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By: William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) | |
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The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic finds out, however, that he was born on 29 February, and so, technically, he only has a birthday each leap year... |
By: Arnold Kennedy (1853-1938) | |
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Merry Clappum Junction
This is a jolly little book about a little boy, a dog, a train and a house. But not an ordinary train, oh no, and not an ordinary house either! And there are songs, too. The Preface is short, dull and only for the grown-ups. |
By: Percy Goetschius (1853-1943) | |
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Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition |
By: W. S. B. Mathews (1837-1912) | |
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Popular History of the Art of Music
Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and many-sided later development with the particularity proportionate to its importance, and the greater interest appertaining to it from its proximity to the times of the reader.The range of the work can be most easily estimated from the Table of Contents (pages 5-10). It will be seen that I have attempted to cover the same extent of history, in treating of which the standard musical histories of Naumann, Ambros, Fétis and others have employed from three times to ten times as much space... |
By: James Francis Cooke (1875-1960) | |
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Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos |
By: William S. B. Mathews (1837-1912) | |
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The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations |
By: Walter Raymond Spalding (1865-1962) | |
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Music: An Art and a Language |
By: Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723) | |
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Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 |
By: James Huneker (1860-1921) | |
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Chopin: The Man and His Music
A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker. |
By: Henry Charles Lahee (1856-1953) | |
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Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday |
By: James Huneker (1857-1921) | |
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Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques |
By: Henry Charles Lahee (1856-1953) | |
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Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events |
By: James Huneker (1857-1921) | |
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Melomaniacs |
By: Thomas Fillebrown (1836-1908) | |
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Resonance in Singing and Speaking |
By: Edward W. (Edward Woodall) Naylor (1867-1934) | |
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Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries |
By: Wesley Mills (1847-1915) | |
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Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) |
By: George Laing Miller | |
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The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments |
By: Frederick Herman Martens (1874-1932) | |
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Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers |
By: Florence Akin (1878-) | |
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Opera Stories from Wagner |
By: George P. Upton (1834-1919) | |
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The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers | |
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers |
By: Pietro Mascagni | |
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Zanetto; and Cavalleria Rusticana |
By: John F. Runciman (1866-1916) | |
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Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians | |
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas | |
Purcell | |
Wagner | |
Haydn |
By: Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) Fletcher (1838-1923) | |
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Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs |
By: Charles Rogers (1825-1890) | |
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Modern Scottish Minstrel
Subtitled "Songs of Scotland of the Past Half-Century, with Memoirs of the Poets, and Sketches and Specimens in English Verse of the Most Celebrated Modern Gaelic Bards." |
By: Friedrich Johann Lehmann (1866-) | |
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A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons |
By: William Henry Frost (1863-1902) | |
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The Wagner Story Book Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas |
By: Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922) | |
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After Music
Josephine Preston Peabody was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls’ Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College. |
By: Thomas Washington Talley | |
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Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study |
By: Margaret Blake Alverson (1836-1923) | |
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Sixty Years of California Song |
By: William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) | |
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Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp |
By: Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) | |
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The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze |
By: Francis E. (Francis Edward) Howard (1858-) | |
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The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs |
By: Lawrence Gilman (1878-1939) | |
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Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score | |
Edward MacDowell |
By: James T. (James Thomas) Lightwood (1856-1944) | |
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Charles Dickens and Music |
By: Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) | |
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The Merry-Go-Round |
By: Walter H. (Walter Henry) Mayson (1835-1904) | |
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Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. |
By: Aubertine Woodward Moore (1841-1929) | |
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For Every Music Lover
A series of essays for music lovers, covering many topics. From music appreciation, to violin and symphony, music education, to piano and, in fact, the very origins of music, there is sure to be something for everyone. |
By: W. E. Haslam | |
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Style in Singing |
By: W. S. Gilbert (d 1911) | |
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More Bab Ballads
This is a subset of the first twelve poems from the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert’s unique “topsy-turvey” style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London is “HIS FOE WAS FOLLY AND HIS WEAPON WIT”, an epitaph amply exemplified in these verses. |
By: Frederick Niecks (1845-1924) | |
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician |
By: David C. (David Clark) Taylor (1871-1918) | |
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The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern |
By: John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) | |
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Experiences of a Bandmaster |
By: Ellye Howell Glover (1868-) | |
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How the Piano Came to Be |
By: Arthur Elson (1873-1940) | |
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Woman's Work in Music |
By: Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) | |
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Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing |
By: Francis Jameson Rowbotham | |
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Story-Lives of Great Musicians |
By: Richard Duckworth | |
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Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing Wherein is laid down plain and easie Rules for Ringing all sorts of Plain Changes |
By: Horace Petherick (1839-1919) | |
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The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. |
By: Ethel Home | |
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Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students |