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. It was established by the

American Musicological Society The American Musicological Society (AMS) is a musicological organization which researches, promotes and produces publications on music. Founded in 1934, the AMS was begun by leading American musicologists of the time, and was crucial in legiti ...

in 1988 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 MUSA receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is published by A-R Editions of Madison, Wisconsin.Burkholder, J. Peter (Spring 1995). "MUSA's Debut", ''L.S.A.M. Newsletter'' 24(2). 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 Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music was a prominent exponent of the emerging modernist aesthetic and she became a central member of a ...

*MUSA 2
Early Songs, 1907–1914
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Irving Berlin Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; yi, ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-American composer, songwriter and lyricist. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russi ...

*MUSA 3
Quartet for Strings (In One Movement), Opus 89
by

Amy Beach Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in ...

*MUSA 4
Collected Works
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Daniel Read Daniel Read (November 16, 1757 – December 4, 1836) was an American composer of the First New England School, and one of the primary figures in early American classical music. Life and work Read, along with his contemporaries William Billi ...

*MUSA 5
The Music and Scripts of ''In Dahomey''
' ''by

Will Marion Cook William Mercer Cook (January 27, 1869 – July 19, 1944), better known as Will Marion Cook, was an American composer, violinist, and choral director.Riis, Thomas (2007–2011)Cook, Will Marion ''Grove Music Online.'' Oxford Music Online. Retrieved ...

and

Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American ...

and others *MUSA 6
Psalmody and Secular Songs
by Timothy Swan *MUSA 7
Collected Songs, 1873-1896
by Harrigan and

Braham Braham may refer to: * Braham (surname) * Braham, Minnesota, a city in the United States *Braham Murray Braham Sydney Murray, OBE (12 February 1943 – 25 July 2018) was an English theatre director. In 1976, he was one of five founding Artistic ...

*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
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Charles Ives Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed f ...

*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 Earl Kenneth Hines, also known as Earl "Fatha" Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader. He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano and, according to one source, " ...

*MUSA 16
Complete Wind Chamber Music
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David Moritz Michael David Moritz Michael (October 21, 1751 – February 26, 1827) was a composer. David Moritz Michael was born in Kumhausen in 1751 and was educated in Germany. He became a member of the Moravian Church when he was thirty years old. He taught in ...

*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 Florence Beatrice Price (née Smith; April 9, 1887 – June 3, 1953) was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, and was ac ...

*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 George Frederick Bristow (December 19, 1825 – December 13, 1898) was an American composer. He advocated American classical music, rather than favoring European pieces. He was famously involved in a related controversy involving William Hen ...

*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
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Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and ...

*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 James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was an American pianist and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, he and his long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote ''Shuffle Along'', one of the first Bro ...

and Noble Sissle

References

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External links

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