Music of the United States of America (publications)

MUSA (Music of the United States of America) is a forty-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

• 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

References

1. Crawford, Rich (Spring 2005). "MUSA's Early Years: The Life and Times of a National Editing Project", American Music 23(1).
2. Beckwith, John (Spring 1996). "Review Essay: Music of the United States of America", American Music 14(1).
3. Kearns, William. (1998-99). "MUSA: An American Monument", The American Music Research Center Journal 8/9.
4. Burkholder, J. Peter (Spring 1995). "MUSA's Debut", L.S.A.M. Newsletter 24(2).

External links

• Official website
• Music of the United States of America at A-R Editions