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By: Eleanor Mary Smith-Dampier | |
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Norse King's Bridal
In these translations from the Danish the author attempted to adhere strictly to the metres of the original, however in some, where this was not possible, she developed her own interpretations. |
By: Elinor Jenkins (1893-1920) | |
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Poems
Elinor Jenkins was a British poet whose published work focuses largely on the First World War. This volume, based on her collection published in 1915, incorporates 16 later poems and was published posthumously in 1921. |
By: Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862) | |
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Selected Poems
Elizabeth Siddal was a British poet, artist and model. Her poems were not published in a single volume in her lifetime; this collection brings together fifteen of her verses on themes such as loss and relationships. Summary by Newgatenovelist | |
By: Ellye Howell Glover (1868-) | |
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How the Piano Came to Be |
By: Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986) | |
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On a Grey Thread
On a Grey Thread was first published in 1923, one of the first books of openly lesbian love poetry to be published in the United States. Her early verse is concise and highly original. |
By: Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) | |
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The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze |
By: Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) | |
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Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing |
By: Ethel Home | |
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Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students |
By: F. W. Harvey (1888-1957) | |
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Love Poems
F. W. Harvey was an English poet, broadcaster and solicitor. These poems, taken from his 1921 collection Farewell, embody his love of nature, his native Gloucestershire and his beloved. - Summary by Newgatenovelist |
By: Felix Weingartner (1863-1942) | |
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Symphony Since Beethoven
This 1904 book by composer, conductor and pianist Felix Weingartner examines the development of the symphony as a musical form since one of its greatest practitioners, Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven's symphonic works gave the symphony an unprecedented importance as an art form and inspired his contemporaries and later composers to take it more seriously. Weingartner helped create a widespread appreciation for Beethoven's symphonies through his writings on, and performances of, these works. He conducted all of Beethoven's symphonies, and was the first conductor to make commercial recordings of all nine of them. |
By: Florence Akin (1878-) | |
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Opera Stories from Wagner |
By: Florence Henniker (1855-1923) | |
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Poesies from Abroad
Florence Henniker was a British poet and novelist whose ‘Poesies from Abroad’ was first published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in September 1889. This collection also includes ‘An Autumn Lyric’, which was first published in May 1889 in the same journal. - Summary by Newgatenovelist |
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: Francis Jameson Rowbotham | |
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Story-Lives of Great Musicians |
By: Franz Hoffmann (1814-1882) | |
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Mozart's Youth
This short account of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is part of the “Life Stories for Young People” series. It is written in an engaging dialogue format beginning with the young Mozart’s first notes on the piano keyboard at age three to his admission to membership in the Accademia Filarmonica at Bologna, Italy, ten years later. This child prodigy astounded the musical world of Europe to become one of the most cherished of all classical composers. |
By: Franz Liszt (1811-1886) | |
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Life of Chopin
Chopin was a romantic era Polish composer. This work is a memoir by Liszt who knew Chopin both as man and artist. This memoir gives a unique understanding to the psychological character of the compositions of Chopin. It also offers Liszt's insight into some of Chopin's polonaises, especially the grand polonaise in F sharp minor. Liszt explains the strange emotion "ZAL" which is inclosed in his compositions. Then, presents a brief sketch on the lives of other great people in Chopin's circle. After that, Liszt discusses Chopin's fame and early life. Finally, Liszt gives a detailed account on Chopin's sufferings due to ill health and the unfortunate departure of the great composer. | |
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso | |
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 |
By: Frederick Herman Martens (1874-1932) | |
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Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers |
By: Frederick Niecks (1845-1924) | |
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician |
By: Friedrich Johann Lehmann (1866-) | |
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A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons |
By: Friedrich Kerst | |
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Mozart, The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this “wunderkinder” took to the stage and began his life as a prolific and celebrated creator-genius of such luminous works the world has not known since. This collection of morsels taken from his personal letters is engaging and gives a look into the mind of the boy wonder. Was he mad? Was he miraculous? |
By: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) | |
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Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms
A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenerating German culture and society. The translator provides a detailed introduction. |
By: Friedrich Wieck (1785-1873) | |
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Piano and Song
This book talks about teaching, learning and performing on the piano in a delightful style, alternating between conversation and instruction. As he was the father of Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann's teacher, need I say more? |
By: G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) | |
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The Ballad of the White Horse
An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihilism of the North. Following a string of defeats at the hands of the invading Danes, a vision from heaven in the river island of Athelney fills Alfred with joy and hope. Though it gives no promise of victory in the coming struggle, it inspires him to rally his chieftains for a last stand against the invading hordes. His adventures lead throughout the country... |
By: George Ainslie Hight (1851-) | |
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Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama |
By: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) | |
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The Perfect Wagnerite
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. Shaw offered it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who "were unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan." He interprets the Ring in Marxian terms as an allegory of the collapse of capitalism from its internal contradictions. Musicologically, his... |
By: George Hart (1839-1891) | |
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The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators |
By: George Laing Miller | |
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The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments |
By: George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) | |
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The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne |
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 |