John McCabe: A Bio-Bibliography

by Stewart R. Craggs

Overview

John McCabe is a thoroughly documented bio-bibliography of one of Britain's leading composers. John McCabe has an international reputation, both as a composer and a pianist, whose compositions cover most of the established forms. The complete list of his works and performances have never before been presented in such detail. Articles and features by and about the composer contain annotations, often in the form of quotations from the material. National, academic, and public libraries, as well as specialized music libraries and archives, will find this work a valuable research tool.

The work begins with a brief biography of John McCabe prepared with the composer's assistance and is followed by a complete list of works and performances classified by genre and arranged alphabetically by title of composition. Performance and publication information is provided for each work, including its first and other selected performances. A list of McCabe's publishers is followed by a discography of commercially produced sound recordings divided into sections on McCabe as a composer and as a performer. A bibliography of writings by and about McCabe includes gramaphone record reviews written by McCabe for the British jourbanal Records and Recordings between 1967 and 1974. An alphabetical and a chronological list of compositions appear in appendices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313264450
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/21/1991
Series:	Bio-Bibliographies in Music , #32
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

STEWART R. CRAGGS is Reader Services Librarian at the Sunderland Polytechnic Library in the United Kingdom. He is also the author of two bio-bibliographies, Arthur Bliss (Greenwood Press, 1988) and Richard Rodney Bennett (Greenwood Press, 1989) and is currently working on two future bio-bibliographies for Greenwood.

Table of Contents

Preface
Biography
Works and Performances
Operas
Ballets
Orchestral
Chamber and Instrumental
Vocal
Songs
Music for Children
An Entertainment
Incidental Music
Music for Brass, Wind, etc.
Supplmentary List
Discography
McCabe as Composer
McCabe as Performer
Bibliography
Appendix A: Alphabetical List of Compositions
Appendix B: Chronological List of Main Compositions
Index

Editorial Reviews

A brief biography of modern British composer and pianist McCabe is followed by a complete list of works and performances, annotated citations of articles and features by and about McCabe, a list of his publishers, and a discography of commercially available recordings. Appendices list his compositions alphabetically and chronologically. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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