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 04, Number 07 (July 1886)
Theodore Presser
Individuality in Piano Playing
Some People That I Saw
Duties of the Piano Teacher
Old Fogy At Last Praises Something
Concert Programmes
Suites by Handel
Musical Advancement
What Shall We Play or Musical Education in the Home
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Volume 04, Number 08 (August 1886)
Theodore Presser
In Memoriam: Franz Liszt
Objective or Subjective
How to Play Chopin
Development of Genius: Interesting Statistics in Regard to Famous Musicians and Writers
Local Colleges of Musicians
Study of Music
Relaxation or Rest
Theory of Phrasing, Memorizing and Interpretation
Simplicity of Technique
How to Keep Pianos in Hot Weather
Those Who Can Learn
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Volume 04, Number 09 (September 1886)
Theodore Presser
Book, Newspaper, or Magazine?
How Shall A Young Teacher Succeed?
Tone in Piano-Forte Playing
Effect of Liszt's Piano-Forte Compositions
Liberating the Ring Finger
Concerning the Title Professor
Franz Liszt
A Method for Beginners
Nature of Harmony
Simplicity of Technique
Teacher's Responsibility
Scales
Interpretation
Removal
Old Fogy Has a Word to Say on Individuality
What Shall We Play?
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Volume 04, Number 10 (October 1886)
Theodore Presser
Dangers of the Romantic Ideal
How to Use the Pedal
Common Sense of Interpreting Music
How to Study Arpeggios
Talk about Pianists
Weber's Concert-Stueck
Bach's Lighter Compositions
Nature of Harmony
Some of the Ways of the Incompetent
To the Piano-Forte
My Morning's Work
Study of Musical History
Liszt and His Pupils
Simplicity of Technique
Remarks on the Grace Note
Letter of Condolence to Mme. Richard Wagner
Legato in Piano Playing
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Volume 04, Number 11 (November 1886)
Theodore Presser
Liszt from Another Point of View
Arm in Piano-Forte Playing
Tone Question Again
Our Musical Bringing Up
On Two Points in Piano-Forte Teaching
Music Teaching from a Psychological Standpoint
Shall Playing from Memory be Encouraged
Future of Music in America
Nature of Harmony
Grumble from Old Fogy
Music Teachers' Class Book
Techniphone Idea
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Volume 04, Number 12 (December 1886)
Theodore Presser
Some Wholesome Truths for Teachers
Concerning the Pure Minor Scale
Study Music Itself
How to Use the Pedal
Young People's History of Music: The First Ten Centuries of Christian Music
Necessity of Studying Harmony
Teacher's Duty
Pianism and Poetry
Ann Arbor School of Music
Mental Processes in Musical Execution
Psychology Applied to Teachers
Touch
Of the Proper Utilization of Practice Time
Preparation for Piano Teaching
Is it Necessary That a Piano-Forte Teacher Should Be a Good Player?
Wanted in the Musical Profession, More Brains and Better Morals
Christmas Presents
How to Be Intelligent
Appeal to the Music Teachers of the United States
Legato Playing
Advice to Young Students of the Piano-Forte
How Mozart Composed
Some Important Musical Events
Counterpoint and Canon
Missing Lessons
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Volume 03, Number 01 (January 1885)
Theodore Presser
Our System of Technique
Chats with Pupils on Ingratitude
Brotherhood's Invention
Our New Year's Greeting
Who Should Study Music
Thoughts on Education from Klavierehren
Back-Bone of Training in Music Reading and Rendition
How to Teach Time
Music Teachers Association and Its Duties
Tact: Treatment of Pupils, Change of Teacher
Piano-Forte Teacher
Expression of the Ideal, Through the Medium of the Physical, in Piano-Forte Playing
Treatise Upon the Development of Piano-Forte Technique with the Aid of a Mechanical Apparatus
Curved or Straight Fingers
Petersilea Mute Piano
Visit to a Boarding-School Miss
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Volume 03, Number 02 (February 1885)
Theodore Presser
Brahms and Mozart
American Versus Foreign Fingering
Triumph of the Technicon
Deppee's Piano Method Arraigned: The Deppee; or Dish-Rag Theory of Playing the Piano
Technicon
Mechanical Appliances as Promoters of Piano-Forte Technique
Something About Piano-Forte Techniques
Short-Comings of Pupils
Moral Standing of the Musical Profession
On Jumping
Geo. F. Bristow Upon the Study of Harmony
Woman and Music
Treatise Upon the Develpoment of Piano-Forte Technique with the Aid of a Mechanical Apparatus
Heinrich-Henson Song Recital
Thoughts on Education from Klavierehren
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Volume 03, Number 03 (March 1885)
Theodore Presser
Summer Music Schools: What They Are in Fact
Popular Music
Convent Music in America
Liberating of the Ring Finger in Musicians by Dividing the Accessory Tendons of the Extensor Communis Digitorum Muscle
Some More About Piano-Forte Technique
Dr. Leopold Damrosch
Old School of Piano Playing
Progress in Teaching
How to Practice
Why to Study Music?
How to Accompany a Song
For Youngest Readers—Before Taking the First Music Lesson
Piano-Forte Hands
Music Lesson—Sonata in G (No. 1 Cotta), Haydn, 1730-1809
Imitative Teaching
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Volume 03, Number 04 (April 1885)
Theodore Presser
Chats with Pupilis on the Model Student
Old School of Piano Playing
Harmonic Analysis
Modern School of Piano Playing
World Without Love
Mute Piano-Forte
Deppe System Vindicated
Music Teaching and the Public
Moral Standing of the Musical Profession
First Robin, Poem
Good Piano Touch
Music Lesson—Sonata in G (Op. 14, No.2), Beethoven, 1770-1827
How Some Memorize Music
How Some Study Music
American Versus Foreign Fingering
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Volume 03, Number 05 (May 1885)
Theodore Presser
Liberating of the Ring-Finger
Some Phases of Technical Study
Approbation
Mechnical Aids to Piano Playing
Out of Tune
About Piano-Fortes
Phrasing
Pianists: Their Development and Styles
Musician
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Volume 03, Number 06 (June 1885)
Theodore Presser
The Power of Attention
Res Severa Est Verum Gaudium
Piece of Peace
Hints and Suggestions
Student Ramblings
Ninth Annual Meeting of the Music Teachers' National Association
How to Succeed as a Musician
Old Fogey Again
Good Words
Imaginary Pilgrimage to Beethoven
About Piano-Fortes
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Volume 03, Number 07 (July 1885)
Theodore Presser
Expectations Sure to be Disappointed
Imaginary Pilgrimage to Beethoven
Many Students of the Piano and Few Players: Letter Addressed to the Father of a Piano Pupil
Too Much Independence
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Volume 03, Number 08 (August 1885)
Theodore Presser
Development of the Hand
Pupils' Department
Imaginary Pilgrimage to Beethoven
Royal Conservatory of Brussels
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Volume 03, Number 09 (September 1885)
Theodore Presser
On Musical Education
Some Types of Piano Teachers
Our System of Technique
Liberating the Ring Finger
Complete List of Pieces, including Those Analysed, Arranged in Progressive Order as Regards Difficulty (from The Musician, Vol. I)
Imaginary Pilgrimage to Beethoven
Etude, Poem
Weak Finger
Abreast with the Times
Crowned Virtuoso
Schools of Piano Playing
Fantasy after Chopin
Shall the Teacher Select the Music?
Hammer, or Pressure Touch—Which?
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Volume 03, Number 10 (October 1885)
Theodore Presser
Foriegn Fingering
Ambiguity of Our Musical Nomenclature
Musician: What is Thought of It
To Improve the Quality of Study
Musical Education: How Shall it Best Be Acquired?
Educational Principles
Pedals
Old Fogy Revived
Broad Culture
Accentual Treatment of Exercises as Applied to Piano-Forte Exercises
Some Sensible Suggestions
Hammer or Presssure Touch—Which?
Why Don't I Learn Faster?
One-Sided Education of Musicians
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Volume 03, Number 11 (November 1885)
Theodore Presser
Dr. Forbes' Theory and Practice Tested: The Liberation of the Fourth Finger—Practical Tests and Opinions
Early Pianos
Originality
Some Simple Ways for Learning Some Difficult Things
Some Types of Piano Pupils
Unpublished Work
Studies in Transposition
Piano-Forte
Studies in Transposition
Teacher and Pupil
Accentual Treatment of Exercises as Applied to Piano-Forte Exercises
Musician
Symphony in 1995
Business or Unbusiness-Like Musicians
Education in Music at Home and Abroad
Some Types of Piano Teachers
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Volume 03, Number 12 (December 1885)
Theodore Presser
Christmas Eve
Some Parents
Our Profession
Common Sense for Students
Quacks
Notable Improvement in the Construction of Pianos
Bad Singers, Good Singers—Public and Claque
Technic
Playing from Memory
For Young People
Liberating the Ring Finger
To Teachers
Principles of Expression
Word from Old Fogy
Advice and Caution
Pedal: Its Use and Abuse
Plunge into the Hornet's Nest
Liberating the Ring Finger
Plea for German Fingering
How to Graduate Upon the Piano-Forte
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Volume 02, Number 01 (January 1884)
Theodore Presser
On the Use of Piano Studies, Part 2
Few Thoughts for Piano-Forte Teachers
Successes, Directions, Incentives, Developments
Virginia State Music Teachers' Association
Reflections and Suggestions on Piano Technic
Robert Schumann's Rules for Young Musicians
Notes on Music
Bach's Method of Teaching
Musical Literature
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Volume 02, Number 02 (February 1884)
Theodore Presser
Few Thoughts for Piano-Forte Teachers
Gottschalk
Successes, Directions, Incentives, Developments
Action of the Fifth Finger in Piano Playing and the Means of Securing a Correct Position of Hand, Arm, and Fingers
Purity and Impurity
Robert Schuman's Rules for Young Musicians, Part 2
Thoughts on Piano Playing
Fourth Finger of the Left Hand
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Volume 02, Number 03 (March 1884)
Theodore Presser
Chat With Pupils on Thorough Study
Conferring Degrees on the Music Teacher
Successes, Directions, Incentives, Developments
Graded List of Popular Music
Wisdom of Many
One Hundred Questions in Harmony
Too Much Piano: Outcry of a Sufferer
Thought or Two
Use of Slow Piano Practice
How to Awaken the Pupil's Interest
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Volume 02, Number 04 (April 1884)
Theodore Presser
Sheet Music Imposition
Chat with Pupils on the Nomenclature of Music
Musical Literature
One Hundred Aphorisms
Course in Harmony
Literature of Music
Musical Literature
Instance
Course in Harmony
Power of Attention
Talk about the Musical Profession
So-Called Instruction Books
True Ideal of Technical Training
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Volume 02, Number 05 (May 1884)
Theodore Presser
Chat with Pupils for Young Ladies
Eighth Annual Meeting of the Music Teachers of the United States
Musical Literature
Successes, Directions, Incentives, Developments
On First Sight Reading
Teachers' Department
Good Words for The Etude
Standard for the Musical Profession
How to Study—How to Teach
Literature of Music
Course in Harmony
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Volume 02, Number 06 (June 1884)
Theodore Presser
Removal
Word to the Inexperienced
Concert Programmes
Successes, Directions, Incentives, Developments
Few Suggestions as to Musical Reading
About Harmony Lessons by Mail
Who is Responsible?
Sheet Music Question
Musical Library
Criteria of Competency
Course in Harmony
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Volume 02, Number 07 (July 1884)
Theodore Presser
Seven and a Third Octave Pianos
Teachers of Music
Successes, Directions, Incentives, Developments
Course in Harmony