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The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music offers a comprehensive music library to its students and faculty. A member of the Music Library Association, the Dorothea Music Library is located on the lower level of the Prospect Avenue branch. Its holdings comprise more than 20,000 books and scores; 30,000 sound recordings (including 16,000 CDs) of classical and jazz music; and an expanding selection of DVD’s.

Since the school's founding in 1899, the Conservatory has prided itself on being able to provide its students with access to materials that broaden their musical experiences. This extensive, carefully chosen collection of books on music-related topics includes composer and performer biographies and works on theory and music history. Instrumentalists and vocalists also have a great resource in the library's selection of classical voice, piano, and chamber music scores.

Recent acquisitions include the Ron Cuzner jazz donation of several thousand CDs, the latest edition of the 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, a collection of 200 complete operas and 100 Broadway musicals on compact disc, and 50 Aebersold "Jazz Playalongs" on CD.

The library also contains a comprehensive collection  of classical guitar music. Raymond Mueller, the Conservatory's librarian since 1982 and a classical guitarist himself, can knowledgeably answer questions about this genre, as well as any other aspect of the collection.

Students and faculty may use the library and check out items free of charge. Non-conservatory users may access library materials on a limited basis, with approval from the librarian.

RECENT ACQUISITIONS
New Books
All music guide : the best CDs, albums & tapes : the experts’ guide to the best releases from thousands of artists in all types of music / edited by Michael Erlewine with Chris Woodstra and Vladimir Bogdanov. – San Francisco : Miller Freeman, c1994.
1417 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
(REF) ML 156.9 .A38 1994

 
All music guide to country : the experts’ guide to the best recordings in country music / edited by Michael Erlewine…[et al.]. – San Francisco, CA : Miller Freeman, c1997.
xxii, 611 p. : ill., ports.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 587-589) and index.
(REF) ML 156.4 .C7 A45 1997

 
All music guide to the blues : the experts’ guide to the best blues recordings / edited by Michael Erlewine… [et al.]. – San Francisco : Miller Freeman Books, 1996.
xii, 424 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-415) and index.
(REF) ML 156.4 .B6 A45 1996
 
The attentive listener : three centuries of music criticism / edited by Harry Haskell. – Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.
xvii, 398 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-392) and index.
ML 55 .A88 1996
 
Balliett, Whitney
Goodbyes and other messages : a journal of jazz, 1981-1990 / Whitney Balliett. – New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
295 p.
ML 3507 .B345 1991
 
Barenboim, Daniel, 1942-
Daniel Barenboim : a life in music / Daniel Barenboim ; edited by Michael Lewin. – 1st American ed. – New York : C. Scribner’s Sons : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992. 
x, 198 p. : ill.
Includes index.
ML 417 .B2 A3 1992

 
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
[Correspondence. English. Selections]
Beethoven, letters, journals, and conversations / edited, translated and introduced by Michael Hamburger. – New York : Thames and Hudson, 1984, c1951.
281 p. : ill.
Reprint. Originally published: London : Thames and Hudson, 1951.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ML 410 .B4 A3 1984
 
Behind the beat : jazz criticism / by Mark Tucker ; edited by Ray Allen & Jeff Taylor. – Brooklyn, N. Y. : Brooklyn College Institute for Studies in American Music, 2003.
48 p. : ill., music, ports.
"Includes twenty-eight columns of jazz and popular music criticism reproduced exactly as they appeared in the ISAM newsletter from 1982-2000."
Includes bibliographical references.
ML 3506 .B44 2003

Berger, Melvin
Guide to chamber music / Melvin Berger. – 1st Anchor Books ed. – New York : Anchor Books, c1990.
xix, 470 p.
Discography: p. 463-470.
ML 1100 .B45 1990

 
Bluesland : portraits of thirteen major American blues masters / edited by Pete Welding and Toby Byron. – New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, c1991.
253 p. : ill., ports.
ML 400 .B595 1991

 
Blum, David, 1935-1998.
The art of quartet playing : the Guarneri Quartet in conversation with David Blum. – Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press, 1987, c1986.
xiii, 247 p. : ill.
Includes index.
Discography: p. 233-237/
MT 728 .B6 1987

 
Bonny, Helen L.
Music & your mind : listening  with a new consciousness / Helen L. Bonny & Louis M. Savary. – Rev. ed.—Barrytown, N.Y. : Station Hill Press ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by the Talman Co., c1990.
177 p. : ill.
ML 3920 .B556 1990

Bourne, Joyce
Who’s who in opera : a guide to opera characters / Joyce Bourne ; consultant editor Michael Kennedy. – Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
xviii, 457 p. : ill.
(REF) ML 102 .O6 B68 1998

Brendel, Alfred
Music sounded out : essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts / Alfred Brendel. – New York : Noonday Press, 1992.
viii, 258 p. : music
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ML 60 .B85 M9 1992

Campbell, Don G., 1946-
The Mozart effect : tapping the power of music to heal the body, strengthen the mind, and unlock the creative spirit / Don Campbell. – 1st ed. – New York : Avon Books, c1997.
xii, 332 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ML 3920 .C17 1997

Carr, Roy
A century of jazz / Roy Carr. – London : Hamlyn, 2004, c1997.
256 p : ill. (some col.)
Originally published in paperback 1999.
ML 3506 .C4 2004

Christy, Van Ambrose, 1900-1990.
Foundations in singing : a basic textbook in vocal technique and song interpretation / Van A. Christy. – Medium-low voice ed. – Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Co., c1979.
xx, 252 p. : ill.
"Songs": p. 119-241.
Includes Bibliographical references and index.
MT 825 .C53 1979

The classical good CD, DVD & download guide 2007 / [editor James Jolly]. – Harrow : Gramophone, 2006.
1414
Includes index.
(REF) ML 156.9 .C53 2006

Classical music / general editor, John Burrows with Charles Wiffen. – 1st American ed, -- New York : DK Pub., 2005.
512 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)
Includes index.
MT 6 .C564 2005

Cohen, Harvey G.
Duke Ellington’s America / Harvey G. Cohen. – Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
xii, 688 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ML 410 .E44 C56 2010

Coker, Jerry
The jazz idiom / by Jerry Coker. – Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, [1975].
 xi, 84 p. : music
Includes bibliographical references.
MT 68 .C642
A Companion to the concerto / edited by Robert Layton. – 1st American ed. – New York : Schirmer Books, 1989, c1988.
xiv, 369 p. : music
Discography: p. 351-362.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 350)
ML 1263 .C64 1989

Cook, Richard, 1957-2007.
The Penguin guide to jazz on CD / Richard Cook and Brian Morton. – 5th ed., completely rev. and updated. – London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
xi, 1725 p.
Includes index.
(REF) ML 156.4 .J3 C67 2000

Dubal, David
The art of the piano : its performers, literature, and recordings / David Dubal. – 3rd ed. – Pompton Plains, NJ : Amadeus Press, 2004.
xxi, 693 p. : ill. + 1 sound disc (78:25 min. ; 4 3/4  in.)
Includes discographical references.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 685-688) and index.
ML 105 .D8 2004

Dubal, David
Evenings with Horowitz : a personal portrait / David Dubal. – Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1991.
xxvi, 321 p. [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.
Includes index.
ML 417 .H8 D8 1991

Dubal, David
Reflections from the keyboard : the world of the concert pianist / by David Dubal. – New York : Summit Books, c1984.
399 p. : ill.
Includes index.
Discography: p. 365-389.
ML 397 .D82 1984

Feather, Leonard G.
The encyclopedia of jazz / by Leonard Feather ; appreciations by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and John Hammond. – New York : Da Capo Press, [1984], c1960.
527 p. : ill.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Horizon Press, 1960.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [524]-527.
Discography: p. [500]-504.
(REF) ML 105 .F34

Gould, Glenn
The Glenn Gould reader / edited and with an introduction by Tim Page. – 1st Vintage Books ed. – New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
xvi, 475 p. : ill.
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1984.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ML 60 .G68 1990

Gridley, Mark C., 1947-
Jazz styles : history & analysis / Mark C. Gridley. – 9th ed. – Upper Saddle River, N. J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006.
xiv, 418 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-396) and index.
ML 3561 .J3 G67 2006

Griffiths, Paul, 1947 Nov. 24-
The Penguin companion to classical music Paul Griffiths. – New York , N. Y. : Penguin Group, 2005, c2004.
x, 896 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
(REF) ML 100 .G84 2005

Grout, Donald Jay
A history of western music / Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca. – 6th ed. – New York : Norton, c2001.
xvi, 843 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ML 160 .G87 2001

Hadley, Frank-John
The Grove Press guide to the blues on CD / Frank-John Hadley. – 1st ed. – New York : Grove Press, 1993.
Includes index.
ML 156.4 .B6 H3 1993

Helminiak, Marilyn Moevs
Why don’t you play loud? : a guide for teaching music to young children / Marilyn Moevs Helminiak. – Oregon, WI : Waubesa
Press, c1994.
71 p. : ill., music
MT 1 .H45 1994b

Hutchings, Arthur, 1906-1989.
A companion to Mozart’s piano concertos / by Arthur Hutchings. – 2nd ed., 8th corrected impression. – Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
xv, 211 p. : ill., music
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MT 130 .M8 H8 1998

Kagan, Robert
Confessions of a violin dealer / by Robert Kagan ; as told to William R. Hilton. – Chicago, Ill. : Kagan & Gaines Co., c1981.
147 p. : ill., ports.
ML 800 .K34 1981

Kazez, Daniel
Rhythm reading : elementary through advanced training / Daniel Kazez. – 2nd ed. – New York : W. W. Norton, c1997.
xxiii, 228 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MT 42 .K3 1997

Keyboard music before 1700 / edited by Alexander Silbiger. – New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1995.
Xiii, 373 p. : ill., map
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ML 549 .K49 1995

Kobbe, Gustav, 1857-1918.
[Complete opera book]
Kobbe’s complete opera book. – Rev. ed. / edited and revised by the Earl of Harewood. – London : Putnam, 1954.
1262 p., 40 plates : ill., music, ports.
MT 95 .K52 1954

 
Kroo, Gyorgy
[Bartok kalauz. English]
A guide to Bartok / Gyorgy Kroo ; [translated by Ruth Pataki and Maria Steiner]. – [S.l.] : Corvina Preee, c1974.
248 p.
Translation of Bartok kalauz.
MT 92 .B37 K803
 
Laudenslager, Harold
Introduction to twelve-tone harmony / by Harold Laudenslager. – Beverly Hills, Mich. : Laudenslager Music Productions, [c2002].
151 leaves in various pagings : ill., music
Reproduced from typed ms.
MT 50 .L368 I6

Levine, Robert, 1944-
Maria Callas : a musical biography / Robert Levine. – New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, c2003.
224 p. : ill. + 2 sound discs (digital ; 4 ¾ in.)
Includes discography (p. 217-219), videography (p. 220), and index.
Contents: An extraordinary life – The art, the tradition, the voice – The performances of Maria Callas.
ML 420 .C18 L48 2003

Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.
[Lettres d’un bachelier es musique, 1835-1841. English]
An artist’s journey : letters d’un bachelier es musique, 1835-1841 / Franz Liszt ; translated and annotated by Charles Suttoni. – Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
xxvii, 260 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251).
ML 410 .L7 A3 1989

Mach, Elyse
Great pianists speak for themselves. Volume 2 / Elyse Mach. – New York : Dodd, Mead, c1988.
xii, 258 p. : ill.
Includes index.
ML 397 .M28 1988

Matthews, Denis
Beethoven piano sonatas / Denis Matthews. – [London] : Ariel Music, 1986, c1967.
Originally published: London : Britsh Broadcasting Corp, 1967.
MT 145 .B42 M35 1986

McLeish, Kenneth, 1940-1997.
The listener’s guide to classical music : an introduction to the great classical composers and their works / Kenneth and Valerie McLeish. – 1st American ed. – New York : G. K. Hall : Maxwell Macmillam International, 1992.
ix, 278 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MT 90 .M32 1992

Miles, Barry, 1943-
Zappa : Frank Zappa—a visual documentary / by Miles. – London ; New York : Omnibus Press ; New York, NY : Exclusive distributors, Music Sales Corp., c1993.
11 p. : ill. (some col.)
ML 410 .Z285 M5 1993

 
Morton, Brian, 1954-
The Blackwell guide to recorded contemporary music / [edited by] Brian Morton. – Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1996.
xix, 361 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-355) and index.
(REF) ML 111.5 .M67 1996

The new Penguin opera guide/ edited by Amanda Holden. – London : Penguin, 2001.
xxii, 1142 p. : ill.
Rev. ed. of: The Viking opera guide. 1st ed. 1993.
Includes discographies, bibliographical references, and indexes.
(REF) ML 102 .O6 V55 2001

 
Nichols, Roger
Mendelssohn remembered / Roger Nichols. – London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, c1997.
xxi, 258 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., music, ports.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ML 410 .M5 N53 1997

Norton anthology of western music / edited by Claude V. Palisca. – 4th ed. – New York : W. W. Norton, c2001.
1 score (2 v.)
Contents: v. 1. Ancient to Baroque – v. 2. Classic to Modern.
Vocal and instrumental music.
Includes indexes.
MT 6.5 .N7 2001

The Omnibus essential guide to classical CDs / edited by Garaud MasTaggart. – New York : Schirmer Trade Books, c2004.
viii, 726 p. : ill.
Discography: p. 705-725.
ML 156.9 .O46 2004

Parrott, Jasper
Beyond frontiers / Jasper Perrott with Vladimir Ashkenazy. – 1st American ed. – New York : Atheneum, 1985, c1984.
239 p, [8] p. of plates : ill., ports.
Includes index.
Discography: p. 221-233.
ML 417 .A83 P4 1985

The Penguin encyclopedia of popular music / edited by Donald Clarke ; [contributors, Alan Cackett…et al.]. – London, England ; New York, N. Y., USA : Penguin Books, 1990.
xii, 1378 p.
Includes index.
(REF) ML 102 .P66 P5 1990

Plantinga, Leon
Romantic music : a history of musical style in nineteenth-century Europe / Leon Plantinga. – 1st ed. – New York : W.W. Norton, c1984.
xiii, 523 p. : ill., music
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [463]-508.
ML 196 .P6 1984

Porter, Cole, 1891-1964.
The complete lyrics of Cole Porter / edited by Robert Kimball ; with a foreword by John Updike. – 1st Vintage Books ed. – New York : Vintage Books, 1984.
501 p. : ill.
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1983.
Includes index.
ML 56.4 .P7 K5 1984

Press, Arthur
Mallet repair / by Arthur Press. – Rockville Centre, N. Y. : Belwin-Mills, c1971.
24 p. : ill.
ML 1048 .P74 1971

Reed, John, 1909-1999.
Schubert / John Reed. – 1st American ed. – New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, 1997.
Xvi, 270 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., music
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ML 410 .S3 R26 1997

Reed, John, 1909-1999.
The Schubert song companion / John Reed ; with prose translations by Norma Deane and Celia Larner ; and a foreword by Dame Janet Baker. – Manchester, UK ; New York : Mandolin : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin’s Press, c1997.
xii, 510 p. : music
Originally published: Manchester University Press, 1985.
Includes bibliographical references.
ML 410 .S3 R265 1997

Samson, Jim
Chopin / Jim Samson. – 1st American ed. – New York : Schirmer Books, 1997.
xii, 322 p., [8] p. of leaves : ill.
First published in; Great Britain by Oxford University Press in 1966.
ML 410 .C54 S1865 1997

Santoro, Gene
Dancing in your head : jazz, blues, rock, and beyond / Gene  Santoro. – New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
xi, 308 p.
Includes index.
ML 3477.1 .S25 1994

Schaefer, John
New sounds : a listener’s guide to new music / John Schaefer. – 1st ed. – New York : Harper & Row, c1987.
xvi, 297 p.
Includes discographies and index.
ML 197 .S235 1987

Schmidt, Elaine
Hey mom! Listen to this! : a parent’s guide to music / Elaine Schmidt. – New York : Hal Leonard Books, c2010.
xiv, 172 p. : ill.
MT 1 .S36 2010

Schoenberg, Loren, 1958-
The NPR curious listener’s guide to jazz / Loren Schoenberg. – 1st ed. – New York : Berkley Pub. Group, 2002.
xvi, 285 p.
Includes discography (p. 201-232), bibliographical references
(p. 241-263), and index.
ML 3506 .S34 2002

Schubert’s Vienna / edited by Raymond Erickson. – New Haven : Yale University Press, c1997.
xvi, 283 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ML 410 .S3 S29975 1997

Soleil, Jean-Jacques
[Oeuvres-cles de la musique. English]
Musical masterpieces / Jean-Jacques Soleil and Guy Lelong. – Edinburg ; New York : Chambers, 1991.
xvi, 240 p : ill.
"Translated from the French by Imogen Brian . Adapted for the English edition by Alan Dury, Hugh MacDiarmid"—P. [iii].
Includes index.
MT 6 .S675 1991

Solomon, Maynard
Beethoven essays / Maynard Solomon. – Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.
xi, 375 p. : music
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 303-353.
ML 410 .B4 S64 1988

 
Steinberg, Michael, 1928-
The concerto : a listener’s guide / Michael Steinberg. – New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
xv, 506 p. : ill.
ML 1263 .S74 1998

 
Swafford, Jan
The Vintage guide to classical music / Jan Swafford. – 1st ed. – New York : Vintage Books, c1992.
xxi, 597 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-561) and index.
MT 6 .S94 V5 1992
 
Tame, David
The secret power of music / by David Tame. – Rochester, Vermont : Destiny Books, c1984.
304 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-299) and index.
ML 3845 .T29 1984

 
Ward, Geoffrey C.
Jazz : a history of America’s music / by Geoffrey C. Ward ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; with a preface by Ken Burns ; picture research by Victoria Gohl ; and contributions by Wynton Marsalis…[et al.]. – New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000.
x, 489 p. : ill. (some col.), map
Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-470) and index.
ML 3506 .W37 2000

 
Women/music : Austria / under the auspices of the Austrian Federal
Ministry for European and International Affairs. – 1st ed. – Vienna : Brandstatter, 2009.
260 p. : ill.
“Composers, performers, researchers, producers/labels, journalists/Media platforms, networks/festivals, agencies, concert organizers/Performance platforms”—Cover.
Includes index.
(Ref) ML 21 .A9 W6 2009

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 





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