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American Art Song and American Poetry, Second Edition
Published 50 years after the last major treatment of American art song, the first edition of the three-volume American Art Song and American Poetry was the first work to fully consider the musical settings of American poetry. In this second edition, now published in a convenient, one-volume format, Ruth Friedberg and Robin Fisher have updated the entries on composers and poets from the first edition and added new individuals to both categories. New composers appearing in this volume include Florence Price, Lee Hoiby, Emma Lou Diemer, Helen Greenberg, Flicka Rahn, Libby Larsen, John Musto, Lori Laitman, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Jake Heggie. Poets now receiving their first treatment are Ezra Pound, Emma Lazarus, Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Dorothy Parker, Willa Cather, Louise Bogan, and William Carlos Williams. As before, musical examples are liberally employed to illustrate specific approaches to poetic text-setting and are much more visually accessible due to present-day digital technology.
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
By F. O. Matthiessen
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Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999: An Annotated Bibliography
By J. Carman, W. Gaeddert, & R. Resch
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A Bibliography of Early Secular American Music
By Oscar George Theodore SonneckAn earlier edition is available for free on Google Books.
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Black Women Composers: A Genesis
By Mildred Denby GreenIncludes chapters on Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Julia Perry, Evelyn Pittman, and Lena McLin.
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Blacks in Classical Music: A Bibliographical Guide to Composers, Performers, and Ensembles (Music Reference Collection)
By John Gray
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Composers' Voices from Ives to Ellington: An Oral History of American Music
By Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve
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The Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections: A Fully Annotated Bibliography
By David Horn
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The MacDowell Colony: A Musical History of America's Premiere Artists' Community
By Bridget Falconer-Salkeld
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Modern Music-Makers: Contemporary American Composers
By Madeleine GossPublished in 1952, this volume is dated but does contain a thorough biography, chronology, and catalog for many important song composers, including Charles Ives, John Alden Carpenter, Marion Bauer, William Grant Still, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Lousie Talma, Samuel Barber, William Schuman, and Leonard Bernstein.
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The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process
By Ann McCutchanFirst-person interviews with 25 composers, including American song composers William Bolcom, John Corigliano, John Harbison, and Libby Larsen.
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The Music Makers
By Deena and Bernard Rosenberg, eds.Includes first person chapters by American composers Aaron Copland, Milton Babbitt, Miriam Gideon, and Earle Brown, as well as American scholars and teachers, conductors, and performers.
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A New Anthology of Art Songs By Contemporary African American Composers
By Margaret R. Simmons and Jeanine Wagner
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Poetry Into Song: Performance and Analysis of Lieder
By Stein, Spillman, Ameling, & Larsen
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A Singer's Guide to the American Art Song 1870-1980
By Victoria VillamilForeword by Thomas Hampson
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Voices That Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Song
By Jon W. FinsonIncludes information about pioneering composers of American song, including Charles Wakefield Cadman, James Weldon Johnson, George Pope Morris, George Frederick Root, Henry Russell, Marion Dix Sullivan, Joseph Philbrick Webster, and Henry Clay Work.
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