SUBJECT INDEX:
MUSIC
- MUSIC: Ethnic
- MUSIC: General
- MUSIC: Genres & Styles
- MUSIC: History & Criticism
- MUSIC: Instruction & Study
- MUSIC: Musical Instruments
- MUSIC: Reference
- MUSIC: Religious
- Ambrosiana at Harvard
- This collection of ten essays constitutes the proceedings of a two-day conference held at Harvard in October 2007. The conference focused on three medieval manuscripts of Ambrosian chant owned by Houghton Library. The generously illustrated essays explore the manuscripts as physical objects and place them in their urban and historical contexts, as well as in the musical and ecclesiastical context of Milan, Italy, and medieval Europe.
- Paperback 2009
- Analog Days
- Tracing the development of the Moog synthesizer from its initial conception to its ascension to stardom in Switched-On Bach, from its contribution to the San Francisco psychedelic sound, to its wholesale adoption by the worlds of film and advertising, Analog Days conveys the excitement, uncertainties, and unexpected consequences of a new technology that would provide the soundtrack for a critical chapter of our cultural history.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Arnold Schoenberg's Journey
- Proposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's fascinating world in a series of linked essays--"soundings"--that are both searching and wonderfully suggestive. Approaching Schoenberg primarily from the listener's point of view, Shawn plunges into the details of some of Schoenberg's works while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvements in music, painting, and the history through which he lived.
- Paperback 2003
- Bach
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Bach and the Patterns of Invention
- In this major new interpretation of the music of J.S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2004
- Bach's Continuo Group
- When Bach's cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer's direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework? Bach's Continuo Group answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions.
- Paperback 1990
- Ballads and Sea-Songs of Newfoundland
- Hardcover 1933
- Beethoven
- Hardcover 1992
- Beethoven Essays
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
- Beethoven Essays
- Hardcover 1984
- Berlioz
- For three decades, beginning with the Symphonie fantastique composed in 1830, Berlioz and his music embodied the élan and exuberance of the Romantic era. This captivating and sumptuously illustrated biography is not only a complete account of Berlioz's life, but an acute analysis of his compositions and description of his work as conductor and critic, as well as a vivid picture of his musical world. D. Kern Holoman paints a full-length portrait of Berlioz: his personal and family life, his intellectual development and pursuits, his methods of composing (Berlioz at his work table, so to speak), the aim and style of his music criticism and travel writing, his innovations in staging and conducting performances, and his interaction with other composers.
- Hardcover 1989
- Blows Like a Horn
- Reopening the canons of the Beat Generation, Whaley traces the creative counterculture movement as it cooked in the heat of Bay Area streets and exploded into spectacles, such as the scandal of the Howl trial and the pop culture joke of beatnik caricatures. The book breaks new ground in showing how jazz, much more than an ambient soundtrack, shaped the very structures of Beat art and social life. The poetry, the music, the style--all of these helped transform U.S. culture in ways that are still with us.
- Hardcover 2004
- Born in Flames
- Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hardnosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged space between Apocalypse Now Redux and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," his writing breaks down barriers of ignorance and arrogance that have segregated art forms from each other and from the world at large. Born in Flames is a headlong plunge into the passions and disruptive power of art.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008
- Brahms and the German Spirit
- Beller-McKenna counters music historians's reluctance to address Brahms's Germanness, wary perhaps of fascist implications. He gives an account of the intertwining of nationalism, politics, and religion that underlies major works, and enriches both our understanding of his art and German culture.
- Hardcover 2004
- The Century of Bach & Mozart
- For many today Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stand as towering representatives of European music of the eighteenth century, composers whose works reflect intellectual, religious, and aesthetic trends of the period. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the field offers a variety of new perspectives on the two composers, as well as some of their important contemporaries, Haydn in particular.
- Hardcover 2008 / Paperback 2009
- Chopin at the Boundaries
- The complex status of Chopin in our culture--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, and a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Jeffrey Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, this is the first book to situate Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century
- Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century is the most comprehensive account ever given of the theory behind the music of Baroque and Classical composers, from Bach to Beethoven. While giving preeminent theorists their due in this panoramic survey of musical thought, Joel Lester also examines the works of more than one hundred seventeenth- and eighteenth century writers to show how prominent theories were received and applied in actual teaching situations. Beginning with the influence of Zarlino and seventeenth-century theorists, Lester then focuses on central traditions emerging from definitive works in the early eighteenth century. Lester's historic overview is leavened throughout with accounts of individual composers grappling with theoretical issues.
- Paperback 1994
- Contemplating Music
- Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years; a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1986
- Critical Entertainments
- An extraordinarily gifted musician and writer, Charles Rosen is a peerless commentator on the history and performance of music. Critical Entertainments brings together many of the essays that have established him as one of the most influential and eloquent voices in the field of music in our time. These essays cover a broad range of musical forms, historical periods, and issues, courting controversy and offering enlightenment on subjects as diverse as music dictionaries and the aesthetics of stage fright.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- Dancing in the Street
- Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr.; dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas; facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown--as both musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenon--and of its intrinsic relationship to the politics and culture of Motor Town, USA. Here we see Motown's music not as the mere soundtrack for its historical moment but as an active agent in the civil rights movement and the politics of the time.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- Darker than Blue
- Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois’ intellectual and political legacy. With his brilliant, provocative analysis and astonishing range of reference, Gilroy revitalizes the study of African American culture. He traces the shifting character of black intellectual and social movements, and shows how we can construct an account of moral progress that reflects today’s complex realities.
- Hardcover 2010
- Dead Elvis
- As he listens in on the public conversation that recreates Elvis after death, Marcus tracks the path of Presley's resurrection. He grafts together scattered fragments of the eclectic dialogue--snatches of movies and music, books and newspapers, photographs, posters, cartoons--and amazes us with not only what America has been saying as it raises its late king, but also what this strange obsession with a dead Elvis can tell us about America itself.
- Paperback 1999
- Folk-Songs of the South
- Hardcover 1925
- Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't
- In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- Grown Up All Wrong
- Two generations of American music lovers have grown up listening with Robert Christgau, attuned to his inimitable blend of judgment, acuity, passion, erudition, wit, and caveat emptor. His writings, collected here, constitute a virtual encyclopedia of popular music over the past fifty years, ranging from the 1950s singer-songwriter tradition through hip-hop, alternative, and beyond. With unfailing style and grace, Christgau negotiates the straits of great music and thorny politics, and commerce.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Handel as Orpheus
- Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments that describe the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty. This work brings greater understanding of Handel's development as a composer and new insight into the role of sexuality in artistic expression.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
- An incomparable guide to 5500, figures in the history of music, this volume brings together all the pertinent biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists, and instrument makers from the days of praise chants to the bop and pop of today.
- Hardcover 1996
- The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- This compact guide to the history and performance of music is an authoritative reference work, offering definitions of musical terms; succinct characterizations of the various forms of musical composition; entries that identify individual operas, oratorios, symphonic poems, and other works; illustrated descriptions of instruments; and capsule summaries of the lives and careers of composers, performers, and theorists. Like its distinguished parent volumes, The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians provides clearly written information on all periods in music history, with particularly comprehensive coverage of the twentieth century.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002
- Harvard Dictionary of Music
- A classic and invaluable reference work for over thirty years. Soon after its initial publication, the Harvard Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel was firmly established as a standard and essential resource for everyone concerned with music. The product of exceptional scholarship, it was praised as being comprehensive, concise, authoritative, scholarly, and enjoyable. Leopold Stokowski wrote, "I so often consult your dictionary of music, and with such never failing enlightenment, that I must offer you my thanks for your unique book, so profound and so broad in scope ... The vast scholarship ... is of immeasurable value to the whole world of music." The Christian Science Monitor called it "a highly satisfying book of musical knowledge, in which basic definitions are given with fine intellectual integrity, and musical facts are carefully separated from plausible deductions or theories."
- Hardcover
- The Harvard Dictionary of Music
- This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Harvard University Hymn Book
- Hardcover 1964
- The Harvard University Hymn Book
- Since 1892, Harvard University, like many distinguished academic institutions, has compiled a hymnal for use in its own worship services. The fourth edition of The Harvard University Hymn Book represents the culmination of a ten-year process of revision and re-creation based on the 1964 third edition.
- Hardcover 2007
- Haydn and the Classical Variation
- Hardcover
- How Sweet the Sound
- Musical expression is at the heart of the American spiritual experience. And nowhere can you gauge the depth of spiritual belief and practice more than through the music that fills America's houses of worship. How Sweet the Sound traces the evolution of sacred music from colonial times to the present, from the Puritans to Sun Ra, and shows how these cultural encounters have produced a rich harvest of song and faith.
- Hardcover 2004
- I-VI
- Mixed 1990 / Mixed
- In the Fascist Bathroom
- Was punk just another moment in music history? Greil Marcus, author of the renowned Lipstick Traces, delves into the after-life of punk as a much richer phenomenon--a form of artistic and social rebellion that continually erupts into popular culture. In more than seventy short pieces written over fifteen years, he traces the uncompromising strands of punk from Johnny Rotten to Elvis Costello, Sonic Youth, even Bruce Springsteen.
- Paperback 1999
- Inside Beethoven's Quartets
- The string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven have rewarded the engagement of scholars, performers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. This book and its accompanying recording invite you to experience three of these profound and beautiful works of music from the inside, with a renowned Beethoven scholar and the Julliand Quartet as your guides.
- Mixed 2008
- Instruments of Desire
- Around 1930, a group of guitar designers in Southern California fitted instruments with an electromagnetic device called a pickup and forever changed the face of popular music. Taken up by musicians as diverse as Les Paul, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, and the MC5, the electric guitar would become not just a conduit of electrifying new sounds but also a symbol of energy, innovation, and desire in the music of the day. Instruments of Desire is the first full account of the historical and cultural significance of the electric guitar, a wide-ranging exploration of how and why the instrument has had such broad musical and cultural impact.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- The King's Theatre Collection
- With over 1,400 entries and 33 illustrations, this volume provides a window into the historical significance of the King's Theatre to the cultural life of London and abroad, and will appeal to musicologists, historians, theater scholars, and librarians interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera and ballet.
- Paperback 2006
- The King's Theatre Collection
- The John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection of the Harvard Theatre Collection is comprised of thousands of books, scores, librettos, playbills, illustrations, and ephemera relating to public performances that incorporate music and dance in an essential way. With over 1,600 entries and 40 color illustrations, this volume provides a window into the historical significance of the King's Theatre to the cultural life of London and abroad.
- Paperback 2006
- Late Idyll
- In this elegant book, premier musicologist Reinhold Brinkmann guides us through Brahms's "Second Symphony," examining musical ideas in all their compositional facets and placing them in the context of major trends in the intellectual history of late nineteenth-century Europe.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga von Meyendorff, 1871-1886
- Hardcover 1979
- Lipstick Traces
- This is a secret history of modern times, told by way of what conventional history tries to exclude. Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
- Paperback 2009
- Magic Circles
- Delving into concerts and interviews, films and music, outtakes and bootlegs, Devin McKinney brings to bear the insights of history, aesthetics, sociology, psychology, and mythology to account for the depth and resonance of the Beatles' impact. His book is also a uniquely multifaceted appreciation of the group's artistic achievement, exploring their music as both timeless expression and visceral response to their historical moment.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004
- The Maze and the Warrior
- Craig Wright explores the complex symbolism of the labyrinth in architecture, religious thought, music, and dance from the Middle Ages to the present.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004
- Motives for Allusion
- When a critic pointed out to Brahms that the finale theme in his First Symphony was remarkably similar to the Ode to Joy theme in Beethoven's Ninth, he is said to have replied: "Yes indeed, and what's really remarkable is that every jackass notices this at once." Not every musical borrowing is quite so obvious; but the listener who does perceive one is always left wondering: what does the similarity mean? In this illuminating book Christopher Reynolds gives us answers to that complex question. He identifies specific borrowings or allusions in a wide range of nineteenth-century music and shows the kinds of things composers do with borrowed musical ideas.
- Hardcover 2003
- Mozart
- The results and implications of Alan Tyson's work on Mozart have had a profound impact on virtually every aspect of research on this composer: biography, chronology of compositions, working methods, stylistic analysis. This book assembles his major articles, previously scattered through magazines, journals, and festschrifts, plus two unpublished pieces, into a treasure trove for musicologists and music lovers. Tyson's style is clear and elegant, and the originality of his work and the soundness of his inferences make this book a pleasure.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990
- Music Manuscripts at Harvard
- A catalogue of music manuscripts from the 14th to the 20th centuries in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library. Includes descriptions of works by Bach, Liszt, Mahler, Mozart, Purcell, Schoenberg, Schubert, Strauss, Wagner, and many others.
- Paperback 2005
- Music and Imagination
- Hardcover 1952 / Paperback 1952
- Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity
- For most music historians, the modernism of the twentieth century was until recently the only appearance of the "modern" in music. The widely perceived recent decline of musical modernism makes it now possible to see the modernism of the twentieth century as a chapter in a much longer story. The principal purpose of the present book is to encourage a debate over musical modernity; a debate that would consider the question whether an examination of the history of European art music may enrich our picture of modernity and whether our understanding of music's development may be transformed by insights into the nature of modernity provided by other historical disciplines.
- Hardcover 2005
- Music and the Historical Imagination
- Leo Theitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical analysis. In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be. His aim is an understanding of the music of the past not only in its own historical context but also as we apprehend it now, and as we assimilate it to our current interests and concerns. He elucidates his views through unique new interpretations of major works from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1990
- On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs
- Hardcover 1925
- Opera
- Our modern narratives of science and technology can only go so far in teaching us about the death that we must all finally face. Might opera, an art form steeped in death, teach us how to die, as this provocative work suggests? In Opera: The Art of Dying a physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons on living and dying that this extravagant and seemingly artificial art imparts.
- Hardcover 2004
- The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume IX, La Statira
- Paperback 1985
- The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume VIII, Tigrane
- Paperback 1983
- Orientations
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1990
- Performing Rites
- In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject--and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Pierre Boulez
- Hardcover
- Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
- Hardcover 1970 / Paperback 1993
- Pyramids at the Louvre
- Hardcover
- Remembering the Future
- In Remembering the Future Luciano Berio shares with us some musical experiences that "invite us to revise or suspend our relation with the past and to rediscover it as part of a future trajectory." His scintillating meditation on music and the ways of experiencing it reflects the composer's profound understanding of the history and contemporary practice of his art. Berio's tone is conversational, often playful, punctuated by arresting aphorisms.
- Hardcover 2006
- Rig Veda
- Hardcover
- A Right to Sing the Blues
- "Black-Jewish relations," Jeffrey Melnick argues, has mostly been a way for American Jews to talk about their ambivalent racial status, a narrative collectively constructed at critical moments, when particular conflicts demand an explanation. Remarkably flexible, this narrative can organize diffuse materials into a coherent story that has a powerful hold on our imagination. Melnick elaborates this idea through an in-depth look at Jewish songwriters, composers, and perfomers who made "Black" music in the first few decades of this century.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- Robert Schumann
- Arguably no other nineteenth-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Finson challenges long-standing assumptions about Schumann's Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. Arranged in part thematically, rather than merely by strict compositional chronology, this book speaks to the heart of Schumann's music.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Romantic Generation
- What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this highly praised volume does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sense of Romantic music.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998
- Samaveda Samhita of the Kauthuma School
- The Samaveda contains the earliest tradition of music from India. It presents largely Rigvedic textual material in a form arranged for singing in the solemn Srauta ritual. Since the first editions by Theodor Benfey (1848) and Satyavrata Samasrami (1874-1899), there has been no complete, accented edition that also included all its important commentaries. The present edition is based on manuscripts collected from all over India and Europe. B. R. Sharma, Dean of Samaveda Studies, presents the accented text, its Padapatha, and the commentaries of Madhava, Bharata-Svamin, and Sayana in three volumes totaling 2,500 pages.
- Hardcover 2001
- Selling Sounds
From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman’s Selling Sounds explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of a radically new musical culture. Provocative, original, and lucidly written, Selling Sounds reveals the commercial architecture of America’s musical life.
- Hardcover 2009
- Serbocroatian Heroic Songs, Volume 14, Biha´c Krajina” Epics from Biha´c, Cazin, and Kulen
- Hardcover 1980
- The Sex Revolts
- The first book to look at rock rebellion through the lens of gender, The Sex Revolts captures the paradox at rock's dark heart--the music is often most thrilling when it is most misogynistic and macho. And, looking at music made by female artists, the authors ask: must it always be this way? Provocative and passionately argued, the book walks the edgy line between a rock fan's excitement and a critic's awareness of the music's murky undercurrents.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- The Singer of Tales
- This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry in order to find an answer to the age-old Homeric Question: How had the author of the Iliad and Odyssey composed these two monumental epic poems at the very start of Europe's literary tradition? Parry's, and with him Lord's, enduring contribution--set forth in Lord's The Singer of Tales--was to demonstrate the process by which oral poets compose.
- Mixed 2000
- Sources for 20th-Century Music History
- The catalog highlights material from the Colletion of Hans Moldenhauer and the Estate of Rudolf Kolisch included in a joint exhibition between Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich) and Houghton Library in 1988. Written in English and German.
- Hardcover 2005
- Spanish Music in the 20th C
- Hardcover
- The String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
- Hardcover 1981
- Swing Changes
- Bands were playing, people were dancing, the music business was booming. It was the big-band era, and swing was giving a new shape and sound to American culture. Swing Changes looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions and tensions within swing--over race, politics, its own cultural status, the role of women--mirrored those played out in the larger society. Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, magazines, recordings, photographs, literature, and films, Swing Changes offers a vibrant picture of American society at a pivotal time, and a new perspective on music as a cultural force.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Symphonic Aspirations
- Painter examines the politicization of musical listening in Germany and Austria, showing how nationalism, anti-Semitism, liberalism, and socialism profoundly affected the experience of serious music. Her analysis draws on a vast collection of writings on the symphony, particularly those of Mahler and Bruckner, to offer compelling evidence that music can and did serve ideological ends. She traces changes in critical discourse that reflected but also contributed to the historical conditions of various eras.
- Hardcover 2008
- Tears of Longing
- Informed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author's extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes "Japan."
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003
- This Is Pop
- About the vast and diverse topic of pop music, scholars and critics, journalists and musicians have much to say, but rarely to each other. A crossover venture begun at Seattle's Experience Music Project, this book captures the academic and the critical, the musical and the literary in an impromptu dialogue that suggests the breadth and vitality of pop inquiry today. Robert Christgau and Gary Giddins, pivotal critics, encounter Simon Frith and Robert Walser, pioneers in the study of popular music. Musicians Carrie Brownstein and Sarah Dougher, both active in the riot grrl scene of the Pacific Northwest, examine how audience responses affect their craft. John Darnielle, of the Mountain Goats attends to the web postings of hair metal fans. This Is Pop illustrates what can happen when the best of scholarship, criticism, and pop's inherent unruliness intersect.
- Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004
- Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making
- Hardcover 1965
- The Triumph of Music
- Blanning considers music in conjunction with nationalism, race, and sex. Although not always in step, music, society, and politics, he shows, march in the same direction.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Unanswered Question
- Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television viewers. In the re-creation of his talks, the author considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel to Copland, Shoenberg, and Stravinsky.
- Paperback 1981
- Wagner Handbook
- Hardcover
- When We Were Good
- When We Were Good traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the late fifties and sixties. In his capacious analysis of the ideologies, traditions, and personalities that created an extraordinary moment in American popular culture, Cantwell explores the idea of folk at the deepest level. Taking up some of the more obdurate problems in cultural studies--racial identity, art and politics, regional allegiances, class differences--he shows how the folk revival was a search for authentic democracy, with compelling lessons for our own time.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Wordless Rhetoric
- Hardcover 1991