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One of the influential American music-appreciation books of the period, addressing attentive listening, musical forms, opera and concert repertory.

A continuation of Krehbiel’s repertory guide, extending the historical and critical discussion to additional operas and early twentieth-century stage practice.

Krehbiel reconstructs aspects of eighteenth-century musical life through essays dealing with opera, singers, Mozart, Beethoven-era culture and the social circumstances of performance. The volume is particularly useful for contextual history because it looks beyond scores toward patronage, theatres, personalities, habits and documentary anecdotes that shaped the classical period…

This study examines spirituals, slave songs, Creole repertory, modal traits, rhythm, dance and links between African and African-American traditions. Its documentation is historically significant, but its terminology and racial theories reflect the assumptions of its era and must be read critically. As a source, it is valuable both…

Essays on Wagner's dramatic method, mythic sources, leitmotifs and the interpretation of the music dramas.

Published in New York in 1908, 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…

Published in New York in 1919, 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…

Published in New York in 1911, 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…

Published in New York in 1903, 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…