History Theory category: 16752 books
by Adrian Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
A Concise History of the Electric Guitar by Adrian Ingram, one of the world's leading jazz guitar experts, charts the exciting history of the electric guitar from the early decades of the 20th century to the present day. The author covers the entire range of styles and personalities whose impact shaped...
Some Other Note
The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of...
by Elena Abramov-van Rijk
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book takes its departure from an experiment presented by Vincenzo Galilei before his colleagues in the Florentine Camerata in about 1580. This event, namely the first demonstration of the stile recitativo, is known from a single later source, a letter written in 1634 by Pietro dei Bardi, son...
Pieces of Tradition
An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
This book is about how music "in a key" is composed. Further, it is about how such music was composed when it was no longer compulsory to do so, starting a few years before the First World War. In an eclectic journey through the history of compositional technique, Daniel Harrison contends that the...
Wagner's Melodies
Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising difficulties during the nineteenth century of conceptualizing melody. Despite its indispensable place in...
by Aisling Kenny, Susan Wollenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book bridges a gap in existing scholarship by foregrounding the contribution of women to the nineteenth-century Lied. Building on the pioneering work of scholars in recent years, it consolidates recent research on women’s achievements in the genre, and develops an alternative narrative of the...
by Ellen Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa....
A History of the Oratorio
Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look to these volumes as an...
All Ears
The Aesthetics of Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized...
The Russian Revolution
A View from the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy
In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the...
Learning from the Left
Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo. Learning from the Left provides the first historic overview of their work. Spanning...
John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal
The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The summer of 1830 stirred revolutionary desires in young hearts across Europe. More than a generation of war and political instability had failed to dampen the fervor still felt from the French Revolution. In England the Cambridge Apostles took up the cause of the Spanish émigrés so movingly visible...
Lying in Early Modern English Culture
From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social...
Beckett on Screen
The television Plays
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett’s television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual arts.