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David Starkey's Music & Monarchy. 2 discs, color & b/w. 234+ min. Peter Sweasey & Christopher Walker, Oxford Film & Television Prod. for BBC, RU Entertainment, dist. by Athena Learning, [...]

* Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould; Directors' Cut. color & b/w. 113+ min. Michele Hozer & Peter Raymont, White Pine Pictures, dist. by Lorber Films, 800-562-3330; www.kinolorber.com; [...]

* Seymour: An Introduction. color. 81+ min. Ethan Hawke, Sundance Selects & Under the Influence Prods., dist. by MPI Media, www.mpimedia.com. 2015. DVD UPC 030306944593. $24.95. Rated: PG. MUSIC Seymour [...]

Beyond Zero; 1914-1918. tinted & b/w. 40+ min. Bill Morrison, Hypnotic Pictures, dist. by Icarus Films Home Video, www.icarusfilms.com. 2015. DVD UPC 854565001800. $24.98. HIST/MUSIC Here, avant-garde music by Serbian [...]

* Tosca's Kiss. color. 87 min. In Italian w/English subtitles. Daniel Schmid, dist. by Icarus Films, www.icarusfilms.com. 2014. DVD UPC 854565001701. $398. Public performance; home version $24.98. MUSIC Dustin Hoffman [...]

Wagner's Jews. color. 55+ min. Hilan Warshaw, Overtone Films, dist. by First Run Features, 800-229-8575; www.firstrunfeatures.com. 2014. DVD UPC 720229916219. $24.95; public performance $295. Closed-captioned. MUSIC/HIST This thoughtful documentary explores [...]

Conducting Hope. color. 57 min. Margie Friedman, Westport Prods., www.conductinghope.com. 2014. $200; acad. libs. $250 + $7.95 s/h. Public performance. CRIMINOLOGY/MUSIC Documenting the success of a town/ minimum-security prison cooperative [...]

Gorin, Natalio. Astor Piazzolla: A Memoir. Amadeus: Timber. Sept. 2001. c.264p. tr. from Spanish by Fernando Gonzalez. illus. bibliog. index. discog. ISBN 1-57467-066-2. $34.95; pap. ISBN 1-57467-067-0. $22.95. MUSIC In [...]

Eidam, Klaus. The True Life of Johann Sebastian Bach. Basic Bks: Perseus. Aug. 2001. 416p. tr. from German by Hoyt Rogers. illus. index. ISBN 0-465-08161-0. $32.50. MUSIC Eidam's boldly titled [...]

Olivia's Story color. 14 min. Charles Burnett, dist. by Dai Sil Prods., 27 Old Mill Rd., New Paltz, NY 12561; 845-255-2908. 1999; 2001 release. $125 (Rental: $40). Public performance. SOC [...]

Carpentier, Alejo. Music in Cuba. Univ. of Minnesota. (Cultural Studies of the Americas, Vol. 5). 2001. 302p. permanent paper, ed. by Timothy Brennan. tr. by Alan West-Duran. Bibliog. index. ISBN [...]

The Internationale color. 30 min. Peter Miller, dist. by First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court St., 21st fl., Brooklyn, NY 11201; 800-876-1710; 718-488-8900. 2000. $225 (Rental: $60). Preview avail; public performance. [...]

Martin Kalmanoff: American Composer color. 28 min. Ron Myrvik, dist. by Cinema Guild, 130 Madison Ave., 2d fl., New York, NY 10016; 212-685-6242. 1990; 2000 release. ISBN 0-7815-0801-0. 59.95. MUSIC [...]

* The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2d ed. 29 vols. Grove's Dictionaries of Music. 2001. ed. by Stanley Sadie & John Tyrrell. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-56159239-0. [...]

Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music; Century Edition. Amadeus: Timber. Feb. 2001. c.330p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 00-042017. ISBN 1-574674)58-1. $34.95. MUSIC Revised and expanded from [...]

Earl Robinson: Ballad of an American color. 60 min. B.J. Bullert, dist. by Cinema Guild, 130 Madison Ave., 2d fl., New York, NY 10016; 212-685-6242. 1994; 2000 release. ISBN 0-7815-0765-0. [...]

Castro, Ruy. Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music that Seduced the World. A Cappella: Chicago Review, dist. by Independent Pubs. Group. Jan. 2001. c.352p. tr. by Lysa Salsbury. [...]

World Music: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. Vol. 2. 675p. ISBN 1-85828-636-0. ea. vol: Rough Guides, dist. by Penguin. 2000. ed. by Simon Broughton & Mark [...]

World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Vol. 1. 765p. ISBN 1-85828-635-2. ea. vol: Rough Guides, dist. by Penguin. 2000. ed. by Simon Broughton & Mark Ellingham. photogs. index. [...]

The Winners color. 85 min. Paul Cohen & David van Tijn, dist by First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court St., 21st fl., Brooklyn, NY 11201; 800-876-1710; 718-488-8900. 1999. $285 (Rental: $75). [...]

*Mercer-Taylor, Peter. The Life of Mendelssohn. Cambridge Univ. (Musical Lives). Nov. 2000. c.238p. illus, index. ISBN 0-521-63025-8. $49.95; pap. ISBN 0-521-63972-7. $17.95. MUSIC A fine volume in Cambridge's highly regarded [...]

Songs for Ralph color. 42 min. Paul Petrissans, dist. by Filmakers Library, 124 E. 40th St., New York, NY 10016; 212-808-4980. 1996; 1999 release. $195 (Rental: $60). Preview avail; public [...]

Boyd, Malcolm. Bach. 3d ed. Oxford Univ. (Master Musicians). Oct. 2000. c.228p. permanent paper. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-19-514222-5. $35. MUSIC Forty pages longer than its predecessor, this edition of [...]

The Underground Orchestra color. 108 min. Heddy Honigmann, dist. First Run Icarus, 153 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014; 212-727-1711. 1998. $285 (Rental: $100); 65-min. version $225 (Rental: $75). Public [...]

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 8: Europe. 1176p. permanent paper. ed. by Timothy Rice & others. ISBN 0-8240-6034-2. ea. vol: Garland. 2000. permanent paper. illus. maps. index. $195 [...]

Osborne, Richard. Herbert von Karajan: A Life in Music. Northeastern Univ. May 2000. c.851p. illus. index. ISBN 1-55553-425-2. $35. MUSIC Osborne, a respected British broadcaster and writer on classical music [...]

* Wolff, Christoph. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. Norton. Mar. 2000. c.544p. ISBN 0-393-04825-X. $39.95. MUSIC This detailed, solidly grounded yet imaginative portrait of one of Europe's most influential, [...]

Atwood, William G. The Parisian Worlds of Frederic Chopin. Yale Univ. 1999. 447p. permanent paper, illus, index. ISBN 0-300-07773-4. $35. MUSIC Whereas Tad Szulc's recent Chopin in Paris (LJ 2/15/98) [...]

Finale Chorale: Igor Stravinsky 49 min. Kees Kasander/Denis Wigman & Frank Scheffer. ISBN 0-7365-0651-9. These films from Holland are music appreciation programs of a high order. Tackling the atonal music [...]

Five Orchestral Pieces: Arnold Schoenberg 54 min. Frank Scheffer/Ton Van Der Lee. ISBN 0-7365-0650-0. ea. vol: color, dist by Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PO Box 2053, Princeton, NJ [...]

Fay, Laurel E. Shostakovich: A Life. Oxford Univ. Nov. 1999. c.464p, permanent paper, illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 0-19-513438-9. $35. MUSIC The Cold War has ended, but writers on Shostakovich now [...]

Kerman, Joseph. Concerto Conversations. Harvard Univ. (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures). Oct. 1999. c.192p, index. ISBN 0-674-15891-1. $24.95 with CD. MUSIC What a pity this engaging, intelligent book is not a [...]

Reyes, Adelaida. Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience. Temple Univ. 1999. c.248p, permanent paper, illus, index. ISBN 1-56639-6859. $59.95; pap. ISBN 1-56639-686-7. [...]

Gura, Philip F. & James F. Bollman. America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century. Univ. of North Carolina. Sept. 1999. c.400p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 08078-2484-4. $39.95. MUSIC Bollman's [...]

Bakan, Michael B. Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur. Univ. of Chicago. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology). Aug. 1999. c.370p. permanent paper. bibliog. [...]

The Mississippi: River of Song; The Grassroots of American Music. 4 vols. ea. vol: color & b/w. John Junkerman, dist. by Acorn Media, 7910 Woodmont Ave., Suite 350, Bethesda, MD [...]

George Crumb: Voice of the Whale. color & b/w. 54 min. Robert Mugge, dist. by MVDvisual, www.mvdb2b.com. 2016. DVD UPC 76013749998. $19.95. MUSIC In the mid-20th century, when American composer [...]

*Big Voice. color. 53/83+ min. Varda Bar-Kar, dist. by Video Project, www.videoproject.com. 2015. DVD $89; acad. libs. $295. Public performance; PPR/DSL $350. ED/Music Jeffe Huls directs the choral arts program [...]

Wagner & Me. colon 89 min. Patrick McGrady, Wavelength Film in assoc, with the BBC, dist. by First Run Features, 800-229-8575; www.firstrunfeatures.com. 2013. DVD UPC 720229915465. $27.95. MUSIC Popular British [...]