Music History

A 1920s collection of some forty traditional French-Canadian songs, with English translations by Edward Sapir and scholarly notes…

A study of John Cage's late works and the unverified composition 'Austral Studies (Études australes)'.

A lost Baroque musical treatise by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz on tuning and simplifying musical notation.

The piano-vocal score of Gilbert and Sullivan's celebrated comic opera The Mikado, satirising British society through a fictitious…

A biography of W. S. Gilbert, the Victorian dramatist and librettist whose comic operas gave the language the…

John Cage's 1950 string quartet maps the four seasons and their forces onto four movements, one of his…

John Cage's 1948 Suite for Toy Piano made a child's instrument a legitimate voice for serious concert music.

Cage's piano works of 1935-48 trace the invention of the prepared piano and culminate in the celebrated Sonatas…

John Wesley's hymnal shaped Methodist worship through texts largely written by his brother Charles and edited for doctrine…

John Wesley's late compilation of psalms and hymns shaped Methodist devotional worship in Britain and America.

A disciple's intimate portrait of Cuban musician Alfredo Torroella, capturing his virtue and soul as a teacher and…

The Hymnarius Paraclitensis is a collection of liturgical hymns composed by Peter Abelard for the Paraclete, the community…

Songs is a collection of liturgical music composed by Hildegard of Bingen, the twelfth-century German Benedictine abbess, mystic,…

Ordo Virtutum is a liturgical drama composed by Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century Benedictine abbess, mystic, and visionary.

D'Alembert's mathematical clarity made the work influential among Enlightenment thinkers and musicians.