MUSA (Music of the United States of America) is a 41-volume series of critical editions of American music, representing the full range of genres and idioms that have contributed to American musical culture.[1] It was established by the American Musicological Society in 1988[2] and is hosted by the University of Michigan at its American Music Institute. The criteria used in developing MUSA volumes are:
- That the series as a whole reflect breadth and balance among eras, genres, composers and performance media
- That it avoid music already available through other channels, duplicating only where new editions of available music seem essential
- That works in the series be representative, chosen to reflect particular excellence or to represent notable achievements in this country's highly varied music history[3]
MUSA receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is published by A-R Editions of Madison, Wisconsin.[4] The founding editor-in-chief of MUSA is Richard Crawford, and the current editors-in-chief are Mark Clague (University of Michigan) and Gayle Magee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
Publications edit
- MUSA 1: Music for Small Orchestra (1926); Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano (1929) by Ruth Crawford
- MUSA 2: Early Songs, 1907–1914 by Irving Berlin
- MUSA 3: Quartet for Strings (In One Movement), Opus 89 by Amy Beach
- MUSA 4: Collected Works by Daniel Read
- MUSA 5: The Music and Scripts of In Dahomey by Will Marion Cook and Paul Laurence Dunbar and others
- MUSA 6: Psalmody and Secular Songs by Timothy Swan
- MUSA 7: Collected Songs, 1873-1896 by Harrigan and Braham
- MUSA 8: Keyboard and Chamber Music, 1937–1994 by Lou Harrison
- MUSA 9: Barstow – Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California (1968 Version) by Harry Partch
- MUSA 10: Performances in Transcription, 1927–1943 based on recordings by Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
- MUSA 11: Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements
- MUSA 12: 129 Songs by Charles Ives
- MUSA 13: Quintette for Piano and String Quartet by Leo Ornstein
- MUSA 14: American Victorian Choral Music by Dudley Buck
- MUSA 15: Selected Piano Solos, 1928–1941 based on recordings by Earl "Fatha" Hines
- MUSA 16: Complete Wind Chamber Music by David Moritz Michael
- MUSA 17: Surviving Orchestral Music by Charles Hommann
- MUSA 18: Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein
- MUSA 19: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 by Florence Price
- MUSA 20: Songs from "A New Circle of Voices": The Sixteenth Annual Pow-Wow at UCLA
- MUSA 21: Six Marches by John Philip Sousa
- MUSA 22: The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook
- MUSA 23: Symphony no. 2 in D minor, op. 24 ("Jullien") by George Frederick Bristow
- MUSA 24: Sam Morgan's Jazz Band: Complete Recorded Works in Transcription based on recordings by Sam Morgan
- MUSA 25: Selected Works for Big Band, by Mary Lou Williams
- MUSA 26: Machito and His Afro-Cubans: Selected Transcriptions by Machito
- MUSA 27: Di goldene kale (1923) by Joseph Rumshinsky
- MUSA 28: The Padrone by George Whitefield Chadwick
- MUSA 29: Shuffle Along (1921) by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle
- MUSA 30: Solo for Piano by John Cage, Second Realization by David Tudor
- MUSA 31: Appalachian Spring (Original Ballet Version) by Aaron Copland
- MUSA 32: An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century
References edit
- ^ Crawford, Rich (Spring 2005). "MUSA's Early Years: The Life and Times of a National Editing Project", American Music 23(1).
- ^ Beckwith, John (Spring 1996). "Review Essay: Music of the United States of America", American Music 14(1).
- ^ Kearns, William. (1998-99). "MUSA: An American Monument", The American Music Research Center Journal 8/9.
- ^ Burkholder, J. Peter (Spring 1995). "MUSA's Debut", L.S.A.M. Newsletter 24(2).