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 66, Number 01 (January 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Whither Away?
Mysteries of Middle-C: A Reminiscence
Prevention is Better Than Cure! (interview with Bidú Sayão)
Young Music Must Have New Tools
Mozart, the Musical Flower of the Rococo Period: How the Historical Background of a Composer Affects His Music
Odd Musical Instruments: Grotesque Tonal Curiosities from Different Lands
Can We Tame the Boogie-Woogie Bogey?
Why Bach Has Become a Must for Piano Students
Art of Expression: Tone Production and Tone Shading, Part 1
An American Musical Policy
Heart of the Song (interview with Clara Edwards)
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Volume 66, Number 02 (February 1948)
James Francis Cooke
I Have Taught Myself to Sing
Learning How to Sing
Candid Musical Snapshots of Post-War Europe
Backstage With a Concert Tuner
Pennsylvania's Colonial Influence on American Musical History, Part 1
New Music for an Ancient Land
Singing Builds Character
Playing by Touch
Keeping Up Mendelssohn
Advancing the 'Cello Section, Part 1
Bands: Past—Present—Future
Chamber Music and Its Role in Musical Education
Master Painter on Masters of Music
Imagination and Technique (interview with Jésus Maria Sanromá)
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Volume 66, Number 03 (March 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Wife Begins at Forty-Plus
Spare Time Orchestras: Musical Amateurs of Notable Ability
Training of An Artist (interview with Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff)
Rachmaninoff As I Knew Him
Irregular Rhythms in Chopin
Joys of the String Quartet
Making a Specialty of Teaching Adults (interview with Nat D. Kane)
Toward a Sounder Philosophy of Musical Education (interview with Erich Leinsdorf)
Pennsylvania Dutch Music at Ephrata: A Musical Anomaly, Part 2
How Joseffy Taught the Piano
Colorful Harp Effects With the Organ
Opera and the Balakirevs
Romance of Famous Bells
Tops at Twenty-Two (interview with Elliott Lawrence)
Interesting Letter From a Home Group in Brazil
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Volume 66, Number 04 (April 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Art of Suggesting
Post-War Opera in Italy: A Musical Snapshot
Training for Artistry (interview with Claudio Arrau)
Capitalizing Your Musical Ability (interview with Fred Waring)
Chopin and the Chopin Renaissance
Edward Ellsworth Hipsher Obituary
My Twenty Favorite Records and Why
Brakes and Breaks (interview with Walter Hendl)
André Gide, Prince of Letters, and Musician
First Performance of Handel's Messiah
Magic of Delius: Was Sir Thomas Beecham Right?
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Volume 66, Number 05 (May 1948)
James Francis Cooke
I've Got to Make a Speech
Was This the First Music Manuscript?
Rounding the Circle (interview with Regina Resnik)
Scenes from the Life of Rossini: A Remarkable Picture Produced in Italy, Celebrating the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Composer's Birth
My Twenty Favorite Records and Why, Part 2
Education as Emancipation (interview with Harold Bauer)
Oldest Musical Organization in the World: Emperor Hirohito's Court Orchestra
Encouraging Legato Singing
What the Nazis Did to Chopin's Piano
New Fingering Principles of Value to Teacher and Student
Integrating Music Study (interview with Charles Münch)
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Volume 66, Number 06 (June 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Eternal Chopin
Orchestra As a Municipal Asset (interview with Harl McDonald)
Nest of the Nightingales: An Exquisite Musical Fairy Story
How Can I Become a Pianist? (interview with Artur Rubinstein)
Romeo and Juliet of the Mountains: How Music and Drama Ended the Notorius Hatfield and McCoy Feud
Natural—or Impossible! (interview with Cloe Elmo)
Concert Hall in Your Home
Approach to Elementary String Class Teaching
Pride of the Navy
Shifting—Sliding—Change of Position
Wednesday Afternoon With the Cecilians
Basis for Piano Technique
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Volume 66, Number 07 (July 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Memorable Anniversary
America's Most Popular Anthem
Rules for Practice
Greatness
America Goes to the Ballet (interview with Aaron Copland)
Chopin's Piano Method, An Anthology
Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography
Bank Notes and Music Notes: How an Organist Has Contributed to the Atmosphere of the Country House
That Liszt Cadenza: How to Study the Cadenza for Liszt's Liebestraum
Practice Can Make Perfect
Musicianship Through Education (interview with Harriet Cohen)
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Volume 66, Number 08 (August 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Symphysis
Building the Glee Club (interview with Kay Holley)
Entirely New Motion Picture Experience!: The History of La Traviata
Paderewski—Pianist and Patriot
Sense of Tempo
Music for a Ballet (A Notagraph)
Let Music Help Make the Peace
Are We Music Educators?
Revolutionary New Process in Recording and Reproducing
Concerning the Contrabass (interview with Philip Sklar)
Are You a Violin Teacher?
Band—What Is Its Future? (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)
Practicing Away From the Piano
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Volume 66, Number 09 (September 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Passing of a Noted American Artist
Reflections on Music Teaching (interview with Artur Schnabel)
Don't Fear Memorizing!
Piano Virtuoso in Spite of Himself: Noteworthy Extracts from Harold Bauer's Memoirs
Advertising Value of Classical Music: How An Experiment in Music and Jewels Brought Out Provable Facts That for Certain Commercial Purposes Great Masterpieces Stimulate Interest in Business Institutions
Are You a Violin Teacher?
Great British Brass Band Movement
Revival of the Bach Arias
Carrying a Spear in Grand Opera: How the Cohorts Behind the Footlights See the Art
Imitation—Its Use and Abuse (interview with Set Svanholm)
Letter from An Etude Friend: Common Sense in the Selection of Music for the Small Catholic Church
Ten Favorite Symphonies
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Volume 66, Number 10 (October 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Making Amusements Safe for Youth
Music Teachers National Association
Let Your Ear Be Your Master! (interview with Ferruccio Tagliavini)
Domestic Musical Trinity: Parent—Teacher—Pupil
How the Master Composers Composed
New Ideas on Musical Memory, Sight Reading, and Programs
Musikwiz Matching Test
Musical Children: Prodigies or Monsters?
Letter from Pepito Arriola
About the Oboe
Zal, the Secret of Chopin's Genius
Know Your Own Worth
I Do Not Die Altogether
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Volume 66, Number 11 (November 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Te Deum Laudamus
Needs of the Young Singer (interview with Giuseppe Valdengo)
Shake Hands With the School!: How the Teacher May Profit by Keeping in Touch With the Day School
Christ and Etude
This is Berlin
Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist, A Centenary Biography, Part 5
Stumbling Into Music (interview with Douglas Taylor)
Richard L. Austin (Obituary)
Jenny Lind's Vocal Exercises: Additional Advice from a Great Singer of the Past, Supplementing the Article in the Etude from February 1948
People's Song to Their God: A Delightful Picture of the Medieval Origin of the Gregorian Chant
Make Your Christmas Music Attractive!
Municipal Band and Its Place in the Musical Life of America
Alto Clarinet
Johnny Makes a Discovery: He Likes Music But Doesn't Know It
About Fingerings on the Violin
Leschetizky's Pianistic Philosophy: Reasons for the Great Success of Theodore Leschetizky as a
Bach's Gavotte and Musette in G Minor (A Master Lesson)
Wasted Motion
Recital? Yes—Stage Fright? No
Twenty-third Psalm (from the Bay Psalm Book)
From One Contrabassist to Another
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Volume 66, Number 12 (December 1948)
James Francis Cooke
Little Lights of Christmas (Poem)
Sibelius Today: A Flight to Helsingfors to Visit Finland's Master Including a Conference with the Composer of Finlandia
Musical Christmas of Yesteryear
Theodore Presser (1848-1925): Educator, Publisher, Philanthropist Centenary Biography, Part 6
Mania for Speed by Performers of Music
Christmas Music—A Universal Language
Test Your Teaching Methods
Great Russian Music of Yesterday (interview with Alexander Tcherepnine)
My First Day at the Conservatoire de Paris
Igor Stravinsky and the Greek Tragedy
Music Means Joy in Chinese: The Chinese Cultural Theater Group Affords an Opportunity for Americans to Learn of Cathay
Comeback—Words and Music
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Volume 65, Number 01 (January 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Music's Part in World Peace
Preparation for the Operatic Career (interview with Martial Singher)
Musical Visit with Einstein
Wit and Humor of Musicians, Part 3
Accompanist's Background and Equipment7
Music: Crime Cure?
Opera Revived in the Heart of the 1859 Gold Rush
Handicaps Did Not Stop Them
Master Lesson on the C.P.E. Bach Solfeggieto in C Minor
Stars and Stripes Forever: Sousa's Magnificent March Chosen for the RCA Victor Billionth
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Volume 65, Number 02 (February 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Mind That Carried Music to Millions (Edison)
My Father and Music
Musical Kleptomaniacs
Basic Purpose of Music Teaching (interview with Maryla Jonas)
Basic Pieces in the Student's Repertoire
Secret of Singing (interview with Christopher Lynch)
Controlling Tempo and Dynamics
Breathing in Relation to Vocal Expression
What Industry Can Do for Music
Hymn Accompaniments
School Music--For All!
Viola
How Management Builds Artists (interview with Frederick C. Schang)
Conducting is an Art (interview with Désiré Defauw)
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Volume 65, Number 03 (March 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Lean on Yourself
Master Speaks of the Masters: Isidor Philipp Evokes Great Names of the Past
Sound Vocal Development (interview with Rose Bampton)
New Responsibilities for Musical Groups
How to Read to Music (interview with Frieda Peycke)
Avoid Musical Provincialism
Recognition for Army, Navy, and Marine Musicians
Cello—Virtuosity or Musicianship? (interview with Joseph Schuster)
Selling Music to the General Public
Interpretations in Jazz (interview with Duke Ellington)
Business on the Side: A Philadelphia Business Man Who Organized His Own Symphony Orchestra For the Joy of Conducting Makes Business His Avocation
Technique of Arriving (interview with Rudolph Ganz)
What's the Name, Please?
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Volume 65, Number 04 (April 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Eighty Memorable Years
Bringing Delight to Music Study
Singer Faces the World (interview with Maria Jeritza)
God's Apostle of Music Dr. Eben Tourjée, Musical Pioneer: The Story of the Founder of America's First Conservatory of Music as Told by His Nephew
Is Sacred Music Progressing?
My First and Last Lesson with Ignace Jan Paderewski
Musikwiz—True or False?
Arm and Its Relation to the Keyboard (interview with E. Robert Schmitz)
Essence of Music Study (interview with Leonard Bernstein)
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Volume 65, Number 05 (May 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Voice of the Village Square
Tribute Dinner to a Great Conductor
Make the Right Start! (interview with Risé Stevens)
Was Music a Gift of Religion?
Beginning the Scale on Each Degree
Technique for the Amateur Pianist
Roy Newman, American Composer (1890-1946)
Master Lesson on Raff's Cavatina
Wonder of Bells
What About the Electric Organ? (interview with Ethel Smith)
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Volume 65, Number 06 (June 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Art and Advertising
Tiny Tots' Adventures in Theory
Virtuoso in the Jungle (interview with Leonard Pennario)
Music Teacher Takes a Vacation
Song That Named Four Towns
Etude in Calcutta
Mrs. Mascagni Turns the Trick
Romantic Career of Michael Kelly: Mozart's Irish-Singer Friend
He Fought His Way to the Top Down Under: How Bernard Thomas Heinze Became Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Pedaling—the Stepchild of Piano Study
Technical Proficiency in Singing (interview with Lucrezia Bori)
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Volume 65, Number 07 (July 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Music and Moods
Ever Play in a String Quartet?
Musical Tour of Europe Today (interview with Marjorie Lawrence)
They Hail from the Red River Valley: The Amphion Chorus of Northern Minnesota and Dakota Records Success Formula for Male Choruses in the Average American City
Radio Conducting As a Career (interview with Henry Weber)
Hearing and Musicianship (interview with Curtis H. Muncie)
Theory Behind Music: Teaching Children to Understand the Background of the Art
Developing the Boys' Choir (interview with Coleman Cooper)
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Volume 65, Number 08 (August 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Matter of Degrees
Roads to Memorizing Piano Music
Heart of the 'Cello (interview with Gregor Piatigorsky)
Observations of an Artist on Tour (interview with Ray Lev)
Securing a Good Piano Tone (interview with Earl Blair)
Variations on a Given Theme
True or False in Harmony Land
Importance of the Piano for the Organist
Building Finger Efficiency in Piano Study
Developing the Tenor Voice (interview with Frederick Jagel)
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Volume 65, Number 09 (September 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Keeping Young With Music
Romance of Home, Sweet Home and Its Author: The American Actor and Poet Who Wrote the Words Was One of the Distinctive Figures of His Day
What About the Woman Violinist? (interview with Evelyn)
My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part I
Teacher's Round Table
Practical Side of Piano Practicing
Can You Set a Standard?
Pedals—The Soul of the Pianoforte
Schumann's Whims (Grillen), Op. 12, No. 4 (Master Lesson)
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Volume 65, Number 10 (October 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Seeking the Bubble
Violin Has Been My Life (interview with Zino Francescatti)
Music and Philately
Learning to Understand Bach
Techniques of Damper-Pedaling
My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part 2
Tales of Isidor Philipp: The French Master Recounts Anecdotes of the Conservatoire and
Romance of John Howard Payne and His Immortal Song, Home, Sweet Home
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Volume 65, Number 11 (November 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Mr. Smith and Music
Yes—You Can Compose Music!
Preserving the Voice (interview with Frieda Hempel)
Harp as a Career (interview with Elaine Vito)
Ninety Years in Music (Mr. and Mrs. Crosby Adams)
My Hall of Memories: Famous Singers I Have Known, Part 3
Building of the Paulist Choristers (interview with William J. Finn)
Passing of The Little Flower
Special Music for Weddings and for Memorial Services
Band, Orchestra and Chorus
Choral Cultism
Music Links Them All: The Unique Power of the Tone Art to Draw People Together
Master Lesson on Chopin's Prelude, Op. 28, No. 8
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Volume 65, Number 12 (December 1947)
James Francis Cooke
Christmas Down (Poem)
Silent Night, Holy Night!
America's Great Peace Hymn: The Story of America, the Beautiful and Its Composer, Samuel A. Ward
Amazing Subterranean Oratorio Performance: An Astonishing Account of a Notable Concert 750 Feet Underground in a Fabulous American Cavern Fairyland
Keep It Natural! (interview with Eileen Farrell)
Revival of the English Carol
What Gives a Violin Tone?
Joyous Mendelssohn (1809-1847): An Anniversary Sketch of the Brilliant Career of Felix Mendelssohn
Young People in Music (interview with Malcolm Sargent)
What the Singer Needs for a Career in Radio (interview with Jane Wilson)
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Volume 64, Number 01 (January 1946)
James Francis Cooke
New Year Opportunity
New Keys to Practice
Don't Be Dowdy!
Short Digest in Scale Practice
Philosophy of Vocal Study (interview with Maggie Teyte)
Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)
Paying Our Debt to America (interview with Henry H. Reichhold)
Good and Bad Punctuation in Phrasing
Reform in Music Teaching (interview with Heitor Villa-Lobos)
Worth Your Weight: Common Sense in Weight Playing
Parent-Teacher Groups for Music Studios
Developing the Staff Pianist for Radio (interview with H. Leopold Spitalny)