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Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Thomas Patteson
- multiple formats at Luminos
- PDF files at JSTOR
Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
- multiple formats at archive.org
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De toonkunst van Bali (Beschouwingen over oorsprong en beïnvloeding, composities, notenschrift en instrumenten door J. Kunst en C.J.A. Kunst-v. Wely uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Bataviaasch genootschav van kunsten en wetenschappen. (Druk G. Kolff & Co., 1925), by J. Kunst, Mevr. C. J. A. Kunst-van Wely, and Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Curiosités de l'histoire des arts (A. Delahays, 1858), by P. L. Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
Danse macabre. (Brandus et cie; [etc., etc.], 1852), by Georges Kastner (page images at HathiTrust)
Critical & bibliographical notes on early Spanish music. (B. Quaritch, 1887), by Juan F. Riaño (page images at HathiTrust)
La musique, les musiciens et les instruments de musique chez les différents peuples du monde; ouvrage enrichi de textes musicaux, orné de 150 dessins d'instruments rares et curieux. Archives complètes de tous les documents qui se rattachent à l'Exposition internationale de 1867.--Organisation, exécution, concours, enseignement, organographie, etc. (Michel Lévy frères, 1869), by Oscar Comettant (page images at HathiTrust)
The music of the modern world illustrated in the lives and works of the greatest modern musicians and in reproductions of famous paintings, etc. (D. Appleton, 1895), by Anton Seidl and Fanny Morris Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente : zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte instrumentengebiet (J. Bard, 1913), by Curt Sachs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The music of the Bible : with some account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types (Novello, 1914), by John Stainer and Francis W. Galpin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The music and musical instruments of the Arabs, with introduction on how to appreciate Arab music (Scribner;, 1915), by Francisco Salvador-Daniel and Henry George Farmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
English music (1604 to 1904) being the lectures given at the Music Loan Exhibition of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, held at Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge, June-July, 1904. (The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.;, 1906), by Worshipful Company of Musicians (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Histoire des instruments de musique (H. Laurens, 1921), by René Brancour (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Un coin de la curiosité. : Les anciens instruments de musique. (Librairie de l'Art, 1894), by Eugène de Bricqueville (page images at HathiTrust)
An illustrated dictionary of modern musical instruments (Hall & McCreary company, 1928), by Welford D. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
L'instrument de musique comme document ethnographique : détaché de la deuxième de six conférences sur les instruments de musique (Bruxelles, novembre-décembre 1901.). (Impr. T. Lombaerts, 1902), by Ernest Closson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musical instruments (Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Wyman and sons, limited, 1908), by Carl Engel (page images at HathiTrust)
Organographie ; essai sur la facture instrumentale, art, industrie et commerce (Castel, 1861), by Adolphe Le Doulcet Pontécoulant (page images at HathiTrust)
Essai sur la musique & l'expression musicale et sur l'esthétique du son. Les instruments de musique anciens et modernes; étude historique, avec planches et dessins (Fischbacher, 1911), by Emile de Rey-Pailhade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde (Breitkopf & Hartel, 1920), by Curt Sachs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The instruments of the modern orchestra & early records of the precursors of the violin family (W. Reeves, 1910), by Kathleen Schlesinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The orchestra and its instruments (The Symphony society of New York, 1917), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
Musikhistorisches Museum von Wilhelm Heyer in Cöln : Katalog (Kommissions-Verlag von Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910), by Wilhelm Heyer, Rudolf Ibach, Alessandro Kraus, Paul Marie Guillaume Joseph de Wit, and Georg Kinsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musical instruments, historic, rare and unique (A. and C. Black, ltd., 1921), by Alfred J. Hipkins and William Gibb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dictionnaire pratique et raisonné des instruments de musique anciens et modernes (Fischbacher, 1886), by Albert Jacquot (page images at HathiTrust)
The Belle Skinner collection of old musical instruments, Holyoke, Massachusetts. ([Philadelphia], [New York, etc.], [Printed by the Beck Engraving Co.], 1933., 1933), by Ruth Isabel Skinner, Nils J. Ericsson, Fanny Reed Hammond, and William C. Skinner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The M. Steinert collection of keyed and stringed instruments. With various treatises on the history of these instruments, the method of playing them, and their influence on musical art. (C.F. Tretbar, 1893), by Morris Steinert (page images at HathiTrust)
Yantra kosha; or, A treasury of the musical instruments of ancient and of modern India, and of various other countries. ([A.C. Ghose], 1875), by Sourindro Mohun Tagore (page images at HathiTrust)
Musical instruments and their music, 1500-1750 (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1928), by Gerald Ravenscourt Hayes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die fabrikation musikalischer instrumente und einzelner bestandtheile derselben im königl (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1876), by Theodor Berthold and Moritz Fürsteneu (page images at HathiTrust)
Les harmonies du son et l'histoire des instruments de musique (Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1878), by J. Rambosson (page images at HathiTrust)
Contributions to the history of musical scales. (Govt. print. off., 1902), by Charles Kasson Wead (page images at HathiTrust)
What makes an orchestra (Oxford University Press, 1951), by Jan Balet (page images at HathiTrust)
Musik-instrumentenkunde in wort und bild; zusammengestellt (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910), by Emil Ludwig Teuchert and Erhard Walter Haupt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Creative music for children, a plan of training based on the natural evolution of music, including the making and playing of instruments, dancing--singing--poetry (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922), by Satis N. Coleman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Creative music in the home: music stories, how to make instruments, how to play them and many tunes to play (L.E. Myers and Co., 1928), by Satis N. Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
Building the instrumental music department. (C. Fischer, 1919), by Llewellyn Bruce Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
Instrumental music in the public schools (Oliver Ditson company;, 1941), by Theodore F. Normann (page images at HathiTrust)
The music of the Bible, with an account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types (Novello, Ewer & co.; [etc., etc., 1879), by John Stainer (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire de l'instrumentation depuis le seizième siècle jusqu'à nos jours: (Firmin-Didot et cie, 1878), by Henri Lavoix (page images at HathiTrust)
La musique. (Hachette, 1880), by L. C. Colomb (page images at HathiTrust)
Grundriss der musikwissenschaft für tonkünstler, musiklehrer und konservatoristen zur einführung in die spezialliteratur. ("Musik-archiv", 1914), by Otto Wille and Musik-archiv; monatschrift für musikleben und musikwissenschaft. Supplement (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue descriptif & analytique du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles (T. Lombaerts, 1893), by Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles. Musée instrumental and Victor-Charles Mahillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La musique arabe ; ses rapports avec la musique grecque et le chant grégorien (A. Jourdan, 1879), by Francisco Salvador-Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
La Couperin. : Un orchestre d'anciens instruments à Versailles. (L. Bernard, 1905), by Eugène de Bricqueville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Everything known in music; a souvenir of the new home of the world's foremost music house, with a brief comment on the instruments of the orchestra. (Lyon & Healy, 1916), by Lyon & Healy and Felix Borowski (page images at HathiTrust)
L'anatomie des instruments de musique. (G. Balat, 1899), by Ernestine André van Hasselt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Alte Musikinstrumente; ein Leitfaden für Sammler ... Mit 121 Abbildungen und 5 Tafeln ... (R.C. Schmidt & co., 1916), by Hermann Ruth-Sommer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The value of a collection of musical instruments in university instruction. ([n.p., 1908), by Albert A. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die instrumente des orchesters, ihr wesen und ihre entwiekelung (B. G. Teubner, 1913), by Fritz Volbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musée instrumental du Conservatoire de musique ; histoires et anecdotes. Première partie. (M. Lévy frères, 1864), by Adolphe Le Doulcet Pontécoulant (page images at HathiTrust)
Musica mechanica organoedi. Berlin, 1768. (Bärenreiter, 1931), by Jakob Adlung, Christhard Mahrenhols, and Johann Lorenz Albrecht (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die musik und die musikalischen instrumente in ihrer beziehung zu den gesetzen der akustik (J. Ricker'scho buchhandlung, 1855), by Friedrich Georg Karl Zamminer (page images at HathiTrust)
Orchestral instruments and their use; giving a description of each instrument now employed by civilised nations ... and an explanation of its value and functions in the modern orchestra (L. C. Page & company, 1902), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
Beyond the baton (A. C. McClurg & co., 1939), by Rose Malfitano (page images at HathiTrust)
The orchestral instruments and what they do; a primer for concert-goers. (The H.W. Gray co., sole agents for Novello & co., ltd., 1909), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
Musica instrumentalis deudsch, 1. und 4. Ausg., Wittemberg 1528 und 1545. In neuer diplomatisch Genauer, zum Teil facsimilierter Ausg. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896), by Martin Agricola and Robert Eitner (page images at HathiTrust)
Musica instrumentalis deudsch, 1. und 4. Ausg., Wittemberg 1528 und 1545. In neuer diplomatisch Genauer, zum Teil facsimilierter Ausg. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896), by Martin Agricola and Robert Eitner (page images at HathiTrust)
Musica getutscht und auszgezogẽ durch Sebastianũ Virdung Priesters von Amberg und alles Gesang ausz den Notẽ in die Tabulaturẽ diser benantẽ dryer Instrumẽtẽ, der Orgeln: der Lautẽ und đ Flöten transferieren zu lernẽ Kurtzlich gemacht zu eren dẽ hochwirdigẽ hoch gebornen fürsten unnd Herren: Herr Wilhalmen Bischoue zü Strassburg seynem gnedigẽ Herren. [Basel, 1511] (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1882), by Sebastian Virdung (page images at HathiTrust)
Syntagma, II. Teil: Von den Instrumenten. Wolfenbüttel 1618. (Trautwein, 1884), by Michael Praetorius (page images at HathiTrust)
Band and orchestra handbook. (Pan-American Band Instruments, 1951), by Pan-American Band Instruments (page images at HathiTrust)
Die neue Instrumentation (M. Hesses, 1928), by Egon Wellesz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musical instruments (Oliver, Ditson Company;, 1925), by Edgar Stillman Kelley and National Federation of Music Clubs (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals (Harper & Brothers, 1872), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
Musical instruments (Chapman and Hall, 1875), by Carl Engel, William Maskell, and South Kensington Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
Instruments of the modern symphony orchestra, and band; a pictorial and explanatory guide for music lovers (Carl Fischer, inc., 1928), by Arthur Edward Johnstone and N. Clifford Page (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Old English instruments of music, their history and character (Methuen, 1911), by Francis W. Galpin (page images at HathiTrust)
Anotaciones etnográficas ... (Tip. la empresa--hnos. Suegart, 1912), by A. Lecuna Bejarano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Alte Musikinstrumente; ein Leitfaden für Sammler (R.C. Schmidt & Co., 1920), by Hermann Ruth-Sommer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Unsere musikinstrumente; eine einführung in ihre geschichte (A. Schroll & co. ges. m.b.h., 1922), by Julius Schlosser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Music and morals (T. Presser, 1897), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals (Longmans, Green, 1906), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Practical pictorial guide to mechanisms and machines. (University Books, 1956), by Simon S. Palestrant (page images at HathiTrust)
Orchestral instruments and their use (The Page company, 1927), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
The orchestral instruments and what they do; a primer for concert-goers. (Baker & Taylor Co., 1909), by Daniel Gregory Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals (Longmans, Green, 1912), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Yantra kosha : or, a treasury of the musical instruments of ancient and of modern India, and of various other countries (AMS Press, 1976), by Sourindro Mohun Tagore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Histoire de l'instrumentation (Forni, 1878), by Henri Marie François Lavoix (page images at HathiTrust)
Über die Klangfarbe einiger Orchesterinstrumente und ihre Analyse. (Union Deutsche verlagsgesellschaft, 1908), by Erich Herrmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Beknopt overzicht der muziekgeschiedenis : korte verklaring der verschillende instrumenten, pianoliteratuur : en kort begrip van leergang (W.F. Lichtenauer, 1892), by Marinus Hendrik van't Kruys (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals (Strahan, 1871), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals (W.H. Allen, 1892), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals (Harper, 1912), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
Études historiques sur la musique ([Douai, 1841), by Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
Orpheus; or, Musical anthology: a collection of elegant papers, original and selected, on the science and literature of music. (Fitz and Hobbs, 1850), by Boston professor (page images at HathiTrust)
Instruments et musiciens (G. Charpentier, 1880), by Léon Pillaut (page images at HathiTrust)
Musical instruments... : with numerous woodcuts (Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, 1876), by Carl Engel (page images at HathiTrust)
Katalog No. IV: Musikinstrumente. ([Basel], 1906), by Basel (City). Historisches Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue of the Crosby Brown collection of musical instruments of all nations. Prepared under the direction, and issued with the authorization, of the donor (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1903), by N.Y.). Crosby Brown Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York and Mary Elizabeth Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Preliminary catalogue of the Crosby-Brown collection of musical instruments of all nations. Prepared under the direction, and issued with the authorization, of the donor (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1901), by N.Y.). Crosby Brown Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York and Mary Elizabeth Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Anleitung zum Partiturlesen (Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag, 1923), by Hans Gál (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dictionnaire pratique et raisonné des instruments de musique anciens et modernes... orné de trente dessins (Fischbacher, 1886), by Albert Jacquot (page images at HathiTrust)
Musikhistorisches Museum von Wilhelm Heyer in Cöln : Kleiner Katalog der Sammlung alter Musikinstumente, verfast von Georg Kinsky (Kommissionsverlag von Breitkopf & Härtel, 1913), by Wilhelm Heyer, Rudolf Ibach, Alessandro Kraus, Paul Marie Guillaume Joseph de Wit, and Georg Kinsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Le matériel sonore des orchestres de symphonie, d'harmonie et de fanfares, ou Vade mecum du compositeur, suivi d'une échelle acoustique permettant de calculer très facilement la longueur théorique de tous les instruments à vent à un diapason quelconque (Mahillon & co., 1897), by Victor-Charles Mahillon (page images at HathiTrust)
Esprit, saillies et singularités du P. Castel. (Chez Vincent, rue S. Severin, 1763), by Louis-Bertrand Castel and Joseph de Laporte (page images at HathiTrust)
Historisch-technische Beschreibung der musicalischen Instrumente : ihres Alters, Tonumfangs und Baues, ihrer Erfinder, Verbesserer, Virtuosen und Schulen, nebst einer fasslichen Anweisung zur gründlichen Kenntniss und Behandlung derselben (T. Hennings, 1834), by Wilhelm Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals. (Harper, 1912), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Abriss der Instrumentenkunde. (J. Kösel, 1912), by Markus Koch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1920), by Curt Sachs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Musikinstrumente; ihre Beschreibung und Verwendung. Mit 205 in den Text gedruckten Abbildungen und zahlreichen Notenbeispielen. (J.J. Weber, 1903), by Richard Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Syntagmatis musici (Holwein, 1619), by Michael Praetorius (page images at HathiTrust)
Die modernen Musikinstrumente (M. Hesse, 1923), by Curt Sachs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The beginnings of the world's music : an essay upon the music of the most ancient monarchies of the world, in the light of recent discoveries / by H. E. Parkhurst ; with many illustrations of ancient instruments and music examples. (C. Fischer, 1915), by Howard Elmore Parkhurst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Brass wind musical instruments and parts thereof : Report to the President on worker investigation no. TEA-I-25 under section 301(b)(1) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. (United States Tariff Commission, 1973), by United States Tariff Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Neu eröffnetes Magazin musikalischer Tonwerkzeuge, dargestellt in technischen Zeichnungen aller Saiten- Blas- Schlag- & Friktions-Instrumente ... (Welcker von Gontershausen, 1855), by Heinrich Welcker von Gontershausen (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbuch der Musikinstrumente : (kleine Instrumentationslehre) (Max Hesses Verlag, 1919), by Hugo Riemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Musikinstrumente (F. Hirt, 1923), by Curt Sachs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Building the school orchestra, a guide for leaders (C. G. Conn, ltd., 1923), by Raymond Norman Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
Il Fronimo. (Forni, 1969), by Vincenzo Galilei (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majers neu-eröffneter theoretisch-und pracktischer Music-Saal : das ist; Kurze, doch vollständige Methode, so wohl die Vocal-als Instumental-Music gründlich zu erlernen / auch die heut zu Tagüblich- und Gewöhnlichste blasend- schlagend- und streichende Instrumenten in weniger Zeit und compendioser Application, durch die deutlichste Exempla, in besondern Tabellen, mit leichter Mühe zubegreissen. Nebst einem mach alphabetischer Ordnung eingerichteten Appendice und Erklärung derer anjezo gebräuchlichsten griechisch- lateinisch- italiänisch- und französisch- musicalischen Kunst-Wörter (Kultur- und Forschungsstätte, 1991), by Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majer and Eitelfriedrich Thom (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The music of the Bible : with some account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types. (Novello, 1914), by John Stainer and Francis W. Galpin (page images at HathiTrust)
La Musique arabe : ses instruments et ses chants = El Mouzika elarabia : alatouha ou rinaïatouha. A la recherche de la musique arabe, mission en Tripolitaine (1906). 2e et 3e fascicules (impr. E. Lecore-Carpentier, 1907), by Antonin Laffage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Publikation aelterer praktischer und theoretischer Musik-Werke vorzvgsweise des XV. vnd XVI. jahrhunderts ... (Bahn, 1873), by Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (1868-1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Catalogue descriptif & analytique de Musée instrumental du Conservatorie royal de musique de Bruxelles (A. Hoste, 1893), by Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles. Musée instrumental and Victor-Charles Mahillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
How to repair violins and other musical instruments. (W. Reeves, 1909), by Alfred F. Common (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Orchestral instruments and their use : giving a description of each instrument now employed by civilized nations, a brief account of its history, an idea of the technical and acoustical principles illustrated by its performance, and an explanation of its value and functions in the modern orchestra (The Page company, 1923), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Music and morals. (Harper & brothers, 1902), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musical instruments, historic, rare and unique (A. and C. Black, 1921), by Alfred J. Hipkins and William Gibb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Abriss der instrumentenkunde (J. Kösel, 1911), by Markus Koch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Syntagma: II. Teil, Von den Instrumenten. Wolfenbüttel, 1618. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1894), by Michael Praetorius (page images at HathiTrust)
Musica instrumentalis deudsch, erste und vierte ausgabe. Wittemberg, 1528 und 1545. In neuer diplomatisch genauer, zum teil facsimilierter ausg. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896), by Martin Agricola and Robert Eitner (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Musikinstrumente Birmas und Assams im K. Ethnographischen Museum zu München (Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1917), by Curt Sachs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musica mechanica organoedi. Das ist: Gründlicher Unterricht von der Struktur, Gebrauch und Erhaltung, &c. der Orgeln, Clavicymbel, Clavichordien und anderer Instrumente, in so fern einem Organisten von solchen Sachen etwas zu wissen nöhtig ist. (F. W. Birnstiel, 1768), by Jakob Adlung, Johann Friedrich Agricola, and Johann Lorenz Albrecht (page images at HathiTrust)
Revised price list of Andrus Bros. improved organs and melodeons .. (s.n., 1873), by Andrus Bros' (page images at HathiTrust)
W. Bell & Co., makers of prize medal organs and melodeons and proprietors of the organette, Guelph, Ont. (s.n., 1873), by W. Bell & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Les ventes d'instruments de musique au XVIIIe siecle (Fischbacher, 1908), by Eugène de Bricqueville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die musikalischen Instrumente in den Miniaturen des frühen Mittelalters; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Musikinstrumente. I. Die Blasininstrumente. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1903), by Edward Buhle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La musique historique, méthodes et instruments. Historique. Acoustique. Fabrication des instruments à vent, des instruments à cordes, des instruments à percussion: orgues, pianos, etc. Application de l'électricité aux instruments musicaux. Études recueillies dans les dernières expositions. (E. Lacroix et cie, 1886), by Félix Boudoin, Boquillon, Hervé, and Th. Du Moncel (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Musikinstrumente. (J. J. Weber, 1903), by Richard Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Dictionnaire pratique et raisonné des instruments de musique anciens et modernes... (Fischbacher, 1886), by Albert Jacquot (page images at HathiTrust)
Eléments d'acoustique musicale et instrumentale (Mahillon, 1874), by Victor-Charles Mahillon (page images at HathiTrust)
La céramique musicale et instrumentale (A. Lévy, 1889), by Oscar Edmond Ris-Paquot (page images at HathiTrust)
Les instruments de musique au XIVe siècle d'après Guillaume de Machaut. (Typographie de E. Plon et cie., 1882), by Emile Travers (page images at HathiTrust)
Diritti d'autore e le riproduzioni per mezzo di strumenti musicali meccanici. Appunti e commenti in occasione di alcune recenti sentenze. (Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, 1907), by Michele Turletti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Menatseaḥ bi-neginot : yaʼir netiv be-ḥokhmat ha-nigun ṿela-daʻat le-natseaḥ bi-neginot li-feroṭ, le-nagen, ule-zamer shir . (Bi-defus R. Avraham Tsevi Ḳatsinelinboygen, 1883), by H. Golomb (page images at HathiTrust)
Nouveau traité théorique et pratique de musique instrumentale. (Schott, 1891), by J. Frédéric Giraud (page images at HathiTrust)
Essai sur la littérature annamite. La chanson (Revue indochinoise, 1920), by Georges Cordier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A History of music-- primitive, ancient, medieval, and modern European music : modern instruments (University Society, 1912), by Louis Charles Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
Lü yin hui kao : [4 juan (Li yue ju, 1838), by Zhilu Qiu (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire de l'instrumentation : [depuis le seizième siècle jusqu'a nos jours] (Forni, 1972), by Henri Lavoix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The music of the Bible, with some account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types. (Galpin & Co., 1882), by John Stainer (page images at HathiTrust)
English music (1604 to 1904) being the lectures given at the music loan exhibition of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, held at Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge, June-July, 1904. (Walter Scott Pub. Co., 1906), by Worshipful Company of Musicians (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Eene wooninge in de welcke ghesien worden veelderhande gheschriften, boecken, printen ende musicaale instrumenten. ('s Graven-Haghe, 1913), by Daniel François Scheurleer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majers neu-eröffneter theoretisch-und pracktischer Music-Saal : das ist; Kurze, doch vollständige Methode, so wohl die Vocal-als Instumental-Music gründlich zu erlernen : auch die heut zu Tagüblich- und Gewöhnlichste blasend- schlagend- und streichende Instrumenten in weniger Zeit und compendioser Application, durch die deutlichste Exempla, in besondern Tabellen, mit leichter Mühe zubegreissen. Nebst einem mach alphabetischer Ordnung eingerichteten Appendice und Erklärung derer anjezo gebräuchlichsten griechisch- lateinisch- italiänisch- und französisch- musicalischen Kunst-Wörter. (Kultur- und Forschungsstätte Michaelstein, 1991), by Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majer, Eitelfriedrich Thom, and Kultur- und Forschungsstätte Michaelstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 ... (J. Truscott and son, ltd., 1904), by Worshipful Company of Musicians (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Instruments of the orchestra by sight, sound and story : a description of the instruments and their uses. (Educational Dept. of the Victor Talking Machine Co., 1918), by Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division (page images at HathiTrust)
With lute and lyre (G. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1912), by Grizelle Strang Steel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Tonkunst und ihre Meister (Klemann's Verl., 1886), by H. R. Haweis and Alexander Moszkowski (page images at HathiTrust)
Das moderne Orchester (B.G. Teubner, 1919), by Fritz Volbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musicians' book of knowledge for music supervisors, directors of bands-orchestras and choruses (Southern California music co., 1928), by Clifford Asa Caton (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals (Harper & Brothers, 1904), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
Orchestral instruments and their use : giving a description of each instrument now employed by civilised nations ... and an explanation of its value and functions in the modern orchestra (L. C. Page, 1902), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
Sebastian Virdung's Musica getutscht : Basel 1511 (T. Trautwein'sche Buch- und Musikhandlung, 1882), by Sebastian Virdung and Robert Eitner (page images at HathiTrust)
Essai sur la facture instrumentale considérée dans ses rapports avec l'art, l'industrie et le commerce (Librairie Nouvelle, 1857), by Adolphe Le Doulcet Pontécoulant (page images at HathiTrust)
Music and morals (Daldy, Ibister, & Co., 1875), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
Syntagma musicum, Band III (C. F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1916), by Michael Praetorius and Eduard Bernoulli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Katechismus der musikinstrumente (Weber, 1890), by Richard Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust)
De tribus generibus instrumentorum musicæ (impensis Fausti Amidei, 1742), by Francesco Bianchini (page images at HathiTrust)
Kobza ta kobzari (Vyd-vo "Ukrainsʹke Slovo" v Berlini, 1923), by Vasylʹ I︠E︡met︠s︡ʹ and Zenon Kuzeli︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
English music, 1604-1904 : being the lectures given at the Music Loan Exhibition of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, held at Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge, June-July, 1904. (Walter Scott Pub. Co., 1906), by Worshipful Company of Musicians and England)) Music Loan Exhibition (1904 : Fishmongers' Hall (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Harmonicorum instrumentorum libri IV (Lutetiae Parisiorum : Petri Ballardi typographi regij characteribus harmonicis. Sumptibus Guillielmi Baudry, Via Amygdalina, propè Collegium Grassinorum, M.DC.XXXVI. [1636], 1636), by Marin Mersenne, Pierre Ballard, Henri-Louis Habert de Montmor, and Guillaume Baudry (page images at HathiTrust)
Hangutánzás és jelentésváltozás : az egyetemes és a magyar hangszertörténetben (Budavári Tudományos Társaság, 1926), by Emil Haraszti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musical instruments (Irving Squire, 1908), by George Whitfield Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
A Maxton book about music makers. (Maxton Pubs., 1957), by Bruno Frost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Musical instruments ... (Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, 1876), by Carl Engel (page images at HathiTrust)
Instruments of the orchestra by sight, sound and story; a description of the instruments and their uses (Educational Dept. RCA Victor division. RCA manufacturing Co., 1937), by Harold Davis Smith, Frederick J. Schneider, and RCA Manufacturing Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rare and very valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace ; also those contained in The Villa Pia, Florence, Italy (New York : American Art Association, 1916., 1916), by American Art Association, Thomas E. Kirby, Cesare A. Guglielmetti, Elia Volpi, Horace Townsend, N.Y.) Plaza Hotel (New York, and American Art Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
Check-list of western instruments in the collection of musical instruments (Yale University, 1958), by Yale School of Music and Sibyl Marcuse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Handbook of Bible and church music. (London : Society for Promoting Christian knowledge, 1898., 1898), by John Aston Whitlock and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
The music of the Bible : with an account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types. (London [etc.] : Cassell Petter & Galpin ; Novello, Ewer & Co., [1879?], 1879), by John Stainer and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue abrége du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles : Extrat du catalogue descriptif et analytique de Victor-Charles Mahillon. (Ad. Hoste, 1912), by Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles. Musée instrumental and Victor-Charles Mahillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Instruments de musique (Paul Dupont, 1867), by François-Joseph Fétis (page images at HathiTrust)
La musique arabe; ses rapports avec la musique grecque et le chant grégorien (Bastide, 1863), by Francisco Salvador-Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
Musical Instruments [1908], by Carl Engel (Gutenberg ebook)
Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique, by Alfred J. Hipkins, illust. by William Gibb (Gutenberg ebook)
Musical Instruments [1876], by Carl Engel (Gutenberg ebook)

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