American Music - reference books

Academic American Encyclopeida. Vol. 9. Danbury, CT: Grollier 
Incorporated, l991.

Adams, John L. Musicians' Autobiographies: an annotated bibliography 
of writings available in English, 1800-1980. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 
1982.

The American Musical Directory. NY: 1861. Reprint, NY: 1980.

American Music before 1865 in Print and on Records. Brooklyn: ISAM, 
1976.

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Biographical 
Dictionary. Jacques Cattell, ed. New York:  R.R. Bowker Co., 1980. 
(previous editions: 1st 1948, 2nd 1952, 3rd 1966.

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP Index 
of Performed Compositions. NY: ASCAP. 1942, 1952, 1954, 1963, 1978, 
1981. This is a compilation of all titles licensed by ASCAP in public 
performance.

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP 
Symphonic Catalog. 3rd ed. NY: R.R. Bowker, 1977. (previous ed. 1959, 
1966.

Ammer, Christine, ed. The Harper Dictionary of Music. 2nd ed. New York: 
Harper & Row, 1987.

Anderson, E. Ruth. Contemporary American Composers: a biographical 
dictionary. 1st ed.  1976. 2nd ed. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.

Arnold, Denis. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford UK: Oxford 
University Press, 1983, 2 v.

A Twentieth Century Musical Chronicle: Events 1900-1988. comp. 
Charles J. Hall. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Baker, Theodore. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 7th ed. 
revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. NY: Schirmer Books, 1984. 2577 p.

Band Music Guide. 9th ed. Northfield, IL: The Instrumentalist Co., l989.

Berger, Kenneth, ed. Band Encyclopedia. Kent, OH: Band Associates, Inc., 
l960.

Bibliographic Guide to Music. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., many editions and 
volumes.

Bibliographies in American Music. College Music Society. 9 vols.

Bio-Bibliographical Index of Musicians in the United States of America 
from Colonial Times, 2nd edition. Washington, DC: Music Section, Pan-
American Union, 1956.

Biographical Dictionary of Latin American Classical Composers. Ed. 
Martha Furman Schleifer. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

Blom, Eric. Everyman's Dictionary of Music. New York: St. Martin's Press, 
1971.

Blum, Fred, 1932-. Music monographs in series; a bibliography of 
numbered monograph series in the field of music current since 1945. 
New York, Scarecrow Press, 1964.

BMI Orchestral Program Survey. New York: Broadcast Music Inc., annual.

Broadcast Music Inc. Symphonic Catalog. rev. ed. NY: BMI, 1971. (first ed., 
1963; supplement, 1978.

Bohle, Bruce, ed. The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. 
11th ed. NY: Dodd, Mead, and Co., l985.

Britton, Allen, Irving Lowens and Richard Crawford. American Sacred 
Music Imprints, 1698-1810: A Bibliography. Worchester, MA: 1990.

Brook, Barry S., Thematic Catalogues in Music: an annotated bibliography, 
Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1972.

Brooks, Henry M. Olden-Time Music: A Compilation from Newspapers 
and Books. Boston: 1888. reprint, NY: 1973.

Bull, Storm. Index to Biographies of Contemporary Composers. NY: 
Scarecrow Press, 1964-73. 2 v.

Burbank, Richard. Twentieth Century Music. NY: Facts on File, 1984. 
(a report of musical events, 1900-1979.)

Carlson, Effie B. A Bio-bibliographical Dictionary of twelve-tone and 
serial composers. Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1970.

Catalogue of Published Concert Music by American Composers, 2nd 
edition, Angelo Eagon, ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1969.

Claghorn, Charles Eugene. Biographical Dictionary of American Music. 
West Nyack, New York: Parker Publishing Company, Inc., 1973.

Clough, F.F. and G.J. Cuming. World Us Encyclopedia of Recorded Music, 
3rd supplement. London: Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd., 1953-5.

Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. NY: 
R.R. Bowker, 1981.

Cohn, Arthur. Recorded Classical Music: A Critical Guide to 
Compositions and Performances. New York: Schirmer Books, 1981.

Complete Catalogue of Sheet Music and Musical Work Published by 
the Board of Music Trade of the United States of America: 1870. NY: 
1871. Reprint, NY: 1973.

Composers of North America. continuing series. Boston: Metuchen, 
NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Cooper, Martin. The Concise Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. NY: 
Hawthorne Books, 1958.

Coover, Musical Lexicography. 3rd ed., Carlisle, PA: Carlisle Books, 1971.
previous eds., 1952, 1958.

Current Biography Yearbook.

Davies, J. H. (John Howard). Musicalia; sources of information in music. 
2d ed., rev. and enl. Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press,1969.

Davis, Elizabeth A., ed. Index to the New World Recorded Anthology of 
American Music. NY: W.W. Norton, 1981.

De Benney, David P. Source Readings in American Choral Music. #15 of 
Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music. Boulder, CO: College 
Music Society, 1995.

Dearling, Robert and Celia Dearling. The Guinness Book of Musical Facts 
and Feats. 3rd ed. Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives, 1986.

Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography. 54 vols. some of interest in 
American Music.

Dictionary of American Biography.

Druesedow, John E. Library research guide to music: illustrated search 
strategy and sources. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Press, c1982.

Duckles, Vincent H. and Michael A, Keller. Music Reference and Research 
Materials - an annotated bibliography. 4th ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 
1988.

Eagon, Angelo. Catalog of Published Concert Music by American Composers. 
2nd ed. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1969. Supp. to 2nd ed., 1971; 2nd supp., 
1974.

Edmunds, John and Gordon Boelzner, eds. Some Twentieth-Century 
American Composers. A Selective Bibliography, 2 volumes. New York: 
The New York Public Library, 1959.

Enciclopedia de Musica Brasileria erudita, folclorica, popular. General 
editor: Marcos Antonio Marcondes. Sao Paulo: Art Editoria, 1977. 2 v.

Encyclopedia Americana.

Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music. comp. & ed., Nat Shapiro. Garden 
City: Doubleday, 1978.

Encyclopedia of World Music. (North American volume).

Erickson, J. Gunnar, Edward R. Hearn, and Mark E. Halloran. Musician's 
Guide to Copyright. San Francisco: Bay Area Lawyers for the Arts, 1979.

Ewen, David. Composers since 1900: a bibliographical and critical guide. 
NY: H.W. Wilson, 1969.

Ewen, David. Living Musicians. NY: H.W. Wilson, 1940. First supplement, 
1957.

Ewen, David. Musicians since 1900: performers in concert and opera. NY: 
H.W. Wilson, 1978.

Ewen, David. Popular American Composers, from Revolutionary Times to 
the Present. NY: H.W. Wilson, 1962. First supplement, 1972.

Freedom's Voice in Poetry and Song. comp and ed. by Gillian Anderson. 
Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1977.

Gammond, Peter and Peter Clayton. Dictionary of Popular Music. NY: 
Philosophical Library, 1961.

Greene's Biographical Dictionary of Composers.

Green, Frank, ed. Composers on Record: An Index to Biographical 
Information on 14,000 Composers whose music has been recorded. 
Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1985.

Griffiths, Paul. The Thames and Hudson Encyclopedia of 20th-Century 
Music. NY: Thames and Hudson, 1986.

Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The. Colin Larkin, compiler and 
editor. 2nd ed. NY: Stockton Press, 1995. 6 v.

Heard, Pricilla S. American Music, 1698-1800: an annotated bibliography. 
Waco: Baylor University Press, 1975.

Heintze, James. American Music Studies: A Classified Bibliography of 
Masters Theses. Detroit, MI: Information Coordinators, Inc., 1984.

Hitchcock, H. Wiley, and Stanley Sadie, eds. The New Grove Dictionary 
of American Music. 4 vols. London: 1986.

Hixon, Donald L. Music in Early America: a bibliography of music in Evans. 
Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1970.

Horn, David. The literature of American music in Books and Folk Music 
Collections: a fully annotated bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow 
Press, 1977. Supplement I, by David Horn and Richard Jackson. 1988.

Hovland, Michael. Musical Settings of American Poetry. NY: Greenwood 
Press, l986.

Hubbard, W. L., gen ed. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music. 
Toledo: 1908. Vol 1: Musical Biographies, ed. by Janet M. Green.

International Who's Who in Music and Musicians Directory. 10th ed. 
Cambridge, UK: Melrose Press, 1984.

Isaacs, Alan, and Elizabeth Martin, eds. Dictionary of Music. New York:
Facts on File Publications, 1983.

Jablonski, Edward. The Encyclopedia of American Music. NY: Doubleday, 
1981.

Jackson, Richard. United States Music: Sources of Bibliography and 
Collective Biography. NY: ISAM Monographs, no. 1; Brooklyn College 
Department of Music, l973, 1976.

Jackson, Richard. U.S. Bicentennial Music. Brooklyn: ISAM, 1977.

Jacobs, Arthur. A New Dictionary of Music. 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: 
Penguin, 1967.

Kay, Ernest, editor. International Who's Who in Music. eleventh edition. 
Cambridge: Melrose Press, 1988.

Kennedy, Michael, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Music. New York: The 
Oxford University Press, 1985.

Kinkle, Roger D. The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 
1900-1950. New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1974. 4 v.

Krummel, Richard. Bibliographical Handbook of American Music. Urbana: 
1987.

Lawrence, Vera Brodsky. Music for Patriots, Politicians and Presidents: 
harmonies and discords of the first hundred years. New York: Macmillan, 
1975.

Lawrence, Vera Brodsky. Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in 
the Days of George Templeton Strong, 1836-1875. New York: Macmillan, 
1988.

Lax, Roger, and Frederick Smith. The Great Song Thesaurus. 2nd ed, updated 
and expanded. NY: 1989.

Mead, Rita. Doctoral Dissertations in America; A Classified Bibliography. 
Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1974.

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG). Edited by Friedrich Blume. 
Kassel: Barenreiter,1949--.

Mixter, Keith Eugene, 1922-. General bibliography for music research. 
Detroit, Information Service,1962.

Moore, John W. Complete Encyclopedia of Music, elementary, technical, 
historical, biographical, vocal and instrumental. Boston: J.P. Jewett, 
1894 (copyright notice, 1852). 1004 p. Reprinted by Ditson in 1880. 
N.B. - this was the first comprehensive American musical dictionary.

Morehead, Philip D. and Anne MacNeil. The New American Dictionary of 
Music. NY: Dutton, l991.

Morehead, Philip D. The New International Dictionary of Music. New York:
Penguin/Meridian.

Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography Yearbook. New York: H. W. Wilson, 
1965.

Murray, Sterling E. Anthologies of music : an annotated index. 1987.

Murrells, Joseph. Million Selling Records from the 1900's to the 1980's:
 An Illustrated Dictionary. New York: Arco Publishing, Inc., 1984.

Music: a dissertation bibliography. University Microfilms International. 
Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, [1979].

Music in Print: Master Composer Index l988. Philadelphia: Musicdata, 
Inc., l989.

Myers, Kevin. Index to Record Reviews Based on Material Originally 
Publishd in Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 
Between1949 and 1977. Boston: GK Hall, 1978, 1989.

Nathan, Hans. William Billings: Data and Documents. Bibliographies in 
American Music, no. 2. Detroit: 1976.

Naylor, Colin, ed. Contemporary Artists. 3rd ed. Chicago: St. James Press, 
1989.

New York Public Library. Music Division: Bibliographic Guide to Music. 
Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall and Company, 1964-.

New Everyman Dictionary of Music, 1988 ed.

New Grove Dictionary of Music. Stanley Sadie, general editor. 20 vols.
London: Macmillan, 1980. (Newgrove)

New Grove Dictionary of American Music. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley 
Sadie, eds. London: Macmillan Press, Ltd., 1986.  4 v. (Amerigrove) N.B. 
the Amerigrove includes more information in American Music than is 
found in the newgrove. (other spin-offs: NG-Opera, NG-Jazz, NG-
Instruments, etc.)

The New Grove twentieth-century American masters: Ives, Thomson, 
Sessions, Cowell, Gershwin,. New York: Norton, 1988. 
         
The New Grove dictionary of jazz. edited by Barry Kernfeld. 2v. London: 
Macmillan ; New York, NY: Grove's Dictionaries of Music,1988.

The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments. edited by Stanley 
Sadie. 3v. New York : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1984.

The New Grove dictionary of opera. edited by Stanley Sadie; managing 
editor, Christina Bashford. 4v. London : Macmillan Press; New York: 
Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc., [distributor], 1992.

The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. edited by Julie 
Anne Sadie & Rhian Samuel. (New Grove dictionary of women 
composers.) New York; London: W.W. Norton, [1995], 1994.

Notable American Women: The Modern Period, A Biographical Dictionary. 
Ed. by Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green. Cambridge, MA: 1980.

Osborne, Jerry. Record Albums 1948-1978. Phoenix, Arizona: O'Sullivan 
Woodside and Co., 1978.

Pallay, Steven G., 1930-. Cross index title guide to classical music. New York : Greenwood Press, c1987.

Pareles, Jon and Patricia Romanowski, eds. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia
of Rock and Roll.  New York: Summit Books, 1983.

Pratt, Waldo Seldon, ed. American Music and Musicians. NY: 1920. 
(also issued as the American Supplement to Grove's Dictionary (NY: 
1920).

Pratt, Waldo Seldon, ed. The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. 
NY: 1924.

Press, Jaques, ed. Who's Who in American Music. 2nd Ed. NY: RR Bowker 
Co., 1985.

Rachlin, Harvey. Encyclopedia of the Music Business. NY: Harper & Row, 
1981.

Randel, Don Michael, ed. The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, 
MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.

Read, Gardner. Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices. NY: Pitman, 1953.

Rehrig, William H. The Heritage Encyclopdia of Band Music. Westerville, 
OH: Integrity Press, l991.

Reis, Clair R. Composers in America. rev. ed. NY: Macmillan, 1947.

Repertoire International da Littertur Musicale. New York: International
RILM Center, 1967-. (International Inventory of Music Literature). 
Available for on-line searching, 1971- .

Resources of American Music History: a directory of source materials 
from colonial times to World War II. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1981.

Risatti, Howard A. New Music Vocabulary. A Guide to Notational Signs for 
Contemporary Music. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1973.

Robson, Carolyn and Kate Van Winkle Keller. The National Tune Index: 
18th C. Secular Music. NY: University Music Editions, 1980.

Rubertis, Victor de. Pequeno diccionario musical, tecnologico y 
biografico, 6 ed., corregida y aumentada. Buenos Aires: Ricordi 
Americana, 1962. 349 p.

Rust, Brian. Brian Rust's Guide to Discography. Westport, Conn.: 
Greenwood Press, 1980.

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 
20 vols. London: 1980.

Saerchinger, Cesar, ed. International Who's Who in Music; and Musical 
Gazetteer. 1st ed. New York: Current Literature Publishing Co., 1918.

Sandved, Kjell. The World of Music: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New 
York: Abradale Press, 1963.

Schillinger, Joseph. Encyclopedia of Rhythms. NY: Da Capo Press, 1976.

Scholes, Percy A. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 3rd ed by 
Michael Kennedy. London & NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1980.

Sears, Richard S. V-Discs. A History and Discography. Westport, CT: 
Greenwood Press, 1980.

Shapiro, Nat, ed. Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music. Garden City: 
Doubleday, 1978.

Shaw, Arnold. Dictionary of American Pop/Rock. NY: Schirmer Books, 
1982.

Slonimsky, Nicolas. Lectionary of Music. NY: Doubleday.

Slonimsky, Nicolas. Music Since 1900. 4th ed. NY: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1971. Supplement, 1986.

Slonimsky, Nicolas. Thesaurus of scales and Melodic Patterns. NY: 
Coleman-Ross, 1947.

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

Smith, Julia, ed. Directory of American Women Composers. Chicago: 
National Federation of Music Clubs, 1970.

Sonneck, Oscar G. T. A Bibliography of Early Secular American Music. 
Wash. DC: Library of Congress Music Division, 1945. first pub. in 1905. 
Reprint - NY: Da Capo Press, 1964.

Southern, Eileen. Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African 
Musicians. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Stoneburner, B. C. Hawaiian music: an annotated bibliography. Westport 
CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Thompson, Oscar, ed. The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 
10th ed., edited by Bruce Bohle. New Tork: Dodd, Mead, 1975.

Three Centuries of American Music: A Collection of Sacred and Secular 
Music. Ed. by Sam Dennison and Martha Furman Schleifer. Boston: G.K. Hall, 
1993. 12 vol.

Twentieth-Century Composers in the Chesapeake Region: A Bio-
Bibliography and Guide to Library Holdings. By Bonnie Hedges and Bonlyn 
Hall. Richmond: Chesapeake Chapter, MLA, 1994.

Upton, William Treat. Art Song in America. New York: Oliver Ditson, 1930; 
Johnson reprint, 1969.

U.S. Library of Congress Music Division. many published catalogs.

Vinton, John. Dictionary of Contemporary Music. NY: E.P. Dutton, 1974.

Weichlein, William J. A Check-list of American Music Periodicals, 1850-
1900. Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1970.

Westrup, Jack and Harrison. The New College Encyclopedia of Music, rev. 
2nd ed. New York: Doubleday Press, 1979.

White, Evelyn Davidson. Choral Music by African-American Composers. A 
Selected, Annotated Bibliography. 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 
1995.

Who's Who in American Art, 1991-92 ed.

Who's Who in American Music: Classical. 2nd ed. ed. by Jacques Cattell. 
NY & London: Bowker, 1983.

Who's Who in Music, and Musicians', International Directory. 6th ed. 
New York: Hafner Publishing company, Inc.

Wier, Albert, ed. The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. 
New York: Macmillan, 1938.

Winick, Steven. Rhythm: an annotated bibliography. Metuchen NJ: 
Scarecrow Press, 1974.

Winesanker, Michael. A list of books on music. Reston, Va. : National 
Association of Schools of Music, c1977.

Wolfe, Richard J. Secular Music in America, 1801-1825: A Bibliography. 
NY: New York Public Library, 1964. 3 v.

Young, Percy M. A Critical Dictionary of Composers and Their Music. 
London: Dennis Dobson, 1954; NY: Crowell, 1954.

Zalkind, Ronald. Contemporary Music Almanac 1980/81. New York: 
Schirmer Books, 1980.

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