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Music
Step into a world where voices are forged, legends remember, and music becomes both discipline and magic. From the intimate letters and memoirs of great composers to the hard-won secrets of singing, performance, and song, this bookshelf hums with ambition, artistry, and unforgettable sound. Whether born in concert halls, parlors, or on the frontier, these works capture music not just as entertainment, but as a force that shapes lives.
576 Audiobooks
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works
by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Mémoires de Hector Berlioz comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865
by Hector Berlioz
Dorothy's Tour
by Evelyn Raymond
The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze
by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
My Life — Volume 1
by Richard Wagner
Opere, Volume Secondo : scritti critici e letterari
by Giovanni Berchet
Chats to 'Cello Students
by Arthur Broadley
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
by George Ainslie Hight
The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c.
by J. Spencer (John Spencer) Curwen
Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst
by Ferruccio Busoni
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
Vom Musikalisch-Schönen Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Ästhetik der Tonkunst
by Eduard Hanslick
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score
by Lawrence Gilman
Musiciens d'autrefois
by Romain Rolland
Extracts from the Galactick Almanack: Music Around the Universe
by Laurence M. Janifer
How to Appreciate Music
by Gustav Kobbé
Music Notation and Terminology
by Karl Wilson Gehrkens
Acht Briefe an eine Freundin über Clavier-Unterricht
by Johanna Kinkel
Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians
by John F. Runciman
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1
by Rupert Hughes
The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65
by Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) Oldroyd
Dr. Martin Luther's Deutsche Geistliche Lieder The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to Their Original Melodies, With an English Version
by Martin Luther
Piano and song : How to teach, how to learn, and how to form a judgment of musical performances
by Friedrich Wieck
Advice to Young Musicians. Musikalische Haus- und Lebens-Regeln
by Robert Schumann
Index to Kindergarten Songs Including Singing Games and Folk Songs
by Margery Closey Quigley
The Case of Wagner Complete Works, Volume 8
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Masters of French Music
by Arthur Hervey
Old Fogy: His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
by James Huneker
Franz Schubert : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs
by Thomas Tapper
Le collier des jours: Le troisième rang du collier
by Judith Gautier
The Baby's Bouquet: A Fresh Bunch of Rhymes and Tunes
by Walter Crane
Plays, Acting and Music: A Book Of Theory
by Arthur Symons
Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera
by H. R. (Hugh Reginald) Haweis
Musicians of to-day
by Romain Rolland
Les illusions musicales et la vérité sur l'expression
by Johannès Weber
Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
by Paul Rosenfeld
Mr. Punch in Bohemia
by Various Authors
La vie de Rossini, tome I
by Stendhal
Histoire de la musique
by Henri Lavoix
The Lost Stradivarius
by John Meade Falkner
Style in Singing
by W. E. Haslam
A Second Book of Operas
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
From Grieg to Brahms: Studies of Some Modern Composers and Their Art
by Daniel Gregory Mason
Portraits et études; Lettres inédites de Georges Bizet
by Hugues Imbert, Georges Bizet
Overtones, a book of temperaments : Richard Strauss, Parsifal, Verdi, Balzac, Flaubert, Nietzsche, and Turgénieff
by James Huneker
Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
by Percy Goetschius
Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 4 A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs.
by Various Authors
Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX.
by Walter H. (Walter Henry) Mayson
Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others
by Harriette Brower
Consuelo, Tome 3 (1861)
by George Sand
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III
by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The Street of Seven Stars
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Haydn
by John F. Runciman
Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Edward Hazen
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
by Bernard Shaw
Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
by Ludwig van Beethoven
The Pipes of War A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18
by Sir B. G. (Bruce Gordon) Seton, John (Pipe-Major) Grant
The technic of the baton : a handbook for students of conducting
by Albert Stoessel
Edward MacDowell, His Work and Ideals
by Elizabeth Fry Page
Songs of the West Folk Songs of Devon & Cornwall Collected from the Mouths of the People
by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould, F. W. (Frederick William) Bussell, H. Fleetwood (Henry Fleetwood) Sheppard
Beethoven
by Romain Rolland
The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2)
by Florence May
On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music
by Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
by J. Cree (Jerry Cree) Fischer
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
by Frederick Niecks
La Tétralogie de l'Anneau du Nibelung
by Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner and His Poetical Work, from "Rienzi" to "Parsifal"
by Judith Gautier
How To Get the Most Out of Your Victrola
by Victor Talking Machine Company
Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers
by Pier Francesco Tosi
The Child-Voice in Singing Treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs
by Francis E. (Francis Edward) Howard
Music: An Art and a Language
by Walter Raymond Spalding
Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists
by James Francis Cooke
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
by Rupert Hughes
Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School
by Thomas Hardy
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild
Essays Before a Sonata
by Charles Ives
Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts
by Richard Wagner
Musical Memories
by Camille Saint-Saëns
Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie, II
by Hector Berlioz
The Splendid Folly
by Margaret Pedler
Wagner as Man & Artist
by Ernest Newman
How music grew, from prehistoric times to the present day
by Marion Bauer, Ethel R. (Ethel Rose) Peyser
The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers (12th edition)
by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Ole Bull: A Memoir
by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull
Life of Beethoven Including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works
by Anton Schindler
The Masters and Their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
Mozart's Youth
by Franz Hoffmann
The Mother's Nursery Songs
by Thomas Hastings
Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces
by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
The liberty minstrel
by George Washington Clark