Fredric Woodbridge Wilson

Selected Publications

An Introduction to the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas from the Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York: Morgan Library, 1989).
Exhibition companion book and collection guide, with synopses of the Savoy Operas.

The Complete Savoy Operas (London: Folio Society, 1994 , 2 vols.).
Reading edition of the libretti of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, based on early sources, with introduction.

The Mikado: A Centenary Celebration (New York: Morgan Library, 1985).
Exhibition checklist. Recipient of first place award for exhibition catalogues from the Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 1986.

Reflected Light: The Story of the Savoy Theatre (London: Savoy Theatre, 1993).
Chapter, "The Savoy Operas."

In August Company: The Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993).
Chapter, "The Gilbert and Sullivan Collection."

The Gilbert and Sullivan Birthday Book (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Cahill & Co., 1984).
Gift book.

Gallus Carniolus in Europska Renesansa (Ljubljana: Slovenian Society for Musicology, 1992).
"Index to the Opus Musicum of Jacob Handl Gallus (1550-1591)," catalogue of the works of the Renaissance composer, based on sixteenth century sources.

The W. S. Gilbert Society Journal (London, Autumn 1986).
Checklist, "The W. S. Gilbert Papers in the British Library. "

Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia: Victorian Society in America, Spring 1990).
Article, "Gilbert and Sullivan in America."

American Puppetry (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2004). Edited by Phyllis Dircks.
Chapter, "Puppets and Related Material in the Harvard Theatre Collection."

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London: Macmillan Press, 1992).
Entries (about 16), including biographical entries on Richard D'Oyly Carte, Francis Cowley Burnand, and Thomas Reed, and genre entries on Burlesque and Extravaganza.

The Music Educators Journal (Reston, Va.: Music Educators National Conference, March 1976).
Article, "The Neglected Round."

Program notes and articles for several opera companies, including Kentucky Opera (Louisville), Glimmerglass Opera (Cooperstown, N.Y.), New York State Performing Arts Center (Purchase), Covent Garden Festival of Opera (London), Blue Hill Troupe (New York), Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (Cambridge, Mass.), and Boston Academy of Music (Boston).

Choral music editions and arrangements (about 20), published by Broude Brothers Limited, Roger Dean Publications, Allaire Music Publications, and Shark River Editions. Among them are the following editions:

Antonio Lotti. Mass in A Major (Dayton, Ohio: Roger Dean, 1984). The first edition based on the autograph manuscript in the Morgan Library.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Laudate Dominum (Spring Lake, N.J.: Allaire Music Publications, 1981). Recipient of a first-place award from the Music Publishers Association and the American Choral Directors Association for excellence in editing early music, 1984.

Jacob Handl. Three settings of Resonet in laudibus (Dayton, Ohio: Roger Dean, 1985).

Jacob Handl. Ascendit Deus, motet from the Opus musicum (Spring Lake, N.J.: Allaire Music Publications, 1982). Recipient of a first-place award from the Music Publishers Association and the American Choral Directors Association for excellence in editing early music, 1984.

Jacob Handl. Pater noster, motet from the Opus musicum (Spring Lake, N.J.: Allaire Music Publications, 1983). Recipient of a first-place award from the Music Publishers Association and the American Choral Directors Association for excellence in editing early music, 1984.

Orlando di Lasso. Lavabis me, from the Penitential Psalms (Spring Lake, N.J.: Allaire Music Publications, 1983). Recipient of a first-place award from the Music Publishers Association and the American Choral Directors Association for excellence in editing early music, 1984.

Thomas Ravenscroft. Five pieces from The Whole Book of Psalms (New York: Broude Brothers, 1982).

Arthur Sullivan. Earth Was Made for Man's Delight, madrigal from Haddon Hall (Dayton, Ohio: Roger Dean, 1984).

Thomas Weelkes. Five madrigals from Ayeres or Phantasticke Spirites (New York: Broude Brothers, 1983).

Choral music arrangements (about 25), published by Warner Brothers Music, as well as unpublished studio arrangements.

DataKit. (1985-1989).
Author of a set of 40 original computer programs for text processing, formatting, and analysis. Distributed through the Northeast Association for Computing in the Humanities.

New Technology for the Research Library and Museum (1993).
Report (about 120 pp.), preparatory to computerization of cataloguing and other operations at the Morgan Library, based on research funded by a grant to the Morgan Library from the Arcana Foundation.

The I.B.M. Personal Computer Handbook (Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1983).
Chapter, "Data Base Design."

Personal Computer Age Magazine (1982-1984).
Technical articles and software reviews (about 12).