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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.
575 Audiobooks
Great Violinists and Pianists
by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
Wagner and His Music-Dramas
by Robert C. Bagar
Interpreters
by Carl Van Vechten
How to Sing
by Luisa Tetrazzini
A syllabus of Kentucky folk-songs
by Hubert G. (Hubert Gibson) Shearin, Josiah Henry Combs
How the Piano Came to Be
by Ellye Howell Glover
Contemporary Composers
by Daniel Gregory Mason
Eternal Father, Strong to Save a.k.a., Navy Hymn
by John Bacchus Dykes
Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch
by F. Anstey
Johann Sebastian Bach
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
The Deeds Carillon and Carillon Park
by Anonymous
Chambers's journal of popular literature, science, and art, fifth series, no. 125, vol. III, May 22, 1886
by Various Authors
Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events
by Henry Charles Lahee
Music and Some Highly Musical People
by James M. Trotter
How to Study Fiorillo A detailed, descriptive analysis of how to practice these studies, based upon the best teachings of representative, modern violin playing
by Edith Lynwood Winn
The Evolution of Modern Orchestration
by Louis Adolphe Coerne
History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe
by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards
Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens
by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
Confessions of an Opera Singer
by Kathleen Howard
The Standard Light Operas, Their Plots and Their Music
by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark
by J. C. (Jens Christian) Aaberg
Stories from the operas
by Gladys Davidson
Richard Strauss
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
Wagner at Home
by Judith Gautier
Antonio Stradivari
by Horace Petherick
Life of Haydn
by Ludwig Nohl
Why We Love Music
by Carl E. (Carl Emil) Seashore
The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School
by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
by Lewis Redner
Hector Berlioz: A Romantic Tragedy
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
The Lion of Poland: The Story of Paderewski
by Ruth Fox Hume, Paul Hume
The Little Review, April 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 2)
by Various Authors
Martin Luthers Geistliche Lieder
by Martin Luther
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I
by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The Story of Our Hymns
by Ernest Edwin Ryden
Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by Otto Jahn
The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A Handbook
by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Bach
by C. F. Abdy (Charles Francis Abdy) Williams
Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday
by Henry Charles Lahee
Haydn
by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden
Hymn Stories of the Twentieth Century
by William J. (William John) Hart
Les musiciens et la musique
by Hector Berlioz
The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development
by J. S. (John South) Shedlock
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
by Francis Jameson Rowbotham
Dr. Arne and Rule, Britannia
by William Hayman Cummings
Sebastian Bach
by Reginald Lane Poole
Hymns in Human Experience
by William J. (William John) Hart
Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 3 Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne
by Giuseppe Bertini
Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso
by Charles Barnard
Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro
by W. H. (William Henry) Thomas
A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
by George Sampson
Great opera stories : taken from original sources in old German
by Millicent Schwab Bender
Nouvellettes of the musicians
by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue
by Rutherford Mayne
The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery Meetings
by William Wells Brown
Early German music in Philadelphia
by Robert Rutherford Drummond
The Washington Peace Carillon
by James Marion Shull
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How to sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
by Lilli Lehmann
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
Garcia the Centenarian and His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science
by M. (Malcolm) Sterling Mackinlay
Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers
by Harriette Brower
Shakespeare and music : with illustrations from the music of the 16th and 17th centuries
by Edward W. (Edward Woodall) Naylor
My Recollections
by Jules Massenet
Musical Criticisms
by Arthur Johnstone
The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah'
by F. G. (Frederick George) Edwards
Geraldine Farrar: The Story of an American Singer
by Geraldine Farrar
Music as a Language: Lectures to Music Students
by Ethel Home
The Great Musicians: Purcell
by William Hayman Cummings
The Operatic Problem
by William Johnson Galloway
Violin tone and violin makers
by Hidalgo Moya, Towry Piper
Studies in the Wagnerian Drama
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 4 Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne
by Giuseppe Bertini
The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth songster
by Various Authors
Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 1 A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs.
by Various Authors
Philip: The Story of a Boy Violinist
by Virginia C. Young, Mary C. (Mary Churchill) Hungerford
Storia universale del canto, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Gabriele Fantoni
Spirit and Music
by H. Ernest (Harry Ernest) Hunt
Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work
by Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Otto Jahn
Life of Chopin
by Franz Liszt
Stories of Symphonic Music A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present Day
by Lawrence Gilman
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
by Philip H. (Philip Henry) Goepp
The Voice in Singing
by Emma Seiler
Le Vaisseau fantôme (Der Fliegende Holländer)
by Richard Wagner
George Frideric Handel
by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser
Memoirs of an American Prima Donna
by Clara Louise Kellogg
My Musical Life
by Walter Damrosch
Life of Wagner
by Ludwig Nohl
Charles Auchester, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard
Lebensbeschreibung des k. k. Kapellmeisters Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Franz Xaver Niemetschek
Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes
by Howard Washington Odum
Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, June, 1854
by Various Authors