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. 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 The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

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 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

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 *MUSA 2
Early Songs, 1907–1914
by

Irving Berlin Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Berlin received numerous honors including an Acade ...

*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 ...

*MUSA 4
Collected Works
by Daniel Read *MUSA 5
The Music and Scripts of ''In Dahomey''
' ''by Will Marion Cook 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 C ...

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 Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments. Harrison initially wrote in a dissonant, ultramodernist style similar to his for ...

*MUSA 9
Barstow – Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California (1968 Version)
by

Harry Partch Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century com ...

*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 Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. His music was largely ignored d ...

*MUSA 13
Quintette for Piano and String Quartet
by

Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein (born ''Lev Ornshteyn''; ; – February 24, 2002) was an American Experimental music, experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and ev ...

*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 Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassic ...

and

Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and ...

*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 John Philip Sousa ( , ; November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic music, Romantic era known primarily for American military March (music), marches. He is known as "The March King" or th ...

*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 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 Frank Grillo (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo; December 3, 1909 – April 15, 1984) known professionally as Machito (previously as Macho), was a Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music ...

*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. Blake began his career in 1912, and during World War I he worked in partnership with the singer, drum ...

and

Noble Sissle Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical ''Shuffle Along'' (1921), and its hit song "I'm Just Wild About Harry". Ea ...

*MUSA 30
Solo for Piano by John Cage, Second Realization
by

David Tudor David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. Life and career Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefa ...

*MUSA 31
Appalachian Spring (Original Ballet Version)
by

Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as the "Dean of American Compos ...

*MUSA 32
An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century

References

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External links

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