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 08, Number 05 (May 1890)
Theodore Presser
Jerusalem
Who Can Study Music with a Hope of Success?
Movements of Nerves and Muscles in Playing a Piece of Music
On Thorough Study
Thoughts on Piano Playing
One-Sided Specialism in Pianoforte Playing
Commissions to Teachers Once More
Chats on Technical Subjects
How Can the Individuality of the Musical Profession Be Raised to a Higher Level?
Raif Club in New York
To the Earnest Student and Player of the Pianoforte
Electro-Clavier
Sixth Programme from Anton Rubinstein's Cyclus of Seven Piano Recitals, with Biographical and Critical Sketch
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Volume 08, Number 06 (June 1890)
Theodore Presser
In Memory of Karl Merz
Dr. Eugene Thayer, A Reminiscence
Something for Piano Teachers
Genius
Programme-Making
To Prospective A.C.M. Candidates
Personality of Musicians
Have a Purpose
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Volume 08, Number 07 (July 1890)
Theodore Presser
Importance of Summer Reading for Musicians During Vacation
Audiences from the Standpoint of the Pianist
Shall We Study at Home or Abroad?
Where to Study Music
Amateur and Professional Music Teachers
Closed Eyes
Is Half an Hour Sufficient for a Private Lesson?
Genius, Chapter 2
Method of Study
Concerning Summer Schools
Mental Means to Mechanical Ends in Pianoforte Playing
Pianoforte Tone-Production
Modern Pianters
What Was the Musical Accent
Expect Better Playing
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Volume 08, Number 08 (August 1890)
Theodore Presser
What Shall We Play?
Musical Thinking and Doing
New Publications
Genius
Lesson on La Scintillata
Music Teaching
What Pupils Ought Not to Do
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Volume 08, Number 09 (September 1890)
Theodore Presser
Advantages and Disadvantages of Musical Study Abroad
Music Study in America vs. Germany
What Shall We Play?
Musical Thinking and Doing
Influence of School Music on Piano Pupils
Music for the Masses
Value of Pupils' Musicales in Cultivating Confidence
Value of Pupils' Recitals
Pupils' Musicales
Letter from a Progressive Teacher
L'Arpa
Cost of Studying Abroad
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Volume 08, Number 10 (October 1890)
Theodore Presser
Developing Musical Imagination
Expression vs. Technic
Musical Clubs
Musical Societies
Program for the First Year of the Musical Society, of Schenectady, N.Y.
Special Pieces for Special Purposes
Mental Reading of Music
Musical Clubs: Their Importance
International Episode
Worthy of Comment
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Volume 08, Number 11 (November 1890)
Theodore Presser
First Lessons for Young Children
Liberation of the Ring-Finger
Janko Keyboard
Field of Music
On the Desirability of Bach Study
Three Requisites for Teaching
Dr. Holmes on Music
Problems of Music Teaching
Exhortation to Students of Music
Teachers and Teaching
First Lessons to Children
How Much Time is Needed for a Pianoforte Lesson?
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Volume 08, Number 12 (December 1890)
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 07, Number 01 (January 1889)
Theodore Presser
One-Sided Piano Teachers
Oliver Ditson
In the Teacher's Studio
Pernicious Sentiment
Tempo Rubato
Technicon in England
About Studying Music
Is the Piano a Doomed Instrument?
Current Phases of Piano Teaching
Purity of Tone in Piano Playing
Thought and Emotion in Piano Playing
Surgery for Pianoforte Players
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Volume 07, Number 02 (February 1889)
Theodore Presser
Individuality in Pupils
Herr Moriz Rosenthal, Pianist
Traumeri
Course of Study for the Pianoforte
Current Phases of Piano Teaching
Leading Thoughts
Fingering in History
Estimation of the Musical Profession by College Presidents
Certain Educational Aspects of Technical Development
Reforms in Music Teaching
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Volume 07, Number 03 (March 1889)
Theodore Presser
Leading Thoughts
Shall We Have Sentiment?
Crabbed Criticisms from the Old World
Some Requisites of True Teaching of Piano Playing
Contemporary Pianoforte Compositions
German and American Students Contrasted
Quicksilver Music Pupils
Sentimental Pianists
Cultivation of Musical Memory
On the Ring Finger Questions
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Volume 07, Number 04 (April 1889)
Theodore Presser
Edward Baxter Perry
Attempting Too Much
Cheerfulness
Some Musical Don'ts
Two Kinds of Piano Playing—Subjective and Objective
Teacher's Equipment
Musical Alternations
Unity in Variety for Musicians
Die Lorelei
Musical Literature
The Profession and the Public
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Volume 07, Number 05 (May 1889)
Theodore Presser
Programme Music
Dr. Hans v. Bulow in Philadelphia
Brief Hints at Odd Times
New Musical Literature
Characteristics of the Modern Sonata
Should Americans Send Their Young People Here to Study Music? Are Not the Extra Facilities Counterbalanced by the Moral Risk?
Musical Literature
Convictions the Result of Investigation
Class Teaching
Which is the Best Piano?
Interesting Talk with von Bülow
Few Thoughts on Practicing
What to Study
Art of Studying
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Volume 07, Number 06 (June 1889)
Theodore Presser
Karl Merz
How Some Girls Study Music
Too Much Concerto
Place of Arm Motions in Elementary Piano Playing
Philosophy of the Beautiful
Oscar Raif's Method
What to Study in Piano Playing
Brief Hints at Odd Times
Song-Accompaniments
Wilson G. Smith's Piano Compositions
Adjectives in Music: Pretty, Nice, Just Lovely, Etc.
Class Teaching Once More
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Volume 07, Number 07 (July 1889)
Theodore Presser
Eugene Thayer
Brief Hints at Odd Times
Clara E. Thoms Closes the New York State Convention with a Brilliant Piano Recital
Drift of Modern Piano Teaching
Old Proverbs
Chopin and Other Musical Essays
Sources of Skill in Musical Performance
Philosophy of the Beautiful
On Teaching and Teaching Reforms
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Volume 07, Number 08 (August 1889)
Theodore Presser
Brief Hints at Odd Times
Teaching As It Is and As It May Be
Mason's Touch and Technic
Wm. H. Sherwood on Improved Methods of Pianoforte Teaching
Constantin Sternberg's Essay
On Teaching and Teaching Reforms
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Volume 07, Number 09 (September 1889)
Theodore Presser
Nieck's Life of Chopin
Broad Culture
Liszt's Works and Their Effects
Word for Compulsory Music-Study
Ms. Beethoven Concert
Woman as Composer, Performer and Teachers
Is Music Aristocratic?
Analogies of Tone and Form
Organization versus Study
Music Teacher
Graded Course for Cabinet Organ
How Liszt Gave Lessons
Touch and Technic
Pianoforte Instruction
Sensible Talk About Opera
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Volume 07, Number 10 (October 1889)
Theodore Presser
Louis Maas
Adolf Henselt
On the Use of the Pedal
Pure Legato
Ring Finger Operations
Touch and Technic
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Problem
Aesthetic and Didactic Criticism on Rubato
Patience and Perseverance
How to Make an Aeolian Harp
Principal Forms of Piano Music
Mr. Parsons' MTNA Resolutions
Proposed Systematization of Piano-Forte Instruction
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Volume 07, Number 11 (November 1889)
Theodore Presser
Dr. William Mason
Worth Repeating
Music to be Beautiful Must be Scientific
Counterpoint—Beethoven's Idea
New Course of Piano Instruction
Krause's Studies in Measure and Rhythm
Musical Prodigies
Thought Versus Emotion
Depressed Knuckle-Joint Piano Practice
Artistic Uses of the Practice Clavier
Talent—Pianistic Talent
Touch and Technic
Technique
Education
Chopin's Method of Teaching
Bidwell Pocket Hand Exerciser
Wanted: A Good Instruction-Book for Beginners
Emotional Character of the Different Keys
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Volume 07, Number 12 (December 1889)
Theodore Presser
Careless Pupils
Unworthy Teachers
Piano in the Progress of Music
Musicians' Hands
Criticism of Pupils
Requirements of Modern Piano-Forte Teaching
Talent for Teaching
How to Listen
To Young Teachers
Worth Repeating
Rubinstein's Piano-Playing
Power of Music
What Pupils Think of Their Teachers
Class Organizations
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Volume 06, Number 01 (January 1888)
Theodore Presser
Limits of Personal Rights in Piano-forte Performance
Some Pianists in America
Plea for Simplicity
Notes from a Teacher's Diary
Catechism
Tarantelle (Poem)
An Open Letter to J.C. Fillmore
A Discussion of Piano-Forte Study
Personality in Music
Something About Beginners
Piano Pounding
Piano-Forte Music
Schopenhauer's Musical Philosophy
Some Old Pianists
Variety of Piano Playing
Piano Playing and General Musical Instruction from the Beginning to the End
Old-Time Frauds
Joseph Hofmann
Concerning the Psychological Relation of Music
Study of Music
Foreign Correspondence
Victor S. Fletcher: The Most Successful Collector of Genuine Old Violins
Piano Teaching
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Volume 06, Number 02 (February 1888)
Theodore Presser
Improving the Hand by Surgery
A Keyboard for Children
Meaning of Music
To Authors of American Musical Works
Piano Teaching
Needs of the Piano Teacher
Some Old Pianists
Memoranda Upon Greek Music, and Arguments Derived From It
Musical Catechism
On Touch
Music Lessons
Practical Letters to Music Teachers
Philosophy of Legato Touch
Talk About Some Things
Practical Harmony
Stephen Heller
Schopenhauer's Musical Philosophy
High Ideals
We Work for Culture
Occasional Correspondence of a Music Teacher
Reminiscences of Musical Technique
Sound Sense
Foreign Correspondence
Concerning the Psychological Relation of Music
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Volume 06, Number 03 (March 1888)
Theodore Presser
Rubato Tempo in Piano Playing
Minor Scale
Collateral Fancies
Talent and Intelligence Contrasted
Graded List of Piano-Forte Music
Notes from Anton Rubinstein's Cyclus of Seven Piano Recitals, with Historical Notes
Piano Playing and General Musical Instruction from the Beginning to the End
Philosophy of Legato Touch
On the Fingering of Diatonic Scales
Occasional Correspondence of a Music Teacher
Karl Klindworth
Criticism of a Piano Player
Correction
Concerning the Psychological Relation of Music
Piano Teaching
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Volume 06, Number 04 (April 1888)
Theodore Presser
Public School Demonstrative Examination
Musical Items
Nervous Musicians Who Lack Self-Confidence
International Copyright
Karl Klindworth and His Critics
Still Again Upon Memorizing
Historical Piano-Forte Recitals
Experiences
Pupilage
Missing Lessons
On the Use of Studies in Piano Teaching
Piano Technique
Teacher and Executant
Peculiarities of the Growth of American Music
Remonstrance
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Volume 06, Number 05 (May 1888)
Theodore Presser
First Year with a Young Piano Pupil
Piano Technic
Piano Teaching
Deppe Method
Few Extracts
Mother Goose Tonality
Klindworth
One-Handed Piano Player
How Can a Piece of Music Be Written Upon the Words Sachs, Bach, Etc.
On the Use of Studies in Piano Teaching
Practical Letters to Teachers
New Keyboard
What is Written About Howe's New Piano-Forte Instructor