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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 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

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 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

Volume 11, Number 09 (September 1893), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Broad Education

Seeking the Cause

Something for Parents

Animals and Music

Choice of Pieces

What Branch of the Musical Profession Shall I Enter?

Narrow Culture of Musicians

How To Teach Beginners

How May Parents Assist the Teacher?

Illustrating Music Lessons

Encouraging Pupils

Should a Music Teacher Be an Organist as Well as a Pianist?

Wealth and Poverty of Musicians

Nationality of Masters of the Piano-Forte

On Coaching Pupils for Recitals

Teaching in Rural Districts

Hints for Amateurs Only

Does Piano Playing Pay?

Lack of Public Sympathy for Musical Art

Are We Ready for Work?

Disadvantages of the Practice of Etudes …

Volume 11, Number 08 (August 1893), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Chopin Waltzes as Piano Solos

Applause

Intellectual Culture of Musicians

Schumann's Peculiarities

Accompanying

Single-Handed Scale Practice

Musical Domino Parties

Music as a Bread-Winner for Girls

How to Help Students

Use of the Metronome in Practice

Reed-Thoughts

Early Repertoire

Madame Schumann as a Teacher

How Are We To Make the Piano Utter Most Eloquently in the Melodious Tones

Missing Lessons

Useful Knowledge to Pupils

Ladies' Piano Club and Circulating Music Library

How Much of Theory Should be Taught by Every Teacher

Democracy in Musical Education

Doctor of Music

Volume 11, Number 04 (April 1893), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music Teacher's Experiences

Inexpensive Teacher

Lack of Tone Color in the Piano

New Music-Teaching

Novelty in Piano Manufacture: An Octave Pedal

General Faults

Wilson G. Smith

World's Columbian Exposition

Beethoven's Last Composition

Something for Pupils

Modern Definitions of Old Musical Words

Few Suggestions: Teaching the Piano to Beginners

Various Methods

Tact, Treatment of Pupils, Change of Teacher

Americans in Music

Power of the Teacher

Reed Organ Stops: Artistic and Pleasing Effects Described

Artist's Secret

Obscure Teachers: How to Succeed in Remote Places

Sympathy

Bach's Student Days

To Young Teachers: How to Learn to Play with Expression

Studio Experiences

True Statement …

Volume 11, Number 03 (March 1893), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

In the Piano Corner

Delicacy and Accuracy of the Ear

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

What Does Music Express?

Louis Köhler

Music Teacher and the Demand of the Times

Genius in Childhood

Music From a Pupil's Standpoint

Parental Control

Woman in Music

Reinecke on Mozart Concertos

Illustrious Sons of Humble Sires

Rules for Scale-Fingerings

Beginnings

Merely a Bluff

Secret of Success

Music Students and Physical Culture

Accompanist

Thoughts on Piano Practice as a Factor in Character Building

Home and Daily Life Rules for the Musical Generation Now Growing Up, in Thirty Encouraging …

Volume 11, Number 02 (February 1893), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Be Thorough

Benefits of Side Studies and Reading

Tone Production

Work of Pianists

Precision of Touch

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

Revolution in the Teaching of Fugue

Reed Organ, Artistically Considered

Procuring and Retaining Pupils

Left Hand

Common Pitfall

Influence of the Teacher's Personality

Piano Etudes: A Retrospect and Present View

Teaching Musical Taste

Slow Study

Singing for Piano Pupils

Music as a Profession

Development of Pianoforte Music

When and Where Does a Music Teaaher's Skill Begin?

Composers and Their Inspiration

Memorizing Music

Piano Practice as a Factor in Character Building

Elements …

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

Volume 07, Number 05 (May 1889), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Programme Music

Dr. Hans v. Bulow in Philadelphia

Brief Hints at Odd Times

New Musical Literature

Characteristics of the Modern Sonata

Should Americans Send Their Young People Here to Study Music? Are Not the Extra Facilities Counterbalanced by the Moral Risk?

Musical Literature

Convictions the Result of Investigation

Class Teaching

Which is the Best Piano?

Interesting Talk with von Bülow

Few Thoughts on Practicing

What to Study

Art of Studying

Volume 07, Number 04 (April 1889), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Edward Baxter Perry

Attempting Too Much

Cheerfulness

Some Musical Don'ts

Two Kinds of Piano Playing—Subjective and Objective

Teacher's Equipment

Musical Alternations

Unity in Variety for Musicians

Die Lorelei

Musical Literature

The Profession and the Public

Volume 07, Number 03 (March 1889), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Leading Thoughts

Shall We Have Sentiment?

Crabbed Criticisms from the Old World

Some Requisites of True Teaching of Piano Playing

Contemporary Pianoforte Compositions

German and American Students Contrasted

Quicksilver Music Pupils

Sentimental Pianists

Cultivation of Musical Memory

On the Ring Finger Questions

Volume 06, Number 11 (November 1888), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Improvements Needed in Writing Music

Woman as a Musician

Melograph and Melotrope

American Composers—Attention!

Criticism Once More

Pianoforte Study

Rubinstein's Repertoire

To Young Students

American Students in Berlin

Graded List of Pianoforte Music

Grand Social Again

Emotion in Piano-Playing

Is the Study of Music Profitable?

How to Study

Square Versus Upright Pianos

Scientific Investigation Applied to the Anatomical Details Involved in Piano Playing

Volume 06, Number 09 (September 1888), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Acquire a Sympathetic Touch

Summer Music Schools

Cost of Studying Abroad

Professional Courtesy

Some Thoughts for Music Teachers

Musical Pharisee

Sight Reading Before Memorizing

Studies and Their Importance

Work of the American College of Musicians

Dead Teachers

Solved—A Vexed Question

Teaching Beginners

Open for Discussion

Crazy Patch of Musical Memories

Harmonic Scale

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