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MUSA (Music of the United States of America) is a forty-volume series of critical editions of American music, representing the full range of genres and idioms that have contributed to American musical culture.[1] It was established by the American Musicological Society in 1988[2] and is hosted by the University of Michigan at its American Music Institute. The criteria used in developing MUSA volumes are:

• That the series as a whole reflect breadth and balance among eras, genres, composers and performance media
• That it avoid music already available through other channels, duplicating only where new editions of available music seem essential
• That works in the series be representative, chosen to reflect particular excellence or to represent notable achievements in this country's highly varied music history[3]

MUSA receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is published by A-R Editions of Madison, Wisconsin.[4] The founding editor-in-chief of MUSA is Richard Crawford, and the current editors-in-chief are Mark Clague (University of Michigan) and Gayle Magee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

Publications

• MUSA 1: Music for Small Orchestra (1926); Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano (1929) by Ruth Crawford
• MUSA 2: Early Songs, 1907–1914 by Irving Berlin
• MUSA 3: Quartet for Strings (In One Movement), Opus 89 by Amy Beach
• MUSA 4: Collected Works by Daniel Read
• MUSA 5: The Music and Scripts of In Dahomey by Will Marion Cook and Paul Laurence Dunbar and others
• MUSA 6: Psalmody and Secular Songs by Timothy Swan
• MUSA 7: Collected Songs, 1873-1896 by Harrigan and Braham
• MUSA 8: Keyboard and Chamber Music, 1937–1994 by Lou Harrison
• MUSA 9: Barstow – Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California (1968 Version) by Harry Partch
• MUSA 10: Performances in Transcription, 1927–1943 based on recordings by Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
• MUSA 11: Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements
• MUSA 12: 129 Songs by Charles Ives
• MUSA 13: Quintette for Piano and String Quartet by Leo Ornstein
• MUSA 14: American Victorian Choral Music by Dudley Buck
• MUSA 15: Selected Piano Solos, 1928–1941 based on recordings by Earl "Fatha" Hines
• MUSA 16: Complete Wind Chamber Music by David Moritz Michael
• MUSA 17: Surviving Orchestral Music by Charles Hommann
• MUSA 18: Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein
• MUSA 19: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 by Florence Price
• MUSA 20: Songs from "A New Circle of Voices": The Sixteenth Annual Pow-Wow at UCLA
• MUSA 21: Six Marches by John Philip Sousa
• MUSA 22: The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook
• MUSA 23: Symphony no. 2 in D minor, op. 24 ("Jullien") by George Frederick Bristow
• MUSA 24: Sam Morgan's Jazz Band: Complete Recorded Works in Transcription based on recordings by Sam Morgan
• MUSA 25: Selected Works for Big Band, by Mary Lou Williams
• MUSA 26: Machito and His Afro-Cubans: Selected Transcriptions by Machito
• MUSA 27: Di goldene kale (1923) by Joseph Rumshinsky
• MUSA 28: The Padrone by George Whitefield Chadwick
• MUSA 29: Shuffle Along (1921) by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle

References

External links

• Official website
• Music of the United States of America at A-R Editions

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