Music/Dance Library - Biographical sources - American & contemporary composers
American composers
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. 1986. ML101 U6 N48 1986
ASCAP Biographical Dictionary. 1980. Ref. ML106 U3 A5 1980
Who's Who in American Music: Classical. 1985. Ref. ML106 U3 W6 1985
Contemporary American Composers : a biographical dictionary 1982. Ref. ML390 A54 1982
Contemporary composers
Contemporary Composers 1992. Ref. ML105 C76 1992. Very
complete entries include biographies, works lists, and bibliographies.
Nishimura, Mari. The Twentieth-Century Composer Speaks: an index of Interviews. 1993 Ref. ML118 N57 1993 Indexes over 1,000 interviews in journals, books, and other sources. Gives name and date(s) for each composer.
International Who's Who In Music and Musicians' Directory. MUS Ref. and EHS Ref. ML105 W6192
Composers Since 1900 : a biographical and critical guide 1969. Ref. ML390 E942 C6
Index to Biographies of Contemporary Composers 1964.
Ref. ML105 B8 I5
A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Twelve-Tone and Serial
Composers 1970. Ref. ML105 C39 B5. Includes brief bibliographies.
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