American Fuging-Tunes, 1770-1820 A Descriptive Catalog

Subjects:

• The Arts » Ethnomusicology

Reviews:

• ...A useful work by a recognized authority for identifying and describing approximately 1,300 fuging-tunes published in American tunebooks for the period studies. The tunes are listed alphabetically under composers' names. Each entry includes a numerical incipit of the first 13 pitches of the main melody and information on the tune structure and length, fuges, rhythm, poetic meter and first line of text, and earliest sources. Recommended for advanced undergraduate and graduate collections.
  —Choice
• Kroeger, catalogs 1,298 fuging-tunes, essentially every one published in America. Extremely useful multiple indexes, coinciding with the citations, conclude the volume. The author does an excellent job with his material, and users need not worry about his comprehensiveness or his scholarship. An excellent acquisition for all libraries interested in early American liturgical/secular music or those establishing a comprehensive music collection. Colonial historians would even appreciate the brief biographies, many of which are not readily found elsewhere.
  —RQ Summer 1994

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Guide to the Catalog
• American Fuging-Tunes (1770-1820)
• Bibliography: Abbreviations and Short Titles
• Index of Tune Names
• Structure Index
• Fuge Order of Entry Index
• Fuge Rhythm Index
• Text Coordination and Fuge Time Interval Index
• Date of First Publication Index
• Source Index (Alphabetical)
• Source Index (Chronological)
• Metrical Index
• First Line Index
• Index of Poetic Sources
• Index of Composers
• Index of Tunes with Multiple Fuges