Judith Tick
Author
Series
Studies in musicology volume no. 57
Publisher
UMI Research Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path through American music and musical life using as guides the words of composers, performers, writers and the rest of us ordinary folks who sing, dance, and listen. The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000. Sometimes the sources are classics in the literature around American music, for example, the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Slave Songs...