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Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000.

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Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000. By D. J. Hoek; Incorporating Material by Arthur Wenk. (Music Library Association Index and Bibliography Series, No. 34.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press and Music Library Association, 2007. [xxvi, 347 p. ISBN-13: 9780810858879 ISBN-10: 0810858878. $75.00.] Bibliography, index.

Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition; The First Twenty Years. By Karen R. Little and Julia Graepel with assistance from R. Scott Adams. (Music Library Association Index and Bibliography Series, No. 33.) Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press and Music Library Association, 2007. [x, 461 p. ISBN-13: 9780810856943; ISBN-10: 0810856948. $150.00.] Index.

Many music researchers and music librarians have long been familiar with Arthur Wenk's bibliographies of analyses, first of twentieth-century music and later of nineteenth-century music. Wenk's purpose was to cite and thus facilitate access to the analyses found in journal articles, monographs, doctoral dissertations, and Festschriften. He focused on art music in the western European tradition, citing scholarly writings in English and other European languages, especially French, German, and Italian. His efforts, all issued in the MLA Index and Bibliography Series, culminated with Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music: 1940-1985, which was number 25 in the series...

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