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Songwriters of the American Musical Theatre: A Style Guide for Singers

By Nathan Hurwitz

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Hardcover:

9781138914414 | Routledge, August 25, 2016, cover price $135.00

Paperback:

9781138914421 | Routledge, August 25, 2016, cover price $47.95

Virgil Thomson: A Reader Selected Writings 1924-1984

By Richard Kostelanetz (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780415937955 | Routledge, August 1, 2002, cover price $60.00

Paperback:

9781138986763, titled "Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings 1924-1984" | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 30, 2016), cover price $47.95

The New York Composers' Forum Concerts, 1935-1940

Product Description: The New York Composers' Forum was a weekly series of new-music concerts sponsored by the Federal Music Project and Works Progress Administration. It showcased the music of modern American composers such as Aaron Copland, Amy Beach, Henry Cowell, and Ruth Crawford Seeger, and included question-and-answer sessions between the composers and audiences...read more

By Melissa J. De Graaf

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9781580464260 | Univ of Rochester Pr, November 1, 2013, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The New York Composers' Forum was a weekly series of new-music concerts sponsored by the Federal Music Project and Works Progress Administration.

The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape

By Denise Von Glahn

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Hardcover:

9781555535834 | Northeastern Univ Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $55.00

Paperback:

9781555537098 | Northeastern Univ Pr, August 28, 2009, cover price $45.00

The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty

By Wilfrid Sheed

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9780812970180 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, May 13, 2008), cover price $16.00

They're Playing Our Song: Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters

Product Description: Originally published in 1973, when it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, reprintedand revised several times since, Theyâre Playing Our Song is a classic oral history of American popular music. Now further updated with new material and new photographs, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in the Great American Songbook of the 20thcentury, these classic and timeless songs and lyrics are as popular today as ever...read more

By Max Wilk

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9780979824807 | Easton Studio Pr, February 14, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Originally published in 1973, when it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, reprintedand revised several times since, Theyâre Playing Our Song is a classic oral history of American popular music.

9780306807466 | Da Capo Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $14.95

American Pioneers: Ives to Cage and Beyond

Product Description: 'American Pioneers' investigates the life and work of the major American innovators, including Carl Ruggles, Lou Harrison and members of America's youngest composing generation, revealing the colourful and often idiosyncratic nature of these people."

By Alan Rich

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9780714847696 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, April 23, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 'American Pioneers' investigates the life and work of the major American innovators, including Carl Ruggles, Lou Harrison and members of America's youngest composing generation, revealing the colourful and often idiosyncratic nature of these people.

9780714831732 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, October 19, 1995, cover price $24.95

The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, And a Crew of Fifty

An evocative celebration of the contributions of America's leading songwriters during the Golden Age of American popular music focuses on the work of such celebrated musicians as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Johnny Mercer, and other notables. 20,000 first printing.

By Wilfrid Sheed

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9781400061051 | Random House Inc, July 3, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' to 'Big Spender,' from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture.

The Selected Writings of John Duke 1917-1984

Product Description: John Duke is a towering figure in twentieth century song composition; one who composer Ned Rorem calls "the master of the medium." The opportunity to view the opinions and attitudes of this exemplary composer in his own words is now available in The Selected Writings of John Duke...read more

By Robin Fisher (editor) and Ruth C. Friedberg (editor)

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9780810858671 | Scarecrow Pr, February 28, 2007, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: John Duke is a towering figure in twentieth century song composition; one who composer Ned Rorem calls "the master of the medium.

Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews And Lectures 1964-1987

Presents a selection of conversations, interviews, and lectures by one of the foremost American composers of the twentieth century.

By Chris Villars (editor)

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9780907259312 | Hyphen Pr, May 1, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Presents a selection of conversations, interviews, and lectures by one of the foremost American composers of the twentieth century.

The American Songbook: The Singers, Songwriters and the Songs

Presents an overview of twentieth century popular music, documenting the careers of singers, composers, and lyricists from the 1920s through the 1960s, and the big bands and Broadway musicals that characterized the era.

By Tony Bennett (foreword by) and Ken Bloom

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9781579124489 | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, October 17, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Presents an overview of twentieth century popular music, documenting the careers of singers, composers, and lyricists from the 1920s through the 1960s, and the big bands and Broadway musicals that characterized the era.

Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music

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By Michael Broyles

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9780300100457 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $65.00

John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933-1950

Product Description: John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933--1950 explores the early part of John Cageâs life and career, concentrating on the "pre-chance" period from roughly 1933 to 1950. These essays consider influences on Cageâs work, his early percussion pieces, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward an ideology that would later shape his own work, arguing that a reevaluation of this early period is crucial to understanding his later work...read more

By David W. Patterson

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Hardcover:

9780815329954 | Routledge, January 1, 2002, cover price $130.00

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9780415996679 | 1 edition (Routledge, October 17, 2008), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933--1950 explores the early part of John Cageâs life and career, concentrating on the "pre-chance" period from roughly 1933 to 1950.

American Mavericks

Collects comments, insight, and actual performances from American composers, representing a myriad of genres and styles, who took part in the 2000 American Mavericks festival in San Francisco. (view table of contents)

By Susan Key (editor), Larry Rothe (editor), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (corporate author) and Michael Tilson Thomas (editor)

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9780520233041 | Har/com edition (Univ of California Pr, December 1, 2001), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Collects comments, insight, and actual performances from American composers, representing a myriad of genres and styles, who took part in the 2000 American Mavericks festival in San Francisco.

American Mavericks: Musical Visionaries, Pioneers, Iconoclasts

Collects comments, insight, and actual performances from American composers, representing a myriad of genres and styles, who took part in the 2000 American Mavericks festival in San Francisco.

By Susan Key (editor), Larry Rothe (editor), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (corporate author) and Michael Tilson Thomas (editor)

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9780520233058 | Pap/com edition (Univ of California Pr, December 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Collects comments, insight, and actual performances from American composers, representing a myriad of genres and styles, who took part in the 2000 American Mavericks festival in San Francisco.

They Also Wrote: Evaluative Essays on Lesser-Known Popular American Songwriters Prior to the Rock Era

Product Description: Shining a light on under-appreciated or unknown American popular songwriters active from 1848 until 1955, William E. Studwell profiles three hundred and forty-four of them in evaluative historical essays. The essays provide biographical data, focus on the songs for which the songwriter is best known, then list the lesser-known songs in chronological order...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William E. Studwell

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9780810837898 | Scarecrow Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Shining a light on under-appreciated or unknown American popular songwriters active from 1848 until 1955, William E.

Music of the Golden Age, 1900-1950 and Beyond: A Guide to Popular Composers and Lyricists

Product Description: The Golden Age of popular music began prior to World War I with composers and lyricists writing hit songs for Tin Pan Alley, for musical plays, for Vaudeville, and for radio. It blossomed from the 1920s through the early 1950s, defined by a mood and style filled with rhythm and romance and with memorable, melodic, literate music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Arthur L. Iger

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9780313306914 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 30, 1998, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: The Golden Age of popular music began prior to World War I with composers and lyricists writing hit songs for Tin Pan Alley, for musical plays, for Vaudeville, and for radio.

American Composers and Their Public: A Critical Look

Product Description: In all of the writings about twentieth-century American art music, scarcely any attempt has been made to examine the relationship between the composer and the general audience, and least of all what composers and members of the music public have had to say about each other...read more

By Nicholas E. Tawa

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9780810829541 | Scarecrow Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: In all of the writings about twentieth-century American art music, scarcely any attempt has been made to examine the relationship between the composer and the general audience, and least of all what composers and members of the music public have had to say about each other.

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

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By Nicholas E. Tawa

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9780313285639 | Praeger Pub Text, October 1, 1992, cover price $84.00

Harvard Composers: Walter Piston and His Students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski

By Howard Pollack

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9780810824935 | Scarecrow Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $110.00

They're Playing Our Song: The Truth Behind the Words and Music of Three Generations

Personal reminiscences illuminate the lives and characters of such outstanding twentieth-century composers and lyricists as Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin, and Stephen Sondheim

By Max Wilk

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9781559210324 | Reprint edition (Moyer Bell Ltd, May 1, 1991), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Personal reminiscences illuminate the lives and characters of such outstanding twentieth-century composers and lyricists as Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin, and Stephen Sondheim

Notes on Broadway: Intimate Conversations With Broadway's Greatest Songwriters

By Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha

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9780671635084 | Revised edition (Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1987), cover price $11.95

A Most Wondrous Babble: American Art Composers, Their Music, and the American Scene 1950-1985

Product Description: Tawa considers the musical and social ramifications influencing the American composer between 1950 and 1985. He draws information from composers, music reviewers, and from his own listening experiences. Tawa's common theme is the gulf between what the composer (or critic) says about the music and how the public experiences it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Nicholas E. Tawa

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9780313256929 | Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 1987, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Tawa considers the musical and social ramifications influencing the American composer between 1950 and 1985.

They're Playing Our Song

By Max Wilk

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Hardcover:

9780918432797 | Expanded edition (New York Zoetrope, November 1, 1986), cover price $24.95

George Crumb: Profile of a Composer

Product Description: Profile of a Composer: George Crumb, I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul (George Crumb) - With an Introduction by Gilbert Chase

By Don Gillespie (editor)

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9780938856023 | C F Peters Corp, June 1, 1986, cover price $27.70 | About this edition: Profile of a Composer: George Crumb, I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul (George Crumb) - With an Introduction by Gilbert Chase

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