Music

Monarchs of minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to date

Edw. Le Roy Rice

The work is a scholarly catalogue of American minstrel performers, tracing the art from its early star…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

Elbert Hubbard

The volume is a series of compact biographical sketches that take the reader into the homes and formative…

A Complete History of Music for Schools, Clubs, and Private Reading

W. J. Baltzell

The work is a comprehensive, classroom‑oriented survey of music history, assembled by a committee of…

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula

Nathaniel Bright Emerson

The work is a scholarly compilation of Hawaiian hula songs and poetry, presented as the inaugural bulletin of…

The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Modest Chaikovskii

The volume is an edited, illustrated English edition of Modest Tchaikovsky’s monumental Russian biography of…

The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I

Alexander Wheelock Thayer

The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I is a scholarly biography by Alexander Wheelock Thayer, presented…

The Romantic Composers

Daniel Gregory Mason

The work is the second volume of Daniel Gregory Mason’s three‑part series that surveys the evolution of…

History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe

H. Sutherland Edwards

The work is a sweeping survey of opera’s evolution from its fifteenth‑century Italian roots to the present…

The Violin Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc.

George Dubourg

George Dubourg’s work is a sprawling survey of the violin’s evolution, aimed at anyone who “cultivates the…

How to sing [Meine Gesangskunst]

Lilli Lehmann

Life of Mozart, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Otto Jahn

Otto Jahn’s second volume of “Life of Mozart” is a scholarly biography that blends documentary correspondence…

A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present

W. S. B. Mathews

Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes

Philip Hale

This volume gathers the programme notes Philip Hale wrote for the Boston Symphony Orchestra over thirty‑two…

The Case of Wagner Complete Works, Volume 8

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The volume presents Friedrich Nietzsche’s polemical essays on Richard Wagner, assembled as part of the “Case…

The Christian Hymn Book A Compilation of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected, by A. Campbell and Others

The Christian Hymn Book is a collective effort of the Disciples of Christ, produced after Alexander Campbell…

Famous composers and their works, Vol. 3

This volume is a biographical and critical survey of the German composer Joseph Joachim Raff, presented in…

The Art of Ballet

Mark Edward Perugini

Mark Edward Perugini’s The Art of Ballet is a scholarly survey rather than a narrative history.

Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

This volume collects the letters Felix Mendelssohn‑Bartholdy wrote between 1833 and his death in 1847,…

The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II

Alexander Wheelock Thayer

The volume is a scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven authored by Alexander Wheelock Thayer, a…

Negro workaday songs

Odum, Howard Washington; Johnson, Guy Benton

Negro Workaday Songs is the third volume in Howard W. Odum and Guy B.

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2

Ludwig van Beethoven

This volume collects the later correspondence of Ludwig van Beethoven, spanning the years 1790‑1826, and…

Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events

Henry Charles Lahee

The work is a meticulously compiled chronology of American musical life from the colony’s first printed psalm…

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators

George Hart

The work is a scholarly reference on the violin, its historic development, and the lives of its most…

The art of music. Vol. 01 (of 14): The pre-Classic periods

The work is a scholarly, multi‑volume survey of music history, beginning with a detailed introduction to the…