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Book SynopsisThe University of Louisville''s annual Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition is the largest monetary award offered in its field. The international prize is offered for outstanding achievement by a living composer in a large musical genre, such as choral, orchestral, chamber, electronic, song-cycle, dance, opera, musical theater, or extended solo work. Since the award was first offered in 1985, the Dwight Anderson Memorial Music Libraryone of the largest new music collections in North Americahas housed the competition submissions. In order to keep an accurate listing detailing the holdings of this collection, this catalog was developed. Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition: The First Twenty Years catalogs every submission for this prestigious award, offering complete information on all the competition submissions, including title, composer, format, length, instrumentation, and information on where to find or purchase the composition. The bulk of the catalog is listed alphabetically by composer, so that users can learn whose works were submitted over the 20 years covered by the award. The additional appendixes provide the opposite perspective: a year-by-year glance at the award and those who submitted works each year. Concluding with an index, this catalog increases awareness of this collection and acknowledges the work of these important composers and their consequence to recent music history.
Trade Reviewthis is a valuable resource... * American Reference Books Annual, March 2008 *
Little (Dwight Anderson Music Library, U. of Louisville) and Graepel (technical services librarian, International U., Bremen, Germany and formerly Dwight Anderson Music Library, U. of Louisville) provide a catalog of submissions from 1985 to 2005 for the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, given by the U. of Louisville, and where the competition submissions are housed. Many of the submissions are unpublished. Submissions are listed alphabetically with information on composer, title, format, length, instrumentation, publication information, physical description, commissioning information, and call number. Entries are also listed by year. Some materials in the early years of the award were returned to the composers, and so are not listed. * Reference and Research Book News, May 2007 *
This is a well-produced volume in this series....Given the specialized content, it is best suited to academic and large public libraries. * Fontes Artis Musicae *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Acknowledgments Part 2 Introduction Part 3 Catalog Part 4 Appendix A: Winning Entries by Competition Year Part 5 Appendix B: Entried by Competition Year Part 6 Index Part 7 About the Authors
