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1Title:  History sings    
 Creator:  Kinscella, Hazel Gertrude. 
 Publication:  The University Publishing Comapny, Lincoln, New York [etc.],[1940] 
 Notes:  Map on lining-papers. "Suggested music" and bibliography at end of each section. 
 Call #:  ML200 K56 
 Extent:  2 p. Á., iii-xv, [1], 528 p. illus. (incl. ports., maps, facsims. (incl. music)) 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Music -- United States -- History and criticism
 
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2Title:  A hundred years of music in America: an account of musical effort in America : during the past century including popular music and singing schools, church music, musical conventions and festivals, orchestral, operatic and oratorio music : improvements in musical instruments : popular and higher music education : creative activity, and the beginning of a national school of musical composition : a full and reliable summary of American musical effort as displayed in the personal history of artists, composers and educators, musical inventors and journalists, with upwards of two hundred full page portraits of the most distunguished workers, together with historical and biographical sketches of important personalities    
 Creator:  Mathews, William Smythe Babcock, 1837-1912 
 Publication:  G.L. Howe, Chicago,1889. 
 Call #:  ML200 M429 1889 
 Extent:  ix, 715 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Musicians -- United States
 
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3Title:  America's musical heritage    
 Creator:  Burk, Cassie, 1892- 
 Meierhoffer, Virginia.
 Phillips, Claude Anderson, 1871-
 Publication:  Laidlaw Brothers, Chicago, New York [etc.],c1942. 
 Notes:  Includes music. "A companion book to Our developing civilization series."--p. [1] Includes index. "References for pupils and teachers": p. [343]-345. "Supplementary music materials": p. 345-355. 
 Call #:  ML3930 B959A5 
 Extent:  368 p. : illus., ports, facsims., music ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Music -- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation
 
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4Title:  Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer and our musical life in Colonial times    
 Creator:  Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore, 1873-1928 
 Publication:  N.p,1919] 
 Call #:  ML410 H79S6 
 Extent:  8 p. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Hopkinson, Francis, -- 1737-1791 | Music -- United States -- History and criticism
 
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5Title:  Early American music engraving and printing: a history of music publishing in America from 1787 to 1825 with commentary on earlier and later practices    
 Creator:  Wolfe, Richard J. 
 Publication:  Published in cooperation with the Bibliographical Society of America by the University of Illinois Press, Urbana,c1980. 
 Notes:  Includes index. Bibliography: p. 301-303. 
 Call #:  ML112 W855 
 Extent:  xix, 321 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Music printing -- United States | Publishers and publishing -- United States | Music -- United States -- History and criticism
 
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6Title:  Music for patriots, politicians, and presidents: harmonies and discords of the first hundred years    
 Creator:  Lawrence, Vera Brodsky. 
 Publication:  Macmillan, New York,1975. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 
 Call #:  ML3551 L424 
 Extent:  480 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. 
 Subjects:  Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Patriotic music -- United States -- History and criticism | Political ballads and songs -- United States -- History and criticism
 
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7Title:  The music of George Washington's time    
 Creator:  George Washington Bicentennial Commission (U.S.) 
 Howard, John Tasker, 1890-1964
 Bloom, Sol, 1870-1949
 Publication:  United States George Washington bicentennial Commission, Washington, D.C,[1931] 
 Notes:  Cover title. Includes bibliographical references. 
 Call #:  ML200.3 U62 
 Extent:  34 p. : ill., music ; 31 cm. 
 Subjects:  Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Music -- 18th century | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Songs and music
 
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8Title:  Black American music: past and present    
 Creator:  Roach, Hildred. 
 Publication:  Crescendo Pub. Co, Boston,c1973. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references (p.183-195) and index. 
 Call #:  ML3556 R628 
 Extent:  vii, 199 p. : illus. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism | Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Blacks -- Music -- History and criticism
 
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9Title:  Frontier musicians on the Connoquenessing, Wabash, and Ohio: a history of the music and musicians of George Rapp's Harmony Society (1805-1906)    
 Creator:  Wetzel, Richard D. 
 Publication:  Ohio University Press, Athens,c1976. 
 Notes:  "A catalog of the music collection of Economy Village, Ambridge, Pennsylvania": p. 239-285. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [286]-289. 
 Call #:  HX656 H2W54 
 Extent:  xi, 294 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm. & disc (33 1/3 rpm. mono. 7 in.) in pocket. 
 Subjects:  Harmony Society | Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Frontier and pioneer life -- United States | Musicians -- United States -- Biography
 
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10Title:  One hundred and fifty years of music publishing in the United States: an historical sketch with special reference to the pioneer publisher, Oliver Ditson company, inc., 1783-1933    
 Creator:  Fisher, William Arms, 1861-1948 
 Publication:  Oliver Ditson company, inc, Boston,1933 [c1934] 
 Notes:  A revision and extension of the author's "Notes on music in old Boston", published in 1918. cf. p. xvi, foot-note. 
 Call #:  ML112 F537 
 Extent:  xvi, 146 p. incl. front., illus. (incl. ports., map, facsims., music) 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ditson (Oliver) company, inc | Music printing | Publishers and publishing -- United States | Music -- United States -- History and criticism
 
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11Title:  P.T. Barnum presents Jenny Lind: the American tour of the Swedish Nightingale    
 Creator:  Ware, W. Porter (William Porter), 1904- 
 Lockard, Thaddeus Constantine, 1913-
 Publication:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge,c1980. 
 Notes:  Includes index. Bibliography: p. 197-200. 
 Call #:  ML240 L742W2 
 Extent:  xiv, 204 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Lind, Jenny, -- 1820-1887 | Barnum, P. T. -- (Phineas Taylor), -- 1810-1891 | Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Singers -- Sweden -- Biography
 
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12Title:  A passion for polka: old-time ethnic music in America    
 Creator:  Greene, Victor R. 
 Publication:  University of California Press, Berkeley,c1992. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-322) and index. 
 Call #:  ML3551 G812 
 Extent:  vi, 355 p., [25] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism | Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Music and race | Folk music | United States
 
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13Title:  Music on the air    
 Creator:  Kinscella, Hazel Gertrude. 
 Publication:  Garden City publishing co., inc, Garden City, N.Y,[1934] 
 Notes:  First edition published 1934. Includes articles, many written by special authorities, on types of music and on musical instruments; an outline of the history of music; and a section, "Biographical sketches of composers and interpretations of their principal works" (p. 257-407) 
 Call #:  MT150 K56 
 Extent:  xiii-xv, 436 p. illus. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Music -- History and criticism | Music appreciation | Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Radio and music | Musicians -- Dictionaries
 
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14Title:  The Negro and his music    
 Creator:  Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954 
 Publication:  The Associates in Negro folk education, Washington, D.C,1936. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographies and discographies. 
 Call #:  ML3556 L814 
 Extent:  142 p. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  African American musicians | African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism | Music -- United States -- History and criticism | Jazz | Music -- Discography
 
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