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Remus Takes The Cake / Words By Jacob Henry Ellis, Jacob Henry Ellis, Willis Woodward And Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1834-1899

Cover: drawing of an African American male proudly walking with a large cake; description reads characteristic march and two step dance; Publisher: Willis Woodward and Co. (New York)

Down On De Banks Ob De Mississippi Ribber / Music By Chas Coleman; Words By R. A. Browne, Chas Coleman, R. A. Browne, Frank Tousey's Publishing House (New York)

Sheet Music, 1834-1899

Cover: drawing of an African American male lying on a river bank, fishing line between his toes, waiting for a catch; description reads a Mississippi Cat-Fish Nig; Publisher: Frank Tousey's Publishing House (New York)

Eli Green's Cake Walk / Music By Sadie Koninsky; Words By Dave Reed, Sadie Koninsky, Dave Reed, Jos. W. Stern And Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1834-1899

Cover: drawing of a well dressed African American couple dancing; Publisher: Jos. W. Stern and Co. (New York)

Volume 13, Number 11 (November 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Caprice, Opus 16, No. 1, by Mendelssohn

Chat with Amateurs

Consolidation: The Etude and Musical World

Good Sense

Recording Apparatus for Piano Touch

Met by Chance

Patti's Repertoire

How to Instruct and Interest Little Ones

Instructive Interview

Music as It is Taught

What is Music?

Private or Conservatory Teaching

Music Teacher's Experience

On the Expectations and Prospects of a Musical Professor

Boy Musicians

It My Be You

Perplexities of a Country Music Teacher

Graded Course of Teaching Pieces and Studies

Plea for Better Pronunciation

Few Reflections

Profitable Study

Good Words

Rambling Talk: We and Our Musical Children

Superficial Piano Playing …

Volume 13, Number 10 (October 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Hardest Piano Piece

Modern Musical Crank

Absent-Minded Musicians

Art and Artlessness

Creed of the Well-Taught Pupil

Other Side of the Story

Difficult Passages as Etudes

That Other Teacher

Types of Piano Teacher

Extemporization

Interesting Interview with Verdin

Listening to One's Own Playing

Discouragements of Piano-Playing

Woman and Music

Reform Needed

Account of the Gavotte

Liszt and Chopin

Suggestions for Musical People

Lecture Recital

Phenomenal Voices

Worse Than Wasted

How Composers are Inspired

Piano in Small Parlors

How I Read the Etude

Study of Music: Small Children be Made to Study Music, Talent or no Talent?

Philosophic Reflections

Points in Music …

Volume 13, Number 09 (September 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When to Begin

Organize Organize!!

Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and Others for Teaching Purposes

Lesson in Concords and Discords

Parallel

True to Art

Use of the Metronome in Practice

Misconceptions

What Dvorak Says

Why Woman is not a Composer

To Be or Not to Be

Gift of Song

Why Good Music is Good

No Royal Road

Guilmant on American Music

Friends and Their Friendship

Real Study and Its Relation to Playing by Ear

Quality, Rather Than Quantity

What Ought to be Played

Idols Shattered

So-Called Conservatories

Expression and Phrasing

Humorous in Instrumental Music

Nervousness in Piano-Playing

Consideration

Does Music Describe?

Public …

Volume 13, Number 08 (August 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Listen to Music

Mission of the Artist

What to Cultivate

Mendelssohn as a Teacher

Machine vs. Mind in Playing

Cultivation of the Ear

Infant Musical Prodigies

Rubinstein: The Man and the Musician

Music Teacher's Allies

False Ballances

How Shall I Interest My Pupils?

Origin of Old Folks at Home

Broad Consideration of Piano Playing

Take a Music Journal

From a New Standpoint

Liszt and Chopin

Volume 13, Number 07 (July 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

One Way to Abuse Classical Music

Music is not Music if it Has No Soul

Lessons in Listening

Musicians' Creed

Musical Prodigies

Neglected Branch of Piano Teaching

How to Succeed in Music Teaching

How to Reach the Pupil: Four R's

Rubinstein: The Man and the Musician

Lack of Public Sympathy for Musical Art

Self-Criticism, an Important Factor in Piano Study

Few More Don'ts

Study Essential

Personality in the Musical Life

Remedies Effected Through the Medium of Four-Hand Playing

Scherzo

Art of Teaching Children

Receptive, But Critical

Music Recital (June 3, 1895), Lindenwood College

Student Music Performance Programs

Event program for the Music Recital (June 3, 1895).

Volume 13, Number 06 (June 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Reflections on the Study of Music at the Piano

Music, Home and Wife

How to Work, or the True Gradus ad Parnassum

Crescentic Keyboard

Their Characteristics

Boxing as an Aid to Piano Playing

Country Teacher

Teach Music

Music in Education

Is it a Waste?

Wealth and Poverty of Musicians

Pupil of To-Day

Musical Individuality

Reading, Listening, and Thinking

Little Story

Alphabetical Musical Rhyme

Phrasing

Choosing a Teacher

What Shall be Taught Beginners

Why So Many Failures?

Pianistic Mannerisms

Pushing and Pulling

Use of the Metronome

Liszt and Mendelssohn

Musical Prejudices

Teaching and Playing

Playing for Pupils

How to Sing …

Volume 13, Number 05 (May 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

True Value of the Study of Music

Musicians or Executants, Which?

Another Point of View

Winter's Work

How Shall We Educate the Parents of Our Pupils?

What Constitutes Success?

Classes in Phrasing

Little Talk

Nuggets

Emil Bauer on Practicing—Brains as Well as Fingers

Chat with Young Music Teachers

Impromptu Opinions of Prominent Musicians

How to Keep Up an Interest

Musical Talent

Why Go Abroad to Study

Trials and Tribulations of a Music Teacher: The Pupil Who Wants Twice Too Much Time for the Money

Comic Side of Music

Avoid

Reed Organ

Volume 13, Number 04 (April 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Note on the Piano

Reminiscence of Bülow

What Shall I Play?

Make Study Interesting

Value of an Artist's Testimonials

Fantasy

Practical Talk with Girls

Material for Music Classes

To Acquire Expression

Present Worth

Duties of Music Teacher, Pupil and Parent Toward Each Other

Wit, Wise and Otherwise

How to Teach Schumann to Children

Amateur Musical Society

What is Classical Music?

Music and Money

To Play or Not to Play: Musical Education that Would Make Study a Pleasure to Children

Fingers and Finger-Rings

Basis of Phrasing

Rhapsody

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1895 -- Vol. 17, No. 01, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

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Volume 13, Number 03 (March 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Piano—What Is It?

Musical Micawbers

Short Glossary of Musical Terms (up to date)

Concentrate! Concentrate!

Conservative Versus Experimental

Wasted Effort

Music Study Abroad, as Viewed by a Former Leipzig Student

Why That Failure?

What is Classical Music?

On Listening to Music

Leisure Moments

Practical Pedaling for Teacher and Student

Missed Lesson Question

Slow Pupil

Chopin's Music

Liszt's Music and Stavenhagen's Liszt Playing

Expression in Piano-Playing

How to Begin

Evil Exposed

Some Helps for the Town Teacher

Too Rapid Reading

Develop the Artistic Nature

Individuality

Pupil's Recital (February 22, 1895), Lindenwood College

Student Music Performance Programs

Event program for the Pupil's Recital (February 22, 1895).

Volume 13, Number 02 (February 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On the Rhythmic Element of Musical Form

Bugbear of Method

Rafael Joseffy

Personal Magnetism of Rubinstein

Men vs. Women Teachers

Machine Pupils

Pianoforte Teaching and Teachers

Can Expression Be Cultivated?

Music and Music Lovers

Music Study for Boys

Develop the Musical Soul

Rubinstein's Career

Faults of Beginners: Rapid Playing in Primary Grades—Play Slowly if You Hope to Play Fast

Metronome

Fads in Instruments

Rubinstein's Piano Touch

Dignity of the Pianoforte

How to Select a Piano

Benjamin Godard

Musical Utterances of Ruskin

Practical Pedaling for Teacher and Pupil

Sharp But True

Volume 13, Number 12 (December 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Great Composers of Music

Piano Playing and Analysis

Getting Better Work from Pupils

Slow Practice

Taste and Teaching

Difficulties of a Piano Teacher

Music as It is Taught

Ludwig Schytte (autobiography)

Berceuse by Ludwig Schytte

Spoiled Child

Description of Danse Macabre

Limits of the Ear

Study in Dates

Jealousy Among Pianists

How to Become a Pianist

Almost Discouraged

Wrist Training Before Finger

Non-Success

Prejudice in Musical Art

How to Pronounce Them

Why Should We Study Harmony?

Enigmas

Commendable List of Music—Grade I to X

Volume 13, Number 01 (January 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cause of Failure

Music Study and Society

Importance of Hearing Artists

Touch of Great Players

Three Classes of Pupils

Musicians and Music Lovers

Few Words About the Precursors of the Pianoforte

Justice in Music Teaching

Reputation

Concise Suggestions for Memorizing

Why of Scale Practice

Dont's for Young Singers

Music vs. Morality

How Much Shall I Charge for a Music Lesson?

William Mason on Piano Touch

Fault in Piano Playing

Musical Ear: Those Who Possess It and Those Who Don’t

One Way to Interest

Method of Practicing Exercises and Other Larger Works

Reviewing

Random Shots

How to Become an Artist

Mental …

Rastus On Parade / Words By Kerry Mills, Kerry Mills, F. A. Mills (New York)

Sheet Music, 1834-1899

Cover: description reads characteristic two-step march for piano; Publisher: F. A. Mills (New York)

I Want Yer Ma Honey / Music By Fay Templeton; Words By Fay Templeton, Fay Templeton, T. B. Harms And Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, 1834-1899

Cover: Description reads An Ethiopian Oddity; Publisher: T. B. Harms and Co. (New York)

The Captive Lion's Flight (La Fuite Du Lion Captif) / Words By S. Mazurette, S. Mazurette, Hamilton S. Gordon (New York)

Sheet Music, 1834-1899

Cover: drawing of a Lion escaping from its Cage; description reads: Grande Tarantelle Brilliante; Publisher: Hamilton S. Gordon (New York)

Volume 12, Number 11 (November 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Methods of Popularizing Songs

Jests That Instruct

Courage in Music

Influence of Music

Two Lessons or One Lesson a Week?

Right Beginning

Ways and Means, and—Results

Egoism

Our Country Teachers—Some Hints for Their Advancement

How to Make Practice Easy

Godard's Characteristics

Machine Pupils

Rheumatism of the Hand and Arm

Foreign Titles and Foreign Names

Hints to Young Composers

Conflict Between Public School Work and Music

Habits of Music Pupils

Does Music Describe?

Portamento Touch

Music (Male) Teacher's Work

Suggestions to Musical People

Power of Association

Amateur Musical Club

Paderewski's Tone and Touch

American Pianists (photos)

Volume 12, Number 10 (October 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

General Directions to be Observed when Playing for Others

True Ideal of Music Teaching

Accompanying in Theory and Practice

Musical Advancement: A Suggestion to Parents

Proper Scale Practice

Taste

Listening to Music: A Few Words to Concert-Goers

Topics for Reflection

Magazines for Pupils

Strengthening Pianists' Fingers

Worrying

Franz Liszt's Letters

Handel's Sarcasms

How to Learn Music

Why Not a Graded Catalogue of Music With Which to Begin Teaching?

Little Items for Pupils Worth Knowing

Specimen Programmes for Graduating Pupils

Over Our Tea Cups

Whims of Composers

How to Analyze

Longevity of Composers

Pre-Eminence of the Pianoforte as a Medium for …

Volume 12, Number 09 (September 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mental Practice

Amateur Musical Society

Art, Versus Muscular Power

Stray Toughts

Why Give Etudes

Summing Up of the Year's Work

Listening to Music: A Few Words to Concert-Goers

Specimen Programmes for Pupils, Hints as to Methods of Study Performance

Left Hand

Study of Hymn Tunes

Aphorisms

Musical History Examinations

How to Make a Simple Musical Cabinet

Time Reading

Woman's Life of Liszt

Some Curious Habits in Pupils, and Relections Thereon

Well Known

Must Teachers be Performers?

All Piano Pupils Should Study Harmony

Importance and Peculiarities of the Pianoforte

Different Ways of Composing

Gleams from Bohemia

Can Expression Be Cultivated?

Musical …

Volume 12, Number 07 (July 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Intellectual Attitude of Instrumental Practice

Some Abuses of Music

Gleams from Bohemia

Where Are We At?—Mechanical Aids to Piano Practice

Conservatory Graduates

Life of Richard Wagner

Modern Musical Progress

Duet Playing

Mozart at Marseilles

How to Conquer a Difficult Passage

Annette Essipoff

Getting Pupils to Do More Thinking

Knowledge of Harmony Indispensable to All Musicians

Beethoven Sonatas Not For Children

Clerious Elocutes

How to Buy a Piano

Musical And Elocutionary Recital (June 4, 1894), Lindenwood College

Student Music Performance Programs

Event program for the Musical and Elocutionary Recital (June 4, 1894).

Volume 12, Number 06 (June 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Traditional Beethoven Playing

Flying Seed

From a Teacher's Notebook

Graduated Quack

Some Peculiar Concerts

What Can Be Learned From Copying Music

Chat With Paderewski

How to Keep Up a Repertoire

Equally True of Other Nations

Chopin Peculiarity

History of Music in a Nutshell

Some Secrets of Practice Illustrated

Beethoven's Personal Apperance

Life of Richard Wagner

Johann Strauss

Anecdotes of Von Bülow

Arthur Sullivan's Youth

Making It Certain

Word for Private Recitals

Cursory Talk about Sonatas

Paderewski's Daily Life

Music Lessons for Boys

Singers vs. Musicians

Class Experiences

Volume 12, Number 05 (May 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Teaching and the Philadelphia Summer Music School

Touch and the Pedals

Reminiscences of My Teaching Days

Romance of Celebrated Pieces

Plea for Outside Studies

General Review in Harmony

Side Talk with Parents

Life of Richard Wagner

Instructive Hints

Mental Practice

London College of Music

Home for Aged Musicians

Weaknesses of Musical Students

Some Secrets of Successful Practice

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies

Musical Humbugs

Occasional Correspondence of a Music Teacher

Looking Ahead

Traditional Beethoven Playing

Volume 12, Number 04 (April 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Philadelphia Summer Music School

Technique and Feeling

Devitalized Wrist

Very Much to the Point

Valuable Contribution to Musical Criticism

Good Enough to Practice On

Classses in Biography and Musical History

Art Versus Prize-Getting

Women's Amateur Musical Clubs

Musical Taste

Public v. Private Pupils' Recitals

Review

Reason Why

Origin(?) of Certain Compositions

Some Secrets of Practice

Encourgting Young Musicians

What is Musical Intelligence?

Beethoven Sonatas

Wanted, in the Musical Profession, More Brains and Better Morals

Hints and Helps

In Jest

My Morning's Work

Let All Be Worthy and Well Tried

Necessary Reform in Charging Tuition

Extracts from Handy Music-Lexicon

Genius and …

Volume 12, Number 03 (March 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dvorak's Lessons

Truth

To Practice a Song

Piano Playing Can't Be Stopped

Von Bülow Dies

Summer School in Prospect

Read! Read! Read!

Questions about Scales

Shall All Children Learn Music

Concise Chronological History of the Chief Musicians and Musical events from A.D. 1380-1885

I've Hear Him Once

Musical Pharisees

Some Errors as We Find Them in Pupils

Failure in Music

Why Woman Cannot Compose

Looking Backward

Puff Direct

Missed Lesson

Pupils [from] the Teacher's Standpoint

Quality, Rather than Quantity

Regarding Certain Pianists

Shall We Teach Cause or Effect?

Presumptuous Sins

Art and Money

Mozart on His Manner of Composing

More …