Books Recently Published

This column is compiled quarterly based on the output of the monographic music cataloging units of the Library of Congress. Entries appear on the list as they are cataloged by the library, regardless of the date of publication.

English

Abraham, Gerald. 100 years of music: after Beethoven and Wagner. 3d ed. New Brunswick: AldineTransaction, 2008. 320 p. ISBN 9780202361949. LC 2008-002001.

Originally published: Chicago: Aldine, A hundred years of music, 1964.

Abrams, Dennis. Beastie Boys. New York: Chelsea House, 2007. 104 p. ISBN 9780791094808 (hbk.). ISBN 0791094804 (hbk.). LC 2007-000970.

Hip-hop stars

Aczon, Michael A. The musician's legal companion. 2d ed. Boston, MA: Thomson Course Technology, 2008. xii, 208 p. ISBN 9781598635072. ISBN 1598635077. LC 2008-920137.

Rev. of: The professional musician's legal companion. Michael A. Aczon.

Adams, David. A handbook of diction for singers: Italian, German, French. 2d ed.New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xix, 227 p. ISBN 9780195325584 (alk. paper). ISBN 9780195325591 (alk. paper). LC 2007-001876.

Adams, Michelle Medlock. Jessica Simpson. Hockessin, DE: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2008. 32 p. ISBN 9781584156161 (library bound). LC 2007-019681.

Blue banner biographies

Auguste, Joyce, et al. The Royal Saint Lucia Police Band 60th Anniversary: 1947-2007. Ed. by Katy J. Gash. Saint Lucia: Right Angle Imaging, 2007. viii, 47 p. LC 2008-391122.

Bailey, Tom. Hank Williams Sr.: country music legend. Birmingham, AL: Seacoast Pub., 2008. 104 p. ISBN 1594210438. LC 2007-907364.

Alabama roots biography series

Bailey, Terence, and László Dobszay, eds. Studies in medieval chant and liturgy in honour of David Hiley. Budapest, Hungary: Institute for Musicology; Ottawa, Canada: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2007. v, 519 p. ISBN 1896926894. ISBN 9781896926896. LC 2008-353222.

Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen; Bd. 87 17 contributions in English, 2 in German, 1 in French, and 1 in Italian.

Barham, Jeremy, ed. The Cambridge companion to Mahler. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxiv, 342 p. ISBN 9780521832731 (hbk.). ISBN 052183273X (hbk.). ISBN 9780521540339 (pbk.). ISBN 052154033X (pbk.). LC 2008-271045.

Cambridge companions to music

Barnett, Anthony. Listening for Henry Crowder: a monograph on his almost lost music. Lewes, East Sussex, England: Allardyce Barnett Publishers, 2007. 125, 3 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 9780907954361. ISBN 0907954367. LC 2008-271387.

Barnett, Andrew. Sibelius. New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2007. xvi, 445 p., 16 p. of plates. ISBN 9780300111590 (hbk.). ISBN 0300111592 (hbk.). LC 2007-932450.

Barry, John E. H., ed. The finalists: a graphical look back at Trinidad & Tobago's calypso and soca monarch finals. Couva, Trinidad and Tobago: John E.H. Barry, 2006. 148 p. ISBN 9768193867. ISBN 9789768193865. LC 2008-375148.

Barth, Joe. Voices in jazz guitar: great performers talk about their approach to playing. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay, 2006. 490 p. LC 2008-561312.

Beeber, Steven Lee. The heebie jeebies at CBGB's: a secret history of Jewish punk. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 2006. xii, 259 p. ISBN 9781556526138. ISBN 155652613X. LC 2006-006259.

Beghin, Tom, and Sander M. Goldberg, eds. Haydn and the performance of rhetoric. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xx, 366 p. + 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 9780226041292 (hbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 0226041298 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2007-017409.

Belov, Anton, et al. Libretti of Russian operas: with international phonetic alphabet transcriptions and word-for-word translations, including a guide to the IPA and Russian lyric diction. Geneseo, NY: Leyerle, 2004. v. <1>. ISBN 1878617613 (v. 1). ISBN 9781878617613 (v. 1). LC 2008-295560.

Bergquist, Peter, ed. The complete motets: afterword, addenda and corrigenda, indexes. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2007. vi, 106 p. ISBN 0895796090. ISBN 9780895796097. LC 2008-270188.

The complete motets. Orlando di Lasso; 21S

Berman, Boris. Prokofiev's piano sonatas: a guide for the listener and the performer. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. xiii, 240 p. ISBN 9780300114904 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2007-030926.

Bertagnolli, Paul. Prometheus in music: representations of the myth in the romantic era. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. xvii, 369 p. ISBN 9780754654681 (alk. paper). LC 2006-032548.

Betta, Nicoletta. Il Pensiero musicale, 1921-1929. Baltimore, MD: NISC, 2007. lvi, 297 p. ISBN 159662051X. ISBN 9781596620513...