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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 …

Volume 16, Number 11 (November 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music and Fashion

Never-Say-No Clubs

Critical Comment

Duet Playing

Some of the Best Thoughts on Music

Self-Study

How to Use the Mason System

Learning a New Piece

Tact: One of the Factors of Success in Music

Studio Experiences

Influence of Beethoven's Deafness on His Music

Appeal to the Musicians of the Country for the Music Teachers' National Association

Epigrams

Pupils On Show

Experiment in Lecture Recitals

Sincerity of Purpose

Helps to the Home Student

Symposium—Is the Teaching Season Growing Shorter

Nervous Prostration

More Power to His Arm

Sousa's March Form

Modern Music Teacher

Perplexing Problem

How Many Pupils Have You …

Volume 16, Number 10 (October 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Curious Musical Incidents

Overcoming Nervousness

Musical Library

Studio Experiences

How to Keep the Beginning Interested

Outposts of Music

Phase of Music Study in Paris

Kindly Feeling Among Musicians

Musician and the Man

Successful Teacher

Genius Among Students

How to Teach Time

Choosing a Musical Career

Pecularlities of the Piano

Ensemble Playing

How to Overcome So-Called Drudgery

Simple Repertoire

Utility of Music

Tone and Touch

Fragile Possession

Birth of Chopin's Funeral March

Training of the Ear

Fictitious Values

Paderewski on the Physical Side of Piano-Playing

On the Legato in Pianoforte-Playing

What the Mason System Has Done for Me

Raw Material

Technic …

Volume 16, Number 09 (September 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

John Comfort Fillmore (obit)

Frivolous Pupils

Scherzoso

Capacity for Teaching

Musical Taste

Why?

Minor Scales

Conservatory the Public School of Music

Twelve Business Maxims

New Teaching Season

How to Buy a Piano

Reading at Sight vs. Artistic Playihg

Mechanical Aids to Piano Study

Another Teaching Ability

Modernizing Classics

How to Understand Music

Parental Interference

Value and Practice of Advertising Among Professional Musicians

Pedalmania

Time Brings Changes

Teaching the First Piece

Anton Rubinstein

Rubinstein as I Knew Him

On Selecting a Teacher

Introspect

Principles of Musical Pedagogy

Self-Criticism

True Music Teachers vs. Pin-Money-Makers

Charlatanism in Music

Aimlessness Among Musicians

Inspiration

Song …

Volume 16, Number 08 (August 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cultivate the Love of Nature

The Subjective Player

Music and Progressiveness

Rusting and Rusticity

Culture: A Suggestion for Summer

The Teacher Not Everything

Pioneer American Pianist: Gottschalk—His Work, Artistic Standing, and Financial Circumstances; A Statement as to His Poverty Corrected

Letter from Sousa

Value and Practice of Advertising Among Professional Musicians

Professional Courtesy

Environment as an Educational Factor

Encores

Individuality in Art

Teaching a Necessity

Present and Abiding Duty for the Music Teachers

Rhythm the Basis of Melody

Gladstone's Interest in Music

Prize Medal System

Two Schools of Organ Playing

How to Make Music Studios Attractive

Studio Experiences

Advantages for …

Volume 16, Number 07 (July 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

When Only Men Played

Great Masters as They Reveal Themselves

Professor Quack (A Sketch from Life)

How One Boy Practiced

How to Make Music Studios Attractive

Studio Experiences

Value and Practice of Advertising Among Professional Musicians

Mechanical Musical Instruments

Expression in Playing and Its Conditions

Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers

No Time For Study

Principles of Musical Pedagogy

Puzzle in Music Notation

Teaching Pupils to Think

Anybody Can Teach a Beginner

Wit of Composers

Music-Study and Manual-Practice

Ear Training

Good Voice or Good Singer

Song

Fine Art of Enunciation

Training for the Stage

Musical Blues

Those Four …

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 16, Number 04 (April 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Mendelssohn

Aptitude for Teaching

Musical Listender

My Pupils

From the Pedal, Deliver Us!

Train Both Hands

Puzzle in Musical History

Modern vs. Classical

Principles of Musical Pedagogy

Carl Koelling

Liberation of the Ring Finger

Stepping-Stones

Summer Teaching: An Experience

Stray Thoughts

Baneful Influence: The Pupil's Piano

Miscellaneous Program by American Composers

Drudgery Made Interesting

Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers

Personal Apparel of the Music Teacher

How to Make Music Studios Attrative

Louis Köhler's Notes on Practicing

How to Win and Keep an Audience

Marvelous Memories

Music as a Profession vs. Musical Dilettantism

Mistakes Do Not Hurt

Choosing …

Volume 16, Number 03 (March 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Rubinstein's Thoughts and Aphorisms

Music versus Trade as a Means of Livelihood

Musical Pauperism

Musical Listener

Professional Piano Students

Principles of Musical Pedagogy

Classic and Romantic Defined

Story of a Musical Meteor

Louis Köhler's Notes on Practicing

Playing by Ear—A Bane or Benefit?

Bach the Originator of Fingering

Overcrowded Musical Profession

Originality in a Young Composer

What Can We Do

Test of Time

Do Something for Yourself

Listening to Music

My Pupils

Abuse of Tempo

Some Essentials for Music Students

Piano Beginner of Yesterday and of To-day

Training the Teachers

Stumbling-Blocks

How to Make Pupils' Recitals Attractive

Advantages for Music …

Volume 16, Number 02 (February 1898), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Make a Living

American Student

Principles of Musical Pedagogy

Life of a Pianoforte—How to Preserve It

Musical Listener

Children and Music

Music Teacher Analyzed

Thumb

How a Composer Works

Stumbling Blocks

In My Easy Chair

Romantic Side of Bach

How to Work up Concerts in the Smaller Cities

Mental Technic: A Suggestion

Key-Character a Fallacy

Ear Training

Advantages for Music Students in Various European Centers

Pen Picture

Crime Against Art

Open Your Eyes

How to Maintain Pupils' Interest

Happy Medium

Old Italian Method

Study of Musical Literature

Listening Well

Professional Code

The Little Song Gem, H. N. Lincoln

Stone-Campbell Books

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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 …

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