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Miguel J. Ramirez. Anton Bruckner and the reception of his music: a history of dichotomies and controversies. Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2024.
Ebook: download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Ofer Gazit. Jazz migrations: movement as place among New York musicians. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Mâkhi Xenakis. Iannis Xenakis: a moving father. Paris, France : Uteurp, 2024.

Jesse Rifkin. This must be the place: music, community, and vanished spaces in New York City. Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, 2023.

Ben West. The American musical: evolution of an art form. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024.

Following the score: the Ravel trilogy. Edited by Michael Pinchbeck and Ollie Smith. Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2024.

Emily Garside. Seasons of love: why Rent matters. Essex, Connecticut : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2023.

Ricky Ian Gordon. Seeing through: a chronicle of sex, drugs, and opera. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

David Schroeder. From the minds of jazz musicians: conversations with the creative and inspired. New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-2024.

Vessela Stoyanova, Jeff Perry. Berklee contemporary music theory. Boston, MA : Berklee Press, 2024.

Ferdinand David. Concertino in Eâ™­ major op. 4 for trombone and orchestra. Edited by Sebastian Krause; piano reduction by Christoph Sobanski. Piano reduction; score and part. G. Henle Verlag, 2021.

John McNeil, Ryan Nielsen. The classroom guide to jazz improvisation. New York : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Marina Harss. The boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's life in ballet. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Robinson McClellan. Crafting the Ballets russes: music, dance, design : the Robert Owen Lehman collection. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2024.

Rupert Christiansen. Diaghilev's empire: how the Ballets russes enthralled the world. New York : Picador, 2023.

Queer ear: remaking music theory. Edited by Gavin S. K. Lee. New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Ready to stream through the Met Opera on Demand: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, with Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Bernheim, and Will Liverman, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Simon Morrison. Tchaikovsky's empire: a new life of Russia's greatest composer. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2024. Unrestricted, DRM-free De Gruyter ebook.

The September issue of The Strad is now available to read online in a browser, or to download using the Exactly app.

The September 2 issue of The New Yorker is available to read online or to download using the Flipster app.

Paul de Barros. Shall we play that one together?: the life and art of jazz piano legend Marian McPartland, with a new preface. University of South Carolina Press, 2024. Ebook: download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Gabriel García Márquez Until August. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean; edited by Cristóbal Pera. Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. Ebook: download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Richard J. Evans. Hitler's people: the faces of the Third Reich. New York : Penguin Press, 2024.

Arianne Johnson Quinn. British and American musical theatre exchanges in the West End (1924-1970): the "Americanization" of Drury Lane. Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Tobias Taddeo Hermans. Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner as music critics. De Gruyter, 2021.

James Kaplan. 3 shades of blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the lost empire of cool. Penguin Press, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Doug Fullington and Marian Smith. Five ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg : Giselle, Paquita, Le Corsaire, La Bayadère, Raymonda. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Erinn E. Knyt. Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations reimagined. Oxford University Press, 2024. Ebsco ebook. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser

Harriet Constable. The instrumentalist: a novel. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Ebsco ebook. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Sebastian Farr. Death on the down beat: an orchestral fantasy of detection. Poisoned Pen Press, 2023. Ebsco ebook. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Jaye J. Elster. How to swing in musical theatre: a guide to covering the ensemble. Routledge, 2024. Unrestricted, DRM-free Taylor & Francis ebook.

Berlioz and his world. Edited by Francesca Brittan and Sarah Hibberd. University of Chicago Press, 2024. From this summer's Bard Music Festival. Ebsco ebook. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Schiller's literary prose works: new translations and critical essays. Edited by Jeffrey L. High. Camden House, 2008. Ebsco ebook. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Matthew Aucoin. 3 arias from Eurydice. Libretto: Sarah Ruhl. Vocal score. Associated Music Publishers, Inc., 2022.

Adolphus Hailstork. Three spirituals for orchestra. Full score. Theodore Presser Company, 2020.

Christopher Kimbell. Tradition, community, and nationhood in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Routledge, 2024. Read or download as an unrestricted, DRM-free Taylor & Francis ebook.

Robert Sholl. Olivier Messiaen: a critical biography. Reaktion Books, 2024.

Mike Smith. In with the in crowd: popular jazz in 1960s Black America. University Press of Mississippi, 2024.

Howard Rappaport. Arnold & Igor: a novel. Fomite, 2024. [Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.]

Therese Muxeneder. Arnold Schönberg & Karl Kraus. Arnold Schönberg Center, 2024.

Antonín DvoÅ™ák. Rusalka: lyric fairy tale in three acts, op. 114. Edited Robert Simon, Jonás Hájek. Full score. Bärenreiter, 2023.

Karlheinz Schüffler. Proportions and their music: what fractions and tone sequences have to do with each other. Springer, 2022.

Wanda Brister & Jay Rosenblatt. Madeleine Dring: lady composer. Clemson University Press, 2020. Unrestricted, DRM-free Oxford ebook.

Bob Suren. Weird music that goes on forever: a punk's guide to loving jazz. Microcosm Publishing, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Timothy Cheek. Rusalka: a performance guide with translations and pronunciation. Scarecrow Press, 2013. Unrestricted, DRM-free ebook.

New in Met Opera on Demand: Lise Davidsen in Verdis' La forza del destino.

Messiaen in context. Edited by Robert Sholl. Cambridge University Press, 2024. Unrestricted ebook edition.

Walter Frisch. Harold Arlen and his songs. Oxford University Press, 2024. Unrestricted ebook edition.

Charles Ives and his world. Edited by J. Peter Burkholder. Princeton University Press, 1996. Now available both as a paperback and as an ebook.

Peter Alexander Thoegersen. Polytempic polymicrotonal music. Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2022. Unrestricted ebook edition.

Molly Gebrian. Learn faster, perform better: a musician's guide to the neuroscience of practicing. Oxford University Press, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

The August issue of Jazzwise magazine is available to read online or download using the Exactly app.

Rikky Rooksby. How to write chord sequences: a harmony sourcebook for songwriters. Backbeat Books, 2022. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Nina Svetlanova. The art of teaching beginners: lecture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1997. Watch now through Mediaspace.

Nicolás J. F. Puyané. Liszt recomposed: exploring intertextual fluidity in song. Boydell and Brewer. 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.
 

Chaya Czernowin. Irrational: for baritone, bass clarinet, trumpet and trombone. Score + 4 parts. Schott Music, 2022.

The September issue of Opera/Opera News has been published. Read it in a browser, or download it to your tablet or phone each month using the Exactly app.

Peter Franklin. Britten experienced: modernism, musicology and sentiment. Routledge, 2024. Unrestricted Taylor & Francis ebook.

Judith Kuhn. Shostakovich in dialogue: form, imagery and ideas in quartets 1-7. Routledge, 2017. Unrestricted Taylor & Francis ebook.

Adam Wachter. Your rep book: how to find, choose, and prepare successful audition songs. Methuen Drama, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Harp studies. II: world harp traditions. Helen Lawlor and Sandra Joyce, editors. Four Courts Press, 2024.

Javier Suárez-Pajares, Walter Aaron Clark. A light in the darkness: the music and life of Joaquín Rodrigo. Foreword by Julian Lloyd Webber; translation and editing by Nelson Orringer. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.

Amanda Johnston. English and German diction for singers: a comparative approach. Third edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Richard Strauss. Acht Gedichte, Opus 10. Edited by Annette Oppermann. G. Henle Verlag, 2022.

Magnus Lindberg. Piano album. Boosey & Hawkes, 2017.

The notebooks of Sonny Rollins. Edited by Sam V. H. Reese. New York Review Books, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Watch Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Freitag," from his seven-day opera "Licht," live at the Opéra de Lille in 2023, through our subscription to Medici TV.

Dance in musical theatre: a history of the body in movement. Edited by Dustyn Martincich and Phoebe Rumsey. Methuen Drama, 2023. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Sofia Moshevich. Dmitri Shostakovich, pianist. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. Unrestricted De Gruyter ebook.

Johann Sebastian Bach. Harpsichord concerto no. 3 in D major, BWV 1054. Edited by Maren Minuth, Norbert Müllemann; piano reduction by Johannes Umbreit; fingering by Michael Schneidt. G. Henle Verlag, 2022.

Bertolt Brecht. The threepenny opera. Foreword by Nadine Gordimer; introduction by Norm Roessler; translated and edited with an introduction by Ralph Manheim and John Willett. Penguin Books, 2007.

Aimé Césaire. The collected poetry. University of California Press, 2021. Unrestricted De Gruyter ebook.

Roberto Ignacio Díaz. Latin America and the transports of opera: fragments of a transatlantic discourse. Vanderbilt University Press, 2023. Unrestricted JSTOR ebook.

Marina Frolova-Walker and Jonathan Walker. Shostakovich's Symphony no. 5. Oxford University Press, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Jacob Hardesty. The jazz problem: education and the battle for morality during the jazz age. State University of New York Press, 2023. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Richard Parncutt. Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality. The MIT Press, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Michael R. Dodds. From modes to keys in early modern music theory. Oxford University Press, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Abigail Shupe. War and death in the music of George Crumb: a crisis of collective memory. Routledge, 2022.

Janet Tennant. It's a drag: cross-dressing in performance. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2022. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Michael Fuchs and Bradley Jenson. Bach's St. John passion for the twenty-first century: musical and theological perspectives. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

Douglas J. Cohen. How to survive a killer musical: agony and ecstasy on the road to Broadway. Applause, 2023. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Michael Pagliaro. Flute, how it works: a practical guide to flute ownership. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Michael J. Pagliaro. The oboe, how it works: a practical guide to oboe ownership. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Michael J. Pagliaro. The clarinet, how it works: a practical guide to clarinet ownership. Rowman & LIttlefield, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Michael J. Pagliaro. The saxophone, how it works: a practical guide to saxophone ownership. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Michael J. Pagliaro. The bassoon, how it works: a practical guide to bassoon ownership. Rowman & LIttlefield, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Nathan Link. A poetics of Handel's operas. Oxford University Press, Inc., 2023. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Stephen Graham. Becoming noise music: style, aesthetics and history. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Arnold Whittall. Schoenberg: 'night music', Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung. Cambridge University Press, 2024. Unrestricted Cambridge ebook.

Neil T. Smith. Mathias Spahlinger. Intellect Books Ltd, 2021. Ebsco ebook. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Rupert Holmes. Murder your employer: the McMasters guide to homicide. Illustrations by Anna Louizos. Avid Reader Press, 2023. Ebsco ebook. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Justin Maxwell. The playwright's toolbox: exercises from 56 contemporary dramatists on designing, building, and refurbishing your plays. Applause, 2024. Faculty member Aaron Ricciardi is one of the contributors. The Library has it both in paperback and as a DRM-free ebook.

William Farina. Florence Price: the life, compositions and influence of a Black American composer. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Ana P. Sánchez-Rojo. Music and modernity in Enlightenment Spain. Boydell & Brewer, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

 

Wendy D. LeBorgne. The vocal athlete. Plural Publishing Inc., 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

 

Hamilton, history and hip-hop : essays on an American musical. Edited by Kevin J. Wetmore. McFarland & Company, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Lin-Manuel Miranda collection [vocal selections]. Hal Leonard, 2022. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Matt Miller. AI for educators: learning strategies, teacher efficiencies, and a vision for an artificial intelligence future. Ditch That Textbook, 2023.

Vanessa Volmann. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton: silenced women's voices and founding mothers of color: a critical race theory counterstory. Peter Lang, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Barry Cooper. The creation of Beethoven's nine symphonies. Boydell and Brewer, 2024. Download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

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