Recent Acquisitions

Check out the new books, scores, and recordings added to our shelves over the last two weeks. View our weekly highlights in the New Arrivals display at the library or jump to the complete list of new scores, books, eBooks, and CDs.

Weekly highlights

Front cover of Music and democracyKölbl, Marko, and Fritz Trümpi, eds. 2021. Music and Democracy : Participatory Approaches. Vienna: MDW Press. [ML3916 .M8536 2021]

Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through music technology to the use of music in imposing authoritarian, neoliberal or even fascist political ideas in the past and present up to music's impact on political systems, governmental representation, and socio-political realities. The volume further features approaches in the fields of gender, migration, disability, and digitalization.

Front cover of Three Schenkerian-based studiesBeach, David. 2022. Three Schenkerian-Based Studies of Chamber Works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. [MT140 .B433 2022]

Three Schenkerian-Based Studies is an in-depth examination of three giants of the 19th-century chamber music literature: Mendelssohn's Sixth String Quartet in F Minor, op. 80, written in 1847 in response to the death of his sister, Fanny Hensel; Schumann's ground-breaking Piano Quintet in E-flat, op. 44, written in 1842; and Brahms's dynamic Piano Quintet in F Minor, op. 34, of 1862. This volume is unique in at least two respects: first, it presents the only complete study of these three important works; and second, it contains detailed Schenkerian graphs of all twelve movements, which should be of considerable value to all those interested in Schenker's ideas and their application. In addition, the consideration of voice-leading structure is, in all cases, preceded by a thorough discussion of aspects of formal design, and, where appropriate, observations on narrative/programmatic matters.

Front cover of This must be the placeShapiro, Shain. 2023. This Must Be the Place : How Music Can Make Your City Better. London, United Kingdom: Repeater. [ML3916 .S45 2023Y]

This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music's relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed. Told in an accessible way through personal stories from cities around the world--including London, Melbourne, Nashville, Austin and Zurich--This Must Be the Place takes a truly global perspective on the ways music is integral to everyday life but neglected in public policy. Arguing for the transformative role of artists and musicians in a post-pandemic world, This Must Be The Place not only examines the powerful impact music can have on our cities, but also serves as a how-to guide and toolkit for music-lovers, artists and activists everywhere to begin the process of reinventing the communities they live in.

Front cover of Queer arrangementsBarg, Lisa. 2023. Queer Arrangements : Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. [ML410 .S9325 B37 2023X]

The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger, and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) hovers at the edge of canonical jazz narratives. Queer Arrangements explores the ways in which Strayhorn's identity as an openly gay Black jazz musician shaped his career, including the creative roles he could assume and the dynamics between himself and his collaborators, most famously Duke Ellington, but also iconic singers such as Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald. This new portrait of Strayhorn combines critical, historically-situated close readings of selected recordings, scores, and performances with biography and cultural theory to pursue alternative interpretive jazz possibilities, Black queer historical routes, and sounds. By looking at jazz history through the instrument(s) of Strayhorn's queer arrangements, this book sheds new light on his music and on jazz collaboration at midcentury.

Front cover of But will you love me tomorrow?Flam, Laura, and Emily Sieu Liebowitz. 2023. But Will You Love Me Tomorrow? : An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups. First edition. New York, NY: Hachette Books. [ML82 .B89 2023X]

The Girl Group Sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mix of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to number one, Girl Groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of teenage rock and roll fans, indelibly shaping the trajectory of pop music in the process. But the story of the Girl Group Sound is also one of race and power. The women, most of whom were Black and many of whom were only teenagers when their first songs were recorded, were cultivated, packaged, and sold by a music industry that cut them out of the lion's share of their profits. And though the women's careers would take them on tour with Civil Rights leaders and to performances at some of the earliest desegregated concerts, many found themselves cast aside as trends shifted in favor of the largely white British Invasion of the mid to late '60s. While the voices of the Girl Group Sound have become essential to the American canon, many of the artists remain all but anonymous to most listeners. Weaving together over 300 hours of interviews across more than ninety subjects, But Will You Love Me Tomorrow: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups gives voice to the many women of the era who have long been consigned to silence. Through the chorus formed by their collective voice in these pages, But Will You Love Me Tomorrow is a distinctly American coming-of-age story-it's a story of girls finding their footing as young women, of artistic success and struggle, and of the inequity faced by women of color in this country.

Front cover of Easily slip into another worldThreadgill, Henry, and Brent Hayes Edwards. 2023. Easily Slip into Another World : A Life in Music. First edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. [ML410 .T4534 A3 2023X]

An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art. Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists (along with Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis) to have won a Pulitzer Prize. In Easily Slip into Another World, Threadgill recalls his childhood and upbringing in Chicago, his family life and education, and his brilliant career in music. Here are riveting recollections of the music scene in Chicago in the early 1960s, when Threadgill developed his craft among friends and schoolmates who would go on to form the core of the highly influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM); the year and a half he spent touring with an evangelical preacher in the mid-1960s; his military service in Vietnam—a riveting tale in itself, but also representative of an under-recognized aspect of jazz history, given the number of musicians in Threadgill’s generation who served in the armed forces. We appreciate his genius as he travels to the Netherlands, Venezuela, Trinidad, Sicily, and Goa enriching his art; immerses himself in the volatile downtown scene in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s; collaborates with choreographers, writers, and theater directors as well as an astonishing range of musicians, from AACM stalwarts (Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and Leroy Jenkins), to Chicago bluesmen, downtown luminaries, and world music innovators; shares his impressions of the recording industry his perspectives on music education and the history of Black music in the United States; and, of course, accounts for his work with the various ensembles he has directed over the past five decades.

Front cover of Psalms, Islam, and ShalomSarwar, Eric. 2023. Psalms, Islam, and Shalom  : A Common Heritage of Divine Songs for Muslim-Christian Friendship. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. [ML3921 .S27 2023Y]

The Muslim tradition of poetry, sacred hymns, and the oral performative practice of cantillation affords great potential for bonding people across religious lines. The common sacred text of the Psalms and cultural musical tunes provide a rich and robust context for religious dialogue. For the last fourteen centuries, a gap of mutual suspicion and hostility has existed between Christians and Muslims, despite attempts to engage theologically, apologetically, and polemically. This book proposes a creative strategy for building Muslim-Christian friendship by using the lyrical poetry of the Psalms translated into the vernacular and set to culturally relevant music.

Front cover of Ancient song recoveredDaitz, Mimi S., and Veljo Tormis. 2022. Ancient Song Recovered : The Life and Music of Veljo Tormis. New edition, Revised and Augmented. Tartu, Estonia: Univerity of Tartu Press. [ML410 .T682 D35 2022Y]

This new edition extends the composer's biography from 2000 to 2017, considers his influence on other composers, updates the bibliography, provides access to its sound examples via the internet, and corrects the typographical errors of the 1st edition.

Front cover of The Land is sungPooley, Thomas M. 2023. The Land Is Sung : Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. [ML3917 .S62 P65 2023X]

In The Land is Sung, Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and genealogies. The dynamics of governance and tradition are explored in studies of rural and migrant communities in the midlands and borderlands of South Africa. Pooley theorizes the politics of performance through a series of critical interventions in postcolonial debates on land, identity, language, education, and environmental ethics.

Front cover of Musique en UtopieFauquet, Joël-Marie. 2019. Musique en Utopie : les voies de l’euphonie sociale de Thomas More à Hector Berlioz. Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses. [ML3916 .F374 2019]

Dans les "pays de nulle part" inventés par François Rabelais, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jacques Cazotte ou Casanova, puis dans les utopies sociales conçues par Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier ou Étienne Cabet, la musique est plus qu'un apparat rituel ou un art de divertissement. Reconnue comme un langage supérieur à tout autre, elle est un moyen de connaissance qui soutient un projet politique. Si l'utopie n'existe pas sans la musique, que nous apprend-elle au juste sur celle-ci ? Existe-t-il une musique utopique ? Pour la première fois, un ouvrage traite de façon globale de la place et du rôle de la musique dans les utopies publiées à la suite d'Utopia de Thomas More (1516). En effet, la musique est le seul art pratiqué explicitement dans les sociétés idéales. L'itinéraire tracé par cet essai à travers soixante-quinze utopies, uchronies ou dystopies est enrichi de nombreuses citations. Il aboutit à Euphonia, ou la Ville musicale d'Hector Berlioz (1844), où l'orchestre moderne, parvenu à son complet développement, est une communauté harmonieuse qui s'accorde à la technicité de l'ère industrielle.

Descriptions for each item provided by the publisher and/or from the catalogue description.

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Keep reading for the complete list of new scores, books, and eBooks, and CDs.

Scores

  • M127 .N53 O43 2023 — Omega for Gilbert : for solo guitar (2023) / George Nicholson.
  • M147 .A23 S4 2022 — Spiel : solo for glockenspiel (2013, rev. 2020) / Andy Akiho.
  • M287 — Šárka : duo lyrique in three acts for violin and cello / Fabrice Bollon ; arrangement based on the opera by Leoš Janáček.
  • M298 .K67 P47 2023 — Perpetuum mobile : for violin and marimba / Anders Koppel.
  • M312 .B97 W35 2023 — A walk to Kungsbacka : for piano trio : 2021 / Britta Byström.
  • M462 .C18 T. 145-150 2023 — Sei quartetti concertanti : per flauto, violino, viola e violoncello / Giuseppe Maria Cambini.
  • M512.4 .S69 op. 87 2023 — Kwintet na fortepian, skrzypce, altówkę, wiolonczelę i kontrabas = Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass : op. 87 / Wojciech Sowiński ; redakcja Anna Prabucka-Firlej, Adam Bruderek & Krzysztof Sperski.
  • M562 .R45 V37 2023 — Variationen : für Fagott und Streichquartett = Variations : for bassoon and string quartetVariations : pour basson et quatuor à cordes / Anton Reicha ; herausgegeben von = eidted by = édité par Bodo Koenigsbeck.
  • M657 .C37 P3 no. 1 2023 — Parthia Nr. 1 (Es-Dur) für 2 Klarinetten, 2 Hörner und 2 Fagotte / Anton Cartellieri ; Hrsgb., Hanno Fendt.
  • M657 .C37 P3 no. 2 2022 — Parthia Nr. 2 (Es-Dur) für 2 Klarinetten, 2 Hörner und 2 Fagotte / Anton Cartellieri ; Hrsgb., Hanno Fendt.
  • M847 — Orpheus falling : für 8 Musiker, 2014 / Sarah Nemtsov.
  • M922 — Fuggitivo : for 9 players (2023) / Bent Sørensen.
  • M1045 .R552 J3 2022 — Jagden und Formen : für Orchester : (1995/2001, Zustand 2008) / Wolfgang Rihm.
  • M1060 .B8 U75 2022 — Hungarian dances no. 5 & 6 / Johannes Brahms ; orchestrated by Albert Parlow.
  • M1531 .S67 B53 2023 — Blade springer : for kor (12 stemmer) og strygekvartet : (2023) / Bent Sørensen ; tekst: Juliane Preisler.
  • M1613.3 .A5585 I53 2022 — In glow of like seclusion : Kantate nach Texten aus "Or scissel" von J. H. Prynne : für Sopran und Ensemble / Samuel Andreyev.
  • M1614 — Appunto di viaggio no 3 : da una lirica di Antonio Machado : (Antonio Machado - Sonaba el reloj la una - terza strofa) : (1955) : per basso e orchestra / Sylvano Bussotti.
  • M1625 — Seven thoughts : for sampler keyboard with voice, 2018 / Sarah Nemtsov.
  • M2010 .T673 O5 2023 — Misa a 5 : "Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum" : (1725) / José de Torres.
  • M2020 .T35 E83 2022 — Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl : Kantate zum 8. Sonntag nach Trinitatis für zwei Violinen, Viola, Alt, Tenor, Bass, vierstimmig gem. Chor und Generalbass, TVWV 1:533a / Georg Philipp Telemann ; herausgegeben von Peter Albrecht.
  • M2020 .T35 S43 2022 — Der Segen des Herrn macht reich ohne Mühe : Kantate zum 5. Sonntag nach Trinitatis : für zwei Violinen, Viola, Alt, Tenor, Bass, vierstimmig gem. Chor und Generalbass, TVWV 1:310 / Georg Philipp Telemann ; herausgegeben von Peter Albrecht.
  • M2021 .L54 W47 2022 — Wer Gott und seine Gnade hat : Kantate zum Sonntag Sexagesimae / Liebhold ; herausgegeben von Peter Albrecht
  • M2092 .M47 M68 2023Y — Il primo libro de motetti, e sonate concertati : op. 6 (1624) / Tarquinio Merula ; edited by Jonathan P. Wainwright.

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Books

  • ML26 .J644 2023X — Circle of winners : how the Guggenheim Foundation composition awards shaped American music culture / Denise Von Glahn.
  • ML60 .C66 2023Y — Music : why it matters / Nicholas Cook.
  • ML285.6 .S38 2023X — Music farther outside : experimental music during Brexit and the pandemic / Bill Shoemaker.
  • ML410 .P14 P3713 2022X — The partimenti of Giovanni Paisiello : pedagogy and practice / Nicoleta Paraschivescu ; translated by Chris Walton.
  • ML410 .S3 R87 2023X — Schubert's instrumental music and poetics of interpretation / René Rusch.
  • ML420 .D98 M48 2023X — Blood in the tracks : the Minnesota musicians behind Dylan's masterpiece / Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik.
  • ML431 .R36 2022Y — Sounding the Word of God : Carolingian books for singers / Susan Rankin.
  • ML1460 .C65 2023Y — Crooner : singing from the heart from Sinatra to Nas / Alex Coles.
  • ML3195 .S323 2022 — "The soul seeks its melodies" : music in Jewish thought / Dov Schwartz ; translated by Batya Stein.
  • ML3531 .M16 2023X — Harlem world : how hip hop's super showdown changed music forever / Jonathan Mael.
  • ML3776 .E45 2023X — Time's echo : the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the music of remembrance / Jeremy Eichler.
  • ML3790 .M668 2023X — Sounds Irish, acts global : explaining the success of Ireland's popular music industry / Michael Mary Murphy and Jim Rogers.
  • ML3799 .C66 2022Y — Contact languages and music / edited by Andrea Hollington, Joseph T. Farquharson, Byron M. Jones Jr.
  • ML3800 .M295 2023X — Science, music, and mathematics : the deepest connections / Michael Edgeworth McIntyre, University of Cambridge, UK.
  • ML3845 .B6675 2022 — Ontologie phénoménologique de la musique : les œuvres et leurs interprétations / Jean-Marie Brohm.
  • ML3849 .K47 2022X — The music of the spheres in the Western imagination / David J. Kendall.
  • ML3849 .M9354 2023X — Music and visual culture in Renaissance Italy / edited by Chriscinda Henry and Tim Shephard.
  • ML3916 .C455 2022 — Les Champs musicaux et sonores de la barbarie moderne / Ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Cécile Auzolle et Nathan Réra.
  • ML3916 .M853 2023 — Music and death : funeral music, memory and re-evaluating life / edited by Wolfgang Marx.
  • ML3917 .M66 M66 2022X — Mongolian sound worlds / edited by Jennifer C. Post, Sunmin Yoon, and Charlotte D'Evelyn.
  • ML3917 .U6 H67 2023X — The propaganda of freedom : JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the cultural cold war / Joseph Horowitz.
  • MT260 .T37 2023X — The living art of violin playing : progressive form / Maureen Taranto-Pyatt, with Peter Stickel.

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eBooks

CDs

  • CD 1397 — Concerto for orchestra [sound recording] / Bartók. Sinfonietta / Janáček.
  • CD 3764 — The Threepenny opera / Kurt Weill ; text, Bertolt Brecht.
  • CD 3936 — Street scene [sound recording] : an American opera / Kurt Weill.
  • CD 6998 — Le Carnaval Romain = (The Roman Carnival) ; Symphonie fantastique = (Fantastic Symphony) / Berlioz.
  • CD 6999 — Atlantis : oratorio for soprano, baritone, 2 harps solo, mixed choir, and orchestra / Robin De Raaff.
  • CD 7004 — Tales from Norway / Krishna Nagaraja.
  • CD 7005-7008 — Jussi Björling live : broadcast concerts 1937-1960.
  • CD 7014 — The tell-tale heart / Willem Jeths.
  • CD 7015 — Senza sangue / Péter Eötvös.
  • CD 7016 — Rebellion(s).
  • CD 29777 — Four German songs [sound recording] ; Four impressions ; Song of the dagger ; The pleasure-dome of Kubla Khan ; Three poems of Fiona MacLeod, op. 11 ; Three tone-pictures, op. 5 / Charles Tomlinson Griffes.
  • CD 33520 — Afro-American symphony / William Grant Still. "Gaelic" symphony, op. 32 / Amy Beach.
  • CD 48659 — Shadows of a brighter day [sound recording] / Tyler Hornby.
  • CD 51824 — The summit [sound recording] / Johannes Wallmann Quintet.
  • CD 75891 — Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
  • DVD 0803 — Music of Yarsan : a living tradition = Mūsīqá yārisān-i : yik sunnat zindah / a presentation of the Mahoor Institute of Culture and Arts ; producer, Partow Hooshmandrad.

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