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Samuel Barber : a guide to research / Wayne C. Wentzel.
LIBRA ML134.B175 W46 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wentzel, Wayne C. (Wayne Clifford), 1942-
- Series:
- Composer resource manuals ; v. 55.
- Composer resource manuals ; v. 55
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981--Bibliography.
- Barber, Samuel.
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 333 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The State of Barber Research 1
- Barber in his Own Words 2
- Current State of Recordings 3
- Contents of the Book 4
- Chapter 1. Basic Information 7
- Dictionaries and Encyclopedias 7
- A Barber Chronology 9
- Awards, Prizes, and Honors 13
- Obituaries and Tributes 22
- Electronic Information Retrieval 25
- Chapter 2. Published Works, with First Performances and Reviews 29
- Opera and Ballet 30
- Orchestral Music 38
- Band Music 53
- Choral Music 53
- Vocal Music 61
- Chamber Music 74
- Keyboard Music 77
- Arrangements of Barber's Works, by Barber and Others 83
- Unpublished Works 89
- Chapter 3. Bibliography: Books, Theses, Dissertations, and Articles 109
- General Bibliography: Books and Dissertations 109
- Additional Biographical Material 119
- Individual Genres and Individual Works 119
- Opera and Ballet 119
- Instrumental: General 127
- Orchestral Works: General 128
- Orchestral Works: Individual Titles 129
- Choral and Vocal Music 138
- Choral Music: General 139
- Choral Music: Individual Titles 142
- Vocal Works: General 145
- Individual Songs or Cycles 150
- Chamber Music: General 159
- Solo Piano Works: General 162
- Piano Sonata and Piano Concerto 171
- Organ Works: General 171
- Related Material: People, Places, and Performers in Barber's Life 173
- Chapter 4. Historical Discography, Current Videography, and Archival Tapes 183
- Previous Discographies 183
- Bibliographies of Discographies 184
- Discographies 184
- Record Ratings and Reviews 187
- The Recordings 188
- Individual Works 189
- Orchestral Music 194
- Choral Music 205
- Vocal Music 207
- Chamber Music 211
- Piano Music 213
- Videography 216
- Commercially Available Videotapes 216
- Archival Videotapes 219
- Archival Audio Tapes 221
- Chapter 5. Holographs and Other Manuscripts 229
- Library of Congress 229
- Music 1907, Items 1-74 229
- Music 1811, Items 2-4 (Koussevitzky Foundation Collection) 240
- Music 1571, Hermit Songs 241
- Earliest Compositions 241
- School Compositions, 1927-1928 242
- Barber's Orchestration Book c. 1930 243
- Library of Congress Holographs by Acquisition 244
- G. Schirmer Collection on Loan to Eastman School of Music 245
- Barber Materials at the Chester County Historical Society 250
- Manuscripts and Copies at the Curtis Institute of Music 252
- Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania) 253
- Holographs at the New York Public Library 254
- Edith Evans Braun Collection 254
- Toscanini Memorial Archive 254
- Anton Brees Carillon Library at the Bok Tower Gardens 255
- Pierpont Morgan Library: Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection 255
- Van Pelt Library, Rare Book and Manuscript Collection (University of Pennsylvania) 255
- Chapter 6. Letters and Other Correspondence 257
- Letters to Individuals 258
- Leonard Bernstein 258
- Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle 259
- John Bitter 261
- Edith Evans Braun 261
- Leonard Burkat 263
- Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge 264
- Aaron Copland 265
- Walter Damrosch 269
- Leonard Ellinwood 269
- Lehman Engel 269
- Ross Lee Finney 270
- Vladimir Horowitz 270
- Serge Koussevitzky 271
- William Miller 279
- Eugene Ormandy 280
- Dorothy Slepian Packer 283
- Quincy Porter 284
- William Schuman 284
- Fabien Sevitzky 289
- Harold D. Spivacke 290
- Oliver Strunk 291
- Deems Taylor 292
- Virgil Thomson 292
- Letters to Institutions 295
- New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters 295
- New York: American Academy in Rome 301
- People 303
- Barber Compositions 306
- Works of Other Composers 308
- Orchestras and Other Performing Groups 320
- Choirs and Vocal Ensembles 321
- Chamber Music Ensembles 321
- Dance Groups 321.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0815334966
- OCLC:
- 45393531
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