Item Detail
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DeVenney, David P.
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American choral music since 1920 : an annotated guide
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Book
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Berkeley, Calif.
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c1993
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Fallen Leaf Press
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xviii, 278 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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091491328X
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Choral music--United States--20th century--Bibliography.
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Choral Music; Choirs; Choral Directors; Twentieth Century; United States
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ML 128 .C48 D45 1993
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DeVenney, David P. American Choral Music Since 1920: An Annotated Guide. Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music, no. 27. Berkeley, California: Fallen Leaf Press, 1993.
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Reference guide for the choral musician to discover twentieth-century choral works, their voicing, duration, and manuscript location. Also serves as a reference for key articles relating to twentieth-century choral music.
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Includes works written between 1920 and 1993. Contains only works written in the United States. Does not contain choruses from large-scale works, stage music, arrangements of pieces (except a composer's arrangement of his own work), work intended to be sung by a group of soloists, hymns, folk songs, or spirituals. Contains publisher information, composer, title, special notes, performance time, text source, and manuscript location.
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There are six main sections, two of which contain subsections. Section I-List of Composers. Sections II-Introduction. Section III-Guide to Use (Guide to Annotations in the Catalog, Abbreviations, Bibliographic Guide to Source Listings). Section IV-Catalog of Works (Arranged alphabetically by composer. Multiple songs by a composer arranged alphabetically by title. Each entry has a reference number, beginning with 1 and continuing throughout. These numbers are used in the indexes.). Sections V-Bibliography of Selected Writings. Section VI- Indexes (Titles, Authors and Sources of Texts, Performing Forces, Durations, Bibliography of Selected Writings).
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A very extensive repertoire guide, the works are also indexed by voicing and the source of the text. The bibliography gives references to selected writings about the composers and pieces referenced in the catalog.
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Not much commentary on individual pieces.
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Wright, H. Stephen. Music Reference Services Quarterly 3, no. 3 (1995): 71-72.
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BYU Mus Ref
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3048