History Theory category: 16752 books
Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
The Oxford History of Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative...
Sonata Fragments
Romantic Narratives in Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs contrary to conventional theories of the...
by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One of most important books in Western music. Detailed explanation of principles of diatonic harmonic theory. New 1971 translation by Philip Gossett of 1722 edition. Many musical examples.
by Christopher Hasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1997
In this book Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern "process" philosophy, he advances a fully temporal perspective in which meter is released from its mechanistic connotations and recognized as a concrete, visceral agent of musical...
The Black Musician and the White City
Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular...
Extended Play
Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1994
In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn....
Grand Old Party
A History of the Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
From Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War through the disputed election of George W. Bush and beyond, the Republican Party has been at the dramatic center of American politics for 150 years. In Grand Old Party, the first comprehensive history of the Republicans in 40 years, Lewis L. Gould traces the...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The Roman Empire has seen all sorts of leaders - from brilliant to controversial. Knowing these leaders will help you understand the living situations during the time of their reign. The purpose of this educational book is to give your child the knowledge required to enjoy history. This book makes the perfect companion for “quiet time.” Grab a copy now!
No Less Than Mystic
A History of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for a 21st-Century Left
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes.
Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism, 1917, the Russian...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories collection. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an...
Putting Modernism Together
Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era—which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression—there was a special belligerence to...
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Performing Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Before his mysterious murder in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini had become famous—and infamous—not only for his groundbreaking films and literary works but also for his homosexuality and criticism of capitalism, colonialism, and Western materialism. In Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship, Gian...
The Information Master
Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."
---Peter Burke, University...
by Mathew R. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic...