Recent Acquisitions

Check out the new books, scores, and recordings added to our shelves since our last Recent Acquisitions post on February 15, 2024. View some highlights in the New Arrivals display at the library or jump to the complete list of new scores, books, eBooks, and CDs.

Weekly highlights

Book coverHarvilla, Rob. 2023. 60 Songs That Explain the ’90s. New York, NY: Twelve, Hachette Book Group. [ML3470 .H378 2023X]

A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade. The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous RB to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to Santana to Tupac to Britney. In 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s, Ringer music critic Rob Harvilla reimagines all the earwormy, iconic hits Gen Xers pine for with vivid historical storytelling, sharp critical analysis, rampant loopiness, and wryly personal ruminations on the most bizarre, joyous, and inescapable songs from a decade we both regret entirely and miss desperately

Book coverLoza, Steven Joseph. 2024. An Ethnomusicologist’s Last Lecture : Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. [ML3798 .L69 2024X]

An Ethnomusicologist’s Last Lecture: Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion explores the frustration of many scholars and artists with the content and directions of studies on music, which continue to be mostly based on Western thought, methods, theories, and even the modes of communicating ideas, and mostly through written, published works. Steven Loza argues that this pattern has pervaded both philosophy and ethnomusicology, fields which should be much more globally based in terms of intellectual analysis, culturally diverse points of view, and the recognition of multiple ways of thinking and doing. He criticizes what he perceives as an intellectual hegemony and biased approach to studying music, including the standards to which academics are held responsible, the manner in which we and our students have had to study music, and the forms by which we are pressured to present our findings, many times adapting theories and ideas that have nothing to do with the cultures we are examining through a one way microscope – and often a distorted lens. Loza takes the reader through an assortment of historical and contemporary global examples of musical expression, creative artists, and thinkers, looking for ways that we can assess how music both reflects and enacts culturally diverse peoples’ beliefs, thoughts, and world views.

Book coverFranseen, Kristin M. 2023. Imagining Musical Pasts : The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson. Clemson: Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press. [ML3797.4 .F73 2023X]

Imagining Musical Pasts considers the ways early twentieth-century musicologists Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson approached gender and sexuality in their scholarly and creative work. This book explores the place of musicology as literature, as well as the role of gossip and speculation in constructing queer music histories

Book coverButz, Konstantin, and Robert A. Winkler, eds. 2023. Hardcore Research : Punk, Practice, Politics. Bielefeld: Transcript. [ML3534 .H3746 2023]

For more than 40 years, hardcore and punk have promised to offer an alternative to what is perceived as the norm and as mainstream. Hardcore Research: Punk, Practice, Politics provides a comprehensive insight into the most active, outspoken, and widely received scholarly positions in the academic discourses on hardcore and punk and combines them with a variety of new and emerging voices. The book brings together scholars with personal ties to past and present hardcore and punk scenes, who present both insightful and critical examinations of the rich and varied histories of this subcultural phenomenon and its current reverberations at the intersection of cultural practice and academic research

Book coverLoomis, George W. 2022. Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in Parma. Washington: Academica Press. [ML1733.8 .P28 L66 2022Y]

In 1759 the court of the Italian Duchy of Parma adopted the inspiration of cultural creators who recommended a reform of Italian opera along French lines. These writers favored combining Italian-style music with the wider range of musical genres and scenic variety of French opera. As the prize-winning music critic and commentator George W. Loomis shows in this groundbreaking volume, the young composer Tommaso Traetta was engaged to create new operas responding to these demands. As Loomis deftly demonstrates, Traetta’s operas were largely oriented toward the formal aria, a byproduct of making Italian music an essential component of this cross-cultural fusion. Nevertheless, they were strikingly innovative in their use of chorus, integrated dance, and accompanied recitative. Structurally, the operas reflect the French distinction between scenes of action and divertissements. After a brief flowering in the 1760s, the project was abandoned, primarily for lack of interest, but Traetta’s Parma operas deserve a previously unrecognized place in the history of Western music for their stimulation of opera seria in Italy and beyond. This included the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose genre-defining Idomeneo (1781) proved a turning point in the development of opera.

Book coverSantí, Enrico Mario, and Aurelio de la Vega. 2021. El Otro Tiempo : Aurelio de La Vega y La Música = The Other Time : Aurelio de La Vega and Music. Valencia, Spain: Aduana Vieja. [ML410 .V345 S35 2021]

En una extraordinaria colaboración bilingüe, el escritor Enrico Mario Santí (Santiago de Cuba) y el Maestro Aurelio de la Vega (La Habana, 1925), reúnen aquí una colección de ensayos y materiales biográficos que constituyen la mejor y más asequible introducción a la vida y obra de uno de los más grandes compositores de música clásica hoy vivo. In an unusual bilingual collaboration, writer Enrico Mario Santí (Santiago de Cuba, 1950) and Maestro Aurelio de la Vega (Havana, 1925), here put together a collection of essays and biographical materials that constitutes the best available introduction to the life and work of one of the world’s greatest living composers of classical music.

Book coverMesquita, Bernardo. 2022. Das Beiradas ao Beiradão : a música dos trabalhadores migrantes no amazonas. Manaus: Editora Valer. [ML3575 .B7 M47 2022]

Este livro descoloniza o Brasil sonoro por dentro, informando o que há para além do Sul Rio-São Paulo. Lembra a metodologia utilizada por Andre Gunder Frank, se este gênio das ciências sociais tivesse porventura sensibilidade à música: o desenvolvimento desigual dos músicos trabalhadores.

Book coverSuchowiejko, Renata. 2020. Muzyczny Paryż à la polonaise w okresie międzywojennym : artyści - wydarzenia - konteksty. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Księgarnia Akademicka. [ML270.8 .P2 S83 2020]

Paryż był ulubionym celem wędrówek polskich muzyków juz od czasów Chopina, ale w okresie międzywojennym stał się wręcz drugą, muzyczną stolicą Polski. Artyści jeździli tam masowo, szukali nauki, pracy i natchnienia. [...] Najlepszym tego świadectwem są zachowane źródła: francuska prasa, dokumenty zycia społecznego (programy koncertowe) i materiały archiwalne. [...] pozwalaja one spojrzeć na polskich muzyków poprzez pryzmat wielokulturowego Paryża. [...] Wnikliwa analiza, doprawiona odrobina heurystycznej wyobraźni, otwiera nowe przestrzenie do refleksji. [...] rodzi sie z niej fascynująca opowieść o muzycznym Paryżu a la polonaise w okresie międzywojennym.

Book coverEnsminger, David A. 2023. Roots Punk : A Visual and Oral History. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. [ML3534.3 .E6505 2023X]

Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring original interviews and over one hundred images, Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History by longtime music journalist and author David A. Ensminger focuses on how punk merged with roots music to create a rich style that incorporated honky-tonk, rockabilly, doo-wop, reggae, ska, jazz, folk, blues, and labor ballads. This engagement transformed the notion of punk to include a wide array of vintage source material that seems more aligned with bolo ties and Stetsons than Doc Martens and safety pins. Ensminger explores the music's aesthetics, traits, and themes. He contextualizes, clarifies, maps, and probes roots punk's hybrid nature as well as its diverse, queer-inclusive, and multicultural strains. By painting a broad, nuanced, and well-documented picture of the genre from its earliest incarnation, he forms a kind of people's history of the movement. Roots Punk features original interviews with members of Minutemen, MDC, the Dicks, the Plimsouls, Tex and the Horseheads, Dils/Rank and File, X, the Flesh Eaters, Beatnigs, Alejandro Escovedo, Robert "El Vez" Lopez, Blasters, and more. Whether covering sarcastic novelty forms or sincere embraces, Ensminger reveals and revels in a punk tradition lined with blues records, acoustic ballads, country, and hillbilly romp. In a time of growing conformity, replication, and commercialization, roots punk (sometimes dubbed cow-punk) offers a tantalizing revitalization and reimagination of the American songbook

Book coverMaust, Paula. 2024. Expanding the music theory canon : inclusive examples for analysis from the common practice period. Albany: SUNY Press. [MT91 .M38 2024Y]

Featuring music by sixty-seven historical women and/or people of color, Expanding the Music Theory Canon is designed to supplement any introductory Western classical music theory curriculum. At a time when many academics are focused on increasing diversity and inclusion, this book provides the means to seamlessly incorporate works by underrepresented composers into music theory core courses. The anthology’s 255 musical examples are organized topically and include excerpts as well as nineteen complete pieces for analysis. Each chapter begins with guided analysis questions aimed at students approaching these concepts for the first time. Notably, this anthology provides a biography and image for each composer, which is particularly significant since works by these individuals have rarely been included in previous textbooks or anthologies. A related website, www.expandingthemusictheorycanon.com, provides additional examples and links to recordings when available. All musical examples in the anthology have been classroom-tested with music majors and minors at a major conservatory, at private and public universities, and at community colleges. Detailed tables provide suggestions for using this book in conjunction with the major introductory theory textbooks.

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Scores

  • M11 .R43 C43 2023 — Choralfantasien : für Orgel = for organ / Max Reger ; herausgegeben von Martin Schmeding = edited by Martin Schmeding.
  • M22 .H5435 P5 2023 — Complete etudes for piano = für Klavier / Adolph von Henselt ; edited by Daniel Grimwood
  • M25 .Y43 S77 2023 — A stronger gravity : for piano / Marc Yeats.
  • M42 .R45B7 2023 — Brick red mood : for solo violin (2020) / Ellen Reid.
  • M62 .D296 Y62 2023 — Yoik II : for solo flute : (2021) / Tansy Davies.
  • M62 .L64G5 2023 — Gifts : for solo flute / Allison Loggins-Hull.
  • M224 .B37 2023 — Best of viola classics : 16 famous concert pieces for viola and piano = 16 beliebte Vortragsstücke für Viola und Klavier / herausgegeben von Wolfgang Birtel = edited by Wolfgang Birtel.
  • M231 .E45 S6 2023 — Six sonatas for violoncello and basso continuo, op. 1. Volume 1, Sonatas 1-3 / Philip Peter Eiffert ; edited by Michael Talbot.
  • M250 .C694 H4 2023 — Heather Jean nocturnes : for bass clarinet & piano (2023) / Edward Cowie.
  • M452 .V48 Q3 2023 — Streichquartett e-Moll = e minor = mi mineur / Giuseppe Verdi ; herausgegeben von Anselm Gerhard.
  • M1018 .K7 op.3 H5 2023 — Kontrabasskonzert Opus 3 / Koussevitzky ; herausgegeben von Tobias Glöckler.
  • M1103 .H23 E77 2023 — Erster Fleiß : Allerhand neuer Paduanen, Galliarden, Balleten, Mascharaden, Französischen Arien, Courenten und Sarabanden Erster Teil (HaWV 2-42) : (Freiberg 1639) ; Ander Teil neuer Paduanen, Canzonen, Galliarden, Balleten, Mascharaden, Französischen Arien, Courenten und Sarabanden (HaWV 65-120) : (Freiberg 1639) / Andreas Hammerschmidt ; herausgegeben von C. Hofius.
  • M1110 — If falling is a leaf : for harpsichord and string orchestra : (2019) / Christopher Theofanidis.
  • M1531 .K56 I47 2024 — Impromptu on the Korean folk tune Doraji : for chorus, flute and piano / Gideon Gee-Bum Kim.
  • M1579 .G22 M3 2023 — Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci : Venetia apud Angelo Gardano, 1574/1587 / Andrea Gabrieli.
  • M1613.3 .A337 G9 2023 — Gyökér (Root) : for mezzo-soprano and four percussionists : (2020) / Thomas Adès ; text by Miklós Radnóti.
  • M1620 .S18 S65 2023 — 35 mélodies = 35 songs / Camille Saint-Saëns ; introduction de Edmond Lemaître = introduction by Edmond Lemaître.
  • M2010 .D66 R4 2023 — Messa di requiem : soli (SATBB), coro (SATB) ed orchestra / Gaetano Donizetti ; herausgegeben von Guido Johannes Joerg = edited by Guido Johannes Joerg.
  • M2021 — Kyrie a8 in A minor, SATB SATB, 5-part strings, continuo / Caldara ; edited by Brian Clark & Maxwell Sobel
  • M2021 .K55 W44 2024 — When the spirit of the Lord : for chorus, clarinet, violin, cello and piano / Gideon Gee-Bum Kim.
  • M2062 .K55 P8 2024 — Psalm 130 : for chorus and piano / Gideon Gee-Bum Kim.
  • M2113 .K46 A46 2024 — The almighty Lord, the holiest name / Gideon Gee-Bum Kim.

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Books

  • ML420 .R299 H47 2023X — The needle and the lens : pop goes to the movies from rock 'n' roll to synthwave / Nate Patrin.
  • ML2075 .P345 2023X — Magic City : how the Birmingham jazz tradition shaped the sound of America / Burgin Mathews.
  • ML3508.8 .B57 M37 2023X — Welcome 2 Houston : hip hop heritage in Hustle Town / Langston Collin Wilkins.
  • ML3531 .W548 2023X — Musical crossroads : stories behind the objects of African American music / edited by Dwandalyn R. Reece ; essays by Dwandalyn R. Reece ; profiles and stories by Timothy Anne Burnside [and eleven others].
  • ML3556 .M873 2023Y — Singing down the barriers : a guide to centering African American song for concert performers / Emery Stephens and Caroline Helton.
  • ML3556 .S866 2023X — Sounds of apocalypse : music in Poland under German occupation / Katarzyna Naliwajek.
  • ML3917 .P6 N35 2023 — Punk revolution! : an oral history of punk rock politics and activism / [edited by] John Malkin ; foreword by Klee Benally.
  • ML3918 .R63 P86 2023X — Lou Reed : the king of New York / Will Hermes.
  • MT55 .S289 2023X — Baroque counterpoint / Christoph Neidhöfer and Peter Schubert.

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eBooks

CDs

  • CD 3844 — Homage : chamber music from the African continent & diaspora.
  • CD 8206 — Mil coisas invisiveis / Tim Bernardes.
  • CD 8277 — Quarto libro de madrigali / Carlo Gesualdo
  • CD 29480 — Buck Clayton in Paris [sound recording].
  • CD 35535 — Dexter Gordon : bagarres de jeunesse.
  • CD 36257 — Benny Carter and his orchestra, 1943-1946 [sound recording].
  • CD 37324 — Virgo dance [sound recording] / Pat LaBarbera Quartet.
  • CD 48688 — Time flies (tempus fugit) [sound recording] / P. J. Perry
  • CD 49308 — Turangalîla symphony [sound recording] / Messiaen.
  • CD 70837 — Dreams of a new day : songs by black composers / Will Liverman, baritone ; Paul Sánchez, pianist.
  • CD 71331-71332 — Lemonade / [Beyoncé].
  • CD 73324 — ʻAjamlar : guzidahʹāyi az as̲ār-i ahang-i sāzān-i Īrānī va muʻāṣirīn-i shān darbār-i ʻUthmānī muqāran dawrahʹyī Ṣafawī = Ajamlar : An anthology of pieces by Persain composers and their contemporaries at the Ottoman Court from the 16th and 17th centuries/ compiled and arranged by Ârash Mohâfez.
  • CD 73326 — Āvāzhā-yi Iqbāl-i Az̲ar, 4 = Songs of Eqbâl Âzar, 4.
  • CD 74006 — Chahārsū = Châhârsu / arranged by Amir Sharifi ; vocals, Mehdi Emâmi.

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