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Music History and Theory

Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric

Beghin, Tom
January 2008

Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New

Bohlman, Philip V.
March 2009 E-book

Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court

Cusick, Suzanne G.
Music and the Circulation of Power
July 2009

Richard Wagner

Geck, Martin
A Life in Music
September 2013 New Book

Robert Schumann

Geck, Martin
The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer
November 2012 New Book E-book

Sound Diplomacy

Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E.
Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920
June 2009 E-book

Sibelius

Goss, Glenda Dawn
A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland
December 2009 E-book

Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music

Harrison, Daniel
A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents
May 1994

John Cage

Haskins, Rob
June 2012 New Book

Music between Us

Higgins, Kathleen Marie
Is Music a Universal Language?
June 2012 New Book E-book

Language of Its Own

Katz, Ruth
Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music
June 2010 E-book

Divas in the Convent

Monson, Craig A.
Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
June 2012 New Book E-book

Nuns Behaving Badly

Monson, Craig A.
Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy
November 2010 E-book

Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn

Somfai, László
Instruments and Performance Practice, Genres and Styles
December 1995

Music in German Philosophy

Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz
An Introduction
January 2011 E-book

Composing Japanese Musical Modernity

Wade, Bonnie C.
December 2013 New Book

Rhythm of Thought

Wiskus, Jessica
Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty
June 2013 New Book E-book

Opera

From the Score to the Stage

Baker, Evan
An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging
August 2013 New Book

Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Basevi, Abramo
November 2013 New Book

Opera Fanatic

Benzecry, Claudio E.
Ethnography of an Obsession
July 2011 E-book

Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests

Buch, David
The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater
December 2008 E-book

Triumph of Pleasure

Cowart, Georgia
Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
December 2008

Tristan's Shadow

Daub, Adrian
Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner
December 2013 New Book

Not without Madness

Della Seta, Fabrizio
Perspectives on Opera
November 2012 New Book E-book

Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer

Fauser, Annegret
Paris, 1830-1914
December 2009 E-book

Opera and Sovereignty

Feldman, Martha
Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
September 2007 E-book

Divas and Scholars

Gossett, Philip
Performing Italian Opera
September 2006 E-book

Backstage at the Revolution

Johnson, Victoria
How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime
February 2009

Unsettling Opera

Levin, David J.
Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky
October 2007 E-book

Ethnomusicology

I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!

Clawson, Laura
Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers
September 2011 E-book

Remains of Ritual

Friedson, Steven M.
Northern Gods in a Southern Land
September 2009 E-book

SamulNori

Hesselink, Nathan
Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture
March 2012

Stambeli

Jankowsky, Richard C.
Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia
December 2010

Music, Dance and the Art of Seduction

Kouwenhoven, Frank
June 2013 New Book

Theory of African Music, Volume I

Kubik, Gerhard
October 2010

Theory of African Music, Volume II

Kubik, Gerhard
November 2010

Republic of Love

Stokes, Martin
Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music
October 2010 E-book

Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars

Tucker, Joshua
Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru
April 2013 New Book E-book

Music as Social Life

Turino, Thomas
The Politics of Participation
October 2008

Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams

Berish, Andrew S.
Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s
April 2012 E-book

Blue Notes in Black and White

Cawthra, Benjamin
Photography and Jazz
October 2011

Duke Ellington's America

Cohen, Harvey G.
May 2010 E-book

More Important Than the Music

Epperson, Bruce D.
A History of Jazz Discography
October 2013 New Book

You'll Know When You Get There

Gluck, Bob
Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band
August 2012 New Book E-book

Tango

Gonzalez, Mike
Sex and Rhythm of the City
June 2013 New Book

Subversive Sounds

Hersch, Charles B.
Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans
March 2008 E-book

Beatles in Hamburg

Inglis, Ian
June 2012 New Book

Pop Song Piracy

Kernfeld, Barry
Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929
October 2011 E-book

Power Stronger Than Itself

Lewis, George
The AACM and American Experimental Music
May 2008 E-book

Sounds of Capitalism

Taylor, Timothy D.
Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture
July 2012 New Book E-book

Brazilian Jive

Treece, David
From Samba to Bossa and Rap
June 2013 New Book

Gothic Music

van Elferen, Isabella
The Sounds of the Uncanny
September 2012 New Book

Music Editions

Masses for the Sistine Chapel

Sherr, Richard
Vatican City, Biblioteca Aposotlica Vaticana, Cappella Sistina, MS 14
March 2010

Lucca Choirbook

Strohm, Reinhard
Lucca, Archivio di Stato, MS 238; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, MS 97; Pisa, Archivo Arcivescovile, Biblioteca Maffi, Cartella 11/III
March 2009

Verdi Piano-Vocal Scores

Alzira

Verdi, Giuseppe
Tragedia lirica in Three Acts Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, The Piano-Vocal Score
April 2002

Ernani

Verdi, Giuseppe
Dramma lirico in Four Parts by Francesco Maria Piave: Piano-Vocal Score
July 1998

Giovanna d'Arco

Verdi, Giuseppe
Dramma Lirico in Four Acts. Libretto by Temistocle Solera. The Piano-Vocal Score
November 2011

Hymns / Inni

Verdi, Giuseppe
The Piano-Vocal Score
February 2010

I masnadieri

Verdi, Giuseppe
Melodramma tragico in Four Parts by Andrea Maffei. The Piano-Vocal Score
April 2005

Il corsaro

Verdi, Giuseppe
Melodramma tragico in Three Acts, Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, The Piano-Vocal Score
May 2003

Il trovatore

Verdi, Giuseppe
Dramma in Four Acts, Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, The Piano-Vocal Score
January 2002

La traviata

Verdi, Giuseppe
Melodramma in Three Acts, Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave The Piano-Vocal Score
August 2001

Luisa Miller

Verdi, Giuseppe
Melodramma tragico in Three Acts by Salvadore Cammaran, The Piano-Vocal Score
October 2004

Macbeth

Verdi, Giuseppe
Melodramma in Four Acts by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei. The Piano-Vocal Score
April 2007

Messa da Requiem

Verdi, Giuseppe
Piano-Vocal Score
December 2000

Nabucodonosor

Verdi, Giuseppe
Dramma lirico in Four Parts by Temistocle Solera: Piano-Vocal Score
August 2007

Rigoletto

Verdi, Giuseppe
Melodramma in three acts by Franceso Maria Piave: Piano-Vocal Score
December 2000

Stiffelio

Verdi, Giuseppe
Dramma Lirico in Three Acts by Francesco Maria Piave, the Piano-Vocal Score
July 2006

Works of Verdi

Attila

Verdi, Giuseppe
Dramma lirico in a Prologue and Three Acts
May 2013 New Book

Chamber Music

Verdi, Giuseppe
April 2011

Giovanna d'Arco

Verdi, Giuseppe
Dramma lirico in Four Acts by Temistocle Solera
January 2009

Quartetto

Verdi, Giuseppe
Four Parts for String Quartet
April 2011

Works of Bellini

Composizioni strumentali/Instrumental Works

Bellini, Vincenzo
August 2009

Sonnambula

Bellini, Vincenzo
August 2009

Works of Donizetti

Betly

Donizetti, Gaetano
Opera Comica in One Act
February 2011

Deux Hommes et une femme (Rita)

Donizetti, Gaetano
Opéra comique in One Act by Gustave Vaez
August 2009