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These letters document Mendelssohn’s travels through Italy and Switzerland and offer first-person evidence for his reactions to landscape, art, cities, performers, religious music and social life. They are especially valuable because the travel years overlap with a period of major artistic development and with works whose later reception…

Gehrkens treats conducting as a teachable discipline, moving from personal qualities and baton mechanics through tempo, dynamics, timbre, phrasing, rehearsal efficiency, orchestral leadership, community chorus work, church choirs and program building.

Published in Boston in 1907, this volume belongs to the historical literature through which musicians, critics and teachers organized knowledge about its subject. Its value in Classical Archive is not only bibliographic: the dossier records the edition identity, principal responsibility, publication context and the work's likely research role,…

Fillebrown develops a pedagogical account of resonance, tone placement and the relation between speaking and singing. The text reflects the strong early twentieth-century interest in explaining vocal efficiency through resonating cavities and sensory images.

Lessons in Music Form by Percy Goetschius is an important historical contribution to musical form / pedagogy. The work combines factual information with the author’s critical or pedagogical viewpoint and provides evidence about the musical priorities, repertory and intellectual debates of its period.

Curiosities of Music is a reference work designed to condense musical terminology, concepts and historical information for students and practitioners. Its arrangement makes it useful for tracing the vocabulary and assumptions of music education in its period.