Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatreaccompanying popular dramas such as "Frankenstein," "Oliver Twist," "Uncle Tom s Cabin," "Lady Audley s Secret," "The Corsican Brothers," "The Three Musketeers," as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schillerthan they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds.
Mining old manuscripts and...