Scotland
The Scottish Opera was founded in 1961. Its early time is described in Conrad Wil-
son, Scottish Opera: The First Ten Years(Glasgow: Collins, 1972). A longer period is
covered by Cordelia Oliver, It Is a Curious Story: The Tale of Scottish Opera, 1962–
1987 (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1987).
Wales
- Fawkes, Richard. Welsh National Opera. London: Julia Macrae, 1986. x,
368p. ISBN 0-86203-184-2. ML1731.7 .W3 F4.
An informal narrative, covering 1943–1985, with a chronology 1946–1985.
No bibliography. General index, and indexes of conductors and singers with
their roles.
United States
Editions
2730.Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater.Ed. Deane L. Root. New York:
Garland, 1994. 16v. ISBN 0-8153-1365-9. LC numbers vary. (Cited in this
guide as 19CAMT.)
A series of original printed or manuscript sources for stage works, published
for the first time. Genres included are ballad opera, pantomime, plays with
incidental music, parlor entertainments, temperance shows, ethnic theater,
minstrelsy, and operettas. Individual volumes are entered separately.Bibliographies
- Horn, David. The Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Col-
lections: A Fully Annotated Bibliography.Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1977.
570p. ISBN 0-8108-0996-6. ML120 .U5 H7. Supplement 1,by David Horn
and Richard Jackson, 1988. 586p. ISBN 0-8108-1997-X. ML120 .U5 H7
Suppl.
These two volumes present the core monographic literature about American
music and music in the U.S. There are 3,862 entries, most of them extensively
annotated. Author, title, and subject indexes. - Marco, Guy A. Literature of American Music III, 1983–1992. Lanham, Md.:
Scarecrow, 1996. xviii, 449p. ISBN 0-8108-3132-5. ML120 .U5 M135. Cited
in this guide as LOAM–3.
A continuation of the Horn volumes, presenting 1,302 annotated entries.
Together the three books offer an inventory of all significant writings in mono-
graphic form. With a title index, subject index (using Library of Congress
headings), and joint-author index. The author index is in a separate volume: - Marco, Guy A.Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640–1992. Lanham,
Md.: Scarecrow, 1996. v, 236p. ISBN 0-8108-3133-3. ML120 .U5 .M127.
A cumulative author index to all three volumes of Literature of American
Music,covering some 5,100 titles.
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