Music -- Literary collections

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Music

• Music in Song, From Chaucer to Tennyson: Being a Selection of Extracts Descriptive of the Power, Influences, and Effects of Music (1883), ed. by L. L. Carmela Koelle (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Curiosités Musicales: Notes, Analyses, Interprétation de Certaines Particularités Contenues dans les Oeuvres des Grands Maîtres (in French; Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et cie., 1873), by Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Digital Mozart Edition (comprehensive set of his musical compositions, with German commentary and English and German user interfaces), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ed. by Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (searchable page images in Austria)
• Mozart, Weber and Wagner, With Various Essays on Musical Subjects (London: W. Reeves, ca. 1918), by Hector Berlioz, trans. by Edwin Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians, by John F. Runciman (Gutenberg text)

• Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), With Audio Applications (second edtion, c2007), by Julius O. Smith (illustrated HTML with commentary at dsprelated.com)

• Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
  • text with musical notation: multiple formats at archive.org
  • text only at Gutenberg

• The Music Internet Untangled: Using Online Services to Expand Your Musical Horizons (2004), by Andy Breeding (PDF at archive.org)

• Aventures et Voyages (in French; Nice: Typ. S. C. Cauvin, 1876), by P. Seligmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)

• Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
  • text with musical notation: multiple formats at archive.org
  • text only at Gutenberg

• Lucy Gayheart (1935), by Willa Cather (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The American Art Journal (1860s weekly; online from volume 5 onward; renamed Watson's Art Journal in 1867) (partial serial archives)
• Gramophone (1923-) (partial serial archives)
• Watson's Art Journal (published in the 1860s and 1870s; renamed from the American Art Journal in 1867) (partial serial archives)

• The Art-Work of the Future, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at belgacom.net)
• The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian C. Johnston
  • HTML in Canada
  • PDF with commentary at Richer Resources Publications
• Die Metalogik: Die Musikalische Logik, Geometrie der Empfindungen (in German; Munich: Musarion verlag, 1919), by Walter Harburger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Music and Meaning (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932), by Elizabeth Robinson Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline (c1934), by Constant Lambert (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Opera and Drama, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at belgacom.net)

• Music in Song, From Chaucer to Tennyson: Being a Selection of Extracts Descriptive of the Power, Influences, and Effects of Music (1883), ed. by L. L. Carmela Koelle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Working in the Music Industry, by Anna Britten (HTML with commentary at HowTo)

• Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (New York: A. Wessels Co., 1905), ed. by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas Carols New and Old, ed. by Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer (page images at CCEL)

• Harmonielehre (4th revised edition, in German; Stuttgart: C. Grüninger, ca. 1915), by Rudolf Louis and Ludwig Thuille (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harmonielehre (7th edition, in German; Stuttgart: C. Grüninger, ca. 1920), by Rudolf Louis and Ludwig Thuille (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Brookes on Modern Dancing, by Laurence De Garmo Brookes (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Code of Terpsichore, by Carlo Blasis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Collection of Ball-Dances Perform'd at Court, by John Weaver (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Dancing Master (10th edition, 1698), ed. by John Playford (page images at LOC)
• Dick's Quadrille Call-Book, and Ball-Room Prompter (HTML and page images at LOC)
• An Essay for the Further Improvement of Dancing, by E. Pemberton (page images and partial HTML at LOC)
• The Friendship, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Godolphin, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• Grammar of the Art of Dancing, by Friedrich Albert Zorn, ed. by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe (HTML and page images at LOC)
• J.W. Pepper's Universal Dancing Master, Prompter's Call Book and Violinist's Guide, by Lucien O. Carpenter (page images at LOC)
• The Northumberland, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Pastorall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Princess, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Ann, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Portuguez, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• Varietie of Lute-Lessons (London: Thomas Adams, 1610), by Robert Dowland (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Fight on Sisters, and Other Songs for Liberation (1978), by Carol Hanisch (page images at Duke)

• Sound Reasoning, by Anthony K. Brandt (multimedia with commentary at cnx.org)

• Guide to Memorizing Music (Cincinnati et al.: John Church Co., c1906), by A. J. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Harmonielehre (4th revised edition, in German; Stuttgart: C. Grüninger, ca. 1915), by Rudolf Louis and Ludwig Thuille (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harmonielehre (7th edition, in German; Stuttgart: C. Grüninger, ca. 1920), by Rudolf Louis and Ludwig Thuille (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Understanding Basic Music Theory, by Catherine Schmidt-Jones (multiple formats at cnx.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.