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Music -- Performance

Here are entered general works on musical performance. Works on the conventions or styles of performance characteristic of particular periods, places, or groups are entered under Performance practice (Music)

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• Music
• Performance

• Music -- Performance -- England
• Music -- Performance -- History
• Music -- Performance -- Philosophy and aesthetics
• Concerts
• Conducting
• Embellishment (Music)
• Improvisation (Music)
• Musical accompaniment
• Performance practice (Music)
• Sight-reading (Music)
• Singing

• Musical performance
• Performance of music

• A Musicology of Performance: Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin (version 1.2; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Dorottya Fabian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Records of Early English Drama: Kent: Diocese of Canterbury (3 volumes; 2002), ed. by James M. Gibson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Roger Moseley (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• A Musicology of Performance: Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin (version 1.2; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Dorottya Fabian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Stadium Concerts Review (select "Explore Document" (Javascript required) to view selected issues of this series of concert programs, 1943-1964) (partial serial archives)

• On Conducting, by Richard Wagner, trans. by Edward Dannreuther (Gutenberg text)
• Dictators of the Baton (Chicago and New York: Alliance Book Corp., c1943), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man With the Baton: The Story of Conductors and Their Orchestras (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1936), by David Ewen, contrib. by Serge Koussevitzky (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Choir Leader (partial serial archives)

• Les Agréments et le Rythme: Leur Représentation Graphique dans la Musique Vocale française du XVIIIe Siècle (in French; Paris: Rouart, Lerolle, et cie, ca. 1917), by Jane Arger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Jazz Improvisation Primer, by Marc Sabatella (HTML at outsideshore.com)

• Critical Studies in Improvisation (2004-) (full serial archives)

• The Well-Tempered Accompanist (Bryn Mawr, PA: T. Presser Co., c1949), by Coenraad Valentyn Bos, contrib. by Ashley Pettis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Anfänge des Basso Continuo und Seiner Bezifferung (title page missing; in German; 1918), by Max Schneider
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Musical Accompaniment of Moving Pictures: A Practical Manual for Pianists and Organists, and an Exposition of the Principles Underlying the Musical Interpretation of Moving Pictures (Boston: Boston Music Co.; et al., c1920), by Edith Lang and George West
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Musicology of Performance: Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin (version 1.2; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Dorottya Fabian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method (c2020), by Chelsea Green (multiple formats with video and commentary at rebus.community)

• The Art of Singing (1909), by Luisa Tetrazzini and Enrico Caruso (illustrated HTML at Elegant Ebooks)
• The Philosophy of Voice: Showing the Right and Wrong Action of Voice in Speech and Song, With Laws for Self-Culture (8th edition; London: Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 1895), by Charles Lunn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Vocal Organ: Its Mechanism (Explaining a New Discovery) (4th edition; Chicago: Perfect Voice Institute, c1915), by Eugene Feuchtinger
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Art of Voice-Production, With Special Reference to the Methods of Correct Breathing (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882), by Ange Albert Pattou (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vocal Mastery: Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1920), by Harriette Brower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Voice: How to Use It; With Exercises for Tone and Articulation (revised edition; Boston: Expression Co., c1938), by Sarah T. Barrows and Anne E. Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Singing Methods: Their Use and Abuse (c1885), by J. Frank Botume
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Systematic Voice Training (New York: Remick Music, c1910), by D. A. Clippinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vox Populi: A Sequel to The Philosophy of Voice (London: W. Reeves, ca. 1880), by Charles Lunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation (sixth edition; New York: G. Schirmer; Boston: Boston Music Co., c1910), by Frank E. Miller, contrib. by Gustav Kobbé (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and MIDI)

• The Arkansaw Bear: A Tale of Fanciful Adventure (New York: R. H. Russell; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1898), by Albert Bigelow Paine, illust. by Frank Ver Beck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Manual of Bel Canto (New York: Coward-McCann, c1959), by Ida Franca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Montell Vocal Technique (Miami: Montell Foundation, c1950), by Marjorie Montell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your Voice: Applied Science of Vocal Art, Singing and Speaking (New York and Chicago: Pitman Pub. Corp., c1945), by Douglas Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte e Fisiologia del Canto (in Italian; Milan et al.: G. Ricordi, 1876), by E. Delle Sedie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caruso's Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by P. Mario Marafioti (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Garcia's New Treatise on the Art of Singing: A Compendious Method of Instruction, With Examples and Exercises for the Cultivation of the Voice (revised edition; Boston: O. Ditson company; et al., ca. 1870), by Manuel Garcia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Modern Italian Method of Singing; With a Variety of Progressive Examples, and Thirty Six Solfeggi (London: Printed by Rt. Birchall, ca. 1795), by Giuseppe Aprile (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Art of Singing (revised edition; New York: G. Schirmer, c1890), by Francesco Lamperti, trans. by J. C. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Art of Singing (revised edition; New York: G. Schirmer, c1890), by Francesco Lamperti, trans. by J. C. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Master-Pieces of Vocalization, Book I: Forty Vocalises for Baritone (Schirmer's Library v1340; New York: G. Schirmer, c1896), ed. by Max Spicker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Modern Italian Method of Singing; With a Variety of Progressive Examples, and Thirty Six Solfeggi (London: Printed by Rt. Birchall, ca. 1795), by Giuseppe Aprile (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into Englyshe Metre (London: J. Day, 1562), contrib. by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins (without illustrations: HTML at EEBO TCP)
• History of the Scottish Metrical Psalms; With an Account of the Paraphrases and Hymns, and of the Music of the Old Psalter (Glasgow: McCulloch and Co., 1872), by John W. MacMeeken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre (Oxford: Printed at the University Press by S. Collingwood and Co., 1836), contrib. by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins (multiple formats at Google)
• The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Faithfully Translated Into English Metre (1640 Bay Psalm book)
  • page images with commentary at loc.gov
  • HTML at Evans TCP

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)
• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.