Bücher der Reihe Music Reference Collection

Jazz artists, as defined by Carner, are those who have made their mark as jazz performers and who have led the jazz life, playing the clubs and joints, not the legitimate concert stage, Broadway, Las Vegas, or the like.

The companion volume to the Cross Index Title Guide to Classical Music (Greenwood Press, 1987) contains more than 5,500 vocal and instrumental excerpts from over 1,400 operas and operettas by 535 composers from Monteverdi to the present.

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This guide to the biographical literature available on popular 20th-century singers covers nearly 1000 artists.

In addition to the unique listing of liner notes, the books, book chapters, articles, and Internet websites span the 60 years that trace the beginning of Sinatra's career in 1939 through his death in 1998. This comprehensive bibliography will attract scholars and Sinatra fans alike as a useful tool for further research.

Mercier examines the 107 songs Hans Pfitzner wrote for voice and piano. Although not as famous as his contemporaries Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss, Pfitzner created a number of fine songs and here receives the critical attention he deserves.

This companion volume to Opera Mediagraphy: Video Recordings and Motion Pictures (Greenwood, 1993) indexes opera singers on video and film in concert, recital, and non-operatic feature film and includes VHS videotape, optical video laser disc, CD-ROM, and DVD recordings.

It provides links among the various areas of rock music scholarship, thus imposing bibliographic control across a wide body of research that treats rock music in a serious manner.

This communications protocol allows computers to send, receive, and store digital information generated by various electronic musical instruments. The appendix contains information on associations involved with the musical applications of personal computers and brief descriptions of several popular online services.

This annotated survey identifies and evaluates the published literature of chamber and concertante music originally conceived for wind instruments.

Provides access to more than 500 books, journals and electronic resources, and includes chapters that list dictionaries and encyclopedias for opera and musical theatre, biographical resources, guides to vocal literature and repertoire, and resources for vocal pedagogy and for the stage.

Although the choral arrangements of the African-American spirituals constitute the largest group of folk song arrangements in western literature, they have received little scholarly attention.

A guide to locating information on popular music and the people who create it, this volume is designed as a desk reference-to locate answers to specific questions and to direct library users to key resources.

Presenting detailed information about 14 standard anthologies, this useful music reference tool lists all excerpts and complete compositions, provides information concerning the type of score presented, and includes an index of composers and sources as well as an index of complete compositions and movements.

This catalog is divided into four major sections: singles, extended-play albums, long-play albums, and compact discs.

This wide selection of poetry offers a unique guide to the poetry inspired by jazz musicians and their music. Of interest to scholars and jazz enthusiasts alike, this substantial bibliography, annotated by author and cross-referenced by musician, presents a wealth of information previously unavailable in a single source.

This reference lists operas released as motion pictures. It covers theatrical feature films on 35mm film, educational films on 16mm film and videorecordings, including the VHS videotape format and optical video laser disc. Citations to reviews are included from over 22 sources.

Following the pattern established with his pioneering work, Woodwind Music of Black Composers, Aaron Horne now presents a comparable work for the string music of Black composers.

The goal of this bibliography is to advance the playing and listening enjoyment of works written for two or more players at the clavichord, harpsichord and organ - individually or combined.

Reference and Research Book NewsThis bibliography enhances the repertoire of the violinist by providing convenient access to a new solo recital, concerto, and chamber music literature: the music of women composers.

The first in a projected series of idiom-specific bibliographies in black music, this work treats classical music. ChoiceThis comprehensive guide is the first to cover the full range of black activity in classical music, with more than 4,000 references to over 300 performers and ensembles.

This is the first book to examine comprehensively the major systems of musical notation proposed during the past three centuries.

As a companion to The Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide, this catalog provides a comprehensive listing of wind ensemble works from 1650 to the present.

This annotated chronology contains material concerning the background, philosophy, theory, notation, style, manuscript sources, theoretical sources, classes of music, composers and instruments for the period from 1425 to 1520, the first part of the Renaissance.

He was not alone in writing works for wind sextet, octet, or larger ensembles-Over 12,000 works for wind harmony by over 2,200 composers are extant. He was not alone in writing works for wind sextet, octet, or larger ensembles-over 12,000 works for wind harmony by over 2,200 composers are extant.

An introduction to a new way of modeling musical surfaces for theorists and for generating precompositional relationships for composers, this unique music theory reference work introduces, classifies, and enumerates graph theoretical models for musical transformations in compositional and analytical applications.

This work includes the entire spectrum. The work includes every book published about the band, every article that appeared in a major magazine or journal, chapters and entries in books, and articles from The San Francisco Chronicle and The San Francisco Examiner newspapers.

Aaron Horne provides the most comprehensive guide to brass music written by black composers. and an index which groups the music by numbers, medium, and ensemble. This is the fourth volume in Aaron Horne's monumental effort to provide the most comprehensive guide to music composed by black composers.