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• 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)

• 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)

• Eichberg's Complete Method for the Violin (revised edition; Boston: White, Smith and Company, c1879), by Julius Eichberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing: A New Scientific Method for Obtaining, in the Shortest Possible Time, an Absolute Mastery of the Higher Technical Difficulties of the Left Hand and of the Bow (with parallel texts in English, French, and German; op. 12; New York: C. Fischer, c1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Violins and Violin Makers: Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, Their Followers and Imitators, to the Present Time; With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin (London: Longman and Co.; Sheffield: J. Pearce, Jr., 1866), by Joseph Pearce (Gutenberg text)

• How to Tell the Nationality of Old Violins (second and enlarged edition; 1901), by Balfour and Co. (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lost Stradivarius, by John Meade Falkner (Gutenberg text)
• A Village Stradivarius, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Die Italienische Lira da Braccio: Eine Kunst-Historische Studie zur Geschichte der Violine (in German; Mostar: V. Radovic, 1892), by A. Hajdecki
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Violin and Its Music (London: Dulau and Co., Novell and Co., 1881), by George Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• Advanced Exercises for the Violin (New York: G. Schirmer, c1912), by Franz Kneisel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing: A New Scientific Method for Obtaining, in the Shortest Possible Time, an Absolute Mastery of the Higher Technical Difficulties of the Left Hand and of the Bow (with parallel texts in English, French, and German; op. 12; New York: C. Fischer, c1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale and Chord Exercises for the Violin (Boston: Boston Music Co., c1917), by Eugene W. Ritter and Albert Stoessel (page images at HathiTrust; pages may be in reverse order)
• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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

• 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)

• 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)

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