Encompassing both the art song and Lieder traditions, this book includes: comprehensive lists of the compositions of 125 major western composers; the identities of the poets who wrote the lyrics; titles used by respective composers with cross-references from variant titles used by other composers; cross-references from the first lines; the publishers of the individual songs; and the location of individual songs within the collected works of individual composers and the date of composition.

Written by one of the foremost historians of music librarianship in the US, this authoritative bibliography of music librarianship reflects the great diversity of the literature of music librarianship in America. The literature of American music librarianship has been around since the nineteenth century when public libraries began to keep records of player-piano concerts, significant donations of books and music, and suggestions for housing music. Throughout the twentieth century American periodicals printed more and more articles on topics within music studies and eventually specialized...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.