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Music appreciation

Here are entered works on the knowledge and sensitive awareness of a wide range of musical forms, styles, and periods. Works on the ability to read and write musical notation and to read notation at sight without the aid of an instrument are entered under Music literacy.

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• Music -- Instruction and study
• Music

• Musical analysis

• Music appreciation -- Periodicals

• Analytical guides (Music)
• Appreciation of music
• Musical appreciation
• Music -- Analysis, appreciation
• Music -- Analytical guides
• Music -- Appreciation

• How to Listen to Music: Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art (seventh edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Henry Edward Krehbiel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Sound Reasoning, by Anthony K. Brandt and Robert McClure (multimedia with commentary at libretexts.org)
• The Aesthetics of Pianoforte-Playing (translated from the third German edition; New York: G. Schirmer, 1907), by Adolf Kullak, ed. by Hans Bischoff, trans. by Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Appreciate Music (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by Gustav Kobbé (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Boston Musical Review (full serial archives)

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

• The Aesthetics of Pianoforte-Playing (translated from the third German edition; New York: G. Schirmer, 1907), by Adolf Kullak, ed. by Hans Bischoff, trans. by Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conversations on Harmony (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), by Sarah Mary Fitton (multiple formats at Google)

• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), ed. by Olivia R. Lucas and Laura Moore Pruett (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Elements of Music and of Fingering the Harpsichord; To Which is Added a Collection of Airs and Lessons for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte (Glasgow: Pub. for the author, ca. 1802), by Anne Gunn, contrib. by Joseph Haydn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalische Didaktik, oder, Die Kunst des Unterrichts in der Musik: Ein Nothwendiges Hand- und Hülfsbuch für Alle Lehrer und Lernende der Musik, Erzieher, Schulvorsteher, Organisten, Volkschullehrer &c. (in German; Eisleben: F. Kuhnt, 1851), by Gustav Schilling
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)
• Harmonia Americana: Containing a Concise Introduction to the Grounds of Music, With a Variety of Airs, Suitable for Divine Worship, and the Use of Musical Societies, Consisting of Three and Four Parts (Boston: Printed by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1791), by Samuel Holyoke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Study of Music in Germany (New York and Bremen: Univ. Dept. of the N. German Lloyd in collaboration with the Union of German Students of Music, 1927), ed. by Karl Kiesel and Ernst O. Thiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music-Study in Germany: From the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay (9th edition; Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Co., 1886), by Amy Fay, ed. by Fay Peirce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Music-Study in Germany: From the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay (18th edition; New York and London: Macmillan, 1908), by Amy Fay, ed. by Fay Peirce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Trip to Music-Land: A Fairy-Tale, Forming and Allegorical and Pictorial Exposition of the Elements of Music (London: Houlston and Sons, ca. 1875), by Emma L. Shedlock, illust. by J. King James (page images at Florida)

• Journal of Music History Pedagogy (2010-) (full serial archives)

• Journal of Music History Pedagogy (2010-) (full serial archives)
• Music Supervisors' Journal (partial serial archives)
• Music Supervisors' Bulletin (full serial archives)

• Rethinking Social Action Through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín's Music Schools (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Geoffrey Baker (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Maurice Guest, by Henry Handel Richardson (Gutenberg text)

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

• Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), ed. by Olivia R. Lucas and Laura Moore Pruett (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

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

• 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)

• China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Sound and Music Computing (reprint of a special issue of Applied Sciences; Basel et al.: MDPI, 2018), ed. by Tapio Lokki, Stefania Serafin, Meinard Müller, and Vesa Välimäki (PDF with commentary at mdpi.com)

• 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)

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

• The First Violin (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Jessie Fothergill, illust. by G. W. Brenneman (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Story of Marco (New York: A.L. Burt Co., c1911), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Laura Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Study of Music in Germany (New York and Bremen: Univ. Dept. of the N. German Lloyd in collaboration with the Union of German Students of Music, 1927), ed. by Karl Kiesel and Ernst O. Thiel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Vocal Companion: Containing a Concise Introduction to the Practice Of Music, and a Set of Tunes of Various Metres, Arranged Progressively for the Use of Learners (Exeter, NH: N. Sawyer, 1897), by Samuel Holyoke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Academic Manual of the Rudiments of Music (London: Weekes and Co., 1915), by G. Augustus Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.