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The September issue of Das Orchester is now available on our magazine rack.

Così fan tutte, an opera of mimetic revelation / Isabel Díaz-Morlán. Michigan State University Press, 2025.

I knew a man who knew Brahms Nancy Shear. Regalo Press, 2025.

Succeeding Puccini : the operatic career of Italo Montemezzi, 1875-1952 / David Chandler and Raffaele Mellace. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Mozart : a tale of two keys / Tim Carter. Oxford University Press, 2025.

The September issue of International Musician, the official journal of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, is now on the Library's magazine rack. 

Maurice Ravel / Emily Kilpatrick. Reaktion Books, 2025.

Brahms : symphonist / Robert Pascall. The Boydell Press, 2025.

The musical theater of Stephen Schwartz : from Godspell to Wicked and beyond / Paul R. Laird. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Now available as a DRM-free ebook as well as a paperback.

Martinů and his world. Edited by Aleš Brezina and Michael Beckerman. University of Chicago Press, 2025. 

The October issue of Opera; with Opera News is available. Download it using the Exactly app, or open it in a browser. 

Follies / Stephen Sondheim ; orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick ; edited by Jon Alan Conrad. A-R Editions, Inc., [2025]. Full score.

Klaviersonate Nr. 24 Fis-Dur Opus 78 / Ludwig van Beethoven ; edited by Norbert Gertsch, Murray Perahia ; fingering by Murray Perahia. Henle, 2025. Free to download in the Henle Library app.

Optimizing pianism : evidence-based perspectives / Cameron Roberts. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.

Ray Brown : his life and music / Jay Sweet. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2025.

Britten, opera and film : Henry James's The turn of the screw from stage to screen / Peter Auker. The Boydell Press, 2025.

Piano sonata / Philip Glass.Dunvagen, 2024.

Toward a materialist conception of music history / by Stephan Hammel. Brill, 2024. DRM-free ebook.

The battle for control of the brass and instruments business in the French Industrial Revolution / José-Modesto Diago Ortega. Oxford University Press, 2024. DRM-free ebook.

Making sense of music / Susan McClary. Oxford University Press, 2025.

If the song doesn't work, change the dress : the illustrated memoirs of Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt / Patricia Zipprodt with Arnold Wengrove. Methuen/Drama, 2024. DRM-free ebook.

Berlioz's Requiem / Jennifer Walker. Oxford University Press, 2025.

The shortest history of music : from bone flutes to synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé - 5,000 years of instrument and song / Andrew Ford. The Experiment, 2025.

Resonant minds : the transformative power of music, one note at a time / Sara Leila Sherman, Morton Sherman. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.

Afrikaans art song literature : a translation and pronunciation guide / Christian Bester and Bronwen Forbay. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Cultural history of the guitar in Latin America : news from Argentina, Guatemala, México, and Perú / edited by Luis Díaz-Santana Garza. Vernon Press, 2025.

The jazzmen : how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America / Larry Tye. Mariner Books, 2025

   

 

Straight up, without wings : the musical flight of Joe McPhee / by Joe McPhee as told to Mike Faloon ; foreword by Fred Moten ; afterword by Moor Mother. Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2024.

Wholehearted voice pedagogy : an integrative approach to training vocal artists / David Sisco. Routledge, 2026.

In the brewing luminous : the life & music of Cecil Taylor / Philip Freeman ; with a contribution by Markus Müller. Wolke, 2024.

Errand into the maze : the life and works of Martha Graham / Deborah Jowitt. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

Tooth and nail : for amplified viola and electronics / Missy Mazzoli. G. Schirmer, 2010.

Fundamentals of instrumental and choral conducting / Selim Giray and Michael Hanawalt. Routledge, 2025.

A tone parallel to Duke Ellington : the man in the music / Jack Chambers. University Press of Mississippi, 2025.

Circular breathing : the cultural politics of jazz in Britain / George McKay. Duke University Press, 2005.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha / Benedict Taylor. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Polish pronunciation guide for singers : Karol Szymanowski, Rymy dziecieÌšce, op. 49, for voice and piano / Laura Kafka-Price, Maksymilian Krzak. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Korngold in America : music, myth, and Hollywood / Ben Winters. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Yellow music : media culture and colonial modernity in the Chinese jazz age / Andrew F. Jones. Duke University Press, 2001.

Re-reading the Beethoven violin sonatas / Daniel Tong. Boydell Press, 2025. Ebook.

Of all the moons : for mezzo-soprano & piano / Kevin Puts. Ricordi, 2015.

New directions in musical collaborative creativity : the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and the theater of home / Raymond MacDonald, Tia DeNora, Maria Sappho, Robert Burke, and Ross Birrell. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Birds, beasts and a world made new / Guillaume Apollinaire, Velimir Khlebnikov ; translated by Robert Chandler. Pushkin Press, 2024. Libby ebook.

How the mind works / Steven Pinker. W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.

The art of collaboration : chamber music rehearsal techniques and teambuilding / Annie Fullard and Dorianne Cotter-Lockard. Oxford University Press, 2025. Ebook.

Performing racial uplift : E. Azalia Hackley and African American activism in the postbellum to pre-Harlem era / Juanita Karpf. University Press of Mississippi, 2022.

Facing the music : a Broadway memoir / David Loud. David Loud, 2023. Libby audiobook.

The avant-gardists : artists in revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935 / Sjeng Scheijen ; translated by Brent Annable. Thames & Hudson, 2024.

Jacob's ladder : for voices and chamber ensemble (2023) / Steve Reich. Boosey & Hawkes, 2025.

Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult / Nigel Simeone. The Boydell Press, 2025. Ebook.

Introduction to music publishing for musicians : business and creative perspectives for the new music industry / Bobby Borg; Michael Eames. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025. Ebook.

The sound of exile : European Jewish refugees in Shanghai, 1938-1947 / Tang Yating. Syracuse University Press, 2025.

Bruckner's fourth : the biography of a symphony / Benjamin M. Korstvedt. Oxford University Press, 2024. Libby ebook.

Chambersonic [poems] / Oana Avasilichioaei. Talonbooks, 2024. Ebook.

Ray Brown's bass method. Hal Leonard Corporation, 1999.

Vocal selections from Bajour / music and lyrics by Walter Marks. Mesquite Music Corp., 1965.

Singing zarzuela, 1896-1958 : approaching portamento and musical expression through historical recordings / Eva Moreda Rodŕguez. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Mary Martin, Broadway legend / Ronald L. Davis. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Ebook.

The Gershwins abroad, or, Four Americans in Paris (and several other cities) : a 1928 notebook / Ira Gershwin ; edited and with commentary by Michael Owen. Gershwin Initiative, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, 2024.

Lectures 1949-1968. Volume 2, Social theory and politics / Theodor W. Adorno ; edited by Michael Schwarz ; translated by Nicholas Walker. Polity Press, 2024. Ebook.

The book of Kells : an illustrated introduction to the manuscript in Trinity College Dublin / Bernard Meehan. Thames & Hudson, 2020.

Gypsy and the Broadway musical madwoman : a feminist analysis / Mary Beth Sheehy. Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Chasin' the sound : learning jazz improvisation through historical models / Brian Levy and Keith Waters. Oxford University Press, 2025.

The handbook on music business and creative industries in education / edited by Daniel Walzer. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2024.

Raising the curtain : operatic modernism and the Soviet nations / Oxana Gourinovitch. Spector Books, 2024.

Musical scene study : the musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein / compiled and edited by Tom Briggs. Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2007.

Jazz revolutionary the life & music of Eric Dolphy / Jonathon Grasse. Jawbone, 2024. Libby ebook.

The Odyssey / Homer ; translated, with an introduction and notes, by Daniel Mendelsohn. The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Libby ebook.

Symphonic spectacles : form, identity, and hybridity in the early twentieth century / Sam Reenan. Oxford University Press, 2025. Libby ebook.

Twelve-tone improvisation : a method for using tone rows in jazz / John O'Gallagher. Advance Music, 2020. Ebsco ebook.

A history of the American musical theatre : no business like it / Nathan Hurwitz. Routledge, 2025. Libby ebook.

Saxophone / Mollie Hawkins. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Libby ebook.

Gustav Mahler / Stephen Downes. Reaktion Books Ltd., 2025. Libby ebook.

Every day a little death : crime fiction inspired by the songs of Stephen Sondheim / Josh Pachter. Ingram Spark/Ignite. 2025. Libby ebook.

Margaret Bonds / John Michael Cooper. Oxford University Press, 2025. Libby ebook.

Music law in a nutshell / Mary LaFrance. West Academic, 2025. Libby ebook.

Stereophonic / book by David Adjmi ; music and lyrics by Will Butler. Theatre Communications Group, 2024. Libby ebook.

Modernist movements : listening for topics in Schoenberg and Stravinsky / Johanna Frymoyer. Oxford University Press, 2025. Libby ebook.

James Tenney : writings and interviews on experimental music / edited by Robert Wannamaker, Lauren Pratt, and Tashi Wada. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Libby ebook.

Wagner and the creation of the Ring / Michael Downes. Pegasus Books, 2025. Libby ebook.

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

1970s jazz fusion / Matthew Reed Baker. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Libby ebook.

Sounds of survival : Polish music and the Holocaust / J. Mackenzie Pierce. University of California Press, 2025. Libby ebook.

Writing jazz : conversations with critics and biographers / Sascha Feinstein.State University of New York Press, 2025. Libby ebook.

Everything is now : the 1960s New York avant-garde-- primal happenings, underground movies, and radical pop / J. Hoberman. Verso, 2025. Libby ebook.

Michael John LaChiusa : a critical companion / Joshua Robinson. Methuen Drama, 2025. Libby ebook.

Orchestration in musical theatre / Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth Sallinger. Methuen Drama, 2025. Libby ebook.

Activating voices in jazz history : students broadening the narrative / Anthony D.J. Branker. Routledge, 2025. Libby ebook.

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite / Ian Penman. MIT Press, 2025. Libby ebook.

The composer embalmed : relic culture from piety to kitsch / Abigail Fine. The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Libby ebook.

Bach's church cantatas / Ruth Tatlow. Oxford University Press, 2025. DRM-free ebook.

The art of counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin / Jesse Rodin. Cambridge University Press, 2024. DRM-free ebook.

 

Theological anthropology in Mozart's la clemenza di Tito : sin, grace, and conversion / Steffen Lösel. Routledge, 2023. DRM-free ebook.

Boulez in context / edited by Edward Campbell. Cambridge University Press, 2025. DRM-free ebook.

Streichquartett Nr. 5 / Béla Bartók ; herausgegeben von László Somfai unter Mitarbeit von Zsombor Németh. G. Henle Verlag, 2024. Miniature score.

Debussy in context / edited by Simon Trezise. Cambridge University Press, 2024. DRM-free ebook.

New dramaturgies of contemporary opera : the practitioners' perspectives / edited by Jingyi Zhang. Routledge, 2024. DRM-free ebook.

Someone else's music : opera and the British / Alexandra Wilson. Oxford University Press, 2025. DRM-free ebook.

The Cambridge companion to The rite of spring / edited by Davinia Caddy. Cambridge University Press, 2025. DRM-free ebook.

Accompaniment in America : contextualizing collaborative piano / Chanda VanderHart ; with contributions from Kathleen Kelly and Elvia Puccinelli. Routledge, 2025. DRM-free ebook, free to download through the Library. Link below.