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Are you in need of resources that will enhance your practice, study, or research in conducting? SFSU’s Leonard Library can help you out. Below are some suggested resources on conducting and conductors.

ON CONDUCTING

Conducting : the art of communication / Wayne Bailey.
Summary
This text is designed to be used in both beginning and advanced conducting courses required of music majors and music education majors. Whereas most conducting texts focus exclusively on the technical aspect of conducting, Bailey’s more comprehensive text also focuses on artistic and expressive development and the development of the conductor’s ear. The book includes flexible instrumentation exercises written specifically to address common technical and musical problems, analysis and score study instruction, movement exercises, instruction on expressive conducting, and auralskill exercises designed to help students detect playing errors.

Conducting the wind orchestra : meaning, gesture, and expressive potential / Eric L. Hinton
Summary
Hinton (music and director of bands, Susquehanna U.) discusses the art of conducting, using the example of wind orchestras, and focuses on the process of interpreting scores and the relationship between physical gestures and the expressive potential of pieces, through four twentieth century works: John Corigliano’s Gazebo Dances, Karel Husa’s Music for Prague, Edward Gregson’s Celebration, and Richard Rodney Bennett’s Morning Music. After tracing the development of the wind orchestra and its conductor, he describes ways to create meaning in works and uses semiotics to demonstrate how topical references can be a guide to constructing a narrative

On becoming a conductor : lessons and meditations on the art of conducting / Frank L. Battisti.
Summary
Author Battisti, a prominent and well-respected conductor (Conductor Emeritus, New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble), has written what may be considered a meditation– certainly more than a manual– on what it takes to be a professional, insightful conductor. The book dwells on issues such as personal characteristics, work ethic, and the role of integrity, imagination, and emotion, as well conducting technique and gestures of expression. The author also offers nuts and bolts advice on matters such as rehearsal planning and preparation and the conductor-teacher’s role. The book will interest serious musicians.

Face to face with orchestra and chorus [electronic resource] : a handbook for choral conductors / Don V Moses, Robert W. Demaree, Jr. and Allen F. Ohmes.
Summary
Face to Face with Orchestra and Chorus is a crucial guide for choral conductors who are presented with the daunting task of conducting a full-size orchestra. This book provides a survival kit for both novice and experienced choral conductors, with an overview of the orchestral instruments and their particular needs, tips for rehearsing an orchestra effectively, and guidelines for proper baton technique. Conductors are walked through six case studies from the Baroque and Classical periods, including Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat in D Major, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Beethoven’s “Choral” Fantasia.

Problems and solutions in band conducting / Thomas R. Erdmann.
Summary
This text tackles the complex problems encountered by directors of concert bands and wind ensembles. Erdmann (director of bands at Elon U.) presents 27 chapters that discuss topics such as how to quickly teach a march, how to properly warm up an ensemble for both tone and intonation, some of the philosophical concepts wind directors should consider as they organize overall programs, handling auditions and assignment of parts, planning a rehearsal, good basic band repertoire, festivals, touring, concert etiquette, the march, conducting concertos, and contemporary music.

The complete conductor : a comprehensive resource for the professional conductor of the twenty-first century / Robert W. Demaree, Jr., Don V Moses.
From the Publisher
Direct, practical, and comprehensive, this text addresses the conducting needs of beginners through working professionals. Using a modular structure that allows a focus on either choral or instrumental content — or both — it covers conducting theory, style periods, technical problems, and conducting patterns — using examples ranging from short works to multi-movement masterpieces.

Performing twentieth-century music : a handbook for conductors and instrumentalists / Arthur Weisberg.
Well known conductor, composer, and instrumentalist, Weisberg suggests to others how to deal with the peculiarities of modern composers. The timing and rhythm are most complex, he says, and conductors must not only be able to understand it, but also to teach it to the players. He also suggests ways for composers to notate their music so that it is both representative of their ideas and is comprehensible to conductors. Includes many examples. No bibliography (this being the first book on the subject).

Basic conducting techniques / Joseph A. Labuta.
Summary
Labuta (Wayne State U.) provides a practical and innovative textbook for the beginning conducting class. New features in the fifth edition include transposed parts for the musical excerpts in Part III (Musical Excerpts); examples of score analysis for students to use as models; more detail and elaboration of instruction preceding the excerpts; a “Mastery” section for challenge and evaluation; and additional photographs to clarify and model techniques. Indexed by musical excerpts only.

ON CONDUCTORS

Robert Shaw, preparing a masterpiece. Volumes 1 & 2 [videorecording] : choral workshops on Brahms’s A German Requiem and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis / Carnegie Hall presents ; produced by The Carnegie Hall Corporation in association with Brandenburg Productions, Inc. ; produced, directed & edited by Phillip Byrd and Janet Shapiro.
Summary
68017-Disc 1-Choral workshop on “A German requiem” by Johannes Brahms (157 min.) — 68018-disc 2-Choral workshop on Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (95 min.) .
“The preparing a masterpiece video series on the Robert Shaw workshops at Carnegie Hall provides an in-depth look at Maestro Shaw’s preparation for performances of choral masterpieces.”–Container.

Simon Rattle : the making of a conductor / by Nicholas Kenyon.

Did you know that there is a Conductor’s Guild?
The Conductors Guild is the only music service organization devoted exclusively to the advancement of the art of conducting and to serving the artistic and professional needs of conductors. They have a membership of over 1,850 members representing all fifty United States and more than thirty other countries.

If you are a choral conductor, there is a site that supplies Choral Music that is in Public Domain online:

CHORAL PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY
Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world’s largest free sheet music sites. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.

New editions this month: 49 (43 new works)

November 17, 2009

Himmel und Erde in Weimar (Huub de Lange)
November 16, 2009

Beati Imaculata in via (Johann Walter)
November 15, 2009

Magnificat (Giuseppe Pitoni)
Magnificat a 12 (Andrea Gabrieli)
Missa in hon. BMV (Max Filke)
November 14, 2009

Au verd boys je m’en iray (Clément Janequin)
Beatus qui intelligit (Francesco Usper)
O Lamb of God! Still Keep Me (Thurlow Weed)
Wir danken dir, o Gottes Lamm (Pierre de La Rue)
November 13, 2009

Kristus Karalis (To Jesus Christ our sovereign King) (Anonymous)
November 12, 2009

Benedicam Dominum (Francesco Usper)
Haec dies (Francesco Usper)
November 11, 2009

King Arthur (Henry Purcell)
O Lord our governor (Capel Bond)
Sweet day (Jeffrey Quick)
November 10, 2009

Preces and Responses (William Byrd)
Preces and Responses (William Smith of Durham)
November 9, 2009

Hodie Christus natus est (Claudio Monteverdi)
John Anderson (Robert Schumann)
November 8, 2009

Missa Sancta Caecilia (Adolfo Kaim)
Serengeti Song (Joseph G. Stephens)
The Good Shepherd (Michael J. Oczko)
This Advent moon shines cold and clear (Charles H. Giffen)

I recently discovered this fascinating resource. Factual TV

FactualTV is a consumer service open to everyone. Among other things, our service is used for professional and educational purposes. Our movies can be watched by streaming them directly from the site, or be purchased either by Download or DVD. Some titles are ‘Premium’ titles and these are only available as Download or DVD.

They have subject specific channels, and there is a channel just for music. Here are a few of the offerings from the music channel:

Rubarbicon is a mock-rock-umentary that follows the life, the music, and the tragic demise(?) of modern rock legends Grand Theft Bus.

The House is placed behind the biggest graveyard in Zagreb (Croatia). In this house people don’t eat, watch TV and sleep, but coming in to play music every day from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m.

Got No Jeep and My Camel Died: Like the historical “Perfume Road”, it is a musical journey of Yair Dalal – from the Persian Golf to Jaffa, from antiquity to modern times, from playing with Bedouins in the desert to concerts world-wide and a nomination for the BBC World-Music Award. Inspired by his Iraqi musical Masters-ancestors from Babylon, who have trusted in his hands the torch of their vanishing legacy, he personally vows to them to carry it on. Declaring himself a native Middle-Eastern, Yair wonders back and forth in time, between the Sinai Desert and the Mediterranean Sea, struggling for recognition in his roots and convictions by establishing “Almaya” – his own music school in Old Jaffa Port – a social-cultural bridge between East and West. In the form of a “Musical Documentary” the story bonds the geographical with the human landscape by melting between Yair – the man, the Israeli – and his art which reaffirms and embodies the existence of Israel in the Middle East.

Etnika – Live at St. Elmo: Etnika is one of Malta’s leading modern folk bands founded in 2000. The Etnika project has also aimed at resuscitating traditional Maltese instruments that had fallen out of use and presenting these forgotten soundscapes to Maltese society, with an aim to raise national consciousness. In this film, we see them performing live at Fort St. Elmo, Malta.

JACK BOULWARE and SILKE TUDOR with FRANK PORTMAN
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.

“When punk broke in the Bay Area, with the clamor and the rage, the sex and the safety pins, the sound and the fury, you were either there or you weren’t. If you were there you’re probably in this book. If you weren’t you should read it.” —Daniel Handler

Outside of New York and London, California’s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk rock scene in the world — from the innovative late-70s art-damage of San Francisco’s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley’s Gilman Street, where bands like Green Day, Rancid, and AFI got their start.

Gimme Something Better by Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, straight from the mouths of the bands, roadies, record labels and fans.

Jack and Silke spent two years interviewing countless contributors across the Bay Area, the US and the globe. You will find first-hand accounts from Danny Furious and Penelope Houston of the Avengers, Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Davey Havok of AFI, Larry Livermore of Lookout! Records, Fat Mike of NOFX, Tim Armstrong of Operation Ivy and Rancid, members of MDC and Flipper, and editors of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, among many others.

Gimme Something Better represents the definitive chronicle of Bay Area punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence. The book features black and white photographs throughout, an exhaustive who’s-who list, and an introduction by Jesse Michaels, famed singer of Operation Ivy.
Cost: FREE
Website: http://www.booksmith.com/events.html
Venue: The Booksmith
Address: 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA

Here at the Leonard Library, there are materials that will help you learn about the punk scene, here in the Bay Area and beyond.

Very soon we will have our own copy of Gimme Something Better: A History of Bay Area Punk. In the meantime, these other local libraries in our LINK+ system can help.

Punk ‘77 : an inside look at the San Francisco rock ‘n’ roll scene, 1977 / photographs, text, design by James Stark.

Green Day : American idiots & the new punk explosion / Ben Myers.

924 Gilman : the story so far– / compiled, edited, & designed by Brian Edge.

Died for your sins [sound recording] / The Avengers.

Live at the Deaf Club [sound recording] / Dead Kennedys.

Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables [sound recording] / Dead Kennedys.

Night shift at the thrill factory [sound recording] / The Mr. T Experience.

Punk side story [sound recording] / [music by (originally) Lenny ; drunk version, Schlong ; original lyrics by Mr. Stephen ; arranged by Gavin MacArthur].

Let’s go [sound recording] / Rancid.

Landshark [sound recording] ; Where the wild things are / Fang.

Hardcore California : a history of punk and new wave / Peter Belsito, Bob Davis.

Generic [sound recording] / Flipper.

Operation Ivy [sound recording]

Complete discography [sound recording] / Minor Threat.

The record [sound recording] / Fear.

Millions of dead cops [sound recording] ; More dead cops / MDC.

American hardcore [videorecording] / AHC Productions, LLC ; Sony Pictures Classics ; producers, Steven Blush and Paul Rachman ; writer, Steven Blush ; director, Paul Rachman.

The lost women of rock music : female musicians of the punk era / Helen Reddington.

Pretty vacant : a history of punk / Phil Strongman.

To access sound recordings, just walk over to HSS 127 and ask for them in person. They are located in the Library Media Services Department. For print materials, please use the request feature in the library catalog.

Here is the obit from the New York Times.

Here is what All Music Guide has to say about Mercedes Sosa:
The driving force behind the nueva canción movement, singer Mercedes Sosa was born and raised in Tucumán, Argentina, beginning her performing career at age 15 after taking top honors in a radio station amateur competition. A rich, expressive vocalist and a gifted interpreter, Sosa was dubbed “the voice of the silent majority” for her choice of overtly political material, and alongside artists including Violetta Parra and Atahualpa Yupanqui she spearheaded the rise of the so-called “nueva canción” movement, which heralded the emergence of protest music across Argentina and Chile during the 1960s. The movement was crippled in 1973 by the CIA-sponsored coup which ousted democratically-elected Chilean President Salvador Allende; with her repertoire of songs championing human rights and democracy, Sosa was viewed as a serious threat by the military regime which assumed power, and in 1975 she was arrested during a live performance which also resulted in the incarceration of many audience members. Death threats forced her to leave Argentina in 1979, and she remained in exile for three years, finally returning with a triumphant comeback performance in February 1982. Sosa recorded prolifically in the years to follow. In fall 2000, Sosa won a Grammy for Best Folk Album for Misa Criolla at the first annual Latin Grammy Awards.

Mercedes Sosa Radio on LastFM

Here at the Leonard Library, there are materials you can check out to learn more about Mercedes Sosa and the music from Argentina.

Mercedes Sosa en Argentina [sound recording] / Mercedes Sosa.

Gracias a la vida [sound recording].

Tango [sound recording] : zero hour / Astor Piazzolla.

From tejano to tango : Latin American popular music / edited by Walter Aaron Clark.

Le grand tango : the life and music of Astor Piazzolla / María Susana Azzi, Simon Collier.

Big book of Latin American songs : piano, vocal, guitar.

The Garland handbook of Latin American music / edited by Dale A. Olsen and Daniel E. Sheehy.

Music in Latin America and the Caribbean : an encyclopedic history / edited by Malena Kuss.

ENJOY!

The San Francisco State School of Music is very active, and the students who take classes here are fortunate to have a teaching faculty who are experts in music from across many genres and geographies. One very active genre is what is categorized as 20th and 21st Century classical music. Avante-garde, Expressionism, Serialism, Computer music, Electronic music and Aleatoric music are just some of the terms used to describe the different subcategories of this modern music.

The Leonard Library offers many tools and resources to enhance your study of modern composers. I have a lot of links listed on my Music LibGuide that cover 20th and 21st Century music.

We subscribe to an audio based database called Music Online (SFSU ID and Library PIN required). If you search by time period, you will see the categories for 20th and 21st Centuries.

Leonard Library also has CDs that you can check out. Among the labels that service us with their new releases are New World Records and New Albion Records.

The library holds 207 recordings from New World Records. Here are a select few:

A sounding of sources [sound recording] / Malcolm Goldstein.

Music for strings [sound recording] / Robert Carl.

Ten exercises [sound recording] / Christian Wolff.

Nude rolling down an escalator [sound recording] : studies for Disklavier / Kyle Gann.

The Harry Partch collection [sound recording].

Creative orchestra music [sound recording] : Chicago 2001 / Scott Rosenberg.

In the white silence [sound recording] / John Luther Adams.

New World Records is dedicated to the documentation of American music that is largely ignored by the commercial recording companies. Like the university press, New World preserves neglected treasures of the past and nurtures the creative future of American music.
New Albion Records searches for new musical territories. With composers and performers, they develop, record, and release about six titles a year.

Among the New Albion releases at the Leonard Library are these recommended CDs:

Nor’easter [sound recording] / Slow Six.

Lost style [sound recording] / Ge Gan-ru.

We sing for the future [sound recording] ; Thälmann variations / Cornelius Cardew.

Zilver [sound recording] : the California Ear Unit performs Louis Andriessen.

ENJOY!

There are many institutions that are in the process of digitizing their collections. It can be difficult to keep track of these new collections without someone indexing them and providing one main entryway for access.

CONTENTdm is one such way to easily access these digital collections.

You can do a search just for music materials, and when you do, you will find a plethora of archival material that may be useful to you in your research.

Here are a few of the highlights from the Music results:

Templeton Digital Sheet Music Collection (Mississippi State University)

Yvar Mikhashoff Photograph Collection (Music Library State University of New York at Buffalo)
The composers include Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Sylvano Bussotti, Henri Dutilleux, Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu, Frederic Rzewski, Luis de Pablo, Henry Brant, John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Conlon Nancarrow, Nils Vigeland, and Poul Ruders.

Music Department Photograph Collection (Music Library State University of New York at Buffalo)
The Music Department Photograph Collection contains 638 photographs of musicians who have participated in events of the Music Deptartment dating back to ca. 1920.The list of composers in the collection is impressive. It includes: Earle Brown, Harrison Birtwistle, Pauline Oliveros, Colin Bright, Julius Eastman, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Cornelius Cardew, Carlos Chavez, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Elliott Carter, David Del Tredici, Harold Shapero, Mauricio Kagel, Ralph Shapey, Ingolf Dahl, Henri Pousseur, Philip Glass, George Crumb, Fredric Myrow, Leon Kirchner, George Rochberg, Ned Rorem, Allen Sapp, Toru Takemitsu, Morton Subotnick, Leo Smit, and Augusta Read Thomas.

N. American New Music Festival Archive Photos (Music Library State University of New York at Buffalo)
The North American New Music Festival was founded in 1983 by Yvar Mikhashoff and Jan Williams, faculty members of the University at Buffalo Music Department and dedicated proponents of contemporary and avant-garde art music. Their aim was to produce, over a ten-day period, a concentrated series of concerts and related events at multiple Buffalo-area locations. These annual music festivals featured a wide range of modern musical styles composed and performed both by emerging creative musicians and by established composers of national and international reputation. The 173 images in the archive have been digitized to create this separate, online image collection. The original photographs include publicity stills submitted by participating musicians as well as photographs of musicians in rehearsal or performance. Notable composers represented in the collection include Milton Babbitt, Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, La Monte Young, Netty Simons, Pauline Oliveros, and Frank Zappa.

Morton Feldman Photographs, 1939-1987 (Music Library State University of New York at Buffalo)
Composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was best known for his association with the New York School of experimentalist musicians, including composers John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown, and pianist David Tudor. In addition to composing approximately 150 works, Feldman also wrote more than three dozen articles about various aspects of music and art. Feldman was a member of the music department faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1972-1987. During those years he served as Slee Professor of Music 1972-1973, Edgar Varèse Professor 1975-1987, and Director of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, 1976-1980. He was also responsible for creating the June in Buffalo festival of contemporary music in 1975. The Morton Feldman Photographs, 1939-1987 are one component of the Morton Feldman Papers held by the Music Library. The online photograph collection consists of fifty four images, including snapshots and formal photographs. Other musicians pictured in the collection include John Cage, Barbara Monk Feldman, Nils Vigeland, Eberhard Blum, and the Kronos Quartet.

Concert Selections (IPFW Department of Music)
The Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Department of Music’s audio performances include selections from its student recitals, Faculty Artist Series, extensive Ensemble Series, and other concerts. The Ensemble Series includes the University Singers, Chamber Singers, Opera Ensemble, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, IPFW Community Orchestra, Guitar Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, and a variety of Chamber ensembles.

Happy Exploring!

I recently returned from a trip to the Grand Tetons. Talk about inspirational scenery! I was singing the whole time.

Now I’m back and school is in full swing, with a lot less time to get things done due to the CSU Mandatory Furlough Program. The next furlough days are coming up this weekend, Fri 9/4, Monday 9/7 and Tuesday 9/8.

Don’t hesitate to contact me if you are an SFSU Student, Faculty or Staff affiliate as I am here to answer your music related research questions. Please refer to my Music Research Libguide to get started.

Thanks!

Laura

You may have heard about the severe budget crisis within the State of California that has affected the education budget throughout the state as well. Here in the CSU system, we are unable to serve the students, faculty and staff during the state mandated furlough periods. We are simply forbidden to do anything related to work. Tomorrow (Friday) August 14th we begin the first of our mandatory furlough days. That means the whole campus will be closed between August 14th and August 17th. Campus and all its services will reopen on Tuesday, August 18th.

Electronic materials within the library portals WILL be available remotely, however. Make sure you have your SFSU ID number and your Library PIN to be able to access electronic materials when away from campus. The library catalog and library website will also be available to help you with questions while we endure these furloughs.

Pianist Sarah Cahill plays and talks about the music of Frederic Rzewski, including his masterpiece 36 Variations on “The People United Will Never Be Defeated.”

YouTube can be a very useful academic research tool if you know where to go. Much like Google Scholar, YouTube University allows users to search within just the University “stations” where you can access scholarly material. Within the main YouTube University portal, there are many music related videos, like the one posted above from the University of California, Berkeley station.

LEONARD LIBRARY RESOURCES ON FREDERIC RZEWSKI

Here at the Leonard Library, we have other resources to help you learn more about Frederic Rzewski.

Rzewski plays Rzewski [sound recording] : piano works, 1975-1999.
Disc 1. North American ballads ; The Housewife’s lament — Disc 2. Mayn Yingele ; A Life ; Fougues — Disc 3. Fantasia ; Sonata — Disc 4. The Road, parts I & II — Disc. 5. The Road, parts III & IV — Disc 6. 36 variations on The People united will never be defeated = El Pueblo unido jamás será vencido / by Sergio Ortega and Quilapayún — Disc 7. De profundis.

The people united will never be defeated! [sound recording] / Frederic Rzewski.
Variations on a Chilean revolutionary song, El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!, by Sergio Ortega.

Harvard composers : Walter Piston and his students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski / by Howard Pollack.
Two American classicists : Walter Piston and James Gould Cozzens — Songs without words : the orchestral miniatures of Leroy Anderson — Regional voices : John Vincent and Gail Kubik — Classicism pursued : Everett Helm and Ellis Kohs — New forms, new meanings : the music of Arthur Berger — Expanding the modernist tradition : Elliott Carter and Leonard Bernstein — Adventures in wonderland : Irving Fine and his music — A midcentury masterwork : Harold Shapero’s Symphony for classical orchestra — A heritage upheld : Daniel Pinkham — Favored sons : Robert Middleton and Allen Sapp — In Bartók’s wake : John Bavicchi, Nicholas Van Slyck, and Noël Lee — The center holding : Gordon Binkerd — A life in music : the symphonies of Samuel Adler — “Carter and the postwar composers” revisited : Billy Jim Layton, Yehudi Wyner, and Martin Boykan — Music with new perspectives : Robert Moevs, Karl Kohn, Claudio Spies, Peter Westergaard, and John MacIvor Perkins — Four women : Eugenia Frothingham, Victoria Glaser, Betsy Warren and Rosamond Brenner –
A new age and a new left : David Behrman and Frederic Rzewski — The elusive balance : John Harbison — Conclusion : Walter Piston and his students in widening contexts.

Lew moutons de panurge / Frederic Rzewski.
“For any number of musicians playing melody instruments plus any number of non-musicians playing anything.”

I usually produce a NEW BOOKS LIST on a monthly basis, however I don’t order quite as many CDs as I do books. Hence, the NEW CD LIST only comes out sporadically. Here is the list for the new CDs that are ready for you to check out over in HSS 127, Library Media Services. Enjoy!

Mississippi blues [sound recording] : rare cuts 1926-1941.

Memphis Minnie [sound recording].

Bessie Smith [sound recording]. Vol. 1.

OHM+ [sound recording] : the early gurus of electronic music, 1948-1980.

Jazz [sound recording] : [a history of America's music] / by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns.

Rzewski plays Rzewski [sound recording] : piano works, 1975-1999.

Sidney Bechet [sound recording] : classic sides 1931-1937.

The Complete Stax Volt singles, 1959-1968 [sound recording]

Love is the song we sing [sound recording] : San Francisco nuggets 1965-1970.

Mozart Edition, Complete Works

The deep spaces [sound recording] / Stephen Scott.

Sticky fingers [sound recording] / the Rolling Stones.

Folk images [sound recording] / Paul Lansky.

Avenue Q [sound recording] : the musical : original Broadway cast recording / [music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx ; book by Jeff Whitty].

Hairspray [sound recording] : original Broadway cast recording / music by Marc Shaiman ; lyrics by Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman.

Bach Edition Complete Works

Nine [sound recording] : the musical : [original cast album] / music and lyrics, choral composition & musical continuity by Maury Yeston.

Etudes and parodies [sound recording] / Paul Lansky.

Big hits (high tide and green grass) [sound recording] / The Rolling Stones.

Let it bleed [sound recording] / the Rolling Stones.

Solo for voice 58 [sound recording] : 18 microtonal ragas / John Cage.

110 in the shade [sound recording] : the 2007 Broadway revival.

Musical perspectives [sound recording] / Sonic Youth, with William Winant [et al.]

Rent [sound recording] : original Broadway recording / [book, music and lyrics] by Jonathan Larson ; [original Broadway cast recording] produced by Arif Mardin ; co-produced by Steve Skinner.

Fog tropes [sound recording] ; Gradual requiem ; Gambuh I / Ingram Marshall.

The complete works for solo piano [sound recording] / Luciano Berio.

Zilver [sound recording] : the California Ear Unit performs Louis Andriessen.

The very best of Michael Nyman [sound recording] : film music 1980-2001.

Persian folklore [sound recording] / Reza Vali.

Nor’easter [sound recording] / Slow Six

Food for the bearded [sound recording] / Gyan Riley.

Rapunzel and other works [sound recording] / Lou Harrison.

The study of orchestration [sound recording] / [Samuel Adler and Peter Hesterman].

Momentum [sound recording] / Joshua Redman Elastic Band.

Gold sounds [sound recording] / James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Ali Jackson, Reginald Veal.

Lost style [sound recording] / Ge Gan-ru.

Rothko Chapel [sound recording] ; Why patterns? / Morton Feldman.

The key to songs ; Return [sound recording] / Morton Subotnick.

Jersey boys [sound recording] : original Broadway cast recording.

Dirty rotten scoundrels [sound recording] : original Broadway cast recording / music and lyrics by David Yazbek ; [book by Jeffrey Lane ; based on the film Dirty rotten scoundrels ; orchestrations, Harold Wheeler].

Curtains [sound recording] : original Broadway cast recording / [music by John Kander ; lyrics by Fred Ebb ; book by Rupert Holmes ; original book and concept by Peter Stone ; additional lyrics by John Kander and Rupert Holmes].

Wicked [sound recording] : a new musical : original Broadway cast recording / music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz ; book by Winnie Holzman ; orchestrations, William David Brohn.

Spring awakening [sound recording] : a new musical / [music by Duncan Sheik ; book & lyrics by Steven Sater ; based on the play by Frank Wedekind].

The color purple [sound recording] : a new musical : original Broadway cast recording / [music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray].

Funk carioca [sound recording] / mixed by Tetine.

San Francisco jazz, 1930-1932 [sound recording] : the Flexo recordings.