Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992

Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992
Author: Guy A. Marco
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780810831339

Cumulative index to all three volumes of Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections.

Choral Music in Nineteenth-century America

Choral Music in Nineteenth-century America
Author: N. Lee Orr
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780810836648

Choral music represented an important part of American cultural life during the nineteenth century, whether integral to worship or merely for entertainment. Despite this history, choral music remains one of the more neglected studies in the scholarly community. In an effort to fill this gap, N. Lee Orr and W. Dan Hardin offer a new approach to the study of choral music by mapping out and bringing bibliographical control to this expansive and challenging field of study. Their unique guide focuses on literature related to choral music in the United States from the end of the second decade of the nineteenth century through the earlier part of the twentieth century. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America explores the entire range of choral music conceived, written, published, rehearsed, and performed by an ensemble of singers gathered specifically to present the music before an audience or congregation. The guide expertly sifts through the extensive literature to cite the most notable sources for study and provides individual chapters on the leading nineteenth-century composers who were instrumental in the development of choral music.

The Cambridge History of American Music

The Cambridge History of American Music
Author: David Nicholls
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1998-11-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521454292

The Cambridge History of American Music, first published in 1998, celebrates the richness of America's musical life. It was the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. American music is an intricate tapestry of many cultures, and the History reveals this wide array of influences from Native, European, African, Asian, and other sources. The History begins with a survey of the music of Native Americans and then explores the social, historical, and cultural events of musical life in the period until 1900. Other contributors examine the growth and influence of popular musics, including film and stage music, jazz, rock, and immigrant, folk, and regional musics. The volume also includes valuable chapters on twentieth-century art music, including the experimental, serial, and tonal traditions.

The Popular Music Teaching Handbook

The Popular Music Teaching Handbook
Author: B. Lee Cooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2004-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313072728

The function of print resources as instructional guides and descriptors of popular music pedagogy are addressed in this concise volume. Increasingly, public school teachers and college-level faculty members are introducing and utilizing music-related educational approaches in their classrooms. This book lists reports dealing with popular music resources as classroom teaching materials, and will stimulate further thought among students and teachers. It focuses on the growing spectrum of published scholarship available to instructors in specific teaching fields (art, geography, social studies, urban studies, and so on) as well as on the multitude of general resources (including biographical directories and encyclopedias of artist profiles). Building on two recent publications: Teaching with Popular Music Resources: A Bibliography of Interdisciplinary Instructional Approaches, Popular Music and Society, XXII, no. 2 (Summer 1998), and American Culture Interpreted through Popular Music: Interdisciplinary Teaching Approaches (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2000), this volume focuses on the growing spectrum of published scholarship that is available to instructors in specific teaching fields (art, geography, social studies, urban studies, and so on) as well as on the multitude of general resources (including biographical directories and encyclopedias of artist profiles).

Women in Music

Women in Music
Author: Karin Pendle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2005-09-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135384630

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition

Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition
Author: Allen Scott
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253014565

Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians. The introductory chapter includes a comprehensive list of bibliographical terms with definitions; bibliographic terms in German, French, and Italian; and the plan of the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal music classification systems. Integrating helpful commentary to instruct the reader on the scope and usefulness of specific items, this updated and expanded edition accounts for the rapid growth in new editions of standard works, in fields such as ethnomusicology, performance practice, women in music, popular music, education, business, and music technology. These enhancements to its already extensive bibliographies ensures that the Sourcebook will continue to be an indispensable reference for years to come.

Opera

Opera
Author: Guy A. Marco
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1037
Release: 2002-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135578001

Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.

Music in North America and the West Indies from the Discovery to 1850

Music in North America and the West Indies from the Discovery to 1850
Author: Daniel Mendoza de Arce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Music in North America is a survey of the people, events, and institutions that helped shape music in the early centuries of North America. Collecting information from various historical data, author Daniel Mendoza de Arce presents straightforward descriptions of both religious and secular early music. Basic historical information about the Renaissance and Baroque periods in North America and the Caribbean are presented, chronologically through 1850, along musical, geographic, and cultural lines. A valuable study to researchers, students, and interested readers alike, this treatise helps readers achieve a sense of perspective, and a broader understanding of their place in world culture. The information presented in this book is a complement to the author's previous work, Music in Ibero-America to 1850: A Historical Survey.