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In Her Own Hands: How Girls And Women Used The Piano To Chart Their Futures, Expand Women's Roles, And Shape Music In America, 1880–1920, Sarah F. Litvin

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

American girls and women used the parlor piano to reshape their lives between 1880 and 1920, the years when the instrument reached the height of its commercial and cultural popularity. Newspapers, memoirs, biographies, women’s magazines, personal papers, and trade publications show that female pianists engaged in public-facing piano play and work in pursuit of artistic expression, economic gain, self-actualization, social mobility, and social change. These motivations drove many to use their piano skills to play beyond the parlor, by studying in conservatory, working as classical and popular music performers and composers, founding and teaching at schools, working as department store …

Volume 66, Number 06 (June 1948), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

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

Volume 09, Number 07 (July 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Diversity of Taste

Professional Versus Amateur Music Teachers: Or Low Tuition Fees and How to Raise Them

Piano-Forte Teaching

Life-Rests

Elegant Design For a Piano Cover

Minnie Hauk's Music Lesson

Education of Pianists

Careless Beginners

Committing Music to Memory

Paying the Price

Melody and Pedantry

Expression and Its Conditions

Music as a Bread Winner for Girls

Man Created Music

Volume 04, Number 03 (March 1886), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Etudes or Pieces

Thalbergian Method

Some Hints Concerning Piano Teaching

American Versus Foreign Fingering

Fingering of the Scales

Simplicity of Technic

Open Letter to the Piano-Forte Student

Technic Again

Retrospective and Prospective

Our Girls as Piano Players

Printing Music for Children

What to Teach