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• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • 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)

• William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions, by Catherine Parsons Smith (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• 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)

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

• A bibliography of early secular American music <18th century> (The Library of Congress, Music division, 1945), by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, William Treat Upton, and Library of Congress. Music Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• American composers; a study of the music of this country, and of its future (The Page company, 1914), by Rupert Hughes and Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Ethelbert Nevin : from his letters and his wife's memories (The Boston Music Co., 1913), by Vance Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world of musical comedy; the story of the American musical stage as told through the careers of its foremost composers and lyricists. (Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., 1960), by Stanley Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American composers : being a study of the music of this country, and of its future, with biographies of the leading composers of the present-time (L. C. Page, 1906), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stephen Collins Foster Memorial of the University of Pittsburgh : dedicated June 2, 1937 : a tribute to the composer whose melodies have become the heart songs of the American people. (University of Pittsburgh, 1941), by Fletcher Hodges (page images at HathiTrust)
• L.D.S. hymns : national songs and their composers (Industrial Publishing Company, 1909), by C. Fred Schade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performing arts : music. (Library of Congress :, 1995), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laurel winners : portraits and silhouettes of modern composers. (The J. Church company, 1900), by William Francis Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular american composers. (Herbert Taylor, 1902), by Frank L. Boyden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits and silhouettes of American composers (J. Church, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of popular music (Prentice-Hall, 1952), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• 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)

• Tell me, tell me, who is that little girl in blue? (Jerome H. Remick, 1916), by Doc Cook, Raymond B. Egan, and Richard A. Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Look out keep talkin' (Whitney-Warner Pub. Co., 1899), by Fred S. Stone (page images at HathiTrust)

• A catalog of representative works by resident, living composers of Illinois ([Carbondale, Ill., 1960), by Will Gay Bottje (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue : Evanston authors and composers (Young Women's Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church, 1900), by Frances Simpson and Evanston Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Living Kentucky composers. ([Lexington], 1955), by University of Kentucky. Department of University Extension (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Composers (The Endowment, in the 20th century), by National Endowment for the Arts (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)
• Memories of a Musical Life, by William Mason (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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 (Lee and Shepard ;, 1873), 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 ;, 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)
• Music and Some Highly Musical People, by James M. Trotter (Gutenberg ebook)

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