The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Talley, John Barry. Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis: The Tuesday Club, 1745-1756. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Notes: Companion volume to Breslaw, Records of the Tuesday Club . . . listed above . Some of the earliest music composed in the colonies came from the pens of Rev. Thomas Bacon, Dr. Alexander Hamilton, and other members of this important social/musical organization. Talley presents the background biographies and musical contributions of these men, with a good focus on the music itself (including background and transcriptions of songs and instrumental music). Many club members being recent immigrants from Scotland and England, these largely upper- and upper-middle class amateur musicians had a huge impact on the musical life of mid-18th-century Maryland, and beyond. The book closes with transcriptions of 55 minuets by non club-member John Ormsby, from a manuscript music book copied in Annapolis in 1758.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Taney, Roger Brooke. "By the Dawn's Early Light." American History Illustrated 2 (1967): 12-17.
Categories: Music and Theater
Thaiss, Christopher J. "Shakespeare in Maryland, 1752-1860." In Shakespeare in the South: Essays on Performance. Edited by Philip C. Kolin, Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1983.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
"Theatre Entertainment in Garrett County." Glades Star 8 (December 1998): 463-67, 470-71.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Garrett County
Treat, William Phelps. A Survey of Flutists and Flute Activities in Eighteenth Century America. D.M.A. diss., University of Washington, 1991.
Categories: General, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century
Van Newkirk, Betty. "Theatres and Opera Houses in Western Maryland." Journal of the Alleghenies 27 (1991): 73-86.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Ward, Kathryn Painter. "The Maryland Theatrical Season of 1760." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Fall 1977): 335-45.
Ward, Kathryn Painter. "The First Professional Theater in Maryland in its Colonial Setting." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 29-44.
Weems, Helen R. The History of the Women's String Orchestra. M.M. thesis, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1990.
Notes: The Women's String Orchestra was organized in 1936 to provide performance opportunities to women musicians barred from the all-male Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra, which numbered between 35 to 40 players, performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Cadoa Hall and the Peabody. Less than two months after the debut of the Women's String Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony opened its auditions to women (five of the women string players were hired). Weems' thesis examines the public response to female orchestral musicians in Baltimore and elsewhere in the United States and the role of women in the musical life of the city in the late 1930s. Her interviews with the founding members of the orchestra provide vivid accounts of the barriers placed in the paths of these pioneering women and how they surmounted them.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
White, Roger. "Capitol Theatre." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (January 1995): 9.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "Circle Theater." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (October 1994): 7-8, 17.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "Governor Ritchie Open-Air Auto Theatre." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (July 1994): 3.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "Saturday Night at the Dance Hall-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 20 (July 1989): 4-9; 21 (October 1989): 1-6.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "Shows and Shoppers: Glen Burnie's Shopping Center Movie Theatres." Anne Arundel County History Notes 27 (April 1996): 5, 11-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945." Anne Arundel County History Notes 21 (April 1990): 1-2, 9-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945-Part II-Training Special Service Enlisted Men." Anne Arundel County History Notes 21 (July 1990): 3-4, 9.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945-Part III-Directing the Special Service Training Programs." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (October 1990): 5-6, 10-13.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945. Part IV: Performances by Servicemen and Women in Fort Meade and American Cities." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (July 1991): 5-6, 12-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945-Part V: GI Variety Shows and Celebrities in Uniform." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 5, 17-19.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945-Part VI: Bringing USO Shows and Celebrity Entertainers to Fort Meade." Anne Arundel County History Notes 28 (October 1996): 1-2, 10-11.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part One: Come Aboard the Showboat for Mesmerizing Maudlin Melodrama." Old Kent 3 (September 1987): 1-3.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part Two: Showtime on the River Landing, Come and See the Show!" Old Kent 3 (December 1987): 1-2.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wilmer, L. Ann. "Showboat." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Harvest 1988): 204-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater
Wolf, Edward C. "Two Divergent Traditions of German-American Hymnody in Maryland circa 1800." American Music (Fall 1985): 299-312.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century