Books Should Be Free Loyal Books Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads |
|
Music Books |
---|
Book type:
Sort by:
View by:
|
By: John F. Runciman (1866-1916) | |
---|---|
Haydn |
By: John Gay (1685-1732) | |
---|---|
The Beggar's Opera |
By: John H. Swaby (?-1891) | |
---|---|
Physiology of the Opera
Trust Scrici for a tell all, no holds barred exposé of the modern opera . . . well, modern as of . . . er . . . say, 1852. | |
By: John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978) | |
---|---|
Black Panther
John Hall Wheelock is an American poet who during his student years at Harvard University was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and began to publish his first poems. He later worked for publisher Charles Sribner and Sons finally becoming senior editor. He received many awards for his poetry including the Golden Rose in 1936 for the most distinguished contribution to American poetry of that year. The poems in The Black Panther reveal a deep spirituality but also a strong humanistic reach, sometimes dark and sometimes celebratory and full of joy... |
By: John Meade Falkner (1858-1932) | |
---|---|
The Lost Stradivarius
The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title in a hidden compartment in his college rooms, the protagonist, a wealthy young heir, becomes increasingly secretive as well as obsessed by a particular piece of music, which seems to have the power to call up the ghost of its previous owner. Roaming from England to Italy, the story involves family love, lordly depravity, and the tragedy of obsession |
By: John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) | |
---|---|
Experiences of a Bandmaster |
By: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) | |
---|---|
Victory: An Island Tale
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific. After retreating from society in response to his professional failures, the misanthrope is drawn back by a romantic affair. (Introduction by S. Kovalchik) |
By: Jules Massenet (1842-1912) | |
---|---|
My Recollections |
By: Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1882-1975) | |
---|---|
Music Notation and Terminology
Until relatively recently, music students at all levels of study—from the conservatories to public schools—had few resources available for the formal study of musical notation and terminology in the classroom. In fact, it was not until 1914, when Professor Karl Gehrkens at the Oberlin School of Music published this compilation of class notes and sources he collected over the years, that a uniform text became available for schools and universities everywhere. Since the publication of this monumental work, similar textbooks have emerged, but Dr... | |
Essentials in Conducting |
By: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1856-1923) | |
---|---|
Bluebeard; a musical fantasy |
By: Katherine Hale (1874-1956) | |
---|---|
New Joan and Other Poems
Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections with the background of World War I as a theme, but full of faith and hope. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Lawrence Gilman (1878-1939) | |
---|---|
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score | |
Edward MacDowell | |
Stories of Symphonic Music
'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for scathing reviews of compositions later to become classics. Here he analyzes the stories behind some famous and not so famous works. - Summary by Lynne Thompson |
By: Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929) | |
---|---|
How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] |
By: Louis Biancolli (1907-1992) | |
---|---|
Tschaikovsky And His Orchestral Music
Included in this little book are analyses and backgrounds of most of Tschaikowsky’s standard concert music. A short sketch of Tschaikowsky’s life precedes the section devoted to the orchestral music. Yet, the personal outlook and moods of Russia’s great composer are so inextricably bound up with his music, that actually the whole booklet is an account of his strangely tormented life. In the story of Tschaikowsky, life and art weave into one closely knit fabric. It is hoped that this simple narrative will aid music lovers to glimpse the great pathos and struggle behind the music of this sad and lonely man. - Summary by Author's Foreword |
By: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) | |
---|---|
Selected Letters of Beethoven
A selection of Beethoven’s letters from the compilation by Dr. Ludwig Nohl and translated by Lady Grace Wallace. |
By: M. (Malcolm) Sterling Mackinlay (1876-1952) | |
---|---|
Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science |
By: Margaret Blake Alverson (1836-1923) | |
---|---|
Sixty Years of California Song |
By: Margaret Sidney (1844-1924) | |
---|---|
Five Little Peppers Grown Up
Five Little Peppers Grown Up continues the story of Ben, Polly, Joel, David, and Phronsie Pepper. Together with the Kings, the Whitneys, and other friends old and new, the Peppers learn and teach about life and love as they grow into adulthood. |
By: Maria Letitia Stockett (1884-1949) | |
---|---|
Hoofs of Pegasus
Maria Letitia Stockett was a highly respected English teacher in Baltimore, Maryland, but also well-known as an author. In addition to her poetry she wrote Baltimore: A Not Too Serious History in 1928, and America, First, Fast & Furious . This is a collection of her short lyrical poems of nature, sentient and spirit. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Mary Schell Hoke Bacon (1870-1934) | |
---|---|
Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces |
By: Nicola A. (Nicola Aloysius) Montani (1880-1948) | |
---|---|
The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book |
By: Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729) | |
---|---|
Amadigi di Gaula Amadis of Gaul |
By: Olive M. (Olive Mary) Briggs (1873-) | |
---|---|
The Black Cross |
By: Oliver Huckel (1864-1940) | |
---|---|
Parsifal A Mystical Drama By Richard Wagner Retold In The Spirit Of The Bayreuth Interpretation |
By: Osborn H. Oldroyd (1842-1930) | |
---|---|
The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 |
By: Owen Wister (1860-1938) | |
---|---|
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation
Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bringing news and a spiritual crisis. It's really more of a novella than a novel. |
By: P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) | |
---|---|
Jill the Reckless
Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a smile, in which there is just a tinge of recklessness, she refuses to be beaten and turns to face the world. Instead she goes to New York and becomes a member of the chorus of "The Rose of America," and Mr. Wodehouse is enabled to lift the curtain of the musical comedy world. There is laughter and drama in _Jill the Reckless_, and the action never flags from the moment that Freddie Rooke confesses that he has had a hectic night, down to the point where Wally says briefly "Let 'em," which is page 313... | |
The Little Warrior |
By: Paul Rosenfeld (1890-1946) | |
---|---|
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers |
By: Percy Goetschius (1853-1943) | |
---|---|
Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition |
By: Philip H. Goepp (1864-1936) | |
---|---|
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies |
By: Pier Francesco Tosi (ca. 1653-1732) | |
---|---|
Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers |
By: Pietro Mascagni | |
---|---|
Zanetto; and Cavalleria Rusticana |
By: Pitts Sanborn (1879-1941) | |
---|---|
Ludwig Van Beethoven
The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies... I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symphonies virtually intact and have only expanded the work a little by incorporating here and there matter about other major works of Beethoven’s, especially some of the concertos, overtures, piano and vocal works, besides certain of the greater specimens of his chamber music.,,, I have followed it in order to supply a rather fuller picture of the composer’s creative achievements. - Summary by Editor's Note |
By: R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild (1866-1919) | |
---|---|
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. |
By: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) | |
---|---|
First Jasmines
Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit... |
By: Ralph Chaplin (1887-1961) | |
---|---|
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the United States entered World War I. As with Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, these activists were accused of undermining recruiting efforts and the draft - even of encouraging soldiers to desert. Though they never gained the universal popularity of his anthem "Solidarity Forever," the poems and songs in this volume - composed during his four years in prison - represent the defiant attitude of a true rebel in the face of persecution. |
By: Richard Duckworth | |
---|---|
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing Wherein is laid down plain and easie Rules for Ringing all sorts of Plain Changes |
By: Richard Runciman Terry (1865-1938) | |
---|---|
The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties |
By: Richard Wagner (1813-1883) | |
---|---|
Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts | |
My Life — Volume 1 | |
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, |
By: Robert Bridges (1844-1930) | |
---|---|
A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing |
By: Romain Rolland (1866-1944) | |
---|---|
Musicians of To-Day | |
Handel
As Romain Rolland indicates in the preface, this book is a brief sketch of the life and technique of Handel. He provides biographical background and addresses the operas, oratorios, clavier compositions, chamber music, and orchestral compositions. Images of musical examples mentioned by Rolland can be found in the printed text. The text also includes a list of Handel's works organized by category and chronology. |
By: Rupert Hughes (1872-1956) | |
---|---|
Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country |
By: Stella Benson (1892-1933) | |
---|---|
Twenty
Twenty, Stella Benson’s first poetry collection, was first published in 1918. It deals with topics such as personal independence, the First World War and London’s landscape. |
By: The National Society of Music | |
---|---|
Art of Music - Volume 01: The Pre-Classic Periods
Volume 1 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the "Pre-Classic periods", from early human primitive music, through to the music of the Ancient Greeks and other ancient cultures, plainsong, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and up until the music of J.S. Bach. Included are musical examples, which are performed in the audio as they appear in the text. - Summary by Jake Malizia | |
Art of Music - Volume 02: Classicism and Romanticism
Volume 2 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the Classical and Romantic periods, encompassing: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, opera in Italy and France, Romanticism, song literature, pianoforte and chamber music, orchestral literature, romantic opera, choral song, Wagner and Wagnerism, Brahms, Franck, Verdi and other contemporaries. - Summary by Jake Malizia |
By: Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723) | |
---|---|
Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 |
By: Thomas Fillebrown (1836-1908) | |
---|---|
Resonance in Singing and Speaking |
By: Thomas Hanly Ball | |
---|---|
Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 |
By: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) | |
---|---|
Under the Greenwood Tree
This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hymns at the local church and we follow the fortunes of one member, Dick Dewy, who falls in love with the new school mistress, Fancy Day. Another element of the book is the battle between the traditional musicians of the Quire and the local vicar, Parson Maybold, who installs a church organ. This battle illustrates the developing technology being introduced in the Victorian era and its threat to traditional country ways... |
By: Thomas Washington Talley | |
---|---|
Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study |
By: V. R. Francis | |
---|---|
The Flying Cuspidors |
By: Various | |
---|---|
Slavery's Passed Away and Other Songs | |
Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 |
By: W. E. Haslam | |
---|---|
Style in Singing |
By: W. J. (William James) Henderson (1855-1937) | |
---|---|
Some Forerunners of Italian Opera |
By: W. S. B. Mathews (1837-1912) | |
---|---|
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: W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) | |
---|---|
The Bab Ballads
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique “topsy-turvy” style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The Ballads also reveal Gilbert’s cynical and satirical approach to humour. They became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert would recycle in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas... | |
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: Walter H. (Walter Henry) Mayson (1835-1904) | |
---|---|
Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. |
By: Walter Raymond Spalding (1865-1962) | |
---|---|
Music: An Art and a Language |
By: Walter Rowlands (1855-) | |
---|---|
Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians |
By: Walter Seymour Percy (1867-1935) | |
---|---|
Muse and Mint
Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf of the temperance movement. Many of his poems were written for his children and are here collected under the topics: nature, fireside, sentiment, memories, philosophy, homilies, country, humor. sacred, song poems, and miscellaneous poems. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Wesley Mills (1847-1915) | |
---|---|
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) |
By: Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) | |
---|---|
The Song of the Lark |
By: William E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) | |
---|---|
The Souls of Black Folk
“Few books make history and fewer still become the foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people....” One such great work was The Souls of Black Folk by William EB Du Bois. Published in 1903, it is a powerful and hard-hitting view of sociology, race and American history. It became the cornerstone of the civil rights movement and when Du Bois attended the first National Negro Conference in 1909, he was already well-known as a proponent of full and unconditional equality for African Americans... |
By: William Henry Frost (1863-1902) | |
---|---|
The Wagner Story Book Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas |
By: William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) | |
---|---|
Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp |
By: William S. B. Mathews (1837-1912) | |
---|---|
The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations |
By: William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) | |
---|---|
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: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | |
---|---|
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 |