THE ETUDE Music Magazine April 1947 & Feb 1948 issues (Rare)

The Etude magazine was established in 1883 by Theodore Presser with $250 saved from his income as a music teacher. The subsequent history of the magazine and the Theodore Presser Company is one of the great entrepreneurial success stories of American music. The Etude remains one of the longest-lived music magazines in American history and is still a ubiquitous presence in flea markets and online auctions.In the early years, each issue published roughly five or six musical scores, but by the 1930's there were upwards of twenty compositions published each month. The resulting list of repertoire comprises well over 10, 000 musical compositions in an eclectic range of styles and difficulty levels. The major composers of Western art music appear side by side with a broad range of popular composers, including a strong representation of American and female composers.This rich resource has never been indexed and has thus been virtually inaccessible to scholars and performers, who now have access to three quarters of a century of music in this valuable repository of scores.

Published from 1883 to 1957, The Etude Music Magazine featured a series of "Master-Lessons" by noted piano virtuosi. Among the chapters in this collection are master-lessons on Paderewski's Minuet in G, Chopin's Military Polonaise, Grieg's Norwegian Bridal Procession, Mendelssohn's Scherzo, and Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata. Authors include Wilhelm Bachaus, Percy Grainger, Edwin Hughes, and Mark Hambourg.

1947. Hall, the American philosopher, in over a period of 20 years of dynamic public activity, has steadfastly sought recognition of the belief that world civilization can only be perfected when human beings meet on a common ground of intelligence, cooperation and worthy purpose. Manly's journal, Horizon, contains original articles, condensations from his lectures or excerpts from his writings. This volume contains works on topics such as: The Powers of the Divine Mind; The Great League of the Iroquois; Faust, Legend and Fable; Biographies in General, Blavatsky in Particular; Jesus and the Essenes; Philosophy of Music; Oriental Character Analysis; Eliphas Levi and the French Transcendentalists; The Japanese Creation Myths; and Who Was Junius? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.