Music -- History and criticism
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Music -- History and criticism -- Bibliography
- Music -- History and criticism -- Instruction and study
- Music -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature
- Music -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
- Music -- History and criticism -- Sources
- Computer music -- History and criticism
- Dramatic music -- History and criticism
- Folk music -- History and criticism
- Instrumental music -- History and criticism
- Jazz -- History and criticism
- Military music -- History and criticism
- Motion picture music -- History and criticism
- Music -- Performance -- History
- Music, Greek and Roman -- History and criticism
- National music -- History and criticism
- Popular music -- History and criticism
- Vocal music -- History and criticism
- African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism
- Black people -- South Africa -- Music -- History and criticism
- Hausa (African people) -- Music -- History and criticism
- Hupa Indians -- Music -- History and criticism
- Jews -- Music -- History and criticism
- Karok Indians -- Music -- History and criticism
- Music -- 16th century -- History and criticism
- Music -- 17th century -- History and criticism
- Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Music -- Aegean Sea Region -- History and criticism
- Music -- Africa -- History and criticism
- Music -- Africa, West -- History and criticism
- Music -- Asia -- History and criticism
- Music -- Belgium -- History and criticism
- Music -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia -- History and criticism
- Music -- Denmark -- History and criticism
- Music -- Europe -- History and criticism
- Music -- Flanders -- History and criticism
- Music -- France -- History and criticism
- Music -- Germany -- History and criticism
- Music -- Hawaii -- History and criticism
- Music -- Hungary -- History and criticism
- Music -- Indonesia -- Java -- History and criticism
- Music -- Ireland -- History and criticism
- Music -- Israel -- History and criticism
- Music -- Mexico -- History and criticism
- Music -- South Africa -- History and criticism
- Music -- To 500 -- History and criticism
- Music -- United States -- History and criticism
- Palestinian Arabs -- Music -- History and criticism
- Romanies -- Hungary -- Music -- History and criticism
- Yurok Indians -- Music -- History and criticism
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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
- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
- A Trip to Music-Land: A Fairy-Tale, Forming and Allegorical and Pictorial Exposition of the Elements of Music (London: Houlston and Sons, ca. 1875), by Emma L. Shedlock, illust. by J. King James (page images at Florida)
- Famous Composers for Young People (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1945), by Gladys Burch and John Wolcott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Famous Composers for Young People (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1939), by Gladys Burch and John Wolcott (page images at HathiTrust)
- Trans: Transcultural Music Review (in English and Spanish; 1995-) (full serial archives)
- The Public Domain Review (2011-) (full serial archives)
- The Etude (full serial archives)
- La Revue Musicale (in French; 1901-1912) (full serial archives)
- The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Andrew J. Nelson (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
- Zur Geschichte der Instrumental-Musik: Eine Productive Kritik (in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1885), by Hermann Ludwig Eichborn
- Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2019), by Bill Beuttler
- Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Lanham, MD et al.: Scarecrow Press, 2009), by Kendra Preston Leonard (PDF at MLA Commons)
- Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Roger Moseley (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)
- 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)
- A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America (revised edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Craig Hansen Werner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Phonophotography in Folk Music: American Negro Songs in New Notation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1928), by Milton Metfessel, contrib. by Carl E. Seashore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Negro Musicians and Their Music (based on the first and second editions, 1936 and 1943), by Maud Cuney-Hare (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Blues Then and Now: The History of the Blues, by Frank Leanza (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)
- Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music (Somerset West, SA: African Minds, c2008), by Max Mojapelo, ed. by Sello Galane (PDF with commentary at African Minds)
- Glossary of Hausa Music and its Social Contexts (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by David W. Ames and Anthony V. King (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Richard Keeling (HTML at UC Press)
- Judaism in Music, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Die Harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums (2 volumes in German; Cologne: M. Du Mont-Schauberg, 1868-1876), by Albert Thimus (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Richard Keeling (HTML at UC Press)
- Shakespeare and Music, With Illustrations From the Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1896), by Edward W. Naylor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Shakespeare and Music, With Illustrations From the Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1896), by Edward W. Naylor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Beethoven and His Forerunners (New York and London: Macmillan, 1911), by Daniel Gregory Mason (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Beethoven and His Forerunners (New York and London: Macmillan, 1911), by Daniel Gregory Mason (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline (c1934), by Constant Lambert (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Music in the Aegean Bronze Age (1998), by John G. Younger (PDF with rotated pages and commentary at ku.edu)
- Essays on Music and History in Africa (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), ed. by Klaus Wachsmann (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Negro Musicians and Their Music (based on the first and second editions, 1936 and 1943), by Maud Cuney-Hare (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Glossary of Hausa Music and its Social Contexts (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by David W. Ames and Anthony V. King (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
- Belgian Music (second edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1949), by Charles Leirens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dějiny České Hudby (in Czech; Prague: Nakladatelství Hejda & Tuček, ca. 1903), by Zdeněk Nejedlý (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Belgian Music (second edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1949), by Charles Leirens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- French Music in the XIXth Century, by Arthur Hervey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- La Musique dans l'Oeuvre de Marcel Proust (in French; New York: Columbia University, c1933), by Florence Hier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musikalische Denkmäler der Steinätzkunst des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Nebst Beiträgen zur Musikpflege Dieser Zeit (in German; Munich: J. J. Lentner, 1912), by Bertha Antonia Wallner
- Ancient Hawaiian Music (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 29; Honolulu: The Museum, 1926), by Helen H. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
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