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Choral music

Here are entered works on choral music. Musical compositions for or with chorus are entered under the headings Choruses; Choruses, Sacred; or Choruses, Secular, followed if appropriate by type of chorus and accompaniment.

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• Church music
• Music
• Vocal music -- History and criticism
• Choruses
• Choruses, Sacred
• Choruses, Secular

• Choral music -- Periodicals

• Choral music -- History and criticism
• Choruses -- History and criticism
• Choruses, Sacred -- History and criticism
• Choruses, Secular -- History and criticism
• Music, Choral
• Sacred choral music
• Secular choral music

• The Choir Herald (partial serial archives)
• The Choir Leader (partial serial archives)

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

• Studies in Hymnology: A Textbook Designed for Study Groups Where Attention is Given to the Subject of Church Music; Also for Colleges, Schools, the Music Teacher and All Inquiring Students (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, c1938), by Mrs. Crosby Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rural Harmony: Being an Original Composition in Three and Four Parts, for the Use of Singing Schools and Musical Societies (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Jacob Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by George Corbett (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Christopher A. Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
• Zur Spätmittelalterlichen Choralgeschichte St. Gallens: Der Cod. 546 der St. Galler Stiftsbibliothek (in German; St. Gallen: Buchdruckerei Ostschweiz, 1908), by Otto Marxer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Chapel Choir Book: A Collection of Catholic Music, Consisting of Masses, Anthems, Chants, and Hymns, To Which is Prefixed a Short Treatise on the Art of Singing (Boston: P. Donahoe, c1850), ed. by George W. Lloyd
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Mediaeval Musical Relics of Denmark (Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1912), by Angul Hammerich, trans. by Margaret Williams Hamerik
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Sacred Music (partial serial archives)
• Caecilia (partial serial archives)
• The Catholic Choirmaster (partial serial archives)

• Singing Disciples: Toward Better Church Music, by Hugh C. Benner (PDF at nnu.edu)

• Mediaeval Musical Relics of Denmark (Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1912), by Angul Hammerich, trans. by Margaret Williams Hamerik
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Christopher A. Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)

• The Hymn (partial serial archives)
• The Diapason (partial serial archives)

• The Choir Leader (partial serial archives)

• Reformed Worship (article texts (without accompanying images and music); 1986-recent) (partial serial archives)

• The Hymnody of the Christian Church (c1927), by Louis F. Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Hymnal 1940 Companion (third revised edition; New York: Church Pension Fund, 1956), by Episcopal Church Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of the Hymns and Tunes (1906), by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Studies in Hymnology: A Textbook Designed for Study Groups Where Attention is Given to the Subject of Church Music; Also for Colleges, Schools, the Music Teacher and All Inquiring Students (Nashville: Cokesbury Press, c1938), by Mrs. Crosby Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sweet Singers of Wales, by H. Elvet Lewis (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Hymns of Methodism in Their Literary Relations, by Henry Bett (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Hymns of Wesley and Watts, by Bernard Lord Manning (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Ann Suter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Homeric Hymns: A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Untersuchungen Über die Echtheit der Hymnen des Ambrosius (offprint from Jahrbücher für Classische Philologie supplement volume, in German; Leipzig: Druck von B. G. Teubner, 1903), by August Steier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Sweet Singers of Wales, by H. Elvet Lewis (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Why the Amish Sing: Songs of Solidarity and Identity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2014), by D. Rose Elder, contrib. by Terry E. Miller (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Laudes Regiae: A Study in Liturgical Acclamations and Mediaeval Ruler Worship (University of California Publications in History v33; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946), by Ernst H. Kantorowicz, contrib. by Manfred F. Bukofzer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hymnal 1940 Companion (third revised edition; New York: Church Pension Fund, 1956), by Episcopal Church Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hymns of Methodism in Their Literary Relations, by Henry Bett (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

• 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)
• How to Appreciate Music (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by Gustav Kobbé (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Merry-Go-Round (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1918), by Carl Van Vechten (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians, by John F. Runciman (Gutenberg text)
• Richard Wagner's Prose Works (8 volumes; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1895-1907), by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis
  • Volume I (The Art-Work of the Future, etc., second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Opera and Drama, second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Theatre, second impression): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Art and Politics): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Actors and Singers): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume VI (Religion and Art): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (In Paris and Dresden): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume VIII (Posthumous, etc.): multiple formats at archive.org
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• 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)

• Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), With Audio Applications (second edtion, c2007), by Julius O. Smith (illustrated HTML with commentary at dsprelated.com)
• Harmonics: or, The Philosophy of Musical Sounds (second edition; London: Printed for T. and J. Merrill, et al., 1759), by Robert Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• A History of Arabian Music to the XIIIth Century (London: Luzac and Co., 1929), by Henry George Farmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica, a Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume I, Fascicles I and II (Lambeth and Oxford) (only volume known to be in the public domain; 1901), by W. H. Frere (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild (second edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Jansa, 1911), ed. by Friedrich Jansa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (New York: Pub. by Doubleday, Doran and Co. for U.S. School of Music, c1912), ed. by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.