John Graziano, general editor Recent Researches in American Music encompasses a wide variety of genres, styles, and epochs that define the music of our country. Early musical theater is an important part of the history of American music.
Several volumes are devoted to sacred music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Other volumes in the Recent Researches series fill gaps in the repertoire of mid-nineteenth century music in America. Loeffler's highly individual songs, many never before published, are settings of the French symbolists. Among the volumes issued in 1999 are Amy Beach's Sea-Fairies, Opus 59, Charles Sanford Skilton's Sun Bride, and George F. Bristow's Oratorio of Daniel, Opus 42. Recent Researches in American Music has begun to fill some of the gaps that have persisted in the music of the United States. Nevertheless, many other works, in a wide variety of genres, deserve publication in this series.