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Root, George Frederick
Wurzel
pseudonym
composer, music educator
| born: 30 Aug 1820 |
Sheffield, Massachusetts / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| died: 06 Aug 1895 |
Bailey's Island, Maine / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
Crawford, Richard
The American musical landscape
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1993
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
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
Ewen, David
American songwriters. An H.W. Wilson biographical dictionary
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1987
Sablosky, Irving
What they heard : music in America, 1852-1881: From the pages of Dwight's Journal of Music
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University 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
The hymnodists
The above item is part of :
Rogal, Samuel J.
Guide to hymn tunes of American methodism
Compiled by Samuel J. Rogal
New York: Greenwood Press, 1986
(Series: Music Reference Collection; 7)
Number of People : 668
Winquist, Sven G.
Musik i svenska ljudfilmer 1950-1959
Materialet sammanstallt av Sven G. Winquist
Stockholm: Svensk Musik, 1985, 194 p.
Number of People : 1,002
Hoogerwerf, Frank William
Confederate sheet-music imprints
Brooklyn, NY: Institute for Studies of American Music, c1984, 158 p.
(Series: I.S.A.M. Monographs; 21)
Prominent New York theatre conductors, 1860-1880
p. 45 In:
Root, Deane L.
American popular stage music 1860-1880
Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research, 1981
Gleason, Harold
Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920
Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981
(Series: Music Literature Outlines: Series III)
Composers, arrangers, authors, and adaptors of popular stage music works
p. 245 In:
Root, Deane L.
American popular stage music 1860-1880
Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research, 1981
[notes to accompany recordings]
The above item is part of :
Noriega, Alfred
Buchak, Michael
Dethlefson, Ronald
Edison Blue Amberol recordings 1912-1914. American popular series. "Live" recordings and selected recordings 1915-1928
By Ronald Dethlefson
Graphic art by Michael Buchak
Photography by Alfred Noriega
Brooklyn, NY: APM Press, 1980
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
Sallee, James
A history of evangelistic hymnody
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1978
Before Tin Pan Alley
p. 15 In:
Ager, Milton
Craig, Warren
Sweet and lowdown : America's popular song writers
By Warren Craig
With a foreword by Milton Ager
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978
Stieger, Franz
Opernlexikon
Teil II: Komponisten
Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1977
Number of People : 9,633
Composers
p. 273 In:
Higginson, J. Vincent
Handbook for American catholic hymnals
Springfield, Ohio: Hymn Society of America, 1976
Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.
Number of People : 3,156
Ewen, David
Great men of American popular song
Revised and enlarged edition
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972
Cornwall, J. Spencer
Stories of our Mormon hymns
Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1971, 304 p.
Ewen, David
Great men of American popular song
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970
Epstein, Dena J.
Music publishing in Chicago before 1871
The firm of Root & Cady, 1858-71
By Dena J. Epstein
Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1969
(Series: Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography; 14)
Edwards, Arthur C.
Music in the United States
Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, [1968], 179 p.
Ewen, David
Popular American composers : From revolutionary times to the present.
A biographical and critical guide
Compiled and edited by David Ewen
New York: H. W. Wilson, 1962
Wunderlich, Charles Edward
A history and bibliography of early American musical periodicals, 1782-1852
By Charles Edward Wunderlich
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Michigan
Number of People : 1,087
Lyons, James
Howard, John Tasker
Our American music : three hundred years of it
Third edition, revised and reset.
With supplementary chapters by James Lyons
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1954, 841 p.
Number of People : 649
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
Famous old-time ballads and songs which should never die
p. 366 In:
Marks, Edward B.
They all had glamour : From the Swedish nightingale to the naked lady
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1944
Bio-bibliographical index of musicians in the United States of America since colonial times
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
Baker, Theodore
Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians
Fourth edition revised and enlarged
New York: G. Schirmer, 1940
Number of People : 6,835
Schmidl, Carlo
Dizionario universale dei musicisti
Milan: Sonzogno, 1937, 2V p.
Number of People : 11,317
Frank, Paul
Altmann, Wilhelm
Kurzgefasstes Tonkunstler Lexikon : fur Musiker und Freunde der Musik
Begrundet von Paul Frank
Neu bearbeitet und erganzt von Wilhelm Altmann
Regensburg: Gustave Bosse, 1936, 730 p.
Number of People : 17,230
[no title]
The above item is part of :
Schulz, Walter
Reichssanger : Schlussel zum deutscher Reichsliederbuch
Gotha: P. Ott, 1930, 246 p.
Metcalf, Frank Johnson
American writers and compilers of sacred music
New York: Russell & Russell, 1925, 373 p.
Boyd, Charles N.
Pratt, Waldo Selden
Grove's dictionary of music and musicians. American supplement ...
Edited by Waldo S. Pratt. Associate editor: Charles N. Boyd.
Number of People : 1,335
Remy, Alfred
Baker, Theodore
Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians
Third edition
Revised and enlarged by Alfred Remy, M.A.
New York: G. Schirmer, 1919, 1094 p.
Number of People : 7,067
Elson, Louis Charles
The history of American music
Revised edition
By Louis C. Elson
New York: MacMillan Company, 1915, 387 p.
Hall, Jacob Henry
Biography of gospel song and hymn writers
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1914, 419 p.
Baltzell, Winton J.
Baltzell's dictionary of musicians ...
Number of People : 748
Herringshaw, Thomas W.
Herringshaw's national library of American biography, etc ...
Chicago: 1909-14, 5 vols.
Number of People : 683
Appendix : Part II
p. 1549 In:
Julian, John
A dictionary of hymnology : setting forth the origin and history of Christian hymns of all ages and nations
Revised edition, with new supplement
Edited by John Julian, D.D., Vicar of Topcliffe, Yorkshire; ...
London: John Murray, 1907
Number of People : 523
Selby, Paul
Cunningham, Joseph O.
Bateman, Newton
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois ...
Edited by Newton Bateman [and] Paul Selby and history of Champaign county edited by Joseph O. Cunningham.
Smith, Benjamin E.
The century cyclopedia of names a pronouncing and etymological dictionary of names in geography, biography ...
Edited by Benjamin E. Smith.
The biographical encyclopedia of the United States ...
Baker, Theodore
Biographical dictionary of musicians
Compiled and edited by Theodore Baker, Ph.D.
New York: G. Schirmer, 1900, 653 p.
Number of People : 5,682
The national cyclopaedia of American biography being the history of the United States ...
New York: 1898, 92-1947, 34 vols. Note
Note: Vol. 1-13. 1898, 93-1909 only
Memorial and biographical record
An illustrated compendium of biography ... of South Dakota, etc ...
Another ed.:
Chicago 1898
Lustner, Karl
Totenliste des Jahres 1895 die Musik betreffend
Monatshefte fur Musikgeschichte, 1896, p. 80
Mathews, William Smith Babcock
Geo. F. Root, Mus. Doc.
Music: A Monthly Magazine, 8, 1895, p. 502-09
Dr. George F. Root
Musical Messenger, 3/7, 1893, p. 8-9
The story of a musical life
American Art Journal, 58, 1892, p. 450-53
Root, George Frederick
The story of a musical life
Cincinnati: John Church, 1891, 256 p.
Root, George Frederick
The story of a musical life. An autobiography.
New York: AMS Press 1973. IX, 256 S.
Love, James
Scottish church music : its composers and sources
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1891
Frederic W. Root
Brainard's Musical World, 28, 1891, p. 58
Mathews, William Smith Babcock (editor)
A hundred years of music in America.
An account of musical effort in America ...
Fiske, John
Wilson, James Grant
Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography ...
Edited by James Grant Wilson and John a Fiske.
New York: 1888, 87, 6 vols.
Baptie, David
A handbook of musical biography ...
2nd ed.
Number of People : 1,274
Jones, F.O.
A handbook of American music and musicians
Containing biographies of American musicians. And histories of the principal musical institutions, firms and societies.
Canaseraga, NY: 1886, 182 p.
Brown, James Duff
Biographical dictionary of musicians.
With a bibliography of English writings on music
Paisley, Scotland: A. Gardner, 1886, 637 p.
Number of People : 4,300
Butterworth, Hezekiah
The great composers
Boston: D. Lothrop, 1884, 179 p.
(Series: Little Biographies - Second Series)
Baptie, David
A handbook of musical biography
London: W. Morley, 1883, 256 p.
Number of People : 3,177
Birdseye, George W.
America's song composers, II : George F. Root
Potter's American Monthly, 12, 1879, p. 145-48
Biographies of American Musicians
Number Twenty
Dr. G.F. Root
Brainard's Musical World, 16, 1879, p. 82-83
The biographical encyclopaedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century ...
Drake, Francis S.
Dictionary of American biography including man of the time ... and a supplement ...
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