AMERICAN MUSIC 2014 The New York Composers’ Forum Concerts, 1935-1940 MELISSA J. DE GRAAFThe 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. These sessions led to discussions, arguments, and sometimes even riots, all documented in nearly complete transcripts.This book is the first to tell the story of the Composers’ Forum. Following the fascinating threads of dialogue from the transcripts, Melissa de Graaf explores the remarkable diversity of composers and musical styles represented, including numerous composers who have since been ignored or forgotten. She also examines the composers’ and listeners’ attitudes toward modernism, politics, gender, race, and American identity. In this important study of a unique and overlooked American institution, de Graaf shows that “modern” aesthetics in the 1930s comprised far more diverse styles and thought than we imagine today.List Price: $75.00/£50.00; November 2013; 9781580464260 5 b/w & 28 line illus.; 304 pp, cloth

Crosscurrents American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000 Edited by FELIX MEYER, CAROL OJA, WOLFGANG RATHERT & ANNE SHREFFLEThroughout the 20th century, exchanges between North America and Europe were vital to the development of musical life on both sides of the Atlantic, shifting from a postcolonial

imbalance of cultural power at the opening of the century to an increasing sense of encounters between equals. There were productive exchanges of all sorts and in both directions, with ever-shifting dynamics over time. American musicians studied in Europe; European musicians visited the U.S. or were driven into exile there, orchestras and soloists crisscrossed the ocean to give concert tours; music festivals attracted an international clientele; and printed music, recordings, journalism, radio, and eventually the internet flowed freely within a transatlantic circuit. This volume explores how music and musicians have moved across cultures, creating mutual benefit as well as occasional misunderstanding. It includes contributions by leading historians, theorists, and scholars of American studies as well as interviews with two prominent “transatlantic” composers of today, Betsy Jolas and Steve Reich.The main chapters of the book are devoted to the following topics: “Performing National Identity”, “Touring on the Other Side”, “Networks of Pedagogy and Patronage”, “Exile and Emigration”, “Wartime Concerns”, “Cultural Politics on the Cold War”, “Technological Intersections”, “Institutional Havens and Confrontations”, “Musical Languages: Concergences and Divergences”, “Questioning Hierarchies, Challenging Boundaries”.List Price: $70.00/£40.00; February 2014; 9781843839002 80 b/w illus.; 520 pp, cloth

John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page DREW MASSEYFor over sixty years, the scholar and pianist John Kirkpatrick tirelessly promoted and championed the music of American composers. In this book, Drew Massey explores how Kirkpatrick’s career as an editor of music shaped the music and legacies of some of the great American modernists, including Aaron Copland, Ross

Lee Finney, Roy Harris, Hunter Johnson, Charles Ives, Robert Palmer, and Carl Ruggles. Drawing on oral histories, interviews, and Kirkpatrick’s own extensive archives, Massey carefully reconstructs Kirkpatrick’s collaborations with such luminaries, displaying his editorial practice and inviting reconsideration of many of the most important debates in American modernism – for example, the self-fashioning of young composers during the 1940s, the cherished myth of Ruggles as a composer in communion with the “timeless,” and Ives’s status as a pioneer of modernist techniques.List Price: $75.00/£50.00; June 2013; 9781580464048 Ebook: 9781580467971 21 color & 25 line illus.; 244 pp, cloth

First and Lasting Impressions Julius Rudel Looks Back on a Life in Music JULIUS RUDEL & REBECCA PALLERAs a seventeen-year-old Jewish boy, Julius Rudel escaped from Austria after the Nazi invasion and moved to New York, where he began his career as an unpaid musical assistant and worked his way up through the ranks of the newly formed New York City Opera, being named in 1957 as the company’s general director and principal

conductor. Later, he became the first artistic director of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.In his twenty-two-year leadership of New York City Opera, Rudel challenged audiences with new and unusual repertoire,turning the popularly priced “People’s Opera” into the most influential and daring opera company in the United States.Rudel writes in detail of his unusual repertoire choices and of the political battles behind New York City Opera’s move to Lincoln Center in 1966, and he reminisces about his legendary collaborations with Beverly Sills – and about his work with other extraordinary talents including Norman Treigle, Phyllis Curtin, William Ball, Frank Corsaro, Tito Capobianco, Leopold Stokowski, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Prince, and Gian Carlo Menotti.First and Lasting Impressions gives a rare personal look into Julius Rudel’s career as a conductor and administrator during the glory years of New York City Opera.List Price: $49.95/£30.00; March 2013; 9781580464345 30 b/w illus.; 243 pp, cloth

American MusicThe Whistling Blackbird Essays and Talks on New Music ROBERT MORRISIn The Whistling Blackbird: Essays and Talks on New Music, composer and music theorist Robert Morris presents a new and multifaceted view of recent developments in American music. Threaded throughout this collection of essays are Morris’s

diverse and seemingly disparate interests and influences. English romantic poetry, mathematical combinatorics, group and set theory, hiking, Buddhist philosophy, Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting, jazz and nonwestern music, chaos theory, linguistics, and the American transcendental movement exist side by side in a fascinating and eclectic portrait of American musical composition at the dawn of the new millennium.List Price: $95.00/£60.00; December 2010; 9781580463492 Ebook: 9781580467667 7 b/w & 114 line illus.; 448 pp, cloth

Verdi in America Oberto through Rigoletto GEORGE W. MARTINVerdi in America: Oberto through Rigoletto, by noted Verdi authority George W. Martin, details the changing fortunes of Verdi’s early operas in the theaters and concert halls of the United States.

Among the important works whose fates Martin traces are Nabucco, Ernani, Macbeth, and one of Verdi’s immortal masterpieces: Rigoletto, denounced in 1860 as the epitome of immorality. Martin also explores the astonishing revival of many of these operas in the 1940s and onward, and the first American productions of some Verdi operas that had never previously managed to cross the Atlantic. Extensive quotations from newspaper reviews testify to the eventual triumph of these works.List Price: $75.00/£50.00 September 2011; 9781580463881 Ebook: 9781580467827 66 b/w illus.; 496 pp, cloth

Gunther Schuller A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty GUNTHER SCHULLERThis deeply detailed memoir of the first 35 years of composer Gunther Schuller’s life is set in the broader context of America’s cultural scene – specifically New York’s music scene – throughout much of the twentieth century. The autobiography

of a living composer and an important historical sourcebook on contemporary American music.Instantly becomes an essential document of twentieth-century music, in all its forms. Time and again Schuller has been witness to the making of history, and more than once he has made it himself. No future account of the period will be able to ignore this book. ALEX ROSS List Price: $49.95/£30.00; November 2013; 9781580463423 Ebook: 9781580468107 21 b/w illus.; 700 pp, cloth

Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch DANIEL JAY GRIMMINGERSacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch is the only in-depth study of the shifting identity of the Pennsylvania Dutch as seen in their music. Through a closer examination of music sources, folk art, and

historical contexts, this interdisciplinary study sheds light on the process of cultural change that occurred over the course of a century or more in the majority of Pennsylvania German communities and churches. List Price: $85.00/£55.00; November 2012; 9781580463836 85 b/w illus.; 240 pp, cloth

Elliott Carter’s What Next? Communication, Cooperation, and Separation GUY CAPUZZOFocusing exclusively on a single Carter composition, Guy Capuzzo uses the metaphors of communication, cooperation, and separation to trace the dramatic arc of “What Next?” Through an approach that places stage

action, words, and music on equal footing, Capuzzo reveals the inner workings of Carter’s tragicomedy.List Price: $75.00/£50.00; September 2012; 9781580464192 66 line illus.; 208 pp, cloth

Elliott Carter Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995 ELLIOTT CARTER; Edited by JONATHAN W. BERNARDThis definitive volume of Carter’s essays and lectures - many previously unpublished or uncollected -shows his thinking and writing on

music and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer.List Price: $39.95/£19.99; May 2005; 9781580460255 Ebook: 9780585182902 26 line illus.; 392 pp, paper

Dear Dorothy Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow NICOLAS SLONIMSKY; Edited by ELECTRA SLONIMSKY YOURKEThe fascinating letters of conductor-author Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) to his wife, sharing his adventures as he traveled around the world to

conduct new American music.List Price: $49.95/£30.00; December 2012; 9781580463959 Ebook: 9781580468121 38 b/w illus.; 366 pp, cloth

Elliott Carter A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents FELIX MEYER & ANNE SHREFFLERPreviously unseen letters, documents and photographs trace the biographical, intellectual, and artistic evolution of a composer who, building on American modernism

and interacting with the latest developments in Europe, has forged a distinctive, highly sophisticated musical language, and captures his friendships with fellow musicians and others. The carefully selected materials...and the commentaries that accompany them provide much insight into the composer’s working methods...this volume is a considerable achievement. AMERICAN MUSIC REVIEWList Price: $45.00/£25.00; December 2008; 9781843834045 60 color & 30 b/w illus.; 208 pp, cloth

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American Women Composers before 1870 JUDITH TICKEarly American women composers are barely represented in standard reference works, yet their output constitutes a significant proportion of the bound sheet music in the collections in New York

Public Library, Yale University, Boston Public Library, and the New York Historical Society that form the basis of the study. The author sets out to map the large and hitherto unknown history of women composers in the hundred years prior to 1870. Considering particularly those compositions by women that were demonstrably popular (a number of them are printed in the book) the author is able to shed light on a little-studied area.List Price: $29.95/£19.99; November 1991; 9781878822598 320 pp, paper

Leon Kirchner Composer, Performer, and Teacher ROBERT RIGGSThe life of American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher Leon Kirchner (1919-2009) is detailed here alongside discussions of his work. In addition to Riggs’s interviews with the composer, the biography

is documented with Kirchner’s colorful correspondence from a roster of luminaries: Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Cone, Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, Isaac Stern, Roger Sessions, and others. Excerpts from Kirchner’s own essays and speeches complete the portrait and reveal his highly personal, romantic view of music as powerful art capable of endowing humanity with an “aesthetic sensibility and protective wisdom, without which we cannot survive.” List Price: $80.00/£55.00; November 2010; 9781580463430 Ebook: 9781580467650 20 b/w & 33 line illus.; 352 pp, cloth

The Music of the Moravian Church in America Edited by NOLA REED KNOUSEDemonstrates the varied roles that music played in one of America’s most distinctive ethno-cultural populations.Well documented with chapter endnotes and amply

illustrated with music examples, facsimiles from early sources, and photographs. . . . There is a genuine need for this book. MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTESList Price: $39.95/£25.00; November 2009; 9781580463522 Ebook: 9781580467469 14 b/w & 52 line illus.; 376 pp, paper

Music in German Immigrant Theater New York City, 1840-1940 JOHN KOEGELThe first history of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.

[M]agnificent and substantial. . . . Will be of interest to musicologists, theater, cultural, and immigrant historians. AMERICAN MUSICList Price: $80.00/£55.00; June 2009; 9781580462150 90 b/w & 14 line illus.; 624 pp, cloth

“Let the Church Sing!” Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community THÉRÈSE SMITHAn examination of worldviews, religious belief and ritual as seen through the musical performances of one Afro-American Baptist church in a small black community in rural Mississippi. The book is

enriched by extensive musical transcriptions and an accompanying CD of recordings from actual church services, and these are examined in detail in the book itself.List Price: $49.95/£35.00; August 2004; 9781580461573 18 b/w illus.; 304 pp, cloth

Samuel Barber Remembered A Centenary Tribute PETER DICKINSONCompulsively readable interviews with the American composer and his friends and colleagues, including Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leontyne Price.List Price: $49.95/£25.00; April 2010; 9781580463508

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CageTalk Dialogues with and about John Cage Edited by PETER DICKINSONRevealing unpublished interviews with composer and author John Cage and some of his closest colleagues, including Virgil Thomson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pauline Oliveros, Merce Cunningham, and David

Tudor. The interviewers include Frank Kermode, David Oliver, and the editor Peter Dickinson.The first-hand accounts related by Cage’s colleagues offer new insights and a palpable vibrancy. . . . A sense of intimacy and richness of anecdotal detail. . . . Merit[s] study by all with an interest in the composer. BULLETIN OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN MUSICList Price: $49.95/£25.00; March 2007; 9781580462372 Ebook: 9781580468053 10 b/w illus.; 296 pp, cloth

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Good Music for a Free People The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America NANCY NEWMANThis book examines the activities and reception of the Germania Musical Society, an orchestra whose members emigrated from Berlin during

the Revolutions of 1848. These two dozen “Forty-Eighters” gave nearly a thousand concerts during the ensuing six-year period, possibly reaching a million listeners. Newman provides insights into the musicians’ desire to bring their music to the audiences of a democratic republic at this turbulent time. Eager to avoid the egotism and self-promotion of the European patronage system, they pledged to work for their mutual interests both musically and socially. List Price: $80.00/£55.00; December 2010; 9781580463454 Ebook: 9781580467681 4 b/w & 14 line illus.; 336 pp, cloth

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European Music and Musicians in New York City, 1840-1900 Edited by JOHN GRAZIANOThe musical scene in mid-nineteenth century New York City, contrary to common belief, was exceptionally vibrant. New Yorkers were regularly exposed to “new” music by Verdi, Meyerbeer,

Schumann, Berlioz, Liszt, and Wagner. Also explored, with rich new documentation, are German-American musical theater, the Liederkranz Society, William Steinway, military bands, the opera-house repertoire, and an early American booking management agency.List Price: $85.00/£55.00; September 2006; 9781580462037 Ebook: 9781580466578 28 b/w illus.; 360 pp, cloth

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“The Music of American Folk Song” and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER; Edited by LARRY POLANSKY

This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger’s major work on American folksongs.List Price: $29.99/£19.99; May 2003; 9781580461368 11 b/w & 66 line illus.; 216 pp, paper

Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music Edited by RAY ALLEN & ELLIE M. HISAMAThis collection of studies by musicologists, music theorists, folklorists, historians, music educators, and women’s studies scholars reveals how innovation and

tradition have intertwined in surprising ways to shape the cultural landscape of twentieth-century America.The level of scholarship is impeccable with solid writing throughout. . . . Those interested in American musical culture, feminism, modernist composition, or folk music will greatly appreciate its multiple perspectives and sophistication. NOTESList Price: $80.00/£55.00; February 2007; 9781580462129 Ebook: 9781580466851 4 b/w illus.; 264 pp, cloth

Copland Connotations Studies and Interviews Edited by PETER DICKINSONThe contributors to Copland Connotations include the leading figures in Copland studies. They offer exciting new perspectives on Copland’s work; unique reflections on his private life; and indicate the

undoubted vitality of his appeal to future generations.List Price: $90.00/£50.00; May 2004; 9780851159027 Ebook: 9781846150524 1 b/w illus.; 232 pp, cloth

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Letters I Never Mailed Clues to a Life ALEC WILDERLetters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and

photographs by Louis Ouzer.List Price: $29.95/£19.99; October 2005; 9781580462082 15 b/w illus.; 336 pp, cloth

Dane Rudhyar His Music, Thought, and Art DENIZ ERTANTThe first full-length study of Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985), who was a unique figure in twentieth-century American culture: a composer, thinker, painter, poet, novelist, and expert on astrology. Rudhyar’s musical

compositions – such as the remarkable Three Paeans for piano – were often described during his lifetime as ultramodern and deeply philosophical. His sometimes startling paintings and his brilliantly articulate prose writings on a variety of subjects reached outward to pre-Renaissance and non-Western traditions.List Price: $80.00/£55.00; January 2009; 9781580462877 Ebook: 9781580467209 16 color, 2 b/w & 14 line illus.; 328 pp, cloth

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