Bibliography

Blue Earth County Historical Society

Heritage Center
415 Cherry Street
Mankato, MN  56001
(507) 345-5566

This organization has kept many newspaper clippings, etc., from Clara’s hometown. I owe them a large debt of gratitude for preserving so much information.

Web Sites

• Women Song Composers: A Listing of Songs Published in the United States and England, ca. 1890–1930
• ASCAP’s Ace on the Web

Periodicals

• Newspaper Article (Society Column?), Mankato Free Press?, 1926
• I Remember Mankato (article by Ms. Edwards for Mankato’s centennial), Mankato Free Press?, 1952
• Newspaper Column by Ken Berg, Mankato Free Press?, 1974
• Etude, March 1933, p.148  (Very brief, just a picture and a few sentences.)
• Etude, January 1948, p.24 (An interview with Ms. Edwards)
• Obituary: New York Times, Jan. 19 1974, p.34 and Jan. 20 p.57
• Obituary: Variety, Jan. 30, 1974, p.62
• Songs You Love to Sing.  New York?: G. Schirmer, 1931?  This is essentially an advertisement. Thematic catalog of 25 songs, with song text, small photograph and biographical sketch of composer, musical excerpt.

Brief Mentions in Books

• Apel, Paul H.  Music of the Americas North and South.  New York: Vantage Press, 1958, p.154
• Barnes, E.N.C.  American Women in Creative Music: Tuning in on American Music.  Washington D.C.: Music Education Publications, 1936.
• Laurence, Anya.  Women of Notes: 1000 Women Composers Born Before 1900.  New York: Richards Rosen Press Inc., 1978, p.19
• Howard, John Tasker.  Our American Music.  Crowell, 1946, p.627

Encyclopedias / Bibliographies

• Norton Groves Dictionary of Women Composers
• The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (same article as Norton Groves above.)
• Grattan, Virginia L.  American Women Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1993
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary (2nd ed., 1952, has the most information.)
• Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (4th ed., 1940, has the most information.)
• The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. (9th ed., 1964.)
• Hixon, Donald L. and Donald A. Hennessee.  Women in Music: a Biobibliography.  Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975.

Singer’s Guides

• Villamil, Victoria E.  A Singer’s Guide to the American Art Song 1870–1980. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Metuchen, N.J., & London 1993.
• Lawhon, Sharon Leding.  “A Performer’s Guide to Selected 20th Century Sacred Solo Art Songs Composed by Women from the United States of America.” D.M.A. thesis, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1993.