Publisher's Synopsis
This text represents the first attempt to collect and publish significant documents that illuminate the history of choral music in the United States from colonial times to the post-World War II era. The thirty-one selections - many reprinted in their entirety - are enhanced with a chronology of landmark events in this history and by an extensive bibliography of relevant literature. The book is valuable as a supplementary text for university study, as a reference work, and as an important contribution to the unwritten history of choral music in the United States. Professor DeVenney, a member of the choral faculty of the University of Arizona and a champion of the American repertory in the concert hall, has demonstrated his expertise on this subject in a number of well-received books and articles. Michael J. Budds of the University of Missouri-Columbia served as editor for this project.
