American Music - textbooks

Borroff, Edith. Music in Europe and the United States: A History. 2nd ed. New 
York: Ardsley House, 1990.

Edwards, Arthur C. and W. Thomas Marrocco. Music in the United States. 
Dubuque: W.C.Brown, 1968.

Ferris, Jean. America's Musical Landscape. Dubuque: W.C. Brown, 1990.

Kingman, Daniel. American Music: A Panorama. orig. 1979, 2nd ed. New York:
Schirmer Books, 1990.

Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the musicians: good times, bad times (and what 
the neighbors thought) San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.
The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi -- Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: 
Johann Sebastian Bach -- No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- 
Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven -- "My dear corpse": Frederic 
Chopin -- A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi -- A 
different white dress every night: Clara Schumann -- Dear friends and gentle 
hearts: Stephen Foster -- The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms
 -- Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Topsy-turvydom: 
William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan -- Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie -- 
The entertainer: Scott Joplin -- He stretched our ears: Charles Ives -- 
Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky -- Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger --
 Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev -- "Great, isn't it?": George Gershwin -- 
Traveling troubadour: Woody Guthrie.

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