User:Opus33/Books

This is a partial list of the books I've used in editing on the topics shown.

Haydn

• Geiringer, Karl, in collaboration with Irene Geiringer (3rd ed., 1982) Haydn: A Creative Life in Music.
• Hughes, Rosemary (1950/1970) Haydn. Not reliable for biography (as she herself notes guiltily in a preface to a later edition), but I think her comments on the music are often very helpful.
• Jones, David Wyn (2009) The Life of Haydn.
• Jones, David Wyn, ed. (2009) Oxford Composer Companions: Haydn.
• Robbins Landon, H. C. and David Wyn Jones (1988) Haydn: His Life and Music.
• Webster, James and Georg Feder (2002) The New Grove Haydn.

Mozart

The field of Mozart biography is, I think, a mess. It seems that legend-making and falsification kicked in from the moment Mozart died, and people have enthusiastically leapt in with further legend-making ever since. Only starting in the late 20th century does it seem that hard-headed scholars are making a serious effort to sort it all out. In my own editing since 2004 I've sometimes mistakenly relied on legend-makers and am currently trying to be a bit more savvy.

• Abert, Hermann (2007) W. A. Mozart (updated version, with notes by Cliff Eisen)
• Braunbehrens, Volkmar (1990) Mozart in Vienna
• Deutsch, Otto Erich (1965) Mozart: A Documentary Biography
• Eisen, Cliff and Simon P. Keefe, eds. (2006) The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia.
• Halliwell, Ruth (1998) The Mozart Family
• Solomon, Maynard (1995) Mozart: A Life
• Wolff, Christoph (2012) Mozart at the Gateway to his Fortune

Sacred Harp

• Cobb, Buell E. (1982) Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music
• Jackson, George Pullen (1932) White spirituals in the southern uplands.
• Steel, David Warren with Richard Hulan (2010) Makers of The Sacred Harp. This ought to be mined much further.

Historical keyboard instruments

• Hubbard, Frank (1967) Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making.
• Kottick, Edward (2003) A History of the Harpsichord
• Pollens, Stewart (1995) The Early Pianoforte
• Zuckermann, Wolfgang (1969) The Modern Harpsichord

General

• Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• Rosen, Charles (1997) The Classical Style. New York: Norton.

In cases where I've needed to plug a hole in WP coverage, I've found it especially helpful to visit Google Books (occasionally, Google Scholar), rather than the general Google search engine.

Comments from experts about what sources I ought or ought not to be using are welcome; please visit my Talk page for this purpose.