Music History & Theory

Updated June 12, 2026
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Noise/music : a history
Hegarty, Paul
Paper Book
Noise/Music looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica of today. It situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses them in terms of cultural aesthetics....
Music is history
Questlove
Paper Book
In Music Is History, bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each...
Rock music styles : a history
Charlton, Katherine
Paper Book
Rock Music Styles blends musical commentary into an historical framework as it traces the styles of Rock music from its roots in country and blues to the most contemporary trends.
A history of baroque music
Buelow, George J.
Paper Book
A History of Baroque Music is an exhaustive study of the music of the Baroque period, with particular focus on the 17th century. Individual chapters consider the work of significant composers, including Monteverdi, Corelli, Scarlatti, Schütz, Purcell, Handel, Bach, and Telemann, as well as...
An outline history of western music
Wold, Milo Arlington.
Paper Book
Provides beginning students and lay readers with an introduction to the history of Western music. This eighth edition includes expanded information on modern performers and popular music. Appendices of references of recorded examples of music facilitate the use of actual music as source material....
Race music black cultures from bebop to hip-hop
Ramsey, Guthrie P.
Paper Book
This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family...

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