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Still, William Grant
arranger, composer, organ, arranger
| born: 11 May 1895 |
Woodville, Mississippi / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| died: 03 Dec 1978 |
Los Angeles, California / state, USA |
Source: 1 |
| died: 04 Dec 1978 |
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| date of Variety obit: 13 Dec 1978 |
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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
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.
Struble, John Warthen
The history of American classical music : MacDowell through Minimalism
By John Warthen Struble
Facts on File, 1995, 444 p.
Devenney, David P.
Source readings in American choral music
College Music Society, 1995, 258 p.
Smith, Eric Ledell
Blacks in opera.
An encyclopedia of people and companies, 1873-1993
By Eric Ledell Smith
Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1995, 236 p.
Shirley, Wayne D.
William Grant Still's Choral Ballad and they Lynched him on a Tree
American Music, 12-4, 1994, p. 425-461
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
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
Horne, Aaron
Woodwind music of black composers
Compiled by Aaron Horne
New York: Greenwood Press, 1990, 145 p.
(Series: Music reference collection; 24)
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)
Brown, Rae Linda
William Grant Still, Florence Price, and William Dawson : Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance
p. 71-86 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)
Performer Index : Conductors
p. 547-557 In:
Myers, Kurtz
Index to record reviews 1984-1987 : based on material ... 1984 AND 1987
Compiled and edited by Kurtz Myers
Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall, 1989, 639 p.
Number of People : 20,297
Suppan, Wolfgang
Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens
3. Auflage des Lexikons des Blasmusikwesens
Herausgegeben in Verbindung mit dem Bund Deutscher Blasmusikverbande
Freiburg-Tiengen: Blasmusikverlag Schulz, 1988, 386 p.
Number of People : 2,925
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
Wescott, Steven D.
A comprehensive bibliography of music for film and television
Compiled by Steven D. Wescott
Detroit: Information Coordinatores, 1985, 432 p.
Londieux, Jean-Marie
Music for saxophone
Vol. II: general repertoire of music and educational literature for the saxophone
Cherry Hill: Roncorp Publications, 1985
Number of People : 2,020
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.
Southern, Eileen
Readings in black American music
Second edition
Compiled and edited by Eileen Southern
New York: W.W. Norton, 1983, 338 p.
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
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.
Ewen, David
Composers since 1900
A biographical and critical guide
First supplement
Compiled and edited by David Ewen
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1981, 328 p.
Southern, Eileen
Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478 p.
Number of People : 1,184
Gleason, Harold
Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920
Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981
(Series: Music Literature Outlines: Series III)
Friedberg, Ruth C.
American art song and American poetry
Vol. I: America comes of age.
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981
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
Index
The above item is part of :
Perry, Jeb H.
Variety obits. An index to obituaries in Variety, 1905-1978
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980, 311 p.
Number of People : 101,729
Moe, Orin
William Grant Still : songs of separation.
Black Music Research Journal. 1980, S. 18-36.
Mit 3 Fig. u. 7 Notenbeisp.
Southern, Eileen
Letters from W.C. Handy to William Grant Still.
With notes by Eileen Southern.
Part 2
The Black Perspective in Music. 8 (1980), S. 65-119.
Mit Abb.
Martin, William R.
Drossin, Julius
Music of the twentieth century
[by] William R. Martin and Julius Drossin
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980, 400 p.
Index to music necrology : 1978 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1979, p. 857
[William Still]
Opera News, May, 1979, p. 51
Pebworth, James R.
A directory of 132 Arkansas composers
Fayetteville, Arkansas: University Library, University of Arkansas, 1979, 89 p.
Letters from W.C. Handy to William Grant Still.
With notes by Eileen Southern.
The Black Perspective in Music. 7 (1979), S. 199-234.
Mit Abb.
Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984
Number of People : 16,262
Citations Honor Fiedler, Fromm, and Still.
Triangle, vol. 72, no. 1, 1978, p. 4
Note: These honors were presented by Mu Phi Epsilon.
Artists' Index
p. 1754-1845 In:
Rust, Brian
Jazz records 1897-1942
4th revised and enlarged edition
Vol. 2: Abe Lyman to Bob Zurke
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1978, 1996 p.
Number of People : 9,605
Kyle, Marguerite Kelly
AmerAllegro
Pan Pipes, vol. 70, no. 2, 1978. p. 64-65
[William Grant Still - obituary]
Jet, vol. 55, December 28, 1978. p. 29
[William Grant Still - obituary]
Billboard, vol. 90, December 16, 1978, p. 83
[William Grant Still - obituary]
Variety, vol. 293, December 13, 1978, p. 111
Kyle, Marguerite Kelly
AmerAllegro
Pan Pipes, vol. 69, no. 2, 1977. p. 73-74
Spence, Martha Ellen Blanding
Selected Song Cycles of Three Contemporary Black American Composers : William Grant Still, John Duncan, and Hale Smith.
Southern Mississippi. 1977. Ph.D.
Abdul, Raoul
Blacks in classical music : a personal history
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977
Anderson, Ruth
Contemporary American composers
A biographical dictionary
1st ed.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976, 513 p.
Number of People : 3,758
Resch, Rita Marje
Carman, Judith E.
Gaeddert, William Kenneth
Art-song in the United States 1801-1976
An annotated bibliography
By Judith E. Carman, William K. Gaeddert, Rita M. Resch
National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc., 1976, 308 p.
Kyle, Marguerite Kelly
AmerAllegro
Pan Pipes, vol. 68, no. 2, 1976. p. 74-75
Cariaga, Daniel
Los Angeles.
Opera News, vol. 40, April 17, 1976, p. 38
Note: Still's opera "A Bayou Legend" is performed.
Bennett, Elise M.
William Grant Still and accordion music.
The Black Perspective in Music. 3 (1975), s. 193-195.
Michaelis, Adrian
Still music on the Western air.
The Black Perspective in Music. 3 (1975), S. 177-189.
Mit Abb.
Southern, Eileen
Reviews of Records : Black Composers Series.
Musical Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 4, 1975. p. 645-650
Still, Judith Anne
In my father's house.
The Black Perspective in Music. 3 (1975), S. 199-206.
Southern, Eileen
William Grant Still. List of major works.
The Black Perspective in Music. 3 (1975), S. 235-238.
Hains, F.
William Grant Still
An American Composer Who Happens to Be Black.
High Fidelity/Musical America, vol. 25, March 1975. p. MA27
Sundstrom, Einar
Morin, Gosta
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sohlman's musiklexikon
2. rev. och utvidgade uppl.
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl-Alan Moberg och Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, 1975-1979, 5 v.
Number of People : 10,962
Artists Index
p. 2006-2066 In:
Rust, Brian
The American dance band discography 1917-1942
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1975, 2066 p.
Number of People : 2,494
Eggler, B.
Opera South's William Grant Still's Highway 1, U.S. A. And Ulysses Kay's Juggler of our Lady and World Premier of Still's Bayou Legend.
Opera News, vol. 39, January 11, 1975. p. 33
Jackson, Miss.
Music Journal, vol. 33, January 1975, p. 46
Note: Still's opera "A Bayou Legend" is presented by Opera/South.
Premieres
Music Educator's Journal, vol. 61, January 1975. p. 84
A Birthday Offering to William Grant Still : Upon the Occasion of his Eightieth Anniversary
Cambria Heights, N.Y.: Foundation for Research in the Afro-American Creative Arts, 1975
A 240 page special issue of Black Perspectives in Music, vol. 3, no. 2, May 1975
Durrett, C.W.
Jackson, Mississippi.
Opera, vol. 26, April 1975. p. 381-382
Southern, Eileen
America's Black Composers of Classical Music.
Music Educator's Journal, vol. 62, November 1975. p. 48-49
William Grant Still Honored.
Pan Pipes, vol. 68, no. 1, 1975. p. 20
William Grant Still Honored on Birthday.
Triangle, vol. 69, no. 4, 1975. p. 8
Kyle, Marguerite Kelly
AmerAllegro
Pan Pipes, vol. 67, no. 2, 1975. p. 74
Southern, Eileen
Conversation with William Grant Still.
The Black Perspective in Music. 3 (1975), S. 165-176.
Mit 1 Abb.
Douglass, Fanzie Howard
A Tribute to William Grant Still.
Black Perspectives in Music, vol. 2, no. 1, 1974, p. 51-53
Note: This talk was presented on the occasion of the Treble Clef Club of Washington Sixtieth Anniversary.
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
Bull, Storm
Index to biographies of contemporary composers
Vol. II
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974, 567 p.
Number of People : 6,198
Kyle, Marguerite Kelly
AmerAllegro
Pan Pipes, vol. 66, no. 2, 1974. p. 74
Harris, C.G.
Three Schools of Black Choral Composers and Arrangers 1900-1970.
Choral Journal, vol. 14, no. 8, 1974. p. 11-18
Vinton, John
Dictionary of contemporary music
Edited by John Vinton
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1974, 834 p.
Number of People : 1,053
Still, W.G.
Arvey, Verna
On Composing for the Harp.
American Harp Journal, vol. 4, no. 4, 1974. p. 32-33
Claghorn, Charles Eugene
Biographical dictionary of American music
West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Pub. Co., 1974, 491 p.
Number of People : 3,156
"Deep River" Popularizes a Composer.
Black Perspectives in Music, vol. 2, no. 1, 1974. p. 75-79
Bayou Legend.
Time, vol. 104, November 25, 1974. p. 84
Music Journal Adds Eight New Members to its Advisory Council.
Music Journal, vol. 32, July 1974. p. 10-11
Caldwell, Hansonia Laverne
Black Idioms in Opera as Reflected in the Works of Six Afro-American Composers.
Southern California. 1974. Ph.D.
Douglass, Fanzie Howard
A tribute to William Grant Still.
The Black Perspective in Music. 2 (1974), S. 51-53.
Arvey, Verna
Symphonies in Black.
Music Journal, vol. 32, April 1974. p. 28-29
Ralston, Jack L.
[Review]
The Black Perspective in Music. 1 (1973), S. 83-84.
Ulysses Kay's Juggler of our Lady and William Grant Still's Highway 1, U.S.A.
Opera News, vol. 37, January 13, 1973. p. 23
Kyle, Marguerite Kelly
AmerAllegro
Pan Pipes, vol. 65, no. 2, 1973. p. 74
King, B.
Eubie Blake. A Legend in his Own Lifetime.
Black Perspectives in Music, vol. 1, no. 2, 1973. p. 151-156
Krueger, Karl
The musical heritage of the United States
The unknown portion
New York: Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage, 1973, 237 p.
Hains, F.
Opera : South : All-Black and Hopeful.
High Fidelity/Musical America, vol. 23, May 1973, p. MA23
Note: Opera/South is a black opera company which performed Still's "Highway 1, U.S.A."
Gent, Liz
Interview with William Grant Still, 11/22/72. Tapes and transcript from the Hetch/Billops Collection are part of the project Oral History
American Music. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University, 1972.
Kyle, Marguerite Kelly
AmerAllegro
Pan Pipes, vol. 64, no. 2, 1972. p. 80
A list of works performed at the American Composers' Concerts and Festivals 1925-71
p. 9 In:
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.
Haas, Robert Bartlett (editor)
William Grant Still and the fusion of cultures in American music.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press. 1972. XI, 201 S.
Highway 1, U.S.A.
Newsweek, vol. 80, December 4, 1972. p. 68
Haas, Robert Bartlett
William Grant Still and the Fusion of Cultures in American Music
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972
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