Item Detail
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Maroney, James F.
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Music for voice and classical guitar, 1945-1996 : an annotated catalog
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Book
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Jefferson, N.C.
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c1997
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McFarland
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vi, 146 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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0786403845; 9780786403844
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Songs with guitar--20th century--Bibliography.
Sacred songs with guitar--20th century--Bibliography. -
Vocal Music; Classical Guitar Music; Voice; Classical Guitar
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ML 128 .S3 M37 1997
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Maroney, James F. Music for Voice and Classical Guitar, 1945-1996: An Annotated Catalog. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., 1997.
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An annotated catalog listing contemporary compositions for voice and guitar in non-popular genres.
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Includes 576 works for guitar and solo voice written or arranged between the years 1945 and 1996. Popular songs were left out, and guitar notation must not be simply chord symbols. Focuses on avant-garde style pieces. Also includes a chapter on historical background for this ensemble as well as a chapter on statistical and pedagogical observations involving voice and guitar. Individual entries include the vocal ranges, difficulty level, and comments on the nature of the music. Contains an index.
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Includes historical background, outlining Western traditions of vocal performance with plucked string accompaniment (from the middle ages to present). Includes section of statistical and pedagogical observations on the pieces in this book, with tables to show the distribution of difficulty levels, voice types, languages, decades of composition and pitch ranges. The main body of the guide is the catalog of works, arranged alphabetically by composer. Each entry contains an entry number, the name of the composer, the title of the piece as it appears on the score, the language in which the vocal part is written, the composition and copyright dates, the publisher key name and catalog number, author and text source, voice type, and vocal range.
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Detailed description of each work is given including difficulty, range and voice type.
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Tanno, John W. Guitar Review 111 (Winter 1998): 28.
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BYU Mus Ref
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3788