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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].

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 franc̦ais" 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].

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

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].

Italian opera singing at the time of verismo : the invention of the modern voice / Barbara Gentili. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2024.

The cultural politics of opera, 1720-1742 : the era of Walpole, Pope and Handel / Thomas McGeary. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Pres, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, [2024].

Quantum mechanics and avant-garde music : shadows of the void / Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin. Cham : Springer, 2024.

Leonard Bernstein in context / edited by Elizabeth Wells. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024. Unrestricted ebook.

Brassroots democracy : maroon ecologies and the jazz commons / Benjamin Barson. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2024].

Mondrian : his life, his art, his quest for the absolute / Nicholas Fox Weber. New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2024.

Music & joy : lessons on the good life / Daniel K.L. Chua. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2024].

2024 Nobel Prize winner. The vegetarian : a novel / Han Kang ; translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith. New York : Hogarth, 2016.

A new philosophy of opera / Yuval Sharon. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2024]

The artist's reality: philosophies of art / Mark Rothko ; edited and with an introduction by Christopher Rothko ; afterword by Makoto Fujimura. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023. DRM-free JSTOR ebook.

Pat Metheny : stories beyond words / Bob Gluck. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Read the November issue of Opera / Opera News in a browser, or download it to your phone or tablet.

Hungarian rhapsody no. 4 / Franz Liszt ; preface by Mária Eckhardt ; fingering by Vincenzo Maltempo. München : G. Henle Verlag, [2023]

Musical theatre education and training in the 21st century / Jessica O'Bryan, Scott Harrison. New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Jazz and American culture / edited by Michael Borshuk. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2024.

Semele : musical drama in three acts : HWV 58 / Händel ; edited by Mark Risinger ; piano reduction by Andreas Köhs. Kassel : Bärenreiter, [2023]. "Supplementary edition to Georg Friedrich Händel, Hallische Händel-Ausgabe." Vocal score.

Polyrhythm : the Hildebrandt method / David Hildebrandt. Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2024].

Unlocking meaning in art song : a singer's guide to practical analysis using Schubert songs / Beverly Stein. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2024.

Living the dream : building a sustainable career in the performing arts / Kirstin Chávez and Johnathon Pape. London ; New York : Routledge, 2024.

Béla Bartók's six string quartets in their new critical edition--scores and parts--are now available to view and to download, freely, easily, and legally(!) through the Henle Library App.

Exploring English lyrics: selection and pronunciation of English art song repertoire / Cheri Montgomery and Allen Henderson. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. DRM-free ebook.

Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism / Fredric Jameson. Durham : Duke University Press, 1991. Unrestricted, DRM-free ebook.

New in Digital Theatre+: Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's musical "Titanic," in the 2023 production at the New Victoria Theatre, Wokin.

Orpheus in the underworld : essays on music and its mediation / Theodor W. Adorno ; translated by Douglas Robertson. London ; New York : Seagull Press, 2024.

Contemporary Chinese art songs. Book 2, Heart whispers / compiled by Mei Zhong. Fayetteville, AR : Classical Vocal Reprints, [2019].

Swing symphony : for jazz band & orchestra / Wynton Marsalis. [United States] : Wynton, [2020].

Mozart, genius, and the possibilities of art / Edmund J Goehring. Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2024.

Eight symphonic masterworks of the nineteenth century : a study guide for conductors / Leonard Slatkin. Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2024. Ebook: download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

Subito con forza : for orchestra / Unsuk Chin. Full score. London : Boosey & Hawkes, [2022].

Church Street serenade : for string orchestra / Adolphus Hailstork. [King of Prussia, Pennsylvania] : Theodore Presser Company, [2017]

Dowland / K. Dawn Grapes. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Ebook: download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

This midnight hour : for orchestra / Anna Clyne. New York, NY : Boosey & Hawkes, [2022]

L'Orfeo / Claudio Monteverdi ; edizione critica di Anna Maria Vacchelli ; testo poetico di Ottavio Rinuccini. Cremona : Fondazione Claudio Monteverdi, 2016. Vocal score.

Say it with a beautiful song : the art and craft of the great American songbook / Michael Lasser and Harmon Greenblatt. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2024]

The works of Kurt Weill : transformations and reconfigurations in 20th-century music / edited by Naomi Graber and Marida Rizzuti. Turnhout : Brepols, 2023.

Figured bass accompaniment in Europe / edited by Livio Ticli. Turnhout : Brepols, 2023.

Harmonic development and contrapuntal techniques for the jazz pianist : an imaginative approach / Gary Motley. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

The early trombone : a catalogue of music / edited by Howard T. Weiner, Charlotte A. Leonard, D. Linda Pearse. Turnhout : Brepols, [2023]

Rusalka : lyric fairy tale in three acts, op. 114. New Urtext edition. Vocal score. Kassel : Bärenreiter, [2023].

Glitter and concrete : a cultural history of drag in New York City / Elyssa Maxx Goodman. Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2023]

Lessons in creativity from musical theatre characters / James C. Kaufman and Dana P. Rowe. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024.

Murail, Tristan. Stalag VIIIa: pour clarinette, violon, violoncelle et piano. Paris : Lemoine Editions, [2018]. Commissioned by Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije and Meetingpoint Music Messiaen Gorlitz. Score and 4 parts.

Bach, Johann Sebastian. Concerti a cembalo obligato BWV 1052-1059: Autograph, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Commentary by Christoph Wolff, Martina Rebmann. Kassel ; Basel ; London ; New York ; Praha : Bärenreiter, [2021].

Sonate für Oboe und Klavier (1980) / Friedrich Goldmann. Leipzig ; London ; New York : Edition Peters, [2018]

Schoenberg, Arnold. Concerto for piano and orchestra, opus 42. Facsimile of the composer's manuscript. Edited by Katharina Bleier and Therese Muxeneder. Foreword by Mitsuko Uchida. München : G. Henle Verlag, [2023].

Hearing form : musical analysis with and without the score / Matthew Santa. New York : Routledge, 2023.

Daniel J. Levitin. I heard there was a secret chord : music as medicine / Daniel J. Levitin. New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, 2024.