The Haydn Economy

Nicholas Mathew

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn's career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the human... Lees meer

Format Friction

Gavin Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• The first book to consider the shellac disc as a global format. With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and e... Lees meer

Creatures of the Air

J Q Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• An account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic worlds told through the history of the art's elemental medium, the air. Often experienced as univer... Lees meer

Tuning the World

Fanny Gribenski

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for mu... Lees meer

Music in the Flesh

Bettina Varwig

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe. Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects--composers, p... Lees meer

Sounding Human

Deirdre Loughridge

• Paperback | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical... Lees meer

The Voice as Something More

• Paperback | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsoundin... Lees meer

Musical Migration and Imperial New York

Brigid Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• Through archival work and storytelling, Musical Migration and Imperial New York revises many inherited narratives about experimental music and art in ... Lees meer

The Composer Embalmed

Abigail Fine

• Paperback | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• The first granular study of nineteenth-century composer devotion--a network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rit... Lees meer

An Unnatural Attitude

Benjamin Steege

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic--a phenomenological style tha... Lees meer