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Dett, Robert Nathaniel (Farbiger)
composer, teacher, piano
born: 11 Oct 1882 |
Drummondsville, Ontario / province, Canada now Niagara Falls, Ontario / province, Canada |
Source: 1 |
born: - |
Drummondville, Quebec / province, Canada |
Source: 2,3 |
died: 02 Oct 1943 |
Battle Creek, Michigan / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
White, Evelyn Davidson
Choral music by African American composers
A selected, annotated bibliography
Second edition
Compiled by Evelyn Davidson White
Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996, 226 p.
African American composers
The above item is part of :
Horne, Aaron
Baker, David N.
Brass music of black composers : a bibliography
Compiled by Aaron Horne
Foreword by David N. Baker
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996
The United States and Canada in the Twentieth Century
p. 500 In:
Gordon, Stewart
A History of Keyboard Literature.
Music for the Piano and its Forerunners
New York: Schirmer Books, 1996, 566 p.
Spencer, Jon Michael
Cureau, R.T.
James, W.L.
Stars in de elements : a study of Negro folk music
Black Sacred Music 9:1-350 N1-2 1995
       bibliog mus notes table
       Note: 1945 unpublished manuscript
Spencer, Jon Michael
Theomusicology : query, theory, and methodology: Musicology as a theologically informed discipline
Black Sacred Music 8:36-63 N1 1994
       notes
Resource guide for selected composers
Part II In:
Hall, Bonlyn G.
Hedges, Bonnie
Twentieth-century composers in the Chesapeake region
A bio-bibliography and guide to library holdings
Compiled and edited by Bonnie Hedges and Bonlyn Hall
Richmond, Virginia: Chesapeake Chapter Music Library Association, 1994, 168 p.
Twentieth-Century composers in the Chesapeake Region
Part I In:
Hall, Bonlyn G.
Hedges, Bonnie
Twentieth-century composers in the Chesapeake region
A bio-bibliography and guide to library holdings
Compiled and edited by Bonnie Hedges and Bonlyn Hall
Richmond, Virginia: Chesapeake Chapter Music Library Association, 1994, 168 p.
Still, W.G.
The William Grant Still reader; the writings of Still; Nathaniel Dett; one of our "cultural pioneers"
Black Sacred Music 6:109-10 N2 1992
Borroff, Edith
Clark, J. Bunker
American opera : a checklist
By Edith Borroff
Edited by J. Bunker Clark
Detroit: Harmonie Park Press, 1992, 334 p.
Number of People : 2,319
Spencer, Jon Michael
The William Grant Still reader : Preface
Black Sacred Music 6:ix-Xv N2 1992
Roach, Hildred
Black American music : past and present
Second edition
Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992, 3668 p.
Spencer, Jon Michael
The William Grant Still reader
An introduction to William Grant Still
Black Sacred Music 6:1-77 N2 1992
Spencer, Jon Michael
Lerma, Dominique-Rene de
The R. Nathaniel Dett reader : essays on black sacred music
Black Sacred Music V5 N2 1991
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       Whole issue of
       Note: includes index
Perry, Frank, Jr.
Afro-american vocal music
A select guide to fifteen composers
Berrien Springs, Michigan: Vande Vere Publishing Ltd., 1991, 133 p.
Spencer, Jon Michael
The R. Nathaniel Dett reader. Essays on black sacred music
Edited by Jon Michael Spencer
Duke University Press, 1991, 138 p.
Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology, Volume 5, number 2 (Special issue)
Horne, Aaron
Lerma, Dominique-Rene de
String music of black composers
A bibliography
Compiled by Aaron Horne
Foreword by Dominique-Rene de Lerma
New York: Greenwood Press, 1991
      (Series: Music Reference Collection; 33)
Bierley, Paul E.
Rehrig, William H.
The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music
Edited by Paul E. Bierley
William H. Rehrig
Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991
Number of People : 8,916
Turner, Patricia
Dictionary of Afro-American performers
78 rpm and cylinder recordings of opera, choral music, and song, c1900-1949
New York & London: Garland, 1990
Lerma, Dominique-Rene de
Bibliography of the Music
The Concert Music of the Harlem Renaissance Composers, 1919-1935
p. 175-121 In:
Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.
Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance
A collection of essays
Edited by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1990, 226 p.
      (Series: Contributions in Afro-American Studies; 128)
Ryder, Georgia A.
Harlem Renaissance Ideals in the Music of Robert Nathaniel Dett
p. 55-70 In:
Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.
Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance
A collection of essays
Edited by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1990, 226 p.
      (Series: Contributions in Afro-American Studies; 128)
Spencer, Jon Michael
Introduction : O black and unknown bards
Black Sacred Music 4:13-15 N1 1990
       biog port
Eareviews (LP Selected Piano Works by Robert Nathanial) (performed by Denver Oldham)
The CD spread Dett piano works : Oldham.
High Fidelity 39:65 Jul 1989
Dett, R.N.
The development of Negro religious music
Journal of Black Sacred Music: 2:65-71 N1 1988
       biog port
Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.
Black music biography : an annotated bibliography
White Plains, New York: Kraus International Publications, 1987
Carter, Madison H.
An annotated catalog of composers of African ancestry
New York: Vantage Press, 1986
Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.
Number of People : 3,993
Roach, Hildred
Black American music. Past and present
Vol. I
Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger, 1985
Butterworth, Neil
A dictionary of American composers
Number of People : 525
Brooks, Tilford
America's black musical heritage
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984, 336 p.
Spencer, Jon Michael
R. Nathaniel Dett's views on the preservation of black music
Black Perspective in Music: 10:132-48 N2 1982
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       Note: includes bibliography of literary works of Dett
Spenger, Jon Michael
R. Nathaniel Dett's views on the preservation of black music.
The Black Perspective in Music. 10 (1982), S. 133-148.
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Anderson, E. Ruth
Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary
Second edition
Compiled by E. Ruth Anderson
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982, 578 p.
Number of People : 3,986
Willia, Stephen C.
Toomey, Kathleen M.
Musicians in Canada
A bio-bibliographical finding list
Edited by Kathleen M. Toomey & Stephen C. Williams
Ottawa: Canadian Association of Music Libraries, 1981, 185 p.
Number of People : 3,053
Gleason, Harold
Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920
Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981
      (Series: Music Literature Outlines: Series III)
White, Evelyn Davidson
Choral music by Afro-American composers
A selected, annotated bibliography
Compiled by Evelyn Davidson White
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981, 167 p.
Kallmann, Hellmuth
Potvin, Gilles
Winters, Kenneth
Encyclopedia of music in Canada
Edited by Hellmut Kallman, Gilles Potvin, Kenneth Winters
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1981, 1076 p.
Number of People : 2,193
Southern, Eileen
Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478 p.
Number of People : 1,184
Press, Jaques Cattell
ASCAP biographical dictionary of composers, authors and publishers
Fourth edition
Compiled for the American Society of Composers, Authors and publishers by Jaques Cattell Press
New York: R. R. Bowker, 1980, 589 p.
Number of People : 8,161
Sadie, Stanley
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Number of People : 20,506
Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984
Number of People : 16,262
Lovingood, Penman
Famous modern negro musicians
New York: Da Capo Press, 1978
McGinty, Doris Evans
[Review]
The Black Perspective in Music. 6 (1978), S. 91-92.
Abdul, Raoul
Blacks in classical music : a personal history
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977
McBrier, Vivian Flagg
R. Nathaniel Dett : his life and works, 1882-1943.
Washington: Associated Publishers 1977. 152 S.
       Mit Ill.
      (Series: The Sigma Pi Phi Series)
Anderson, Ruth
Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary
1st ed.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976, 513 p.
Number of People : 3,758
Bohle, Bruce
International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians.
10th edition
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975
Composers & lyricists
p. 271 In:
Moogk, Edward B.
Roll back the years; history of Canadian recorded sound and its legacy; genesis to 1930
Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1975, 443 p.
Rosner, Helmut
Bulling, Burchard
Frank, Paul
Noetzel, Florian
Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon
Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner
Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974
       Note: Zweiter Teil: Erganzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937
Number of People : 16,276
Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.
Number of People : 3,156
American Composers' Concerts and Festivals of American Music 1925-71; cumulative repertoire
Institute of American Music of the University of Rochester
Rochester, NY: 1972, 75 p.
Thomson, Virgil
Nabokov, Nicolas
American music since 1910
With an introduction by Nicolas Nabokov
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, 204 p.
      (Series: Twentieth century composers; volume 1)
Waiter, Arnold
Aspects of Music in Canada.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969
McBrier, Vivian Flagg
The life and works of Robert Nathaniel Dett.
Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.). 1967. dissertation.
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms 1968. 217 S.
      (Series: Studies in Music; 32)
ASCAP Biographical Dictionary.
3rd ed.
Zenei lexikon
Budapest: Zenemukiado Vallalat, 1965
Number of People : 4,351
Kallmann, H.A.
History of Music in Canada, 1534-1974.
Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1960
Westrup, Jack Allan
Harrison,
The New College Encyclopedia of Music.
Encyclopedie de la musique.
Vol. 3
Paris: Fasquelle, 1958-1961
Riemann, Hugo
Musiklexikon
12th edition
Mainz: B. Schott's Sohne, 1958
Baker, T.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary.
5th edition
New York: G. Schirmer, 1958
Thompson, Oscar
International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians.
7th edition
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1956
Pena, Joaquin
Angles, Higinio
Querol Gavalda, Miguel
Diccionario de la musica labor
Iniciado por Joaquin Pena
Continuado por Higinio Angles
Con la colaboracion de Miguel Querol y otros distinguidos musicologos espanoles y extranjeros
Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1954, 2V, 2318P.
Number of People : 7,942
Grove, George / Sir
Grove's Dictionary.
5th edition
New York: St Martins's Press, 1954-1961
Lyons, James
Howard, John Tasker
Our American music : three hundred years of it
Third edition, revised and reset.
With supplementary chapters by James Lyons
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ASCAP Biographical Dictionary.
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Scholes, Percy A.
Oxford Companion to Music.
9th edition
London: Oxford University Press, 1952
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sundstrom, Einar
Sohlman's musiklexikon : nordiskt och allmant upplagsverk for tonkonst, musikliv och dans
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl Allan Moberg [och] Einar Sundstrom
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Number of People : 8,662
Necrology section
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Mize, J.T.H. / Dr.
The international who is who in music
Fifth (Mid-Century) Edition
Dr. J.T.H. Mize Editor-in-Chief
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Encyclopedie Grolier.
Montreal: Societe Grolier, 1947
Reis, Claire Raphael
Composers in America : biographical sketches of contemporary composers with a record of their works
Revised and enlarged edition
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Hinrichsen, Max
Hill, Ralph
Hinrichsen's musical year book 1945-46
Edited by Ralph Hill and Max Hinrichsen
London: Hinrichsen Editions, 1946, 404 p.
McCoy, G.
Portraits of the World's Best-known Musicians
Philadelphia: Theo. Presser Co., 1946
Howard, John Tasker
Mendel, Arthur
Our contemporary composers : American music in the twentieth century
By John Tasker Howard with the assistance of Arthur Mendel
Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1941, 447 p.
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Prepared by the District of Columbia Historical Records Survey Division of Community Service Programs Works project Administration
Washington, DC: 1941, 439 p.
Number of People : 10,576
Barone, J.
Who is who in music
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Chicago: Lee Stern Press, 1941
Number of People : 3,908
Baker, Theodore
Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians
Fourth edition revised and enlarged
New York: G. Schirmer, 1940
Number of People : 6,835
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Schmidl, Carlo
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Number of People : 9,140
Weir, Ed.
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New York: MacMillan Co., 1938
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Handy, William Christopher
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New York: Handy Brothers Music Co. Inc., 1938, 24 p.
Frank, Paul
Altmann, Wilhelm
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Begrundet von Paul Frank
Neu bearbeitet und erganzt von Wilhelm Altmann
Regensburg: Gustave Bosse, 1936, 730 p.
Number of People : 17,230
Cuney-Hare, Maud
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Washington, D. C.: Associated Publishers, Inc., 1936
Grove, George / Sir
Grove's American Supplement.
New York: MacMillan, 1935
Key, Pierre V.R.
Pierre Key's musical who's who
A biographical survey of contemporary musicians
Edited by Pierre V.R. Key; editor Musical Digest and ...
New York: Pierre Key, 1931, 498 p.
Number of People : 3,336
Riemann, Hugo
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Spaeth, Sigmund
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Number of People : 2,425
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Pratt, Waldo Selden
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Lambert, Alexander
The world's best music
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Boyd, Charles N.
Pratt, Waldo Selden
Grove's dictionary of music and musicians. American supplement ...
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Number of People : 1,335
Saerchinger, Cesar
International who's who in music and musical gazetteer
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Number of People : 5,340
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Who's who of the colored race ... men and women of African descent
Vol. 1. 1915 ...
Edited by F.L. Mather.
Spencer, Jon Michael
The writings of Robert Nathaniel Dett and William Grant Still on black music
  - Dissertation Abstracts International: A 43:1743a Dec 1982
McBrier, Vivian Flagg
R. Nathaniel Dett : his life and works (1882-1943)
Simpson, A.K.
Follow me
The life and music of R. Nathaniel Dett
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