|
|
Article: International Directory of Contemporary Music, 1991, 2 vols.
- Article from:
- Notes
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Although the title of the International Directory of Contemporary Music seems to imply that these volumes comprise an encyclopedic catalogue of recent music, the directory is actually a list of holdings of two organizations devoted to twentieth-century music, the Contemporary Music Information Service in New York and the Bibliotheque Internationale de Musique Contemporaine in Paris. The works listed in the directory are only those scores which composers or publishers have chosen to deposit with either one of these organizations. It is, therefore, in no sense a systematically comprehensive list of contemporary music. The title of the directory also raises a perennial ...