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Blue Electra : for solo violin and orchestra / Michael Daugherty. Michael Daugherty Music, 2025.

An American in Paris : tone poem for orchestra : 1928 / composed and orchestrated by George Gershwin ; edited by Mark Clague. Gershwin Initiative, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, University of Michigan, 2025. Large score.

Piano sonata in A minor, op. 42, D 845 / Franz Schubert ; edited by Diminik Rahmer ; preface by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl ; fingering by Martin Helmchen. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.

A final encore : the life, music, and tragedy of Alexei Sultanov / J.W. Wilson. TCU Press, 2025.

3 pièces pour piano, op. 38 / Ivan Wyschnegradsky ; révision Martine Joste, Bruce Mather. Jobert Editions, 2019.

Keith Jarrett : a biography / Wolfgang Sandner ; translated by Chris Jarrett. Equinox, 2020. DRM-free ebook.

Chant du rossignol : poème symphonique pour orchestre / Igor Stravinsky ; edited by Clovis Lark ; engraved by Nicholas Greer. Bill Holab Music, 2025.

Wood works : Nordic folk tunes : the complete collection / arranged by the Danish String Quartet. Edition S music-sound art, 2015.

The brightness of light : for soprano, baritone & orchestra / Kevin Puts ; text selected from the letters of Georgia O'Keeffe. Ricordi, 2024.

Seventeen art songs and spirituals : for medium-high voice / by Florence B. Price ; edited by John Michael Cooper. ClarNan Editions, 2025.

The Grand Hotel Tartarus : opera in two acts (2022) / Richard Danielpour ; libretto by Richard Danielpour. Lean Kat Music, 2025.

The first two volumes of the new Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe (critical edition of the complete works) are now available in the Library.

The vanishing piano tuner : the first published history of piano tuning, including an overview of the history of the piano / Steven Harris. Lewarne Publishing, 2025.

The private voice studio handbook : a practical guide to all aspects of teaching / by Joan Frey Boytim. Hal Leonard, 2014.

Practical vocal acoustics : pedagogic applications for teachers and singers / Kenneth Bozeman. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.

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

Flesh : a novel / David Szalay. Scribner, 2025.
Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize.

The November issue of Das Orchester has arrived. Find it on our magazine rack.

Lyrical diary : Lieder from Franz Schubert to Wolfgang Rihm / Christian Gerhaher. Faber & Faber, 2025.

The Oxford handbook of spectral music / edited by Amy Bauer, Liam Cagney, and William Mason. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Dora Bright : her life and works in the public eye / Anthony Bilton. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2023.

On the way to the sky : remembering Bob Brookmeyer / Michael Stephans. University of North Texas Press, 2025.

Change : the new thing and modern jazz / Kwami Coleman. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Bach : the cello suites / Edward Klorman. Cambridge University Press, 2025.

 

Broadway nation : how immigrant, Jewish, queer, and Black artists invented the Broadway musical / David Armstrong. Methuen Drama, 2025.

Fear of music why people get Rothko but don't get Stockhausen / David Stubbs. Zer0 Books, 2024.

Alive in the sound : Black music as counterhistory / Ronald Radano. Duke University Press, 2025.

A perfect harmony : music, mathematics and science / David Darling. Oneworld, 2025.

Dead and alive : essays / Zadie Smith. Penguin Press, 2025.

Elements of the philosophy of right / G.W.F. Hegel ; edited by Allen W. Wood ; translated by H.B. Nisbet.Cambridge University Press, 1991.

 

The phenomenology of spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ; translated and edited by Terry Pinkard. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

The music of baseball : a history and catalog of selected works / George Boziwick. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2025.

 

The complete plays of Charles Ludlam. Perennial Library, 1989.

Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd : behind the bloody musical masterpiece / Rick Pender. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Alien / Jerry Goldsmith. Chris Siddall Music Publishing, 2022.

Edward Scissorhands : original score / composed by Danny Elfman. Omni Music Publishing, 2023.

Ghosts & gargoyles : spatial soliloquies : for solo flute with flute octet & jazz drummer / Henry Brant. Carl Fischer, 2001.

L'enfant et les sortilèges [vocal score] / Maurice Ravel ; edited by: François Dru ; reading comitee: Gerge Benjamin, Kenneth Hesheth, Adrien Perruchon. XXI Music Publishing, 2024.

Music copyright, creativity, and culture / Jennifer Jenkins ; comic book illustrations designed by James Boyle and Jenifer Jenkins and drawn by Ian Akin and Brian Garvey. Oxford University Press, 2025.

The December issue of Opera; with Opera News is now available to read online in a browser or download using the Exactly app.

Richard Wagner in Paris : translation, identity, modernity / Jeremy Coleman. The Boydell Press, 2019

The new winds of change : the evolution of the contemporary American wind band/ensemble and its music / Frank L. Battisti. Meredith Music Publications, 2018.

Swing along : the musical life of Will Marion Cook / Marva Griffin Carter. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Historia di Jephte : Oratorium, soli e coro SSSATB, basso continuo / Giacomo Carissimi ; edited by Wolfgang Hochstein ; basso continuo realization, Wolfgang Hochstein. Carus, 2023.

Social media in musical theatre / Trevor Boffone. Methuen Drama, 2023.

Being Prez : the life and music of Lester Young. Equinox Pub., 2007.

Tyranny and music / edited by Joseph E. Morgan and Gregory N. Reish. Lexington Books, 2017.

The Telemann compendium / Steven Zohn. The Boydell Press, 2020.

Segregating sound : inventing folk and pop music in the age of Jim Crow / Karl Hagstrom Miller. Duke University Press, 2010.

The closing of the American mind : how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students / Allan Bloom. Simon and Schuster, 1987. Ebook edition (we also have it in paper).

Spinner : for solo cello / George Lewis. Edition Peters, 2025.

Antipodean riffs : essays on Australasian jazz / edited by Bruce Johnson. Equinox Publishing, 2016.

Complete works for harp solo / Sergej Prokofjew ; edited by Sophie Gneissl ; preface by Simon Morrison ; pedal markings by Sarah O'Brien. G. Henle Verlag, 2025.

Kansas City jazz : a little evil will do you good / Con Chapman. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2023.

Keep your singing voice healthy! : the doctor's guide to vocal vitality and longevity / Anthony F. Jahn, Youngnan Jenny Cho. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Homage to Barrios : solo guitar / John Williams. Doberman-Yppan, 2024.

Cardamom : for retuned solo violin (2024) / Liza Lim. G. Ricordi, 2025.

Ständchen ("Leise flehen meine Lieder") : arrangement for piano / Franz Schubert ; edited by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl ; fingering by Evgeny Kissin. G. Henle Verlag, 2024./

Cello concerto : for cello & orchestra / Unsuk Chin ; solo cello part edited by Alban Gerhardt ; piano reduction by Randa Kirshbaum. Boosey & Hawkes, 2024.

Arabesques pour le piano / Claude Debussy. Centre de documentation Claude Debussy, 2017. Facsimile of the composer's manuscript.

The birthplace of Off Broadway : 100 years of Cherry Lane Theatre. A24 Films, 2025.

Therefore I was : for violoncello, percussion, and piano / Ashley Fure. Peters Edition, 2019. Score + 3 parts.

A ship without a sail : the life of Lorenz Hart / Gary Marmorstein. Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Matching minds with Sondheim : the puzzles and games of the Broadway legend / Barry Joseph. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Piano concerto no. 26 in D major K. 537 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; edited by Andreas Friesenhagen ; fingering, cadenzas, lead-ins and embellishments by Andreas Staier. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.

Années de pèlerinage. Troisième année : Italie / Franz Liszt ; edited by Leslie Howard. Edition Peters, 2022.

The periodic table of Broadway musicals : an illustrated guide to 118 essential shows / Andrew Gerle. Union Square Publishing, 2025.

Shadow ticket / Thomas Pynchon. Penguin Publishing Group, 2025.

Anton Webern at the dawn of modernism / Sebastian Wedler. Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Global groove : a complete guide to odd meters for all instruments / Rolf Zielke ; translation: Julia Rushworth. Advance Music, 2019.

Anthony Braxton : 50+ years of creative music / edited by Timo Hoyer and Kobe Van Cauwenberghe. Schott, 2025.

The concert composer's business handbook / Steven Rosenhaus. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.

Music and leadership : the nature and role of aesthetics in orchestrating successful organizations / David M. Toledo.
Routledge, 2026.

A music transcription method : notating recorded music by ear / Andreas Häberlin. Routledge, 2026.

Oz and the musical : performing the American fairy tale / Ryan Bunch. Oxford University Press, 2023.

A Beethoven tapestry : networks and cultures of memory / herausgegeben von Birgit Lodes und Melanie Unseld. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2024.

Musical exoticism : the Mediterranean and beyond in the long nineteenth century / edited by Michael Christoforidis and Ramón Sobrino. Brepols, 2024.

George Gershwin and modern art : a rhapsody in blue / Olivia Mattis ; with contributions by Kathleen van Bergen, Alexander Shelley, and Courtney A. McNeil. Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2024.

Schoenberg in context / edited by Alexander Carpenter. Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Salome / Richard Strauss. Live webcast, May 2025. Met Opera on Demand, free to the MSM community through the Library.

My fair lady / Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner. First complete recording: John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London. Chandos, 2025. The booklet is included.

Carl Nielsen : a cultural biography. Aarhus University Press, 2025.

Boundaries, space and register in Beethoven's piano music / Malcolm Miller. Boydell and Brewer 2025.

What we can know : a novel / Ian McEwan. Knopf, 2025.

Balanchine finds his America : a tale of love, loss and ballet reborn / Elizabeth Kendall. Oxford University Press, 2025.

The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : a novel / Kiran Desai. Hogarth, 2025.

Celebration : for solo piccolo / George Lewis. Edition Peters, 2024.

My name Is Barbra / Barbra Streisand. Books on Tape, 2023. Audiobook.

Stomp off, let's go : the early years of Louis Armstrong / Ricky Riccardi. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Daphnis et Chloé : symphonic fragments 2nd suite, for orchestra and choir / Maurice Ravel ; edited by Jean-François Monnard. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2023. Full score.

Innocence : an opera in five acts / Kaija Saariaho ; original Finnish libretto by Sofi Oksanen ; multilingual libretto by Aleksi Barrière ; piano reduction by Raimonds Zelmenis. Chester Music 2025. Vocal score.

Star trek II : the wrath of Khan / James Horner. Omni Music Publishing, 2022. Full score.

The Matrix / Don Davis. Omni Music Publishing, 2023. Full score.

Frederick Douglass : an opera in three acts / by Dorothy Rudd Moore. ACA, American Composers Alliance, 2024. Vocal score.

Conquest of the war demons (for string quartet) : the 2nd quartet of Salome dances for peace / Terry Riley. Associated Music Publishers, between 2001 and 2009. Score + 4 parts.

 

Il Teuzzone : RV 736 / Antonio Vivaldi ; reduction for voice and piano based on the critical edition of the orchestral score by Alessandro Borin, Antonio Moccia. Ricordi, 2021.

Taboo danzas : for bass clarinet and guitar / Terry Riley. Associated Music Publishers, Inc., 2013. Score + 2 parts.