MU Libraries New Books: Music

About the new book list

6/19/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

The Cambridge companion to Arvo Pärt / edited by Andrew Shenton. (6/19/2013)

6/19/2013

Call #: ML410.P1755 C36 2012

The Cambridge companion to opera studies / edited by Nicholas Till. (6/19/2013)

6/19/2013

Call #: ML1700 .C166 2012

Music 109 : notes on experimental music / Alvin Lucier foreword by Robert Ashley. (6/5/2013)

6/5/2013

Call #: ML410.L8973 A3 2012

César Franck : his life and times / R. J. Stove. (5/29/2013)

5/29/2013

Call #: ML410.F82 S76 2012

Elliott Carter studies / edited by Marguerite Boland and John Link. (5/29/2013)

5/29/2013

Call #: ML410.C3293 E68 2012

George Whitefield Chadwick : the life and music of the pride of New England / Bill F. Faucett. (5/29/2013)

5/29/2013

Call #: ML410.C395 F38 2012

Engaging Haydn : culture, context, and criticism / edited by Mary Hunter and Richard Will. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: ML410.H4 E54 2012

Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre / David Beard. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: ML410.B605 B43 2012

Henry Cowell : a man made of music / Joel Sachs. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: ML410.C859 S23 2012

History in mighty sounds : musical constructions of German national identity, 1848-1914 / Barbara Eichner. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: ML1729.4 .E52 2012

Josquin's Rome : hearing and composing in the Sistine Chapel / Jesse Rodin. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: ML410.J815 R64 2012

Mick Jagger / Philip Norman. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: ML420.J22 N67 2012

Pussy Riot! : a punk prayer for freedom : letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: ML3534.6.R8 P87 2013

Robert Schumann : the life and work of a romantic composer / Martin Geck translated by Stewart Spencer. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: ML410.S4 G29613 2013

Keith Jarrett's the Köln concert / Peter Elsdon. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Call #: ML417.J35 E47 2013

The orchestra : a very short introduction / D. Kern Holoman. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Review

"The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction is a savvy, modern, and entertaining introduction to the 21st-century world of orchestras. It combines an insider's perspective with a general overview of the subject-definitely a must for all music lovers." --Alan Gilbert, music director, New York Philharmonic

"The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction should be required reading for everyone who cares about classical music in today's world. Presented in a refreshingly nontraditional format, Holoman's book is absolutely comprehensive, brimming with surprising insight, wit and vibrancy. Perhaps inspired by the words of the philosopher Seneca whom he quotes-'True pleasure is serious business'-the author succeeds in making a serious and important subject a complete pleasure to explore in this superb book."--JoAnn Falletta, Music Director, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Virginia Symphony; Principal Conductor, Ulster Orchestra

"Holoman's series of witty quips, anecdotes, and one-liners will keep one reading to the book's much too rapid conclusion." -- Music Media Monthly

Call #: ML1200 .H65 2012

American orchestras in the nineteenth century / edited by John Spitzer. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: ML1211.4 .A44 2012

Bingo : the winning musical / book by Michael Heitzman & Ilene Reid music and lyrics by Michael Heitzman, Ilene Reid & David Holcenberg. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Call #: ML50.H47 B56 2012

Off the record : performing practices in romantic piano playing / Neal Peres da Costa. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: ML706 .P37 2012

Ordo virtutum : a comparative edition / Hildegard of Bingen edited by Vincent Corrigan. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: M2000.H54 O72 2013

Study of the lute / by Ernst Gottlieb Baron, 1727 translated by Douglas Alton Smith. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: ML1010.B37 U53 1976

The guitar and its music : from the Renaissance to the Classical era / James Tyler and Paul Sparks. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Review

"Books on the history of the guitar are not in short supply but this one is one of the very best. ... Tyler's contribution is excellent...The Guitar and Its Music will open the eyes of those who think that the instrument is fit only for rock stars, born-again evangelists-and the occasional Prime Minister."--Times Literary Supplement

"Will appeal to a wide range of readers, from historians with little interest in the guitar for its own sake, to performers with little interest in history for its own sake."--Notes

"This informative book, with contributions from two of the most notable scholars in the field of early plucked instruments, fills in a far more complete historical account of the guitar than James Tyler's already impressive 1976 OUP volume, A Handbook of the Early Guitar. Much new research figures in the detailed accounts of the guitar covering the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries."--The Lute Society of America Quarterly

"Not only does [The Guitar and Its Music] offer a detailed guide to the sources, it integrates recent work from the fields of organology and iconography, archival and patronage studies, performance practice, and the analogous area of lute music, resulting in a coverage that is impressively inclusive in the best sense of the word. ...with its detailed discussions of the sources, clear explanations of performance issues, and the extension of the coverage into the eighteenth century, all formed upon a solid musicological base, this book will surely be a cornerstone of future research and performance of early guitar repertories. ...an important and essential study."--Renaissance Quarterly

Call #: ML1015.G9 T96 2002

The Spanish baroque guitar, with a transcription of De Murcia's Passacalles y obras / by Neil D. Pennington. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: ML1015.G9 P5 1981

Mendelssohn, time and memory : the romantic conception of cyclic form / Benedict Taylor. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: ML410.M5 T39 2011

Not without madness : perspectives on opera / Fabrizio Della Seta translated by Mark Weir. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: ML1733 .D45 2012

The pianist's craft : mastering the works of great composers / edited by Richard Paul Anderson. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: ML700 .P53 2012