American Music Studies: A Classified Bibliography of Master's Theses (Bibliographies in American Music)

Arts & Photography

Heintze, James R.

Music

College Music Society

Music in American Higher Education: Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies in American Music)

Brookhart, Edward

Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada 2010 - 2011

<p>During the nineteenth century the households of advantaged Americans were tempered by a widely accepted parlor culture that informed the construction of gender and so many other related aspects of society. Central to this way of life was a set of expectations and behaviors for the American woman—in fact, an ideal. In spite of dangers and excesses well addressed at the time, the cultivation of musical interests by young women was encouraged and admired. Professor Meyer-Frazier has turned her attention to this subject with a thoughtful study of the sheet music collected by girls during their years of education and courtship. A large number of these keepsake volumes of so-called “parlor music” survive and bear witness to the lives of their owners. With the benefit of period literature and recent scholarship Dr. Meyer-Frazier places these documents in context and considers their nature and meaning from a variety of sociological and musicological angles. Nine lucid essays are enhanced by biographical vignettes of representative collectors and by iconographical examples adorning sheet music covers.</p>

Bound Music, Unbound Women: The Search for an Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music)

Meyer-frazier, Petra

In this volume, Dr. Oscar Macchioni In this inaugural volume, Dr. Oscar Macchioni elucidates with native fluency and expert pianistic insight the influence of Argentine Tango in the piano works of six American composers: Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, David Jaggard, Chester Biscardi, and William Bolcom. The Tango in American Piano Music is at once vivid and erudite, and makes an important contribution to the literature for scholars and performers.

The Tango in American Music: Selected Tangos by Thomson, Copland, Barber, Jaggard, Bisccardi, and Bolcom (Cultural Expressions in Music)

Macchioni, Oscar Ernesto

Kathy H. Brown focuses on the nature and content of the teaching of soprano Lotte Lehmann (1888-1976)—with an emphasis on interpretation of the text—after her immigration to the United States. Advice culled from the transcripts of voice lessons and master classes as well as from questionnaire from students is provided for two-hundred-twenty-three art songs by twenty-six composers and twenty-five arias by twelve composers. This is preceded by summaries of Lehmann’s careers in the opera house and on the recital stage in Europe and America. The volume is illustrated with fifty black-and-white photographs and the black-and-white reproduction of thirty-eight paintings by Lehmann herself in response to specific lieder by Schubert and Schumann.

Lotte Lehmann in America: Her Legacy As Artist Teacher, With Commentaries from Her Master Classes (Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music)

Biographies & Memoirs

Brown, Kathy H.

Arts & Literature

<p>"This volume represents a systematic study of recorded performances of Duke Ellington as a pianist from the early 1920s to the mid 1960s in the contexts of his solo stride playing, his big band, and various small combos. Published scholarship is synthesized and offered alongside the author's observations. The text is accompanied by copious transcriptions by the author."</p>

Duke Ellington As Pianist: A Study of Styles (Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music)

Cooper, Matthew J.

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