Roger Sessions: Reference Books


Baker, Thoedore, ed. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 
Centennial ed. / Nicolas Slonimsky, editor emeritus; Laura Kuhn, 
Baker's series advisory editor.  New York : Schirmer Books, 2001.

Bauer, Marion.  Twentieth Century Music; How it Developed, How to 
Listen to it. NY:  G. P. Putnam's Sons, l933.

Burbank, Richard. Twentieth Century Music. New York: Facts on File 
Publications, 1984.

Butterworth, Neil. A Dictionary of American Composers. NY: Garland 
Publishing, Inc., l984.

Chase,Gilbert. America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. 
3rd ed. Urbana. IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Claghorn, Charles Eugene. Biographical Dictionary of American Music. 
West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Co., Inc., l973.

Ewen, David. American Composers Today. New York: The H. W. Wilson 
Company,1949.

-----. American Composers A Biographical Dictionary. New York: G. P. 
Putnam and Sons, 1982.

_____. Composers Since 1900: A Biographical and Critical Guide. New 
York, H. W. Wilson Co., 1969.

_____. Composers Since 1900: A Biographical and Critical Guide, First 
Supplement. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1981.

_____. The Complete Book of Twentieth Century Music. New York: 
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1952.

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

_____. Twentieth Century Composers. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 
1937.

_____. The World of Twentieth Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New 
Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968.

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

Hitchcock, H. Wiley. Music in the United States: A Historical 
Introduction. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2000.

Hitchcock, H. Wiley and Stanley Satie, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of 
American Music. London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1986.

Howard, John T. Our American Music: 300 Years of It, 4th ed. New York: 
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965.

_____. Our Contemporary Composers. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 
1941.

Reis, Claire R. Composers in America; Biographical Sketches of 
Contemporary Composers with a Record of Their Works. Rev. and enl. ed.  
New York, Macmillan Co., 1947.

Salzman, Eric. Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction. 4th ed.  Upper 
Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2002.

Slonimsky, Nicolas. The Great Composers and Their Works. edited by 
Electra Yourke.  New York : Schirmer Books, 2000.

_____. Music Since l900. 5th ed. NY: Schrimer Books, l994.


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