Music
The Fiddler of Dooney
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William Butler Yeats
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Decembe…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Benjamin Britten: Source Stories of Twelve Operas
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Various
Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than thos…
Physiology of the Opera
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John H. Swaby
Trust Scrici for a tell all, no holds barred exposé of the modern opera . . . well, modern as of . . . er . . . say, 1852. (Summary …
Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked e…
Stories of Symphonic Music
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Lawrence Gilman
'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for sc…
The Art of Music - Volume 01: The Pre-Classic Periods
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Daniel Gregory Mason and The National Society Of Music
Volume 1 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the "Pre-Clas…
He’d Nothing but His Violin
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Mary Kyle Dallas
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of He'd Nothing but His Violin by Mary Kyle Dallas. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March…
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
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Harriette Brower
These stories are gathered from many sources including biographies, letters, journals and musical history. The life story of 25 of the most …
The Roy Rogers Show 45 01 30 The Story Of Tom Barnes, Texas Ranger
Unknown
Along with music, Roy presents a tale of the old west about a Texas Rangers' capture of a murderous gang.
At Home From Church
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Sarah Orne Jewett
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of At Home From Church by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 19…
Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks
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Herbert Francis Peyser
In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowde…
After Music
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Josephine Preston Peabody
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of After Music by Josephine Preston Peabody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 10, 20…
Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic
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Herbert Francis Peyser
[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, pe…
Music from Classical Period
Ranjith Daluwatta
500 - 1500 Music from the Middle Ages and The Renaissance 1500-1750 Music of Baroque Period 1730-1820 Music of Classicism 1820-1910 Mu…
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
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Allan Cunningham
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Mar…
The Best Church Hymns
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Louis Fitzgerald Benson
This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this reco…
Selections from The Army and Navy Hymnal, Volume 2
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Various
This collection was a joint effort by the chaplains of the US Army and the Navy to meet the needs of divine services conducted in the Army a…
Two Musicians
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Sarah Orne Jewett
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Two Musicians by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 16, 2…
Richard Strauss
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Herbert Francis Peyser
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…