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Volume 53, Number 12 (December 1935), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Let Nothing Discourage You (interview with Lotte Lehmann)

So, This is the Hurdy-Gurdy!

Bach Fugue Simplified

Soul-Light

Music: The Magic Carpet of Radio

Why Every Child Should Have a Musical Training

Where Does American Musical Composition Stand?

Fiddle Box of Memories (interview with Sam Franko)

Counting the Group

One Way to Enjoy Music

Music Teachers' National Association Convention of 1935

Music of the New Day (interview with Mana-Zucca)

Christmas Prayer

Boston Symphony Orchestra: Its Origin, History and Activities

How Famous Composers Break all the Rules (interview with William Strasser)

Voice of Experience Inspects the Hammond Organ

Honesty in Piano Study …

Volume 43, Number 07 (July 1925), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Era of Great Orchestral Conductors in America

Gottschalk Bit His Nails

Everlasting Fight for Good Music

Those Fourth and Fifth Fingers

First Steps in Memorizing

Use of the Pedals

Feel the Rhythm

What is Thematic Development?

Another Way to Memorize

Practice of Arpeggios

Felix Le Couppey

Tempest, A Musical Play

Help to Acquire a Brilliant Technic

Contagious Short Motive

Von Buelow and His Vidow

Can I Learn to Conduct?: Practical Hints on Conducting Orchestras and Choruses

Four Charming Pupils' Recitals

Protect Your Friends From This Monstrous Musical Swindle

True-False Examination in Music

Miss Blank's Method

When to Leave a Teacher

Volume 24, Number 08 (August 1906), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Exercises for the Sight Reading Class

Reminiscences of Celebrated Singers (interview with Giovanni Sbriglia)

Significance of Bach to Modern Music

Public Taste in Music as Shown by Summer Orchestra Programs

Teaching of the Minor Scales

Bach Awakening

Aphorisms from the Manuscript of the Late C.H. Richter

Story of Johann and Joseph Strauss

Pupils' Rhythmical Problems

Volume 23, Number 08 (August 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Practicable Promotion of Music in Small Places

Christian Sinding

Women in Music

Hans Christian Andersen and Music

Criticism of Popular Music

Should the Teacher of Music Give Free Lessons!

Summer Days in the Newberry Library, Chicago

Franz Schubert and His Coffee Mill

Lesson in Composition

Gaining Endurance

Practical Ideas Applied to the Teaching of Children

Volume 23, Number 07 (July 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Study of Musical Conditions in the Southern States

Sir Edward Elgar

Practical Application of the Rudiments of Harmony to the Study of the Piano

Interpretation of Music Upon the Piano

Influence of the Music Teacher Upon the Pupil

On the Essence of the Beautiful in Piano-Playing

Volume 21, Number 08 (August 1903), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Centers for Music Study in Southern Germany: Munich, Bayreuth and the Wagner Festivals

Attitude of a Modern Would-be Virtuoso

Country Teacher's Need of Versatility

As One to Another: The Story of a Song

Private and Class Work: A Lesson to Teachers

Esthetics of Modern Music

Exercises to Promote Artistic Pedaling

What Method Do You Use?

Music and the Married Mistress of the Home

Volume 19, Number 05 (May 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Should Expression be Taught?

Touch and Tone

Raising the Standard of Musical Culture

Verdi's Advice

Emulation as a Factor in the Private Teacher's Work

Acquiring the Method of a Teacher Quickly

Liberation

Choosing a Music Teacher

Study in Concentration

Loose Use of the Term Technic

Composer's Individuality

Success Maxims

Teaching in Schools

Advice to Young Teachers

Cost of a Technic and How to Reduce It

Unconscious Combativeness

Teachers, Old and Young

Fingering and Its Evolution

Harmonics on the Piano

Art of Listening

Mr. David Bispham on the Study of the English Song

Two Classes of Music Lovers

Volume 18, Number 07 (July 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Artist and the Machine

Dr. William Mason's Memoires

Tale of a Would-Be Musician

Whims and Fancies of Celebrated Musicians

Sir George Grove and Schubert

How of It

Early Composers and Copyrights of this Country

Collateral Summer Reading for Musicians

Educational Value of Program Music

Some Selected Quotes for Singers from Musical Mosaics

Patti's Advice to Singers

Adventures of a Musician

Hints to Play Triplets and Chords

Curious Discovery of a Genius

Advice to the Student of Harmony: Original Work

Saint-Saens and the Phonograph

Fashions in Pianos

Volume 17, Number 05 (May 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and the American Public

American Virtuoso

American Composers

American as Musical Theorist

American Students

Foundations of Musical America

American Impatience

Americans in Musical Literature

Development of the Military Band in the United States

American Musical Instruments

Music Trades of America

Progress of the Middle West in Musical Art

Will American Composition Ever Possess a Distinctive Accent?

American Girl's Temperament in Relation to Music Study

Music Teaching in America and Abroad

Relation Between Pupil and Teacher

Musical Convention of New England: With a Backward Glance by the More Primitive Efforts for the Cause of Music

Musical Outlook for Women

American …

Volume 16, Number 06 (June 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Persistency

Broader Musicianship Needed

Do Teachers Teach?

Music a Moral Force

Listening to Music

Repose

Musical Amateur

American Musician

Something for Nothing

Those Wicked Musicians

How is Art to Survive?

Improvement of the Musical Condition of America

Pronunciation of Russian Names

Josef Hofmann

Mendelssohniana

Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers

How to Make Music Studios Attractive

Give Yourself Royally

Music and the Intellect

Teaching, a Business

Two Distinct Classes of Pupils

The Technical Terms of Harmony

Music Makes Character

Chapter on Arpeggios

Rhythmic Practice

Principles of Musical Pedagogy: Letters to a Young Music Teacher

Music and Manners

Art …

Volume 16, Number 05 (May 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Social Status of the Musician

Enthusiasm

Thirteen Mistakes

Poor Old Blind Tom

Letters to Dead Musicians—Frederic Chopin

Wonderful Orchestra

Modern Musical Machines

Study of Pieces

Reed Organ

Boon for Composers

Need of Higher Education for Musicians

Some Hindrances to Fellowship Among Musicians

What is Meant by Playing with Expression?

Ability and Amiability: Two Important Factors in Teaching

What Made Me a Musician

Proper Age for Beginning the Study of Music

Preparing for a Pupil's Recital

Manners, Morals, and Music

Advantages for Music Students in the Various Music Centers

Chapter on Scales

Nature's Music

How to Make Music Studios Attractive

Beautiful …

Volume 15, Number 05 (May 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Points in Music Teaching

Music Education

Play with Brains

Pianoforte Study: Hints on Piano Playing

Massage as a Means for Developing Suppleness in the Fingers

Music for Piano Students

Like unto a Magnet

Rubinstein's Thoughts

My Fellow-Students

Music Cure Again

Appogiaturas and Passing Notes

Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague: A Romance of His Private Life

Death of Brahms

Wasted Efforts

Good Advice for Composers

Hypocrisy in Music

Modern Music, or Feed for Thought

Ruskin on Music

Value of an Objective Point

Art of Playing Accompaniments

Use of Slow Piano Practice

Find Your Proper Niche

Vehicle of Music

Volume 10, Number 06 (June 1892), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Manuscript Music Society of Philadelphia

Two Views of the Music Teaching Profession

Change in Style

Classic Versus Modern Composers for the Pianoforte

Preparation for Teaching

Way and the Work

Legato Touch

How to Listen to a Fugue

Fugue

Music versus Public School Duties

What is Music Teaching?

In What Manner May Parents Assist Music Teachers in the Performance of Their Duties?

How Can One's Progress Be Determined?

Mason's Principle of Velocity and Arm Touches

Memorizing Music

Volume 08, Number 07 (July 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Importance of Summer Reading for Musicians During Vacation

Audiences from the Standpoint of the Pianist

Shall We Study at Home or Abroad?

Where to Study Music

Amateur and Professional Music Teachers

Closed Eyes

Is Half an Hour Sufficient for a Private Lesson?

Genius, Chapter 2

Method of Study

Concerning Summer Schools

Mental Means to Mechanical Ends in Pianoforte Playing

Pianoforte Tone-Production

Modern Pianters

What Was the Musical Accent

Expect Better Playing

Volume 07, Number 07 (July 1889), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Eugene Thayer

Brief Hints at Odd Times

Clara E. Thoms Closes the New York State Convention with a Brilliant Piano Recital

Drift of Modern Piano Teaching

Old Proverbs

Chopin and Other Musical Essays

Sources of Skill in Musical Performance

Philosophy of the Beautiful

On Teaching and Teaching Reforms

Volume 07, Number 06 (June 1889), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Karl Merz

How Some Girls Study Music

Too Much Concerto

Place of Arm Motions in Elementary Piano Playing

Philosophy of the Beautiful

Oscar Raif's Method

What to Study in Piano Playing

Brief Hints at Odd Times

Song-Accompaniments

Wilson G. Smith's Piano Compositions

Adjectives in Music: Pretty, Nice, Just Lovely, Etc.

Class Teaching Once More

Volume 06, Number 07 (July 1888), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Festival Concerts

Piano-Forte Accompaniments

La Fileuse—Raff

Gossip About Masters, Old and Young

One-Armed Pianist

Piano Teaching

Modern Methods of Teaching

Neglect of Ear Training in Current Musical Education

Concerning Beauty of Tone

If You Want to Study Music, Study Music

Musical Notation and Terminology

Plan of Study

Volume 06, Number 06 (June 1888), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Brotherhood's Technicon and Elementary Piano Teaching

Consecutive Fifths

A.D. Turner (Obit.)

Historical Pianoforte Recitals

On the Importance of Theoretical Studies to the Pianist

On the Use of Studies in Piano Teaching

Deppe Method Again

Missing Lessons

Rainbow Reference Cards

New Piano Effects

Musical Normals

Piano Teaching

Volume 05, Number 08 (August 1887), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Elementary Piano Instructions

How Much Shall I Practice?

Manumoneon

Expression in Piano-Playing

Wanted—A Better School of Musical Criticism

Volume 04, Number 01 (January 1886), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Habit of Syncopating

Coming Meeting

Nature and Art

Articulation

Accentual Treatment of Exercises as Applied to Piano-Forte Exercises

Value of Mechanical Apparatus for Cultivation of Technic

Technical Treatment of the Piano-Forte

History of Fingering

Technic, and the Use of Mechanical Appliances for Its Development

Origin of the Tarantella

Wohltemperirte Klavier

Progressive Teacher

Faith, Hope and Charity, Sonnet

Gradual Development of the Science of Tuning Pianos

Musical Taste

Volume 04, Number 12 (December 1886), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Wholesome Truths for Teachers

Concerning the Pure Minor Scale

Study Music Itself

How to Use the Pedal

Young People's History of Music: The First Ten Centuries of Christian Music

Necessity of Studying Harmony

Teacher's Duty

Pianism and Poetry

Ann Arbor School of Music

Mental Processes in Musical Execution

Psychology Applied to Teachers

Touch

Of the Proper Utilization of Practice Time

Preparation for Piano Teaching

Is it Necessary That a Piano-Forte Teacher Should Be a Good Player?

Wanted in the Musical Profession, More Brains and Better Morals

Christmas Presents

How to Be Intelligent

Appeal to the Music Teachers of the …

Volume 03, Number 07 (July 1885), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Expectations Sure to be Disappointed

Imaginary Pilgrimage to Beethoven

Many Students of the Piano and Few Players: Letter Addressed to the Father of a Piano Pupil

Too Much Independence

Volume 02, Number 09 (September 1884), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On the Use of the Pedal

Course in Harmony

Graded List of Popular Music

Contributors

Chats with Pupils on What is it to be Musical?

Artist Concerts in Colleges, Etc.

How to Use the Metronome

Not a Musical Critic

Shall Lessons Missed Not Be Paid For?

John Field and His Habits

Piano Technic: The Formation of the Hand

Oberlin Conservatory of Music

How to Proceed in the Lesson Hour

Crossness

Some Commonplaces of Piano-Forte Teaching: The Pedal

Growth of Piano Playing

Volume 02, Number 08 (August 1884), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

As Thy Days So Shall Thy Strength Be

How to Employ Vacation Time

Details

Symphony of Life

Gospel of Simplicity: A Short Sermon on a Musical Text

Main Principle of Fingering

Old and New Schools of Piano Playing

How to Study—How to Teach

Personal Appearance of Geniuses