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What the Swallow Sang
Friedrich Spielhagen What the Swallow Sang

A Novel

  • English
  • 101647 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Friedrich Spielhagen (February 24, 1829 – February 25, 1911) was a German novelist, literary theorist and translator. He tried a number of careers in his early 20s, but at 25 began writing and translating. His best known novel is Sturmflut and his novel In Reih' und Glied w... Read more...

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Riley Songs of Home
James Whitcomb Riley Riley Songs of Home
  • English
  • 11677 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively.

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Musical Portraits
Paul Rosenfeld Musical Portraits

Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

  • English
  • 70095 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Paul Leopold Rosenfeld (May 4, 1890 – July 21, 1946) was an American journalist, best known as a music critic. He was born in New York City into a German-Jewish family. He studied at Riverview Military Academy, Poughkeepsie, and Yale University, graduating in 1912.

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Musicians of To-Day
Romain Rolland Musicians of To-Day
  • English
  • 87601 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympath... Read more...

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The Masque of the Elements
Herman Scheffauer The Masque of the Elements
  • English
  • 5999 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Hermann Georg Scheffauer (born 1878 in San Francisco, USA; died October 7, 1927 in Berlin), who wrote in the US under the name Herman George Scheffauer, was a German-American writer and translator.

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Songs of a Sourdough
Robert W. Service Songs of a Sourdough
  • English
  • 12763 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
  • 2
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Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon".[1][2] He is best known for his poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", from his first book, ... Read more...

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A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs
Hubert G. Shearin, Josiah H. Combs A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs
  • English
  • 12104 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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The songs in this group are the survivors of English and Scottish originals, found for the most part in the Child collection. Certain of those given in sections II to XVIII below could doubtless, with due effort, be identified in like manner.

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The Land of Song, Book III
Katherine H. Shute The Land of Song, Book III

For upper grammar grades

  • English
  • 42702 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
  • 2
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Oh Freedom! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art t... Read more...

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The Singing Man
Josephine Preston Peabody The Singing Man

A Book of Songs and Shadows

  • English
  • 8496 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.

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Music-Study in Germany
Amy Fay Music-Study in Germany

from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay

  • English
  • 93686 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
  • 2
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Amelia Muller Fay (born in 1844 in Bayou Goula, Louisiana) was an American concert pianist, manager of the New York Women's Philharmonic Society, and chronicler best known for her memoirs of the European classical music scene.

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