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• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Jubilee Singers, and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars. (AMS Press, 1974), by Gustavus D. Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people; containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race. With portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men. (Lee and Shepard;, 1878), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jubilee singers, and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars. (Boston : Lee and Shepard ; New York : Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1873., 1873), by Gustavus D. Pike and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people : containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race, with portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men (Lee and Shepard ;, 1886), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous modern Negro musicians (Brooklyn, N.Y. : Press Forum Co., 1921., 1921), by Penman Lovingood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the Jubilee Singers : [with their songs] (Cleveland : Cleveland Printing & Publishing Co., 1892., 1892), by J. B. T. Marsh, F. J. Loudin, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Singing campaign for ten thousand pounds : or, The Jubilee Singers in Great Britain ; with an appendix containing slave songs (New York : American Missionary Association, 1875., 1875), by Gustavus D. Pike and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and Some Highly Musical People, by James M. Trotter (Gutenberg ebook)

• Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin, Surnamed the Two-Headed Nightingale, and the Eighth Wonder of the World (Cincinnati, OH: Hennegan and Co, ca. 1902) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• Negro Musicians and Their Music (based on the first and second editions, 1936 and 1943), by Maud Cuney-Hare (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Negro and his music (The Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936), by Alain Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers; with their songs (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro musicians and their music (The Associated publishers, inc., 1936), by Maud Cuney-Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee singers, including their songs (The Cleveland printing & publishing co., 1892), by J. B. T. Marsh and F. J. Loudin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee singers; with their songs (S. W. Green's Son, 1883), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & Company, 1918), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The singing campaign for ten thousand pounds; or, The Jubilee Singers in Great Britain (American Missionary Society, 1875), by Gustavus D Pike and Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people : containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race ; with portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men (Johnson Reprint, 1968), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers with their songs. (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row, MDCCCLXXVI [1876], 1876), by J. B. T. Marsh, Gresham Press, and Hodder and Stoughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers; with their songs (Houghton, Mifflin, 1881), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the Jubilee Singers with their songs (Boston : Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1880., 1880), by J. B. T. Marsh and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, [1880], 1880), by J. B. T. Marsh, Cedric Dover, William L. Dawson, Randall K. Burkett, Cedric Dover Library (Emory University. MARBL), and William L. Dawson Library (Emory University. General Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the Jubilee Singers with their songs (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1876., 1876), by J. B. T. Marsh and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people : containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race, with portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men (Lee and Shepard ;, 1886), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people; containing brief chapters on I. A description of music, II. The music of nature, III. A glance at the history of music, [and] IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music, following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race. (Lee and Shepard, 1880), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great revival on long play. (Carleton Jazz Club, Carleton College, 1957), by John Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Negro music journal. (The Negro Music Journal., 1902), by Washington Conservatory of Music (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs (Hodder and Stoughton, 1898), by J. B. T. Marsh, Ruth-Ann Mellish Harris, and F. J. Loudin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Basic jazz on long play. The great soloists: ragtime, folk-song, blues, jazz, swing, and the great bands: New Orleans, swing, dixieland. (Carleton Jazz Club, Carleton College, 1954), by John Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs (Houghton, Osgood, 1880), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jubilee songs. (Houghton Mifflin, 1881), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Night Song (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961), by John A. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Paris Blues (New York: Ballantine Books, c1957), by Harold Flender (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Negro music journal. (Negro Universities Press, 1902), by Washington Conservatory of Music (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bluing the blues (Leo. Feist Inc., 1919), by Henry Ragas, Starmer, Sidney D. Mitchell, and Inc Leo Feist (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1992), by Ann M. Pescatello (page images at Pitt)
• A hundred years of music in America. An account of musical effort in America during the past century ... together with historical and biographical sketches of important personalities. (AMS Press, 1970), by W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Da capo : a paper read before the Mothers' Club, Cambridge, Mass., March 13, 1951 ([U.S. Govt. Printing Office], 1952), by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people : containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race, with portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men (Lee and Shepard ;, 1886), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grove's dictionary of music and musicians. (Philadelphia : Theodore Presser Co., 1920., 1920), by George Grove and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook of American music and musicians : containing biographies of American musicians, and histories of the principal musical institutions, firms and societies. (Canaseraga, N.Y. : F.O. Jones, 1886., 1886), by F. O. Jones and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of a Musical Life, by William Mason (Gutenberg ebook)

• Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Neil Gould (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Louis Horst: Musician in a Dancer's World (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Janet Mansfield Soares (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary American Composers (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1900), by Rupert Hughes (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and MIDI)
• Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by Octavia Hensel, His Friend and Pupil (Boston: O. Ditson and Co.; New York: C. H. Ditson and Co., c1870), by Mary Alice Seymour
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  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Popular American composers from Revolutionary times to the present; a biographical and critical guide. (H. W. Wilson Co., 1962), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronicles of Stephen Foster's family / illustrated from contemporary paintings, photographs and prints. (Pub. for the Foster Hall Collection by the University of Pittsburgh Press, 1944), by Evelyn Foster Morneweck and University of Pittsburgh. Stephen Collins Foster Memorial. Foster Hall Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stephen Collins Foster : a biography of America's folk-song composer (G. Schirmer, 1920), by Harold Vincent Milligan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edward MacDowell; a great American tone poet, his life and music (Dutton, 1922), by John F. Porte (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a musical life : an autobiography (Published by the John Church Co., 1891), by George F. Root (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Harold Flammer choral catalogue (Harold Flammer, 1939), by Harold Flammer (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• American composers : a study of the music of this country and of its future, with biographies of the leading composers of the present time : being a new rev. ed. of Contemporary American composers (The Page company, 1918), by Rupert Hughes and Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half hours with the best composers (Boston : J.B. Millet Company, [1894-1895], 1894), by Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser, and Historical Sheet Music Collections of Houghton Library and the Harvard Theatre Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer, and our musical life in colonial times. ([Philadelphia?, 1919), by O. G. Sonneck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a pianist / During his professional tours in the United States, Canada, the Antilles and South America : Preceded by a short biographical sketch with contemporaneous criticisms ; Edited by his sister, Clara Gottschalk ; Translated from the French by Robert E. Peterson. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1881), by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, R. E. Peterson, and Clara Gottschalk Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jottings. ([Washington, D. C., 1959), by Mary Howe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charles Sanford Skilton (C. Fischer, 1929), by John Tasker Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our familiar songs and their authors (H.M. Caldwell Co., Publishers, 1896), by Helen Kendrick Johnson and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deems Taylor, by John Tasker Howard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and Music, by John Fielder Porte (Gutenberg ebook)
• Edward MacDowell: A Study, by Lawrence Gilman (Gutenberg ebook)

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