George E. Lewis
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
"With A Power Stronger Than Itself, Lewis exceeds expectations. For rather than merely recount the ascent of the AACM, he elegantly sets it against the backdrop of cultural, racial and social changes that shook the twentieth century.… Lewis unreels this tale with dramatic flourish and scholarly authority."—Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
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Philip Gossett
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
"To my knowledge, there is no other book like it. No one else has treated an important genre of half a century in its social and political setting, its stylistic development, together with a detailed history of its dissemination and performance over a century and a half."—Charles Rosen, New York Review of Books
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David B. Coplan
In Township Tonight!: South Africa’s Black City Music and Theatre, Second Edition
"This new edition is a rich and insightful reimagining of the original, as beautifully written and engaging as the first."—Christine Lucia, University of the Witwatersrand
Charles Hersch
Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
"Subversive Sounds underscores the importance of thinking in subtle, complex, and nuanced ways about the relationship between jazz and race. Engagingly written and cleverly framed, Hersch’s work displays ample skill and vision while showing us how profoundly race mattered in early New Orleans jazz."—John Gennari, author of Blowin’ Hot and Cool
Piero Melograni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography
"The author draws extensively from letters and notes of the Mozart family, and thus his conversational, chronological account of the composer's life is unusually rich in detail."—Library Journal
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Edward Rothstein
Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
With a New Preface
"Lovely, wistful. … Rothstein is a wonderful guide to the architecture of musical space, its tensions and relations, its resonances and proportions. … His account of what is going on in the music is unfailingly felicitous."—New Yorker
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Music
from the University of Chicago Press
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Music history
- Albright, Daniel: Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources
- Applegate, Celia: Music and German National Identity
- Beghin, Tom: Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric
- Berlioz, Hector: Evenings with the Orchestra
- Bianconi, Lorenzo: Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth
- Bianconi, Lorenzo: Opera on Stage
- Bohlman, Philip V.: Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
- Buch, Esteban: Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History • Read an excerpt.
- Buch, J. David: Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater
- Collins, Jeff: Rock Legends at Rockfield
- Cott, Jonathan: Conversations with Glenn Gould
- Cowart, J. Georgia: The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
- Cusick, G. Suzanne: Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power
- Davis, Mary E.: Erik Satie
- de Leeuw, Ton: Music of the Twentieth Century
- Elms, Anthony: Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68
- Fauser, Annegret: Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914
- Feldman, Martha: Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
- Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E.: Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920
- Girardi, Michele: Puccini: His International Art
- Goss, Glenda Dawn: Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland
- Gossett, Philip: Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera • Read an excerpt.
- Hersch, Charles B.: Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
- Johnson, Victoria: Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime
- Katz, Ruth: A Language of Its Own: Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music
- Kellman, Herbert: The Treasury of Petrus Alamire: Music and Art in Flemish Court Manuscripts, 1500-1535
- Levin, David J.: Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky
- Liebert, Georges: Nietzsche and Music
- McNulty, Mark: Pop Cultured: The Photography of Mark McNulty
- Melograni, Piero: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography • Read an excerpt.
- Nicassio, Susan Vandiver: Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective • Read a web feature: Ten Things You Didn't Know about Tosca.
- Ossi, Massimo: Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi's Seconda prattica
- Platzman, George W.: A Descriptive Catalogue of Early Editions of the Works of Frederic Chopin in the University of Chicago Library
- Randall, Annie J.: Puccini and The Girl: History and Reception of The Girl of the Golden West
- Robinson, Paul: Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters
- Toscanini, Arturo: The Letters of Arturo Toscanini • Read an excerpt.
- van Orden, Kate: Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France • View a short video of an equestrian ballet.
Music theory
- Meyer, Leonard B.: Emotion and Meaning in Music
- Meyer, Leonard B.: The Spheres of Music: A Gathering of Essays
- Meyer, Leonard B.: Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology
- Narmour, Eugene: The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures
- Peters, Gary: The Philosophy of Improvisation
- Rothstein, Edward: Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
- Schenker, Heinrich: Harmony
- Spitzer, Michael: Metaphor and Musical Thought
- Williamson, John: Words and Music
Music editions
- Bellini, Vincenzo: I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Tragedia lirica in Two Acts by Felice Romani
- Donizetti, Gaetano: Dom Sebastien, roi de Portugal: Opera in Five Acts by Eugène Scribe
- Donizetti, Gaetano: Linda di Chamounix: Critical edition of the orchestral score
- Donizetti, Gaetano: Pia de' Tolomei: Tragedia lirica in Two Parts, libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
- Drake, Warren: Ottaviano Petrucci, Motetti de Passione, de Cruce, de Sacramento, de Beata Virgine et huiusmodi B: Venice, 1503
- Gerber, Rebecca L.: Sacred Music from the Cathedral at Trent: Trent, Museo Provinciale d'Arte, Codex 1375 (olim 88)
- Mann, Brian: The Madrigals of Michelangelo Rossi
- Rossini, Gioachino: La Riconoscenza / Il vero omaggio
- Rossini, Gioachino: Mosè in Egitto: Azione tragico-sacra in Three Acts by Andrea Leone Tottola
- Sherr, Richard: Masses for the Sistine Chapel: Vatican City, Biblioteca Aposotlica Vaticana, Cappella Sistina, MS 14
- Strohm, Reinhard: The Lucca Choirbook: Lucca, Archivio di Stato, MS 238; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, MS 97; Pisa, Archivo Arcivescovile, Biblioteca Maffi, Cartella 11/III
- Verdi, Giuseppe: Chamber Music
- Verdi, Giuseppe: Giovanna d'Arco: Dramma lirico in Four Acts by Temistocle Solera
- Verdi, Giuseppe: I masnadieri: Melodramma tragico in Four Parts by Andrea Maffei. The Piano-Vocal Score
- Verdi, Giuseppe: Macbeth: Melodramma in Four Acts. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
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Ethnomusicology
- Askew, Kelly: Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania
- Buchanan, Donna A.: Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition
- Chernoff, John Miller: African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms
- Cohen, Dalia: Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam Tradition in Practice
- Coplan, David B.: In Township Tonight!: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre, Second Edition
- Danielson, Virginia: "The Voice of Egypt": Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century
- Friedson, M. Steven : Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land
- Guilbault, Jocelyne: Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics
- Harper, Sally: Welsh Music Studies: Bearers of Song
- Hersch, Charles B.: Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
- Hesselink, Nathan: P'ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance
- Klein, Debra L.: Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans
- Largey, Michael: Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism
- Magrini, Tullia: Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean
- Mendoza, Zoila S.: Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes
- Radano, Ronald: Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music
- Ramnarine, Tina K.: Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music
- Reily, Suzel: Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast Brazil
- Tenzer, Michael: Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music
- Turino, Thomas: Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation
- Wade, Peter: Music, Race, and Nation: Musica Tropical in Colombia
- Waterman, Christopher Alan: Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music
Popular idioms
- Barlow, Jeremy: The Cat and the Fiddle: Images of Musical Humour from the Middle Ages to Modern Times
- Becker, Howard S.: Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations
- Berliner, Paul F.: Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation
- Bromell, Nick: Tomorrow Never Knows • Read an excerpt.
- Burke, Patrick: Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street
- Corbett, John: Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths
- Erenberg, Lewis A.: Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture
- Faulkner, Robert R.: "Do You Know...?": The Jazz Repertoire in Action
- Gebhardt, Nicholas: Going for Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology
- Gendron, Bernard: Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde • Read an excerpt.
- Gennari, John: Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics • Read an excerpt and a soundtrack for the book.
- Grazian, David: Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs • Read an interview with the author.
- Gussow, Adam: Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition • Read an interview with the author.
- Hardstaff, Steve: Cover Versions: The Album Art of Steve Hardstaff
- Holt, Fabian: Genre in Popular Music
- Keil, Charles: Urban Blues
- Kenney, William Howland: Jazz on the River • Read an excerpt.
- Lewis, E. George: A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music • Read an excerpt.
- Peterson, Richard A.: Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity • Read 10 Things You Didn't Know about the Origins of Country Music.
- Russo, William: Composing for the Jazz Orchestra
- Russo, William: Composing Music: A New Approach
- Russo, William: Jazz Composition and Orchestration
- Sun Ra: The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets
- Tinker, Chris: Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel: Personal and Social Narratives in Post-War Chanson
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