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• Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
• Albani, Emma, Dame
• Allan, James, 1734-1810
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
• Berger, Arthur, 1912-2003
• Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron, 1883-1950
• Blind Tom, 1849-1908
• Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974
• Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
• Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
• Cole, Bob, 1868-1911
• Diehl, Alice M. (Alice Mangold), 1844-1912
• Dylan, Bob, 1941-
• Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967
• Ferrari, G. G. (Giacomo Gotifredo), 1763-1842
• Fitzgerald, Pamela, 1773-1831
• Fripp, Robert, 1946-
• Garden, Mary, 1874-1967
• Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 1829-1869
• Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor, approximately 1819-1876
• Grossmith, George, 1847-1912
• Guilbert, Yvette, 1865-1944
• Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949
• Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
• Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958
• Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
• Heinichen, Johann David, 1683-1729
• Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924
• Holly, Buddy, 1936-1959
• Horst, Louis
• Kemble, Adelaide
• Lady Gaga
• Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881
• Latrobe, Christian Ignatius, 1758-1836
• Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
• Leeves, William, 1748-1828
• Lewis, Jerry Lee
• Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887
• Mac, Taylor, 1973-
• Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
• Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931
• Molitor, Simon, 1766-1848
• Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
• Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877
• Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941
• Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955
• Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
• Ruffo, Titta, 1877-1953
• Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780
• Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896
• Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
• Schurman, Anna Maria van, 1607-1678
• Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979
• Sessions, Roger, 1896-1985
• Sondheim, Stephen
• Springsteen, Bruce
• Still, William Grant, 1895-1978
• Stradella, Alessandro, 1639-1682
• Tetrazzini, Luisa, 1871-1940
• Toplady, Augustus, 1740-1778
• Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
• Willard, Emma, 1787-1870
• Young, Neil, 1945-
• Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531

• The World's Great Men of Music (also published as "Story-Lives of Master Musicians"; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1922), by Harriette Brower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians, by John F. Runciman (Gutenberg text)
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Art, Literature, and the Drama (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Literature and Art (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Simon Molitor und die Wiener Gitarristik (um 1800) (in German; Vienna: A. Goll, ca. 1920), by Josef Zuth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Belgian Music (second edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1949), by Charles Leirens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hugo Riemanns Musik-Lexikon (in German; Berlin: M. Hesses Verlag, 1919), by Hugo Riemann, ed. by Alfred Einstein
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Musical Memories (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1897), by Alice M. Diehl (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Aneddoti Piacevoli e Interessanti Occorsi Nella Vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari da Roveredo (in Italian; Palermo: R. Sandron, ca. 1920), by G. G. Ferrari, ed. by Salvatore Di Giacomo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Aneddoti Piacevoli e Interessanti Occorsi Nella Vita di Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari da Roveredo, Opereta Scritta da Lui Medesimo (2 volumes in Italian; London: Presso l'autore, 1830), by G. G. Ferrari (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Girlhood of Clara Schumann (Clara Wieck and Her Time) (London: Edward Arnold, 1912), by Florence May (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Merely Mary Ann (popular edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1913), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• Blue Suede: The Strange Case of the Lost Elvis Diaries, by Barry Willis, illust. by Greg Cravens (illustrated HTML at archive.org)
• Spirits White as Lightning (on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg text)
• Music to My Sorrow (included on a Baen CD), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)

• Belgian Music (second edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1949), by Charles Leirens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• The Bremen Band (adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales; New York: MacMillan Co, 1927), contrib. by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, illust. by Frank Dobias (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Master Skylark: A Story of Shakspere's Time (1897), by John Bennett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Master Skylark: A Story of Shakspere's Time (New York: The Century Co., c1897), by John Bennett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch (multiple formats at archive.org)

• International Musician, by American Federation of Musicians and American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (partial serial archives)
• Jacobs' Band Monthly (partial serial archives)

• Great Musicians (London: E. Grant Richards, 1908), by Ernest Oldmeadow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Masters of the Symphony (5th year of A Study Course in Music Understanding; Boston: O. Ditson Co.; et al., c1929), by Percy Goetschius (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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 Complete Minstrel Guide: Containing Gags, Jokes, Parodies, Speeches, Farces, and Full Directions for a Complete Minstrel Show (Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Company, c1901), by William Courtright (HTML at googlepages.com)

• 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)

• 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)

• Die Biographieen der Troubadours, in Provinzalischer Sprache (in Provencal with German notes; Berlin: F. Duemmler, 1878), ed. by C. A. F. Mahn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lives of the Troubadours (London: D. Nutt, 1896), by Ida Farnell, contrib. by C. A. F. Mahn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Troubadours and Courts of Love (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895), by John Frederick Rowbotham
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)
• Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1890-1895), by J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi, ed. by Thomas Roscoe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Aimeric de Peguilhan, ed. by William P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Trails of the Troubadours (New York and London: The Century Co., c1926), by R. D. Jameson, illust. by John Petrina
  • HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Mediaeval Mysticism: Five Essays (1900), by Isabel Cooper-Oakley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Vinyl Theory (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR
• Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hent de Vries, trans. by Geoffrey A. Hale (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno, by Martin Paul Eve (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerNature Link)

• Forty Years of Song (London: Mills and Boon, 1911), by Emma Albani (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• History of James Allan, the Celebrated Northumberland Piper (Newcastle: W. and T. Fordyce, n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Genius Ignored: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Bach, Thoreau, Melville, Van Gogh, Nabokov, and Casablanca (last revised 2018), by Lucius Furius (illustrated HTML at humanist-art.org)
• J. S. Bach (2 volumes; London: A. and C. Black, 1935), by Albert Schweitzer, trans. by Ernest Newman, contrib. by Charles-Marie Widor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Bach-Kritik (2 volumes in 1, in German; 1910-1913), by Johannes Schreyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• J. S. Bach (2-volume English version, 1911), by Albert Schweitzer, trans. by Ernest Newman, contrib. by Charles-Marie Widor
  • Volume I (Macmillan edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Breitkoff and Hartel edition): multiple formats at archive.org
• Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750 (3 volumes; London: Novello and Co.; New York: H. W. Gray, 1899), by Philipp Spitta, trans. by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller-Maitland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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