Item Detail
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Hitchens, Susan Hayes
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Ross Lee Finney : a bio-bibliography
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Book
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Westport, Conn.
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1996
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Greenwood Press
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x, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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031328671X
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Finney, Ross Lee, 1906---Bibliography.
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Compositions; Composers; Twentieth Century; Ross Lee Finney
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ML 134 .F49 H58 1996
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Hitchens, Susan Hayes. Ross Lee Finney: a bio-bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Expose people, especially new composers, to the life and music of Ross Lee Finney. Guide to his compositions and recordings. Includes a comprehensive survey about his works.
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Covers all his works, including those works that are no longer in the catalogs, but are mentioned in the press or elsewhere. An emphasis has been placed on dates of world premieres.
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Divided into four major categories. 1) brief biography. 2) Complete list of Finney's compositions, arranged by genre. Work numbers (Wx)are given to each composition. Entries include information such as date of composition, publication, commission. 3) Discography of commercially produced sound recordings of his music, arranged alphabetically by title. Discography numbers (Dx) are given to all recordings. Includes information such as label number, date of issue, contents and performers. 4) Bibliography of writings by or about Finney. This section is arranged alphabetically by author or by title, when the author is not cited. Bibliography numbers (Bx) are assigned. Includes short annotations. There are two appendices, listing Finney's compositions. They are arranged alphabetically by title and chronologically by date of composition. An index has been placed at the end of the volume including personal, corporate, and geographical names.
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Entries are detailed. They provide all the performance information for each time a work has been performed.
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This book is now outdated. The information is great, but there is a need for another volume that to track performances and records made from 1996 to the present.
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Murl, Sickbert. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 54 (March 1998): 714-16.http://www.jstor.org/stable/899912
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BYU Mus Ref
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3435