Gunther Schuller, a bio-bibliography /

Music scholar and author Carnovale (Twentieth-Century Music for Trumpet and Orchestra, CH, Feb '77) has compiled the first comprehensive English-language bio-bibliography on composer and jazz scholar Schuller. The volume is divided into six main sections: a 32-page biography; a 1985 interview between Schuller and Carnovale; a list of works and performances; a discography of all disc format recordings; an annotated bibliography of 73 selected writings by Schuller; and an annotated bibliography of 469 selected writings about Schuller, mostly in English. Also included are four appendixes and an index. Cross-references are plentiful. Entries are occasionally from hard-to-find sources (concert programs, smaller newspapers) and many disks are out of print, but annotations are informative and subjective. Recommended for libraries serving doctoral music candidates and graduate faculty; general collections will find David Ewen's American Composers (CH, Dec '82) and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. by Stanley Sadie (CH, Feb '81) sufficient for bio-critical data.-A.J. Adam, University of Wisconsin-River Falls