Lyrics - selected bibliography


Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934. The American rhythm. New York:
Harcourt. 1923.

Barry, Barbara R. Musical time: the sense of order. Stuyvesant, NY: 
Pendragon Press. 1990. 

Engel, Lehman. Their Words Are Music: The Great Theatre Lyricists and Their
Lyrics. New York: Crown Publishers, 1975.

Ewen, David. American Song Writers (An H.W. Wilson Biographical
Dictionary). New York: H.M Wilson Company, 1987.

Ewen, David, ed. American Popular Songs: From the Revolutionary War to the
Present. New York: Random House, 1966.

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

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

Furia, Philip. The Poets of Tin Pan Alley. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1990.

Gammond, Peter. The Oxford Companion to Popular Music.  New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991.

Gershwin, Ira. Lyrics on Several Occasions:... NY: 1959, reprint, NY: 1973.

Guernsey, Otis L. Jr., ed. Broadway Song and Story: Playwrights, Lyricists,
Composers, Discuss Their Hits. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1985.

Guersey, Jr., Otis L. Playwrights, lyricists, composers on theatre: the
inside story of a decade of theatre in articles and comments by its
authors, selected from their own publication, the Dramatists Guild
Quarterly. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1974. 

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

Hart, Dorothy and Robert Kimball, eds. The Complete Lyrics of Lorenz Hart.
NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

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

Hardy, Phil and Dave Laing. The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular
Music. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1990.

Havelice, Patricia Pate. Popular Song Index. 1 vol. and 3 supplements.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1975, 1978, 1984, 1989.

Hischak, Thomas S. Word Crazy - Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim.
Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Houle, George. Meter in music, 1600-1800: performance, perception, and
notation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1987.

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

Jacob, Cary Franklin, 1885. The foundations and nature of verse. New 
York, Columbia University Press. 1918.
 
Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers and
Their Times. New York: Penguin/Primus, 1993.

Kasha, Al, and Joel Hirschhorn. Notes on Broadway: conversations with the
great songwriters. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1985. 
Engel, Lehman, Words With Music. New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Lanz, Henry, 1886. The physical basis of rime; an essay on the aesthetics 
of sound. 1931.       

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

Lewine, Richard and Alfred Simon. Songs of the American Theatre. New York:
Dodd, Mead and Co., 1973.  New York: H. W. Wilson, 1984.

Meyerson, Harold and Ernie Harburg. Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of 
Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Donald Clarke, ed. New York:
Penguin Books.

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

Stambler, Irwin. Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1974.

Stambler, Irwin. Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Rock. New York:  St.
Martin's Press, 1973.

Suskin, Steven. Show Tunes: 1905-1985. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1986.

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

Wilder, Alec. American Popular Song - The Great Innovators 1900-50. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Woll, Allen L.  Songs from Hollywood Musical Comedies, 1927 to the Present:
A Dictionary.  New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1976.

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