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November 18, 2005
Below are some new music books we have aquired since September of this year.
Women and music in America since 1900 : an encyclopedia
by Kristine H. Burns.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Women musicians -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Encyclopedias.
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- Encyclopedias.
Call Number: ML82 .W625 2002.
The Harvard dictionary of music
edited by Don Michael Randel.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Music -- Dictionaries.
Call Number: ML100 .A64 2003.
All music guide to country : the definitive guide to country music
edited by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine.
San Francisco : Backbeat Books, c2003.
Country music -- Discography.
Sound recordings -- Reviews.
Call Number: ML156.4.C7 A45 2003.
Satchmo : the Louis Armstrong encyclopedia
by Michael Meckna.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 -- Encyclopedias.
Call Number: ML419.A75 M45 2004.
Finding an ending : reflections on Wagner's ring
by Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Call Number: ML410.W1 K57 2004.
Face to face with orchestra and chorus : a handbook for choral conductors
by Don V Moses, Robert W. Demaree, Jr. and Allen F. Ohmes.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
Conducting.
Choral music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.).
Orchestral music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.).
Call Number: MT85 .M68 2004.
The rose & the briar : death, love and liberty in the American ballad
edited by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
Ballads, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
Death in music.
Love songs -- United States -- History and criticism.
Liberty -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
Call Number: ML3551 .R67 2005.
The Cambridge history of twentieth-century music
edited by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Call Number: ML197 .C26 2004.
Country music goes to war
edited by Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.
Country music -- History and criticism.
Country music -- Social aspects.
Music and war.
Political ballads and songs -- History and criticism.
Call Number: ML3524 .C695 2005.
People get ready! : a new history of black gospel music
by Robert Darden.
New York : Continuum, 2004.
Gospel music -- History and criticism.
Call Number: ML3187 .D37 2004.
The Mahler symphonies : an owner's manual
by David Hurwitz.
Pompton Plains, NJ : Amadeus Press, 2004.
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Symphonies.
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Lied von der Erde.
Symphonies -- Analysis, appreciation.
Call Number: ML410.M23 H86 2004.
Point from which creation begins : the black artists' group of St. Louis
by Benjamin Looker.
St. Louis : Missouri Historical Society Press : Distributed by University of Missouri Press, c2004.
Black Artists' Group.
Jazz -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History and criticism.
African American musicians -- Missouri -- Saint Louis.
Call Number: ML3508.8.S7 L66 2004.
Arrest the music! : Fela and his rebel art and politics
by Tejumola Olaniyan.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
Fela, 1938-
Musicians -- Nigeria -- Biography.
Afrobeat -- Nigeria -- History and criticism.
Call Number: ML420.F333 O43 2004.
The rise and fall of the Broadway musical
by Mark N. Grant.
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2004.
Musicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
Broadway (New York, N.Y.).
Call Number: ML1711.8.N3 G727 2004.
Like a rolling stone : Bob Dylan at the crossroads
by Greil Marcus.
New York : PublicAffairs, c2005.
Dylan, Bob, 1941- Like a rolling stone.
Call Number: ML420.D98 M163 2005.
Capturing sound : how technology has changed music
by Mark Katz.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
Sound recording industry.
Music and technology.
Call Number: ML3790 .K277 2004.
String bands in the North Carolina Piedmont
by Bob Carlin ; with a foreword by Steve Terrill.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2004.
String band music -- North Carolina -- History.
String bands -- North Carolina.
Call Number: ML3520 .C37 2004.
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