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• Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
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• Notes d'ethnographie musicale. (Fischbacher, 1905), by Julien Tiersot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les musiques bizarres à l'Exposition de 1900 (Ollendorff, 1901), by Judith Gautier, Benedictus, and France) Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Six essays on the ancients, their music and instruments, including an introduction on acoustics, etc. (H. Hart, Printer, 1893), by F. Dawes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Non-Western music; a selected bibliography. (Library, California State University, Sacramento, 1973), by Sheila J. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Histoire générale de la musique et de la danse (Au comptoir des Imprimeurs unis, 1844), by J. Adrien de La Fage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'une mission musicale en Grèce et en Orient. (J. Baur, 1876), by L. A. Bourgault-Ducoudray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rapport sur une mission scientifique en Turquie d'Asie (Imprimerie nationale, 1899), by J. Parisot and France. Ministère de l'éducation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Six essays on the ancients, their music and instruments, including an introduction on acoustics, etc. (H. Hart, Printer, 1893), by F. Dawes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Notes d'ethnographie musicale. (Fischbacher, 1905), by Julien Tiersot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Beiträge zur akustik und musikwissenschaft (J. A. Barth, 1898), by Carl Stumpf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les mœurs, les usages, &c. des Chinois: (Nyon, 1776), by M. de Bréquigny, Charles Batteux, Aloys de Poirot, Aloys Kao, Pierre Martial Cibot, François Bourgeois, and Joseph Marie Amiot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur la musique des anciens, oú l'on expose le principe des proportions authentiques, dites de Pythagore, & de divers systêmes de musique chez les Grecs, les Chinois & les Egyptiens. Avec un parallèle le systême des Egyptiens & celui des modernes. (Lacombe, 1770), by Pierre-Joseph Roussier (page images at HathiTrust)
• La musique chinoise (H. Laurens, 1900), by Louis Laloy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La musique en Chine (E. Leroux, 1911), by G. Soulié de Morant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Xian ge bi du ([publisher not identified], 1916), by Hechou Qiu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wan shou qu ge yue zhang : [6 juan] ([n.p.], 1899), by Yuanrui Beng (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lü lü yuan yin : si juan (s.n., 1773), by Yong'en (page images at HathiTrust)
• E yun ge chu ji qu pu (Zhu yi tang, 1893), by Xichun Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Han nao ge shi wen jian zheng (Xu shou tang, 1872), by Xianqian Wang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paper on Chinese music (American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1899), by Mary Richard, Shanghai Literary and Debating Society, and Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. China Branch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes d'ethnographie musicale. (Fischbacher, 1905), by Julien Tiersot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes sur le T'oemet (Impr. de la Mission Catholique, 1922), by Joseph van Oost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yue lü biao wei : 8 juan (Qi xue zhai, 1762), by Yansheng Hu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geng gui yuan yin (Miao shi, 1866), by Tian Miao (page images at HathiTrust)
• La musique chinoise: étude critique. (H. Laurens, 1910), by Louis Laloy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La musique chinoise; étude critique. (H. Laurens, 1909), by Louis Laloy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zheng jue lou cong ke : [di 1 han (s.n., in the 1890s), by Chong wen shu ju, Dachun Xu, Yong Jiang, Siyao Shao, Yangyuan Xu, and Empress of China Wu hou (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Second supplément aux Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les mœurs, les usages, &c. des chinois, par les missionaires de Pe-kin : contenant des recherches historiques et géographiques sur le nouveau monde, comparé avec l'ancien & principalement avec les Chinois. (A Paris : Chez Nyon, l'âiné, libraire, rue du Jardinet, quartier Saint André-des-Arcs, MDCCLXXXVI [1786], 1786), by Jean-Benoît Schérer and Jean-Luc Nyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Erforschung der chinesischen Musik nach phonographischen Aufnahmen ... (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910), by Erich Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Han nao ge shi wen jian zheng (Xu shou tang, 1872), by Xianqian Wang (page images at HathiTrust)

• Caliph for a day : an amusing comedy. Indian music arranged for piano (Indian Art and Dramatic Society, 1916), by K. N. Das Gupta, Rabindranath Tagore, and London Indian Art and Dramatic Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian music (G. Schirmer, 1917), by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Science of Indian music. ([Bombay], 1905), by D. N. Patel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian music (Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1898), by Bh. A. Pingle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes d'ethnographie musicale. (Fischbacher, 1905), by Julien Tiersot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sangîta-makaranda of Nârada (Central Library, 1920), by Narada and Maṅgeśa Rāmakr̥ṣṇa Telaṅga (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Adam's Peak to Elephanta : sketches in Ceylon and India (G. Allen & Unwin, 1903), by Edward Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian songs (Calcutta : Published by the Author, 1879., 1879), by Sourindro Mohun Tagore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sangit parijat. A treatise on ancient Hindu music (Saraswati Press, 1884), by son of Kṛishṇa Paṇḍita Ahobala and Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara Bhaṭṭācāryya (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phonographierte indische Melodien (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904), by Otto Abraham, Erich M. von Hornbostel, Erich Moritz von Hornbostel, and Leichtentritt Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First steps in Hindu music, in English notation, by H. P. Krishna Rao. Rev. ed. (Weekes, 1906), by H. P. Krishna Rao (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian art and art-crafts (Theosophical Publication House, 1923), by W. D. S. Brown, T. G. Kiruṣṇacāmi Piḷḷai, R. Srinivasan, and Stella Kramrisch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sangītasāra 7 bhāga : Jayapūrādhīśa Mahārājā Savāī devakṛta (B.T. Sahasruddhe (Hon Sec. of the Gayan Samaj, Pune), 1910), by Maharaja of Jaipur Pratapsingh, Śārṅgadeva, Natesh Appaji Dravid, Balavanta Triyambaka Sahasrabuddhe, and Poona Gayan Samaj (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The music and musical instruments of southern India and the Deccan (Novello, Ewer & Co. [etc.], 1891), by C. R. Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gana vidya sanjivini (A treatise on Hindu music). (The Author, 1896), by C. Tirumalayya Naidu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divine music before divine mosques ... a commentary (B.N. Sarkar, 1926), by Prodyot Coomar Tagore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die musik der Araber (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1842), by R. G. Kiesewetter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The groves of Shiraz : [opus 51, no. 1] : high voice : professional copy (White-Smith, 1911), by Charles Wakefield Cadman and Nelle Richmond Eberhart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dokushū-yō yōkyoku jibyōshi seigi. (1925), by Shizutarō Yamasaki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nihon ongyku zenshū (Nihon Ongyoku Zenshū Kankōkai, 1927), by Nishio Tamura and Chōji Nakauchi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heike monogatari shiron. (Tateyamatenmin, 1911), by Zennoshin Tateyama (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chikuzen biwa uta. (1921), by Tomoyuki Tachibana and Yōkichi Kishiki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jinmon shō. (Gakubu Kenkyūkai, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gagaku tsūkai (Koten Hozonkai, 1921), by Hisao Tanabe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ongyoku sōsho (Engei Chinsho Kankōkai, 1914), by Kunimoto Kawakami (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes d'ethnographie musicale. (Fischbacher, 1905), by Julien Tiersot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yūgao (Maekawa Ltd., 1919), by Tozan Nakao (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Japanese koto music ([Tokyo] : Dept. of Education, 1888., 1888), by Shūji Isawa and Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō (page images at HathiTrust)
• À la découverte de la musique japonaise (E. Leroux, 1912), by Alfred Westarp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Kanze-ryū utai uchi hyaku-jūban] (Hinoki Taikadō, 1920), by Sakon Kanze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Kanze-ryū utaibon] (Hinoki Tsunenosuke, 1907), by Kiyokado Kanze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Raryōō sonohoka fuhon. ([Japan] : [publisher not identified], [18--?], in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gagakushū : ryūtekifu (Hōmeikai, 1894), by Fuminori Tōgi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese dramatic music. (The Kyoyeki Shosha, 1910), by Suehara Kitamura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La musique au Japon (Imprimerie de l'Arte della stampa, 1878), by Alessandro Kraus (page images at HathiTrust)

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