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Organized alphabetically, this encyclopedia covers over 1800 songs from over 500 musicals dating from 1866 to 1994. Each entry includes a history of the song, its purpose in the show, who sang it, and more. With regard to study of the jazz standards, The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference book, containing over 1800 song abstracts which are, on the average, a little over 100 words. Most of the jazz standards may be found in this book or one of two others, also by Hischak: The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia or The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia. Prices for these books range from $75.00 to over $100.00, new, and about 30 percent less for used. The general index includes song titles, shows, authors and performers. Thomas S. Hischak is the author of The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia, The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia, Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim and Stage It with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical Threatre. He is Professor of Theatre History and Criticism at the State University of New York College at Cortland.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore
provides you with a catalog of over 120 books associated
with the jazz standards. Organized by category,
each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in
your research and guide you in your recreational
reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com
are listed at the right and the listing may be considered
the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always
the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated
indicating the book's relevance to the subject.
If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
please let us know the title and how it supports
the research or recreational study of the jazz standards.
suggestions@jazzStandards.com
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