Music Books

How to Sing

Lilli Lehmann

The propose of the book How To Sing is to discuss simply, intelligibly, yet from a scientific point of view, the sensations known to us in singing, and exactly ascertained in my experience, by the exp..

Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician

Frederick Niecks

The first work of some length having Chopin for its subject was Liszt's "Frederic Chopin," which, after appearing in 1851 in the Paris journal "La France musicale," came out in book-form, still in Fre..

On Conducting (Ueber das Dirigiren) - A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music

Richard Wagner

Wagner's Ueber das Dirigiren was published simultaneously in the "Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik" and the "New-Yorker Musik-zeitung," 1869. It was immediately issued in book form, Leipzig, 1869, and is no..

Musical Travels Through England

George Veal

I entered the world, singing, instead of crying; at least, my squall was truly melodious, and ravished the ears of the midwife; tho’, I must confess, the envious old hag of a nurse did pretend that my..

English Folk-Song and Dance

Frank Kidson

The word “folk-song” is so elastic in definition that it has been freely used to indicate types of song and melody that greatly differ from each other. The word conveys a different signification to di..

How to Study Fiorillo

Edith Lynwood Winn

How to Study Fiorillo: A detailed, descriptive analysis of how to practice these studies, based upon the best teachings of representative, modern violin playing. Three years later he went to Lond..

How to Sing

Luisa Tetrazzini

Singers may be divided into two classes. No, I do not mean, as some might suppose, those who can sing and those who cannot, though that is a possible classification. I mean in this case those who sing..

Music and Life

It is the purpose of this book, then, to lead the reader by what capacity he possesses to such an understanding of the art of music as shall make every part of it intelligible to him. And since some r..