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 64, Number 02 (February 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Greatest Teacher in the World
Etude Spring Festival of Music
Three Ravels: Personal Souvenirs of the Great French Composer
Two Aspects of the Cuban Musical Landscape (Part 2) (interview with Pedro Sanjuán)
Harp in College and University Training
Potentates as Musicians
New Radio Shows Feature Younger Artists
Etude Music Lover's Bookshelf
Teacher's Round Table
Well, I Do Declare!: Musical Instruments Throughout the World (Section 2)
Teaching the Singer to Become an Interpretative Artist (interview with Lotte Lehman)
Louis-Hector Berlioz' Picturesque Memoirs
Perfecting Piano Technique (interview with Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson)
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Volume 64, Number 03 (March 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Quality of Great Music
How Opera Hit G.I. Joe
Want to Be a Band Leader?
Teaching Music Means Teaching Taste (interview with Robert Casadesus)
What About That Song You Have Written? (interview with Helmy Kresa)
Rhythmic Background of the Orchestra (interview with David Grupp)
Band Questions Answered
What of the Shrines of Yesteryear?: Weimar, Home of the Great Franz Liszt
Latin-American Music in the United States
Notable Friend of Music (interview with Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
This Business of Conducting
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Volume 64, Number 04 (April 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Finding the Right Place
Sustaining the Pupil's Interest
Paper Shortage—Our Joint Problem
Before There Was a Copyright
Little Touch of God's Finger (interview with Lauritz Melchior)
Three Contemporary English Composers (William Walton, Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten)
Pietro Mascagni—A Tragic Figure?
Pink Slips, Prizes, and Perfection
Know Your Instrument! (interview with Egon Petri)
Servants of the Ideal: Ten Great Educators
Negro Spiritual: A Lively Leaven in the American Way of Life
Claude Debussy as a Music Critic
What the Audience Should Give to an Artist (interview with Mme. Mana-Zucca)
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Volume 64, Number 05 (May 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Music in Your Soul
Musicians and Digestion: Physical Influences on the Efficiency of Composers, Musicians, and Singers
Music Brings New Joy to Life and Work: Planned Music Service, in Ever-Expanding Measure, is Revolutionizing Condition in Offices, Banks, Factories, and Public Places (interview with Harry E. Houghton)
Look Into Your Piano
Play the Cello and Look Pretty
Servants of the Muses: Ten Great Musical Educators
Control of the Voice (interview with Lansing Hatfield)
Magic of Sound: Sound, Which is Necessary to Life, Can Be Constructive or Destructive; Scientists Are Now Working on its Beneficial Effects
New Thoughts on Voice Care (interview with Lily Pons)
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Volume 64, Number 06 (June 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Does Music Develop Character?
Practical Program Idea
Helping Pupils to Create
Review Music Book
New Keys to Practice
Preparation for Potsdam (interview with Eugene List)
Dramatic Last Hours of Mozart
University Training for Motion Picture Musicians
Amazing Tour of Jenny Lind
Battistini, the Incomparable Master of Bel Canto
Well, I Do Declare!: Musical Instruments throughout the World (Section 6)
Musicians in World War II (interview with Yehudi Menuhin)
Sing, Ye Citizens! (interview with Herbert Huffman)
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Volume 64, Number 07 (July 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Raising the Music Teacher's Income
Claque in Grand Opera: From Looking for a Bluebird
Prepare for Good Luck! (interview with Eleanor Steber)
Basic Foundations of a Permanent Technique: Oft Neglected Phases of Piano Study of Real Significance to All Students and Teachers
Too Late for What?: A Guide to Adults Who Don't Expect to Make Carnegie Hall, But Who Can Get Lots of Fun From Their Playing
Knight of Music
Do You Want to Arrange Music for Radio? (interview with Percy Faith)
Changing Values in Harmony
Operatic Side of Shakespeare
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Volume 64, Number 08 (August 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Need for Leadership
Was Wagner Influenced by Schubert?
My Life With Music (interview with Helen Hayes)
Hints on the Organ Recital
Making Discarded Music Useful
Why Not Enjoy Elizabethan Keyboard Music?
Do You Want to Become a Radio Singer? (interview with Reinhold Schmidt)
Tune Up, Neighbors!
Technic—Basic Need for Good Playing: A Stimulating Factor in Velocity Work
Every Music Lesson is Expandable
Start Singing. Wherever You Are! (interview with Donald Dame)
Military Polonaise of Frédéric Chopin, A Master Lesson
Sight Reading
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Volume 64, Number 09 (September 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Musical Riots
How to Improve Your Sight Reading
Personal History in Music (interview with Vincent Sheean)
New Keys to Practice (VIII)
Effect of Music on History
Dressing for the Concert Stage (interview with Vyvyan Donner)
As in a Mirror
Report to the Nation (interview with Edwin Franko Goldman)
Yehudi Menuhin's Magic Bow
Publishing a Popular Song (interview with Helmy Kresa)
Overcoming Piano Difficulties by Exaggeration
What Is the Outlook for a One-Armed Pianist? (interview with Paul Wittgenstein)
Competitions
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Volume 64, Number 10 (October 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Wanted—a Million Pianos
Music's Significant Place in Modern Life (interview with Harry S. Truman)
How I Taught Alec Templeton (interview with Margaret Humphrey)
Humor in Music (interview with Alec Templeton)
Stars and Stripes Forever Around the World
Bland Memorial Dedicated: Negro Minstrel Who Wrote Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Honored by Governor William M. Tuck and Virginians
Significance of the Bland Memorial
Important Announcement
Piano Student's Problem of Memorizing
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Volume 64, Number 11 (November 1946)
James Francis Cooke
Artistic Temperament
H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Becomes a Bachelor of Music
Music Rhythms Affect Brain Rhythms
How Peace Came to Zdeborice
How Melodies Come (interview with Oscar Straus)
What is American Music
Wit and Humor of Musicians
Piano Fundamentals
And So to Music: A Delightfully Quaint and Picturesque Glimpse of Music in England in the Seventeenth Century as Seen Through the Eyes of Samuel Pepys
Developing Technique (interview with Simon Barere)
Flowers of Puerto Rico
Americans Spend Billions for Music
Cellist Looks Ahead (interview with Edmund Kurtz)
. . . Right Good Partners, Too (Gilbert & Sullivan)
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Volume 64, Number 12 (December 1946)
James Francis Cooke
So This Is Our Christmas! (editorial)
Musical Dates of the Pre-Christian Period
Christmas Crib: The World-wide Adoption of the Holy Scene in the Manger
Secret of Song Speech (interview with Conrad Thibault)
Story of Christmas: As Told by the Titles of Christmas Carols and Songs
Wit and Humor of Musicians (Part Two)
What Hotels Mean to Music
Music Study Promotes Happy Homes: A Psychologist Discovers Notable Facts
Fiddler in the Sky
Spinet Rules in the 1947 Piano Field (Pictures)
Unknown Liszt Portrait
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Volume 63, Number 01 (January 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Dawn on the Horizon
Fresh Winds Will Blow Again: A Discussion of Music and Meteorology: A Physician Tells How the Weather Gets on Composers’ Nerves
Ladder to Virtuosity (interview with Mischa Elman)
Quiz to Test Your Musical Knowledge
How to Rehearse (interview with Donald Voorhees)
Edgar Stillman Kelley Passes
If Parents Had Had Their Way
Music as a Living, Human Element
New York's First Opera
What Nazism Has Done to German Song: What Happens to the Tunes When Hitler Provides the Words
Voice Training Through Emotions (interview with John Seaman Garns)
Immortal Pat: America's Super-Salesman of Music
Katherine Ruth Heyman—A Tribute
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Volume 63, Number 02 (February 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Music and a Loftier Race
New Keys to Practice
Music America Wants: The Amazing Story of How Two Banjos, a Drum, and a Piano Developed into a Vast Musical Enterprise (interview with Fred Waring)
Warming-Up Exercises Make Better Public Performances
There's No Substitute for Knowledge!: How Motion Picture Music is Written (interview with Victor Young)
Victor Young and Victor Young
Our Future Musical Theater (interview with Richard Rodgers)
Music Student Awards Make Better Pupils: War Stamps Make Splendid Prizes
Making Bach Interesting (interview with Alexander Borovsky)
Use of the Palato-Pharyngeal Muscles in Singing
Letter from London: Music, During Britain's Darkest Hour, is Employed to Help the Workers on the Home Front
Treatment of Repeated Notes
Brahms Intermezzo, Opus 117, No. 1 (Master Lesson)
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Volume 63, Number 03 (March 1945)
James Francis Cooke
I Want to Be the Leader of the Band
Figures and Phrases
Vochestra—A New Musical Combination (interview with Fred Waring)
Objectives of Scale Practice: Why is It That the Student Who Has Had a Thorough Training in Scales Can Be Distinguished Immiediately?
Do Musical Talents Have Higher Intelligence?: The Famous Quiz Kids Make a Remarkable Showing
Why Not Get Up a Summer Music Play?
Musical Genius and Youth
Artist Speaks of Music (interview with S.J. Woolf)
How Strong Is Your Foundation? (interview with José Iturbi)
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Volume 63, Number 04 (April 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Oceans of Tunes
Prescription for a Music Supervisor
Developing the Orchestra (interview with Artur Rodzinski)
Quality Pays
New Keys to Practice
Choose the Right Music
Rhythm, Music, and the Theater (interview with Rouben Mamoulian)
Annual Auditions for American Piano Pupils
What is Expected of an Accompanist?
Fading Fires: Why Does Musical Genius Expire in Some Cases and Continue in Others?
FDR's Favorite Song
Octogenarians, Take Notice
Elusive Pedaling
Applying Principles of Painting to Music
Independence at the Keyboard
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Volume 63, Number 05 (May 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Music and World Unity
Mexico's Famous Folk Orchestra
What is Musical Interpretation?
Tell-How Tour of the Radio City Music Hall
New Keys to Practice
Mental Projection in Singing (interview with Nadine Conner)
Music Teacher and the Post-War Period
One Hour of Practice
Tragic Memorial
Musical Progress in San Salvador
Music for the Mentally Disturbed
America and Good Music (interview with Howard Barlow)
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Volume 63, Number 06 (June 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Supreme Service of Music
Spectacular Meyerbeer
Childhood in Valhalla (interview with Friedelind Wagner)
Four Ways to Save Waste Paper
Governor Dewey Hails Music
Secret of Leschetizky
Beginning, Middle, and Ending: A Fundamental Art Principle Which, if Universal, Will Assist in Giving Balance and Climax to Your Interpretations
Relax!—Then What?
You're Not Too Old to Play the Piano
Music in the Post-War Curriculum
America's Musical Yesterday
Be Your Own Guide! (interview with Dorothy Kirsten)
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Volume 63, Number 07 (July 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Great American Musical Ideal: The Splendid Record of The Edward MacDowell Association at Peterborough, New Hampshire, in Fostering the Productions of Representative American Creative Workers
Hawaii's Other Music
Chopin As a Teacher of Pianoforte: The Great Master Taught Regularly Four and Five Hours Daily
Teague Designed Piano for the White House
Helpful Exercises for the Pianist's Hand
Making Practice a Game: Did You Ever Try to Teach a Child Before It was Five Years of Age?
Hints for the Young Conductor (interview with Frank J. Black)
When Artistic Lightning Strikes: A Feuilleton Upon Genius and Artistic Temperament by One Who for Many Years Has Secured Conferences with Distinguished Artists for The Etude
Music That Came on the Mayflower
Good Voice Care Means Good Singing (interview with Jarmila Novotna)
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Volume 63, Number 08 (August 1945)
James Francis Cooke
What Good is Art?
Here Comes the Band
Have You Met Her?
Art of Duo Singing (interview the Victoria Anderson and Viola Morris)
Beethoven's Martinet Teacher
Let's Clarify Music Teaching! (interview with Leo Reisman)
Mr. Piano Writes His Autobiography
Building an Orchestra (interview with Karl Krueger)
Place of Music in Military Hospitals: With Particular Reference to Its Use During Convalescence and Reconditioning of Men with Wartime Injuries
Things Some Teachers Ought to Know
Adult Beginners Want to Learn
Music in New China
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Volume 63, Number 09 (September 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Make It Clear
Distinguished American Guitarist Celebrates Eighty-fifth Birthday
As to Music Appreciation
Our Musical Good Neighbor, Brazil (interview with Olga Coelho)
From a Studio Window: Observations Based on Thirty Years of Teaching at Illinois Conservatory of Music, Mount Holyoke College, and Northfield School for Girls
Musical Advance in China (Part Two)
Superstitious Musicians
The Greeks and Musical Therapeutics: On Their Use of Music to Curb the Passions, Improve the Complexion, and Cure Diseases
The Background of Background Music: How NBC's Experts Fit Music to the Mood and Action of Dramatic Shows
What's Wrong With Our Concert Halls?
Does Music Help the Actor? (interview with Elissa Landi)
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Volume 63, Number 10 (October 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Concert in Berlin
Mendelssohn's Religious Faith
Modern Device for Teaching the Scales
Music Down Under: Many Surprises in Musical Activity in Australia
Wine of Islam: Coffee, Coffee Houses, and Music
There's a Future in Radio, IF
Britain Produces New Operatic Success
Piano Never Talks Back
What Do You Know About the Symphony Orchestra?: A Practical Quiz for Classes and Clubs
Technic of Music Listening: Channels Through Which the Fine Art Reaches the Emotions
What! Not Able to Read Music?
Choral Art for America (interview with Robert Shaw)
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Volume 63, Number 11 (November 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Three Centuries of Thanksgiving
Magic of Melody
Making the Met: Which is 1945 Slang for Securing an Opportunity to Appear as Soloist at the Metropolitan Opera House with the Opera Company of the Metropolitan Opera Association (interview with Edward Johnson)
Principles I Learned from Tobias Mathay (interview with Ray Lev)
Music Teacher's Day in a Boom Town
Class Teaching in Applied Music
Overcoming the Handicaps of the Adult Piano Beginner
Who Should Play the Harp? (interview with Edward Vito)
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Volume 63, Number 12 (December 1945)
James Francis Cooke
Christmas Song for a New World (Poem)
World Christmas Carols
Legend of Switzerland's Native Instrument
Queen Receives the Queen (Marjorie Lawrence)
Music's March of Victory (interview with Beardsley, Ruml)
Revolution in Opera (interview with Laszlo Halasz)
How Records Helped Win the War
Christmas Carol
Edison's Contribution to Musical Appreciation
George Eliot—Musician
Getting a Piece Ready for Public Performance
Wayfaring Minstrel (interview with Burl Ives)
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Volume 62, Number 01 (January 1944)
James Francis Cooke
Symphonies of Smiles
Musician and the Common Cold: How Famous Artists Have Fought the Most Common Malady
Color in Singing
Bull Market in Pianos
Importance of Piano Posture
Avoiding Stilted Diction
Don't Be a Sound Post Jiggler
Opportunities for the American Composer (interview with Charles Wakefield Cadman)
Original Don Cossacks and the Music of the Don (interview with Serge Jaroff)
Fighting Man and His Music
So You Want to Try Hollywood? (interview with George Lessner)
Child Who Hates Music
Music and the Battle of Life: Why Music Gives Us Courage
Technic of the Month—Prelude in A Minor, Op. 28, No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin
Bruckner's Advice
Ten Tips for Beginning Organists
Notographs of Wagner Operas
Making the Organ Talk
Blending the Registers
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Volume 62, Number 02 (February 1944)
James Francis Cooke
Music and the Spirit of Youth
Music Helps Britannia Rule the Waves (interview tieh Archie Payne)
How I Won My Way Into the Metropolitan Opera (interview with Anna Kaskas)
Valuable Items of Interest to Singers
Early American Choral Music: A Strong Factor—The Handel and Haydn Society
U.S. Soldiers Receive Hymn Rations
That Music Killed Fifty Thousand Germans: The Thrilling Story of the Royalist Who Wrote the Most Famous of Revolutionary Songs, La Marseillaise
Watch Your Metronome!: Let the Metronome Help You Build Business
Approach to Chopin Playing (interview with Alexander Brailowsky)
First, Get the Notes Right: A Commentary Upon Accurate Note Reading
Freedom of the Keys: Father Bach's Aim in the Well-Tempered Clavichord May Have Been Orientation in All of the Keys
Expand Your Mental Horizon
How Music Ended a Famous Feud: War Ballads of Today in the Mountains of Kentucky
Technic of the Month—Prelude in G Minor, Op. 28, No. 22 by Frédéric Chopin