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 60, Number 04 (April 1942)
James Francis Cooke
Music a Permanent Art
Sir Thomas Beecham Has His Say: A Striking Feuilleton Upon England's Distinguished Orchestral Conductor
Shepherds' Pipes for Modern Players
Easter, the Alleluja Season
Bombs, Bands and Bonds: Los Angeles County Band Sells Thousands of Dollars Worth a Day
Rhythm Must Be Felt: Learn the Secrets of Rhythm by Tapping It
Handel's Messiah Two Centuries Old: A Colorful Picture of the Development of the World's Most Famous Oratorios
Jánossys and Johnsons
Look Your Best to Capture Public Favor: Crank Up Your Curls and Exercise Off the Bulge if You Would Succeed with the Public
Save the Child Voice
Minimum Speed Limit
Has Today's Popular Music a Place in the Teaching Repertoire?
Scientific Approach to Singing (interview with Conrad Thibault)
Technic of the Month—Melody with Flowing Accompaniment Heller Op. 47, No. 2
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Volume 60, Number 05 (May 1942)
James Francis Cooke
Musical Results
Musical Reciprocity
Four Score—and Then! (interview with Walter Damrosch)
Sing It Again!: Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!—The Romance of a Great American Patriotic Hymn
Twenty-five Busy Women Keep Up Their Music: Farmingham Housewive Find New Interest in the Art
Striking New Concert Gowns of Leading Singers, to Say Nothing of a Noted Harpist
Comedy in Grand Opera (interview with Salvatore Baccaloni)
Acquiring Skill in the Reading of Music
Inter-American Music Week for 1942
Care of Music
Thomas Britton the Small-Coal Man
What About that Whole Tone Scale?
General Tubman, Composer of Spirituals: An Amazing Figure in American Folk Music
Highlights in the Art of Teaching the Piano
Most Popular Woman Singer in Radio Cannot Read a Note (interview with Kate Smith)
Music of the African Bushveld (interview with Josef Marais)
Technic of the Month—Melody with Broken Chord Accompaniment, Heller Op. 47, No. 15
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Volume 60, Number 06 (June 1942)
James Francis Cooke
Dated Music
Much of the Extremely Unpleasant Music We Hear These Days Under the Alias of 'Modern' Should be Referred to the Narcotic Board for Investigation . . .
Our President Speaks for Music
Making Opera Democratic (interview with Mrs. August Belmont)
Philharmonic Distinguishes Youth
Hoot Mon! the Pipers Are Comin': All About Pipes, Pipers and Piping
Hey Day of Brahms and Schumann
Musical Saga of Samoa
More Music, More Defense: How Amplified Music is Stepping Up Defense Products
Notable Domestic Musical Triumph in the Far Northwest
Nasal Tone
Counterpoint in Plain Language: Part 1: Gentlemen, Old Bach is Here!
Homemade Music
Great American Musical Anniversary
Why the Mexicans Do Not Play La Paloma
Music Plays Many Roles
Music in a Famous Utility
Give Us the Tools: The New War Song for the Man Behind the Man Behind the Gun
Sounding the Human Note in Music
Corn-Fed Opera: A Minnesota Rural Community Makes an Opera Out of a Local Indian Legend and Successfully Presents It
Technic of the Month—Rapid Legato Passages—Heller Op. 47, No. 8
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Volume 60, Number 07 (July 1942)
James Francis Cooke
Music—A Prime Wartime Necessity!
When Opportunity Knocks
Music for the Fun of It (interview with Elizabeth Mitchell)
William M. Felton, Obituary
Antidote for Worry
Human Metronome
Sixty Years Among the Masters (interview with Alexander Gretchaninoff)
Allez-Oop! Circus Music Goes Classical, Including Interviews with Merle Evans, Circus Super-Bandmaster, and the Well Known American Operatic Baritone, Robert Ringling, Mus. Doc.
Magic Metal: Romantic Traditions of the Bells
Simplified Clef Reading
Sidelights on the Scale: The Modern Scale Fingering
How to Facilitate the Acquisition of Technic
Music Unites the Americas: A Review of a Memorable Musical Educational Congress
Don’t's in Stage Comportment
War Council Endorses Forward March With Music
Counterpoint in Plain Language: Part 2: The Dry Bones of Melody
Amazing Garcias
Technic of the Month—Chords: All Varieties—Heller, Op. 47, No. 20
Will the Banjo Stage a Comeback?
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Volume 60, Number 08 (August 1942)
James Francis Cooke
Right Kind of Relaxation
Climbing to Musical Success
Music, Morale, and Elsa Maxwell
Amazing Garcias, Part 2
Creative Technic for the Pianist (interview with Claudio Arrau)
Forgotten Swiss Opera is Revived
Forward March with Music
Black Key Rote Playing Prior to Sight Reading: A New Teaching Device Found Fascinating to Little Ones
Why and When Do Teachers Really Fail?
Rhythm of the Malaguena
Music for Defense
Paganini, Champion of Restlessness
Maladjusted Child in Music Instruction: Can the Abnormal Child Be Brought Back to Normalcy Through Music?
Strauss Waltzes Give a Ball for the Instruments of the Orchestra
Enlisting Music for Men in Service: How Musicians May Help in Bringing Music to the Camps
Piano for Mary: Is it Up to Mary to Succeed Without Parental Coöperation?
Counterpoint in Plain Language, Part 3
Becoming a Conductor (interview with John Barbirolli)
Technic of the Month—Melody with Repeated Chord Accompaniment—Heller, Op. 47, No. 16
Value of Encouragement
Marc Aurelio Zani de Farranti
Musicians in the Past
Four Advertising Approaches for the Teacher
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Volume 60, Number 09 (September 1942)
James Francis Cooke
Selling Your Musical Ability
Our Young Musical Army
President John Quincy Adams' Picturesque Musical Impressions: A Quaint and Highly Pituresque Outlook of the Sixth President of the United States Upon Music in the Early Years of the Past Century
How Chopin Really Looked: Only Photograph Come to Light
Successful Singing (interview with Vivian della Chiesa)
Woods Used in Musical Instruments
Music in Switzerland
Profitable Musical Calling of Women: A Condition Which Should Open a Large, Well-Paid Field for Trained Musical Workers
Oldest Music Store in America
Rapid Sight Playing: A Practical Method to Produce Quick Results
Disney's New Musical Picture Does It Again: Music Takes a Stellar Rôle in Bambi
No Substitute for Practice
Basic Harmonic Principles Simplified
Music and Athletics
Technic of the Month—Technistories for Boys and Girls
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Volume 60, Number 10 (October 1942)
James Francis Cooke
Education in Advertising
Campus Glee Clubs Promote Morale
Music Marches with Uncle Sam (interview with Emanuel Feuermann)
America's Needs in Opera (interview with Giovanni Martinelli)
Life with a Musical Father: How a Genius Cared for the Training of His Children (interview with Suzanne Bloch)
Ancient Music and Dance in Modern Ceylon
Opera, War, and Wagner: How Much did Wagner Influence Hitler's War?
Daily Music Hours Popular at a Great University: Students Demand Good Music Three Times a Day
Fast Five Fingers
Goals in Music Study (interview with Francisco Mignone)
Yes, Music Can Begin at Forty: Start To-Day and You May Surprise Yourself
Why Did I Forget My Piece?
Amusing Musical Episodes
National Chorus of Mothersingers
Classical Czar of Tin Pan Alley: Popular Publishers Cash in On Sure-Fire Russian Master
Progressions of Major and Minor Chords
Talented Pupil
Gay Carusos of the Circus: Songsters of the Sawdust Ring of Yesterday
Technic of the Month—Technistories for Boys and Girls
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Volume 60, Number 11 (November 1942)
James Francis Cooke
Music of the Church and Chancel
New American Symphonist
Duty—Honor—Country: A Story of Music at West Point—Its Great Choir—Its Grand Organ—Its Famous Band
Our Nervous Pupils
In Everything Give Thanks: Thanksgiving 1942
Making Practice Painless
Background for Opera (interview with Bruno Walter)
Profitable Piano Practice (interview with Edward Kilenyi)
Challenge for Younger Organists
Keyboard Mechanics from a Virtuoso's Standpoint (interview with José Iturbi)
How to Improve Orchestral Playing (interview with Frank J. Black)
Nine Brothers Make a Choir
Amusing Musical Episodes
Progress with the Boy Choir
How Analysis Helps Piano Study
Master Lesson on Chopin's Prelude in A Major
Technic of the Month—Technistories for Boys and Girls
Musical Flares
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Volume 60, Number 12 (December 1942)
James Francis Cooke
Operatic Proving Grounds
Star Eternal—Poem
Interesting Problems in Music Making (interview with Bronislaw Huberman)
Thrilling Possibilities of the Amateur Orchestra (interview with Leopold Stokowski)
Discrimination at the Keyboard (interview with Alec Templeton)
Twas the Night Before Christmas—Notograph
Lullaby. A Requested Editorial Disquisition
How Scales and Arpeggios Help Sight Reading
World's War Call for Music: Striking Contrast Between the Songs of Totalitarianism and the Songs of Freedom
Essentials of Vocal Art (interview with Emilio de Gogorza)
Christmas Carol Broadsides: When Christmas Song Sheets Were Hawked in the Streets
Have You Piano Hands?
Music Masters Memorialized by the Mails
Technic of the Month—Technistories for Boys and Girls
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Volume 59, Number 01 (January 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Blessings in Their Train
Art of Piano Ensemble (interview with Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff)
Gettting a Song Published
Our Musical Beginnings in the Southwest
America's Musical Bank
Proper Care of the Piano
Success Can Be Won Without Money (interview with John Charles Thomas)
Golden Wedding Anniversary at The Presser Home
Only Ladies' Bagpipe Band in America
How John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Practices
How I Prepare a Radio Program (interview with André Kostelanetz)
Piano Ensembles Attract Fine Attention
Soft Pedal Problem
How Music Helped Me to Avoid the Asylum
Better Sight Reading
Musical Travelogues of Latin-America
Cradle of Composers: What the Choir Loft Has Done for the Art
Teacher's Round Table
Voice
Strains That Injure the Voice
Singers Must Learn to Recite
Problems of Practicing
Rubinstein's Opera
What is the Musical Need of Youth To-day?
Master Lesson on Minuet in D Major of Mozart
Technic of the Month—Czerny—The Pianist's Old Testament
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Volume 59, Number 02 (February 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Star Enters Her 'Teens
Morning at Valley Forge
Lord Byron in Romantic Music
Reaching Your Goal at the Keyboard (interview with Percy Grainger)
Earlier God Bless America
Singing Success without Money or Manager
Brahms' Prickly Pet
Language of the Composer (interview with Béla Bartók)
Musical Ear
Lure for the Musical Child
Origin of The Star-Spangled Banner
Practical Hints for Training the Conductor (interview with Nicholai Malko)
Pirating Parnassus: Tune Borrowing in Tin Pan Alley
Technic of the Month—More Invaluable Czerny Studies
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Volume 59, Number 03 (March 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Country Music Goes to Town
How Do They Do It?
Jazz—the Music of Exile: An English Opinion Which Credits the Jewish Race as Well as the Negro Race with American Jazz
Why Al Smith Likes Music: The Musical Credo of a Striking Individualist
Battle of Music
ASCAP's Reply to its Critics
Famous Composers Rally to ASCAP
Strength of Fingers, Strength of Thought (interview with Rudolf Serkin)
Art and Life in Indian Music (interview with Ish-ti-Opi)
New Dress Every Day
How to Make the Melody Speak
Teaching Tone Quality
My Country's Music—'Tis of Thee!
Master Lesson on Bach's Fantasie in C Minor
Technic of the Month—Czerny, Op. 335, No. 14
What About the Consonants?
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Volume 59, Number 04 (April 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Finnish Fighter
Blow! Joshua! Blow!
Economizing Energy at the Keyboard (interview with Ruth Slenczynski)
Music in Peru, the Land of the Incas
Learning How to Compose
I Saw Musical Vienna Fall (interview with Robert Stolz)
What Really Is Modern Music?
Musical Films
Schubert Again Enters the Films
Go Back to the Piano! A Lively Article from a Sensible Mother Who Found Her Own Way Back
Acquiring a Light Thumb
Outer and the Inner Ear
Queer One Tone Music of the Lapps
Piano Practice as a Game
Learning How to Act in Opera (interview with Leopold Sachse)
Music in War-Torn Greece
Technic of the Month—The Glissando
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Volume 59, Number 05 (May 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Money Cannot Buy It
Men, Women and Song
Approaching an Operatic Role (interview with Kirsten Flagstad)
Our Friends, the Music Critics (interview with Alberto Jonás)
Making Sure of Your Song
Creators of a Famous Song
Let's Make it a 'Tiptoe' Study
Help for the Poor Sight Reader
Rather, Frances Taylor
Silent Practice: An Aid to the Soft Accompaniment Touch
Sidney Lanier: Poet, Man and Musician
Why Was Leschetizky Great? The Gist of the Methods of the Famous Viennese Pedagog Who Brought More Eminent Pupils than any Other Teacher Since Liszt
How to Get Children to Practice
Music to the Front in Canada
Problems of the French Horn (interview with Bruno Jaenicke)
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Volume 59, Number 06 (June 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Economics of Piano Study
Music As a Social Force
Problems of the Advanced Piano Student (interview with Artur Rubinstein)
Teaching the Teens
Musical Development in the Philippines
How Fast Shall I Play It? The Rhythms and Speeed of the Classics
What theLittle Mother Did: In Which the Great American Baritone Tells Why Students of Singing Should Study the Piano
You Can’t Get Away from It!
Making Practice Profitable (interview with Mischa Elman)
Morning Music and What It Meant: Some Ineresting Known Facts About Ancient Concerts and Their Givers
Four Strong Foundations: The Importance of Proper Hand, Wrist, Arm and Forearm Motion in the Study of the Piano
Check Up
Piano Class Methods in Beethoven's Time
Technic of the Month—Octaves
Flight of the Clipperino: A Modern Composer Writes a Piano Concerto in Six Movements
Accordion Questions Answered
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Volume 59, Number 07 (July 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Music and the World's Great Hour
National Defense Demands Music
Music the Navy Needs (interview with Lt. Charles Benter)
Boy—the Piano—The Spirit of the Game
New England Idyl
Modest Moussorgsky's Last Hours (Short Pages from Family Memoirs)
Golden Jubilee Banquet
Finding Opportunity on the Concert Stage (interview with S. Hurok)
Army Song Book Makes Its Bow
Music in Britain's War (interview with Betty Humby)
Will the Orchestra Be Modernized? Introducting a Conference with the Late Emanuel Moore, Inventor of the Double Keyboard Piano
Technic of the Month—Thirds in Five Finger Groups
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Volume 59, Number 08 (August 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Youth Overcomes a Handicap
Subconscious Musical Education
Thomas Jefferson's Life-Long Love of Music
Qualities a Pianist Must Possess (interview with Artur Schnabel)
Symphony of the Sawdust: Thirty Years with a Circus Band (interview with Merle Evans)
Music That Little Folks Like: A Word to Composers
Coaching for Opera (interview with Wilfred Pelletier)
John Philip Sousa As an Author: The Famous Bandmaster-Composer Wrote Five Books Which Had a Large Sale
Ignace Jan Paderewski, 1860-1941
Father of the Viennese Operetta: Franz von Suppé and the Viennese Operettists
Technic of the Month—Simple Broken Chord Passages
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Volume 59, Number 09 (September 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Music at Bryn Mawr
Putting Assets to Work
Will Beethoven Stop Hitler?
My Most Momentous Musical Moment
Not as Written
Leader of the Famous Six (interview with Darius Milhaud)
Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 1
Musical Independence for America (interview with Rudolph Ganz)
Wanted Immediately: An Army of Musical Enthusiasts
Poise at the Piano
Great Musical Women of Yesterday
Putting Songs Across the Footlights (interview with Nino Martini)
Technic of the Month—Sixths
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Volume 59, Number 10 (October 1941)
James Francis Cooke
School Music Broadcasts Everywhere
Musical Pharmacopoeia
Our Musical Good Neighbor Policy (interview with Elsie Houston)
Music As a Life Asset (interview with John A. Warner)
Complications in the Music of Richard Strauss (interview with Rose Pauly)
Musical Life in Cairo (interview with Harry Mayer)
Better Results in Choral Group Work (interview with Irving Landau)
How to Get Up a Musical Paper
Your Private Box at the Opera
Why I Left My Teacher
Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 2
Mastering Mixed Rhythms
Music Study Now a Great National Asset: What Music Does to Your Character and How It Does It
Air by Johann Sebastian Bach, Master Lesson
Technic of the Month—Two-Note Phrase Groups
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Volume 59, Number 11 (November 1941)
James Francis Cooke
Town Hall Hallmark
Psalm of Thanksgiving
Revival of the Ancient Recorder (interview with Irmgard Lehrer)
Music Versus Professionalism (interview with Raymond Gram Swing)
Music Teachers Honor Memory of Theodore Presser
Vocal Problems and Breath Technic (interview with Margit Bokor)
New Instrument Opportunities for Piano Teachers
Some Things I Have Learned from Teaching (interview with Harold Bauer)
Intimate Tribute to Paderewski
My Teacher is a Lady—
Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 3
From the Largest Prison in the World
Do Not Spend Too Long a Time on One Piece
She Studied with Liszt: Including an Authentic List of the Pupils of Liszt (interview with Sophia Charlotte Gaebler)
Backstage with Great Singers
Technic of the Month—Four-Part Legato (Czerny Opus 335, No. 5)
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Volume 59, Number 12 (December 1941)
James Francis Cooke
New Metropolitan Star
World Hope, Poem
Music Should Speak from the Heart (interview with Sergei Rachmaninoff)
How Music Has Helped in My Life (interview with Lionel Barrymore)
Yes, We Have Music in Hawaii
Historic Musical Friendship: Haydn and Mozart in Their Personal Relations
Defense Worker's Magnificent Musical Opportunity: An Editorial
Preparedness Leads to Success (interview with Frederick Jagel)
Russian Nationalist Composers, Part 4
Christmas Music Through the Ages
Facing Your Audience
Substitute for the Missed Lesson
Memorizing Plan That Works
Unifying Piano Study (interview with Ernest Hutcheson)
Technic of the Month—Legato Chords (Czerny, Opus 335, No. 28)
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Volume 58, Number 01 (January 1940)
James Francis Cooke
Have You Youth Concerts in Your Community?
Music and the Dawn of a New Day
Making of a Name (interview with Arthur Judson)
Wartime Musical London, Paris and Brussels
Begin the Year with Music
Creating a Character in Opera (interview with Friedrich Schorr)
Dreams of Old Musical Vienna: How Musical History Was Made Over Cups of Coffee
Musical Triumphs in Motion Pictures: A History of the Art, from Jazz Singer to Today1
Current Films with Worth While Music
Making Five Finger Piano Technic Vital: A Highly Instructive Article for Younger Teachers
Training the Hands for Definite Goals
Why Not a Mother's Study Group: A Record of One Teacher's Experiment with Mothers of Pre-School Children with Suggestions for an Interesting Project That Brings Extra Income to the Teacher
Practical Hints in Melody Writing
Master Lesson—Chopin's Nocturne Op. 32, No. 2
Pedal Problems for Little Folks
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Volume 58, Number 02 (February 1940)
James Francis Cooke
Musical Debutante: How a Youthful Prima Donna Triumphed at Thirteen
Keystone of Our Nation
Ageless Tunes: Why Victor Herbert's Melodies Never Became Chestnuts
There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding: The Story of a Song that Earned Three Million Dollars (interviewh with Zo Elliott)
Amusing Musical Episodes
Discovering the Riches in Old Music (interview with Wanda Landowska)
Social Art: Eight Hands—Forty Fingers
Medallions of Russian Masters of Yesteryear (interview with Plotnikoff, Eugene)
How to Get and to Hold Pupils
Harpist and His Problems (interview with Marcel Grandjany)
Master Lesson—Chopin's Mazurka, Op. 24, No. 4 in B-flat Minor
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Volume 58, Number 03 (March 1940)
James Francis Cooke
Cultural Olympics
Relief Through Change
Down to Mexico: The Picturesque Music of Our Sister Republic on the South
Heart of the Blues (interview with W.C. Handy)
Accompanists are Born, Not Made (interview with Coenrad V. Bos)
Irishman the Grandfather of Russian Music: The Singular Story of John Field, Pianist and Composer
Family Musical Museum: A Remarkable Swiss Group Which Has Attracted Wide Attention
How Much Musical Talent Has My Child? A Musical Intelligence Test for Children Which Any Musical Mother May Give at Home
Music—An Avocation for Men: A Soldier Talks to Boys About Men and Music
How the Oratorio Began
Developing Musical Pitch
Bringing a Song to Life
Music Teachers and Movie Cameras
Novel Game Aids Teaching
Master Lesson—The Fairy-Like Scherzo in E Minor, Op. 16, No. 2, by Mendelssohn
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Volume 58, Number 04 (April 1940)
James Francis Cooke
American Folk Songs
Time and Tune
Music Educators Constantly Progressing
Don't Fear Your Limitations (interview with Jarmila Novotná)
When J.P. Morgan Sang
By the Beautiful Blue Danube: The Story of the Most Popular Waltz Ever Written)
Amusing Musical Episodes
Renaissance of A Cappella Singing (interview with Baroness Georg Von Trapp)
Mr. Mathews' Treasure Box: How a Famous American Music Educator Preserved Musical Facts
How to Capitalize Music Memory
Using Imagination in Teaching
Musical Askit Baskit
Gaining Keyboard Velocity Through Touch Control
Liszt, the Patron Saint of Music