Bücher der Reihe Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music

The Montagu Collection, of worldwide coverage and all types of instruments, began to take shape in the early 1960s when what had been a small and very random collection was then rapidly expanded to illustrate lectures and to provide material for research on all aspects of organology.

Lowell Mason, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Charles Ives, Edward MacDowell, and Arthur Foote are but some of the American composers featured in this guide.

The main section of this book is arranged by voice type, with entries subarranged by composer. Each entry gives the composer's name and dates, the title and date of the work, names of individual movements, publisher, source and language of text, instrumentation, vocal range, and level of difficulty. Indexes by performing media, composers, sources of texts, and publishers complete the work.

"For the music historian, such publications (as the Gazzetta di Napoli) often supply precious information. Readers may easily (find) cities or any other category by utilizing the computer disk provided with the book...a valuable collection of references to numerous Italian festivities given during the lifetime of Alessandro Scarlatti."