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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

Volume 14, Number 12 (December 1896), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

One Hand Alone

Submerged Melodies

Fillmore, John C.

Intention and Success

Playing by Memory

Evil of the Time

Avoidance of the Commonplace

Music Chats with Children

Music Teachers' Problem

Theodor Kullak

Let Singers Beward of Doctors

Humorous Incident

Is Marriage Inimical to Music? If so, Why?

New Story of Paganini

Plea for My Last Teacher

Needs of Piano Students and How They May be Secured

Secret of Musical Expression

Extract

For the Suppression of Din

Why Study Musical History?

Obstacles They Met, and How They Overcame Them: Lessons in Perseverance from the Lives of the Masters

Most Difficult Piece

How …

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 …

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 08 (August 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

How to Listen to Music

Mission of the Artist

What to Cultivate

Mendelssohn as a Teacher

Machine vs. Mind in Playing

Cultivation of the Ear

Infant Musical Prodigies

Rubinstein: The Man and the Musician

Music Teacher's Allies

False Ballances

How Shall I Interest My Pupils?

Origin of Old Folks at Home

Broad Consideration of Piano Playing

Take a Music Journal

From a New Standpoint

Liszt and Chopin

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 13, Number 05 (May 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

True Value of the Study of Music

Musicians or Executants, Which?

Another Point of View

Winter's Work

How Shall We Educate the Parents of Our Pupils?

What Constitutes Success?

Classes in Phrasing

Little Talk

Nuggets

Emil Bauer on Practicing—Brains as Well as Fingers

Chat with Young Music Teachers

Impromptu Opinions of Prominent Musicians

How to Keep Up an Interest

Musical Talent

Why Go Abroad to Study

Trials and Tribulations of a Music Teacher: The Pupil Who Wants Twice Too Much Time for the Money

Comic Side of Music

Avoid

Reed Organ

Volume 13, Number 04 (April 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Note on the Piano

Reminiscence of Bülow

What Shall I Play?

Make Study Interesting

Value of an Artist's Testimonials

Fantasy

Practical Talk with Girls

Material for Music Classes

To Acquire Expression

Present Worth

Duties of Music Teacher, Pupil and Parent Toward Each Other

Wit, Wise and Otherwise

How to Teach Schumann to Children

Amateur Musical Society

What is Classical Music?

Music and Money

To Play or Not to Play: Musical Education that Would Make Study a Pleasure to Children

Fingers and Finger-Rings

Basis of Phrasing

Rhapsody

Volume 13, Number 03 (March 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Piano—What Is It?

Musical Micawbers

Short Glossary of Musical Terms (up to date)

Concentrate! Concentrate!

Conservative Versus Experimental

Wasted Effort

Music Study Abroad, as Viewed by a Former Leipzig Student

Why That Failure?

What is Classical Music?

On Listening to Music

Leisure Moments

Practical Pedaling for Teacher and Student

Missed Lesson Question

Slow Pupil

Chopin's Music

Liszt's Music and Stavenhagen's Liszt Playing

Expression in Piano-Playing

How to Begin

Evil Exposed

Some Helps for the Town Teacher

Too Rapid Reading

Develop the Artistic Nature

Individuality

Volume 13, Number 02 (February 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

On the Rhythmic Element of Musical Form

Bugbear of Method

Rafael Joseffy

Personal Magnetism of Rubinstein

Men vs. Women Teachers

Machine Pupils

Pianoforte Teaching and Teachers

Can Expression Be Cultivated?

Music and Music Lovers

Music Study for Boys

Develop the Musical Soul

Rubinstein's Career

Faults of Beginners: Rapid Playing in Primary Grades—Play Slowly if You Hope to Play Fast

Metronome

Fads in Instruments

Rubinstein's Piano Touch

Dignity of the Pianoforte

How to Select a Piano

Benjamin Godard

Musical Utterances of Ruskin

Practical Pedaling for Teacher and Pupil

Sharp But True

Volume 13, Number 12 (December 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Great Composers of Music

Piano Playing and Analysis

Getting Better Work from Pupils

Slow Practice

Taste and Teaching

Difficulties of a Piano Teacher

Music as It is Taught

Ludwig Schytte (autobiography)

Berceuse by Ludwig Schytte

Spoiled Child

Description of Danse Macabre

Limits of the Ear

Study in Dates

Jealousy Among Pianists

How to Become a Pianist

Almost Discouraged

Wrist Training Before Finger

Non-Success

Prejudice in Musical Art

How to Pronounce Them

Why Should We Study Harmony?

Enigmas

Commendable List of Music—Grade I to X

Volume 13, Number 01 (January 1895), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Cause of Failure

Music Study and Society

Importance of Hearing Artists

Touch of Great Players

Three Classes of Pupils

Musicians and Music Lovers

Few Words About the Precursors of the Pianoforte

Justice in Music Teaching

Reputation

Concise Suggestions for Memorizing

Why of Scale Practice

Dont's for Young Singers

Music vs. Morality

How Much Shall I Charge for a Music Lesson?

William Mason on Piano Touch

Fault in Piano Playing

Musical Ear: Those Who Possess It and Those Who Don’t

One Way to Interest

Method of Practicing Exercises and Other Larger Works

Reviewing

Random Shots

How to Become an Artist

Mental …

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 12, Number 06 (June 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Traditional Beethoven Playing

Flying Seed

From a Teacher's Notebook

Graduated Quack

Some Peculiar Concerts

What Can Be Learned From Copying Music

Chat With Paderewski

How to Keep Up a Repertoire

Equally True of Other Nations

Chopin Peculiarity

History of Music in a Nutshell

Some Secrets of Practice Illustrated

Beethoven's Personal Apperance

Life of Richard Wagner

Johann Strauss

Anecdotes of Von Bülow

Arthur Sullivan's Youth

Making It Certain

Word for Private Recitals

Cursory Talk about Sonatas

Paderewski's Daily Life

Music Lessons for Boys

Singers vs. Musicians

Class Experiences

Volume 12, Number 05 (May 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Teaching and the Philadelphia Summer Music School

Touch and the Pedals

Reminiscences of My Teaching Days

Romance of Celebrated Pieces

Plea for Outside Studies

General Review in Harmony

Side Talk with Parents

Life of Richard Wagner

Instructive Hints

Mental Practice

London College of Music

Home for Aged Musicians

Weaknesses of Musical Students

Some Secrets of Successful Practice

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies

Musical Humbugs

Occasional Correspondence of a Music Teacher

Looking Ahead

Traditional Beethoven Playing

Volume 12, Number 04 (April 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Philadelphia Summer Music School

Technique and Feeling

Devitalized Wrist

Very Much to the Point

Valuable Contribution to Musical Criticism

Good Enough to Practice On

Classses in Biography and Musical History

Art Versus Prize-Getting

Women's Amateur Musical Clubs

Musical Taste

Public v. Private Pupils' Recitals

Review

Reason Why

Origin(?) of Certain Compositions

Some Secrets of Practice

Encourgting Young Musicians

What is Musical Intelligence?

Beethoven Sonatas

Wanted, in the Musical Profession, More Brains and Better Morals

Hints and Helps

In Jest

My Morning's Work

Let All Be Worthy and Well Tried

Necessary Reform in Charging Tuition

Extracts from Handy Music-Lexicon

Genius and …

Volume 12, Number 03 (March 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Dvorak's Lessons

Truth

To Practice a Song

Piano Playing Can't Be Stopped

Von Bülow Dies

Summer School in Prospect

Read! Read! Read!

Questions about Scales

Shall All Children Learn Music

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

I've Hear Him Once

Musical Pharisees

Some Errors as We Find Them in Pupils

Failure in Music

Why Woman Cannot Compose

Looking Backward

Puff Direct

Missed Lesson

Pupils [from] the Teacher's Standpoint

Quality, Rather than Quantity

Regarding Certain Pianists

Shall We Teach Cause or Effect?

Presumptuous Sins

Art and Money

Mozart on His Manner of Composing

More …

Volume 12, Number 02 (February 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Fraternal Appreciation

Left Hand

As the Twig, Etc.

How Progress is Made

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

This Reminds Me

Unsatisfactory Pupil

Playing in Public

Tempos

Resolve To—

Why Take the Etude?

Fifth Symphony

Description of an Amateur Band

Profitable Practice

Home Influence Upon the Pupil's Progress

Keeping the Piano in Good Condition

Clinging Touch

Rubinstein's Joke

Power of Attention

Conscientious Resolution

Narrow Study

Advice and Caution

Plea for Daily Piano Lessons

Three Talks

Faults of Beginners

American Compositions

Counterparts Among Poets and Composers

Use of the Pedal

What is Popular Music?

Volume 12, Number 12 (December 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Musical Brotherhood

Concerning Authority in Piano Teaching

Sayings of Von Bülow

Dull Pupils

Word to the Thoughtless Pupil

One Thing Neglected

What Are They?

Man Cannot Live By Talent Alone

Labor of Teaching

Gilding the Pill

On Fingering

Recognition of the Worth of Others

Independent Thinking

Is Blind Tom a Genius?

On Fees and Missed Lessons

Plea for the Intelligent Instruction of Children Upon the Pianoforte

Labor of Writing Music

Is the Piano a Detestable Instrument?

Memorizing Music

Technical Reserve Power

Rubinstein is Dead

Volume 12, Number 01 (January 1894), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Just a Word

Art of Memorizing

Musical Education of Children

How Not to Compose

Endurance

Thoughtful Practising

Music Thinking

Plea for Better Music-Teaching

Is Music a Universal Language?

Mannerisms

Form of Contract

That Reminds Me

Some Mistakes of Young Teachers

Is Music a Luxury?

Results

Centre Shot

Musical Evening: Hints for Young Teachers

Enunciation in Singing

Little Items for Pupils Worth Knowing

In the Piano Corner

Reflections for Teacher and Scholar

Why Take a Music Journal?

Work of the Country Music Teacher

Pupils Playing For Company

When, How, What

Woman in Music

Papers About Pianos - On Quality, Quantity and …

Volume 11, Number 11 (November 1893), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

American Folksongs

Imitative Teaching

Short Treatise on Instrumental Music

Helpful Hints for Listening to Music

Teacher's Catechism

Study of the Voice

Flute Playing for Women

Misconceptions in Music

Some Studio Experiences

Musical Abuses: The Proper Length of Music Lessons When Given to Pupils of Different Grades and Ages

Music in Emergency

Intellect in Piano Playing

American Folk Songs

Good Accompanist

Power of Attention

Playing from Memory

Singing the Basis of Playing

Shall We Use Studies?

Professional Tact

Troublesome Questions from Beginners

Sonata

Chopin at Home

Concerts: How to Profit from Them

Word on Encores

Chopin Nocturnes

Natural Use of the …