Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries musicians and...
Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life composed...
Until relatively recently, music students at all levels of study—from the conservatories to public schools—had few resources available for the formal...
Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a sin...
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have inf...
Originally published in 1906, this book is essentially a how to guide on music appreciation. Includes sections on the pianoforte, orchestral, and voca...
A series of essays for music lovers, covering many topics. From music appreciation, to violin and symphony, music education, to piano and, in fact, th...
This book talks about teaching, learning and performing on the piano in a delightful style, alternating between conversation and instruction. As he wa...
Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievemen...
Puccini was certainly a man of his kind, and unapologetic to boot. Attitudes towards music and especially towards things people are unfamiliar with ne...
Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than those of any o...
Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added be...
George Grove, whose name now stands atop music scholarship’s most important resource (the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians), takes readers thro...
In Damn! A Book of Calumny, H.L. Mencken gives his opinion on a wide variety of subjects ranging from William Jennings Bryan, through Classical Music,...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline". He was also the firs...
It is a short play in two acts with musical numbers interspersed throughout. Think of it as akin to an episode of a modern sitcom with music ... mindl...
The book is a critique of Richard Wagner and the announcement of Nietzsche's rupture with the German artist, who had involved himself too much, in Nie...
This book is "not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art". It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instrument...
The Soul of a Man is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Wim Wenders, as the second instalment of the documentary film series The Blues, produced by...
The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1915 by Rudyard Kipling. The booklet contains essays and poems about nautical subjects in World War I...
A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James...
