Music

Essays applying poststructuralist theory to music, challenging the idea of music as an autonomous aesthetic object.

Lunacharsky's essays read classical music as cultural history, asking how composers and works reflect the eras and societies…

A French verse libretto for Lully's tragédie en musique, retelling the myth of Bellerophon across a prologue and…

Franz Boas's The Central Eskimo is an ethnographic monograph on the Inuit peoples of northeastern North America and…

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

An overview of John Cage's vocal compositions and his experimental approach to sound and silence.

John Cage reworks Joyce's Finnegans Wake using chance-based procedures that remove the writer's will from the making of…

Rolywholyover is an exhibition work by John Cage, staged at MOCA in 1993 and The Menil Collection in…

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.

A reference guide to the libretti of the Victorian operatic partnership of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.

This volume gathers the texts of the fourteen comic operas Gilbert wrote with Sullivan between 1871 and 1896.

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

A scholarly annotated edition of the first Savoy operas, illuminating the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership that reshaped English…

William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s 1870s comic opera The Sorcerer stages a baronet’s love-philtre scheme that upends rank…