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Exploring U2: Is this Rock 'n' Roll? - Essays on the Music, Work, and Influence of U2 by Call Number: ML 421 .U2 E97 2012ISBN: 9780810881570Publication Date: 2011-10-13
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Call Number: ML 395 .T94 2024ISBN: 9780358380436Publication Date: 2024-05-07
So You Want to Sing Musical Theatre: A Guide for Performers by Call Number: MT 956 .F59 2022ISBN: 9781538156322Publication Date: 2022-06-15
Being True to Works of Music by Call Number: ML 3853 .D63 2020ISBN: 9780198859482Publication Date: 2020-09-14
Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets by Call Number: NK 410 .B566 R37 2021ISBN: 9781648250057Publication Date: 2021-01-21
Charlie Parker, Composer by Call Number: ML 419 .P4 M38 2020ISBN: 9780190923389Publication Date: 2020-05-19
Mahler in Context by Call Number: ML 410 .M23 M2333 2022ISBN: 9781108438353Publication Date: 2022-11-10
Rap and Hip Hop Culture, 2nd Edition by Call Number: ML 3531 .O74 2022ISBN: 9780190852283Publication Date: 2021-05-03
Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music by Call Number: ML 3477 .W457 2021ISBN: 9781478014089Publication Date: 2021-05-28
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia by Call Number: REF ML 410 .S6872 P46 2021ISBN: 9781538115862Publication Date: 2021-04-15
Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Call Number: ML 197 .A87 2013ISBN: 9780393929201Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music by Call Number: ML 410 .V76 A94 2022ISBN: 9781666911350Publication Date: 2022-07-19
Inside Mahler's Second Symphony: A Listener's Guide by Call Number: ML 410 .M23 B48 2022ISBN: 9780197575642Publication Date: 2022-03-11
Nothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge by Call Number: ML 3807 .W25 2022ISBN: 9780190495107Publication Date: 2022-02-04
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Call Number: ML 3508 .O48 2022ISBN: 9780231189187Publication Date: 2022-03-15
Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment by Call Number: ML 82 .C96 2022ISBN: 9780226817910Publication Date: 2022-05-20
Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural by Call Number: ML 3916 .F693 2021ISBN: 9780190855475Publication Date: 2021-08-11
Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy by Call Number: ML 410 .S6872 S55 2023ISBN: 9780762482351Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History by Call Number: ML 3534.3 .E6505 2023ISBN: 9781496848413Publication Date: 2023-10-30
Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art by Call Number: KD 379 .W47 M87 2023ISBN: 9781639364916Publication Date: 2023-12-05
From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love it by Call Number: ML 3830 .Z27 2024ISBN: 9780197558287Publication Date: 2023-12-15
Selected E-Books
Fifty Years of the Concept Album in Popular Music: From the Beatles to Beyoncé by ISBN: 9781501391804Publication Date: 2024-02-08
The Evolution of Music Through Culture and Science by ISBN: 9780198848400Publication Date: 2020-01-25
So You Want to Sing Early Music: A Guide for Performers by ISBN: 9781538105900Publication Date: 2019
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Recent Titles in Print
Find these titles and many others in the Music Reference and Music circulating collections shelved in the basement of Montgomery Library:
| REFERENCE | ||
| MUSIC REF ML 128 .C4 H5 2021 | Piano in Chamber Ensemble, 3rd Edition | |
| MUSIC REF ML 410 .S6872 P46 2021 | The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia | |
| SOCIOLOGY | ||
| HM 646.2 .P86 P86 2021 | Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media | |
| MUSIC: COLLECTIONS, INSTRUMENTAL, VOCAL, SACRED | ||
| M 1629.7 .H4 L45 2019 | Lei Nahonoapi'ilani: Songs of West Maui | |
| THE FIELD OF MUSIC | ||
| ML 82 .B5 2021 | Fempoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music | |
| ML 82 .B27 2021 | Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South | |
| ML 82 .C96 2022 | Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment | |
| ML 82 .W53 2019 | Ritual Soundings: Women Performers & World Religions | |
| ML 113 .S28 2020 | Music Research | |
| ML 128 .P3 H534 2024 | The Pianist's Bookshelf: A Practical Guide to Books, Videos, and Other Resources | |
| MUSIC HISTORY | ||
| ML 197 .A87 2013 | Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries | |
| ML 330.5 .F37 2019 | Inside Arabic Music | |
| ML 344 .L83 2019 | Music of a Thousand Years | |
| ML 348 .M87 2021 | Music in Arabia: Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation | |
| Ml 390 .D78 2021 | Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned | |
| ML 395 .T94 2024 | The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America | |
| ML 410 .B4 B58 2020 | Beethoven: Variations on a Life | |
| ML 410 .B4 L598 2020 | Beethoven's Lives: The Biographical Tradition | |
| ML 410 .B566 R37 2021 | Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets | |
| ML 410 .B8 M32 2021 |
Brahams in the Priesthood or Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century Musical Imagination | |
| ML 410 .C756 M95 2020 | Aaron Copland's Hollywood Film Scores | |
| ML 410 .I94 B49 2021 | Listen to Charles Ives: Variations on His America | |
| ML 410 .K732 D37 2020 | Zoltan Kodaly's World of Music | |
| ML 410 .M23 B48 2022 | Inside Mahler's Second Symphony: A Listener's Guide | |
| ML 410 .M23 J669 2020 | The Eighth: Mahler and the World of 1910 | |
| ML 410 .M23 M2333 2022 | Mahler in Context | |
| ML 410 .M595 B45 2019 | Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint Francois D'Assise | |
| ML 410 .S6872 S55 2023 | Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy | |
| ML 410 .S8163 S65 2020 | Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer | |
| ML 410 .T83 N35 2021 | Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor's Music | |
| ML 410 .V76 A94 2022 | Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music | |
| ML 417 .S4 S87 2021 | Becoming Clara Schumann: Performance Strategies in the Culture of the Musical Canon | |
| ML 419.4 P4 M38 2020 | Charlie Parker, Composer | |
| ML 420 .H1135 K37 2022 |
Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era | |
| ML 421 .U2 E97 2012 | Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll? - Essays on the Music, Work, and Influence of U2 | |
| ML 650 .B685 2021 | Piano-Playing Revisited: What Modern Players Can Learn from Period Instruments | |
| ML 651 .C36 2019 | The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord | |
| ML 1005 .A8313 2019 | Guide to the Contemporary Harp | |
| ML 1015 .M25 B47 2020 | The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and Legacy | |
| ML 1723.8 .V6 B18 2021 | The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna | |
| ML 2075 .C3706 2022 | Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz | |
| ML 2075 .H317 2022 | Film Music: An Introduction in 11 Takes | |
| ML 2827 .L3913 2021 | Le Chant Intime: The Interpretation of French Melodie | |
| ML 3111.4 .M47 2020 | Gems of Exquisite Beauty: How Hymnody Carried Classical Music to America | |
| ML 3477 .B68 2020 | The Pop, Rock and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates | |
| ML 3477 .S67 2021 | Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music | |
| ML 3477 .W457 2021 | Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music | |
| ML 3477.9 .N48 L36 2021 | New York and the International Sound of Latin Music 1940-1990 | |
| ML 3506 .G54 2021 | The History of Jazz (3rd Edition) | |
| ML 3508 .O48 2022 | Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture | |
| ML 3508 .S95 2021 | Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019) | |
| ML 3524 .N42 2019 | Country Music: a Cultural and Stylistic History | |
| ML 3531 .O74 2022 | Rap and Hip Hop Culture; 2nd Edition | |
| ML 3534.3 .E6505 2023 | Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History | |
| ML 3537 .L67 2020 | The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s | |
| ML 3550 .M88 2019 | Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America | |
| ML 3775 .E27 B46 2019 | Singing and Survival: the Music of Easter Island | |
| ML 3798 .S37 2019 | Living Ethnomusicology | |
| ML 3799 .C85 2019 | Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy | |
| PHILOSOPHY & PHYSICS OF MUSIC | ||
| ML 3807 .W25 2022 | Nothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge | |
| ML 3813 .I86 2020 | Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body | |
| ML 3830 .J87 2019 | Musical Emotions Explained: Unlocking the Secrets of the Musical Affect | |
| ML 3830 .O88 2019 | The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body | |
| ML 3830 .S696 2020 | A History of Emotion in Western Music: A Thousand Years from Chant to Pop | |
| ML 3830 .Z27 2024 | From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love it | |
| ML 3853 .D63 2020 | Being True to Works of Muisc | |
| ML 3880 .S515 2019 | Good Music | |
| ML 3915 .H43 2019 | Hearing the Crimean War | |
| ML 3916 .F693 2021 | Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural | |
| ML 3917 .E85 M875 2020 | Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States | |
| ML 3918 .R37 K37 2020 | Build: the Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World | |
| ML 3921 .M883 2019 | Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements | |
| ML 3921.2 .A75 2019 | Music and Faith: Conversations in a Post-Secular Age | |
| MUSICAL INSTRUCTION | ||
| MT 1 .C835 2022 | Critical Issues in Music Education: Contemporary Theory and Practice | |
| MT 1 .J679 2021 | Values and Music Education | |
| MT 44 .B4 2020 | The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century | |
| MT 64.V53 K45 2020 | The Game Music Handbook: A Practical Guide to Crafting an Unforgettable Musical Soundscape | |
| MT 68 .M617 2020 | The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation | |
| MT 68 .T73 2020 | A Case for Charpentier: Treatise on Accompaniment and Composition | |
| MT 232 .B34 2021 | The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering | |
| MT 956 .F59 2022 | So You Want to Sing Musical Theatre: A Guide for Performers | |
| TECHNOLOGY | ||
| TD 893.5 .B6 C37 2019 | Sound-Politics in Sao Paulo | |
| LAW | ||
| KD 379 .W47 M87 2023 | Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art |
Masters' Theses by CU Students
| Barroos, Claudiane Florencio Soares de | An Introduction to the Hymn Tunes of Ralph Manuel |
| Castro, Marlon dos Santos | The Harmonic Application of Impressionism Into Selected Works by Antonio Carlos Jobim |
| Huang, Yun-Hsuan Huang | Deng Yu-Xian (1906-1944): Composer of Taiwanese Ballads |
| Ludden, Yawen | Musicians in Shanghai During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976): An Introduction with Representative Case Study |
| Neto, Leon Guedes Correia | An Investigation on Handel's Chamber Duets of 1741 and the Reasons for Their Composition |
| Silva, Cristina Soares da | A Historical Introduction and Study of the Music Program at the Kentucky School for the Deaf |
| Santos, Josevania Machado da Silva | Significant Women in Early Twentieth-Century Brazilian Music |
| Souza, Danielle Batista Silva de | An Examination of Brazilian Folk Music Elements and Their Transference to Classical Suites for Piano |
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