Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth century London and New Yor

Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds. Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.

About the author

Michael V. Pisani is professor of music at Vassar College, where he teaches courses on general music history, opera, and film music. Among his many publications are the book Imagining Native America in Music, which received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 2006. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Michael V. Pisani
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.06.2013
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9781609382308
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-230-8
• Pages: 384
• Series: Studies in Theatre History & C; Studies Theatre Hist & Culture; Studies in Theatre History and Culture; Studies in Theatre History & C