Selected Bibliographies from the IUP Music Library

 

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES

 

(REF) ML 105 .H6  Hixon, Don & Don Hennessee.  Women in Music: A Bio-Bibliography.  Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1975.  347 p.

 

(REF) ML 106 .U3 H6 1974  Ellinwood, Leonard & Keyes Porter.  Bio-Bibliographical Index of Musicians in the United States of America Since Colonial Times.  New York: Da Capo, 1971.  439 p.

 

*(REF) ML 105 .B9  Bull, Storm.  Index to Biographies of Contemporary Composers.  New York: Scarecrow, 1964.  3 v.

 

(REF) ML 128 .B45 G7 1988  Gray, John.  Blacks in Classical Music: A Bibliographical Guide to Composers, Performers and Ensembles.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES

 

GENERAL

 

* (REF) ML 105 .B16  2000.  Slonimsky, Nicholas, and Laura Kuhn eds.  Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians: Centennial Edition.  New York:  Schirmer, 2001.  6 vols.

 

* (REF) ML 105 .B164  1992.  Slonimsky, Nicholas, ed.  Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.  8th ed. New York:  Schirmer, 1992.  2,115 p.

 

*(REF) ML 106 .G7 W4 1990.  International Who's Who in Music and Musician's Directory.   12th ed. Cambridge, England:  Melrose Press, Ltd., 1990.  1096 p. (plus all earlier editions)

 

*(REF) ML 105 .H38 1996  Randel, Don Michael, ed.  The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music.  Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1996.  1013 p.

 

 

SPECIFIC

 

(REF) ML 106 .A74 A7  Arizaga, Rodolfo.  Enciclopedia de la Música Argentina.  Buenos Aires: Fondo Nacional de las Artes, 1971.  371 p.

 

(REF) ML 105 .C39  Carlson, Effie.  Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Twelve-Tone and Serial Composers.  Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1970. 233 p.

 

(REF) ML 105 .C55 1971  Choron, Alexandre & François Joseph Fayolle. Dictionaire Historique des Musiciens.  Hildesheim: Olms, 1971.  2 v.

 

(REF) ML 105 .G78 1985.  Green, Frank. compiler.  Composers on Record: an index to biographical information on 14,000 composers whose music has been recorded.  Metachen, NJ:  Scarecrow Press, 1985.  604  p.

 

(REF) ML 105 .H65  Holmes, John L.  Conductors on Record.   Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982.  743 p.

 

*(REF) ML 105 .C75 1992  Morton, Brian and Pamela Collins, eds.  Comtemporary Composers.  Chicago: St. James, 1992.  1019 p.

 

(REF) ML 106 .G7 P9 1973  Pulver, Jeffrey. Biographical Dictionary of Old English Music.  New York: Da Capo, 1973. 537 p.

 

(REF) ML 105 .S2 1825a  Sainsbury, John.  A Dictionary of Musicians from the Earliest Times. 

New York: Da Capo, 1966. 2 v.

 

(REF) ML 390 .M95 2002  Sitsky, Larry, ed.  Music of the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde: A Bio-critical Source Book.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood, 2002.  660 p.

 

*(REF) ML 105 .S612 1997  Slonimsky, Nicolas and Laura Kuhn.  Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians.  New York:  Schirmer, 1997.

 

(REF) ML 106 .N4 S8 1969  Straeton, Edmond van der. La Musique aux Pays-Bas.  New York:

Dover, 1969.  8 v. bound in 4.

 

(REF) ML 385 .W67 1999  Thompson, Clifford, ed.  World Musicians.  New York:  H. W. Wilson, 1999.  1181 p.

 

 

AFRICAN-AMERICANS

 

(REF) ML 105 .I5 1999.  Floyd, Samuel A. Jr., ed.  International Dictionary of Black Composers.  Chicago ; London : Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.  2 vols.

 

(REF) ML 105 .S67  Southern, Eileen.  Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982.  478 p.

 

 

AMERICAN

 

(REF) ML 390 .A54  Anderson, Ruth.  Contemporary American Composers:  A Biographical Dictionary.  Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976.  513 p.

 

(REF) ML 106 .U3 B87 1984  Butterworth, Neil.  A Dictionary of American Composers.  New York: Garland, 1984.  523 p.

 

(REF) ML 106 .U3 C6  Claghorn, Charles Eugene.  Biographical Dictionary of American Music.  New York: Parker, 1973.  491 p.

 

(REF) ML 390 .E825 1987  Ewen, David. American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary.  New York: H.W. Wilson, 1987.

 

(REF) ML 106 .U3 J7 1971  Jones, F. O.  Handbook of American Music and Musicians.  New York: Da Capo, 1971.  182 p.

 

 

WOMEN

 

*REF ML 82 .W625  Burns, Kristine H., ed.  Women and Music in America Since 1900:  An Encyclopedia.  Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2002. 2 v.

 

*(REF) ML 105 .C7 1987 Cohen, Aaron.  International Encyclopedia of Women Composers.  2nd ed. Revised and enlarged.  New York: Books & Music, 1987. 2 v.

 

(REF) ML 82 .L46.  Le Page, Jane Weiner.  Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the twentieth century:  Selected Biographies.  Metuchen, NJ:  Scarecrow Press. 1980.  2 vol.

 

*(REF) ML 105 .N38 1994  Sadie, Julie Anne and Rhian Samuel, eds.  The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers.  New York:  Norton, 1994.

 

(REF) ML 105 .Z34  Zaimont, Judith Lang & Karen Famera.  Contemporary Concert Music by Women.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981.  355 p.

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