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Instrumental music

Here are entered collections of music in several forms or of several types for various combinations of instruments.

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• Music

• Instrumental music -- 17th century
• Instrumental music -- 18th century
• Instrumental music -- Germany
• Instrumental music -- History and criticism
• Band music
• Dance music
• Musical instruments -- Studies and exercises
• Orchestral music

• Music, Instrumental

• Musikalisches Vielerley (vocal text primarily in German; Hamburg: M. C. Bock, 1770), ed. by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (page images at HathiTrust; page order reversed)

• For the Furthur Improvement of Dancing, by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Essex (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (first edition), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver
  • page images at pbm.com
  • Gutenberg illustrated HTML
• Orchesography: or, The Art of Dancing (second edition, 1715), by Raoul-Auger Feuillet, trans. by John Weaver (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern (partial serial archives)

• Zur Geschichte der Instrumental-Musik: Eine Productive Kritik (in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1885), by Hermann Ludwig Eichborn
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org

• Jacobs' Band Monthly (partial serial archives)

• The Princess, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• Brookes on Modern Dancing, by Laurence De Garmo Brookes (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Collection of Ball-Dances Perform'd at Court, by John Weaver (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dick's Quadrille Call-Book, and Ball-Room Prompter (HTML and page images at LOC)
• An Essay for the Further Improvement of Dancing, by E. Pemberton (page images and partial HTML at LOC)
• J.W. Pepper's Universal Dancing Master, Prompter's Call Book and Violinist's Guide, by Lucien O. Carpenter (page images at LOC)
• Le Gratie d'Amore (in Italian; facsimile images from 1602 and 1604 editions), by Cesare Negri (page images with commentary at pbm.com)
• The Code of Terpsichore, by Carlo Blasis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Friendship, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Godolphin, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Northumberland, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Pastorall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Ann, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Portuguez, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• Varietie of Lute-Lessons (London: Thomas Adams, 1610), by Robert Dowland (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• The Dancing Master (10th edition, 1698), ed. by John Playford (page images at LOC)
• Grammar of the Art of Dancing, by Friedrich Albert Zorn, ed. by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Art of Dancing, Historically Illustrated, by Edward Ferrero (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Northumbrian Minstrelsy: A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies, and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Society of Antiquaries, 1882), ed. by J. Collingwood Bruce and John Stokoe
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • 1965 reprint: multiple formats at archive.org

• Le Couvent sur l'Eau (Il Convento Veneziano): Comédie Chorégraphique, sur un Argument de J.L. Vaudoyer, par Alfredo Casella: Fragments Symphoniques pour Orchestre (musical score, with notes in French and Italian; Milan et al.: G. Ricordi, c1919), by Alfredo Casella (page images at HathiTrust; page order reversed; US access only)

• The Rite of Spring: Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts (orchestral score; London et al.: Boosey and Hawkes, c1921), by Igor Stravinsky and Nicholas Roerich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Cotillions From Cinderella: The Most Favorite Airs in Cinderella, Arranged as Cotillions (includes piano music and dance instructions for The Three Sisters, The Glass Slipper, The Chase, Cinderella, The Fairy, and the Cinderella Waltz; New York: T. Birch, c1831), by Gioacchino Rossini, ed. by C. Pons, contrib. by Mr. Parker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Dancing Master (10th edition, 1698), ed. by John Playford (page images at LOC)

• Singing Games and Dances (New York: Association Press, c1957), ed. by David S. McIntosh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk Dances of Different Nations (3 volumes in 1; New York: L. H. Chalif, c1926), ed. by Louis H. Chalif (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Royall Galliarde, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)

• 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)

• Second Love Schottisch (sheet music for piano; Washington: J. F. Ellis, c1870), by J. A. Rosenberger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leaflets of the Ball Room (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Rigadoon Royal, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)

• Advanced Exercises for the Violin (New York: G. Schirmer, c1912), by Franz Kneisel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing: A New Scientific Method for Obtaining, in the Shortest Possible Time, an Absolute Mastery of the Higher Technical Difficulties of the Left Hand and of the Bow (with parallel texts in English, French, and German; op. 12; New York: C. Fischer, c1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale and Chord Exercises for the Violin (Boston: Boston Music Co., c1917), by Eugene W. Ritter and Albert Stoessel (page images at HathiTrust; pages may be in reverse order)
• La Technique Superieure de l'Archet, Pour Violon (in French; Paris and New York, Salabert, 1916), by Lucien Capet, contrib. by Henry Expert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Art of Studying R. Kreutzer's Etudes: 412 Examples, Compiled According to the Advise of the Author for Violin (in English, German, and French; New York and Boston: C. Fischer, c1898), by L. Massart, ed. by Gustav Saenger, contrib. by Rodolphe Kreutzer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jacobs' Orchestra Monthly (partial serial archives)

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.