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Subito : prepared for clarinet and piano / Witold Lutoslawski ; ed. Julian Paprocki. PWM, Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 2021.

Dialogues II : for piano and chamber orchestra / Elliott Carter. Boosey & Hawkes, 2021.

Baalkah : for soprano and string quartet / Gabriela Ortiz. Boosey & Hawkes, 2023.

An elemental thing : for solo woodblock / Liza Lim. Ricordi, 2017.

Complete piano works / Arnold Schönberg. G. Henle Verlag, 2024.

in that space, at that time : music for orchestra inspired by the art of Jun Kaneko / Andy Akiho. Aki Rhythm Press, 2024.

Suffs : the musical / music and lyrics by Shaina Taub. Hal Leonard, 2024.

Scherzos I, II & III pour piano solo / Georges Aperghis. Durand Editions Musicales, 2024.

Zwölf Gedichte : Opus 35 : Liederreihe nach Kerner / Robert Schumann. Edited by Kazuko Ozawa. Low voice. G. Henle Verlag, 2023.

Le médecin malgré lui / Charles Gounod. Vocal score. Herman & Apter, 2005.

Satyagraha : M.K. Gandhi in South Africa : an opera in three acts / Philip Glass. Vocal score. Chester Music, 2024.

Symphony no. 2 for symphony orchestra / Paul Ben-Haim. Israel Music Institute, 2001.

Eve's diary : soprano and guitar / David Leisner. Doberman-Yppan, 2024.

Maan varjot : for solo organ and orchestra / Kaija Saariaho. Chester Music, 2017.

Speaking of pianists / by Abram Chasins. Burtyrki Books, 2020.

Cheap imitation : for alto flute (doubling piccolo), glockenspiel and piano / John Cage ; arrangement by Morton Feldman. Edition Peters, 2024.

The Cambridge companion to West Side story / edited by Paul R. Laird, Elizabeth A. Wells. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

The new breed / by Gary Chester ; edited by Rick Mattingly. Modern Drummer Publications, 2015.

Vocal excercises on Barkók's Mikrokosmos / by Júlia Karosi. Júlia Karosi, 2023.

Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune : pour piano / Claude Debussy. Editions Lemoine, 2018.

Five spirituals : from A child of our time : for mixed chorus (SSAATTBB) with soloists / Michael Tippett. Schott, 2011.

Ciaccona : in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II : trascrizione per sei violoncelli / Krzysztof Penderecki. Schott, 2016.

La courte paille : sept mélodies sur des poèmes de Maurice Carême / Francis Poulenc. Durand, 2023.

From the Southland : sketches for piano / Henry T. Burleigh ; edited by Lara Downes. Presser, 2021.

The Cambridge companion to tango / edited by Kristin Wendland, Kacey Link. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Improvisation and dance : for violin and piano (1939) / Paul Ben-Haim. Israel Music Institute, 2018.

Tristan und Isolde : Vorspiel -- Isoldens Liebestod  / Richard Wagner ; arranged for violin and piano by Fazıl Say. Schott, 2023.

33 variations / by Moisés Kaufman. Dramatists Play Service Inc., 2011.

Alma Mahler / Sasho Dimoski ; translated from the Macedonian by Paul Filev. Dalkey Archive Press, 2018.

Castillo interior : version for piano = / Pēteris Vasks. Schott, 2024.

Pierre Boulez : Notations : Mmaterials for communicating music / Lea Fink & Manuela Kerer ; edited by Constanze Wimmer and Helmut Schmidinger. Universal Edition, 2015.

Monument eternal / by Alice Coltrane. Akashic Books, 2025.

Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick : a grand opera for the twenty-first century / by Robert K. Wallace ; featuring the complete libretto by Gene Scheer. University of North Texas Press, 2013. DRM-free ebook to download.

Choralstration : a practical guide for composers of choral music / Harold Rosenbaum. Harold Rosenbaum, 2022.

The Taubman approach to piano technique : a comprehensive guide to overcome physical limitations and unlock your full pianistic potential / Edna Golandsky. Mascot Books, 2024.

Tin-tan-fanfarria y mambo : for solo trumpet : trumpet in C / Gabriela Ortiz. Boosey & Hawkes, 2021

Weep, shudder, die : on opera and poetry / Dana Gioia. Paul Dry Books, 2024.

Kiss of the spider woman / by Manuel Puig ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Colchie. Vintage Books, 1991.

Letters to Gisèle (1951-1970) : with a selection of letters from Gisèle Celan-Lestrange / Paul Celan ; edited by Bertrand Badiou ; abridged and translated from the French by Jason Kavett. New York Review Books, 2024.

Giacomo Puccini in Torre del Lago: illustrated guide of the Puccini villa-museum. Friends of Giacomo Puccini's Houses Association : Institute of Puccini Studies, 2013.

Cubism / Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert, Anatoli Podoksik. Parkstone International, 2010.

LIgNEouS I : marimba & string quartet / Andy Akiho. Aki Rhythm Press, 2022. Score + 5 parts + 2 rubber bands.

Mahler's symphonic world : music for the age of uncertainty / Karol Berger. University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov and Bo hr. Hansen's Festen / adapted for the stage by David Eldridge. Methuen, 2004.

Monument eternal : the music of Alice Coltrane / Franya J. Berkman. Wesleyan University Press, 2010. Now available both as a physical book and a DRM-free ebook.

Selected lyrics / Cole Porter ; Robert Kimball, editor. Library of America, 2024.

Twelve easy songs : for low voice and piano / Charles E. Ives ; edited by Neely Bruce and James B. Sinclair. Peermusic Classical, 2019.

Aubade with a chance of rain : for mezzo-soprano and piano / music by Tom Cipullo ; words by Danusha Laméris. E.C. Schirmer Music, 2024.

Underneath : for solo cello, 2021 / Kate Soper. PSNY, 2023.

and the sky was still there : for violin with effects and backing track : (2010) / David T. Little. Boosey & Hawkes, 2021.

Three Sams : for percussion solo / David T. Little. Boosey & Hawkes, 2018.

Everything will be okay : for mezzo-soprano and piano (2020) / Christopher Cerrone ; text by John K. Samson. Project Schott New York, 2024.

Falter : for violin : 2020 / Lisa Streich. Berlin : Ricordi, 2021.

Lectures 1949-1968. Volume 1, music, literature and the arts / Theodor W. Adorno ; edited by Michael Schwarz ;  translated by Nicholas Walker. Polity Press, 2024.

Dreaming in ensemble : how Black artists transformed American opera / Lucy Caplan. Harvard University Press, 2025.

The transcendental tuning of Charles Ives / Johnny Reinhard. Vision Edition, 2023.

Dylan goes electric! : Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the night that split the sixties / Elijah Wald. Dey St., 2015.

Girl from the North Country [libretto of the musical] / Conor McPherson, Bob Dylan. Nick Hern Books, 2017. Ebook.

Musical theatre acting : a practical guide / JV Mercanti ; foreword by Justin Guarini. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2024.

Luna Luna / André Heller ; enabled by Neue Revue ; photo documentation by Sabina Sarnitz ; essay by Hilde Spiel. Phaidon Press Limited, 2023.

I dream a world : the operas of William Grant Still / Beverly Soll. University of Arkansas Press, 2005.

The crisis of criticism / edited by Maurice Berger. New Press, 1998.

Image, music, text / Roland Barthes ; essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath. Hill & Wang, 1978.

Blues mamas and Broadway belters : black women, voice, and the musical stage / Masi Asare. Duke University Press, 2024.

Music and the myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy / Giuseppe Gerbino. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Gender, sex and sexuality in musical theatre : he/she/they could have danced all night / edited and curated by Kelly Kessler. Intellect, 2024.

The burial at Thebes : a version of Sophocles' Antigone / Seamus Heaney. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Poems of Paul Celan / translated, with an introduction and postscript, by Michael Hamburger. Persea Books, 2002.

A sense of direction : some observations on the art of directing / William Ball. Drama Book Publishers, 1984.

Seeing opera anew : a cultural and biological perspective / Joseph Cone. Routledge, 2024.

Gaston Crunelle and flute playing in twentieth-century France / Leonard Garrison. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Opera for everyone : the Industry's experiments with American opera in the digital age / Megan Steigerwald Ille. University of Michigan Press, 2024.

The idea of perfection : the poetry and prose of Paul Valéry / Paul Valéry ; translated from the French by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Complete guide to film scoring : the art and business of writing music for movies and TV / Richard Davis and Alison Plante. Berklee Press, 2024.

Modern poetry : poems / Diane Seuss. Graywolf Press, 2024.

Classical and romantic performing practice / Clive Brown. Second edition. Oxford University Press, 2024. Ebook.

The exile's song : Edmond Dédé and the unfinished revolutions of the Atlantic world / Sally McKee. Yale University Press, 2017. Unrestricted, DRM-free ebook.

Handbuch der Oper / herausgeben von Rudolf Kloiber, Wulf Konold und Robert Maschka. 16th edition. Springer, 2024. Ebook.

Existentialism from Dostoevsky To Sartre / Walter Kaufmann. Hauraki Publishing, 2016. Ebook.

Suffs : book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub / Shaina Taub. Theatre Communications Group, 2024. Ebook edition.

Music in Germany since 1968 / Alastair Williams. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Performing by the book? : musical negotiations between text and act / Bruno Formet. Leuven University Press, 2024. Open-access ebook.

Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Rolfe Humphries ; annotated by J.D. Reed. Indiana University Press, 2018. Ebook edition.

The February issue of Jazzwise magazine is now available to downloaded through the Exactly app or read online in a browser.

Schmigadoon! : vocal selections : music from the Apple TV+ original series Schmigadoon! / music & lyrics by Cinco Paul. Hal Leonard, 2021. E-score.

Vltava / Bedřich Smetana ; commentary, Hugh Macdonald, Olga Mojžíšová. Bärenreiter, 2024. Facsimiles of the composer's manuscript.

Inside the contemporary conservatoire : critical perspectives from the Royal College of Music, London. Routledge, 2025. With contributions from President JAMES GANDRE and Vice President for Philanthropy SUSAN MADDEN.

Pierre Boulez's Sur Incises and its world / Peter O'Hagan. Routledge, 2025. DRM-free ebook.

Meredith Monk : calling / edited by Anna Schneider with Beatrix Ruf and Peter Sciscioli. Hartwig Art Foundation, 2024.

Ursula Mamlok : Komponistin zwischen New York und Berlin / Kolja Lessing. Hentrich & Hentrich, 2024.

Acting in musical theatre : a comprehensive guide / Joe Deer and Rocco Dal Vera. Routledge, 2021.

 

Mélodies (1892-1915) / Claude Debussy ; édition de Denis Herlin. Durand, 2024.

Sergei Rachmaninoff in his own words / Sergei Rachmaninoff ; compiled and edited by Geoffrey Norris. Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation, 2024.

Goodbye Russia : Rachmaninoff in exile / Fiona Maddocks. Pegasus Books, 2024

Fallen star : a biography of Gail Russell / by Steven Glenn Ochoa. JC Publications, 2016.

The Cambridge companion to the electric guitar / edited by Jan-Peter Herbst, Steve Waksman. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works / Langston Hughes ; edited with an introduction by Leslie Catherine Sanders. University of Missouri Press, 2004.

Notes for cellists : a guide to the repertoire / Miranda Wilson. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Cadence : a study of closure in tonal music / William E. Caplin. Oxford University Press, 2024.

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