Stephen Sondheim, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

• All I Need Is the Girl
• Anyone Can Whistle
• Everything's Coming Up Roses
• Small World (isn't it?)
• Together Wherever We Go

Research Resources: Stephen Sondheim

• Amazon (publications, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list, awards, hit songs, co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): Stephen Sondheim
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits);
• Internet Off-Broadway Database (off-Broadway productions of songwriter's shows)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• iTunes (recordings and albums featuring xxx songs)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times(articles about or related to the songwriter) The New York Times, August 10, 2011: Sondheim's contribution to the debate over
  the 2011 produciton of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess.
• NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments);
• PBS.org (archive of relevant programs often including audio and/or video segments)
• Sondheim.com (site devoted to all things Sondheim)
• The Stephen Sondheim Reference Guide;
• The Stephen Sondheim Society (includes biography, news about Sondheim, etc.)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Sondheim article)
• Max Wilk. They're Playing Our Song: Conversations with America's Classic Songwriters. New York and Stratford, CT: Easton Studio Press, 2008. (originally published 1973 as They're Playing Our Song: From Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim—The Stories behind the Words and Music of Two Generations) -- chapter on Sondheim
• Stephen Sondheim. "Theater Lyrics." c. 1974. Publ. in Playwrights, lyricists, composers on theater. Ed. Otis L. Guernsey Jr. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1964-74. (Sondheim comments on his own work.)
• David Ewen. American Songwriters
• Gerald Mast. Can't Help Singin' The American Musical on Stage and Screen. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1987 (multiple and extended references to Sondheim).
• Thomas S. Hischak. Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. New York: Praeger, 1991 (pp. 119-135 and other references).
• Stephen Banfield. Sondheim's Broadway Musicals. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
• Geoffrey Block. Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 (The final two chapters of the book are on West Side Story and Sondheim after West Side Story).
• Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball (Eds.), Reading Lyrics, New York: Pantheon Books, 2000 (pp. xx-xx overview plus lyrics to # songs). Read the introduction to this book at NYTimes.com.
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (chapter on Sondheim).
• Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, New York: Routledge, 2006 (multiple references to Sondheim and his songs).
• David Jenness and Don Velsey. Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (more or less a sequel to Wilder's, American Popular Song -- with a chapter "Sondheim and After" as well as multiple other references.
• Wilfred Sheed, The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty, New York: Random House, 2007 (paperback edition, 2008 -- three brief references to Sondheim)
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry, pp. 693-694).
• Mark Eden Horowitz, Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions , 2nd Ed., Scarecrow Press/Library of Congress, 2010.
• Stephen Sondheim. Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes. New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 2010. Ben Brantley. "Sondheim's Rhymes and Reasons." The New York Times. Oct. 22, 2010 (review of Finishing the Hat) Joe Nocera. "Hearing with the Heart." The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2010 (an article about the author's obsession with Sondheim's body of work, but in effect also a review of Finishing the Hat). Paul Simon. "Isn't It Rich?" The New York Times Book Review, October 31, 2010 (review of Finishing the Hat).
• Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany, New York: Alfred A Knoph, 2011.

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