Music
Piano and Song
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Friedrich Wieck
This book talks about teaching, learning and performing on the piano in a delightful style, alternating between conversation and instruction…
The Song Against Songs
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G. K. Chesterton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Octobe…
A Popular History of the Art of Music
Read by Tony Oliva
W. S. B. Mathews
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 compas…
The Baby's Songbook
Read by Carol Stripling
Walter Crane
This is a collection of 14 songs chosen from Walter Crane's "The Baby's Opera" and "The Baby's Bouquet" containing class…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself co…
The Life of Mozart Volume 1
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Otto Jahn
An in depth look into the life of one of the greatest ever composers and musicians. Mozart was truly a gifted individual and this is an inte…
Shakespeare and Music
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Christopher Wilson
Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries mus…
Jazz Fantasia
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Carl Sandburg
As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is cent…
LibriVox 8th Anniversary Collection
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
For the past few years we have celebrated the anniversary of LibriVox with a collection loosely themed on the number of the anniversary year…
Folk Ballad Collection 001
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Various
LibriVox’s first collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection).
Christmas Carol Collection 2010
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Various
LibriVox volunteers get into the festive spirit to bring you this year's selection of carols and Christmas music - both sacred and secular.
Favorite Hymns 01
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Various
From the earliest period of history, God's people have found joy in expressing their praise to Him in song. This is a collection of 30 favo…
Stories From The Operas
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Gladys Davidson
"Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of "Stories from the Operas," it has been decided to re…
LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…
Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Edward Baxter Perry
A look at the poetic motivations behind certain piano works. An understanding of these pieces on purely poetic grounds, with little insight …
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Read by David Wales
Pitts Sanborn
The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies... I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symph…
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bri…
George Frideric Handel
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast …
Schubert And His Works
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Herbert Francis Peyser
This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating…
Public Domain Hymns 01
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Various
"Originally modeled on the Psalms and other poetic passages (commonly referred to as "canticles") in the Scriptures, Christia…