These included construction practices, descriptions, tools, exhibitions collections, new technologies, and laws and legal actions relating to the music industry.
There were articles on companies and manufacturers of instruments, entries on patents, trade marks, and designs for new or improved instruments, as well as reporting on "African-American music and culture, women's rights, John Philip Sousa, Antonín Dvořák and the influence of the rise of Nazi Germany on music in Europe.
"[2] In 1897, Marc A. Blumenberg, the publisher, separated the musical and industrial departments of the magazine and began publishing the Musical Courier Extra strictly as a trade edition.
[4] Composer, pianist, opera librettist, and music critic Leonard Liebling served as the publication's editor-in-chief from 1911–1945.
[5] Former University of Southern California professor Lisa Roma, an operatic soprano, acquired it in 1958.