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 69, Number 12 (December 1951)
John Briggs
Day of Days (Poem)
What Do Christmas Carols Mean to You?
New Horizon for Piano Teachers: The Elementary Classroom Teacher Needs a Background of Piano Study
Christmas at the Panama Canal
Play Lessons for the Pre-School Age
What I've Learned in Judging Competitions (interview with Jesus Maria Sanroma)
Grass Roots of Opera in America: Colleges and Universities Set the Pace in Creating Opera Centers Throughout U.S.
Special Christmas Programs Are Rewarding
Covered Tone—What is It?
This Choir Goes Big Time: Doctors, Lawyers, Salesmen, Housewives, Salesladies—All Join Their Voices in This Inspired Group
Do You Teach Piano or Piano Music?
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Volume 68, Number 01 (January 1950)
John Briggs
Social Implications of Piano Study: Leadership, Cooperation, Self-Confidence—These Benefits of Piano Training Make For a Well-Adjusted Personality
Ballet . . . A New Freedom
How to Choose a Violin
Don't Take Your Music Too Seriously (interview with Alec Templeton)
What is Your Vocal Problem?
Ninety We Lose: Children Aren't Little
Men and Women—Look at Piano Lessons from Their Point of View
Musician's Worst Enemy—The Common Cold
Voices Aren't Made . . . They Grow
What Music Teachers Forget to Teach
My First Big Opportunity (interview with Mario Lanza)
How to Play a Melody
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Volume 68, Number 02 (February 1950)
John Briggs
Oklahoma Wizard
What Chopin Really Thought of Liszt
Record Your Performances . . . On a High Note: The Secret of Free, Effortless Top Tones—A Studio Tested Formula
Opera Isn't Dead
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Volume 68, Number 03 (March 1950)
John Briggs
Richards Strauss . . . Conducting is a Difficult Business
Modern Piano Musical Metaphysics . . . Its Cause and Cure
How to Build a Voice Psychologists
Evaluate Music
So You Want to be a Piano Teacher
Structure of Music Clarence Dickinson—Pioneer of Church Music
Let's Simplify the Liebestraum Cadenzas Master Lesson on Brahms' Intermezzo in E-Flat Major, Op. 117,
No. 1 Musical Medicos
For TV Thrillers
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Volume 68, Number 04 (April 1950)
John Briggs
Story of Parsifal
Blueprint for Public School Music
Toscanini Tours
America Art of Choral Conducting
Changing Voice—A Symposium
How I Play the 'Cello (interview with Garbousova, Raya)
School Band: A Challenge Questions and Answers
Teacher's Roundtable
Master Lesson on Tchaikovsky's April
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Volume 68, Number 05 (May 1950)
John Briggs
Summer Music in Europe Rain, Rats and Red Tape
Teen-Age Symphony: Fifty-five New York Youngsters, Ages 10-17,Play a Full-Scale Concert Season
He Brought Us Orchestral Music
Gaoler Played the Organ: Being a True and Faithful Account of Ye Versatile Doings of Peter Pelham, a Musician of Williamsburg in Ye Olden Time
Come with Me to Antoine's in Jacmal on the Island of Haiti Where the Mysterious Voodoo Drums are Made
Operatic Daughter (interview with Claudia Pinza)
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Volume 68, Number 06 (June 1950)
John Briggs
Tanglewood: A Mountain Holiday, Summer Study for Gifted Students and One of America's Most Glorious Music Festivals
Opportunities for the Music Counselor
What is Singing?
Master Your Flute Tone (interview with Julius Baker)
Athletes at the Keyboard Wedding
Etiquette for the Organist
Deafness Comes Hard to Music-Lovers, but They Can Hear Now
Master Lesson on Chopin's Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1
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Volume 68, Number 07 (July 1950)
John Briggs
Johann Sebastian Bach . . . His World What Bach Edition Shall I Play?
What Sort of Man Was J.S. Bach?
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Teacher Draft for a Well-Appointed Church Music (from The Bach Reader)
Search for Bach's Grave
Heirs to Bach's Genius Instruments of Bach's Day
I've Always Wanted to Play the Piano
WQXR . . . Radio's Wonder Station
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Volume 68, Number 08 (August 1950)
John Briggs
Delius in America
Interlochen Holiday
What to Do About the Child Prodigy
When Chautauqua Hit South Branch
School for Conductors
How Schumann Became a Composer
Opportunity Starts in Your Home Town
Invent Your Own Exercises
Master Lesson on Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor
Organ Questions
New Records Artist's Obligation
Music is My Hobby (Edward J. Doyle)
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Volume 68, Number 09 (September 1950)
John Briggs
Audiences I Have Known
Arnold Schoenberg's New World of Dodecaphonic Music
Tuner's Tantrum
Music is My Hobby
I Learned Piano at 50
Master Lesson on Shostakovitch's Polka from The Golden Age
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Volume 68, Number 10 (October 1950)
John Briggs
Geroge Gershwin . . . as I Knew Him
What Every Parent Should Know
How Jean de Reszke Taught Singing
Will Your Students Succeed in Music?: Psychologic Testing Has Eliminated the Guess-Work in Evaluating Pupils' Innate Musical Talent
Breathing is Everything Exit—The Church Quartet
Faust and the Devil
Master Lesson on Chopin's Etude in A-Flat Major
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Volume 68, Number 11 (November 1950)
John Briggs
In Defense of Kirsten Flagstad
Good Singing Takes Time (interview with Giuseppe De Luca)
Pipers of the Highlands
Truth About Conducting Horse & Buggy
Teacher All-Star Circus Band
How Jean de Reszke Taught Singing
Master Lesson on Chopin's Etude in F Minor
How to Build a Piano Class
Pharyngeal Voice
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Volume 68, Number 12 (December 1950)
John Briggs
Christmas Gifts for the Music Lover
Story of Notation: Byzantine Neumes, Jewish Cantillation Signs and a 10th-Century Monk's Clever Idea Contributed to the Evolution of the System We Know Today
I Want a Christmas Story
Albert Schweitzer Was My Teacher (interview with Lucie Chenevert Lawson)
How to Write a Song (interview with Sigmund Romberg)
Student Recital . . . 1950 Style
Christmas Music in Mexico
Technique and Musicianship
It's Easy to Read Music
Master Lesson on Chopin
Mazurkas in F Major and G Sharp Minor
How Many Christmas Songs Do You Know?
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Volume 67, Number 01 (January 1949)
James Francis Cooke
On Keeping a Musical Diary
Eugène Ysaÿe as a Teacher (interview with Jeannette Ysaÿe)
Musical Fireworks Behind the Iron Curtain
Composer Needs Determination and Faith (interview with William Grant Still)
Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties: Haycyon Days at Harvard
Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 7)
Mania for Speed by Performers of Music, Part 2
Do Musicians Live Longer Than Others?
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Volume 67, Number 02 (February 1949)
James Francis Cooke
Musicians and Sensitivity
Training of a Pianist (interview with Alexander Brailowsky)
Music That Comes in Bottles
Mexico, Land of Musical Charm
Sing Your Way Back to Health
Musical Development in Ethiopia (interview with Alexander Kontorowicz)
Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 8)
Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties, Part 2
From an Avalanche of Recordings
Words and Music
Music a Hobby in the Grass Roots
Diderik Buxtehude, The Great Dane (1637-1707)
Look Out For Your Hands!: Neuritis, Neuralgia, and Temporary Paralysis Must be Watched
Why Not Go In for Amateur Opera? There's No End of Fun Over the Footlights
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Volume 67, Number 03 (March 1949)
James Francis Cooke
Code of Ideals
Door to Grand Opera for Young American Singers: The Absorbing Story of The Auditions of the Air as Told by Its Brilliant Director (interview with Wilfrid Pelletier)
William Arms Fisher, Memorial Service at the Arlington Street Church, Boston, MA
World's Favorite Hymn
Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 9)
Will Music Festivals Regenerate France?: How Dramatic and Musical Spectacles are Awakening a Great Nation
Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties, Part 3
How to Build Confidence (interview with Leonard Warren)
Sense of Security in Piano Playing (interview with Henry Levine)
Technic Must Release Music! (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)
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Volume 67, Number 04 (April 1949)
James Francis Cooke
Musical Independence
Door to Grand Opera for Young American Singers, Part 2 (interview with Wilfrid Pelletier)
Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography, Part 10
Beginning the Career (interview with Marilyn Cotlow)
Overcoming the Crime Hazard With Music: An Exciting Community Experiment: How the Denver Junior Police Bands Have Successfully Been Killing Delinquency Before It Happens
America Holds the Hopes of the Musical World (interview with Ralph Vaughan Williams)
World's Most Remarkable Collection of Orchestral Music: The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection in the Free Library of Philadelphia
Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties: Pursuing a Speciality
Today's Children Build Tomorrow's Audiences (interview with Hazel Griggs)
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Volume 67, Number 05 (May 1949)
James Francis Cooke
Importance of Musical Craftmanship
How to Punctuate Through Phrasing
On Becoming a Better Pianist (interview with Moura Lympany)
Paderewski the Incomparable: The Most Dramatic Figure in the History of the Piano
Concerning the Concertmaster (interview with Harry Zarief)
Finger Stroke in Piano Playing (interview with Henry Levine)
Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography, Part 11
Musical Boston in the Gay Nineties Recent Visitors at Harvard
Singer and Stage Fright
Preparing for Opera (interview with Polyna Stoska)
May Birthdays and Anniversaries
Style Show: Piano Recitaloque
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Volume 67, Number 06 (June 1949)
James Francis Cooke
What Will Television Do for Music?
Rhythm Puts Life Into Music
New World of Television (interview with Paul Whiteman)
Story of Schani Strauss
Russian Masters of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Grechaninoff)
Our Country is Hungry for Good Music: A Post-War Candid Camera View of the Ever-Expanding Interest in Music in America
Make Your Recitals Interesting!
Elements of Bel Canto (interview with Ebe Stignani)
Theodore Presser (1848-1925): A Centenary Biography (Part 12)
Holes in the Teacher's Pocketbook
Mozart's Romanze, A Master Lesson
New Form for Violin and 'Cello Tops
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Volume 67, Number 07 (July 1949)
James Francis Cooke
Summer Music Study in the Open
How to Copyright Music
Building Musicianship (interview with Georges Enesco)
Summer Symphony: Music Festivals and Concerts Enrich Our Vacation Season
Musical Leipzig of Yesterday: Highlights on the Origins of the Famous Musical Center One Hundred Years Ago
They Called Him Skid Row Tchaikovsky: A Symphony of Healing
Problems of the Young Pianist (interview with Paulena Carter)
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Volume 67, Number 08 (August 1949)
James Francis Cooke
Invention in Music
Getting the Most from Your Music Lessons: Practical Hints on Oft-Neglected Factors in Music Study
Denmark's Royal Conductor
Education in Opera (interview with Boris Goldovsky)
Fiddling While the Sun Burns
Hail Rotarians, Kiwanians, Lions, Optimists and Members of All Service Clubs
Imagination, the Key to the Child's Musical Interest
Music, the Universal Language
Gaining Experience (interview with Stella Roman)
Shall I Become a Professional Musician?
Playing the Piano in the Church Service
Keep in the Middle of the Choral Road
Inconsistencies in Musical Notation
Strictly American Vocal Problems (interview with Mack Harrell)
Just How Leschetizky Taught
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Volume 67, Number 09 (September 1949)
James Francis Cooke
Why I Went to South Pacific
Talent Isn't Enough!
Short-Cut to Choral Singing
Miss Mary at the Manuals
Modern Music Is Nonsense (interview with Darius Milhaud)
I Used to Play Piano, But . . .
Good Dancers are Good Musicians (interview with Patricia Bowman)
Boston Musical Radio Census
What Makes a Composer Great? (interview with Igor Stravinsky)
Don't Worry About the Next Depression!: Here's How One Teacher Solved the Problem
Tabernacle Organ in Salt Lake City
Get Them Started Right!
Those Fascinating Woodwinds
They've Revived the Music Box
Editorial: Music and Barnumism
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Volume 67, Number 10 (October 1949)
James Francis Cooke
Listening Pleasure
Football is More than Touchdowns
Fine Art of Practicing (interview with Byron Janis)
Strange Parallels
How to Write Music Manuscripts: An Expert Reveals the Secret of Neat, Legible Writing
Dilemma of the Strings
Sir Thomas Goes on Record (interview)
So You Want to Be an Artist? (interview with Charles L. Wagner)
Music in Industry Pays Dividends
On the Decline of the Art of Singing (first published in 1893)
Silence in Music
Miracles of Recording (interview with Lawrence A. Ruddell)
Mormon Tabernacle Organ in Salt Lake City, Part 2
Editorial: The Chopin Centennial
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Volume 67, Number 11 (November 1949)
James Francis Cooke
Richard Strauss: 1864-1949
Goodbye, Mr. Johnson
What Is Your Vocal Problem?
First Aid for Ailing Brass: How to Make Your Instrument Work Better and Last Longer
Let's Help Our Young Orchestras: An Amateur Group is Harder to Conduct than the Boston Symphony (interview with Arthur Fiedler)
Use the Pedal—Don't Abuse It
Can Students Learn to Think?
Let Them Doodle!: In the Early Stages, Having Fun with Music is More Important than Sight-Reading
Why Not Take Up Your Music Again?
Pictures Have Impact
Good Bass Is Hard to Find
Fighting the Famine of Strings
Psychologist Looks at Music (interview with Victor Scholer)
Bargain-Counter Carillon: Bell Effects are Now Within the Means of the Average Church
Editorial: The Day of Gratitude
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Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949)
James Francis Cooke
When Christmas Comes (poem)
Handbells—Ancient Art Revived
Sing Ho for Christmas
I Learned To Sing By Accident (interview with Mario Lanza)
Swing Into Your Tone
Don’t Plan To Be a Conductor! (interview with Ernest Ansermet)
Why Do We Call Them Carols?: Songs of Christmas Link Today with the Ancient Past
It's the Same Old Claque: Then and Now—New York or Paris—
Relax and Improvise! (interview with Grace Castagnetta)
Concerning Spiccato, Sautille Arpeggios and Articifial Harmonics
Does Your Band Play in Tune?
What Is Your Vocal Problem?
Organ Practice and How To Get It
Master Lesson On the Sarabande and Bourrées from Bach's English Suite No. 2 in A Minor
Can You Name These Musicians?