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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]

Read the October issue of Musicals magazine in a browser, or download it using the Exactly app.

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.

Delia Ephron. Left on Tenth: a second chance at life: a memoir. New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2023.

Victoria Rogers. Postgraduate research in music: a step-by-step guide to writing a thesis. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024. DRM-free Oxford ebook.

The Chicago manual of style online. The University of Chicago Press, 2024. A digital subscription to the website for the 18th edition, which includes information about citing AI sources.

Joseph N. Straus. Cultural narratives of old age in the lives, work, and reception of old musicians. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Unrestricted, DRM-free Taylor & Francis ebook.

The letters of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson. Edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2024.
Ebook: download it using the Ebsco Mobile app, or read it online in a browser.

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 E♭ 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 Dvořák. 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.