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Volume 16, Number 01 (January 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Suggestions for the Musical Youth

How Shall We Teach Notation to Beginners

The Gospel of Work

Musical Memory in Its Relation to Pianoforte Playing

How to Make a Living

Problem of American Teaching

Song Writers of the Day

One-Sided Musicians

Nothing But a Name!

Success is the Reward of Toil

Musical Listener

Sight-Reading

Art of Self-Criticism

Helpful Letters to Young Musicians

Cost of Study Abroad

Factors of Musical Expression

Sight-reading in Pianoforte Instruction

Why Do You Take Music Lessons?

Principles of Musical Pedagogy

Thoroughness in Primary Work

Music Education

Moral Influence of Music

Convenient Maxims, Formulas, etc. for Voice Teaching …

[The] President’S March, Victor Herbert, Edward Schuberth & Co

ALLM: Civil War Sheet Music Collection

80.7568.1001 – “[The] President’s March”: Victor Herbert: Edward Schuberth & Co: 1898: Piano. (2 copies)

My Father Was A Sailor On The Maine By Hattie Nevada (Sm00641), Kentucky Library Research Collection

Research Collections

Piece of sheet music titled "My Father was a Sailor on the Maine" with words and music by Hattie Nevada (Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City Talking Machine Co., 1898) A full-text scan of the piece can be accessed by clicking on the Download button.

[The] Flower From Lincoln’S Grave, James Holberton, Burton Lawrence, Lawrence & Holberton

ALLM: Civil War Sheet Music Collection

80.7568.351 – “[The] Flower From Lincoln’s Grave”: James Holberton: Burton Lawrence: Lawrence and Holberton: 1898: Vocal Solo.

Admiral Dewey's Grand Triumphal March By P. Marcel (Sm00575), Kentucky Library Research Collection

Research Collections

Sheet music titled "Admiral Dewey's Grand Triumphal March" by P. Marcel (Boston, Ma.: F. Trifet Publisher, 1898) The cover features an image of Admiral George Dewey and a decorative border.

Volume 15, Number 11 (November 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Song Writers of the Day

American Conservatories

Genius

Playing by Ear

Leschetizky on Technic

Talent-Pianistic Talent

Education

How to Teach: How to Study

Verdi's First Success

Adolphe Henselt as a Teacher

How Chopin Played

Wise Teacher

Why We Lose Interest in Certain Pieces

Melba's First Concert

Dullard's Service to Art

Beautiful Thought

Plea for Broader Musicianship

Musical Listener

A Popular Readig Course for a Some-what Advanced Student

Would-Be Paderewski

Three Suggestions

Every Man His Own Critic

Odd Musical Creature

Ten Cardinal Points in the Early Musical Education

What We Get Out of Music

Songs and Song Making

Volume 15, Number 10 (October 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On the Virtues of India-Rubber: A Pupil's Plea

Piano and the Left Hand

Tale with a Moral

Women as Piano Tuners

You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can Not Make Him Drink

Greatest Dates in Music

Impositions on Musicians

Music Teacher and His Work

Piano and Pianist at the Summer Hotel

Feel Music: Think Music

Business Side of Music: About Piano Commissions, etc.

Pilgrim of Art

Development in Firmness of Rhythm

Would-Be Paderewski

Wasting a Pupil's Time

Brains and Music

Oddities of Great Musicians

Aphorisms of Art-Philosophy

Neglected Pianoforte Compositions

At the Musicale

I Have Finished my …

Volume 15, Number 09 (September 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Would-Be Paderewski

Music No Hindrance to Getting On

Some Don'ts for Students Who are Going to Germany to Study Music

Playing in Public

From Recent Programmes

Neglected Essential: Music and Languages

Self-Exaltation

Time Values

Flowers by the Wayside

Not Yourself, But Your Art

Four Stages of Student Life

Physical Exercises an Aid to Artistic Piano Playing

How a Pupil Rose to Success

Should Piano Students Attend Piano Recitals?

For the Student's Encouragement

Reading New Music

Extracts from Reinecke's Hints to Music Students

Materials and Workmanship

Ear Training

Study on Phrasing

Reed Organ as an Aid in Piano Instruction

Musical Listener …

Volume 15, Number 08 (August 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Piano and Our Girls

For Juvenile Recital: When Malindy Sings (poem)

Protecting the Artistic Sense

Can a Poor Ear be Improved?

Pianoforte Study

Whither Are We Drifting: Realism in Music

Wit of Composers

Musical Stage Fright

Bach Anecdotes

Liszt and Tausig

Story Teller: For Summer Reading

Counting Time

My Fellow-Students

Aids in Teaching Time Values

Guide to Pianists

Musical Listener

Automatism in Technic

Promising Indication

Musical Inconsistencies

Day's Practice

Appreciative Audience

Plea for Pimary Instruction in Harmony

Thoughts about the Most Salient Features of Music Life—Teaching and Otherwise

Truly Great Musician

How Music Affects Some People

Remarkable Definitions

Study the …

Volume 15, Number 07 (July 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Listener

Means Available in Piano Teaching

Truths in a Nut-Shell

Plagiarism in Music

Child Nature

Learn to Think

Some Passing Notes

Forty Good Resolutions for the Music Student

Usefulness of Some Recent Composition

Common Mistake and Its Deplorable Results

Recreation in Music

Character Will Out

Student Life in Berlin

My Fellow-Students

Memorizing

Moonlight Sonata: Or, What's in a Name?

Plea for Idealism in Music

Touch: Physical, Physiological, and Esthetic

Art of Preparing a Programme

Benefit of Seeing and Hearing Concert and Opera

Volume 15, Number 06 (June 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Pianoforte Study: Hints on Piano Playing

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

Musical Vitiation

What Our Profession Needs

Original of Chopin's Funeral March

Means Available in Piano Teaching

Anecdote of Liszt

Thoughts on Expression

Mistaken

Comments on Two Important Subjects

Finger Quality in Piano Playing

Selection of Teachers

Folk-Music

Three Golden Rules

Pupils' Musicales

Musical Listener

Tragic Side of Music Study

Music Education

Practicing the Hands Separately

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 15, Number 04 (April 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Modern Musical Definitions

Have I Talent?

Peculiarities of Popular Teachers

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

Chat with Students on the Purpose of Study

Teachers Who Scold

How Do We Listen?

Ring-Finger

Hearing Colors

Musical Listener

Reading Course: Outline of Psychology

Leschetizky as a Teacher: Reminiscences of a Pupil

Keep Your Temper

Great Thoughts About the Hands

Dull Pupil

Concerning Practice and Other Points of Interest to Students

Calvé on American Musicians

Pianofore Study: Hints on Piano Playing

Volume 15, Number 03 (March 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Listener

Clayton Johns

On Choosing Music

First Lessons

Why We Have So Few Musicians

Some Wholesome Truths for Teachers

Sieveking's Mode of Practice

W.J. Henderson

Study the Nature of Melody

How Long Should One Practice?

Henry T. Finck

Soul of Music

Music Scrap-Book

Beginning and Development of Pianoforte Playing

Common Sense in Music

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

Why Study Harmony?

Queer Traits of Great Musicians

Art of Programme-Making

Louis C. Elson

Backward Pupils

Volume 15, Number 02 (February 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical items

Music Study in Chicago

New York, the Place for the Music Student

Wm. H. Sherwood Writes

Studio Meditations

Bridge between Mechanism and Esthetic Piano Playing

Personal Power and Influence

Class-Work for the Piano-Student

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

Broken Stairways

Johannes Brahms

The Use and Abuse of the Piano-Forte Pedal

Are Exercises Necessary?

Komikal Kadenza

Recitals, Pro and Con

One Type

Letters to Teachers

Marchesi's Opinion of American Voices

Musical Listener

Fools

Harmonic Analysis: An Aid to Piano Students

Trials of a Student

Pleas for Mediocre Talent

Volume 15, Number 01 (January 1897), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mr. Emil Liebling's Bach Course

Common Sense of Piano Teaching

Should Teachers Employ Collectors?

Souls or Stomachs, Which?

Singing the Counts

Music in its Relation to Health

Nervous Pupil

Boston as Musical Center for the Student

Cincinnati as a City for the Music Student

Talent and Intelligence Contrasted

What Method Do You Teach?

Should a Singing-Teacher Be Able to Sing?

One of Bob's Tramps: A Musical Tale

Talk About Some Early German Folk-Songs

High Prices Realized from Songs

Blasts from The Ram's Horn

Musical Listener

Wanted—A New System of Musical Notation

Better Understanding

That First Lesson

Mozart's Journey from Vienna …

Break The News To Mother (Sm04397), Kentucky Library Research Collection

Research Collections

"Break the News to Mother" by Charles K. Harris, sheet music. Originally published in 1897 and was popular during the Spanish-American War; this edition published unchanged except for title page, during World War I. SM04397

Volume 14, Number 11 (November 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Things Which the Musical Profession Owes Itself

Music Chats with Children

American Artists

Class in Ear-Training

Mendelssohn's Piano Playing

Art and Ease

Artist vs. Amateur

Modesty in Music

Chopin's Notes for a Method of Methods

Is the Study of Music Profitable?

Difference Between Studying and Cramming

As a Man Thinketh So Is His Work

Thoughts About the Most Salient Features of Music Life—Teaching and Otherwise

Musical Mischief-Breeders

Beethoven and the Ladies

How to Stimulate Practice

Playing by Ear

Rough and Musical Bülow

Some Mistakes of the Provincial Musician

Correction

Is Mendelssohn to be Ranked Among the Great Composers?

Some …

Volume 14, Number 10 (October 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Girl and the Piano

Ole Bull's First Great Success

Composer of The Maiden's Prayer

Plea for Professional Ethics

Scales—Sooner or Later?

An Artist's Love Affair

To the Pianist

Hitch Your Wagon to a Star

Teacher's Experience

Fifty Per Cent Off

Chopin's Birth

Pianoforte Pupil

Timely Word

Lunacy Among Men of Genius

Unteachable Pupils

Studio Illustration

How to Listen to Music

Concerning Late Methods

Leschetizky-Rubinstein

Necessity of a Standard of Attainment for Teachers of Music

Why and How

How to Interest Your Teacher

Emotional Affinity of a Student and Her Music

Results of Diligent Study

Description of Vesper Chimes: A …

Volume 14, Number 09 (September 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Liszt's Pen-Picture of Chopin

Music and Money

Our Trials

Illustrated Music Lessons

M. Saint-Saëns

My Piano Teacher Criticised

How to Interest Beginners

How Shall We Interest Our Pupils?

Musical Thief

New Chapter of Touch

Male and Female Teachers

To One About to Enter the Profession

Analysis of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C Major and C Minor

Class Work in Musical Criticism

Some of the Pupils We Meet With

Volume 14, Number 08 (August 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Care of the Reed Organ

Hour or Half Hour?

Ruts

Studio Experience

Plea for Short and Easier Pieces

Fritz Spindler

Errors in Piano Practice

Points for the Young Pianist

Indolence and Indifference

Women Pianists

Success and Failure in the Musical Profession

Musical Fools

Summer Days

Fingers, Wrist, and Arm

Better Lessons—How to Get Them

Sense and Non-Sense

Volume 14, Number 07 (July 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Description of Last Island

Mme. Clara Schumann

Commendable List of Music—Grade I to X

Hints About Memorizing

Outside Helps to Young Musicians

Letter of the Law

Why Some Pupils Hate Music

Golden Rules of Vocal Teachers

How to Hold Pupils

Music as a Social Factor

Chat with Students

Music and Manhood

Be Gracious

Word About Two Popular Composers

Power of Persistence

Anecdote

What is Classic Music?

Bicycle Craze and Music

Edward Schuett

Edmund Neupert

Ideal

Volume 14, Number 06 (June 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Johann Sebastian Bach and George F. Root Monument Fund

Gounod's Visit to Mendelssohn

On the Interpretation of Chopin's Works (prize essay)

Teachers Ignorant and Erudite (prize essay)

Does the Acquisition of Artistic Education and Taste Necessitate the Lose of the Power to Enjoy? (prize essay)

Some Advice to the Parents of Music Students

Aim High

Anecdote of Henselt

Town Libraries

How to Make a Vacation Profitable

Music and the Bicycle

Pedal

To Awaken Enthusiasm

Division of Difficulties

Music for the Uncultivated

Petty Cheating in Music

After Graduation—What?

Mental Backbone

Vacation or Vexation

What an Artist Advises About Ways of Practice

Volume 14, Number 05 (May 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fidelity to Music

What is the Use of a Musical Education

Plea for the Other Side

Musical Hypocrisy

Sober Chat

Breadth in Teaching

Will-Power and Success

Paderewski in His Daily Life

Genius

Place of Music in Education

Musical Thermometer

Don't Crush Individuality

Selection of Pieces

Technic or Not Technic

Three Bad Cases—Remedies Applied—Results

Washing a Piano

American Composer of the Future

To Amateurs

Good Playing Makes Classic Music Popular

Should Pupils Hear Their Pieces?

Letters to Pupils

Real Paderewski

Two Worthy Objects

Volume 14, Number 04 (April 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Where Ignorance is Bliss—!

Selecting a Piano

Art of Singing Applied to the Piano

Maxims for Young Teachers

Dr. Mason and the Pressure Touch

Appeal

Some Elements Necessary to the Success of a Pupil of the Pianoforte

For Amateurs: What is a Theme and Counter Theme in Music?

Half-Baked Musicians

Faults of Pianists

Selection of Pieces for Teaching

Cultivation of Memory in Piano Students

Something for Every One

How Gounod Managed the Church Committee

Paderewski's Hands

How to Combine the Art and the Business of Music

Am Beyond the Mark to Hit the Mark

Woman's Future

Music Lesson with Variations …

Volume 14, Number 03 (March 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Anecdotes About Rubinstein

Method in Piano Teaching

Some Valuable Information

Metronome, Its Use

Bülow as Liszt's Pupil

Music Teaching in a Small Town

How Parents Often Prevent Their Child's Advancement

No Genius Without Work

Word on Playing From Memory

Cornelius Gurlitt

Avoid Over-Fatigue

What Becomes of All the Music Pupils?

Two Ways to Win

To Interest in Scale Practice

Chapter on Musical Education

Professional Courtesy Among Musicians

Have We Competent Teachers

Mlle. Chaminade

Volume 14, Number 02 (February 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Is It to Be Musical?

Jean Louis Micodé

Developing Musical Feeling

Wanted—A Looking-Glass for Teachers

Attention is Genius

Musical Education—How to Procure One at Little Cost

Tact and Success

Much Neglected Staccato Practice

Requisites for a Vocal Teacher

Two Teachers and What They Did

Schwigzebeer's Fatal Mistake

What All Should Know: A Few Facts about Modern Music and Musicians

Anecdotes About Von Bülow

Concerning Ear Training

Commendable List of Music—Grade I to X

Something More of Paderewski

Cast of Liszt's Hand

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Volume 14, Number 01 (January 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Ultra Sensitive

Rambling Talk

Hints for the Studio: How to Gain the Greatest Good from Pupil Recitals

Faults in the Editions of Chopin's Works

Make Study Interesting

Failures

Mechanical Aids for Piano Playing

Description of Beethoven's Pastoral Sonata

Thinking Sound

How We Have Progressed

Study of Music Criticism

Interview with a Pianist (interview with M. Henri Falckes)

Niccolai von Wilm

Piano Nuisance

Estimate of Bach

Should Music Teachers Be Performers?

How Is it Pronounced?

Irregular Groups

What is the Effect of Touch on the Piano?

Plea for Keeping Time

Paderewski Technic

[The] Favorite Mckinley March, Richardson Caldwell, White-Smith Music Publishing Co.

ALLM: Civil War Sheet Music Collection

80.7568.331 – “[The] Favorite McKinley March”: Richardson Caldwell: White-Smith: 1896: Piano Solo.

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 …