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      This page lists Music Reference Books with "Billboard" in their title published by various publishers: Random House/Billboard Books   Crown Publishing Group   Watson-Guptill   and& #160; Joel Whitburn's Record Research Inc. . . This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of every music book ever published with "Billboard" in its title. It is just a list of every "Billboard" book I own "{A}" or have personally referenced in local Wisconsin libraries.

      New pages split off from my original Bibliography page

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1. #gd    1993 -- Hadley, "Grove Press: Guide to the Blues on CD" {I} K  
2. #dj    1988 -- Kernfeld. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Vol. One, A-K, {A}{C}{F}{I}
3. #ch    1988 -- Kernfeld. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Vol. Two, L-Z, {A}{C}{F}{I}
4. #rc    1994 -- Kernfeld. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz(in one volume), {A}
5. #xt    2003 -- Kernfeld. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (in three volumes), {B} O  
6. #be    1986 -- Oliver. The New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz with Spirituals and Ragtime, {C} S  

7. #pe - Sadie, Stanley   {A}{E}{F}
         "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians",
         London, U.K.: Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
         Washington, DC: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, Inc.
         Hong Kong, China: Macmillan Publishers (China) Ltd.
         1980 (20 volumes), ? p., ISBN: 0-333-23111-2 Set of 20, ISBN-13: 978-0-333-23111-1, LC: 79-26207, no UPC
       R - 780.3 - G91c (.E), R - 780.3 - New (.F)

   #4da  Vol. 1: 889 p., A - Bacilly
   #4db  Vol. 2: 878 p., Back - Bolivia
   #4dc  Vol. 3: 883 p., Bollioud-Mermet - Castro
   #4dd  Vol. 4: 885 p., Castrucci - Courante
   #4de  Vol. 5: 872 p., Couraud - Edlund
   #4df  Vol. 6: 888 p., Edmund - Fryklund
   #4dg  Vol. 7: 874 p., Fuchs - Gyuzelev
   #4dh  Vol. 8: 856 p., H - Hyporchema
   #4di  Vol. 9: 879 p., Iacobus - Kerman
   #4dj Vol. 10: 870 p., Kern - Lindelheim
   #4dk Vol. 11: 877 p., Lindeman - Mean-tone
   #4dl Vol. 12: 880 p., Meares - Mutis
   #4dm Vol. 13: 880 p., Muwashshah - Ory
   #4dn Vol. 14: 864 p., Osaka - Player piano
   #4do Vol. 15: 860 p., Playford - Riedt
   #4dp Vol. 16: 879 p., Riegel - Schusterfleck
   #4dq Vol. 17: 839 p., Schutz - Spinto
   #4dr Vol. 18: 843 p., Spiridion - Tin whistle
   #4ds Vol. 19: 871 p., Tiomkin - Virdung
   #4dt Vol. 20: 838 p., Virelai - Zywny, Appendixes

   1. 1st ed., A Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1450-1889, by Sir George Grove, in 4 volumes, 1878, 1880, 1883, 1890, with an Appendix edited by J.A. Fuller Maitland, and an Index by Mrs. Edmond Wodehouse

   2. 2nd ed., A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, by J.A. Fuller Maitland, in 5 volumes, 1904-1910

   3. 3rd ed., A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, by H.C. Colles, in 6 volumes, 1927/1928   {A}

      #4du  Vol. 1: 773 p., A - C               (1927, Colles)
      #4dv  Vol. 2: 800 p., D - J               (1927, Colles)
      #4dw  Vol. 3: 787 p., K - O               (1927, Colles)
      #4dx  Vol. 4: 840 p., P - Sonatina        (1928, Colles)
      #4dy  Vol. 5: 791 p., Song - Z            (1928, Colles)
      #4dz  Vol. 6: 438 p., American Supplement (1928,
                               Waldo Selden Pratt, ed., Charles N. Boyd, assoc. ed.)
                p. 3-6,     Historical Introduction
                p. 7-106,   Chronological Register
                p. 7-8,     1700-1775  1. Before the Revolution
                p. 9-11,    1775-1800  2. After the Revolution
                p. 12-20,   1800-1840  3. The Early 19th Century
                p. 21-29,   1840-1860  4. The Middle of the 19th Century
                p. 30-43,   1860-1870  5. The Civil War Decade
                p. 43-51,   1870-1880  6. The Decade after the Civil War
                p. 51-66,   1880-1890  7. The Decade of Artistic Awakening
                p. 66-79,   1890-1900  8. The Closing Decade of the 19th Century
                p. 80-100,  1900-1910  9. The Opening of the 20th Century
                p. 100-106, 1910-1920 10. The Decade of the World War
                p. 107-438, A - Z

   4. 4th ed., A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, by H.C. Colles, in 5 volumes, 1940

   5. 5th ed., A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, by Eric Blom, in 9 volumes, 1954, with Supplementary Volume, 1961, Reprinted 1961, 1973, 1975

   6. 6th ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, by Stanley Sadie in 20 volumes, 1980, Reprinted with minor corrections, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986

8. #xp - Sadie, Stanley   {A} - cover scans
         "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Volume 5: Couraud - Edlund",
         London, U.K.: Macmillan Publishers Limited
         1980, 872 p., ISBN: N/A [individual volumes of this 20 volume set have no separate ISBN or LC], no UPC - From the content of the single volume I own, these books are restricted to classical and opera related musicians only. See #pe the 20 Volume Set

9. #kn - Sadie & Bashford. "The New Grove Dictionary of Opera", 1992   {I}
10. #km 2001 -- Sadie & Tyrrell, "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" (29 volumes) {C}{I}

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