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History

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W. S. B. Mathews - Popular History of the Art of Music

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 single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and many-sided later...

Tony Oliva 14 hours 50 minutes

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447

Aubertine Woodward Moore - For Every Music Lover

A series of essays for music lovers, covering many topics. From music appreciation, to violin and symphony, music education, to piano and, in fact, the very origins of music, there is sure to be something for...

Patrick Wells and 8 more 4 hours 46 minutes

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Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation

Historical Fiction

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Owen Wister - Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation

Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bringing news and a spiritual crisis. It's really more of a novella than a...

David Wales 1 hour 12 minutes

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May Gillington Byron - Days with the Great Composers

An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, but interestingly. (Summary by David Wales) Note: This is a compilation...

David Wales 7 hours 33 minutes

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Poetry

422

Billy Mortimer - Fifty Cents

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Fifty Cents by Billy Mortimer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 21, 2011. Originally published in 1881 as a song, with music by Dan Lewis. (Summary by...

David Lawrence and 8 more 25 minutes

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George Bernard Shaw - Perfect Wagnerite

The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. Shaw...

Bob Neufeld 4 hours 46 minutes

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430

Christopher Wilson - Shakespeare and Music

Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries musicians and composers have also created musical adaptations based on...

Elizabeth Klett and 4 more 6 hours 3 minutes

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Romance

425

Jessie Fothergill - First Violin

May Wedderburn is a quiet provincial girl, living in small and seemingly boring Skernford. Underneath the dull exterior, there is mystery, suspicion and fear in this little town, surrounding the austere local...

Sandra G 15 hours 50 minutes

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Henry Edward Krehbiel - How to Listen to Music

This book is «not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art». It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instruments, venues — and when to believe the critics. (Summary by Sarah...

Ruth Golding and 6 more 6 hours 47 minutes

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Friedrich Wieck - Piano and Song

This book talks about teaching, learning and performing on the piano in a delightful style, alternating between conversation and instruction. As he was the father of Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann's teacher, need...

Alan 4 hours 18 minutes

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Music

479

Public Domain Hymns 01

«Originally modeled on the Psalms and other poetic passages (commonly referred to as „canticles“) in the Scriptures, Christian hymns are generally directed as praise and worship to the monotheistic God. Many refer to...

Sam Stinson and 8 more 2 hours 41 minutes

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Albert Schweitzer - J.S. Bach, Volume 1

An analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious world in which he acted. (Introduction by Kathleen Norland)

Kathleen Norland and 1 more 6 hours 47 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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