The Encyclopedia of American Music

by JABLONSKI, EDWARD

First Edition

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Book description: Garden City: Doubleday & Co.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0385080883 . 629 pages, cloth, dj, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. 1st edition. From the publisher: The first, and the only, encyclopedia devoted solely to America's composers and music, from the Thanksgiving hymns of the Pilgrims to the utterances of the Moog synthesizer in the present day. All aspects of our rich and varied musical history are covered chronologically, biographically, and topically: folk music, pop standards, symphonies, choral music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, church hymns, musical comedy, gospel, blues, disco, and hard rock. Divided into seven major periods of American music, the book offers short introductory essays to each section, highlighting the character of an era's musical activity, the lives and work of some of its key composers, and the sociocultural events which helped shape its musical profile. The introductory sections are followed by individual entries (1,200 in all) listing alphabetically the composers and their works, organizations, musical forms and styles, and terminology used at the time. The result is an unrivaled source of information, much of it little known and almost forgotten. .

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