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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 10, Number 05 (May 1892), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Something About Expression

How Paderewski Plays (Poem)

On Teaching Time: Motion, Beats, Measure, and Counting

Ideas About Music Teachers

Paderewski's Playing

Choice of a Teacher

Why Good Pianists Are Scarce

Legato Touch in Foundational Piano Teaching

Interesting the Class

Conversation at a Lesson

Conversation on Music

Arranging a Programme

Hints to Novice Concert Players

Help Towards Understanding the Minor Mode

Some Helps for Teacher and Pupil

Ambition

Musical Environment

Historical Cycle of the Sonata

Success

Volume 10, Number 04 (April 1892), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Putting a Better in Place of the Bad

Plain Talk to Music Students

Ear—and Rhythm—Test

Technics Versus Music

Helps and Hints

Conversation on Music

Annotations for Pupils

City or the Town: Which Provides the Best Opportunity to the Aspiring Musician?

Teachers and Teaching

Advantages of Summer Music Schools

Intellect in Phrasing

Legato Touch in Foundational Piano Teaching

Wanted! Hints for Teachers, Pupils and Parents

Composer and Performer

Modern Helps in Developing Technic

Everything in a Great Name

What Shall the Player Express?

Volume 10, Number 03 (March 1892), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Biographical Sketch and Critical Estimate of Ignace J. Paderewski

Parents, Pupils and Teachers

Music Teachers and Music Teaching

Teaching Time

Thorough Practice

Conversation on Music

Scherzoso

How Many Music Lessons a Week and At What Age to Begin

How to Select a Music Teacher

Rhythmical Difficulty Solved

Bad Habits of Young Pianists

Study

Aesthetic Analysis Possible for Pupils

Ear Training

Some Studio Experiences; Or, Thoughts for Pupils

Proposed Remedy for Thoughtless Piano Playing

Classic and Romantic Music

Colors in Thematic Music Printing

Artists and the Public

Volume 10, Number 02 (February 1892), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is Romantic Music?

Secret of Rapid Progress

Four-Hands Playing

Requisites for Voice Teachers

Value of Analysis for Pupils

One of a Music Teacher's Perplexities

Some Useful Pieces

Pen and Pencil Sketch of Beethoven

What is Musical Life?

Home Influence Upon the Pupil's Progress

Study of Rhythm

Faults and Their Remedies

University Extension, for the Systematic Home-Study of Music

Varieties of Legato Touch

How to Learn a Piece

How to Study—How to Tecah

Musical Analysis and Phrasing

European Conservatory in St. Louis

Volume 10, Number 01 (January 1892), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Parents and Music Teachers

Woman in Music

What a Student Can Learn at Concerts

Rubinstein as Teacher

Theory of Music Explained for Piano-Forte Players

1791-1891: Two Scenes and Some Reflections Arising From Them

Words, Their Importance to Teachers

How to Learn a Piece

What is Classic Music?

March

Mason's Touch and Technic

Use of Wrist—When Shall It be Taught?

Study of Rhythm

Valuable Ideas for Pupils

Something for Pupils

List of Cabinet Organ Music

Turning Over a New Leaf

What to Teach: Hints for a Teacher's Circular

Few Rules for Piano Practice

Volume 09, Number 11 (November 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Nature and Aims of Musical Education

Invitation to the Dance

Class Library

Theory of Music Explained for Piano-Forte Players

Musical Vagabondage

Parents as Well as Pupils

World's Musical Thinker

What Studies Are Required to Become a Good Musician

Teaching Expression

Continuity of Tone in Piano Playing

Narrow Ideas

Sources of Information Concerning Musical Compositions

Physiology and Piano Technic

Art of Listening

Shall the Teacher Play the Pupils' Pieces for Them

Cast-Iron Teachers

Heller's Music

What I Saw on My Vacation, Part 2

Some Things Piano Students Should Never Do

Volume 09, Number 10 (October 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music An Aid to Right Living

Royal Road in Pianoforte Study

Personal Appearance of the Teachers

Scale Practice

Trials and Tribulations

Development of Musical Taste and Judgment

Science of Music

Hint in Regard to Scale Practice

Piano Teaching in Its Elementary Stages

Albani's Advice

First Lessons to Children

To Aspiring Pianists and Composers

The Importance of Commencing a Musical Education Early in Life

Practicing Music in One's Active Life

What I Saw On My Vacation

Chapter on Velocity

Volume 09, Number 09 (September 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

False Idea Corrected

What Shall I Compose?

Tempered Expression in Performing

Skylark's Song

Rest of the Talent

Some Causes of Failure

Hints and Helps

Touch and Pedal

Genius on Genius

Staccato Habit, Its Cause and Cure

National Chorus for the Columbian World's Fair

Reforms in Harmony Teaching

Plain Talk to Girls Studying Music

Weeping Sinews

Schumann's Letters to a Young Man

Success

Thorough Preparation

Pupils of Liszt

Sentences from Haydn, Showing the Man as Well as the Musician

Knowing That You Kno

Volume 09, Number 08 (August 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Teaching Classical Music

Theory of Minor Scales

Leigh Hunt on the Piano

Injustice to Teachers

Real and the Accessory in Music Study

Qualification of Teachers

Shall I Compose?

Boyhood of the Great Masters

Crude Ideas of Music

Mendelssohn's Extraordinary Talent

Requirements of a Fine Performer

Poetry and Pianism

Good Type of Teachers

Education of Pianists

Theory as Related to Piano Playing

Cultivate the Imagination

Worthy of Comment

Music a Keep-at-Home

Haydn's Toy Symphony and Its Origin

Polka

Mother's Duty

Painstaking

Thinking Through the Ear

Dominant Seventh Chord Scientifically Considered

Short Sentences from Beethoven's Literary Writings

Time for a Lesson

Sound …

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 09, Number 06 (June 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Instrument for Women, Giving Health Combined With Pleasure

Advice to Amateur Music Teachers

Weak Point of Piano Teaching

Why, When and How to Begin Music

Valse Caprice in E Flat—Rubinstein

Obituary

Genius at Large

Bach's Self-Education

Music and the Musician's Place in the World

How Not to Play the Piano

Why Go Abroad?

Nerves and Discord

Volume 09, Number 05 (May 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mission of Music

Beginning Music Lessons

Instrumentation

Sinking of Self

Non-Thinking Music Students

New Field for Piano Composition Opened by the Janko Keyboard

New Channel for Benevolence

When to Begin the Study of the Piano

Examination Questions Used by the Conservatory of Music, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa

Musical Literature—What to Read

Word in Regard to Practice

Correct Course of Piano Study

Phrase Rendition

Volume 09, Number 04 (April 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How Can We Make Our Pupils Practice?

How to Study the Piano

Culture Does Not Deaden the Appreciation

Concerning the Virgil Practice Clavier

Environment and the Study of Muisc

Specialists in Music

The String-Organ

About Pianists' Cramp

Place of Music in a Liberal Education

Looking Ahead

Pure Art

Comparison—Schumann, Chopin and Mendelssohn

Use and Abuse of the Classics

Two Ways of Looking at the Technical Question

Volume 09, Number 03 (March 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Sanctity of Music,

How Beethoven Played His Sonata, Op. 14, No.2

Freedom of Expression

At the Beginning

Hints to Young Music Teachers

Humor in Instrumental Music

Musical Growth in Pupils

Possibilities in Piano-Playing

Correcting Bad Habits

Two Ways

Confidence in Pupils

Amateur Music Teachers

Classical Music—What is it?

Music Teacher Described

Power of Music Upon Uncultured Listeners

Musings on Class Teaching

Objective Study

New Way of Scale Teaching

What a Music Pupil Should Study

Old Teacher's Opinion

Place of Music in a Liberal Education

Practical Uses of the Metronome

Musician vs. Player

Pluck and Policy in the Music Teacher

Accuracy …

Volume 09, Number 02 (February 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

System in Piano Practice

First Lessons on Real Music

Pianoforte Teaching

Muscular or Musical Training?

Two Extremes

What Use Shall Beginners Make of Their Eyes

Place of Music in Liberal Education

Cultivating the Imagination

Musings on Class-Teaching

Superficial Teachers

Cultivation of Feeling

Difficulties

Musical Affinity

First Lessons

Stimulus of Melody Study

Veteran Publisher Gone

More About the Pedal

Extempore Playing

Use of the Word Technique

Volume 09, Number 01 (January 1891), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Awakening Interest in the Pupil

Place of Music in a Liberal Education

Problems of Music Teaching

To Which Class Do You Belong?

Muscular Training for the Pianist

Group Scale Playing

Shall the Teacher Play the Pupil's Pieces for Him—Power of Example—Danger of Being an Imitator

Rational Basis of Musical Expression

Trust Your Teacher

Thoughts of Eminent Educators on Teaching

Why Not!

Looking Backward at the Wisdom of the Ancients

Points

How to Acquire a Sympathetic Touch

Technic Means to an End

Poor Teacher's Doom

Reading the Phrasing at Sight

Are You Progressive?

Freedom of Execution as to Tempo

Passage Practice …

Volume 08, Number 11 (November 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

First Lessons for Young Children

Liberation of the Ring-Finger

Janko Keyboard

Field of Music

On the Desirability of Bach Study

Three Requisites for Teaching

Dr. Holmes on Music

Problems of Music Teaching

Exhortation to Students of Music

Teachers and Teaching

First Lessons to Children

How Much Time is Needed for a Pianoforte Lesson?

Volume 08, Number 10 (October 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Developing Musical Imagination

Expression vs. Technic

Musical Clubs

Musical Societies

Program for the First Year of the Musical Society, of Schenectady, N.Y.

Special Pieces for Special Purposes

Mental Reading of Music

Musical Clubs: Their Importance

International Episode

Worthy of Comment

Volume 08, Number 09 (September 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Advantages and Disadvantages of Musical Study Abroad

Music Study in America vs. Germany

What Shall We Play?

Musical Thinking and Doing

Influence of School Music on Piano Pupils

Music for the Masses

Value of Pupils' Musicales in Cultivating Confidence

Value of Pupils' Recitals

Pupils' Musicales

Letter from a Progressive Teacher

L'Arpa

Cost of Studying Abroad

Volume 08, Number 08 (August 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Shall We Play?

Musical Thinking and Doing

New Publications

Genius

Lesson on La Scintillata

Music Teaching

What Pupils Ought Not to Do

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 08, Number 06 (June 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

In Memory of Karl Merz

Dr. Eugene Thayer, A Reminiscence

Something for Piano Teachers

Genius

Programme-Making

To Prospective A.C.M. Candidates

Personality of Musicians

Have a Purpose

Volume 08, Number 05 (May 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Jerusalem

Who Can Study Music with a Hope of Success?

Movements of Nerves and Muscles in Playing a Piece of Music

On Thorough Study

Thoughts on Piano Playing

One-Sided Specialism in Pianoforte Playing

Commissions to Teachers Once More

Chats on Technical Subjects

How Can the Individuality of the Musical Profession Be Raised to a Higher Level?

Raif Club in New York

To the Earnest Student and Player of the Pianoforte

Electro-Clavier

Sixth Programme from Anton Rubinstein's Cyclus of Seven Piano Recitals, with Biographical and Critical Sketch

Volume 08, Number 04 (April 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Appeal to the Musical People of America in Behalf of the Music Teachers' National Association Orchestral and Choral Concert Fund

Respect Due to the Musical Profession

Ring-Finger

Why Should Children Study Music?

Purity and Impurity

Practical Lesson in Time to Beginners

Class Organizations

Unbalanced Rhythms

Volume 08, Number 03 (March 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Electro-Clavier

Incompetency

Respect Due to the Musical Profession

How to Treat Backward Pupils

Mr. Virgil's Foundation Exercises

Put Your Heart in Your Music

Usefulness of Transposition of Daily Exercises

Chats with Music Students, or Talks About Music and Musical Life

Volume 08, Number 02 (February 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Things Worth Teaching

How to Start Beginners

Valuable Exercise on the Virgil Practice Clavier

Observations on the Study of the Pianoforte

Few Thoughts for Pianoforte Teachers

Social Standing of Artists

Study of the Piano

Coming Piano

Confidence in Playing Before Others

Successful Teacher

D'Albert Talks

Stray Leaves

Revolution in Waltzing

On Touch

A.B. Parsons on Principles of Expression Applied to the Pianoforte

Metronome

Cultivation of Musical Memory

Do State Music Teachers' Associations Weaken the M.T.N.A.

Hundred Years of Music in America

Jerusalem

Karl Merz is Dead

On the Conscious Control of the Muscles for Piano Playing

Serious Thoughts for Students

Volume 08, Number 01 (January 1890), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Liberation of the Ring Finger

Misuse of Music

Principles of Pianoforte Playing

Gustav Lange

How Shall We Increase the Respect of Educated Men for Music and Musician

Tottering Arm

Nerve Control

Artistic Development

Concerts and Lessons by Phonograph

New Standpoint of Artists

Objective and Subjective Interpretation

Rules for Major Keys

Frequency of Lessons

Volume 07, Number 11 (November 1889), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dr. William Mason

Worth Repeating

Music to be Beautiful Must be Scientific

Counterpoint—Beethoven's Idea

New Course of Piano Instruction

Krause's Studies in Measure and Rhythm

Musical Prodigies

Thought Versus Emotion

Depressed Knuckle-Joint Piano Practice

Artistic Uses of the Practice Clavier

Talent—Pianistic Talent

Touch and Technic

Technique

Education

Chopin's Method of Teaching

Bidwell Pocket Hand Exerciser

Wanted: A Good Instruction-Book for Beginners

Emotional Character of the Different Keys

Volume 07, Number 10 (October 1889), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Louis Maas

Adolf Henselt

On the Use of the Pedal

Pure Legato

Ring Finger Operations

Touch and Technic

Hungarian Rhapsodies

Problem

Aesthetic and Didactic Criticism on Rubato

Patience and Perseverance

How to Make an Aeolian Harp

Principal Forms of Piano Music

Mr. Parsons' MTNA Resolutions

Proposed Systematization of Piano-Forte Instruction