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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. The general index includes song titles, shows, authors and performers. 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.
Thomas S. Hischak is also the author of 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 200 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.
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