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BIBLIOGRAPHY PART ONE: SOUND DESIGN AND RECORDED MUSIC Alexander, Robert Charles. Inventor of Stereo: The Life and Work of Alan Daver Blumlein. Boston: Focal Press, 1999. The well-told story of the great inventor whose death was hushed up during WWII. Bill, Edward Lyman. The Talking Machine World (Jan. 15, 1905-Dec. 15, 1928). New York. This monthly periodical devoted to the trade is a storehouse of information on recordings and equipment, people in the business and every gadget invented which promised “vastly improved” sound. Available on microfilm. Chanan, Michael. Repeated Takes – A Short History of Recording and Its Effects on Music. London: Verso, 1995. An excellent read, filled with little-known facts. Craggs, Stewart R. Soundtracks: An International Dictionary of Composers for Film. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998. The title tells all. Day, Timothy. A Century of Recorded Music. Listening to Musical History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Filled with some thought-provoking theories on the importance of recordings. Dearling, Robert and Celia, and Brian Rust. The Guinness Book of Recorded Sound. Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Books, 1984. Packed with cocktail party chit-chat facts and figures. Dearling, Robert and Celia, and Brian Rust. Music Facts & Feats. Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Books, 1984. More of the same, but covers all aspects of the music-making world. Perhaps even more than a person needs to know. Gelatt, Roland. The Fabulous Phonograph 1877–1977. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1977. An overview of the industry and the people in it written by an obvious enthusiast. Katz, Mark. Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. Martland, Peter. Since Records Began: EMI, The First 100 Years. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1997. Chatty and filled with interesting stories. Pollard, Anthony. Gramophone 75th Anniversary. Harrow, Middlesex: Gramophone Publications Ltd., 1998. A running history as reported in the long-lasting monthly magazine. BIBLIOGRAPHY 385 Read, Oliver and Walter L. Welch. From Tin Foil to Stereo: Evolution of the Phonograph. Indianapolis, IN: Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc., 1976. The classic study. Full of facts about the complicated squabbles and lawsuits of the early years. If you can find a copy, grab it. Schicke, Charles A. Revolution in Sound: A Biography of the Recording Industry. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. Symes, Colin. Setting the Record Straight: A Material History of Classical Recording. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. A book filled with great stuff but written in an unfortunately overly verbose “educationese” style. PART TWO: CLASSICAL MUSIC Craine, Debra and Judith Mackrell. The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. A handy reference book covering modern dance, the classical world and non-western too. The most important whos and whats. Ewen, David. The Complete Book of Classical Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1965. A handy book on major composers and their works. Maron, Ivan, Edward Greenfield and Robert Layton. The Penguide to Compact Discs. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1999 (and periodically updated). This “Guide to Excellence in Recorded Classical Music” is a bit “English” in flavor, but gives good coverage of the better (and so they say, best) recordings. Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillian, 2001. This twenty-nine-volume set is the granddaddy and mother of them all. If it concerns classical music (and other genres too,) it’s probably there. There is also an on-line service available for those who subscribe. Slonimsky, Nicolas, Editor Emeritus. Baker’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 9th ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 2000. Not only classical, but popular and jazz music is covered in the six volumes. Slonimsky, Nicolas. Music Since 1900, 5th ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 1994. A yearly chronicle of who was born, died or composed what. There is also a fascinating interspersing of history and events. Marvelous reading. Equally fascinating is the appended collection of letters and documents and the Dictionary of Terms, which weave wit and wisdom into a charming narrative. If you come upon a copy, grab it. PART THREE: POPULAR MUSIC Bloom, Ken. American Song – The Complete Musical Theatre Companion. 2nd ed., 1877–1995. New York: Achirme Books, 1996. There are four volumes. The first two are devoted to musical theatre and the others focus on Tin Pan Alley songs. Excellent work. Bloom, Ken. Hollywood Song – The Complete Film & Musical Companion. New York: Facts on File, 1995. Three volumes of excellent sources. Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 5th ed. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 2000. The title says it all. 386 SOUND DESigner’S COMPANION Ewen, David. All the Years of American Popular Music: A Comprehensive History. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977. Ewen tells the history in a most readable and entertaining way. Filled with fascinating facts and insights. Ewen, David, ed. American Popular Songs from the Revolutionary War to the Present. New York: Random House, 1966. Interesting, well-written history, plus chronological lists of songs, plus a chapter on “All-Time Best-Selling Popular Records: 1919–1966.” Gammond, Peter. The Oxford Companion to Popular Music. New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. A handy one-volume book which covers more than just the top Americans, and is solid in English and continental performers too. The indices are helpful, especially the one listing song titles. Gänzl, Kurt. The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. 2nd ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001. Three fact-filled volumes of musicals, operettas, revues and other stage events, plus extensive information on the songs and the people involved. Gardner, Edward Foote. Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century. Volume 1 – Chart Details & Encyclopedia 1900–1949. St. Paul, MN: Paragon Press, 2000. Exactly what the title describes. Each year is filled with titles selected by the author. Volume II was expected in 2002. Havlice, Patricia. Popular Song Index. (and three supplements: 1978, 1984 and 1989). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975. Most useful for the index to titles and the first lines of songs. Jacobs, Dick and Harriet. Who Wrote That Song? Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 1994. A cross-listing of songs and songwriters. Forget the “puff” about Dick Jacobs and make use of the contents. Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers and Their Times. New York: Primus – Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1988. An easy read which puts popular music into context. Kernfeld, Barry Dean. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd ed. New York: Grove, 2002. Three large volumes about all aspects of the jazz world—people, bands, clubs and recordings. Kinkle, Roger D. Leading Musical Performers (Popular Music and Jazz), 1900–1996. Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1966. Useful collection of performers and their recordings are found in this three-volume collection. Larkin, Colin, ed. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. London: Muze UK Ltd., 1998. Eight volumes of biographies of performers with notations on their noted recordings and films. Lax, Roger, and Frederick Smith. The Great Song Thesaurus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. A useful book which contains titles as noted in its title, and has interesting sections on theme songs of noted (and long-forgotten) band leaders, trademark songs for products, with long-forgotten signature tunes. There is also a helpful section on British titles. Lissauer, Robert. Lissauer’s Encyclopedia of Popular Music in America, 1880 to the Present. New York: Paragon House, 1991. An alphabetical listing of songs and who wrote them. The names of performers who made principal records and for which company they were made is also listed in the clarifying notes. BIBLIOGRAPHY 387 Lord, Tom. The Jazz Discography. West Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Lord Music Reference Inc., 1992. The twnty-four volumes list over 100,000 recording sessions from 1898 into the 1990s. The data covers the world and includes both the original issue and re-issues, including compact discs. Probably only in libraries, but invaluable. Paymer, Marvin E. Facts Behind the Songs: A Handbook of American Popular Music from the Nineties to the ’90s. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. Guaranteed to make anyone the hit at a cocktail party. A good read. Rust, Brian; and Allen G. Debus. The Complete Entertainment Discography from 1897 to 1942. 2nd ed. New York: Da Capo Press, 1989. An alphabetical listing of performers of popular music and a chronological listing of all their known recordings. Some note of LP reissues is made. Some brief biographies are helpful to place the artists into their times. Rust, Brian. Jazz Records 1897–1942. London: Storyville Publications and Co., 1978. These two volumes are the bible for the truth and the way to find who made what records and when they were made. The book covers performers from the beginnings of commercial releases to the musicians’ strike of 1942. Not easy to find individual titles unless you already know who recorded them. Shapiro, Ed. Nat. Popular Music – An Annotated Index of American Popular Songs. New York: Adrain Press, 1964. Volumes cover 1920–1969. Further volumes, edited by Bruce Pollock, are published by Gale Research Company. The series now contains all years from 1900 on, is issued in