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A CONCISE HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC. By Paul Griffiths. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN MUSIC. By Francis Maes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001,

A NED ROREM READER. By Ned Rorem; foreword by J. D. McClatchy. Yale University Press, 2001.

A PASSION FOR OPERA: Learning to Love it: The Greatest Masters, Their Greatest Music. By Peter Fox Smith. North Pomfret, Vermont: Trafalfar Square Publishing, 2004.

A SHOSTAKOVICH CASEBOOK. Edited by Malcolm Hamrick Brown. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2005.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POST-TRIDENTINE MASS PROPER. Musicological Studies and Documents 54. By Theodore Karp. Middleton, WI: The American Institute of Musicology, 2005. 2 vols; Part 1, Text, viii +

ARTURO TOSCANINI: THE NBC YEARS. By Mortimer H. Frank. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press.

BACH’S CHANGING WORLD: Voices in the Community. Edited by Carol K. Baron. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006.

BEETHOVEN (Life and Times). By Martin Geck (translation: Anthea Bell). Vermont: Haus Publishing, Distributed by Trafalgar Square Books, 2003.

BEETHOVEN'S PIANO SONATAS: A Short Companion. By Charles Rosen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. 256pp.

BRAHMS AND HIS WORLD: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. By Peter Clive. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2006.

BRAHMS’S SONG COLLECTIONS. By Inge Van Rij. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

BRUNO WALTER: A World Elsewhere. By Eric Ryding and Rebecca Pechevsky. Yale University Press, 2001.

CAGETALK: Dialogues With and About John Cage. Edited by Peter Dickinson. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006.

CALLING ON THE COMPOSER: A Guide to European Composer Houses and Museums. By Julie Anne Sadie and Stanley Sadie. New Haven and London. Yale University Press.

CHORAL MASTERWORKS: A Listener’s Guide. By Michael Steinberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiii +

CHORAL MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Nick Strimple. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2005.

COMPOSERS’ VOICES FROM IVES TO ELLINGTON: An Oral History of American Music. By Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005.

COVENT GARDEN: THE UNTOLD STORY—DISPATCHES FROM THE ENGLISH CULTURE WAR, 1945-2000. By Norman Lebrecht. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001.

DANIEL BARENBOIM: His Life, Music & Art. By John Attanas. Evanston: John Gordon Burke Publishing, Inc, 2007.

DEBUSSY: The Quiet Revolutionary. By Victor Lederer. New York, NY: Amadeus Press, 2007.

DISCOVERING MAHLER: Writings on Mahler, 1955–2005. By Donald Mitchell. Selected and Edited by Gastón Fournier-Facio and Richard Alston. Woodbridge and Rochester: The Boydell Press, 2007.

DIVAS ... IN THEIR OWN WORDS. By Andrew Palmer. Vernon Press, England. 350pp. Order direct from Vernon Press, 122 Vernon Ave., Old Basford, Nottingham NG6 OAL, England; include check for

EARLY MUSIC. By Denis Stevens. Kahn and Averill, London. 224pp. $?

FIRST NIGHTS AT THE OPERA. By Thomas Forrest Kelly. New Haven, CT. Yale University Press, 2004.

FRANCO CORELLI: Prince of Tenors. By René Seghers. New York: Amadeus Press, 2008.

Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Tour America. By Mary H. Wagner. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2006.

GUSTAV MAHLER: Letters to his Wife. Edited by Henry-Louis de la Grange and Günther Weiss in collaboration with Knud Martner. First complete edition revised and translated by Antony Beaumont. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2004.

HERBERT VON KARAJAN: The Maestro As Superstar. By Paul E. Robinson. iUniverse, Inc., 2007.

HOW EQUAL TEMPERAMENT RUINED HARMONY (and Why You Should Care). By Ross W. Duffin. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007.

HOW EQUAL TEMPERAMENT RUINED HARMONY, AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE. By Ross W. Duffin. New York. W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. Paperback.

I NEVER WALKED ALONE: The Autobiography of an American Singer. By Shirley Verrett, with Christopher Brooks. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

ISAAC STERN: My First 79 Years. By Isaac Stern, with Chaim Potok. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

JANÁČEK: A COMPOSER'S LIFE. By Mirka Zemanová. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.

JAZZ MODERNISM. By Alfred Appel, Jr. New York: Knopf, 2002.

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Life and Work. By Martin Geck. Translated by John Hargraves. New York: Harcourt, 2006.

JOHN STAINER: A Life in Music. By Jeremy Dibble. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007.

LIBER ANTIPHONARIUS PRO DIURNIS HORIS: Pars I, de tempore. Edited by the monks of Solesmes. Solesmes, 2005.

LONDON: A MUSICAL GAZETTEER. By Lewis and Susan Foreman. New Haven and London. Yale University Press.

MALCOLM ARNOLD: A Composer of Real Music. By Raphael D. Thöne. Edition Wissenschaft, 2007.

MASS AND PARISH IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: THE USE OF YORK. Edited by P. S. Barnwell, Claire Cross, and Ann Rycraft. Reading, England: Spire Books Ltd., 2005.

MASTERPIECES OF ITALIAN VIOLIN MAKING. By David Rattray. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2000.

MENDELSSOHN REMEMBERED. By Roger Nichols. New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., An affiliate of Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2001.

MOZART AND HIS OPERAS. By David Cairns. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2006.

MUSIC DOWNTOWN: Writings From The Village Voice. By Kyle Gann. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006.

MY ROAD TO RADIO AND THE VOCAL SCENE: Memoir of an Opera Commentator. By George Jellinek. North Carolina: McFarland, 2007.

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: The Authorized Recordings, 1917–2005, A Discography. By James H. North. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2006. xxviii &

OPERA’S FIRST MASTER: The musical dramas of Claudio Monteverdi. By Mark Ringer. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2006.

OUTSIDER: John Rockwell on the Arts. By John Rockwell. Pompton Plains, NJ: Limelight Editions, 2006.

PIERRE MONTEUX, MAÎTRE. By John Canarina. Milwaukee: Amadeus Press, 2003.

PLAYING THE BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS. By Robert Taub. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 2002. 258pp.

PRINCE OF VIRTUOSOS: A LIFE OF WALTER RUMMEL, AMERICAN PIANIST. By Charles Timbrell. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005.

ROSA RAISA. By Charles Mintzer. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001.

ROSTROPOVICH: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher and Legend. By Elizabeth Wilson. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008.

SCHOENBERG’S TRANSFORMATION OF MUSICAL LANGUAGE. By Ethan Haimo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

SCHUBERT IN THE EUROPEAN IMAGINATION. Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras. By Scott Messing. Rochester, NY: Univ. of Rochester Press, 2006.

SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONIES AND CONCERTOS: An Owner’s Manual. By David Hurwitz. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2006.

SIR GEORG SOLTI: His Life and Music. By Paul E. Robinson. Lincoln, NB: iUniverse, 2006.

SOUNDS FROM MY LIFE: Reminiscences of a Musician. By Xaver Scharwenka. Translation, William E. Petig. Introduction, Robert S. Feigelson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.

START-UP AT THE NEW MET: The Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts, 1966–1976. By Paul Jackson. Pompton Plains, New Jersey: Amadeus Press, 2006.

STRAVINSKY: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971. By Stephen Walsh. New York: Knopf, 2006.

TCHAIKOVSKY: A Listener’s Guide. By Daniel Felsenfeld. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2006.

THE BIRTH OF THE ORCHESTRA: History of an Institution, 1650–1815. By John Spitzer and Neal Zaslaw. New York: Oxford, 2004.

THE CAMBRIDGE MOZART ENCYCLOPEDIA. Edited by Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

THE CLASSICAL GOOD CD & DVD GUIDE—2005. Teddington, Middlesex: Gramophone Publications Limited, 2005.

THE COMPOSER-PIANISTS: HAMELIN AND THE EIGHT. By Robert Rimm. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. 2002.

THE ESSENTIAL CANON OF CLASSICAL MUSIC. By David Dubai. New York: North Point Press, 2001.

THE FALLEN NIGHTINGALE. By John W. Milton. Edina, MN: Swan Books, Beaver’s Pond Press, Inc., 2004.

THE FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS. Edited and introduced by William Pearson Edwards, prologue by Stephen Cleobury. New York: Universe Publishing, 2004.

THE GIRL IN ROSE: Haydn’s Last Love. By Peter Hobday. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2005.

THE INFINITE VARIETY OF MUSIC. By Leonard Bernstein. New York: Amadeus Press, 2007.

THE JOHN ADAMS READER: Essential Writings on an American Composer. Edited by Thomas May. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2006.

THE LABEL: The Story of Columbia Records. By Gary Marmorstein. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007.

THE LETTERS OF ARTURO TOSCANINI. Edited by Harvey Sachs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 468pp. Cloth,

THE MAHLER SYMPHONIES: An Owner’s Manual. By David Hurwitz. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2004.

THE MUSICAL MADHOUSE. By Hector Berlioz. Translated and edited by Alastair Bruce. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003.

THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, SECOND EDITION. Edited by Stanley Sadie. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001. 29 vols.

THE NEW GROVE GUIDE TO MOZART AND HIS OPERAS. By Julian Rushton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

THE NEW GROVE GUIDE TO VERDI AND HIS OPERAS. By Roger Parker. New York: Oxford UP, 2007.

THE NEW YORK TIMES ESSENTIAL LIBRARY: OPERA . By Anthony Tommasini, New York: Times Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2004.

THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN LIED. By Lorraine Gorrell. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2005.

THE PRIMA DONNA AND OPERA, 1815-1930. By Susan Rutherford. Cambridge, New York, et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

THE REDEEMER REBORN: Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of Wagner’s Ring. By Paul Schofield. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2007. 307pp.

THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century. By Alex Ross. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.

The Solo Cantata in 18th Century Britain. By Paul F. Rice. Warren, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 2003.

THE SYMPHONY IN BEETHOVEN’S VIENNA. By David Wyn Jones. Cambridge, New York, et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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THE VIOLIN MAKER: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop. By John Marchese. New York City. HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. xii +

THEREMIN: ETHER MUSIC AND ESPIONAGE. By Albert Glinsky. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Tristan und Isolde on Record. Compiled by Jonathan Brown. Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2000 (Discographies, No. 85).

VERDI’S AIDA: A Record of the Life of the Opera On and Off Stage. By Clyde T. McCants. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. Paperback.

Voices In The Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers. By Walter Simmons. Latham, MD; Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2004.

WAGNER MOMENTS: A Celebration of Favorite Wagner Experiences Edited by J. K. Holman. New Jersey: Amadeus Press, 2007. 231pp. Paperback.

WESTERN PLAINCHANT IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM. Edited by Sean Gallagher, James Haar, John Nádas, and Timothy Striplin. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003. xix +

WHO NEEDS CLASSICAL MUSIC? By Julian Johnson. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

WILD HARMONIES: A Life of Music and Wolves. By Hélène Grimaud. New York: Riverhead, 2006.

WINIFRED WAGNER: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth. By Brigitte Hamann. Translated by Alan Bance. New York: Harcourt, 2006.

WITH VOICE AND PEN. By Leo Treitler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

YEVGENI MRAVINSKY: The Noble Conductor. By Gregor Tassie. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005.

ZAGAT SURVEY MUSIC GUIDE. New York: Zagat Survey LLC, 2003.