James P. Cassaro

Fields

Musicology, Bibliography, Music of the French Baroque, Opera.

Teaching

Principles of Research and Music Bibliography.

Selected Publications

"Sondheim, Stephen." In Lgbt : Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons : Thomson Gale, 2004.

Lully, Jean Baptiste. Ballet des Saisons : édition de James P. Cassaro. Œuvres complètes. Série I, Ballets et mascarades, v. 6. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 2001.

Gaetano Donizetti: A Guide to Research. Garland reference library of the humanities; v. 1983. Composer resource manuals; v. 51. New York: Routledge., 2000

'Lully's Ballet des Saisons : Manuscript Sources." In Quellenstudien zu Jean-Baptiste Lully. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1999: 159-174.

"Other Musical Chadwicks: John M. and George M. of Central New York," Notes 54/2 (Dec. 1997): 371-418.

Space Utilization in Music Libraries. MLA technical reports, no. 20. Canton, MA: Music Library Association, 1991.

Planning and Caring for Library Audio Facilities. MLA technical reports, no.17. Canton, MA: Music Library Association, 1989.

Papers Read

"Notes as a Collection Development Resource for Music," Music Library Association, Memphis, Tennessee, February 25, 2006.

"The One-Room Schoolhouse: Approaches to Space Utilization Issues in the Theodore M. Finney Music Library, University of Pittsburgh." Music Library Association, Arlington, Va., February 12, 2004.

"A Forgotten Voice Remembered: Frank Lionel Curtis and the American Salon Piano Tradition." Music Department Colloquium Series, University of Pittsburgh, April 28, 2000.

"From The German Turner Ball to The Venerable and Weird Spirit of the Mountain : Regional Nineteenth-Century Composers." Colloquium Series, Cornell University, Music Dept., April 29, 1996.

"Crossing Boundaries: Technology and Standards in Music Libraries." Forging New Communities, joint MLA/TLA/Dance Librarians Committee panel, American Library Association annual meeting, Miami, June 28, 1994.

"Researching Dance in the Music Library." Society of Dance History Scholars, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, February 11, 1994.

"Reflections in a Pool: Lully's Ballet des Saisons and the Court of Louis XIV." Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Washington University, St. Louis, April 23, 1993 & the American Musicological Society, Montréal, November 11, 1993.

"Music Cataloguing and the Future." International Association of Music Libraries, Helsinki, Finland, August 9, 1993.

Activities

Vice-President, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres, 2004-

President, Music Library Association, 2001-2003

Editor, Notes, quarterly journal of the Music Library Association, 2004-

Faculty Coordinator, Music Research Forum

Current Projects

Music, Libraries, and the Academy: Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc. (under contract, fall 2006)