sense of persons in any country who are of African descent. Extensive bio-
graphical accounts are enhanced with worklists, bibliographies, portraits, and
long critical essays about principal works (including a number of operas).
About 100 contributors did the writing, which is exemplary throughout.
Alphabetical list of entries but no general index.- Mapp, Edward. Directory of Blacks in the Performing Arts. Metuchen, N.J.:
Scarecrow, 1978. 444p. ISBN 0-8108-1126-X. PN1590 .B53 M3.
Opera singers are among the 850 artists whose biographies are given in this
useful volume. A classified index identifies them. - Turner, Patricia. Dictionary of Afro-American Performers: 78rpm and Cylin-
der Recordings of Opera, Choral Music, and Song, c. 1900–1949. Garland
Reference Library of the Humanities, 590. New York: Garland, 1990. xxiii,
433p. ISBN 0-8240-8736-4. ML106 .U3 T87.
A bio-discography of 23 composers, 39 singers, three instrumentalists, and 14
vocal groups, all performers of classical or religious music. Six operas and
musicals are also discussed. Books, articles, newspaper notices, and archival
collections are cited. Much information difficult to find elsewhere, but it is not
always reliable. Bibliography of about 250 items, no index.
Reprints from NGhave appeared in separate volumes. The essays are in most cases
updated or otherwise revised, and each volume has an index, which NGlacks. In this
guide those books are listed in their national or subject areas, except for the following,
which are multinational in scope:
170.The New Grove North European Baroque Masters. Ed. Joshua Rivkin. New
York: Norton, 1985. 356p. ISBN 0-393-01695-1. ML390 .N4665.
Composers included are Schütz, Froberger, Buxtehude, Purcell, and Telemann.
171.The New Grove Early Romantic Masters I. Ed. Nicholas Temperley et al. New
York: Norton, 1985. 392p. ISBN 0-333-38545-4. ML390 .T45.
Composers included are Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann.
172.The New Grove Early Romantic Masters II. Ed. John Warrack et al. New
York: Norton, 1985. 314p. ISBN 0-333-39013-X. ML390 .T451.
Composers included are Weber, Berlioz, and Mendelssohn.
173.The New Grove Late Romantic Masters. Ed. Deryck Cooke et al. New York:
Norton, 1985. 401p. ISBN 0-393-01697-8. ML390 .N474.
Composers included are Bruckner, Brahms, Dvorák, and Wolf.
174.The New Grove Turn of the Century Masters: Janacek, Mahler, Strauss,
Sibelius.New York: Norton, 1985. 324p. ISBN 0-333-38541-1. ML390 .N48.175.The New Grove Modern Masters: Bartók, Stravinsky, Hindemith. Ed. Vera
Lampert et al. New York: Norton, 1984. 292p. ISBN 0-393-30097-8.Biographies 43