Classical Scores Library has added 918 new works totaling 47,488 pages. New scores from Faber and contemporary music publisher Universal Edition include works by Joseph Achron, Richard Rodney Bennett, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Anne Boyd, Anton Bruckner, Frederick Delius, Morton Feldman, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Frank Martin, Claudio Monteverdi, Arvo Pärt, Max Reger, Wolfgang Rihm, Steve Reich, Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Anton Webern, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and more. The collection now includes a total of 13,558 scores totaling 277,028 pages.
Contemporary World Music has added 304 albums, bringing the total to 1,750 albums (23,235 tracks). New content includes albums licensed from Appleseed Recordings, Black Sun Records, Buda Musique, Celestial Harmonies, Fortuna Records, Piranha Records, and World Music Network. New music includes afro-pop, ambient, chant, contemporary Celtic and British folk music, electronic, jazz fusion, new age, ska, and more.
Jazz Music Library has added 583 albums (7,577 tracks), bringing the total to 2.549 CDs and 26,599 tracks. New works have been licensed from Audiophile, Concord Records, Contemporary Records, Jazzology Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige Records. New material includes recordings from Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Karrin Allyson, Benny Carter, Eric Dolphy, Etta Jones, Louie Bellson, Milt Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, Zoot Sims, and more.
Dance in Video has added 39 new titles, bringing the total to 189 videos. New titles added to the collection include videos from the Alive and Kicking Series; performances by the Cullberg Ballet, the Nederlands Dans Theater, Li Chiao-Ping, the American Dance Festival Repertory Company, the National Ballet of Canada, Kaeja d’Dance Company, Pennsylvania Dance Theatre, the Dutch National Ballet, and the American Dance Festival Repertory Company; interviews with Trisha Brown, Wu Jing Shu, Honi Coles, Ethel Butler, Molissa Fenley, and members of the Exit Dance Theatre; and documentaries on ballroom dancing, the dance art of Thailand, the Royal Academy of Dancing, and the restaging of “State of Darkness” with Molissa Fenley and Peter Boal.
Opera in Video had added 45 new operas, bringing the total to 108 titles. New titles from Opus Arte and the Bel Canto Society include operas from composers Albeniz (Merlin, 2003 Madrid); Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti, 2001, London); Bizet (Carmen, 2007 Covent Garden), 1946 and 1954 films of Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore; 1955 film of Giordano’s Andrea Chenier with Mario Del Monaco; Gounod (Romeo et Juliette, 1994 Covent Garden); Monteverdi (L’Orfeo, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda); Mussorgsky (Khovanshchina, 2007 Liceu); Rameau (Les Boréades, Les Indes galantes, Castor et Pollux); Wagner (Das Rheingold, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung).
African American Music Reference has added 11 new sources. New titles include:
- Jazz from the Beginning, by Garvin Bushell and Mark Tucker (Da Capo Press, 1998).
- Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Eithne Quinn (Columbia University Press, 2005).
- Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Biography, by Stuart Nicholson (Routledge, 2004).
- Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement, by S. Craig Watkins (Beacon Press, 2005).
- Two books by Douglas Henry Daniels: One O’Clock Jump: The Unforgettable Story of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils (Beacon Press, 2005) and Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young (Beacon Press, 2002).
- The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz, by Gerald Majer (Columbia University Press, 2005).
- The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech, by Shane White and Graham White (Beacon Press, 2005).
- Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, by Gayle F. Wald (Beacon Press, 2007).
- Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, by Suzanne E. Smith (Harvard University Press, 1999).
- A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and the American Popular Song, by Jeffrey Melnick (Harvard University Press, 1999).