New Reference Items

The Music Library recently received two new reference resources.

The first is a critical edition, including commentary, a transcription, and a facsimile of Beethoven's "Eroica" Sketchbook, in 2 volumes, and the second is a detailed, chronologically arranged and annotated discography entitled Black Recording Artists, 1877-1926.

Beethoven, Ludwig van. Beethoven's "Eroica" Sketchbook: A Critical Edition. Transcribed, edited and with a commentary by Lewis Lockwood and Alan Gosman. 2 vol. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013. Call no. MUR ML96.4.B4 S9 2013.

Gibbs, Craig Martin, compiler. Black Recording Artists, 1877-1926: An Annotated Discography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. Call no. MUR ML156.4.B56 G53 2013.

New Reference Materials

The Music Library recently received the following reference materials:

Bielefelder Katalog Klassik. 60. Jahrgang. Nürnberg, New Media Verlag, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML156.2 .B52 2012

Gioia, Ted.  The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML128.J3 G56 2012

Gray, John.  Afro-Cuban Music: A Bibliographic Guide.  Black Music Reference Series, vol. 3.  Nyack, NY: African Diaspora Press, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML3565 .G733 2012

Harwood, Gregory W.  Giuseppe Verdi: A Research and Information Guide, 2nd ed.  Routledge Music Bibliographies.  New York: Routledge, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML134.V47 H37 2012

Heyman, Barbara B.  Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML134.B175 A3 2012

Horn, David, ed.  Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Volume VIII Genres: North America.  New York: Continuum, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML102.P66 C66 2003 v.8

International Who's Who in Classical Music, 28th ed.  London: Routledge, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML105 .I54 2012

Jaffé, Daniel.  Historical Dictionary of Russian Music.  Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts.  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML101.R8 J34 2012

Library of Congress Subject Headings, 32nd ed.  Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2010.  Call no. MUR Z695 .L695 32nd ed.

Ratner, Sabina Teller.  Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works.  Vol. 2: The Dramatic Works.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML134.S15 A29 2002 v.2

Thomsett, Michael C., compiler.  Musical Terms, Symbols and Theory: An Illustrated Dictionary.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.  Call no. MUR ML108 .T46 2012

Recently Acquired Reference Items

The Music Library recently received the following reference items:

Ammer, Christine. The A to Z of Foreign Musical Terms. Boston: ECS Publishing, 1989. Call no. MUR ML108 .A527 1989.

Bielefelder Katalog Klassik: Bild- und Tonträger, Hörbücher, 2011, 59. Jahrgang, Februar 2011. Call no. MUR ML156.2 .B52 2011 pts. 1 and 2. (Pt. 2 is an accompanying CD-ROM.)

New Reference Books

The following reference books recently arrived in the Music Library:

Cohen, Norm. American Folk Songs: A Regional Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 2 vols. Call no. MUR ML3551 .C55 2008.

Comeau, Gilles. Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies, ed. Jennifer C. Post. New York: Routledge, 2009. Call no. MUR ML128.P3 C66 2009.

--This resource is a numbered, annotated bibliography.

Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 9th ed. London: Penguin Books, 2008. Call no. MUR ML156.4.J3 C68 2008.

--A selected, annotated discography, this book is arranged alphabetically and consists of 1646 pages.

DeVito, Chris, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Wolf Schmaler, and David Wild. The John Coltrane Reference. Edited by Lewis Porter. New York: Routledge, 2008. Call no. MUR ML156.7.C58 J64 2008.

--Consisting of a chronology and discography, this book provides a quick reference to the details of Coltrane's career.

Draayer, Suzanne Rhodes. Art Song Composers of Spain: An Encyclopedia. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. Call no. MUR ML106.S7 D73 2009.

Fishman, Stephen. The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More, 4th ed. Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2008. Call no. MUR KF3022 .F575 2008.

Timner, W. E. Ellingtonia: The Recorded Music of Duke Ellington and His Sidmen, 5th ed. Studies in Jazz, no. 54, ed. Dan Morgenstern and Edward Berger. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. Call no. MUR ML156.5.E45 T5 2007.