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 10, Number 04 (April 1892)
Theodore Presser
Putting a Better in Place of the Bad
Plain Talk to Music Students
Ear—and Rhythm—Test
Technics Versus Music
Helps and Hints
Conversation on Music
Annotations for Pupils
City or the Town: Which Provides the Best Opportunity to the Aspiring Musician?
Teachers and Teaching
Advantages of Summer Music Schools
Intellect in Phrasing
Legato Touch in Foundational Piano Teaching
Wanted! Hints for Teachers, Pupils and Parents
Composer and Performer
Modern Helps in Developing Technic
Everything in a Great Name
What Shall the Player Express?
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Volume 10, Number 05 (May 1892)
Theodore Presser
Something About Expression
How Paderewski Plays (Poem)
On Teaching Time: Motion, Beats, Measure, and Counting
Ideas About Music Teachers
Paderewski's Playing
Choice of a Teacher
Why Good Pianists Are Scarce
Legato Touch in Foundational Piano Teaching
Interesting the Class
Conversation at a Lesson
Conversation on Music
Arranging a Programme
Hints to Novice Concert Players
Help Towards Understanding the Minor Mode
Some Helps for Teacher and Pupil
Ambition
Musical Environment
Historical Cycle of the Sonata
Success
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Volume 10, Number 06 (June 1892)
Theodore Presser
Manuscript Music Society of Philadelphia
Two Views of the Music Teaching Profession
Change in Style
Classic Versus Modern Composers for the Pianoforte
Preparation for Teaching
Way and the Work
Legato Touch
How to Listen to a Fugue
Fugue
Music versus Public School Duties
What is Music Teaching?
In What Manner May Parents Assist Music Teachers in the Performance of Their Duties?
How Can One's Progress Be Determined?
Mason's Principle of Velocity and Arm Touches
Memorizing Music
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Volume 10, Number 07 (July 1892)
Theodore Presser
Shall I Teach Music?
Metronome and Its Use
Thinking in Musical Phrase
Hints to Young Teachers
Music a Necessity of Nature
After Graduat
Beethoven
Does the Public Make the Teacher?
How to Practice
Rules for Practice
Pressure Versus Striking
Different Courses for Different Pupils
Sheet Music Question
Listening to One's Own Playing
Two Views of the Music Teaching Profession
Self-Cultivation in Musical Taste
How to Begin
Improvement in Material for Study
Some Teaching Pieces of Gustave Merkel's
Foundational Music Teaching
Scherzos
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Volume 10, Number 08 (August 1892)
Theodore Presser
World's Fair Music
Sight-Reading on the Piano
How to Study a Piece for Public Performance
Industry Imperative
Art of Musical Dictation
Arm in Touch
Radical Types of Pianoforte Touch
Local Press an Aid to the Music Teacher
Good Music Needs Study
Slur and Its Use
Is Music a Business?
Practical or Visionary, Which?
Individuality in Expression
Talent and Genius
Conservative or Progressive Teachers, Which?
Joachim Raff
Better Results Wanted
How to Make the Study of Harmony Interesting
Hints to Students of Organ Playing
Teaching Children
Scherzos
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Volume 10, Number 09 (September 1892)
Theodore Presser
Thoughts During Vacation
Musical Exposition at Vienna
Ear-Training vs. Mind-Training
Cultivation of Musical Memory
Carelessness
Young Musicians at Their Best
Some of the Advantage of Understanding Harmony
Radical Types of Pianoforte Touch
Music-Study as Culture
Study for Absolute Pitch
Programme Arranging
How to Succeed
Neglected Device
What is Phrasing?
Value to Young Children of Musical Study
Some Practical Difficulties in Music Teaching
Musician as a Specialist
Thirds and Sixths
With or Without Notes
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Volume 10, Number 10 (October 1892)
Theodore Presser
Musical Work in a Small Town
Methods of Playing and Teaching the Reed Organ
Humorous Utterances of Great Tone Poets
Points on the Pedals
Two Against Three
Cultivate the Hearing
Anton Rubinstein's Cyclus of Seven Piano Recitals
Teacher's Art
Courtesy Among Musicians
Neglected Subject
Many-Sided Musician
Piano Students and Harmony
On the Foolishness of Doing Useless Things
Mental Aspect of Teaching
Reflections for Students
How to Interest Pupils
Stammering Players
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Volume 10, Number 11 (November 1892)
Theodore Presser
Rudiments of Music
Modern Pianists
Audible Compass of the Ear
Concise Chronological History of the Chief Musicians and Musical Events from A.D. 1380-1885
Modern Piano and the Music of Different Epochs
Ideals of Self-Education in Music
Anton Rubinstein's Cyclus of Seven Piano Recitals
Among the Musical Journals and Papers
Musical Journal in the Home
Four Hands in Solo Lesson Giving
Niels W. Gade
Decorate the Parlor Piano
For the Sake of Art or Personal Vanity—Which?
On Keeping a Piano
Thirds and Sixths
Intelligent Practice
Something for Students
Piano Studies
What is a Conservatory?
Judicious Praise
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Volume 10, Number 12 (December 1892)
Theodore Presser
Thoroughness in Teaching
Concise Chronological History of the Chief Musicians and Musical Events from A.D. 1380-1885
Neglect of Mozart
Singing For Piano Pupils
Studies
Price of Tuition in Music
Teacher as a Missionary
Room at the Top
Delights of Real Study—A Comparison
Modern Pianists
Victim of Theory
Listening to One's Own Playing
Trials and Tribulations of a Music Teacher
Schumann, Chopin and Virtuosity
Higher Education in Music
Effect in Tone-Coloring
Musical Criticism
Study of Arpeggios
Intellectuality in Music
Thoughts on Piano Practice as a Factor in Character-Building
Publisher's Note
Thoughts of Leading Musicians
Phonograph in Music Study
Musical Darwinism
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Volume 09, Number 01 (January 1891)
Theodore Presser
Awakening Interest in the Pupil
Place of Music in a Liberal Education
Problems of Music Teaching
To Which Class Do You Belong?
Muscular Training for the Pianist
Group Scale Playing
Shall the Teacher Play the Pupil's Pieces for Him—Power of Example—Danger of Being an Imitator
Rational Basis of Musical Expression
Trust Your Teacher
Thoughts of Eminent Educators on Teaching
Why Not!
Looking Backward at the Wisdom of the Ancients
Points
How to Acquire a Sympathetic Touch
Technic Means to an End
Poor Teacher's Doom
Reading the Phrasing at Sight
Are You Progressive?
Freedom of Execution as to Tempo
Passage Practice
Great American Magazine
Selecting Pieces—Its Importance
Reading Music Mentally
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Volume 09, Number 02 (February 1891)
Theodore Presser
System in Piano Practice
First Lessons on Real Music
Pianoforte Teaching
Muscular or Musical Training?
Two Extremes
What Use Shall Beginners Make of Their Eyes
Place of Music in Liberal Education
Cultivating the Imagination
Musings on Class-Teaching
Superficial Teachers
Cultivation of Feeling
Difficulties
Musical Affinity
First Lessons
Stimulus of Melody Study
Veteran Publisher Gone
More About the Pedal
Extempore Playing
Use of the Word Technique
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Volume 09, Number 03 (March 1891)
Theodore Presser
Sanctity of Music,
How Beethoven Played His Sonata, Op. 14, No.2
Freedom of Expression
At the Beginning
Hints to Young Music Teachers
Humor in Instrumental Music
Musical Growth in Pupils
Possibilities in Piano-Playing
Correcting Bad Habits
Two Ways
Confidence in Pupils
Amateur Music Teachers
Classical Music—What is it?
Music Teacher Described
Power of Music Upon Uncultured Listeners
Musings on Class Teaching
Objective Study
New Way of Scale Teaching
What a Music Pupil Should Study
Old Teacher's Opinion
Place of Music in a Liberal Education
Practical Uses of the Metronome
Musician vs. Player
Pluck and Policy in the Music Teacher
Accuracy
Word to Young Players
He Studied with Liszt
Meaning of Music
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Volume 09, Number 04 (April 1891)
Theodore Presser
How Can We Make Our Pupils Practice?
How to Study the Piano
Culture Does Not Deaden the Appreciation
Concerning the Virgil Practice Clavier
Environment and the Study of Muisc
Specialists in Music
The String-Organ
About Pianists' Cramp
Place of Music in a Liberal Education
Looking Ahead
Pure Art
Comparison—Schumann, Chopin and Mendelssohn
Use and Abuse of the Classics
Two Ways of Looking at the Technical Question
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Volume 09, Number 05 (May 1891)
Theodore Presser
Mission of Music
Beginning Music Lessons
Instrumentation
Sinking of Self
Non-Thinking Music Students
New Field for Piano Composition Opened by the Janko Keyboard
New Channel for Benevolence
When to Begin the Study of the Piano
Examination Questions Used by the Conservatory of Music, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
Musical Literature—What to Read
Word in Regard to Practice
Correct Course of Piano Study
Phrase Rendition
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Volume 09, Number 06 (June 1891)
Theodore Presser
New Instrument for Women, Giving Health Combined With Pleasure
Advice to Amateur Music Teachers
Weak Point of Piano Teaching
Why, When and How to Begin Music
Valse Caprice in E Flat—Rubinstein
Obituary
Genius at Large
Bach's Self-Education
Music and the Musician's Place in the World
How Not to Play the Piano
Why Go Abroad?
Nerves and Discord
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Volume 09, Number 07 (July 1891)
Theodore Presser
Diversity of Taste
Professional Versus Amateur Music Teachers: Or Low Tuition Fees and How to Raise Them
Piano-Forte Teaching
Life-Rests
Elegant Design For a Piano Cover
Minnie Hauk's Music Lesson
Education of Pianists
Careless Beginners
Committing Music to Memory
Paying the Price
Melody and Pedantry
Expression and Its Conditions
Music as a Bread Winner for Girls
Man Created Music
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Volume 09, Number 08 (August 1891)
Theodore Presser
Teaching Classical Music
Theory of Minor Scales
Leigh Hunt on the Piano
Injustice to Teachers
Real and the Accessory in Music Study
Qualification of Teachers
Shall I Compose?
Boyhood of the Great Masters
Crude Ideas of Music
Mendelssohn's Extraordinary Talent
Requirements of a Fine Performer
Poetry and Pianism
Good Type of Teachers
Education of Pianists
Theory as Related to Piano Playing
Cultivate the Imagination
Worthy of Comment
Music a Keep-at-Home
Haydn's Toy Symphony and Its Origin
Polka
Mother's Duty
Painstaking
Thinking Through the Ear
Dominant Seventh Chord Scientifically Considered
Short Sentences from Beethoven's Literary Writings
Time for a Lesson
Sound Sensations
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Volume 09, Number 09 (September 1891)
Theodore Presser
False Idea Corrected
What Shall I Compose?
Tempered Expression in Performing
Skylark's Song
Rest of the Talent
Some Causes of Failure
Hints and Helps
Touch and Pedal
Genius on Genius
Staccato Habit, Its Cause and Cure
National Chorus for the Columbian World's Fair
Reforms in Harmony Teaching
Plain Talk to Girls Studying Music
Weeping Sinews
Schumann's Letters to a Young Man
Success
Thorough Preparation
Pupils of Liszt
Sentences from Haydn, Showing the Man as Well as the Musician
Knowing That You Kno
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Volume 09, Number 10 (October 1891)
Theodore Presser
Music An Aid to Right Living
Royal Road in Pianoforte Study
Personal Appearance of the Teachers
Scale Practice
Trials and Tribulations
Development of Musical Taste and Judgment
Science of Music
Hint in Regard to Scale Practice
Piano Teaching in Its Elementary Stages
Albani's Advice
First Lessons to Children
To Aspiring Pianists and Composers
The Importance of Commencing a Musical Education Early in Life
Practicing Music in One's Active Life
What I Saw On My Vacation
Chapter on Velocity
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Volume 09, Number 11 (November 1891)
Theodore Presser
Nature and Aims of Musical Education
Invitation to the Dance
Class Library
Theory of Music Explained for Piano-Forte Players
Musical Vagabondage
Parents as Well as Pupils
World's Musical Thinker
What Studies Are Required to Become a Good Musician
Teaching Expression
Continuity of Tone in Piano Playing
Narrow Ideas
Sources of Information Concerning Musical Compositions
Physiology and Piano Technic
Art of Listening
Shall the Teacher Play the Pupils' Pieces for Them
Cast-Iron Teachers
Heller's Music
What I Saw on My Vacation, Part 2
Some Things Piano Students Should Never Do
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Volume 09, Number 12 (December 1891)
Theodore Presser
Types in the Concert Room
Corrections in Touch and Technic, Part II. Scales
Classic Music
Musical Sociables
Jottings from a Teacher's Mental Note Book
Music in Its Relation to Intellectual Life
Music in Boarding-Schools
Genius and Labor
Theory of Music Explained for Piano-Forte Players, Part 2
No Talent
How Parents Can Help Piano Teachers
Selecting According to Capabilities
Training of Music Teachers
Playing By Ear
Music Lessons from the Pupils' Standpoint
Scherzos
How to Learn a Piece
Good Music Needs Study
How to Command Success
Habit of Accuracy a Necessity
Don'ts
About the Less-Talented Pupils
How to Study Bach
Misapprehension of Pupils Noticed at Random
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Volume 08, Number 01 (January 1890)
Theodore Presser
Liberation of the Ring Finger
Misuse of Music
Principles of Pianoforte Playing
Gustav Lange
How Shall We Increase the Respect of Educated Men for Music and Musician
Tottering Arm
Nerve Control
Artistic Development
Concerts and Lessons by Phonograph
New Standpoint of Artists
Objective and Subjective Interpretation
Rules for Major Keys
Frequency of Lessons
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Volume 08, Number 02 (February 1890)
Theodore Presser
Things Worth Teaching
How to Start Beginners
Valuable Exercise on the Virgil Practice Clavier
Observations on the Study of the Pianoforte
Few Thoughts for Pianoforte Teachers
Social Standing of Artists
Study of the Piano
Coming Piano
Confidence in Playing Before Others
Successful Teacher
D'Albert Talks
Stray Leaves
Revolution in Waltzing
On Touch
A.B. Parsons on Principles of Expression Applied to the Pianoforte
Metronome
Cultivation of Musical Memory
Do State Music Teachers' Associations Weaken the M.T.N.A.
Hundred Years of Music in America
Jerusalem
Karl Merz is Dead
On the Conscious Control of the Muscles for Piano Playing
Serious Thoughts for Students
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Volume 08, Number 03 (March 1890)
Theodore Presser
Electro-Clavier
Incompetency
Respect Due to the Musical Profession
How to Treat Backward Pupils
Mr. Virgil's Foundation Exercises
Put Your Heart in Your Music
Usefulness of Transposition of Daily Exercises
Chats with Music Students, or Talks About Music and Musical Life
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Volume 08, Number 04 (April 1890)
Theodore Presser
Appeal to the Musical People of America in Behalf of the Music Teachers' National Association Orchestral and Choral Concert Fund
Respect Due to the Musical Profession
Ring-Finger
Why Should Children Study Music?
Purity and Impurity
Practical Lesson in Time to Beginners
Class Organizations
Unbalanced Rhythms