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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.
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.
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
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Note: 1945 unpublished manuscript
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.
Spencer, Jon Michael
Theomusicology : query, theory, and methodology: Musicology as a theologically informed discipline
Black Sacred Music 8:36-63 N1 1994
notes
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.
Spencer, Jon Michael
The William Grant Still reader : Preface
Black Sacred Music 6:ix-Xv N2 1992
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
Roach, Hildred
Black American music : past and present
Second edition
Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992, 3668 p.
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
An introduction to William Grant Still
Black Sacred Music 6:1-77 N2 1992
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
Lerma, Dominique-Rene de
The R. Nathaniel Dett reader : essays on black sacred music
Black Sacred Music V5 N2 1991
bibliog biog cover port mus ports
Whole issue of
Note: includes index
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)
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
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)
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
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
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)
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
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
Carter, Madison H.
An annotated catalog of composers of African ancestry
New York: Vantage Press, 1986
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
facs port
Note: includes bibliography of literary works of Dett
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
Spenger, Jon Michael
R. Nathaniel Dett's views on the preservation of black music.
The Black Perspective in Music. 10 (1982), S. 133-148.
Mit Abb.
Gleason, Harold
Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920
Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981
(Series: Music Literature Outlines: Series III)
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
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.
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
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
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Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
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[Review]
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Famous modern negro musicians
New York: Da Capo Press, 1978
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
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.
Bohle, Bruce
International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians.
10th edition
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975
Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.
Number of People : 3,156
Rosner, Helmut
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Frank, Paul
Noetzel, Florian
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Fortfuhrt von Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner
Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974
Note: Zweiter Teil: Erganzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937
Number of People : 16,276
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
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Number of People : 4,351
Kallmann, H.A.
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Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1960
Westrup, Jack Allan
Harrison,
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Riemann, Hugo
Musiklexikon
12th edition
Mainz: B. Schott's Sohne, 1958
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Vol. 3
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Baker, T.
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5th edition
New York: G. Schirmer, 1958
Thompson, Oscar
International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians.
7th edition
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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
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Grove, George / Sir
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5th edition
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Lyons, James
Howard, John Tasker
Our American music : three hundred years of it
Third edition, revised and reset.
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Scholes, Percy A.
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2nd ed.
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
Chicago: Who is Who in Music, 1951, 576 p.
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sundstrom, Einar
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Reis, Claire Raphael
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Revised and enlarged edition
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Hinrichsen, Max
Hill, Ralph
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McCoy, G.
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Philadelphia: Theo. Presser Co., 1946
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Howard, John Tasker
Mendel, Arthur
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By John Tasker Howard with the assistance of Arthur Mendel
Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1941, 447 p.
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Number of People : 10,576
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Schmidl, Carlo
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Number of People : 9,140
Weir, Ed.
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By W.C. Handy.
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Frank, Paul
Altmann, Wilhelm
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Neu bearbeitet und erganzt von Wilhelm Altmann
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Number of People : 17,230
Cuney-Hare, Maud
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Grove, George / Sir
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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 ...
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Number of People : 3,336
Spaeth, Sigmund
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Number of People : 2,425
Riemann, Hugo
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Number of People : 1,335
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Follow me
The life and music of R. Nathaniel Dett
McBrier, Vivian Flagg
R. Nathaniel Dett : his life and works (1882-1943)
Spencer, Jon Michael
The writings of Robert Nathaniel Dett and William Grant Still on black music
- Dissertation Abstracts International: A 43:1743a Dec 1982
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