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• Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • text with musical notation: multiple formats at archive.org
  • text only at Gutenberg
• Bluebeard : a musical fantasy (Harper and Brothers, 1914), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, John Orlando Parry, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The song of the evening stars (R.G. Badger, 1911), by Anna Mathewson and Enrico Caruso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musicians talk (Dial press, inc., 1935), by Leonora Armsby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concert room and orchestra anecdotes of music and musicians, ancient and modern (Clementi, 1825), by Thomas Busby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voice and violin : sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences. (Chatto & Windus;, 1898), by T. L. Phipson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hector Berlioz, selections from his letters, and aesthetic, humorous, and satirical writings (H. Holt and company, 1879), by Hector Berlioz and William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grotesques de la musique (Calmann Lévy, 1880), by Hector Berlioz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvellettes of the musicians (Leavitt, 1850), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noted men and women, a profusely illustrated book, containing the humor, wit, sentiment and diplomacy in the social, artistic and business lives of the people herein set forth (The Klebold Press, 1910), by James W. Morrissey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verdi aneddotico. (Vecchioni, 1926), by Gino Monaldi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Through the year with Sousa : excerpts from the operas, marches, miscellaneous compositions, novels, letters, magazine articles, songs, sayings and rhymes (T.Y. Crowell, 1910), by John Philip Sousa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Fogy, his musical opinions and grotesques (Theodore Presser co., 1913), by James Huneker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Ultrompete; witze und anekdoten für musikalische und unmusikalische leute. (Gebrüder Reinecke, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of musical anecdotes, from every available source. (R. Bentley and son, 1878), by Frederick James Crowest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Face to face with great musicians (Boni and Liveright, 1918), by Charles D. Isaacson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Face to face with great musicians (D. Appleton and company, 1921), by Charles D. Isaacson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wagner-Anekdoten (Schuster & Loeffler, 1908), by Erich Kloss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musicians' wit, humour, & anecdote (Walter Scott, 1902), by Frederick James Crowest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anecdotes of great musicians. Three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers. (T. Presser, 1895), by Willey Francis Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of great musicians. Three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers. (T. Presser, 1905), by Willey Francis Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musical laughs: jokes, tittle-tattle, and anecdotes, mostly humorous, about musical celebrities, gathered during his forty-three years as musical editor of "The New York Evening Post," (Funk & Wagnalls, 1924), by Henry Theophilus Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prima donnas and other wild beasts (Argonaut Books, 1961), by Alan Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musical monstrosities (Sir I. Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1909), by Charles L. Graves and G. Morrow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musical sketches, abroad and at home. (W. Reeves, 1878), by John Ella and John Belcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelettes of the musicians (Cornish, Lamport, 1851), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikantengeschichten : Band I. Musikanten, Band II. Musikanten und Sonderlinge (L. Staackmann, 1930), by Karl Söhle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les grotesques de la musique ... (Calmann Lévy, 1871), by Hector Berlioz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musiker-Anecdoten. (Engelhorn, 1922), by Hans Hollerop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trophies of song. Articles and incidents on the power of sacred music ... (D. Lothrop & co.;, 1875), by Wilbur F. Crafts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teatro alla moda (Stampato ne Borghi di Belisania per Aldiviva Licante ..., in the 1720s), by Benedetto Marcello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of great musicians : three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers (Weekes & Co., 1896), by Willey Francis Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grotesques de la musique (Calmann Lévy, 1880), by Hector Berlioz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Featherweight's musical moments (The A. Harriman Co., 1910), by John Brady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Face to face with great musicians : second group (D. Appleton, 1921), by Charles D. Isaacson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little laughs over the lives of musicians (H. M. Strong, 1907), by Howard Marcus Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories behind the world's great music (Garden City publishing co., inc., 1940), by Sigmund Spaeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impresari e cantanti, schizzi fotografici. ([n.p., 1862), by F. Garbini and G. A. Cesana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Face to face with great musicians (D. Appleton and co., 1918), by Charles David Isaacson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The musician's leisure hour : facts and fancies of interest to the music lover (Charles Wells Moulton, 1895), by J. H. Rosewald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikantengeschichten. bd. 1: Musikanten. bd. 2: Musikanten und sonderlinge. Neue und endgültige volks-ausg. in einem bande. (L. Staackmann, 1922), by Karl Söhle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musikalische Witze und Anekdoten zur Unterhaltund für lachlustige Leute. (E. Weingart, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of great muscians (Pageant Press, 9999), by W. K. Breckenridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Teatro alla moda (Aldaviva Licante, 1735), by Benedetto Marcello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes of music and musicians. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1960), by Helen Loeb Kaufmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nouvellettes of the musicians, by E. F. Ellet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les grotesques de la musique (in French), by Hector Berlioz (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Fogy: His Musical Opinions and Grotesques, by James Huneker (Gutenberg ebook)

• Mirth, music, and memory (B. Humphries, 1937), by Anna May Loewenstein Nussbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Fogy, his musical opinions and grotesques (Theodore Presser co., 1923), by James Huneker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les grotesques de la musique. (A. Bourdilliat et cie, 1859), by Hector Berlioz (page images at HathiTrust)

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