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Abhandlung über die Musik des alten Aegyptens von Villoteau. Aus dem grossen französischen Prachtwerke: Description de l'Egypte, ou: Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte, pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publiée par les ordres de s. maj. l'empereur Napoleon le Grand, à Paris, de l'Imprimerie Imperiale. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1821), by Guillaume André Villoteau (page images at HathiTrust)

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Filed under: Music -- To 500 -- History and criticism

Histoire générale de la musique et de la danse (Au comptoir des Imprimeurs unis, 1844), by J. Adrien de La Fage (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire et théorie de la musique de l'antiquité. (Typ. C. Annoot-Braeckman, 1875), by F. A. Gevaert (page images at HathiTrust)
Music of the ancient Near East. (Vantage Press, 1954), by Claire Polin (page images at HathiTrust)
The world's earliest music (W. Reeves, 1904), by Hermann Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Geschichte der alten und mittelalterlichen musik. (F. E. C. Leuckart, 1865), by Rudolf Westphal (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire et évolution des formules musicales du 1er au XVe siècle de l'ère chrétienne. (Payot, 1928), by Armand Machabey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Johannes Tinctoris (1445-1511) und sein unbekannter Traktat, "De inventione et usu musicae"; eine historisch-kritische Untersuchung (F. Pustet, 1917), by Karl Weinmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Lyra Barberina amphichordos (typis Caesareis, 1763), by Gio. Battista Doni, Giovanni Battista Martini, Giovanni Battista Passeri, and Antonio Francesco Gori (page images at HathiTrust)
The music of the most ancient nations, particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Hebrews; with special reference to recent discoveries in western Asia and in Egypt. (W. Reeves, bookseller limited, 1929), by Carl Engel (page images at HathiTrust)
La música en la antigüedad (Editorial labor, s.a., 1927), by Curt Sachs and Jesús Ernesto Martínez Ferrando (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A handbook of Bible and church music (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1898), by John Aston Whitlock (page images at HathiTrust)
Musik des altertums. (F. Hirt, 1924), by Curt Sachs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Erste Wanderung der ältesten Tonkunst, als Vorgeschichte der Musik oder als erste Periode derselben (Bädeker, 1831), by Gottfried Wilhelm Fink (page images at HathiTrust)
Quaestiones de musicis scriptoribus Romanis : imprimis de Cassiodoro et Isidoro (G. Ottonis Typae Aulicae, 1899), by Karl Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Formules musicales (Payot, 1928), by Armand Machabey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De prestantia musicae veteris libri tres (Forni, 1970), by Gio. Battista Doni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Éléments harmoniques d'Aristoxène. (Pottier de Lalaine, 1870), by Aristotle (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire et théorie de la musique de l'antiquité (Typ. C. Annoot-Braeckman, 1881), by F. A. Gevaert (page images at HathiTrust)
Der gottesdienstliche Volksgesang im jüdischen und christlichen Altertum : ein Beitrag zur jüdischen und christlichen Kultgeschichte (Herder, 1906), by Franz Leitner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Geschichte der Musik : mit zahlreichen notenbeispielen und musikbeilagen (F.E.C. Leuckart, 1887), by August Wilhelm Ambros, Otto Kade, Heinrich Reimann, Carl Ferdinand Becker, B. von Sokolowsky, and Gustav Nottebohm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Historia de la música antigua. (Fe, 1891), by Pietro Cesari and Manuel Walls y Merino (page images at HathiTrust)
L'évolution de l'art musical et l'art grégorien. (Fischbacher, 1902), by Georges Houdard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Geschichte der alten und mittelalterlichen Musik. (G.J. Göschen, 1900), by Anton Möhler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Quaestiones de musicis scriptoribus Romanis : imprimis de Cassiodoro et Isidoro (G. Ottonis Typae Aulicae, 1899), by Karl Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The World's Earliest Music: Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer, by Hermann Smith (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Music -- To 500 -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800

Kritische Einleitung in die Geschichte und Lehrätze der alten und neuen Musik (G.A. Lange, 1759), by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Music, Greek and Roman -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800

The Peri mousikēs of Plutarch, translated. (Chiswick : From the press of C. Whittingham, 1822., 1822), by Plutarch and J. H. Bromby (page images at HathiTrust)
Plutarch über die musik. (F.E.C. Leuckart, 1865), by Plutarch, Rudolf Westphal, Rudolf Georg Hermann Westphal, and F.E.C. Leuckart (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Dialogue sur la musique des anciens (Chés Noel Pissot ..., 1725), by François de Castagnères Châteauneuf and Noel Pissot (page images at HathiTrust)
Kritische Einleitung in die Geschichte und Lehrätze der alten und neuen Musik (G.A. Lange, 1759), by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Music, Greek and Roman -- History and criticism

Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c1996), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, 1984), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
Die Harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums (2 volumes in German; Cologne: M. Du Mont-Schauberg, 1868-1876), by Albert Thimus (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Lehre vom Ethos in der griechischen Musik. Ein Beitrag zur Musikästhetik des klassischen Altertums (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1899), by Hermann Abert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Harmonika stoicheia (At the Clarendon Press, 1902), by Aristoxenus and Henry Stewart Macran (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Harmonischen Fragmente des Aristoxenus (Weidmann, 1868), by Aristoxenus and Paul Marquard (page images at HathiTrust)
Wörterbuch der griechischen Musik in ausführlichen Artikeln über Harmonik, Rhythmik, Metrik, Kanonik, Melopoïe, Rhythmopoïe, Theater, Kampfspiele, Instrumente, Notirung u. s. w. (Schlesinger, 1835), by Friedrich von Drieberg (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Grundzüge der esoterischen Harmonik des Alterthums, im Anschlusse an die Schrift des Freiherrn A. von Thimus über die harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums (M. Du Mont-Schauberg'schen Buchhandlung, 1870), by Richard Hasenclever (page images at HathiTrust)
Allgemeine Theorie der griechischen Metrik (Teubner, 1887), by Rudolf Westphal and Hugo Gleditsch (page images at HathiTrust)
De arte musica apud Graecos. (Nijhoff, 1879), by Guilielmus Ludovicus van Meurs (page images at HathiTrust)
Über die Musik (F.E.C. Leuckart, 1865), by Rudolf Georg Hermann Westphal and Plutarch (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Music, Byzantine -- History and criticism

Études sur la musique occlésiastique grocque; mission musicale en Grèce et en Orient janvior-mai 1875 (Hachette et cie, 1877), by L. A. Bourgault-Ducoudray (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise on Byzantine music (A. Gardner, 1892), by Stephen G. Hatherly (page images at HathiTrust)
Krēpis tou theōrētikou kai praktikou tēs ekklēsiastikēs mousikēs (Typois N. Christomanou, 1912), by Theodōros Phōkaeus, Chartophylax Chourmouzios, ho Prōtopsaltēs Grēgorios, and Chrysanthos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Krēpis tou theōrētikou kai praktikou tēs ekklēsiastikēs mousikēs (Ek tou typographeiou E. Kagiol, 1868), by Theodōros Phōkaeus, Mēnas Domenikos, Chartophylax Chourmouzios, Grēgorios Prōtopsaltēs, and Chrysanthos (page images at HathiTrust)
Etudes sur la musique ecclésiastique grecque : mission musicale en Grèce et en Orient, janvier-mai 1875 (Hachette, 1984), by L. A. Bourgault-Ducoudray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Hē parasēmantikē tēs Byzantinēs mousikēs. Ētoi: historikē kai technikē episkopēsis tēs sēmeiographias tēs Byzantinēs mousikēs apo tōn protōn Christianikōn chronōn mechri tōn Kathʼēmas. (P. D. Sakellariou, 1917), by K. A. Psachos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Jews -- Music -- To 500 -- History and criticism

Der gottesdienstliche Volksgesang im jüdischen und christlichen Altertum : ein Beitrag zur jüdischen und christlichen Kultgeschichte (Herder, 1906), by Franz Leitner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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