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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.
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Mémoires de Hector Berlioz
by Hector Berlioz
The Boy's Voice
by J. Spencer (John Spencer) Curwen
Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst
by Ferruccio Busoni
Music Notation and Terminology
by Karl Wilson Gehrkens
The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65
by Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) Oldroyd
Piano and song : How to teach, how to learn, and how to form a judgment of musical performances
by Friedrich Wieck
Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads
by Various Authors
Style in Singing
by W. E. Haslam
On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music
by Camille Saint-Saëns
Vocal Mastery
by Harriette Brower
Contemporary American Composers
by Rupert Hughes
Musical Memories
by Camille Saint-Saëns
Great Singers on the Art of Singing
by James Francis Cooke
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14
by Elbert Hubbard
The Liberty Minstrel
by George Washington Clark
Resonance in Singing and Speaking
by Thomas Fillebrown
Chopin and Other Musical Essays
by Henry T. Finck
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1
by Ludwig van Beethoven
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
by Harriette Brower
Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing
by Enrico Caruso, Luisa Tetrazzini
The Mechanism of the Human Voice
by Emil Behnke
The Pianolist: A Guide for Pianola Players
by Gustav Kobbé
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Sixty Years of California Song
by Margaret Blake Alverson
Sketch of Handel and Beethoven
by Thomas Hanly Ball
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete
by Frederick Niecks
The Standard Oratorios: Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
by Francis Jameson Rowbotham
Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday
by Henry Charles Lahee
The Head Voice and Other Problems: Practical Talks on Singing
by D. A. (David Alva) Clippinger
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2
by Franz Liszt
Beethoven, a character study; together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven
by George Alexander Fischer
The Orchestral Conductor: Theory of His Art
by Hector Berlioz
Music Talks with Children
by Thomas Tapper
Gedenkrede auf Wolfgang Amade Mozart
by Richard Beer-Hofmann
Charles Dickens and Music
by James T. (James Thomas) Lightwood
A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons
by Friedrich J. (Friedrich Johann) Lehmann
Essentials in Conducting
by Karl Wilson Gehrkens
A Collection of Gospel Hymns in Ojibway and English
by Anonymous
Shakespeare and music : with illustrations from the music of the 16th and 17th centuries
by Edward W. (Edward Woodall) Naylor
How the Piano Came to Be
by Ellye Howell Glover
Music and Some Highly Musical People
by James M. Trotter
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How to sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
by Lilli Lehmann
Woman's Work in Music
by Arthur Elson
Haydn
by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden
Life of Chopin
by Franz Liszt
Critical and Historical Essays
by Edward MacDowell
For Every Music Lover
by Aubertine Woodward Moore
Cardinal Newman as a Musician
by Edward Bellasis
Lettres intimes
by Hector Berlioz
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
Unicorns
by James Huneker
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
by Bernard Shaw
Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 11943, to Amend Title 60, Chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to Copyrights May 2, 1906.
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents
My Life — Volume 1
by Richard Wagner
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete
by Frederick Niecks
Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work
by Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School
by Thomas Hardy
Life of Chopin
by Franz Liszt
The Street of Seven Stars
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Life of Beethoven Including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works
by Anton Schindler
Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End
by Franz Liszt
Chopin : the Man and His Music
by James Huneker
Haydn
by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden
Essays Before a Sonata
by Charles Ives
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
by Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt
My Life — Volume 2
by Richard Wagner
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2
by Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt
A Second Book of Operas
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah'
by F. G. (Frederick George) Edwards
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
by Frederick Niecks
Piano Playing, with Piano Questions Answered
by Josef Hofmann
Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Charles Auchester, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
by Frederick Niecks
Dr. Martin Luther's Deutsche Geistliche Lieder The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to Their Original Melodies, With an English Version
by Martin Luther
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music
by Richard Wagner
The Experiences of a Bandmaster
by John Philip Sousa
The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School
by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards
Index to Kindergarten Songs Including Singing Games and Folk Songs
by Margery Closey Quigley
Wagner : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays
by Thomas Tapper
Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes
by Howard Washington Odum
Franz Schubert : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs
by Thomas Tapper
The Fifth String
by John Philip Sousa
Handel : The Story of a Little Boy who Practiced in an Attic
by Thomas Tapper
Chopin : The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies
by Thomas Tapper
Verdi : The Story of the Little Boy who Loved the Hand Organ
by Thomas Tapper
A Village Stradivarius
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch
by F. Anstey
Aspects of Modern Opera: Estimates and Inquiries
by Lawrence Gilman
Great opera stories : $b taken from original sources in old German
by Millicent Schwab Bender