The Library
The library contains a continually expanding, invaluable resource for learning and understanding some of the world’s important cultural achievements.
Music Through the Centuries
The Polyphonic Music Era (10th-16th Century)
“The Seeds of the Renaissance” (2016)
“The Mass Through the Centuries” (2008)
15th Century – The Pre-Renaissance
“Sacred Music in the 15th Century”
16th Century – The Renaissance
17th Century – The Forgotten Century
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1557-1612)
Bologna – The Great Music City
Grandi, Alessandro (1575-1630)
North German 17th-Century Choral Music
Learn about Allegri’s famous Miserere
18th Century – The Classical Era
19th Century – The Romantic Era
“Great Late-Romantic Era Symphonies”
20th Century – The Century of Transition
“A Brief Statement about Twentieth-Century Classical Music” (1997)
“Arnold Schönberg – The Father of Negative Music” (1999 – DoveSong.com)
“The Destruction of Our Music” (2010 – from The Scale)
“Nero Fiddles While Rome Burns” (2010 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“Music in the 20th Century” by Don Robertson
Part 1 – “Atonality and Noise” (2005 – DoveSong.com, revised in 2016)
Part 2 – “The Ostracism of the Tonal Composers” (2005 – DoveSong.com, revised in 2016)
Part 3 – “The Hero from Across the Sea” (2005 – DoveSong.com, Revised 2023)
Part 4 – “Minimalism and the Return to Tonality” (2005 – DoveSong.com, revised in 2016)
Part 5 – “The Genesis of New Age Music” (2005 – DoveSong.com, revised in 2016 & 2024)
21st Century – A New Beginning
“Classical Music in the 21st Century” (2000 – DoveSong.com)
The Pioneers
John Adams
Iasos
Karl Jenkins
Manuel Göttsching
John Rutter
Klaus Schulze
21st Century Classical Composers
Ólafur Arnalds
Max Richter
Positive Music
“About Positive Music” (1997)
“What Happened to Good Music?” (1962 unpublished)
“Musical Numerology” (1970 – DoveSong.com)
“The Historic Cycle of Music and Art” (2016 – revised in 2022)
“The Lost Art of Listening to Music” (Sonflower Magazine, May 1980)
“Music” (1983)
“What Happened to the Popular Music of the 1950s” (1998)
Music: State of the Art (2001 – DoveSong.com)
“Popular Music” (2003 – DoveSong.com)
“If Plants Could Sing – Serenading the Marigolds” (2005 – Dovesong.com)
The Evolution of Music
Music from the Americas (North and South)
American Indigenous Music
Afro-American Folksongs, by Henry Edward Krehbiel
On the Trail of Negro Folksongs, by Dorothy Scarborough
Slave Songs of the United States
Appalachian Music
Scots-Irish Influence
Bluegrass Music
Native-American Music
American Primitive Music
Latin Music
The Palladium
Sacred Music Traditions
African American Sacred Music
The Gospel Truth about the Negro Spiritual, by Randye Jones
Glory Hallelujah: The Golden Age of Gospel, by Michael Corcoran
Chicago Gospel
The Martin and Morris Music Company
The Roberta Martin Singers
The Caravans
Dr. Watts
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Books
Southern Gospel Music
Southern Gospel Playlists
The Albert E. Brumley Southern Gospel Singing Festival
Mountain and Bluegrass Gospel Music
The Isaacs
A Tour of Early Gospel Music Records (Southern and African-American)
South of the Border
The Islands
Mexico
Central America
South America
Western Music
Movie Cowboys
Western Swing Music
American and European Popular Music
Popular Music – The Sixties and Beyond
The German Electronic Music Era
The Sanremo Song Festival
Popular Music of the UK
The Beatles
Skiffle and the “British Invasion”
The Moody Blues
Singers
Haley Westenra
Kelly Clarkson
Mariah Carey
European Folk Music
Western Classical Music
Italy
Bologna – The Great Music City
Cazzati, Maurizio (1616-1678)
Colonna, Giovanni Paolo (1637-1695)
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1557-1612)
Grandi, Alessandro (1575-1630)
Renaissance Sacred Music in Rome
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
The Great String Music Era (1680-1750)
Austria
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732-1809)
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
France
Campra, André (1660-1744)
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899)
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Duruflé, Maurice (1902-1986)
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Franck, César (1822-1890)
d’Indy, Vincent (1851-1931)
Vincent d’Indy’s Tableaux de voyage
Magnard, Albéric (1865-1914)
Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880)
Ropartz, Guy (1864-1955)
“Guy Ropartz – A Truly Forgotten Great Composer” (2010 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
The Organs of Paris
Franco-Flemish Composers
Orlando di Lasso (c. 1532 – 1594)
Jacob Obrecht (1457 – 1505)
Germany
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782)
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
About Wagner (Glimpses of Wagner)
“Richard Wagner’s Das Liebesverbot” (2006 – Musikproduktion Höflich, Munich Germany)
North German 17th-Century Choral Music
Russia
The Russian Romantic Music Era
Scriabin, Alexander (1871-1915)
Scandanavia
The Franco-Flemish School
Obrecht, Jacob (c.1458-1505)
Lassus, Orlande de (c.1532-1594)
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Spain
Renaissance Sacred Music in Spain
Victoria, Tomás Luis de (c.1548-1611)
United States of America.
Musicians, Conductors, and Singers
Conductors
Antonia Brico (1902-1989)
Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954)
Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989)
Pianists
Aimi Kobayashi
Glenn Gould
Natálie Schwamová
Sviatoslav Richter
Yuja Wang
Violinists
Cellists
Jacqueline du Pré
Mstislav Rostropovich
Sol Gabetta
Music of Asia
The Music of India
The Music of India
Raga (melody)
The Effects of Ragas in Ancient India
The Vocal Gharanas of North India
Tales of the Effects of Ragas in Ancient India
Shrutis in Indian Music
Individual Ragas and Raga Families
Tala (rhythm)
The Tabla Solo
The Tabla Gharanas
Styles
Dhrupad
Artists
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
Plainsong
Liber Usualis (1961)
The Solesmes Method
The Holy Week Book
“The Music of Holy Week” (2000 – DoveSong.com)
The Secret Mora Vocis of the Vatican Edition
Vesperale (Swann 1913)
Theory, Harmony, Counterpoint & Orchestration
Culture
Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus in 2009
The Decline of Music Culture in the Digital Age, by “The Good Citizen” (2023)
Julia James Davis: The War on Beauty (YouTube)
Art
Positive and Negative Art
Thomas Kinkade
George Lucas
Norman Rockwell (Rising Tide Foundation)
Raphael
Walt Disney
Architecture
Literature
Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and The Sea
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tender is the Night
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
James Joyce – Ulysses 1922 Egoist Press
Thomas Wolfe – Complete Short Stories
Thomas Wolfe – Look Homeward Angel
Thomas Wolfe – Of Time and the River
History
“Psychedelic Daze” – San Francisco Music and Culture – 1965-1969, by Don Robertson