American Music - music books

A Celebration of American music: words and music in honor of H. Wiley 
Hitchcock. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
H. Wiley Hitchcock and American music / Richard Crawford -- Greetings 
in three-four time / Ross Lee Finney -- For Wiley H / William Schuman -- 
An early Black concert company : the Hyers Sisters combination / Eileen 
Southern -- Theodore F. Seward and the Fisk Jubilee Singers / Dena J. 
Epstein -- On the trail of A guest of honor : in search of Scott Joplin's 
lost opera / Edward A. Berlin -- Three cultivated choruses on texts set 
by Caccini in Le nuove musiche / Milton Babbitt -- The Cowells and the 
written word / Sidney Cowell -- Lunch at Virgil's, tea at the Ambassador 
(fragment from an unpublished Stravinsky memoir) / Minna Lederman  -- 
Thor Johnson : a personal memoir / Bill Lichtenwanger -- The truth about 
H. Wiley Hitchcock / Joan Morris and William Bolcom. A Hitchcock fanfare 
/ Peter Dickinson -- Isaac L. Rice : What is music? / Siegmund Levarie -- 
The great piano war of the 1870s / Cynthia Adams Hoover -- Music and 
musicians at the mountain resorts of Western Virginia, 1820-1900 / 
Katherine K. Preston --Bernard Ullman : nineteenth-century American 
impresario / R. Allen Lott -- Jullien and his Music for the million / John 
Graziano -- Wiley Hitchcock : two birds / Virgil Thomson -- "Yes me" 
from Three wordless songs / Noah Creshevsky -- "Ancient music" and 
the Europeanizing of American psalmody, 1800-1810 / Richard Crawford 
-- Dvorak, Beach, and American music / Adrienne Fried Block -- Two 
seductresses : Saint-Saens's Delilah and Chadwick's Judith / Steven 
Ledbetter. Wiley's waltz / Robert Starer -- Soliloquy for organ / Dorothy 
Klotzman -- Roy Harris : the story of an Oklahoma composer who was born 
in a log cabin on Lincoln's birthday / Nicolas Slonimsky -- A conversation 
with Alfred Frankenstein about Henry Cowell's New music / Rita H. Mead
 -- Virgil Thomson's Harvard years / Carol J. Oja -- A blues for the ages 
/ Charles Hamm -- Making American music : Henry Hadley and the 
Manhattan Symphony Orchestra / Susan Feder -- A fractal for Wiley 
Hitchcock / Charles Dodge -- "The second of July" : a Charles Ives draft 
considered as an independent work / Wayne D. Shirley -- Dissonant 
counterpoint revisted : the first movement of Ruth Crawford's String 
quartet 1931 / Judith Tick -- I can remember / Bruce Saylor. 
Accustomed to the interface : observations on the bibliography of 
American music / D.W. Krummel -- "Monumenta Americana" revisited / 
Vivian Perlis -- Prosodic syncopation / Victor Fell Yellin - Popular 
music under a TIPEE / William P. Malm -- From the sixpak sonatas / 
Gordon Mumma -- James Tenney : some historical perspectives / Peter 
Garland -- An orchestra is born : the story of the American composers 
orchestra / Francis Thorne -- The edge of imagination / Roger Reynolds.

Allen, Warren Dwight. Philosophies of Music History. New York: Dover 
Books, 1962.

American Composers, The Emerging Generation. Ed. by David Froom. NY: 
Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994.

American transcendentalists. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 
1994.
A program companion, edited by Joseph Horovitz, for a weekend festival 
exploring Transcendentalism and music. Presented by the Brooklyn 
Philharmonic Orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, November 11, 
12, and 13, 1994.  Presented by Da Camera of Houston at The Menil 
Collection, November 21and 22, 1994.  Introduction, The transcendental 
Ives / Joseph Horowitz -- Ives :the amount to carry / John Adams -- 
Charles Ives' "Transcendental tune of Concord" / Stuart Feder -- Music 
of the higher spheres: the philosophy and influence of New England 
transcendentalism /Thomas Blanding.

Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. tr. by Brian 
Massumi. Minneapolis: 1985.

Austin, William. Music in the Twentieth Century. New York: W.W. Norton, 
1966.

Austin, William W. "Susanna," "Jeanie," and "Old Folks at Home": The
Songs of Stephen C. Foster from His Time to Ours. NY: 1975.

Bakeless, Katherine. Story Lives of American Composers. Frederick A. 
Stokes, 1941.

Balliett, Whitney. American Singers - Twenty-seven Portraits in Song. 
expanded ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Battisti, Frank. The Twentieth Century American Wind Band/Ensemble. 
Fort Lauderdale, FL: Meredith Pubs., 1995.

Bauer, Marion. Twentieth-Century Music. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1947. 

Beckwith, John and Udo Kasemets. The Modern Composer and His World. 
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961.

Beckwith, John. Music at Toronto: A Personal Account. Toronto: Institute 
for Canadian Music, University of Toronto, 1995.

Belfy, Jeanne. The Louisville Orchestra New Music Project: An American 
Experiment in the Patronage of International Contemporary Music: 
Selected Composers' Letters to the Louisville Orchestra. U. of Louisville 
Pubs in Musicology, no. 2. Louisville: 1983.

Berger, Kenneth. The Band in the United States. A Preliminary Review of 
Band Research and Research Needs. Typescript, distr. by Band Associates, 
Kent, OH., 1961.

Bergreen, Lawrence. As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin. NY: 
1990.

Birge, Edward Bailey. History of Public School Music in the United 
States. Wash. DC: 1966.

Brabec, Jeffrey and Todd Brabec. Music, Money and Success: The Insider's 
Guide to the Music Industry. NY: Schirmer Books.

Brindle, Reginald Smith. The New Music: The Avant-garde since
1945. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Broyles, Michael. Music of the Highest Class: Elitism and Populism 
in Antebellum Boston. New Haven, CT:  1992.

Camus, Raoul F. Military Music of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: 
University of North Carolina Press, 1976.
Probably the best study: see Olson for the Civil War.

Chase, Gilbert. The American Composer Speaks. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1966.

Clough, Rosa Trillo. Futurism. New York: Philosophical Library,
1961.

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

Collester, Jeanne Colette. Rudolph Ganz: A Musical Pioneer. Metuchen: 
Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Composers of North America. series published by Scarecrow Press, 
Metuchen, NJ.
Amy Beach and Her Chamber Music. by Jeanell Wise Brown. 1994
Energy and Individuality in the Art of Anna Huntington, Sculptor, And Amy 
  Beach, Composer. by Myrna G. Eden. 1987.
No. 4. An American Romantic Realist Abroad: Templeton Strong and His 
  Music. by William C. Loring, Jr. 1995.
Follow Me. by Anne Key Simpson. 1993.
Hard Trials. by Anne Key Simpson. 1990.
He Hear Angels Singing. by Evelyn Davis Culbertson. 1992
John Weinzweig and His Music. by Elaine Keillor. 1994.
Norman Lockwood. by Kay Norton. 1993.
No. 14. Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871-1940) His Life and Music. By 
  Robert Garofalo. 1995.
No. 19. George Whitefield Chadwick. His Symphonic Works. by Bill F. 
  Faucwtt. 1995.
No. 13. Henry Holden Huss. An American Composer's Life. by Gary A. 
  Greene. 1995.
No. 20. Isaac Baker Woodbury. The Life and Works of an American 
  Musical Populist. by Robert M. Copeland. 1995.
No. 17. Music of Many Means. Sketches and Essays on the Music of 
  Robert Erickson. by Robert Erickson and John MacKay. 1995.
No. 12. Ridin' Herd to Writing Symphonies. An Autobiography. Radie 
  Britain. 1995.

Cooper, Martin, ed. The Modern Age, 1890-1980. X. The New Oxford 
History of Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Crawford, John C. (John Charlton), 1931-. Expressionism in twentieth-
century music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Danuser, Hermann, Kamper, Dietrich, 1936-, und Terse, Paul, eds. 
Amerikanische Musik seit Charles Ives: Interpretationen, Quellentexte, Komponistenmonographien. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1987.

Duckworth, William. Talking Music. NY: Schirmer Books, 1995.

Dvorak in America, 1892-1895. Portland, Or.: Amadeus Press, 1993. 
A Dvorak chronology / John C. Tibbetts -- Anthony Philip Heinrich: a 
Bohemian predecessor to Dvorak in the wilds of America / J. Bunker Clark
 -- Toward the new world / Graham Melville-Mason -- Dvorak's New York : 
an American street scene / John C. Tibbetts -- Dvorak at the National 
Conservatory / Emanuel Rubin -- Dvorak's Spillville summer : an American 
pastoral / John C. Tibbetts -- Dvorak and the American Indian / John 
Clapham -- "A great and noble school of music" : Dvorak, Harry T. Burleigh, 
and the African American spiritual / Jean E. Snyder -- Dvorak, Stephen 
Foster, and American national song / Charles Hamm -- Dvorak's long 
American reach / Adrienne Fried Block -- Homesick in America: the 
nostalgia of Antonin Dvorak and Charles Ives / Stuart Feder -- The 
choral works : Te Deum and The American flag / Nick Strimple. "My 
country tis of thee" / Jarmil Burghauser -- The dance of Pau-Puk-
Keewis and the Song of Chibiabos : reflections on the Scherzo of 
Dvorak's Symphony "from the new world" / Michael Beckerman -- The F 
major string quartet, opus 96 / Alan Houtchens -- The E-flat major 
string quintet, opus 97 / Jan Smaczny -- The Stephen Foster-Antonin
 Dvorak connection / Deane L. Root -- The biblical songs, opus 99 / 
Daniel Jacobson -- Dvorak's piano works; Sonatina for violin and piano, 
opus 100 / John C. Tibbetts -- Thoughts of home : the Cello concerto in 
B minor, opus 104 / Robert Battey -- The reception of Dvorak's operas in 
America / David Beveridge -- How I wrote Dvorak in love / Josef 
Skvorecky -- New soundings : the Dvorak Sesquicentennial Conference 
and Festival in America / John C. Tibbetts -- The melody lingers on / 
John C. Tibbetts, Mark Rose, and Steven Richman.

Epstein, Dena. Music Publishing in Chicago before 1871: The Firm of 
Root and Cady, 1858-1871. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, no. 
14. Detroit: 1969.

Faucett, Bill F. George Whitefield Chadwick: His Symphonic Works. 
Composers in North America, nr. 19. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 
1996. 238 pgs.

Fink, Michael. Inside the Music Business. 2nd ed. NY: Schirmer Books, 1995. 
415 pgs.

Finson, Jon. The Voices that are Gone - Themes in Nineteenth-Century 
American Popular Song. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Foner, Philip S. American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century. Urbana,
IL: 1975.

Ford Foundation, Annual Reports. NY: 1956-64.

Ford Foundation. Contemporary Music for Schools: A Catalog of Works 
Written by Composers Participating in the Young Composers Project, 
1959-1964, Sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the National Music 
Council. Washington DC: 1966.

Fox, Dan. Songs of the Wild West. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Friedberg, Ruth C. American Art Song and American Poetry. Vol 3, The 
Century Advances. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987.

Fuld, James. The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular and 
Folk. rev. ed. NY: 1971.

Griffiths, Paul. Modern Music: the Avant-Garde since 1945. New York: 
George Braziller, 1981.

Hamm, C., B. Nettl and R. Byrnside. Contemporary Music and Music Cultures. 
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975.

Handy, Antoinette. Black Conductors. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Heller, George N. Charles Leonhard: Amewrican Music Educator. Metuchen, 
NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Hines, Robert Stephan, ed. Essays on Twentieth-Century Music by Those 
Who Wrote It. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

Horowitz, Joseph. Wagner Nights: An American History. California Studies 
in 19th Century Music, no. 9. Berkeley: UC Press, 1994.

Jackson, George Stuyvesant. Early Songs of Uncle Sam. Boston: Bruce 
Humphries, Inc.: 1933, reprint, 1971.

Johnson, Tom. The Voice of New Music: New York City 1972-1982. 
Eindhaven: Apollohuis, 1989.

Karolyi, Otto. Modern American music: from Charles Ives to the minimalists. 
Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996.

Kirk, Elise K. Musical Highlights from the White House. Melbourne, FL: 
Krieger Publ. Co., 1992.

Kostelanetz, Richard. On Innovative Musicians. New York: Limelight, 1989.

Kramer, J. The Time of Music: new meanings, new temporalities, new 
listening strategies. New York: Schirmer, 1988.

Lang, Paul Henry. Music in Western Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton, 
1941.

Lederman, Minna. The Life and Death of a Small Magazine (Modern Music 
1924-1946). ISAM Monograph # 18. Brooklyn: 1983.

Leppert, Richard and Susan McClary, eds. Music and Society:  The politics of
composition, performance and reception. Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Lipman, Samuel. The House of Music: Art in an Era of Institutions. Boston: 
1984.

Lord, Francis A. and Arthur Wise. Bands and Drummer Boys of the Civil
War. NY: Da Capo Press, 1979.

Martin, George. The Damrosch Dynasty: America's First Family of Music. 
Boston: 1983.

Mellers, Wilfrid. Music and Society. 2nd ed. New York: Roy Publishers, 
1950.

Mueller, John H. The American Symphony Orchestra: A Social History of
Musical Taste. Bloomington, IN: 1951.

Musicology and difference: gender and sexuality in music scholarship. 
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995 1993.
Gender and other dualities of music history -- Difference and power in 
music -- Loving it : music and criticism in Roland Barthes -- Charles Ives 
and gender ideology -- Ethnomusicologist as midwife -- Women as musicians : 
a question of class -- Miriam sings her song -- Lesbian fugue -- Reading as 
an opera queen -- Schwarze Gredel and the engendered minor mode in Mozart's 
operas -- Opera -- Britten's dream -- Of women, music, and power : a model 
from Seicento Florence -- Carnaval, cross-dressing, and the woman in the 
mirror -- Narrative agendas in "absolute" music identity and difference in 
Brahms's Third Symphony.

Music in Contemporary Musical Thought. Ed. by Jonathan D. Kramer. NY: 
Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994.

Myers, Rollo H., ed. Twentieth Century Music: A Symposium. London: 
Calder and Boyars, 1968.

Nathan, Hans. Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy. Norman, 
OK: 1977. (1st ed, 1962.)

Nettl, Bruno. Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections 
on Schools of Music. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

New perspectives on music: essays in honor of Eileen Southern. Warren, 
Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1992.
Eileen Jackson Southern : quiet revolutionary / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. -- A 
glimpse of the lost years : Spanish polyphonic song, 1450-70 / David 
Fallows -- Ophelia's lute / John M. Ward -- On Veronica and Josquin / 
Howard Mayer Brown -- The mysterious chronometer of Davaux / Jan
 LaRue -- Originality in the 1801 hymnals of Richard Allen / J. Roland 
Braithwaite -- Black sacred song and the tune-family concept / Anne 
Dhu Shapiro -- Gospel blues : origin and history / Horace Clarence Boyer
 -- The story of the Jubilee Singers : an introduction to its bibliographic 
history / Dena J. Epstein -- Charles Ives and the spiritual "In the morning"/
Give me Jesus / H. Wiley Hitchcock -- Leslie Adams and the making of the 
opera Blake : an interview with the composer / Yvonne C. Williams. Music 
of the American dream : brass traditions and golden visions Frank Tirro -- 
Pink Morton's theatre, Black Vaudeville, and the TOBA : recovering the 
history, 1910-30 / Thomas L. Riis -- Note on jazz standards by Black 
authors and composers, 1899-1942 / Richard Crawford -- The blues : 
a photographic essay / William Ferris -- The heterogeneous sound ideal 
in African-American music / Olly Wilson -- The flower song festival at 
Lotus Mountain : a study in performance context / Rulan Chao Pian -- 
Two virtuoso performers in Boston : Jenny Lind and Camilla Urso / 
Adrienne Fried Block -- Black women in classical music in Boston 
during the late nineteenth century : profiles of leadership / Josephine 
Wright. Black women in the music of Washington, D.C., 1900-20 / Doris 
Evans McGinty -- Black women and American orchestras : an update / D. 
Antoinette Handy -- Thea Musgrave and the production of her opera 
Harriet, the woman called Moses : an interview with the composer / 
Georgia A. Ryder -- Research in Afro-American music, 1968-88, a 
survey with selected bibliography of the literature / Josephine Wright -- 
The writings of Eileen Southern, editor of The Black perspective in music 
(1973-91) / compiled by Josephine Wright.

Olson, Kenneth E. Music and Musket: Bands and Bandsmen of the American 
Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
see Camus for the Revolutionary War.

Ottenberg, June C. Opera Odyssey: Toward A History of Opera in 
Nineteenth-Century America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Pannain, Guido. Modern Composers, tr. Michael Bonavia. Freeport, NY: 
Books for Libraries Press, 1970.

Patterson, Daniel W., ed. Sounds of the South. Durham NC: Duke 
University Press, 1992.

Pemberton, Carol A. Lowell Mason: His Life and Work. Studies in 
Musicology, no. 86. Ann Arbor, MI: 1985.

Peyser, Joan. The New Music. New York: Dell, 1971.

Pleasants, Henry. Serious Music--And all that Jazz! NY: Simon and 
Schuster, l969.

Rich, Alan. American pioneers: Ives to Cage and beyond. London: Phaidon, 
1995.

Rich, Arthur Lowndes. Lowell Mason: "The Father of Singing among the 
Children." Chapell Hill, NC: 1946.

Rosenberg, Deena and Bernard Rosenberg. The Music Makers. NY: 1979.

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

Ryan, Thomas. Recollections of an Old Musician. NY: 1899.

Salazar, Adolfo. Music in Our Time. New York: W.W. Norton, 1946.

Salzman, Eric. Twentieth Century Music, An Introduction. Englewood 
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974.

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

Schirmer History of Music. Leonie Rosenstiel, General Editor. New 
York: Schirmer Books, 1982.

Sessions, Roger. Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays. ed. by 
Edward T. Cone. Princeton: 1979.

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

Simms, Bryan. Music of the 20th Century. New York: Schirmer Books, 
1986.

Smith, Cecil. Worlds of Music. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1952.

Sonneck, Oscar G. Miscellaneous Studies in the History of Music. NY: 
1921. Reprint, NY: 1970.

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

Starr, S. Frederick. Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau 
Gottschalk. Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.

Stuckenschmidt, H. Twentieth Century Music. New York: McGraw-Hill, 
1976.

Supicic, Ivo. Music in Society: A guide to the sociology of music. 
Sociology of Music series no. 4. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1987.

Tawa, Nicholas. American Composers and Their Public. A Critical Look. 
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Thompson, Jewel Taylor. Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Metuchen, NJ: 
Scarecrow Press, 1994.

Thomson, Virgil. The State of Music. 2nd ed., revised. NY: 1962.

Thomson, Virgil. Virgil Thomson. NY: 1966.

Thomson, Virgil. A Virgil Thomson Reader. Boston: 1981.

Van Der Merwe, Peter. Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of
Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Von Gunden, Heidi. The Music of Ben Johnston. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow 
Press, 1986.

Von Gunden, Heidi. The Music of Lou Harrison. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow 
Press, 1995.

Von Gunden, Heidi. The Music of Pauline Oliveros. Metuchen, NJ: 
Scarecrow Press, 1983.

Wadhams, Wayne. The Musician's Guide to the Record Industry. NY: 
Schirmer Books.

Watkins, Glenn. Soundings. New York: Schirmer Books, 1986.

White, William Carter. A History of Military Music in America. Westport, 
CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. (orig. 1944)

Yates, Peter. Twentieth-Century Music. New York: Pantheon, 1967.

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

10/95