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 06, Number 06 (June 1888)
Theodore Presser
Brotherhood's Technicon and Elementary Piano Teaching
Consecutive Fifths
A.D. Turner (Obit.)
Historical Pianoforte Recitals
On the Importance of Theoretical Studies to the Pianist
On the Use of Studies in Piano Teaching
Deppe Method Again
Missing Lessons
Rainbow Reference Cards
New Piano Effects
Musical Normals
Piano Teaching
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Volume 06, Number 07 (July 1888)
Theodore Presser
Festival Concerts
Piano-Forte Accompaniments
La Fileuse—Raff
Gossip About Masters, Old and Young
One-Armed Pianist
Piano Teaching
Modern Methods of Teaching
Neglect of Ear Training in Current Musical Education
Concerning Beauty of Tone
If You Want to Study Music, Study Music
Musical Notation and Terminology
Plan of Study
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Volume 06, Number 08 (August 1888)
Theodore Presser
Biographical Sketch of John S. Van Cleve
Mental Grasp in Pianoforte Playing
Letter from Mr. Emery
Ear Training
Touch and Tone
Neglect of Ear Training
Recent Idea
Hint for Executive Musicians
American Compositions in the Class and Concert Room
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Volume 06, Number 09 (September 1888)
Theodore Presser
How to Acquire a Sympathetic Touch
Summer Music Schools
Cost of Studying Abroad
Professional Courtesy
Some Thoughts for Music Teachers
Musical Pharisee
Sight Reading Before Memorizing
Studies and Their Importance
Work of the American College of Musicians
Dead Teachers
Solved—A Vexed Question
Teaching Beginners
Open for Discussion
Crazy Patch of Musical Memories
Harmonic Scale
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Volume 06, Number 10 (October 1888)
Theodore Presser
How to Listen to Music
Musical Punctuation
Raif's Method
Incident
Songs Without Words
Fourth Finger Operation
Harmony as a Study
Grand Social
Art of Studying
Philosopher's Opinion of Music
Practical Letters to Teachers
Knowledge of the Relation of Physiology and Anatomy to Piano Playing
Advice to Nervous Pianists
Sight-Reading
Franz Liszt's Mother
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Volume 06, Number 11 (November 1888)
Theodore Presser
Improvements Needed in Writing Music
Woman as a Musician
Melograph and Melotrope
American Composers—Attention!
Criticism Once More
Pianoforte Study
Rubinstein's Repertoire
To Young Students
American Students in Berlin
Graded List of Pianoforte Music
Grand Social Again
Emotion in Piano-Playing
Is the Study of Music Profitable?
How to Study
Square Versus Upright Pianos
Scientific Investigation Applied to the Anatomical Details Involved in Piano Playing
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Volume 06, Number 12 (December 1888)
Theodore Presser
How to Enjoy Piano Music
Nervous Relations of Pianoforte Practice
Art of Studying
Inability to Play Piano No Disgrace
Systematic Pianoforte Practice
Better Standard
Liberation of the Ring Finger
Few Press Notes
Difference Between Studying and Cramming
Another Swarm of Be
Let Us Have Cultured Pianists
Musical Talent
How Some Techers Instruct
Current Phases of Piano Teaching: What to Teach
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Volume 05, Number 01 (January 1887)
Theodore Presser
Finger Memory
How Much Shall I Charge for a Lesson?
Mental Processes in Musical Execution
Few Observations for Teachers
Of the Proper Utilization of Practice Time
Evolution of Muscular Energy
Plea for the Teachers
Tone in Piano-Forte Playing
Justice in Music Teaching
Pupils Missing Lessons
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Volume 05, Number 02 (February 1887)
Theodore Presser
Real Side of Music Teaching
Mendelssohn's Music for Pianists
Three Classes of Pupils
Review Lesson
Musical Art Company
Kindergarten Music System
Schumann's Piano Works
Five-Finger Exercises
Letter from a Student in Germany
Practical Value of Certain Modern Theories Respecting the Science of Harmony
Current Chats
Important! to New Jersey Musicians and Teachers
Missing Lessons
Why is the Techniphone Better Than the Piano for Piano Practice?
Firm But Flexible Wrist
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Volume 05, Number 03 (March 1887)
Theodore Presser
Influence of Light Opera
New Piano Keyboard
Later Piano-Forte Literature
General Review on Piano-Forte Playing
G. Bertini de Wier's Improved Musical Notation or Kindergarten System
Dignity of the Piano-Forte
Swindler Abroad
Do You Think He is a Good Teacher?
Carefully Selected List of American Songs Suitable for Concert and Teaching Purposes with Key, Compass, Grade and Price
Protest
Future Piano
Inquiry
Great Composers at Work
How to Learn to Finger the Scales
Classical Music
Finger Notation
Meeting of Hummel and Field
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Volume 05, Number 04 (April 1887)
Theodore Presser
Expression in Piano Playing
Talk About Some Young Pianists
Accentuation in Piano Playing
Early Education
Maxims
Current Chats
Musical Societies in Colleges
Who Has Blundered?
Carefully Selected List of American Songs Suitable for Concert and Teaching Purposes with Key, Compass, Grade and Price
Liszt!
Musician: Guide for Pianoforte Students
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Volume 05, Number 05 (May 1887)
Theodore Presser
Color in Piano-Forte Playing
Recital Programs—New England Conservatory
Occasional Correspondence of a Music Teacher
Piano Playing
Musical Beauty
Carefully Selected List of American Songs Suitable for Concert and Teaching Purposes with Key, Compass, Grade and Price
Reminiscences of Liszt
Musical Notation
To the Musical People of Dakota
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Volume 05, Number 06 (June 1887)
Theodore Presser
American Piano Composers
Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso
Classical Music from a Teacher's Standpoint
Studying Music in Italy
Is Music Aristocratic?
Carefully Selected List of American Songs Suitable for Concert and Teaching Purposes with Key, Compass, Grade and Price
Johannes Brahms and Robert Volkmann
Tact in Teaching
Excuses for Missing Lessons
Letter from Madame Wagner
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Volume 05, Number 07 (July 1887)
Theodore Presser
American Piano Composers
Experience
Current Chats
New Musical Institute
On the Comprehension of Things Musical
Piano Teaching
Individualizing
Carefully Selected List of American Songs Suitable for Concert and Teaching Purposes with Key, Compass, Grade and Price
Gounod's Advice
Elementary Piano Instructions
Good Instruction
Letter from Germany
Johannes Brahms and Robert Volkmann
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Volume 05, Number 08 (August 1887)
Theodore Presser
Elementary Piano Instructions
How Much Shall I Practice?
Manumoneon
Expression in Piano-Playing
Wanted—A Better School of Musical Criticism
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Volume 05, Number 09 (September 1887)
Theodore Presser
Clarence Eddy
For Young Teachers
Liszt with Sophie Menter
Common, Curious and Pertinent Questions Which Every Teacher of Music Has to Answer Daily
Accent and Emphasis
New Publications
Allegrando—New Games
Piano Conpositions of Wilson G. Smith
Elementary Piano Instructions
American Violin Maker
Study of Harmony
Our New Instructor
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Volume 05, Number 10 (October 1887)
Theodore Presser
Metronome
On the Art of Self-Culture in Music
Elementary Piano Instructions
Piano Composers of America
Educational Mosaics
Criticism—Art Principles
Players
Expression in Piano-Playing
American Composition
Eclectic Taste in Music
History of a Great House
Fingering the Scales
Don't
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Volume 05, Number 11 (November 1887)
Theodore Presser
Waltz of Chopin
Bearings of Literature Upon Music
Edison's New Phonograph
Singing as a Help to the Piano-Forte Student
Teacher and Pupil
Listeners
New Ideas on an Old Subject
American Music, A Practical Plan for Its More General Use
Art of Teaching the Real Things in Music and Necessary Preparation for the Same
Correspondence
Piano Playing and General Musical Instruction
Defective Education of Musicians
Piano Teaching
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Volume 05, Number 12 (December 1887)
Theodore Presser
Madame Julia Rivé-King
Vocation of the Virtuoso
Limits of Personal Rights in Piano-Forte Performance
Manumoneon
Some Pianists in America
Swarm of Bs for the Piano Student
Eile mit Weile: Hasten Slowly
On Touch in Piano-Forte Playing
Listeners
Music Teacher in a Small Town
Studying Abroad
Some Important Musical Events
Piano-Forte Pedals
Necessary Preparation for Teaching the Real Things in Music
Musical Notation and Terminology
Overworked Teachers
Piano-Forte Pedal
Amateur Musical Clubs
Education—Musical Literature
Holiday Presents
Two Valuable Testimonials
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Volume 04, Number 01 (January 1886)
Theodore Presser
Habit of Syncopating
Coming Meeting
Nature and Art
Articulation
Accentual Treatment of Exercises as Applied to Piano-Forte Exercises
Value of Mechanical Apparatus for Cultivation of Technic
Technical Treatment of the Piano-Forte
History of Fingering
Technic, and the Use of Mechanical Appliances for Its Development
Origin of the Tarantella
Wohltemperirte Klavier
Progressive Teacher
Faith, Hope and Charity, Sonnet
Gradual Development of the Science of Tuning Pianos
Musical Taste
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Volume 04, Number 02 (February 1886)
Theodore Presser
Dullards
Finger and Wrist Gymnastics Without the Use of a Piano
Star of the Twilight
More About Memorizing
Dark Points
Incident
Inconsistencies in Notation
Natural System of Fingering
Liberating of the Ring Finger
Ring Finger
Rules to Aid Pupils in Remembering the Fingering of the Scales in Double Triads and Double Sixths
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Volume 04, Number 03 (March 1886)
Theodore Presser
Etudes or Pieces
Thalbergian Method
Some Hints Concerning Piano Teaching
American Versus Foreign Fingering
Fingering of the Scales
Simplicity of Technic
Open Letter to the Piano-Forte Student
Technic Again
Retrospective and Prospective
Our Girls as Piano Players
Printing Music for Children
What to Teach
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Volume 04, Number 04 (April 1886)
Theodore Presser
Art of Composing
Sight Reading
Just for Home Amusement
Louis Koehler
Items
Appeal
Something New in Piano-Forte Playing
Well-Tempered Clavier
Puzzle
Gradual Development in the Science of Tuning Pianos
Classifying Students
Counting Time Aloud
Fingering Again
Fingering of Scales
Simplicity of Technique
Rubinstein's Touch
Reply to Mr. Ruggles
Mr. Wood's Finger Gymnastics
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Volume 04, Number 05 (May 1886)
Theodore Presser
Public Taste
Writing Books for Piano Pupils
Chopin, Op. 37, No. 1, Nocturne in G Minor
Liberating of the Ring Finger
Sex in Piano Playing
Art vs. Technic
Easy Fingering of the Scales
Popular Music
Simplicity of Technique
Notes on J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord
Nature of Harmony
Talk on Chopin
Difficult First
Letter from Wm. H. Sherwood
Key-Notes from the Ohio Music Teachers' Association
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Volume 04, Number 06 (June 1886)
Theodore Presser
Touch and Technic
Versus Hobbyism
Summer Normal Session
What Shall We Play? or, Musical Education in the Home
Practice Application and Use of Accents in Piano-Forte Practice
What Method Do You Use?
Simplicity of Technique
Musical Acrobats
List of Popular Music
Piano Forte Pedals
Railroad Rates to MTNA Meeting
Notes on J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavichord