American Choral Music
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Block, Adrienne Fried. Amy Beach: Passionate Victorian. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Block, Adrienne Fried. “Arthur P. Schmidt, Music Publisher and Champion of American Women Composers.” Part 2: Essays, No. 6 in The Musical Woman. An International Perspective, Vol. 2. Edited by Judith Lang Zaimont. Greenwood Press: New York: 1984-1985.
Borroff, Edith. Music Melting Round: A History of Music in the United States. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Coward, Henry. Choral Technique and Interpretation. London: Novello and Co.; New York: H. W. Grey, [1914].
Dett, R. Nathaniel, ed. Religious Folk-songs of the Negro as Sung at Hampton Institute. Hampton, VA: Hampton Institute Press, 1927; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1972.
Hitchcock, H. Wiley. Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
Howard, John Tasker. Our American Music: A Comprehensive History from 1620 to the Present. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1965.
Howard, John Tasker, and George Kent Bellows. A Short History of Music in America. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957.
Jenkins, Walter S. The Remarkable Mrs. Beach, American Composer: A Biographical Account Based on Her Diaries, Letters, Newspaper Clippings, and Personal Reminiscences. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1994.
Levy, Alan H. Edward MacDowell: An American Master. Lanham, MD, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
MacDowell, Marian. Random Notes on Edward MacDowell and his Music. Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt and Co., 1950.
Neuls-Bates, Carol, ed. Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996.
Nicholls, David, ed. The Cambridge History of American Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Orr, N. Lee and W. Dan Hardin. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America: A Guide to the Sources. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999.
Osborne, William. Monograph Series, No. 8. American Singing Societies and Their Partsongs: Ten Prominent American Composers of the Genre (1860–1940) and the Seminal Singing Societies that Performed the Repertory. Lawton, OK: American Choral Directors Association, 1994.
Pendle, Karin, ed. Women and Music: A History. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Schleifer, Martha Furman. William Wallace Gilchrist, 1846–1916: A Moving Force in the Musical Life of Philadelphia. Metuchen, NJ, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1985.
Sharp, Avery T. and James Michael Floyd. Choral Music: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies; New York: Routledge, 2002.
Simpson, Anne Key. Follow Me: The Life and Music of R. Nathaniel Dett, Composers of North America Series, No. 10. Metuchen, NJ, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
Tawa, Nicholas E. Arthur Foote: A Musician in the Frame of Time and Place Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
Yellin, Victor Fell. Chadwick: Yankee Composer. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
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