A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY RICHARD CRAWFORD


"The American Musical Landscape" book coverBooks


America’s Musical Life: A History
. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

An Introduction to America’s Music. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

The American Musical Landscape. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. 2nd ed., 2000.

American Sacred Music Imprints, 1698–1810. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1990. In collaboration with Allen P. Britton and Irving Lowens.

William Billings of Boston: Eighteenth–Century Composer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. In collaboration with David P. McKay.

Andrew Law (1749–1821): The Career of an American Musician. Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1965. Published as Andrew Law: American Psalmodist. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1968. New York: Da Capo Press, 1981.


Editor or Consulting Editor

"The Civil War Songbook" coverMusic of the United States of America. 11 vols. in print. Madison: A-R Editions and the American Musicological Society, 1993– . General editor.

Jazz Standards on Record, 1900–1942. Center for Black Music Research Monographs no. 4. Chicago: Center for Black Music Research, 1992. Co-editor with Jeffrey Magee.

A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. Co-editor with R. Allen Lott and Carol J. Oja.

The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody. Recent Researches in American Music. vols. 11 and 12. Madison: A-R Editions, 1984. Editor.

The Complete Works of William Billings. Vols. 1, 3, and 4 edited by Karl Kroeger. Vol. 2 edited by Hans Nathan. Boston: American Musicological Society and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1977–90. Editorial consultant.

The Civil War Songbook. New York: Dover Publications, 1977. Editor.


Shorter Independent Publications


Studying American Music
. Institute for Studies in American Music Special Publication no. 3. Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1985. Includes a bibliography of the published writings of Richard Crawford to 1985. Also published, without bibliography, in the Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter 14.2 (May 1985): 1–2, 10–13.

The American Musicological Society, 1934–1984. Philadelphia: American Musicology Society, 1984.

American Studies and American Musicology: A Point of View and a Case in Point. Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1975.

Andrew Law: Tunesmith. William L. Clements Library Bulletin no. 68. Ann Arbor, Mich.: William L. Clements Library, 1961. Co-author with H. Wiley Hitchcock.



Articles


More than two dozen articles, including “George Gershwin,” “Psalmody, North America,” and “United States, Art Music.” In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd ed. 29 vols. Ed. Stanley Sadie. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 2001.

“Rethinking the Rhapsody.” Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter 28.1 (Fall 1998): 1–2, 15.

“Dvořák and the Historiography of American Music.” Rethinking Dvořák: Views from Five Countries. Ed. David R. Beveridge. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 257–63.

“Edward MacDowell: Musical Nationalism and an American Tone Poet.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 49.3 (Fall 1996): 528–60.

“Growing Up with Mozart: A Personal Reminiscence.” Mozart’s Piano Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation. Ed. Neal Zaslaw. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 3–6.

“Music.” The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. 4 vols. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. 4:1609–34.

“George Gershwin” and “Porgy and Bess.” The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. 4 vols. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1993.

“Notes on Jazz Standards by Black Authors and Composers, 1897–1942.” New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern. Ed. Josephine Wright with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1992. 245–87.

“Tracking Vernacular Music: Across the Great Divide.” Music Librarianship in America. Ed. Michael Ochs. Cambridge: Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University, 1991. 92–99. Originally published in the Harvard Library Bulletin, new series, 2.1 (Spring 1991): 92–99.

“‘Ancient Music’ and the Europeanizing of American Psalmody, 1800–1810.” A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock. Eds. Richard Crawford, R. Allen Lott, and Carol J. Oja. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. 225–55.

“H. Wiley Hitchcock and American Music.” A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock. Eds. Richard Crawford, R. Allen Lott, and Carol J. Oja. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. 3–9.

“Sonneck and American Musical Historiography.” Essays in Musicology: A Tribute to Alvin Johnson. Eds. Lewis Lockwood and Edward Roesner. Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1990. 266–83.

“COPAM: The Early Years.” Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin 14 (1988): 57–65.

“Response to Rice.” Ethnomusicology 31.3 (Fall 1987): 511–13.

“On Two Traditions of Black Music Research.” Black Music Research Journal 6 (1986): 1–9.

Thirty-one articles, including “Psalmody” and “George Gershwin.” The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. 4 vols. Eds. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1986.

“Massachusetts Musicians and the Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody.” Music in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630–1820. vol. 2. Music in Homes and in Churches. Ed. Barbara Lambert. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1985. 583–629.

“Musicology and the Australian Bicentenary: A Methodological Prospectus from an American Viewpoint.” Musicology Australia 8 (1985): 2–13.

“American Music and Its Two Written Traditions.” Fontes Artis Musicae 31.1 (January–March 1984): 79–84.

“The Beetlehead Testament.” Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter 13.2 (May 1984): 10–12.

“Much Still Remains to be Undone: Reformers of Early American Hymnody.” The Hymn 35.4 (October 1984): 204–8.

”Early American Music Printing and Publishing.” Printing and Society in Early America. Eds. William L. Joyce, et al. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1983. 186–227. Co-author with Donald W. Krummel.

“Edward MacDowell,” “John Philip Sousa,” and “United States of America.” The New Oxford Companion to Music. 2 vols. Ed. Denis Arnold. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

“Musical Learning in Nineteenth–Century America.” American Music 1.1 (Spring 1983): 1–11.

“The Rhythm of Eighteenth–Century Anglo-American Psalmody.” Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin 9 (Fall 1983): 61–62.

“American Origins of American Music: Social and Religious Considerations.” Annals of Scholarship: Metastudies of the Humanities and Social Sciences 1.1 (Winter 1980): 73–82.

“The Phonograph and the Scholar and Critic: Introduction.” The Phonograph and Our Musical Life. Ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock, New York: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1980. 57–59.

Twenty–four articles, including “Psalmody, North America.” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 20 vols. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1980.

“Gershwin’s Reputation: A Note on Porgy and Bess.” Musical Quarterly 65.2 (April 1979): 257–64.

“A Historian’s Introduction to Early American Music.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 89.2 (October 1979): 261–98.

“Music at Michigan: A Historical Perspective.” 100 Years of Music at Michigan, 1880–1980. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1979. 9–37.

“Sigmund Romberg.” Dictionary of American Biography, supplement 5. Ed. John A. Garraty. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977.

“American Music Around 1776.” Musical Newsletter 6.2 (Spring 1976): 3–8.

“The Moravians and Eighteenth–Century American Musical Mainstreams.” The Moravian Music Foundation Bulletin 21.2 (Fall–Winter 1976): 2–7.

“Watts for Singing: Metrical Poetry in American Sacred Tunebooks, 1761–1785.” Early American Literature 11.2 (Fall 1976): 139–46.

“Music in Manuscript: A Massachusetts Tune-Book of 1782.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 84.1 (April 1974): 43–64, with 30 pages of facsimiles. Co-author with David P. McKay.

“W. C. Handy,” “George Frederick Root,” and “John Philip Sousa.” Encyclopedia of American Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

“The Performance of William Billings’s Music.” Journal of Research in Music Education 21.4 (Winter 1973): 318–30. Co-author with David P. McKay.

“It Ain’t Necessarily Soul: Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess as Symbol.” Yearbook for Inter-American Music Research 8 (1972): 17–32.

“Connecticut Sacred Music Imprints, 1778–1810.” Notes 27.3 (March 1971): 445–52; 27.4 (June 1971): 671–79.

“Some Reflections on American Song.” American Music Teacher 21.2 (November-December 1971): 20–23.


Prefaces and Introductions


“ Daniel Read and American Psalmody.” Introduction. Collected Works of Daniel Read. Ed. Karl Kroeger. Music of the United States of America. vol. 4. Madison: A-R Editions and the American Musicological Society, 1995. Co-authored with Karl Kroeger.

The Jazz Tradition, by Martin Williams. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

America’s Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present, by Gilbert Chase. Rev. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Reprint of Father Kemp and his Old Folks: A History of the Old Folks Concerts, by Robert Kemp. New York: Da Capo Press, 1984.

Reprint of Hallelujah, Amen! The Story of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, by H. Earle Johnson. New York: Da Capo Press, 1981.

Reprint of Urania, by James Lyon. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974.

Reprint of Francis Hopkinson and James Lyon, by Oscar G. T. Sonneck. New York: Da Capo Press, 1967.



Reviews


Review of The Firebrand of Florence, The Kurt Weill Edition, ser. 1, vol. 18., Ed. Joel Garland. Kurt Weill Society Newsletter 20 (Fall 2002): 19–21.

Review of Sweet Freedom’s Song: “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and Democracy in America, by Robert James Branham and Stephen J. Hartnett. Times Literary Supplement 5196 (2002): 20.

Review of Singing in the Wilderness, by Wilfrid H. Mellers. Times Literary Supplement 5147 (2001): 11–12.

Review of Harpsichord in America: A Twentieth-Century Revival, by Larry Palmer. Early Keyboard Journal 9 (1991): 176–78.

Review of A Bibliographical Handbook of American Music, by Donald W. Krummel. Ethnomusicology 33.2 (Spring–Summer 1989): 324–25.

Review of Musical Canada (edited by John Beckwith and Frederick A. Hall) and Hello Out There! Canada’s New Music in the World, 1950–85 (edited by John Beckwith and Dorith R. Cooper). University of Toronto Quarterly 59 (Fall 1989): 245–48.

Review of Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, 1836–1875, vol. 1, Resonances, 1836–1850, by Vera Brodsky Lawrence. Cum notis variorum 131 (April 1989): 23–26.

Review of An American Music: The Search for an American Musical Identity, by Barbara L. Tischler. American Music 6.1 (Spring 1988): 93–96.

“Amerigrove’s Pedigree: On the New Grove Dictionary of American Music.” College Music Symposium 27 (1987): 172–86.

Review of Music in New Jersey, 1655–1860, by Charles H. Kaufman. Musical Quarterly 70.1 (Winter 1984): 122–33.

“Music of Pre-Twentieth–Century America [in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians].” Musical Quarterly 68.2 (April 1982): 254–61.

Review of Early American Music Engraving and Printing, by Richard J. Wolfe. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 86.1 (1982): 91–93.

Review of The Music of the English Parish Church, by Nicholas Temperley. The Hymn 32.2 (April 1981): 115–17.

Review of The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music, by Buell E. Cobb, Jr. American Historical Review 84.4 (October 1979): 1154. Co-author with David Warren Steel.

Review of A Bibliography of Songsters Printed in America Before 1821, by Irving Lowens. Fontes Artis Musicae 24.4 (October–December 1977): 299–303.

Review of “Susanna,” “Jeanie,” and “The Old Folks at Home”: The Songs of Stephen C. Foster From His Time to Ours, by William W. Austin. Hi Fidelity/Musical America 26.7 (July 1976): MA–39.

Review of Jacob Eckhard’s Choirmaster’s Book of 1809, edited by George W. Williams. Journal of the American Musicological Society 25.2 (Summer 1972): 255–58.

Review of American Psalmody; Or, Titles of Books Containing Tunes Printed in America from 1721 to 1820, by Frank J. Metcalf. Notes 26.1 (September 1969): 42–43.


Liner Notes


Rowe, Ellen. Sylvan Way. Bopo Records 014, 2001.

Make a Joyful Noise: Mainstreams and Backwaters of American Psalmody (1770–1840). New World Records NW-255, 1978. Reissued on compact disc as New World Records 80255-2, 1996.

Music of the Federal Era. New World Records NW-299, 1978. Reissued on compact disc as New World Records 80299-2, 1994.

The Birth of Liberty: Music of the American Revolution. New World Records NW-276, 1976. Reissued on compact disc as Music of the American Revolution (New World Records 80276-2, 1996).

Two Hundred Years of American Marches. University of Michigan School of Music SM-0002, 1975.

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