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The Etudewas an American printmagazinededicated tomusicfounded byTheodore Presser(1848–1925) atLynchburg, Virginia,and first published in October 1883.[1]Presser, who had also founded theMusic Teachers National Association,moved his publishing headquarters toPhiladelphia, Pennsylvaniain 1884, and hisTheodore Presser Companycontinued the magazine until 1957.[1]
Aimed at all musicians, from the novice through the serious student to the professional,The Etudeprinted articles about both basic (or "popular" ) and more-involved musical subjects (including history, literature, gossip, and politics), contained write-in advice columns about musicalpedagogy,andpianosheet music,of all performer ability levels, totaling over 10,000 works.Helen Tretbaredited the magazine in the late 1880s.[2]James Francis Cooke,editor-in-chief from 1909 to 1949, added the phrase "Music Exalts Life!" to the magazine's masthead, andThe Etudebecame a platform for Cooke's somewhat polemical and militantly optimistic editorials. The sometimes conservative outlook and contents of the magazine may have contributed to a decline in circulation in the 1930s and '40s, but in many respects it moved with the times, unequivocally supporting the phonograph, radio, and eventually television, and, by the late 1930s, fully embracing jazz. By the end,George Rochbergwas an editor ofThe Etudeunder Guy McCoy, who had succeeded Cooke as editor-in-chief after over two decades as an assistant, and the magazine's musical content had come more closely in-step with the contemporary world.
In 1940, a 12-year-oldEdward Chan Sieghad published an article onMozart's "Requiem"in the magazine.[3]
References
edit- ^abPamela Richardson Dennis (2011).An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957: Title index; Subject index.A-R Editions, Inc. p. 1366.ISBN978-0-89579-718-6.RetrievedOctober 19,2015.
- ^Tretbar, Helen (1889)."The Etude magazine".Retrieved5 June2021.
- ^"Edward Sieg Obituary (2007) - Savannah, GA - Savannah Morning News".Legacy.com.Retrieved2024-07-16.
Further reading
edit- Bomberger, D.E.An index to music published inThe Etudemagazine, 1883–1957.(Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004).
- Heimann, Wm. Keith (2016). "'This is War!': Musical Images Used as Propaganda inThe Etude Music Magazine".Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography.41(1–2): 141–161.ISSN1522-7464.
- Heimann, Wm. Keith (2018). "The road to success: 'The long glorious grind'".Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography.43(1–2): 87–99.ISSN1522-7464.
External links
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Media related toThe Etudeat Wikimedia Commons
- The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957(Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University), offers an interface for searching the contents and makes it possible to download colour scans of entire searchable issues
- A tribute site toThe Etude,including scans of certain issues and articles, with commentary
- Music Magazines in the early 20th century,ParlorSongs.com
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