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• Fundamentals of Piano Practice (electronic edition, c2009), by Chuan C. Chang (PDF with commentary at pianopractice.org)
• The Aesthetics of Pianoforte-Playing (translated from the third German edition; New York: G. Schirmer, 1907), by Adolf Kullak, ed. by Hans Bischoff, trans. by Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe Über den Unterricht auf dem Pianoforte vom Anfange bis zur Ausbildung als Anhang zu Jeder Clavierschule (in German; Vienna: A. Diabelli, ca. 1839?), by Carl Czerny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Master Rules for Successful Piano Practice (Philadelphia: T. Presser Co., c1910), ed. by James Francis Cooke, contrib. by Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Amy Fay, John J. Hattstaedt, Emil Liebling, Louis G. Heinze, Perlee V. Jervis, Ernest R. Kroeger, Alexander Lambert, B. J. Lang, F. H. Shepard, William H. Sherwood, Marie von Unschuld, Charles E. Watt, Leopold Winkler, Francis L. York, J. De Zielinski, Robert Schumann, and Ernest Lent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Masters of the Keyboard (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1926), by Harriette Brower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Piano Mastery, Second Series: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers (first series; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1917), by Harriette Brower (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers (first series; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1915), by Harriette Brower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Class Piano (Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, c1969), by Margaret Starr McLain (HTML at Indiana)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Theory and Practice of Pianoforte Building (New York: E. L. Bill, ca. 1906), by William Braid White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pianoforte: Its Origin, Progress, and Construction (with a selection of specimens of music; London: R. Cocks and Co., 1860), by Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gibson Upright (1919), by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson (Gutenberg text)

• The Pianoforte: Its Origin, Progress, and Construction (with a selection of specimens of music; London: R. Cocks and Co., 1860), by Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les Rythmes du Regard et la Dissociation des Doigts (in French; Paris: Lib. Fischbacher, 1906), by Marie Jaëll
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Pianolist: A Guide for Pianola Players (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1907), by Gustav Kobbé (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• 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)

• A Method for Pipe Organ: A Series of One Hundred Graded Lessons in Two Volumes (Cincinnati et al.: J. Church Co., c1917), by Clarence Eddy
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• School of Organ Playing: Based Upon the Course of Instruction of the Schola Cantorum, Paris (op. 31; Boston et al.: Boston Music Co., c1921), by Edward Shippen Barnes
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Manual of Bel Canto (New York: Coward-McCann, c1959), by Ida Franca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Montell Vocal Technique (Miami: Montell Foundation, c1950), by Marjorie Montell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your Voice: Applied Science of Vocal Art, Singing and Speaking (New York and Chicago: Pitman Pub. Corp., c1945), by Douglas Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte e Fisiologia del Canto (in Italian; Milan et al.: G. Ricordi, 1876), by E. Delle Sedie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caruso's Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by P. Mario Marafioti (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Garcia's New Treatise on the Art of Singing: A Compendious Method of Instruction, With Examples and Exercises for the Cultivation of the Voice (revised edition; Boston: O. Ditson company; et al., ca. 1870), by Manuel Garcia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Modern Italian Method of Singing; With a Variety of Progressive Examples, and Thirty Six Solfeggi (London: Printed by Rt. Birchall, ca. 1795), by Giuseppe Aprile (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Art of Singing (revised edition; New York: G. Schirmer, c1890), by Francesco Lamperti, trans. by J. C. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo, by Patrick Costello (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Concepts in String Playing: Reflections by Artist-Teachers at the Indiana University School of Music (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1979), ed. by Murray Grodner (HTML and Epub at Project MUSE)

• Oriental Music in European Notation, ed. by A. M. C. Mudaliyar (partial serial archives)

• Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method (c2020), by Chelsea Green (multiple formats with video and commentary at rebus.community)

• A Jazz Improvisation Primer, by Marc Sabatella (HTML at outsideshore.com)

• 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)
• Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), ed. by Olivia R. Lucas and Laura Moore Pruett (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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)

• School of Organ Playing: Based Upon the Course of Instruction of the Schola Cantorum, Paris (op. 31; Boston et al.: Boston Music Co., c1921), by Edward Shippen Barnes
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Music and the Child (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2016), by Natalie Rose Sarrazin (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)

• Modern Singing Methods: Their Use and Abuse (c1885), by J. Frank Botume
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Systematic Voice Training (New York: Remick Music, c1910), by D. A. Clippinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vox Populi: A Sequel to The Philosophy of Voice (London: W. Reeves, ca. 1880), by Charles Lunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation (sixth edition; New York: G. Schirmer; Boston: Boston Music Co., c1910), by Frank E. Miller, contrib. by Gustav Kobbé (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and MIDI)

• The Voice of the Century: The Culture of Italian Bel Canto in Luisa Tetrazzini's Recorded Interpretations (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Massimo Zicari (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London: John Playford, 1655), by John Playford (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Basic Principles of Violin Playing: A Report Prepared for the MENC Committee on String Instruction in the Schools (Washington: Music Educators National Conference, c1959), by Paul Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (second revised edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1907), by F. A. Steinhausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (fourth edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1920), by F. A. Steinhausen, ed. by Arnold Schering (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London: John Playford, 1655), by John Playford (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• The Spivakovsky Way of Bowing for Violinists and Violists (Pittsburgh: Volkwein Bros., c1949), by Gaylord Yost (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

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