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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 …

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

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