American Music - specific books

Apel, Paul H. Music of the Americas North and South. New York: Vantage 
Press, 1958.

Barzun, Jacques. Music in American Life. Bloomington: I.U. Press, 1962.

Boretz, Benjamin and Edward T. Cone, eds. Perspectives on American 
Composers. New York: W.W. Norton, 1971.

Chase, Gilbert, ed.  The American Composer Speaks: A Historical 
Anthology 1770-1965. Louisiana: LSU Press, 1966.

Chase, Gilbert. America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. orig. 
1955,  rev. 3rd ed. Urbana: U. of Ill. Press, 1987. (rev 2nd ed., New York: 
McGraw-Hill & Co., 1966.)

Clarke, Garry. Essays on American Music. Westport CT: Greenwood Press,
1977.

Cohn, Arthur. 20th-century Music in the Western Hemisphere. Phil.
& NY: Lippincott, 1961.

Cowell, Henry. American Composers on American Music: A Symposium. 
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1933. reprint- New York: 
Frederick Unger, 1962.

Crawford, Richard. The American Musical Landscape. Berkeley: Univ. of 
California Press, 1993.

Crawford, Richard, R. Allen Lott, and Carol J. Oja, eds. A Celebration of 
American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock. Ann 
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

Crawford, Richard. American Studies and American Musicology: A Point 
of View and a Case in Point. ISAM Monographs, no. 4. Brooklyn: 1975.

Crawford, Richard. Studying American Music. ISAM Special Publication, 
no. 3. Brooklyn: 1985.

Davis, Ronald L. A History of Music in American Life, Vol. II: The Gilded 
Years, 1865-1920. Huntington NY.: Robert E. Krieger Publ. Co., 1980.

Dizikes, John, 1932-. Opera in America : a cultural history. 1993.

Elson, Louis C. The History of American Music. orig. 1904, New York: 
Macmillan Co., 1925.

Ewen, David, ed. The New Book of American Composers. 3rd ed. New York: 
Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.

Farwell, Arthur and W. Dermot Darby, eds. Music in America. (The Art of 
Music, ed. by Daniel Gregory Mason, Vol. 4) NY: 1915.

Garland, Peter. Americas: Essays on American Music and Culture, 1973-
1980. Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1982.

Gleason, Harold and Warren Becker.  Early American Music (1620-1920), 
2nd ed. Bloomington, IN: Frangipani Press, 1981.

Gould, Nathaniel D. Church Music in America, Comprising its History and 
Its Pecularities at Different Periods, with Cursory Remarks on its 
Legitimate Use and Its Abuse; With Notices of the Schools, Composers, 
Teachers, and Societies. Boston: 1853; reprint, NY: 1972.

Hamm, Charles. Music in the New World.  New York: W.W. Norton, 1983.

Hamm, Charles. Yesterdays: Popular Song in America.  New York: W.W. 
Norton, 1979.

Hart, Philip. Orpheus in the New World: The Symphony Orchestra as 
an American Cultural Institution. NY: 1973.

Hitchcock, Hugh Wiley. Music in the United States. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 
Prentice-Hall, 1969, 2nd ed., 1974, 3rd ed., 1988.

Hood, George. A History of Music in New England: With Biographical 
Sketches of Reformers and Psalmists. Boston: 1846; reprint, NY: 1970.
Probably the first "history" of American Music.

Howard, John Tasker. Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of it. New 
York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1931, 1946, 1954. 4th ed.,  Our American Music: A Comprehensive History from 1620 to the Present. NY:1965.

Howard, John Tasker and George Kent Bellows. A Short History of Music in 
America. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957, 1967.

Hubbard, W. L. ed. The History of American Music. Toledo: 1908.

Jones, F. O., ed. A Handbook of American Music and Musicians, Containing 
Biographies of American Musicians and Histories of the Principal Musical 
Institutions, Firms and Societies. Canaseraga, NY: 1886. Reprint, NY: 1971.

Kaufman, Charles H. Music in New Jersey, 1655-1860: A Study of Musical 
Activity and Musicians in New Jersey from its First Settlement to the 
Civil War. Rutherford, NJ: 1981.

Kirk, Elise K. Music at the White House: A History of the American Spirit. 
Urbana: 1986.

Krummel, D. W., et. all. Resources of American Music History. Chicago: U. 
of Ill. Press, 1981.

Lang, Paul Henry, ed. One Hundred Years of Music in America. New York: G. 
Schirmer, Inc., 1961.

Leichtentritt, Hugo. Music of the Western Nations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard 
University Press, 1956.

Levy, Alan Howard. Musical Nationalism: American Composers' Search for 
Identity. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Lichtenwanger, William, ed. Oscar Sonneck and American Music. Urbana and 
Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1983.

Lowens, Irving. Music and Musicians in Early America. NY: 1964.

Lowens, Irving. Music in America & American Music. ISAM: Brooklyn 
College, 1978.

Loza, Steven. Barrio Rhythm - Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. 
Champaign IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Malone, Bill. Southern Music/American Music. Univ. Press of Kentucky, 
1979.

Mates, Julian. The American Musical Stage before 1800. New Brunswick, 
NJ: 1962.

Mathews, William S. B., assoc. ed.  A Hundred Years of Music in America. 
Chicago: 1889; reprint, NY: 1970.

McCue, George, ed. Music in American Society: 1776-1976. New 
Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, l977.

McKay, David P. and Richard Crawford. William Billings of Boston: 
Eighteenth-Century Composer. Princeton: 1975.

Mead, Rita. Henry Cowell's New Music 1925-1936: the Society, the 
Music Editions, and the Recordings. (revision of 1978 thesis, CUNY). Studies 
in Musicology, Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1981.

Mellers, Wilfred. Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in 
the History of American Music. London: 1964; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 
1966; 2nd ed., New York: Hillstone, 1975.

Miller, Terry E. Folk Music in America: A Reference Guide. New York: 
Garland Publishing, 1986.

Morris, Harold. Contemporary American Music. Houston, TX: Rice Institute 
Pamphlets, 1934.

Mueller, John H. The American Symphony Orchestra: A Social History of 
Musical Taste. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, l951.

Mussulman, Joseph. Music in the Cultured Generation: A Social History of 
Music in America, 1870-1900. Evanston, IL: 1971.

Pavlakis, Christopher. The American Music Handbook. New York: Free 
Press, 1974.

Perkins, Charles C. History of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, 
Massachusetts. Vol. 1. Boston. 1883-93. Reprint, NY: 1977.

Pichierri, Louis. Music in New Hampshire, 1623-1800. NY: 1960.

Reis, Claire. Composers in America: Biographical Sketches of Living 
Composers, with a Record of Their Works 1912-1937. New York: 
Macmillan Press, 1938.

Ritter, Frederic Louis. Music in America. NY: 1883; new ed., 1890; 
reprint, NY: 1970.

Rockwell, John. All American Music. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.

Roell, Craig H. The Piano in America, 1890-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: 1989.

Root, George Frederick. The Story of a Musical Life: An Autobiography. 
Cincinnati, 1891. Reprint, NY: 1973.

Rosen, David M. Protest Songs in America. Westlake Village, Ca.: 
Aware Press, 1972.

Rosenfeld, Paul. An Hour with American Music. Philadelphia: J. B. 
Lippincott & Co., 1929.

Rublowsky, John. Music in America. New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 
1967.

Russell, Charles Edward. The American Orchestra and Theodore 
Thomas. Garden City, NY: 1927.

Sablosky, Irving. American Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 
1969.

Saminsky, Lazare. Living Music of the Americas. New York: Howell, 
Soskin, and Crown, 1949.

Schabas, Ezra. Theodore Thomas: America's Conductor and Builder of 
Orchestras, 1835-1905. Urbana, IL: 1989.

Schauffler, Robert Haven and Sigmund Spaeth. Music as a Social Force 
in America and the Science of Practice. New York: The Caxton Institute, 
1972.

Seltzer, George. Music Matters - The Performer and the American 
Federation of Musicians. Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989.

Sessions, Roger. Reflections on the Music Life in the United States. New 
York: Merlin Press, 1956.

Shanet, Howard. Philharmonic: A History of New York's Orchestra. 
Garden City, NY: 1975.

Smith, Carelton Sprague, and M. Romro. Composers of Americas. 3 vols. 
Washington: Pan American Union, 1957.

Sonneck, Oscar G. Early Concert-Life in America (1731-1800). Leipzig: 
1907. Reprint, NY: 1978.

Sonneck, Oscar G. Early Opera in America. NY: 1915. Reprint, NY: 1963.

Sonneck, Oscar G. Francis Hopkinson, the First American Poet-Composer 
(1737-1791), and James Lyon, Patriot, Preacher, Psalmnodist (1735-
1794): Two Studies in Early American Music. Wash. DC: 1905. Reprint, 
NY: 1967.

Sonneck, Oscar G. Report on "The Star-Spangled Banner," "Hail Columbia," 
"America," "Yankee Doodle." Wash. DC: 1909. Reprint, NY: 1972. 

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans. New York: W.W. Norton, 
1971; 2nd ed., 1983.

Southern, Eileen, ed. Readings in Black American Music. New York: W.W. 
Norton, 1971; 2nd ed., 1983.

Spalding, Walter Raymond. Music at Harvard: A Historical Review of Men 
and Events. NY: 1935. Reprint, NY: 1977.

Stevenson, Robert. Protestant Church Music in America. New York: W.W. 
Norton, 1966.

Strickland, Edward. American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary 
Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Stoner, Tom. WANDERJAHRE OF A REVOLUTIONIST AND OTHER ESSAYS ON 
AMERICAN MUSIC. Rochester Univ. Press, any day.

Struble, John. The History of American Classical Music - MacDowell 
through Minimalism. 1995.

Tawa, Nicholas E. Art Music in the American Society: the condition of 
art music in the late Twentieth Century. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 
1987.

Tawa, Nicholas E. A Music for the Millions: Antebellum democratic 
attitudes, birth of American popular music. New York: Pendragon Press, 
1984.

Tawa, Nicholas. E. Sweet Songs for Gentle Americans: The Parlor Song in 
America, 1790-1860. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular
Press, 1980.

Tawa, Nicholas. A Sound of Strangers: Musical Culture, Acculturation, and 
the Post-Civil War Ethnic America. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1982.

Thomas, Theodore. A Musical Autobiography. ed. by George P. Upton. Chicago: 
1905. Reprint, NY: 1964.

Thomson, Virgil. American Music Since 1910. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and 
Winston, 1971.

Tischler, Barbara. An American Music: the search for an American musical 
identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Toll, Robert C. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century 
America. NY: 1974.

Wolfe, Richard J. Early American Music Engraving and Printing: A History 
of Music Publishing in America from 1787 to 1825 with Commentary on 
Earlier and Later Practices. Urbana, IL: 1980.

Yellin, Victor Fell. Chadwick: Yankee Composer. Wash. DC: 1990.

Zanzig, Augustus Delafield. Music in American Life. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1932.

Zuck, Barbara. A History of Musical Americanism.  Studies in Musicology, 
no. 19. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980.

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