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Newman’s essays range across Berlioz, Richard Strauss, programme music, Wagner, literary-musical questions and the psychology of criticism. Much of the material originated in periodical writing but was substantially revised for book publication. The result is an important document of early twentieth-century English criticism, notable for its argumentative style…

Macfarren compresses a general history of music into a technically informed narrative and supplements it with a chronological roll of musicians. Derived in part from his Encyclopaedia Britannica writing, the book is a useful snapshot of British music history teaching in the 1880s, showing what periods, composers and…

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…

This expanded dossier identifies The Present State of Music in France and Italy by Charles Burney, with edition-level publication data and normalized title/author variants for reliable retrieval. The work is treated as both a bibliographic object and a historical source, so its contemporary terminology and judgements remain visible…

Garcia presents a concise question-and-answer account of vocal production, registers, breathing, attack, timbre, articulation, ornament, portamento, trill, phrasing and style. The English edition was associated with Beata Garcia and transmits principles from one of the most influential nineteenth-century singing teachers.

This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…

This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…

This biography or documentary study follows Johannes Brahms through the personal, professional and cultural circumstances in which the music was created. The dossier links chronology with works, correspondence, institutions, patrons, performers and reception so that the volume can be used both as a narrative biography and as an…

Artur Schnabel: A Biography is a substantial biographical source on Artur Schnabel. Substantial post-war biography of Schnabel, valuable as an early documentary account of his Viennese background, chamber partnerships, Beethoven reputation, emigration, teaching and recording career. The dossier treats the book not merely as a life narrative but…

Unfinished Journey is a substantial biographical source on Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin’s autobiography, following the child-prodigy years, teachers Louis Persinger and George Enescu, relations with Furtwängler, Bartók, Britten, Oistrakh and other major musicians, and his developing ideas about technique, education and musical responsibility. The dossier treats the book not…

Stokowski: A Counterpoint of View is a substantial biographical source on Leopold Stokowski. Monumental biography based on hundreds of interviews, correspondence and archival research, covering Stokowski’s origins, Philadelphia years, premieres, recording innovations, broadcasting, Hollywood, new-music advocacy and exceptionally long conducting career. The dossier treats the book not merely…