Hitchcock, H(ugh) Wiley

▪ 2008

      American musicologist

born Sept. 28, 1923, Detroit, Mich.

died Dec. 5, 2007, New York, N.Y.

was a founding director (1971–93) of the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and the coeditor (with Stanley Sadie) of the four-volume New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986), which was considered a premiere reference work because of its inclusiveness. Another notable work and vital college text was Music in the United States: A Historical Introduction (1969, rev. 2000).

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