Dover Publications

Opera's greatest love story, set to music of incomparable beauty, Tristan und Isolde represents one of the nineteenth century's most revolutionary scores. Wagner's 1865 adaptation of a popular mediev...

German composer Hugo Wolf created one of the great legacies in the art of song. Among his most deeply affecting works were his settings of poems by Goethe and Eichendorff.

Volume I of this multi-part treatise features precise but creative exercises for serious pianists looking to build flexibility and skill. All of these original exercises were written specifically for...

Seventy of the best songs from this great Scottish tradition including 'Auld Lang Syne', 'Blue Bells Of Scotland' and many more.

Wie lange sollte ich üben? Welche Stücke sollte ich einstudieren? Wie kann ich einen singenden Ton entwickeln? Alle Geigerinnen und Geiger stellen sich diese Fragen und streben danach, das Beste aus i...

One of the greatest favourites of the Italian operatic repertoire, whose productions at London's Covent Garden in 1905 (featuring Enrico Caruso, among other luminaries of the day) and New York's Metro...

In dieser einzigartigen Sammlung von Bildern, die Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tschaikowsky, Chopin, Debussy, Strawinsky, Gershwin, Schostakowitsch und andere musikalische Meister in den Mittelpu...

Jean-Philippe Rameau. One of the most important books in the history of Western music, translated, with introduction and notes by Philip Gossett.

Carl E. Seashore. Opens the musical mind, discussing music as a medium, dealing with each aspect from the point of view of the role of psychology.

Theobald Boehm. In acoustical technical and artistic aspects from the man who invented the modern flute.

A treasury of knowledge for musicians, making important contribution to physics, anatomy and physiology in its establishment of the physical theory of music.

Sir James Jeans. A physical analysis of musical sounds, with explanations of the development of the human faculty of hearing, the various methods of producing sounds and the quality of sounds produced...

Harry F. Olson. Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the production, reception and reproduction of sound.

Richard L. Crocker. A clear and systematic presentation to easily follow the evolution of Western musical style from Gregorian Chant to the atonal music of the mid-twentieth century.

Wallace Berry. An inquiry into tonal, textural and rhythmic structures in music, with original formulations and provocative ideas.

A distinguished musicologist explores nineteenth-century French art songs in this fascinating study of the melodies of Berlioz, Liszt, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Fauré, and others. The songs are desc...

Arthur A. Benade. Deals with the fundamental modes of sound production and with the special sound-producing properties of musical instruments.

In this landmark of musical scholarship, the leading 20th-century authority on Jewish music describes and analyzes its elements and characteristics, and chronicles its development from the earliest ap...

This classic introductory text focuses on the polyphonic vocal style perfected by Palestrina. Unlike many other texts, it maintains a careful balance between theoretical and practical problems, betwee...

Anthony Baines. A readable, well-researched history beginning with such primitive contrivances as bark trumpets, conch shells and large Roman horns. Covers their development through the Medieval and R...

Alfred Mann. A classic study of the theory and practise of fugue in two parts - a comprehensive historical survey of writings as the fugue - and an exploration of the four 18th century studies which a...

Here's a great way to learn about orchestra and band instruments while you have fun colouring. It's easy with the realistic illustrations shown in this instructive and entertaining colouring book. Con...