Music
The Pianoforte Sonata
Read by Jordan Watts
John South Shedlock
John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at t…
Hour of Charm
Various
A WW2-era show featuring an all girl orchestra and chorus, playing a variety of songs.
October (Coates version)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Florence Earle Coates
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of October by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 9, 2011.Mrs.…
The Symphony Since Beethoven
Read by realisticspeakers
Felix Weingartner and Felix Weingartner
This 1904 book by composer, conductor and pianist Felix Weingartner examines the development of the symphony as a musical form since one of …
Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
Read by James R. Hedrick
Jerry Cree Fischer
This is a primer for anyone wishing to learn how to tune and maintain their own piano or to become a piano tuner. Written in 1907, it was ta…
Mozart's Youth
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Franz Hoffmann and Franz Hoffmann
This short account of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is part of the “Life Stories for Young People” series. It is written in an engaging …
AFRS-V-Disc-8
dont1961
The Army was the original source of the V-Disc records, with their first being issued in October of 1943.The Army's V-Disc project provided …
CBS Radio At Fifty 77 09 18 An Autobiography In Sound With Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite hosts this 3 hour retrospective on the history of CBS Radio from its beginnings up through to the date of this broadcast. Th…
The Book of Musical Knowledge
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Arthur Elson
This book has been planned with a view to placing before the general reader the main facts that will enable him to appreciate music intellig…
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol. I
Read by mkirkpat
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Grace Jane Wallace
This volume, the first volume of a two-volume set, contains 140 letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from 1769-1781. It has been trans…
Music
Read by Martha H. Weller
Ursula Creighton
"So many books are written for beginners on the appreciation of music that I can be thankful that advancing age makes it unnecessary fo…
Thirty Minutes In Hollywood 37 10 24 Guest Judy Garland
Unknown
Hosted by George Jessel. Seven-year old Josephine Starr sings an aria. Jessel introduces "fifteen-year-old" Judy Garla…
The Big Show 50 12 17 The Big Show 50 12 17 Bob Hope Phil Harris Martin & Lewis
Bob Hope tries to gets Tallulah to appear on his show. Meredith Wilson plays "The Thing." Louis Armstrong performs "Ain't Mis…
The Seven Lively Arts
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Gilbert Seldes
“... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a…
Handel
Read by mkirkpat
Romain Rolland
As Romain Rolland indicates in the preface, this book is a brief sketch of the life and technique of Handel. He provides biographical backgr…
Anecdotes of Great Musicians
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Willey Francis Gates
Three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers.I have attempted to cull from the mass of material that…
Jazz
Read by Ben Tucker
R. P. Jones
Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” em…
Why We Love Music
Read by realisticspeakers
Carl Emil Seashore
Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …
Join The Navy - Cmdr. Charles Brendler
dont1961
Cmdr. Charles Brendler 1898-1965 Charles Brendler was born in 1898 and joined the Navy at the age of 15 in 1913. His enlistment began in two…