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Primary Source Readings in Music
Anthologies of original documents:
The American composer speaks
Publisher: [Baton Rouge] : Louisiana State University Press [1969, c1966]
Documents of ancient Greek music
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2001.
"All who are interested in ancient Greek music, whether as an aspect of Hellenic culture or as a chapter of high importance in the early history of music generally, will welcome this presentation of the source material by the two leading experts in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Karawitan
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 1984-c1988.
Modernism and music: an anthology of sources
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.
Music education
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2008.
"Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today is an anthology of thematically organized essays that illuminate why music education has been valued by cultures and societies from ancient times to the present. Writings by societal leaders - civic, political, royal, religious, education, intellectual - present views from many historical and current points of view. The third edition has been expanded to include such topics as feminism, diversity, cognitive psychology and the No Child Left Behind Act. The new edition also includes writings about music education in countries on every continent. The global view of music education makes this book timely in a world of cultural fusion."--BOOK JACKET.
Musical ensembles in festival books, 1500-1800
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1989.
Readings in the history of music in performance
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1979.
Russians on Russian music, 1880-1917
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; Cambridge University Press, 2003.
"This second anthology of Russian writing on Russian music begins in 1880 (where the first volume concluded) and ends in 1917. It brings for the first time to an English-speaking readership the thoughts of leading Russian music critics as they react to the Russian music new to them, during a period when all aspects of musical life were developing rapidly. Music criticism had become more sure-footed, if no less opinionated. These reviews demonstrate greater awareness both of music history and of contemporary music abroad. The period covers the late careers of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov as well as late works of Borodin and Balakirev, and the emergence of Musorgsky's compositions. Works by the intervening generation, including Arensky, Galzunov and Lyadov, are also reviewed and the book concludes with coverage of works by the Moscow School, including Medtner, Rachmaninoff and Skryabin and the early compositions of Stravinsky and Prokofiev."--BOOK JACKET.
Source readings in music history
Publisher: New York : Norton, c1998.
Here is a comprehensive collection of writings on music, spanning the ages from ancient Greece to the close of the twentieth century. All seven sections boast introductory essays in which the period editors present new perspectives on the music of their separate eras. A headnote for each reading provides some background on the writer and places the selection in broader musical and historical context. Finally, a master index brings together names, concepts, and musical genres from the two millennia of music history covered in the book.
On individual composers:
The following does not include volumes of letters, which may be located in Tripod by searching Subject Headings for (composer's name) - Correspondence.
Bach
The new Bach reader
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1998.
Gathered in this volume are all the letters, reports, testimonials, complaints, thank-you notes, and other writings of J. S. Bach, together with a generous helping of performance and payment inventories, town council proceedings, court and archival records, letters of appointment, and other papers that document the fabric of the composer's daily life. Here, in English translations that preserve the full flavor of the originals, we encounter more than four hundred items. The book also presents a complete translation of J. N. Forkel's landmark 1802 biography, On Johann Sebastian Bach's Life, Genius, and Works; a thorough chronology of events in the composer's life and career; a detailed genealogy and family tree that Bach himself prepared; an extensive obituary written by C. P. E. Bach and J. F. Agricola; facsimiles of a dozen music manuscripts, including working drafts; Romantic-era views of Bach; and a wealth of other materials.
Beethoven
Beethoven : impressions by his contemporaries
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications, 1967, c1954.
Bruckner
Ellington
Gluck
Gluck
Publisher: Oxford ; Clarendon Press, 1995.
Celebrated today for his historical significance as the one composer who did most to effect the transition between baroque and classical opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was, in his lifetime, both controversial and colourful. The documents portray a man of enormous physical energy, relish for good food and good company, and passion for his art. Patricia Howard draws on a variety of contemporary sources in an attempt to construct a portrait of one of the most interesting musicians of the eighteenth century. The basis of the book is the body of letters to and from Gluck. Also included are a wealth of factual documents and informal anecdotes, not easily accessible in the original German, French, or Italian, and almost none of which has ever been translated. The material has been arranged with the aim of providing readers with a lively, continuous narrative of Gluck's life, while at the same time indicating the principal locations of the published and unpublished sources.
Handel
Hadyn
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Schoenberg
A Schoenberg reader
Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2003.
"The documents, many previously unpublished or untranslated, shed light on Schoenberg's interactions with contemporary cultural and intellectual trends and on the continuities and disruptions in his creative output over his long career. Chronologically organized from turn-of-the-century Vienna to Weimar Berlin to 1950s Los Angeles, the documents reveal the relationships between various aspects of Schoenberg's composition, music theory, criticism, painting, performance, and teaching. They also show the importance of events in his personal and family life, his evolving Jewish identity, his political concerns, and his close interactions with such figures as Gustav and Alma Mahler, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Hanns Eisler, Wassily Kandinsky, Theodor Adorno, Karl Kraus, and Thomas Mann. Each chapter is illustrated by photographs, examples of Schoenberg's self-portraits, and facsimiles of compositional sketches and manuscripts. Extensive commentary by Joseph Auner places the documents and materials in context and traces important themes throughout Schoenberg's career."--BOOK JACKET.