of Artistic Education and Taste Necessitate the Lose of the Power to Enjoy? (prize essay)
Some Advice to the Parents of Music Students
Aim High
Anecdote of Henselt
Town Libraries
How to Make a Vacation Profitable
Music and the Bicycle
Pedal
To Awaken Enthusiasm
Division of Difficulties
Music for the Uncultivated
Petty Cheating in Music
After Graduation—What?
Mental Backbone
Vacation or Vexation
What an Artist Advises About Ways of Practice
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Volume 14, Number 07 (July 1896)
Theodore Presser
Description of Last Island
Mme. Clara Schumann
Commendable List of Music—Grade I to X
Hints About Memorizing
Outside Helps to Young Musicians
Letter of the Law
Why Some Pupils Hate Music
Golden Rules of Vocal Teachers
How to Hold Pupils
Music as a Social Factor
Chat with Students
Music and Manhood
Be Gracious
Word About Two Popular Composers
Power of Persistence
Anecdote
What is Classic Music?
Bicycle Craze and Music
Edward Schuett
Edmund Neupert
Ideal
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Volume 14, Number 08 (August 1896)
Theodore Presser
Care of the Reed Organ
Hour or Half Hour?
Ruts
Studio Experience
Plea for Short and Easier Pieces
Fritz Spindler
Errors in Piano Practice
Points for the Young Pianist
Indolence and Indifference
Women Pianists
Success and Failure in the Musical Profession
Musical Fools
Summer Days
Fingers, Wrist, and Arm
Better Lessons—How to Get Them
Sense and Non-Sense
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Volume 14, Number 09 (September 1896)
Theodore Presser
Liszt's Pen-Picture of Chopin
Music and Money
Our Trials
Illustrated Music Lessons
M. Saint-Saëns
My Piano Teacher Criticised
How to Interest Beginners
How Shall We Interest Our Pupils?
Musical Thief
New Chapter of Touch
Male and Female Teachers
To One About to Enter the Profession
Analysis of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C Major and C Minor
Class Work in Musical Criticism
Some of the Pupils We Meet With
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Volume 14, Number 10 (October 1896)
Theodore Presser
American Girl and the Piano
Ole Bull's First Great Success
Composer of The Maiden's Prayer
Plea for Professional Ethics
Scales—Sooner or Later?
An Artist's Love Affair
To the Pianist
Hitch Your Wagon to a Star
Teacher's Experience
Fifty Per Cent Off
Chopin's Birth
Pianoforte Pupil
Timely Word
Lunacy Among Men of Genius
Unteachable Pupils
Studio Illustration
How to Listen to Music
Concerning Late Methods
Leschetizky-Rubinstein
Necessity of a Standard of Attainment for Teachers of Music
Why and How
How to Interest Your Teacher
Emotional Affinity of a Student and Her Music
Results of Diligent Study
Description of Vesper Chimes: A Medication for the Piano by Wilson G. Smith
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Volume 14, Number 11 (November 1896)
Theodore Presser
Some Things Which the Musical Profession Owes Itself
Music Chats with Children
American Artists
Class in Ear-Training
Mendelssohn's Piano Playing
Art and Ease
Artist vs. Amateur
Modesty in Music
Chopin's Notes for a Method of Methods
Is the Study of Music Profitable?
Difference Between Studying and Cramming
As a Man Thinketh So Is His Work
Thoughts About the Most Salient Features of Music Life—Teaching and Otherwise
Musical Mischief-Breeders
Beethoven and the Ladies
How to Stimulate Practice
Playing by Ear
Rough and Musical Bülow
Some Mistakes of the Provincial Musician
Correction
Is Mendelssohn to be Ranked Among the Great Composers?
Some Peculiar Effects of Bill-Presentation
How Long Should a Lesson Last?
Interresting Facts About Leschetitzky
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Volume 14, Number 12 (December 1896)
Theodore Presser
One Hand Alone
Submerged Melodies
Fillmore, John C.
Intention and Success
Playing by Memory
Evil of the Time
Avoidance of the Commonplace
Music Chats with Children
Music Teachers' Problem
Theodor Kullak
Let Singers Beward of Doctors
Humorous Incident
Is Marriage Inimical to Music? If so, Why?
New Story of Paganini
Plea for My Last Teacher
Needs of Piano Students and How They May be Secured
Secret of Musical Expression
Extract
For the Suppression of Din
Why Study Musical History?
Obstacles They Met, and How They Overcame Them: Lessons in Perseverance from the Lives of the Masters
Most Difficult Piece
How to Form an Amateur Musical Society
Blasts from The Ram's Horn
Away with Methods!
Self-Consciousness and How to Cure It
Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague
When Vocalists Should Eat
Gladstone on Music
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Volume 13, Number 01 (January 1895)
Theodore Presser
Cause of Failure
Music Study and Society
Importance of Hearing Artists
Touch of Great Players
Three Classes of Pupils
Musicians and Music Lovers
Few Words About the Precursors of the Pianoforte
Justice in Music Teaching
Reputation
Concise Suggestions for Memorizing
Why of Scale Practice
Dont's for Young Singers
Music vs. Morality
How Much Shall I Charge for a Music Lesson?
William Mason on Piano Touch
Fault in Piano Playing
Musical Ear: Those Who Possess It and Those Who Don’t
One Way to Interest
Method of Practicing Exercises and Other Larger Works
Reviewing
Random Shots
How to Become an Artist
Mental Process
Parents of Our Pupils
Art in the Occident
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Volume 13, Number 02 (February 1895)
Theodore Presser
On the Rhythmic Element of Musical Form
Bugbear of Method
Rafael Joseffy
Personal Magnetism of Rubinstein
Men vs. Women Teachers
Machine Pupils
Pianoforte Teaching and Teachers
Can Expression Be Cultivated?
Music and Music Lovers
Music Study for Boys
Develop the Musical Soul
Rubinstein's Career
Faults of Beginners: Rapid Playing in Primary Grades—Play Slowly if You Hope to Play Fast
Metronome
Fads in Instruments
Rubinstein's Piano Touch
Dignity of the Pianoforte
How to Select a Piano
Benjamin Godard
Musical Utterances of Ruskin
Practical Pedaling for Teacher and Pupil
Sharp But True
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Volume 13, Number 03 (March 1895)
Theodore Presser
Piano—What Is It?
Musical Micawbers
Short Glossary of Musical Terms (up to date)
Concentrate! Concentrate!
Conservative Versus Experimental
Wasted Effort
Music Study Abroad, as Viewed by a Former Leipzig Student
Why That Failure?
What is Classical Music?
On Listening to Music
Leisure Moments
Practical Pedaling for Teacher and Student
Missed Lesson Question
Slow Pupil
Chopin's Music
Liszt's Music and Stavenhagen's Liszt Playing
Expression in Piano-Playing
How to Begin
Evil Exposed
Some Helps for the Town Teacher
Too Rapid Reading
Develop the Artistic Nature
Individuality
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Volume 13, Number 04 (April 1895)
Theodore Presser
New Note on the Piano
Reminiscence of Bülow
What Shall I Play?
Make Study Interesting
Value of an Artist's Testimonials
Fantasy
Practical Talk with Girls
Material for Music Classes
To Acquire Expression
Present Worth
Duties of Music Teacher, Pupil and Parent Toward Each Other
Wit, Wise and Otherwise
How to Teach Schumann to Children
Amateur Musical Society
What is Classical Music?
Music and Money
To Play or Not to Play: Musical Education that Would Make Study a Pleasure to Children
Fingers and Finger-Rings
Basis of Phrasing
Rhapsody
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Volume 13, Number 05 (May 1895)
Theodore Presser
True Value of the Study of Music
Musicians or Executants, Which?
Another Point of View
Winter's Work
How Shall We Educate the Parents of Our Pupils?
What Constitutes Success?
Classes in Phrasing
Little Talk
Nuggets
Emil Bauer on Practicing—Brains as Well as Fingers
Chat with Young Music Teachers
Impromptu Opinions of Prominent Musicians
How to Keep Up an Interest
Musical Talent
Why Go Abroad to Study
Trials and Tribulations of a Music Teacher: The Pupil Who Wants Twice Too Much Time for the Money
Comic Side of Music
Avoid
Reed Organ
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Volume 13, Number 06 (June 1895)
Theodore Presser
Some Reflections on the Study of Music at the Piano
Music, Home and Wife
How to Work, or the True Gradus ad Parnassum
Crescentic Keyboard
Their Characteristics
Boxing as an Aid to Piano Playing
Country Teacher
Teach Music
Music in Education
Is it a Waste?
Wealth and Poverty of Musicians
Pupil of To-Day
Musical Individuality
Reading, Listening, and Thinking
Little Story
Alphabetical Musical Rhyme
Phrasing
Choosing a Teacher
What Shall be Taught Beginners
Why So Many Failures?
Pianistic Mannerisms
Pushing and Pulling
Use of the Metronome
Liszt and Mendelssohn
Musical Prejudices
Teaching and Playing
Playing for Pupils
How to Sing a Song
Musical Library in the Home as an Indicator of Musical Culture
Music and Character
Defective Foundation Work
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Volume 13, Number 07 (July 1895)
Theodore Presser
One Way to Abuse Classical Music
Music is not Music if it Has No Soul
Lessons in Listening
Musicians' Creed
Musical Prodigies
Neglected Branch of Piano Teaching
How to Succeed in Music Teaching
How to Reach the Pupil: Four R's
Rubinstein: The Man and the Musician
Lack of Public Sympathy for Musical Art
Self-Criticism, an Important Factor in Piano Study
Few More Don'ts
Study Essential
Personality in the Musical Life
Remedies Effected Through the Medium of Four-Hand Playing
Scherzo
Art of Teaching Children
Receptive, But Critical
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Volume 13, Number 08 (August 1895)
Theodore Presser
How to Listen to Music
Mission of the Artist
What to Cultivate
Mendelssohn as a Teacher
Machine vs. Mind in Playing
Cultivation of the Ear
Infant Musical Prodigies
Rubinstein: The Man and the Musician
Music Teacher's Allies
False Ballances
How Shall I Interest My Pupils?
Origin of Old Folks at Home
Broad Consideration of Piano Playing
Take a Music Journal
From a New Standpoint
Liszt and Chopin
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Volume 13, Number 09 (September 1895)
Theodore Presser
When to Begin
Organize Organize!!
Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and Others for Teaching Purposes
Lesson in Concords and Discords
Parallel
True to Art
Use of the Metronome in Practice
Misconceptions
What Dvorak Says
Why Woman is not a Composer
To Be or Not to Be
Gift of Song
Why Good Music is Good
No Royal Road
Guilmant on American Music
Friends and Their Friendship
Real Study and Its Relation to Playing by Ear
Quality, Rather Than Quantity
What Ought to be Played
Idols Shattered
So-Called Conservatories
Expression and Phrasing
Humorous in Instrumental Music
Nervousness in Piano-Playing
Consideration
Does Music Describe?
Public Not Sympathetic
She Invented the Polka
Memorizing
Some Illogical Teaching
Simplicity in Teaching
Musical Abuse
Studio Experiences
Success
Poverty no Barrier to Success
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Volume 13, Number 10 (October 1895)
Theodore Presser
Hardest Piano Piece
Modern Musical Crank
Absent-Minded Musicians
Art and Artlessness
Creed of the Well-Taught Pupil
Other Side of the Story
Difficult Passages as Etudes
That Other Teacher
Types of Piano Teacher
Extemporization
Interesting Interview with Verdin
Listening to One's Own Playing
Discouragements of Piano-Playing
Woman and Music
Reform Needed
Account of the Gavotte
Liszt and Chopin
Suggestions for Musical People
Lecture Recital
Phenomenal Voices
Worse Than Wasted
How Composers are Inspired
Piano in Small Parlors
How I Read the Etude
Study of Music: Small Children be Made to Study Music, Talent or no Talent?
Philosophic Reflections
Points in Music Teaching
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Volume 13, Number 11 (November 1895)
Theodore Presser
Caprice, Opus 16, No. 1, by Mendelssohn
Chat with Amateurs
Consolidation: The Etude and Musical World
Good Sense
Recording Apparatus for Piano Touch
Met by Chance
Patti's Repertoire
How to Instruct and Interest Little Ones
Instructive Interview
Music as It is Taught
What is Music?
Private or Conservatory Teaching
Music Teacher's Experience
On the Expectations and Prospects of a Musical Professor
Boy Musicians
It My Be You
Perplexities of a Country Music Teacher
Graded Course of Teaching Pieces and Studies
Plea for Better Pronunciation
Few Reflections
Profitable Study
Good Words
Rambling Talk: We and Our Musical Children
Superficial Piano Playing
Tons of Force Expended in Playing the Piano
Opera for the Million
Soul of a Song
Key Dictionary
Friedrich Smetana
Literature for Music Students
Defective Education of Musicians
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Volume 13, Number 12 (December 1895)
Theodore Presser
Great Composers of Music
Piano Playing and Analysis
Getting Better Work from Pupils
Slow Practice
Taste and Teaching
Difficulties of a Piano Teacher
Music as It is Taught
Ludwig Schytte (autobiography)
Berceuse by Ludwig Schytte
Spoiled Child
Description of Danse Macabre
Limits of the Ear
Study in Dates
Jealousy Among Pianists
How to Become a Pianist
Almost Discouraged
Wrist Training Before Finger
Non-Success
Prejudice in Musical Art
How to Pronounce Them
Why Should We Study Harmony?
Enigmas
Commendable List of Music—Grade I to X
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Volume 12, Number 01 (January 1894)
Theodore Presser
Just a Word
Art of Memorizing
Musical Education of Children
How Not to Compose
Endurance
Thoughtful Practising
Music Thinking
Plea for Better Music-Teaching
Is Music a Universal Language?
Mannerisms
Form of Contract
That Reminds Me
Some Mistakes of Young Teachers
Is Music a Luxury?
Results
Centre Shot
Musical Evening: Hints for Young Teachers
Enunciation in Singing
Little Items for Pupils Worth Knowing
In the Piano Corner
Reflections for Teacher and Scholar
Why Take a Music Journal?
Work of the Country Music Teacher
Pupils Playing For Company
When, How, What
Woman in Music
Papers About Pianos - On Quality, Quantity and Equality of Tone
Concise Chronological History of the Chief Musicians and Musical events from A.D. 1380-1885
What Ought To Be Played
Is the Pianoforte a Mechanical Instrument?
Pupils' Concerts
Saint-Saens on Gounod
Theodore Moelling
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Volume 12, Number 02 (February 1894)
Theodore Presser
Fraternal Appreciation
Left Hand
As the Twig, Etc.
How Progress is Made
Concise Chronological History of the Chief Musicians and Musical events from A.D. 1380-1885
This Reminds Me
Unsatisfactory Pupil
Playing in Public
Tempos
Resolve To—
Why Take the Etude?
Fifth Symphony
Description of an Amateur Band
Profitable Practice
Home Influence Upon the Pupil's Progress
Keeping the Piano in Good Condition
Clinging Touch
Rubinstein's Joke
Power of Attention
Conscientious Resolution
Narrow Study
Advice and Caution
Plea for Daily Piano Lessons
Three Talks
Faults of Beginners
American Compositions
Counterparts Among Poets and Composers
Use of the Pedal
What is Popular Music?