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Volume 19, Number 08 (August 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Irritability of the Music Teacher

Musical Misfits

Tact and Self-Control

Suggested Classics for the Teaching Repertoire

Exploitation of the Prodigy

Art of Living: For the Musician

Our National Failing

Play in All Keys

Choice of a Teacher

Persistence and Work

Prevalent Fallacies

Music as Mental Discipline

Music for Music's Sake

Musical Ideals for the Twentieth Century

Volume 19, Number 07 (July 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Summer Study or Summer Rest

Hartwell-Jones (Hamilton Gray)

What Fashion Does for Music

Between Seasons

Summer and Post-Graduate Work for Teachers

Children's Classes as Suitable for Summer Work

Summer Musical Classes for Juveniles

New Light on Summer Study

Development of Music in the South During the Past Twenty Years

Study Abroad No Guarantee of Success at Home

Thorough Practice on Old Pieces

Some Peculiar Teachers

Artistic Temperament

Some Definitions of Music

If I Were a Young Music Teacher

Long Hair and Pianism: A True Story

Mr. Pol Plançon: The Study of the French Song

Volume 19, Number 06 (June 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music as a Culture-Study

Paradoxes in Piano-Practice

Modest Music-Teacher

How Shall We Study?

Future of Music in America

Liszt's Sight-Reading

Practice Versus Rehearsal

Differences in the Fingers

How to Be a Success

Creating an Interest in Technic

Art for Art's Sake: A Study of the Music Profession

Musical Moss-Backs

Madame Schumann-Heink: The Study of the German Song

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 19, Number 04 (April 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Piano Orchestra

Brief Rules on Child-Teaching in Music

Something to Know

Old Pieces

Music the Language of Expression

Unity of Purpose

Memorizing

Artistic Purpose

Place of Ridicule in Teaching

Personal Relation of Teacher and Pupil

Selection of a Teaching Field

Feel What You Play

Perserverance as Taught by the Lives of the Masters

Different Ways of Knowing a Piece by Heart

Pianists and Composers Who Have Made History

Piano-Cases

Height of the Piano-Chair

Tonality

Formation of Habits of Study

Make a Companion of a Book

Sticking at It

Old Industries

For the Older Student

University Education for a Musician

Volume 19, Number 03 (March 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Socieites in Smaller Towns

Rules for Young Composers

How I Teach Piano

As to Tradition in Music

Industry of Genius

False Alarm

Qualities of a Superior Pianist

Making the Most of It

Self-Control

Fable for Graduates

Ear-Training

How to Manage a Teacher

Way to Make the American People Musical

Successful Teacher

Purposeful Doing

Ludwig Schytte

Technical Practice

Pseudonyms of Musicians

Genuine Enthusiasm in Teaching

Some Elements in a Musical Education

Habit in its Relation to Student Life

Old Industries

Law of Student Life

Faults of American Students

Volume 19, Number 02 (February 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Death of Verdi

Right Methods of Study

Keeping Close to the Art of Music

What Makes a Successful Student!

First Lessons in Music Biography

Selling Strength

Sir J. Frederick Bridge

Musical Sermon on a Modern Text

Musical Method the Means of Genuine Time-Saving in the Pianist's Art

How Art Pays

How to Overcome Common Faults in Piano Playing

Theoretic Side of a Musical Education

What Modern Education Means

Collateral Education Necessary to Modern Musicianship, Part 2

Small Things

Comparative Piano-Methods, Part 2

Some Curious Definitions, Not Authentic

Plain Talks on Matters Musical, Part 2

What Makes the Artist

Outlook into …

Volume 19, Number 01 (January 1901), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in the Twentieth Century

Melody Writing, Part 2

How I Teach Piano

Musical Diagnosis

On Teaching Counterpoint

For Would-Be Critics

Professional Standard in Piano-Teaching

Four Attributes of a Good Teacher

Silent Sight-Reading

Experiences and Observations from the Class-Room, Part 7

Music and Money

Plain Talks on Matters Musical, Part 1

Revolt of the Pianoforte

Comparative Piano-Methods

Before the Concert: A Story of Artist Life

Collateral Education Necessary to Modern Musicianship

Manuscripts of the Music-Masters

Some Points of Success, Part 2

Volume 18, Number 11 (November 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Slow Practice

Difference in Fractions

Teaching: Its Purpose and Its Influence upon Music at Large

Ideas for Teaching Children

True Basis of Teaching

Playing or Non-Playing Teachers

Mental Attitude of Teacher and Pupil

Letter to a Young Composer

Primary Teaching, Part 2

How to Begin the Study of Bach

Teacher's Fertility

Home-Circle Critics

Some Points of Success

Talking Lessons Not All

Rapid Memorization of Key Signatures

Art of Holding Pupils

Look up to Bach

Volume 18, Number 10 (October 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Common-Sense in Music

What is a Lesson Worth?

Restlessness and Repose

Personal Maganetism

Mission of the Studio

Mental and Muscular Activity

Old Beethoven Program

Music in American Colleges

University of Michigan

Princeton University

Smith College

Amherst College

Oberlin University

Adelph College

Reproduction of Orchestral Effects on the Pianoforte

Serious Purpose in Music Study

Push Forward

Rebinding Music Books

Absolute Pitch

Individuality in Teaching

Primary Teaching

What and the Why of the Choice of Music

Soft Pedal

Obscure Teaching Terms

Harmony—Yesterday and To-day

Volume 18, Number 09 (September 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in American Colleges

Harvard University

Yale University

Wellesley College

Tufts Collge

Northwestern University

University of Pennsylvania

Columbia University

Library of Congress: Music Department

Country Music Teacher

Value of the Concrete in Teaching

On the Value of the Study of Instrumentation to the Pianist

Thinking Art

Beginner's Difficulties

Seven Ages of a Musician

Golden Thoughts from Ruskin

Pianist's Library

Some Pedagogical Aspects of Music Teaching

Volume 18, Number 08 (August 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Piano-Hands

Systematic Study

Vacation and Recreation Thoughts

Profitable Vacation

Pianoforte Playing as a Study

Renewing the Store of Teaching Materials

Bird's-Eye View

Some Reflections on Rhythm and Its Study

Relation of Master and Pupil in Musical History

Length of the Lesson Hour

Process of Learning a Piece

Social Demands Upon Musicians

Analysis of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite

Anton Rubinstein

True Test of a Teacher

Experiences and Observations from the Class-Room

Forget Your Music While on Your Vacation

Great Composers and their Love for Nature

Value of Public-School Music

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 18, Number 06 (June 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music Teaching as a Business

Obstacles Melt Before Determination

Some Traits of Character Resulting from the Study of Music

How to Prevent a Piece Becoming Tiresome Before Learned

Does Music Pay?

Basis of Success in Music Teaching

Ages of Some Prominent Pianists

Two Characteristics of the Best Methods of Teaching Music

Schubert's Sayings

Child-Study: The Teacher's Privilege and Duty

Educational Value of Concerts

Procession of the Phantoms

Dialogue Concerning Freaks

Teacher's Equipment

Mlle. Chaminade on Piano-Playing

Musical Busybodies

Advantages of House-to-House Teaching

Music Teachers Are Born, Not Made

Music as She is Spelt

First Age of a Musician

Developing Expression …

Volume 18, Number 05 (May 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Studio Experience: Professional Courtesy

Greatest Difficulty for the Piano

Pertinent Points for Earnest Students

Remoteness of Things

Scharwenka Anecdote

How to Handle Stubborn Pupils

Too High Aims

Franz Peter Schubert

Chronological Summary of Schubert's Works

Schubert's Rank as a Composer and His Influence on the Romantic School

Sadness of Schubert's Life

Schubert and the German Lied

Schubertiana

Man Schubert

Schubert's Orchestral Compositions

On Schubert in Relation to Harmony, Melody, and Rhythm

Few Aphorisms on Schubert by Robert Schumann

Franz Schubert and His Pianoforte Compositions

Discipline via Affection

Characteristics of Schubert's Genius

Listen and Learn

Nervous System and Its Influence Upon …

Volume 18, Number 04 (April 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Careful Teaching Results in Careful Practice

Enterprising Farmer

Leschetizsky and His Method

Don't Rush into Print

Mind-Property

Why? A Prince Among Questions

First Studies in Music Biography: Johann Sebastian Bach

Helping Musicians by Hopnotic Science

Recent Reminiscences of Liszt

Experiences and Observations from the Class-Room

Frauds

Wanted: Results!

From the Little Child's Stand-Point

Chopin Funeral March

How to Accompaniy at Sight

Letters to Pupils

Selections from L. Köhler's Literary Works

Conceited Pupil

Surrounded by Music

Secret of Success

Advice to the Student of Harmony

Volume 18, Number 03 (March 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fourth-Finger Question

Musical Nuggets

Success in Music

Music Sketches

In My Music Room

Sixty-Minute Lesson

Apt Illustration

St. Cecilia

What St. Cecilia Represents in Music

St. Cecilia in Art and Poetry

Apotheosis of St. Cecilia

To the Would-Be Musician

Chord-Playing

Real Value of Recommendations

What Method Do You Teach?

Something About the Popular Music of To-day

Nature's Course with the Child

Individual Who is a Problem

Pupil's Personal Responsibility

Honor to Whom Honor is Due

Aesthetic Versus Structural Analysis

Schumann's Sayings

Turning Music Pages

Why We Are Not More Musical

Advice to the Student of Harmony

Volume 18, Number 02 (February 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Foolish Ambition

National Disease

Home Piano

Organ Contest at Kipley's Corners

A. Schmoll

Wise and Otherwise

Faults of the American Girl

Why Do I Study Music?

Things the Music Student Should Remember

How to Get Up Concerts in Small Towns

Alphorisms

Beware of Conceit

Why Teachers Lose Pupils

Duel Between Liszt and Chopin

Chat with Amateurs

Wasted Opportunities

Great Teacher and His Method

Jealousy Among Musicians

As a Man Thinketh, So He Is

Vitality of Interpretation

Don't Ignore Discipline

Musical Culture Within the Profession

Volume 18, Number 01 (January 1900), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What is Classical Music?

Parable

Parental Indulgence

Schumann's Early Loves

Originality in Teaching

Schumann: A Vanishing Star

Tone

Teaching Tonality

True Story: A Tale of a Music Student

Last Work

Studio Comfort

What is the Scale of this Passage?: Practical Hints for a Prompt Reply to this Common and Often Perplexing Questions

Musical Impurity

Methods

Relation of the Music Department to the College

Musical Heredity

Indiscriminate Advice and Its Evils

Anitra's Dance

Teacher of Music: His Character and His Training (A Symposium)

Russian School of Music

Illustration in Teaching: Some Practice Examples

Pieces, Exercises or Etudes—Which?

Dignity of our Profession …

Volume 17, Number 11 (November 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Biographical Study

Do-Nothing

Many Methods: A Plea for Liberalism

Musical Items

Evil of Forcing Development

On Studying Sonatas

Unmusical People

Art of Interesting Pupils

Sophie Menter and Cécile Chaminade

Pitch Battle

Ideals for Piano Teachers

Scales Again: The Importance of Metronome and Accent

Too Much Thud!

How to Interest Children

Growth

Talk to Students

Choosing Music as a Profession

Blasts from The Ram's Horn

How to Become a Composer

Suggestions to Students Going Abroad

Who are Faddists?

Personality of the Opera Chorus

Suggestion to Pupils: Obedience

Best Way to Form a Good Teaching Connection

Voice Machine

Necessary Part of a …

Volume 17, Number 10 (October 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Ages of One Hundred Famous

Singers

On Program Printing

Unprofessional Advertising

Dumb Pianos

About Tuning

How Leschetizky Teaches Memorizing

Little Knowledge

First Step in the Instruction of Young Children

To a Piano (poem)

Mechanical Music

Honesty in Advertising

Actual Effect of Music Upon an Imagination

Types of Teachers, or Mayburn's Madness

Music or Notes?

Development of the Artistic Sense

Lost Ideals

Value of the Musical Magazine

How to Memorize

What Makes Music Successful?

Studio Experiences: Experiences with the Pedal

Uninterested Pupil

Conservatory and Private Teaching: Another Phase of the Subject

Musical Don'ts

What are Musical Clubs For?

Volume 17, Number 09 (September 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Outlook

Musical Comments by Emil Liebling

Strenuous Life

Care for Personal Appearance

On Harmony Teaching

Pearls from the Proverbs of a Pianist

Our Musical Atmosphere

Acoustics as Part of a Musical Education

Method Versus Judgment

Science or Art?

Thought and Effect

Musician's Marriage: A Study of Matrimony and Music, Part 2

Regeneration of American Music

Protest of the Individual

On American Music

Importance of Combining Business with Art

Hint from the Kodak

Program for a Weekly Children's Class

Does Typewriting Interfere with Facility in Piano-Playing

Organ and Choir

Few Suggestions on Registration

Improvising

Volume 17, Number 08 (August 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

The Road to Parnassus

Songs for the Piano

Man Who Played the Cymbals: A Musical Story

Way to a Just Criticism

Strauss Waltz and the Critics

Courage, Young Teachers!

Creating Musical Atmosphere

Train Musicians Early

Song-Writing as a Profession

Musician's Marriage: A Study of Matrimony and Music

Revival of the Harpsichord

Artistic Playing in Simple Pieces

Should a Beginner be Taught Variety of Touch?

Choosing Music as a Profession

Rag-Time, II

Notes on Schumann's Soaring

Interpretation

Some Hints on the Use of the Pedals

Understand Music Before Playing It

Musical Atmosphere

Musician's Reading

Aphorisms on Music Education

Specialist in Music …

Volume 17, Number 07 (July 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

J.S. Bach, 1685-1750

The Difference Between Polyphonic and Monophonic or Harmonic Music

Technic for Playing Bach: Its Bearing Upon Modern Piano Study

Study of Bach's Preludes and Fugues

Bach's Works in Relation to Modern Piano Study

On Interesting Students in the Works of Bach

Bach's Influence on the Musical World

Anecdotes of Bach

How to Enjoy Music

Musician's Reward

Mission of the Dull Pupil

Narrowness of Mind

On Harmony Teaching

Rhythm, and its Relation to Music

Music and National Characteristics

Art of Interesting Pupils

Getting Experience

Training of a Sensitive Ear

Rosenthal on Musical Training

Charity: A Discourse for Teachers …

Volume 17, Number 06 (June 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Bigotry

The Pianist's Back

How to Lead Young Piano Pupils to the Study of Theory

Composer's Hard Work

Studio Experiences: Musical Environment

Prevalent Faults of American Teachers

Need of a Wider Musical Culture

Relation Between the Music Teacher and the Pupil

Voice and Vanity

Cecile Chaminade

Rag-Time Music

How Drudgery Can be Lightened

Personality and Piano Teaching

Comment on the Program of the Next MTNA Meeting

Rhythm, and its Relation to Music

Characteristic American Institution

American Students Abroad

Progress

Comments by Emil Liebling: Musical Salamagundi

How Many Million Years Would it Take

Ideal Summer School

Pupils Who Annoy

Origin …

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 17, Number 04 (April 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tool or the Worker?

Synopsis of the Programs of the Twenty-First Annual Convention of the MTNA

Humoreske

Blundering of Piano-Pupils

Great Players and Practice

Opportunities for Musicians

Descriptive Music: A Parody

Wasting Tons of Energy

Some Common Drawbacks to Successful Teaching

Trying New Music

Some Salient Points in Leschetizky's Teaching

Bach's Thoroughness as a Teacher

Current of Musical Life

Random Thoughts

Comments by Emil Liebling: Musical Salamagundi

Musical Fakes and Fakers

Some Thoughts on Practical Harmony

Practice and Character Development

Education and Its Demands Upon the Modern Teacher

Record Book of Compositions and Works in Musical Literature

Beginning Aright

Thought …

Volume 17, Number 03 (March 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Loving-Cup to Dr. Mason

What a Composition Means

Education and Its Demands Upon the Modern Teacher

People to Cultivate

Training of the Ear

Popularity of Vocal Over Instrumental Music

Common-Sense Chat

Good Teacher Versus Good Player

Transformation of a Genius from a Musician's Diary

Opposition to the Violin for Girls

How to Get People to Attend Pupils' Recitals

Teaching as a Specialty

Status of Music-Study in America

Rubinstein's Theory of Practice

Curved Thumb

How to Treat Pupils Who Have Previously Studied with Another Teacher (Symposium)

Matter of Temperament

On Special Editings and Annotations

Some Salient Points in Leschetitzky's Teaching

Concerts …

Volume 17, Number 02 (February 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Should the Last Note under a Slurred Group be Played Staccato

One Step Toward Success

Playing for Parents

Self-Playing Pianos

Story of Paderewski's Minuet

Beethoven's American Biographer

American in Music

Covering Ground

On the Revival of Mozart's Works

Musical Millennium

Interesting Incident

On the Expediency of Playing Without Looking at the Keyboard

Nervous Pupils

Comments by Emil Liebling

Some Common Faults

Teachers and Pupils

Word of Encouragement to Young Pianists

How to Treat Pupils Who Have Previously Studied with Another Teacher (Symposium)

Foundation Teaching

Street-Organ as a Musical Educator

Am I a Good Teacher? How Can I Improve?

The Invasion …

Volume 17, Number 01 (January 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Forms of Musical Memory

Training of Musical Listeners

Comments by Emil Liebling

Piano for Everybody

Playing Duets with Other Instruments

Problems

Struggle for a Public Career

Let Your Moderation be Known

Speed of Thought

Plea for Simplicity

Charity That is Kind

Some Thoughts by Busoni on Piano Playing

What One Man Did

Word to Aspiring Composers

Should the Last Note under a Slurred Group be Played Staccato

Uncharitableness Among Musicians

Common Sense in Piano Teaching

Blasts from the Ram's Horn, for Musicians

Frederic Francois Chopin

Critical Estimate of Chopin's Pianoforte Compositions

Harping on One String

Count Zichy and the Cultivation …