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History and Literature

Internet Resources
    

     Classical Composers Timeline –

http://www.classical-composers.org/page/time

     Classical Composer Biographies –

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/music/composers.html

     Classical Composers Picture Gallery –

http://voyager.physics.unlv.edu/webpages2/picgalr2.html

 

Books
 

Africa and the Blues

     Author:  Kubik, Gerhard

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

All the Years of American Popular Music

     Author:  Ewen, David

     Holdings:  ML3561.P6 E95

 

America's Music, From the Pilgrims to the Present

     Author:  Chase, Gilbert

     Holdings:  ML200.C5

 

American Popular Music:  New Approaches to the Twentieth Century

     Author:  Rubin, Rachel and Jeffrey Melnick

     Holdings:  ML3477 .A42 2001

 

Anthology of Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600

     Author:  Atlas, Allan W.

     Holdings:  MT91 .A58 1998

 

Bach, Beethoven and the Boys: Music History as it Ought to be Taught

     Author:  Barber, David W.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Beale Black & Blue:  Life and Music on Black America’s Main Street

     Author:  McKee, Margaret and Fred Chisenhall

     Holdings:  ML3556 .M117

 

Beethoven after Napoleon:  Political Romanticism in the Late Works

     Author:  Rumph, Stephen

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Cambridge History of American Music

     Author:  Nicholls, David

     Holdings:  ML200.C36 1998

 

 Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

     Author:  Carter, Tim and John Butt

     Holdings:  ML194 .C23 2005

 

Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music

     Author:  Samson, Jim

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Classical Music

     Author:  Sherman, Robert

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Composers of Classical Music of Jewish Descent

     Author:  Stevens, Lewis

     Holdings:  ML390 .S825 2003

 

Composers of the Nazi Era:  Eight Portraits

     Author:  Kater, Michael H.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies

     Author:  Marvin, Elizabeth West and Richard Hermann

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Concise Guide to Jazz

     Author:  Gridley, Mark C.

     Holdings:  ML3506 .G736 1998

 

Contemporary Composes on Contemporary Music

     Author:  Schwartz, Elliott and Barney Childs

     Holdings:  ML197 .C7512 1998

 

Cultural Study of Music:  A Critical Introduction

     Author:  Clayton, Martin, Trevor Herbert, and Richard Middleton

     Holdings:  ML3845 .C85 2003

 

Development of Western Music: A History

     Author:  Stolba, K Marie

     Holdings:  ML160 .S87 1990

 

Early Concert-life in America. (1731-1800)

     Author:  Sonneck, O. G.

     Holdings:   ML200.3 .S6 1969

 

Early Swing Era, 1930 to 1941

     Author:  Oliphant, Dave

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

English Choral Practice 1400-1650

     Author:  Morehen, John

     Holdings:  ML3031.2 .E54 1995

 

French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau

     Author:  Anthony, James R.

     Holdings:  ML270.2 .A6 1997

 

German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century

     Author:  Hallmark, Rufus

     Holdings:  ML2829.4 .G47 1996

 

Go, Cat, Go!:  The Life and Times of Carl Perkins, the King of Rockabilly

     Author:  Perkins, Carl and David McGee

     Holdings:  ML420.P453 M34 1996

 

History of Jazz in America

     Author:  Ulanov, Barry

     Holdings:  ML3561.J3 U5 1972

 

History of Western Music

     Author:  Grout, Donald Jay and Claude V. Paliska

     Holdings:  ML160.G872 1996

 

Land Where the Blues Began

     Author:  Lomax, Alan

     Holdings:  ML3521 .L64 2002

 

Jazz Rock: A History

     Author:  Nicholson, Stuart

     Holdings:  ML3506 .N52 1998

 

Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America:  The Composers, Their Times, and Their Works

     Author:  Tawa, Nicholas E.

     Holdings:  ML200.5 .T35 1992

 

Masterpieces of Music Before 1750:  An Anthology of Musical Examples from Gregorian Chant to J. S. Bach

     Author:  Parrish, Carl and John F. Ohl

     Holdings:  M2.P25 M3

 

Music and Musicians in Early America

     Author:  Lowens, Irving

     Holdings:  ML200 .L7


Music and Society Since 1815

     Author:  Raynor, Henry

     Holdings:  ML3795 .R395 1976b

 

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome

     Author:  Landels, John G.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Music from the Age of Shakespeare: A Cultural History

     Author:  Lord, Suzanne

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Music in Jackson, Tennessee: 1875-1917

     Author:  Dennis, Pamela R.

     Holdings:  ML200.T3 D4 2000

 

Music in Late Renaissance & Early Italy

     Author:  Carter, Tim

     Holdings:  ML290.2 .C22 1992

 

Music in the New World

     Author:  Hamm, Charles

     Holdings:  ML200 .H17 1983

 

Music in the Renaissance

     Author:  Brown, Howard Mayer

     Holdings:  ML172 .B86

 

Music in the United States:  A Historical Introduction

     Author:  Hitchcock, H. Wiley Hitchcock

     Holdings:   ML200 .H58

 

Music in Western Civilization

     Author:  Lang, Paul Henry

     Holdings:  ML160.L25 M8

 

Music of Black Americans:  A History

     Author:  Southern, Eileen

     Holdings:   ML3556 .S74

 

Music of the Middle Ages

     Author:  Cattin, Giulio

     Holdings:  ML200 .H17 1983

 

Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook

     Author:  Kramer, Jonathan D.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Music Since 1945:  Issues, Materials, and Literature

     Author:  Schwartz, Elliott

     Holdings:  ML197 .S35 1992

 

Music, the Arts, and Ideas:  Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture

     Author:  Meyer, Leonard B.

     Holdings:  ML3800 .M633 1994

 

Music through Sources and Documents

     Author:  Rowen, Ruth Halle

     Holdings:  ML160 .R88

 

Musical Dialogue:  Thoughts on Monteverdi, Bach, and Mozart

     Author:  Harnoncourt, Nikolaus

     Holdings:  ML60 .H33713 1997

 

New Grove Late Romantic Masters: Bruckner, Brahms, Dvorak, Wolf

     Author:  Cooke, Deryck

     Holdings:  ML390 .N465 1985

 

New Grove Twentieth-Century English Masters: Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Walton, Tippett, Britten

     Author:  McVeagh, Diana

     Holdings:  ML 390 .N47 1986

 

New Oxford History of Music

     Author:

     Holdings:  ML160 .N44

 

Oxford History of Western Music

     Author:  Taruskin, Richard

     Holdings:  Reference ML160 .T18 2005

 

Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music

     Author:  Garatt, James

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Recorded Music in American Life: the Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945

     Author:  Kenney, William Howland

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Robert Schumann, Words and Music: The Vocal Compositions

     Author:  Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich

     Holdings:  ML410.S4 F613 1988

 

Roots of Texas Music

     Author:  Clayton, Lawrence and Joe W. Specht

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Russians on Russian Music, 1880-1917:  An Anthology

     Author:  Campbell, Stuart

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Shostakovich Casebook

     Author:  Brown, Malcolm Hamrick

     Holdings:  ML410.S53 S46 2004

 

Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865

     Author:  Lawrence, Abel E.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Sonata in the Baroque Era

     Author:  Newman, William S.

     Holdings:  ML1156.N4 S6

 

Sonata in the Classic Era

     Author:  Newman, William S.

     Holdings:  ML1156.N4 S62

 

Source Readings in Music History

     Author:  Strunk, Oliver

     Holdings:  ML160 .S89 1998

 

Sourcebook for Research in Music

     Author:  Crabtree, Phillip D. and Donald H. Foster

     Holdings:  ML113 .C68 1993

 

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Music:  A Tribute to Karl Geiringer on His Seventieth Birthday

     Author:  Landon, H.C. Robbins

     Holdings:  ML55.G24 S8

 

Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works through Mavra

     Author:  Taruskin, Richard

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Syntagma Musicum III

     Author:  Praetorius, Michael

     Holdings:  ML100 .P8213 2004

 

Tennessee Strings: The Story of Country Music in Tennessee

     Author:  Wolfe, Charles K.

     Holdings:  ML3561 .C69 W64

 

The Sonata in the Baroque Era

     Author:  Newman, William S.

     Holdings:  ML1156.N4 S6

 

Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction

     Author:  Salzman, Eric

     Holdings:  ML197 .S17 1988

 

Understanding Popular Music

     Author:  Shuker, Roy

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

What is This Thing Called Jazz?:  African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists

     Author:  Porter, Eric

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

What the Music Said:  Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture

     Author:  Neal, Mark Anthony

     Holdings:  ML3479 .N43 1999

 

Women & Music: A History

     Author:  Pendle, Karin

     Holdings:   ML82 .W6 1991

 

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