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• Aventures et Voyages (in French; Nice: Typ. S. C. Cauvin, 1876), by P. Seligmann (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)

• Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), With Audio Applications (second edtion, c2007), by Julius O. Smith (illustrated HTML with commentary at dsprelated.com)
• Harmonics: or, The Philosophy of Musical Sounds (second edition; London: Printed for T. and J. Merrill, et al., 1759), by Robert Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • text with musical notation: multiple formats at archive.org
  • text only at Gutenberg

• Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica, a Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume I, Fascicles I and II (Lambeth and Oxford) (only volume known to be in the public domain; 1901), by W. H. Frere (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild (second edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Jansa, 1911), ed. by Friedrich Jansa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (New York: Pub. by Doubleday, Doran and Co. for U.S. School of Music, c1912), ed. by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

• China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (New York: Pub. by Doubleday, Doran and Co. for U.S. School of Music, c1912), ed. by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Violin (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Jessie Fothergill, illust. by G. W. Brenneman (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Story of Marco (New York: A.L. Burt Co., c1911), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Laura Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Vocal Companion: Containing a Concise Introduction to the Practice Of Music, and a Set of Tunes of Various Metres, Arranged Progressively for the Use of Learners (Exeter, NH: N. Sawyer, 1897), by Samuel Holyoke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Academic Manual of the Rudiments of Music (London: Weekes and Co., 1915), by G. Augustus Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New Yor: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)

• Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • text with musical notation: multiple formats at archive.org
  • text only at Gutenberg

• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• 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)
• Musikalische Didaktik, oder, Die Kunst des Unterrichts in der Musik: Ein Nothwendiges Hand- und Hülfsbuch für Alle Lehrer und Lernende der Musik, Erzieher, Schulvorsteher, Organisten, Volkschullehrer &c. (in German; Eisleben: F. Kuhnt, 1851), by Gustav Schilling
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Rural Harmony: Being an Original Composition in Three and Four Parts, for the Use of Singing Schools and Musical Societies (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Jacob Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Harmonia Americana: Containing a Concise Introduction to the Grounds of Music, With a Variety of Airs, Suitable for Divine Worship, and the Use of Musical Societies, Consisting of Three and Four Parts (Boston: Printed by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1791), by Samuel Holyoke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities: Benefits and Challenges for Learning and Assessment (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by H. Cecilia Suhr (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Sweet Olde Irish Songs: A Selection of Famous Celtic Airs and Ballads (New York: Log Cabin Press, 1914), ed. by Robert J. Cole and Harry C. Phibbs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lucy Gayheart (1935), by Willa Cather (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Music in Song, From Chaucer to Tennyson: Being a Selection of Extracts Descriptive of the Power, Influences, and Effects of Music (1883), ed. by L. L. Carmela Koelle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Latin Zenei Paleográfia és a Pray-Kódex Zenei Hangjelzései (in Hungarian; Budapest: Kiadja a Budavári Tudományos Társaság, 1922), by Isoz Kálmán (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Universal Music: The New Note (Atlantic City: The author; London: L. N. Fowler and Co., 1922), by Mrs. L. Dow Balliet (multiple formats at loc.gov)

• A Musicology of Performance: Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin (version 1.2; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Dorottya Fabian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Anuario Musical (in Spanish) (partial serial archives)
• College Music Symposium (partial serial archives)
• The Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon, by Mu Phi Epsilon (partial serial archives)
• African Music (partial serial archives)
• Billboard (partial serial archives)
• Gramophone (1923-) (partial serial archives)
• The Grainger Journal (partial serial archives)
• Recording Musician (British magazine, 1992-1993) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Music Theory (partial serial archives)
• The Etude (full serial archives)
• The Hymn (partial serial archives)
• Musica d'Oggi (in Italian) (partial serial archives)
• The Musical Quarterly (partial serial archives)
• Cash Box (partial serial archives)
• Modern Music (partial serial archives)
• Jacobs' Orchestra Monthly (partial serial archives)
• Music and Letters (partial serial archives)
• The Musical Times (partial serial archives)
• The American Art Journal (1860s weekly; online from volume 5 onward; renamed Watson's Art Journal in 1867) (partial serial archives)
• Benham's Musical Review (partial serial archives)
• The Boston Musical Review (full serial archives)
• Brainard's Musical World (partial serial archives)
• California Musical Journal (partial serial archives)
• Dalibor (in Czech) (partial serial archives)
• Hanover Square, ed. by Lindsay Sloper (partial serial archives)
• La Chronique Musicale: Revue Bimensuelle de l'Art Ancien et Modern (in French; 1873-1876) (partial serial archives)
• Le Courrier Musical (partial serial archives)
• Le Mercure Musical (aka La revue musicale S.I.M.; in French; 1905-1914) (partial serial archives)
• The League of Composers' Review (full serial archives)
• The Musical Antiquary (full serial archives)
• The Musical Courier (partial serial archives)
• The Musical Critic (most issues of this Chicago-based periodical, 1897-1900) (partial serial archives)
• The Musical Million (partial serial archives)
• Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung, ed. by Ludwig Bischoff (partial serial archives)
• Ragtime Review (with recent commentary; 1914-1918) (full serial archives)
• Watson's Art Journal (published in the 1860s and 1870s; renamed from the American Art Journal in 1867) (partial serial archives)
• The Dollar Magazine (ran for 2 volumes; New York: Wilson and Co., 1841-1842), ed. by Nathaniel Parker Willis and H. Hastings Weld (full serial archives)
• Fine Arts Journal (partial serial archives)
• Gazzetta Musicale di Milano (in Italian) (full serial archives)
• Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review (partial serial archives)
• Musik (Danish music periodical, 1917-1925), ed. by Godtfred Skjerne (full serial archives)
• Bayreuther Blätter, contrib. by Richard Wagner (partial serial archives)

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