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The Science & Appreciation of Classical Music - 175 Books to Download


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Contents:

Fifty Songs: For High Voice
 By Robert Franz, William Foster Apthorp 1903

How to understand music and enjoy its performance by FJ Fetis 1800

How to listen to music, hints and suggestions to untaught lovers of the art by Henry Krehbiel 1879

The Elements of the Beautiful in Music by E Pauer 1877

A Critical Study of Beethoven's nine symphonies by Hector Berlioz and Edwin Evans 1913

Aesthetics of musical art - The beautiful in music by FG Hand 1880

The Beautiful in Music by Eduard Hanslick 1891

The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow, Volume 1, 1901

The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow, Volume 2, 1901

The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow, Volume 3, 1901

The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow, Volume 4, 1901

The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow, Volume 5, 1901

The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow, Volume 6, 1901 (historian Will Durant includes this set as the "100 Best Books for an Education")

The Realm of Music - a series of musical essays, chiefly historical and educational by Louis C Elson 1892

Sound and Music: a non-mathematical treatise on the physical constitution of musical sounds and harmony by Sedley Taylor 1873

Sound and music: an elementary treatise on the physical constitution of musical sounds and harmony by Sedley Taylor 1896

The Science of Music by Sedley Taylor 1875

Music Explained to the World by FJ Fetis 1830

Grammar of vocal music by John Pyke Hullah 1843

The Ideal Music Course by JA Sprenkel 1895

Essentials of Piano Technic by Hazel G Kinscella 1921

Piano-forte Primer by JF Burrowes 1831

The History of Music to the Death of Schubert by John K Paine 1907

Musical Instruments by Carl Engel 1875 

Musical Criticisms by Arthur Johnstone 1905

Studies in Musical History by Louis S Davis 1887



Familiar Talks on the History of Music by Arnold J Gantvoort 1913

A Handbook of Musical History and Bibliography from St. Gregory to the Present Time by James E Matthew 1898

The Story of the Art of Music by FJ Crowest 1902

How Music Developed - a Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music by WJ Henderson 1899

Living Music -  a Popular Introduction to the Methods of Modern Music By Herbert Antcliffe 1912

Music Appreciation - based upon Methods of Literary Criticism by Clarence G Hamilton 1920

Psychology for Music Teachers by Henry Fisher 1905

Relation of psychology to music by Edward Bartholomew 1903

Psychology applied to music teaching by Annie Curwen 1920

The psychology of beauty by Ethel Puffer 1905

The Psychology of Musical Talent by Carl Seashore

Beethoven's Symphonies Critically Discussed by Alexander Teetgen 1879

The Philosophy of Sound and history of music by WM Higgins 1838

History of the science and art of music by Robert Challoner 1892

The World's Best Music - a library of musical masterpieces containing songs and pianoforte compositions - The great composers; critical and biographical sketches 1921, Volume 1

The World's Best Music - a library of musical masterpieces containing songs and pianoforte compositions - The great composers; critical and biographical sketches 1921, Volume 2

The History of the Pianoforte by Edgar Brinsmead 1889

Introduction to the interpretation of the Beethoven piano works by AB Marx 1895

How to understand Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung being the story & a descriptive analysis of the "Rhinegold," the "Valkyr," "Siegfried," and the "Dusk of the gods." With a number of musical examples by Gustav Kobbe 1895

Sound and music by John A Zahm 1892

Sound and its relation to music by Clarence Hamilton 1912

A Handbook of Examinations in Music containing 650 questions, with answers, in theory, harmony, counterpoint, form, fugue, acoustics, musical history by Ernest Dicks 1912

For Every Music Lover - a series of practical essays on music by AW Moore 1902

Sound and the physical basis of music by John Cook 1877

The Great in Music - a systematic course of study in the music of classical and modern composers by WSB Matthews 1900*

A treatise on the science of music (p.36 difficult to read) by Daniel MGS Reeves 1853

Logier's system of the science of music, harmony, and practical composition 1800

Analysis of form as displayed in Beethoven's 32 pianoforte sonatas, with a description of the form of each movement for the use of students by HA Harding 1895

The Opera Goers' complete guide; comprising two hundred and nine opera plots with musical numbers and casts 1909

A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Volume 1 by Sir John Hawkins 1776

A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Volume 2 by Sir John Hawkins 1875

A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Volume 3 by Sir John Hawkins 1875

A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Volume 4 by Sir John Hawkins 1776

A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Volume 5 by Sir John Hawkins 1776

Illustrations of Genius in some of its relations to culture and society by Henry Giles 1854
("If ever a genius lived with which all its work was play, that genius was the genius of Mozart."

The Imperial History and Encyclopedia of Music by William Hubbard

A Century of Russian song, from Glinka to Rachmaninoff by Kurt Schindler 1911

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 1 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 2 by Daniel G Mason 1915*

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 3 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 4 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 5 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 6 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 7 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 8 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 9 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 10 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 11 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 12 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 13 by Daniel G Mason 1915

The Art of Music - a Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers and Musicians Volume 14 by Daniel G Mason 1915



The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence 1921

The Appreciation of Music (Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4)
by Thomas Whitney Surette, Daniel Gregory Mason 1907

How to Understand Music: A Concise Course in Musical Intelligence and Taste
by William Smythe Babcock Mathews 1881 

The Art of the Musician: A Guide to the Intelligent Appreciation of Music
by Henry Granger Hanchett - 1905

Songs the Whole World Sings: Containing More Than Two Hundred Songs (sheet music)
by Albert Ernest Wier - Operas - 1915

Shakespeare in Music: A Collation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the ...
by Louis Charles Elson 1901 

The Opera Goers Complete Guide: Comprising Two Hundred and Sixty-eight Opera Plots with Musical Numbers and Casts
    
Favorite Songs and Hymns for School and Home: Containing Four Hundred and Fifty of the World's Best Songs
by John Piersol McCaskey 1899

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers (Volume 2) [Page 767 missing]
by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse 1880

Famous Composers and Their Works
by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser 1891 

Two Hundred Opera Plots (volume 2)
by Gladys Davidson 1911

Mozart's Operas: A Critical Study
by Edward Joseph Dent - 1913

Dictionary of Musical Terms by Dr TH Baker 1895

Essentials of Music Theory by Carl Gardner 1912

First Theory Book by Angela Diller 1921

The Theory of Music by Louis Elson 1909

The Theory of Sound in its Relation to Music by Pietro Blaserna 1876

Contributions to a psychological theory of Music by Max Meyer 1901

Elementary Theory of Music and the Treatment of Chords by Richard Wuerst 1893

A Handbook of Examinations in Music containing 600 questions by Ernest Dicks 1906

On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann Helmholtz 1895

The Philosophy of Music by William Pole 

The Aristoxenian Theory of Musical Rhythm by CF Williams

Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by WSB Matthews 1896

Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes
by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock 1909

One hundred Songs by ten Masters: For High Voice (Volume 1) (Has Sheet Music)
by Henry Theophilus Finck, Franz Schubert 1917

Songs of Erin: A Collection of Fifty Irish Folk Songs (sheet music)
by Charles Villiers Stanford, Alfred Perceval Graves 1901

How to Appreciate Music
by Gustav Kobbé - 1908

The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music
by Handel and Haydn Society 1830

The Violin Music of Beethoven
by John Matthews - 1902 

The Pianoforte and Its Music
by Henry Edward Krehbiel 1911

Anthology of German piano music (Volume 2)
by Moritz Moszkowski 1914

What We Hear in Music: A Laboratory Course of Study in Music History
by Anne Faulkner Oberndorfer 1913

Mezzotints in Modern Music: Brahms, Tschaïkovsky, Chopin, Richard Strauss ...
by James Huneker 1899 

The Musical Amateur: A Book on the Human Side of Music
by Robert Haven Schauffler 1911



The Great Violinists and Pianists
by George Titus Ferris 1881

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750
by Philipp Spitta - 1899

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the Organ
by André Pirro -1902

Handel and His Orbit
by Percy Robinson - 1908

Masterpieces of piano music: the largest and most comprehensive collection
by Albert E Wier 1918 

Opera Stories ...: In a Few Words, the Stories
by Henry Lowell Mason 1920 

The Victrola Book of the Opera: Stories of One Hundred and Twenty Operas (first 521 pages)
by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company 1917

Wagner Lyrics for Tenor
by Richard Wagner, Carl Armbruster 1904

The Pirates of Penzance, Or, The Slave of Duty: Comic Opera - COMPLETE LIBRETTO
by Arthur Sullivan, William Schwenck Gilbert 1880

Violin Mastery: Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
by Frederick Herman Martens 1919 

Twenty-four Songs
by Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, William Scharfenberg 1897

Masters in Music
by Daniel Gregory Mason 1905

The most popular piano pieces
by George Rosey 1906

Selections from the music dramas of Richard Wagner
by Richard Wagner, Otto Singer 1905

Piano lyrics and shorter compositions (has sheet music)
by Edvard Grieg, Bertha Feiring Tapper, Samuel Swift 1910

Chopin and other musical essays by Henry T Finck 1910

Chopin by James Hadden 1903

Chopin the Composer, his structural Art and its influence on contemporaneous Music 1913 by Edgar S Kelley

A Handbook of Chopin's Works by GC Jonson 1905

Studies in Modern Music (Chopin, Dvorak, Brahms) Volume 1 by WH Hadow 1893

Studies in Modern Music (Chopin, Dvorak, Brahms) Volume 2 by WH Hadow 1893

The World of Music - the Great Composers by Anna Bremont 1892

Three Great Epoch-makers in music (Bach, Chopin, Richard Strauss) by Edward Clarence Farnsworth 1912

The Romantic Composers by Daniel G Mason 1906

Musical Studies by Francis Hueffer 1880

A Croatian Composer - notes toward the study of Joseph Haydn by WH Hadow 1897

The Lives of Haydn and Mozart by L.A.C. Bombet 1818

Haydn by FH Cowen 

Haydn by JC Hadden 1911

Joseph Haydn by Pauline D Townsend 1884

Two Lectures on the Genius of Handel by Edward B Ramsay 1862

The Indebtedness of Handel to Works by other Composers by Sedley Taylor 1906

Handel by Romain Rolland 1920

Handel by Julian Marshall 1883

Handel by CFA Williams 1901

Mozart by Frederic Cowen 1913

Mozart - the Story of his Life, Volume 1 by Victor Wilder 1908

Mozart - the Story of his Life, Volume 2 by Victor Wilder 1908

Short and concise analysis of Mozart's twenty-two pianoforte sonatas by Janet Salsbury 1917

Mozart - a Biographical Romance by Heribert Rau 1868

The Sonata - its form and meaning as exemplified in the Piano Sonatas by Mozart by FH Marks 1921

Bach by CF Adby Williams 1900

Johann Sebastian Bach, his work and influence on the Music of Germany, Volume 1 by P Spitta 1884

Johann Sebastian Bach, his work and influence on the Music of Germany, Volume 1 by P Spitta 1884

Johann Sebastian Bach, his work and influence on the Music of Germany, Volume 1 by P Spitta 1884

Johann Sebastian Bach - his Life, Art, and Work by Johann Nikolaus Forke 1920

The Life of J. Sebastian Bach by CH Bitter 1873

The Organ Works of Bach by Harvey Grace 1922

Analysis of J.S. Bach's Wohltemperirtes Clavier, Volume 1 by Hugo Reimann 1893

Analysis of J.S. Bach's Wohltemperirtes Clavier, Volume 2 by Hugo Reimann 1893

Johann Sebastian Bach - the Story of the Development of a Great Personality by G Hubert H Parry 1909

Sebastian Bach by Reginald Lane Poole 1882

Bach's Influence on Eighteenth Century Music by Eunice Pearle Leonard 1919

A Study of the Bach Cantatas by Helen O Ernest 1920

Johann Sebastian Bach - the Organist and his Works for the Organ by Andre Pirro 1902

The 48 Preludes and Fugues of John Sebastian Bach Analysed for the use of students by Frederick Iliffe 1921

Bachs Chorals, Volume 1 by Charles S Terry 1915

Bachs Chorals, Volume 2 by Charles S Terry 1915

A Course of Instruction on Canon and Fugue by Salomon Jadassohn 1887

Bach Album - a collection of favorite pieces for the piano, with portrait 1911

Bach by EH Thorne 1904



University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 1 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 2 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 3 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 4 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 5 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 6 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 7 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 8 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 9 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

University Musical Encyclopedia, Volume 10 by Louis Charles Elson - 1912 

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