• A blast from the keyboard past... What a wonderful musical find!
• Lot of 10 vintage illustrated softcover issues of The Etude Music Magazine, an American periodical on music and music education published in English by Theodore Presser Co., Philadelphia.
• Issues included: September 1939; December 1946; March, April, May, November, and December 1947; March, June, and July 1948. Each monthly issue combines articles, pedagogy, and repertoire for students, teachers, and professional musicians.
• Cover artwork features a marching band and crime-prevention theme (September 1939), a Christmas church scene (December 1946), organist Charles Wakefield Cadman (March 1947), a romantic Mozart era scene titled Mozart's First Love (April 1947), a lone pianist on stage (May 1947), a portrait of Franz Schubert (November 1947), Victorian Christmas family music-making (December 1947), Beethoven with a Moonlight Sonata excerpt (March 1948), pianist Artur Rubinstein (June 1948), and founder Theodore Presser centennial portrait (July 1948).
• Representative editorial and feature content shown inside includes Practical Crime Prevention, Luring the Child to Love the Piano, The Wit and Humor of Musicians, What Hotels Mean to Musicians, The Arm and Its Relation to the Keyboard, and The Joyous Mendelssohn (1809–1847), together with regular departments on music in the home, school music, band and orchestra, and junior Etude columns.
• Throughout the run, each magazine presents classical and contemporary repertoire in full notation—piano solos, duets, songs, and teaching pieces by composers such as J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, and others—along with photographs, drawings, advertisements for instruments and sheet music, and pedagogical guidance for music students and teachers.
• This lot offers a substantial snapshot of mid-twentieth-century American classical music culture and education, ideal for collectors, historians, and musicians interested in period pedagogy, repertoire, and illustrated music journalism.
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• Condition: An amazing set of ten stapled softcover magazines from 1939–1948 with typical age wear. Covers show some surface rubs, light soiling, corner and edge creases, and occasional short edge tears, most noticeable on the earlier 1939 and 1946 issues. Spines have stress lines and minor nicks but remain intact. Original subscriber address labels are still affixed to most 1947–48 covers. Interior pages are evenly toned from age yet clean, fully legible, and securely attached with no writing seen or missing pages, although some covers are loose.

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