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The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

 

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) by John Briggs

    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?

  • Volume 68, Number 01 (January 1950) by John Briggs

    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

  • Volume 68, Number 02 (February 1950) by John Briggs

    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

  • Volume 68, Number 03 (March 1950) by John Briggs

    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

  • Volume 68, Number 04 (April 1950) by John Briggs

    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

  • Volume 68, Number 05 (May 1950) by John Briggs

    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)

  • Volume 68, Number 06 (June 1950) by John Briggs

    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

  • Volume 68, Number 07 (July 1950) by John Briggs

    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

  • Volume 68, Number 08 (August 1950) by John Briggs

    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)

  • Volume 68, Number 09 (September 1950) by John Briggs

    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

  • Volume 68, Number 10 (October 1950) by John Briggs

    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

  • Volume 68, Number 11 (November 1950) by John Briggs

    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

  • Volume 68, Number 12 (December 1950) by John Briggs

    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?

  • Volume 67, Number 01 (January 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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?

  • Volume 67, Number 02 (February 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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

  • Volume 67, Number 03 (March 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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)

  • Volume 67, Number 04 (April 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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)

  • Volume 67, Number 05 (May 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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

  • Volume 67, Number 06 (June 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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

  • Volume 67, Number 07 (July 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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)

  • Volume 67, Number 08 (August 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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

  • Volume 67, Number 09 (September 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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

  • Volume 67, Number 10 (October 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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

  • Volume 67, Number 11 (November 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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

  • Volume 67, Number 12 (December 1949) by James Francis Cooke

    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?

 

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