The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Alexander, Douglas, II. "Stendhal and Violence on the Baltimore Stage." Maryland Historical Magazine 66 (1971): 68-72.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater
Archer, Stephen M. Junius Brutus Booth. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
Baker, Mary Lou. "The Annapolis Symphony: An Orchestra with Pizzazz!" Maryland 26 (November/December 1994): 38-43.
Categories: Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County
Barnett, David. "'Maryland,' The Movie." Maryland 21 (Spring 1989): 69.
Bartel, Dennis. "Knabe Pianos...For Genteel People of Means." Maryland 24 (Spring 1992): 42-47.
Categories: Music and Theater
Benson, Norman Arthur. The Itinerant Dancing and Music Masters of Eighteenth-Century America. Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1963.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century
Bernard, Kenneth A. "Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War." Lincoln Herald 66 (1964): 115-134.
Categories: African American, Military, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Black, Mary Childs. The Theatre in Colonial Annapolis. M.A. thesis, George Washington University, 1952.
"BMI is 'Making Music' All Summer Long." Nuts and Bolts 12 (Summer 1994): 1.
Categories: Music and Theater
Bond, Chrystelle T. "A Chronicle of Dance in Baltimore, 1780-1814." Dance Perspectives 66, vol. 17 (Summer 1976).
Notes: A summary of dancing, both ballroom and theatre, in Baltimore during an important 34-year period, with a focus on dancemasters William Francis (active at Holliday Street theatre 1794-1826) and Pierre Landrin Duport (active in Baltimore 1791-2, 1802-10), as well as musician Alexandria Reinagle and stage dancer John Durang and his descendents. Bond focuses on themes like patriotism and exoticism (through pantomime and French ballet), showing how choreographed upper class dances of the colonial period (like the minuet) gradually gave way to the simple, more commercial dances for the middle classes. This is an essential study for music, theatre and dance historians.
Categories: Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Breslaw, Elaine G. "An Early Maryland Musical Society." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 436-37.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Breslaw, Elaine G. Records of the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1745-56. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Notes: Companion volume to Talley,<em> Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis</em>.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Brunner, Raymond J. "Baltimore Organs and Organbuilding in the Nineteenth Century." Tracker 35, no. 2 (1991): 12.
Notes: Well organized and appropriately illustrated, Brunner first summarizes organ-building in Baltimore up to 1850. He then focuses on specific builders James Hall, Henry Berger, August Pomplitz, Charles Strohl, Heilner & Schumacher, Henry Niemann, Adam Stein, and George Barker's Baltimore Organ Co. Drawing on earlier published works by Thomas Eader and John Speller and Orpha Ochse, Brunner's article reveals the competitive sprit felt among various Baltimore congregations, and also the status of this craft in relation to other Eastern seaboard cities.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Music and Theater, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Carney, Benjamin Franklin. The Baltimore Theatre Project, 1971-1983: Toward a People's Theatre. Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri, 1985.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater
Chidsey, Martha Ann. The West Street Theatre, Annapolis, Maryland: 1771-74. M.A. thesis, American University, 1977.
Chowning, Larry S. "The Show Boat." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 17 (June 1987): 62-66.
Categories: Music and Theater
Cissel, Anne W. "Public Houses of Entertainment and their Proprietors, 1750-1828." Montgomery County Story 30 (August 1987): 279-94.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Clarke, Donald. Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Click, Patricia C. The Spirit of the Times: Amusements in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1989.
Notes: This author expertly interweaves a detailed description of work habits, living arrangements, economics, and class structure with the question of what people did for fun. Around 1800 a variety of public entertainments included music, drama, presentational dancing, feats of dexterity and other spectacular offerings -these were held at theatres, circuses, taverns, and pleasure gardens. As the century progressed amusements became increasingly specialized and stratified, serving people of differing economic means, political leanings, and ethnic/religious backgrounds.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Cohen, Maxine. "The Front Street Theater Fire of 1895." Generations (Fall 1993): 9-16, 27.
Categories: Ethnic History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater
Cox, Richard J. "A New Source for Robert Bensley, English Actor: A Research Note." Theatre Survey 18 (May 1977): 99-101.
Notes: Bensley was a brother-in-law of James Cheston of Maryland; based upon documents from Cheston/Galloway Papers, MS. 1994, at the Maryland Historical Society.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater
David, Jonathan Comly. On One Accord: Community, Musicality, and Spirit among the Singing and Praying Bands of Tidewater Maryland and Delaware. Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1994.
De Pasquale, Sue. "Into the Forest." Johns Hopkins Magazine 45 (February 1993): 8-13.
Notes: Lawson Brass Instruments.
Categories: Music and Theater
Deutsch, Helen Waverly. Laura Keene's Theatre Management: Profile of a Profession in Transition. Ph.D. diss., Tufts University, 1992.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Women
Dopp, Bonnie Jo. "Music Education History Sources at the MENC Historical Center." Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education 19 (September 1997): 63-65.