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

• I'll Be Around
• It's So Peaceful in the Country
• Lady Sings the Blues
• Trouble Is a Man
• While We're Young

Research Resources: Alec Wilder

• alecwildermusicandlife.com (biography, bibliography, song and instrumental discograhies, etc)
• Amazon (publications, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• Classical.net (overview/biography)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list, awards, hit songs, co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• University of Illinois Press (overview of book on Wilder/his musical career)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): Alec Wilder
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• iTunes (recordings and albums featuring xxx songs)
• jstor.org ("More Clues to a Life: The Alec Wilder Archive at the Eastman School of Music" by David Demsey; also, see below)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• NPRMusic.org (February 17, 2007 A brief celebration of the life and work of American composer Alec Wilder, born 100 years ago).
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Alec Wilder article)
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 (Wilder's classic study of American song during the first half of the 20th Century).
• Nancy Zeltsman, ed., Alec Wilder: An Introduction to the Man and His Music, (Newton, MA: Margun Music, 1991 (based on radio interview with Marian McPartland, includes complete list of Wilder's works and a discography).
• David Demsey and Ronald Prather, Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography, Greenwood Press, 1993 (Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 45).
• Desmond Stone, Alec Wilder in Spite of Himself: A Life of the Composer, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry pp. 543-544).
• Alec Wilder, Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, Annotated Edition (Edited and with supplemtary material by David Demsey), Eastman Studies in Music, Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005 (original edition, 1975).
• David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (sub-chapter on Wilder as songwriter plus multiple other references to him).

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