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Má vlast / Smetana ; edited by Hugh Macdonald. Kassel : Bärenreiter, [2024].

15 two-part inventions, BWV 772-786 ; 15 three-part sinfonias / Johann Sebastian Bach ; edited by Ulrich Bartels. Leipzig : C. F. Peters Ltd & Co., [2015]

Turandot : a Chinese fable in two acts after Carlo Gozzi, K 273 / Ferruccio Busoni ; Italian translation by Oriana Previtali Gui ; edited by Frank Reinisch. Wiesbaden : Breitkopf & Härtel, [2024]. Vocal score.

Feritas : for trumpet sextet : 2009 / Reena Esmail. [Pasadena, CA] : A Piece of Sky Music, [2023].

Three arrangements of Ravel and Rossini for violin and piano / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. New York, NY : Carl Fischer, [2021].

Lift : solos for horn by Black composers / Margaret McGillivray, commissioner and editor. [United States?] : Cimarron Music Press, [2023].

Marche fatale : version for ensemble (chamber orchestra): / Helmut Lachenmann. Wiesbaden : Breitkopf & Härtel, [2024].

In memoriam Muhal Richard Abrams : for violin and glockenspiel : 2018 / Tyshawn Sorey. New York : Edition Peters, [2022].

Symphony no. 7 : Leningrad / Dmitri Shostakovich. Berlin : Published by Musikverlag Hans Sikorski GmbH ; London : Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd., [2024].

Trans : for harp and orchestra (2015) / Kaija Saariaho. London : Chester Music, part of WiseMusicGroup, [2023].

Les arts florissans : H. 487, H. 487a / M.-A. Charpentier ; édition scientifique, Sébastien Daucé. Marandeuil : Éditions des Abbesses, [2007].

Gesang der Parzen op. 89 ; edited by Rainer Boss ; Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; English version: Natalia Macfarren. Stuttgart : Carus-Verlag, [2023]

Cabaret duets / Madeleine Dring ; compiled and edited by Wanda Brister. Fayetteville, AR : Classical Vocal Reprints, [2018].

Œuvres pour guitare. Hommages / Alexandre Tansman ; critical edition by Frédéric Zigante. Paris : Durand Editions, 2020.

French operatic arias. Soprano and mezzo-soprano / Christoph Willibald Gluck ; édition de Benoît Dratwicki. Versailles : Centre de musique baroque de Versailles ; Kassel : Bärenreiter-Verlag, [2019].

Selected piano pieces / Modest Moussorgsky. Berlin : Rob. Forberg Musikverlag, [2016].

Singing in German / selections and notes by Mary King. London : Boosey & Hawkes, 2015.

Choral concepts / Donald Neuen ; illustrative material by Piero Bonamico. Belmont, CA : Schirmer/Thomson Learning, [2002]

Baroque studies for modern flute / Elizabeth Walker. [England] : www.wonderfulwinds.com, [2016].

La descente d'Orphee aux enfers : [H. 488] / M.-A. Charpentier ; [révision scientifique, Sébastien Daucé ; révision musicale, Benoît Hartoin]. Marandeuil : Editions des Abbesses, 2004.

Le Rossiniane : opus 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124 : for solo guitar / Mauro Giuliani. [Paris] : Durand Editions Musicales, [2021].

Distant voices : for piano solo / Gao Ping. [Wellington] : SOUNZ, Centre for New Zealand Music = Toi te Arapūoru, [1999].

 

Two boys : an opera in two acts : (2013) / Nico Muhly ; libretto by Craig Lucas. London : St. Rose Music Publishing Co. : Chester Music Ltd., [2021]. Vocal score.

The jazz theory book / by Mark Levine. Petaluma, CA : Sher Music, [1995]. Ebook edition.

Collected verse / Paul Valery ; translated with an introduction and notes by Paul Ryan. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2024.

The Commercial Theater Institute guide to producing plays and musicals / edited by Frederic B. Vogel and Ben Hodges. New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, ©2006.

Asmik Grigorian and Jonas Kaufmann in Puccini's Turandot, live from the Wiener Staatsoper. Stream it for free through Medici TV.

Plays for the plague year / Suzan-Lori Parks. New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2024.

Monsieur Teste / by Paul Valéry ; translated by Charlotte Mandell. New York : New York Review Books, 2025.

Manboobs : a memoir of musicals, visas, hope, and cake / Komail Aijazuddin. New York : Abrams Press, 2024.

The December issue of "Percussive Notes" is available to read online or download as a PDF.

The December issue of Musicals Magazine is out. Read it online in a browser, or--try it, you'll like it!--download it to your tablet or phone using the Exactly app.

Maria Callas, the woman behind the legend / Arianna Huffington. New York : Cooper Square Press ; [Lanham, Md.] : Distributed by National Book Network, 2002. Now available in the Library as both a physical book and an ebook.

Symphony no. 11 : the year 1905 / Shostakovich. Berlin : Sikorski ; London : Boosey & Hawkes, [2023]. Newly revised, corrected, and typeset large score.

Paganini rhapsody : op. 43, for piano and orchestra / Sergej Rachmaninow ; edited by Norbert Gertsch ; fingering by Marc-André Hermelin ; piano reduction by Heiko Stralendorff. München : G. Henle Verlag ; Wiesbaden : Breitkopf & Härtel, [2023]

Sonatine for bassoon and piano / Alexandre Tansman ; historical introduction and notes on interpretation, Alexandre Ouzounoff. Paris : Durand Editions Musicales, [2023]. Score + part.

Piano concerto in G major / Maurice Ravel ; edited by Peter Jost ; piano reduction by Johannes Umbreit ; fingering by Pascal Rogé. München : G. Henle Verlag, [2023].

Horn concerto no. 2 for horn and strings / Malcolm Arnold ; piano reduction [by Julian Elloway]. London : Novello, [2021?]. Score + 2 parts.

Concerto for viola and orchestra : piano reduction / Grazyna Bacewicz. Krakow : PWM, Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, [2023]. Score + part.

Morceau de concert opus 94 : for horn with piano accompaniment / Camille Saint-Saens ; historical introduction Edmond Lemaître ; notes on interpretation Daniel Catalanotti. Paris : Durand Editions Musicales, [2023]. Score + part.

Glances/I don't belong here : for string quartet / Hannah Kendall. Berlin : G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen und Musikverlag GmbH, [2024]. Score + 4 parts.

Don Quixote : ballet in three acts, six scenes and a prologue / by Marius Petipa ; revised by Alexander Gorsky and Rostislav Zakharov (Moscow version) ; [music by] Ludwig Minkus ; compiled and introduced by Robert Ignatius Letellier ; piano score. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2010].

Concerto for piano and orchestra / Ravel ; edited by Douglas Woodfull-Harris Kassel : Bärenreiter, [2023]. Large score.

Two boys : an opera in two acts : (2013) / Nico Muhly ; libretto by Craig Lucas. London : St. Rose Music Publishing Co. : Chester Music Ltd., [2021]. Vocal score.

James : a novel / Percival Everett. New York : Doubleday, [2024]. National Book Award for fiction.

Sonate, cello and piano / Claude Debussy ; historical introduction and notes on interpretation, Emmanuelle Bertrand. Paris : Durand Editions Musicales, [2023]. Score + part.

Le villi : opera ballo in two acts by Fernando Fontana / Giacomo Puccini. Milano : Ricordi, [2021]. Reduction for voice and piano based on the critical edition of the orchestral score / edited by Martin Deasy.

How Sondheim can change your life / Richard Schoch. New York : Atria Books, 2024.

Recording Broadway : a life in cast albums / Thomas Z. Shepard, Gayden Wren. Essex, Connecticut : Applause Theatre & Cinema, 2024.

The city and its uncertain walls / Haruki Murakami. [S.I.] : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2024.

La mer : trois esquisses symphoniques / Claude Debussy ; commentary by Denis Herlin, Mathias Auclair. Kassel : Bärenreiter, [2024]. Facsimile reproduction of the autograph score, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Robert Schumann's Leipzig chamber works : music in the great stream of time / Julie Hedges Brown. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024].

The Spamalot diaries / by Eric Idle. New York : Crown, [2024].

Women writing musicals : the legacy that the history books left out / Jennifer Ashley Tepper. Essex, Connecticut : Applause Theatre & Cinema, [2024].

Queer / William Burroughs ; edited and with an Introduction by Oliver Harris. New York : Grove Press, 2022.

Nights at the red Steinway : adventures in jazz piano, from The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere / Will Friedwald. Essex, Connecticut : Backbeat, 2024.

Sergei Prokofiev / Christina Guillaumier. London : Reaktion Books, 2024.

Dardanus : version de mai 1744, versions d'avril 1744, 1760 et 1763 (Compléments). Tauxigny, France : Société Jean-Philippe Rameau, [2020]. Vocal score.

Orbital / Samantha Harvey. New York : Grove Press, 2023. 2024 winner of the Booker Prize.

Black writers of the founding era, 1760-1800 / James G. Basker, editor with Nicole Seary ; foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed. New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2023].

The Brothers Grimm : a biography / Ann Schmiesing. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.

On civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt ; introduction by Roger Berkowitz. New York : Library of America, 2024.

Symphony no. 5 / Shostakovich. Berlin : Sikorski ; London : Boosey & Hawkes, 2024. A new engraving of the full score.

Concerto pour violon op. X no 5 / Jean-Marie Leclair ; édition de Louis Castelain ; réduction pour clavier de Fabre Guin. Versailles : Éditions du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, [2019]. Score + part.

The listeners / Jordan Tannahill. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : HarperAvenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., [2021].

Faust : opera in five acts : version with recitatives ; piano reduction based on the Urtext of the edition "L'Opéra francÌŠais" by Karl-Heinz Müller. Kassel ; Basel ; London ; New York ; Praha : Bärenreiter-Verlag, [2020]. Vocal score.

Sonata in C major op. 102 no. 1 for piano and violoncello. Edited by Jens Dufner ; fingering of piano part by Ian Fountain ; with supplementary violoncello part maked by David Geringas. München : G. Henle Verlag, [2020]. Score + 2 parts.

Jim Crow : voices from a century of struggle. Part One: 1876-1919, Reconstruction to the Red Summer / Tyina L. Steptoe, editor. United States of America : Library of America, [2024].

South Side impresarios : how race women transformed Chicago's classical music scene / Samantha Ege. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2024.

A man of much importance : the art and life of Terrence McNally / Christopher Byrne. Essex, Connecticut : Applause, [2023].

Right this way : a history of the audience / Robert Viagas. Essex, Connecticut : Applause, Theatre & Cinema Books, [2023].

One hand at a time : 19 pieces for piano, for left-hand or right-hand only / compiled by Henry Gale. [New York] : American Composers Alliance, 2022.

When the violin : for unaccompanied violin / Reena Esmail. [Los Angeles, California] : A Piece of Sky Music, [2022].

Meditation on "America the beautiful" : for solo piano / Huang Ruo. [New York, New York] : PSNY, [2021].

Balm : for solo piano / Courtney Bryan. [New York, NY] : Boosey & Hawkes, [2024],

Giustino : opera in tre atti : HWV 37 / Georg Friedrich Händel ; herausgegeben von Wolfgang Hirschmann. Kassel ; Basel ; London ; New York ; Praha : Bärenreiter, 2023.

Danziger Fanfare : für Blechbläser, Pauken und Schlagzeug = for brass instruments, timpani and percussion : (2008) / Krzysztof Penderecki. Mainz ; New York : Schott, [2011]. Score + 17 parts.

Rusalka : opera in four acts, six tableaux / A. Dargomyzhsky ; libretto by the composer after the A.S. Pushkin's verse play of the same title. Moskva : Muzyka, [2016]. Vocal score.

Fantasies of Nina Simone / Jordan Alexander Stein. Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

My recollections / by Jules Emile Frederic Massenet ; the authorized translation done at the master's express desire by his friend H. Villiers Barnett. Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press, [1970]

New perspectives on Handel's music : essays in honour of Donald Burrows / edited by David Vickers. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2022.

Herscht 07769 : Florian Herscht's Bach novel / László Krasznahorkai ; translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet. New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2024.

Phantom / book by Arthur Kopit ; music and lyrics by Maury Yeston ; based on the novel, the phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux. London ; New York : Samuel French, [1992].

Here at last! The new edition of the Köchel catalog of Mozart's works, edited by Neal Zaslaw.

Postgraduate research in music : a step-by-step guide to writing a thesis / Victoria Rogers. New York : Oxford University Press, [2024].

Essays in Zen Buddhism, first series / Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. New York : Grove Press, [1961],

Manual of Zen Buddhism / Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. New York : Grove Press, [1960].

Chinese émigré composers and divergent modernisms : Chen Yi and Zhou Long / Mia Chung. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Opera, a history of the impossible genre / Jeffrey Langford. New York, NY : Routledge, 2025. Unrestricted ebook edition.

Dark with excessive bright : concerto for contrabass and string orchestra (2018) / Missy Mazzoli. New York, New York : G. Schirmer, Inc., [2022]. Score + 1 part.

Theatre of dreams : the glorious Central City Opera : celebrating 75 years. Denver, Colo. : Central City Opera House Association, [2007]. Gift of Catherine Malfitano.

Archaeology of the political unconscious : theatre and opera in East Berlin, 1967-1977 / Jennifer Williams. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

D.E.A.T.H. : für acht Lautsprecher = for eight loudspeakers / Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. Hamburg : Sikorski, [2010]. Score + CD.

Piano sonata / Philip Glass. Dunvagen Music, 2024. Now available in the NKODA app.

The tenderness of silent minds : Benjamin Britten and his War requiem / Martha C. Nussbaum. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024].

Every valley : the desperate lives and troubled times that made Handel's Messiah / by Charles King. New York : Doubleday, 2024.

The Cambridge companion to Gilbert and Sullivan / edited by David Eden and Meinhard Saremba. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2011.

The Mahler erasures : a novel / John Kinsella. Dallas : Dalkey Archive Press, 2024.

Schubert's piano / edited by Matthew Gardner, Christine Martin. Cambridge University Press 2024.

The marvelous illusion : Morton Feldman's the Viola in my life I-IV / Thomas DeLio. New York : Oxford University Press, [2024].