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Barbara Meister.
Nineteenth-century French song: Fauré, Chausson, Duparc, and Debussy.
Indiana University Press, 1980.
Project MUSE ebook (unrestricted).

The April issue of BBC Music Magazine is available to read, in a browser or offline using the Exactly app.

Jimi Hendrix.
The complete scores [full transcriptions of the recordings].
Experience Hendrix, 2019.

James Weldon Johnson.
Complete poems.
Edited with an introduction by Sondra Kathryn Wilson.
Penguin Books, 2000.
Ebsco ebook.

Kristin Chenoweth
I'm no philosopher, but I got thoughts: mini-meditations for saints, sinners, and the rest of us.
Foreword by Ariana Grande.
Harper Celebrate, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Rebecca Applin Warner.
The musical theatre composer as dramatist: a handbook for collaboration.
Methuen Drama, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Stars, studios, and the musical theatre screen adaptation: an Oxford handbook of musical theatre screen adaptations, volume 3. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Isaac Butler.
The method: how the twentieth century learned to act.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Ebsco ebook.
Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Andrey Kurkov.
Grey bees.
Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk.
Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022.
Ebsco ebook.
Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Translation.

Michael Giacchino.
Sheet music collection.
Hal Leonard Corporation, 2023.
Ebsco escore.

Musical Theater Songs: an online repertoire guide for singers. We have a free trial. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Judith Clurman with David Chase.
Eight days of lights.
Hal Leonard, 2019.

Unsuk Chin.
Piano etudes.
Boosey & Hawkes, 2022.
Finally engraved and published in one volume!

Sam Morgan's Jazz Band.
Complete recorded works in transcription.
Edited by John J. Joyce, Jr., Bruce Boyd Raeburn, and Anthony M. Cummings.
A-R Editions, 2012.

An anthology of African and African diaspora songs.
Louise Toppin, editor; Scott Piper, associate editor.
Videmus], 2021.

Gustav Mahler
Symphonie Nr. 4 in vier Sätzen: für grosses Orchester und Sopran-Solo.
Edited by Renate Stark-Voit.
Universal Edition, 2021.
With an introduction and critical report in German and English. Mahler revised this work many times over the years. This new edition is rooted in Mahler's final revisions, made following two performances in New York, January 1911.

Bedřich Smetana.
Vyšehrad.
Edited by Hugh Macdonald.
Bärenreiter, 2019.
Full score.

Aleksandr Scriabin.
Complete piano sonatas III.
Edited by Christoph Flamm; including a foreword by Marc-André Hamelin.
Bärenreiter, 2022.

Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie, op. 64: für Orchester.
Edited by Nick Pfefferkorn.
Breitkopf & Härtel, 2022.
Large conductor's score.

Lewis Spratlan.
Mega-ditty: for percussion duo.
Oxingale Music, 2011.

Nathalie Joachim.
Life lines: for two flutes and electronics.
Flutronix Publishing, 2010.
1 score + 2 parts + audio file.

Duncan Patton.
The artist timpanist: technical studies and etudes.
Bachovich Music Publications, 2018.

Marc-André Hamelin.
On the short side: an assortment of miniatures, solo piano.
C.F. Peters Corporation, 2017.

Thomas Adès.
Three studies from Couperin: for chamber orchestra.
Faber Music, 2022.
Study score.

Jerry Goldsmith.
Star trek, the motion picture: orchestral score.
Omni Music Publishing, 2021.
Full score of the movie soundtrack.

Chick Corea.
Lyric suite: (sextet) for vibraphone, piano & string quartet.
Subito Music Corporation, 2019.
Score.

John Riley.
The master drummer: how to practice, play and think like a pro.
Hudson Music, 2022.

Steve Reich.
Runner: for large ensemble.
Boosey & Hawkes, 2021.
Study score.

Gabriela Lena Frank
Five moons of Lorca: for tenor, baritone, and piano.
Text by Nilo Cruz.
G. Schirmer, Inc., 2016.
Set of 3 performance scores.

Bud Powell, Bud.
Bud Powell omnibook: for piano.
Transcribed exactly from his recorded solos.
Hal Leonard, 2021.
We have it both in paper and as an escore.

Gramophone. April 2023. Special 100th anniversary issue. Read it in a browser or using the Exactly app.

Tyshawn Sorey.
Death: for mezzo soprano and piano.
Edition Peters, 2022.

John Adams.
Must the devil have all the good tunes?: concerto for piano and orchestra.
Boosey & Hawkes, 2021.
Conductor's score.

Aleksandr Borodin.
Вторая симфония: авторская редакция = Symphony no. 2: original version.
Edited by Anna Bulycheva.
Kvadraton, 2015.
Study score.

The rite of spring at 100.
Edited by Severine Neff, Maureen Carr, and Gretchen Horlacher, with John Reef.
Indiana University Press, 2017.
JSTOR ebook.

Byron Almén.
A theory of musical narrative.
Indiana University Press, 2008.
JSTOR ebook.

Howard Pollack.
Samuel Barber: his life and legacy.
University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

James R. Cowdery.
How to write about music: the RILM manual of style.
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Norman Mailer.
The naked and the dead; & selected letters 1945-1946.
Library of America, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Yasunari Kawabata
Snow country.
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.
Vintage Books, 1996.
Ebsco ebook.

Michael J. Pagliaro.
The double bass, how it works: a practical guide to double bass ownership.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

New web resource!
"Art song transpositions: art songs, opera arias, choral arias, and musical theatre selections in any key."

W.M. Thackeray
Vanity fair: a novel without a hero.
Edited with an introduction by John Sutherland.
Oxford University Press, 1998.
Ebsco ebook.

Kenzaburo Ōe
A personal matter.
Translated from the Japanese by John Nathan
New York Grove Press 1969.
Ebsco ebook.

An anthology of piano music for the left hand alone.
compiled and edited by Ruby Morgan.
Carl Fischer, 2021.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Life's a dream: a prose translation and critical introduction by Michael Kidd.
University Press of Colorado, 2004.
Ebsco ebook.

Jeremy Grimshaw.
Draw a straight line and follow it: the music and mysticism of La Monte Young.
Oxford University Press, 2011.
Unrestricted Oxford ebook.

The April 2023 issue of "The Musical Times" is available to read in a browser; or on your phone or tablet using the Exactly app.

Merri Sugarman and Tracy Moss.
From craft to career: a casting director's guide for the actor Merri Sugarman with Tracy Moss.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Bloomsbury ebook.

David Byrne.
How music works.
Three Rivers Press, 2017.
Ebsco ebook.

W.A. Mathieu.
Harmonic experience: tonal harmony from its natural origins to its modern expression.
Inner Traditions, 1997.
Ebsco ebook.

J. Murray Barbour.
Tuning and temperament: a historical survey.
Dover Publications, 2004.
Ebsco ebook.

Gabriel García Márquez.
One hundred years of solitude.
Blackstone Publishing, 2022.
Now available in hardcover and as an Ebsco ebook.

Richard Wagner.
Lohengrin.
Contents: Wagner's alter ego / John Deathridge -- Wagner's Lohengrin: between grand opéra and Musikdrama / Thomas S. Grey -- History, women's history and beyond history in Lohengrin / Janet L. Nelson -- Lohengrin in Brabant /Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Thematic guide -- Lohengrin [libretto ; English translation by Amanda Holden].
Alma Books, 2011.
Ebsco ebook.

Lohengrin.
Adapted from the Opera Journeys lecture series by Burton D. Fisher.
Contents: Story synopsis -- Principal characters in the opera -- Story narrative with music highlights -- Wagner and Lohengrin.
Opera Journeys, 2000.
Ebsco ebook.

Aldous Huxley.
Island.
HarperCollins, 2009.
Ebsco ebook.

Maryse Condé
The gospel according to the new world.
Translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
World Editions, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Tomasz Stańko, with Rafał Księżyk.
Desperado: an autobiography.
Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2022.

Kingsley Amis.
Lucky Jim.
New York Review Books, 2012.
Ebsco ebook.

James Baldwin.
The fire next time.
Vintage International, 1993.
Ebsco ebook.

Arundhati Roy.
The god of small things.
Random House, 2008.
Ebsco ebook.

Anthony Davis.
The Central Park Five suite: for trombone, double bass and piano.
Schott, 2021.
Score and 3 parts.

The Cambridge companion to Hildegard of Bingen.
Edited by Jennifer Bain.
Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Jimmy Lopez.
K'asa: for violin and piano.
Filarmonika Music Publishing, 2021.
Score and part.

Edward Dusinberre.
Distant melodies: music in search of home.
The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Elliott Carter speaks: unpublished lectures.
Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery.
University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Clara Schumann.
Anniversary songbook: 14 songs for medium-low voice and piano.
In partnership with the Schumann-Haus Leipzig.
Edition Peters, 2019.

Abby Mann.
Judgment at Nuremberg.
Samuel French, 2001.

Louise Farrenc.
Sextet in C-minor op. 40 for piano and wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon).
Furore-Edition, 1996.
Score and 5 parts.

Howard Hanson.
Sonata in A minor for piano, op. 11.
Carl Fischer, 2011.

Scott Reeves and Tom Walsh.
Creative jazz improvisation.
Routledge, 2023.

Alexander Zemlinsky.
Sechs Walzer-Gesänge, nach Toskanischen Liedern von Gregorovius, Op. 6: für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung.
Recital Publications, 2017.

Andrew Sarris.
The American cinema: directors and directions, 1929-1968.
Da Capo Press, 1996.

Duncan Patton.
Loud music: for 3 trombones, tuba, and timpani.
Bachovich Music Publications, 2017
Score and 5 parts.

Leah Batstone.
Mahler's Nietzsche: politics and philosophy in the Wunderhorn symphonies.
Boydell & Brewer, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Shehan Karunatilaka.
The seven moons of Maali Almeida: a novel.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
Booker Prize 2022.

Gioachino Rossini.
La cambiale di matrimonio: farsa comica di Gaetano Rossi.
Edited by Eleonora di Cintio.
Fondazione Rossini, 2022.

C.G. Bond.
Sweeney Todd: the demon barber of Fleet Street: a melodrama.
Samuel French, 1974.
The play on which the Sondheim musical is based.

Claude Debussy.
Syrinx: flûte. 
Historical introduction, Edmond Lemaître.
Notes on interpretation, Bruno Jouard.
Durand, 2018.

Franziska Baumann.
Embodied human-computer interaction in vocal music performance.
Springer, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Robert Schumann.
Fantasy pieces, op. 88: for piano trio.
Edited by Ernst Herttrich; fingering of piano part by Klaus Schilde.
G. Henle, 2021.
Score and 2 parts.

Michael J. Pagliaro.
The viola, how it works: a practical guide to viola ownership.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Michael J. Pagliaro.
The cello, how it works: a practical guide to cello ownership.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Kevin Byrne and Emily Fuchs.
The jukebox musical: an interpretive history.
Routledge, 2022.

David Dubal.
Selected paintings and drawings.
TIMP Universal, 2020.

Joseph Schwantner.
Daydreams... reverie: for violin and vocal quartet with crystal glassware (glass harmonica).
Schott, 2021.
Score and 5 parts.

Robert H. Woody.
Psychology for musicians: understanding and acquiring the skills.
Second edition.
Oxford University Press, 2022.

A Something Else reader.
Edited by Dick Higgins; assembled by Alice Centamore.
Primary Information, 2022.

The Urantia book.
Urantia Foundation, 2010.
Ebsco ebook.

Connie Guzzo-McParland.
An opera in 3 acts, starring Gino Quilico: a biography.
Linda Leith Publishing, 2022.
Ebsco ebook.

Erich Maria Remarque.
All quiet on the Western Front: a novel.
Translated from the German by A.W. Wheen.
Random House, 2013.
Ebsco ebook.

Michael Cunningham; Virginia Woolf.
The hours; Mrs. Dalloway (both novels in one volume),
Picador, 2022.

A.H. Lawrence.
Duke Ellington and his world: a biography.
Routledge, 2001.
Taylor & Francis ebook.

The March (digital) edition of The Strad is now available.

Olivier Messiaen.
Oiseaux exotiques: pour piano solo et petit orchestra.
Universal Edition, 1959.
Solo piano part.

George Gershwin.
Concerto in F
Edited by Norbert Gertsch; fingering by Markus Bellheim; piano reduction by Johannes Umbreit.
Henle, 2022.
Now available to view or download in the Henle Library app.

Salman Rushdie.
Victory city: a novel.
Random House, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.

Nirmali Fenn.
The clash of icicles against the stars.
For accordion, flute, sheng.
Edition HH, 2013.
Score and 3 parts.

Michael R. Jackson.
A strange loop: vocal selections.
Hal Leonard, 2022.
Ebsco escore.

Caseen Gaines.
When Broadway was Black: the triumphant story of the all-Black musical that changed the world.
Sourcebooks, 2023.
Ebsco ebook.