Background
Coover, James Burrell was born on June 3, 1925 in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States. Son of James Verans and Flod Elizabeth (Burrell) Coover.
(First published in 1952 under title: Bibliography of musi...)
First published in 1952 under title: Bibliography of music dictionaries.
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This is the second edition of the writer's Bibliography of Music Dictionaries (1952) and has been greatly expanded in both scope and volume per the author's notes in the preface. Published at Bibliographical Center for Research, Rocky Mountain Region, Denver Public Library. 126 pages.
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Music researchers, bibliophiles, students of collectors and collecting are offered an exhaustive list of literature relating to private music collections that includes books and descriptive articles (both published and unpublished), manuscript lists, household inventories, and sale catalogs. The earliest list is dated 1467, the latest 1955. Present locations of collections are given. Book complements author's earlier work, Musical Instrument Collections: Catalogues and Cognate Literature (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, no. 47, 1981).
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Coover, James Burrell was born on June 3, 1925 in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States. Son of James Verans and Flod Elizabeth (Burrell) Coover.
Bachelor of Arts Northern Colorado, 1949. Master of Arts, University Northern Colorado, 1950. Master of Arts, University Denver, 1953.
Assistant director Bibliographical Center for Research, Denver, 1950-1953. Head Dickinson Music Library. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1953-1967.
Ziegele professor music emeritus, director music library State University of New York, Buffalo, 1967-2000, Ziegele professor music emeritus, 1981-2000, distinguished service professor emeritus, 1992—2000, professor emeritus, from 2000. Consultant Middle States Association Colleges and Secondary Schools, Newark, since 1961.
(Music researchers, bibliophiles, students of collectors a...)
(This is the second edition of the writer's Bibliography o...)
(First published in 1952 under title: Bibliography of musi...)
Reader National Endowment of the Humanities, since 1981, Australian Research Council, 1989-1994. Served with United States Army, 1943-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Member International Association Music Libraries, Music Library.
Association (president 1959-1960), Papers and Lectures.
Married Georgena A. Walker. Children: Christopher, Mauri, Regan.