Music -- History and criticism books

Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University

Edward MacDowell

The book is a collection of Edward MacDowell’s university lectures, originally delivered when he held the…

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The volume gathers two of Nietzsche’s polemical essays that confront the myth of a simple personal quarrel…

The art of music, Vol. 07 (of 14): Pianoforte and chamber music

The volume is a scholarly survey of pianoforte and chamber music, positioned as the seventh installment in a…

The art of music, Vol. 03 (of 14): Modern music

The work is a scholarly survey of the forces that shaped modern music, beginning with a concise declaration…

The art of music, Vol. 04 (of 14): Music in America

The Art of Music, Volume 4, “Music in America,” is a scholarly survey that treats the development of American…

How music grew, from prehistoric times to the present day

Bauer, Marion; Peyser, Ethel R.

This work is a comprehensive survey of music’s development from its prehistoric origins to the modern era,…

The art of music, Vol. 02 (of 14): Classicism and Romanticism

The second volume of The Art of Music continues the sweeping survey begun in the first, moving the narrative…

The art of music, Vol. 06 (of 14): Choral and church music

Rossetter G. Cole

The volume is a scholarly survey of choral and church music written by Rossetter G.

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…

The Seven Lively Arts

Gilbert Seldes

Gilbert Seldes’s The Seven Lively Arts is a nonfiction meditation on the early American entertainment scene,…

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…

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 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…

The art of music, Vol. 05 (of 14): The voice and vocal music

How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music

W. J. Henderson

Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2)

Carl Engel

Famous composers and their works, Vol. 2

Ivory, Apes and Peacocks

James Huneker

Famous composers and their works, Vol. 1

Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2)

Carl Engel

Bedouins $b Mary Garden, Debussy, Chopin or the circus, Botticelli, Poe, Brahmsody, Anatole France, Mirbeau, Caruso on wheels, Calico cats, The artistic temperament; Idols and ambergris, with The supreme sin, Grindstones, A masque of music, and The vision malefic; with various portraits of Mary Garden in operatic costume

James Huneker

Curiosities of Music: A Collection of Facts not generally known, regarding the Music of Ancient and Savage Nations

Louis Charles Elson

Musical Criticisms

Arthur Johnstone