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By: Susan H. Hayes Hitchens

ISBN: 9780313255854
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Karel Husa is a Czechoslovakian-American composer and educator who has made important contributions to modern musical literature. This volume provides a complete guide to his compositions and to recordings of his work, together with a full bibliography.

Following a brief biography is a list of Husa's compositions, arranged by genre.


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By: Peter Campbell

ISBN: 9780313290206
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Exploring the personal and cultural experiences that have shaped the creative output of the Australian composer Larry Sitsky, this study explores his many influences and includes bibliographic references to all his work.


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By: Ellen S. Johnson

ISBN: 9780313258510
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The biographical section of this volume sketches Bassett's life and career and provides an evaluative description of the progression of his musical compositions. The book also features a classified list of works, divided into 11 categories of performance, followed by a discography.


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By: James E. Perone

ISBN: 9780313318245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A native of New Orleans, Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) is widely acknowledged as the leading American piano virtuoso of the 19th century and as a composer of major significance, particularly in his ability to capture his contemporary public's taste while incorporating European, African-American, Caribbean, and South American influences.


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By: Carol Pemberton

ISBN: 9780313258817
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The annotated entries cover a wide range of valuable information on 19th-century American music, American studies, church music, music education, teacher training programs, music publishing, and instrument manufacturing.


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By: Karen Perone

ISBN: 9780313268113
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Lukas Foss's career encompasses the worlds of composition, conducting, performing, teaching, and the organization of major music festivals. discographical citations to compositions by Foss as well as to works conducted and performed by him;


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By: Stewart R. Craggs

ISBN: 9780313292545
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work includes a biography, discography, complete list of works and performances, and an annotated bibliography.


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By: Nancy L. Harper

ISBN: 9780313302923
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An influential twentieth-century Spanish composer, Manuel de Falla continues to generate interest as well as controversy.


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By: Leonard Lehrman

ISBN: 9780313300271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Marc Blitzstein was one of the 20th century's most important American composers, lyricists, and critics, often credited with having invented opera in the American vernacular. This book catalogs his writings and writings about him, with listings, analysis, performance history, and the summaries of his 128 original musical works and more.


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By: William E. Grim

ISBN: 9780313253119
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Professor Grim's bio-bibliography is the first publication in English to bring together the considerable amount of scholarship that has been devoted to Reger's life and work and to his role in the transition from late romanticism to modernism.


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By: Arlys McDonald

ISBN: 9780313255656
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1989
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The list of works and performances includes Rorem's plays and books, works in preparation, and his musical compositions. The first provides an alphabetical listing of Rorem's compositions, including individual songs in cycles, distinctive subtitles, working titles, and titles of unpublished works.


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By: Ralph M. Hartsock

ISBN: 9780313243202
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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With its extensive treatment of his life and career, this book will help to bring Luening's important compositions and his contributions to American music to the attention of a much wider audience.

Ralph Hartsock divides Luening's work into four main sections, each covering a specific aspect of Luening's career.


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By: Monica J. Slomski

ISBN: 9780313253362
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Although born Giuseppe Guttovergi to a poor, immigrant Italian family, it was as Paul Creston that Giuseppe rose to prominence, becoming one of the most widely performed American composers.


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By: James E. Perone

ISBN: 9780313310164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This comprehensive bibliography serves as a major reference guide to the serious study of American singer and songwriter Paul Simon, well known for his work as part of the musical duo Simon and Garfunkel as well as for his successful solo career.


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By: Deborah Hayes

ISBN: 9780313264221
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of Australian-born composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, who made her reputation in the USA in the 1940s and 1950s. Documents her music, performances and critical writings, as well as the work of previous biographers, bibliographers and interviewers.


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By: Carolyn J. Smith

ISBN: 9780313268311
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A guide to the music of Britain's most prominent living composer, this volume contains the most complete listing available of Davies's works (unpublished as well as published) plus a comprehensive discography and a bibliography of nearly 1,000 items.


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By: Deborah Hayes

ISBN: 9780313277429
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A record of the work of Australian composer, Peter Sculthorpe, and of its reception by composer colleagues, performers, critics and audiences.


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By: David Cohen

ISBN: 9780313310294
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume in the Greenwood Press series Bio-Bibliographies in Music provides an overview of Phil Ochs' life and career, an annotated guide to the literature by and about Phil Ochs, and a discography of his recordings.


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By: Roger Flury

ISBN: 9780313296628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Bringing together a vast amount of information on Pietro Mascagni and his works, this volume in the Greenwood Press series Bio-Bibliographies in Music includes a catalogue of the composer's works and performances, bibliography, discography, and brief biographical sketch.


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By: Walter B. Bailey

ISBN: 9780313262777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Radie Britain: A Bio-Bibliography is a concise biography which summarizes the major events in the prolific American composer's life, and describes the conditions under which her singular talent emerged.


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By: Caroline C. Benser

ISBN: 9780313255212
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Randall Thompson: A Bio-Bibliography is the first comprehensive study of Thompson's oeuvre since his death.

The volume is organized into five parts, beginning with a substantial biography written by David Francis Urrows, Thompson's final student and amanuensis.


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By: Stewart R. Craggs

ISBN: 9780313261794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Richard Rodney Bennett is one of Britain's most distinguished, versatile, and prolific twentieth century composers. This first book-length study of Richard Rodney Bennett to be published provides unique information about an important twentieth century composer.


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By: George J. Ferencz

ISBN: 9780313264726
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Presents the life and works of the American composer, Robert Russell Bennett, whose prolific career as composer and arranger spanned much of the 20th century. The author provides a lengthy biographical profile, followed by a complete list of works and selected performances.


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By: Kenneth Kreitner

ISBN: 9780313257018
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A prolific American master whose work is rooted in the tonal tradition of nineteenth-century Romanticism, Robert Ward has had a long, varied, and successful musical career.

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