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Books and Recordings by Music Faculty

Books and Book Chapters


Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia


Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia: Profiles and Reflections

Travis Stimeling

West Virginia University Press, 2018





A-R
A-R Online Music Anthology
Chapter, "Genres and Forms in the 20th Century”

Authored: Matthew Heap

A-R Editions, Middleton, Wisconsin, 2017



Oxford Handbook of Country Music


The Oxford Handbook of Country Music

Editor: Travis Stimeling

Oxford University Press, England, 2017

 



Fifty Cents and a Box Top

Fifty Cents and a Box Top: The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy 

Travis Stimeling and Charlie McCoy

West Virginia University Press, 2017





Virtuoso Flutist

The Virtuosic Flutist, Brilliant Studies for the Next Step and Beyond

Nina Assimakopoulos

Vayū Press, 2017





Country Boys and Redneck Women
Country Boys and Redneck Women: New Essays in Gender and Country Music

Editors: Diane Pecknold and Kristine McCusker 

Chapter, “Taylor Swift’s ‘Pitch Problem’ and the Place of Adolescent Girls in Country Music.”

Author: Travis Stimeling

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016




Master Singers


Master Singers: Advice from the Stage

Donald George and Lucy Mauro

Oxford University Press, 2015





Current Directions in Ecomusicology


Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Nature, Environment 

Chapter, “Music, Television Advertising, and the Green Positioning of the Global Energy Industry”

Authored: Travis Stimeling

Editors: Kevin Dawe and Aaron S. Allen

Routledge, London, 2015



The Country Music Reader


The Country Music Reader

Travis Stimeling

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014





Beyond Ars Nova

Beyond 50 Years of Ars Nova Studies at Certaldo, 1959-2009 (L'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento, vol. 8)

Editors: Marco Gozzi and Agostino Ziino

Chapter, "The Sources and Early Readers of Ugolino of Orvieto's Declaratio Musice Discipline”

Author: Evan MacCarthy

Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca, Italy, 2014




Renaissance Then

Renaissance Then and Now: Danza, Musica e Teatro per un nuovo Rinascimento

Editors: Stefano Baldassarri and Evan MacCarthy

Chapter, "'This is another and greater subject': Leonardo Bruni on music”

Author: Evan MacCarthy

ETS Edizioni, Pisa, Italy, 2014



Collective Writings



The Collected Writings of Theron McClure (Morris, 2013)

Editor: Andrew Kohn






Cosmic Cowboys


Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin’s Progressive Country Music Scene

Travis Stimeling

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011




Essential Keyboard Duets


Essential Keyboard Duets, Vol. 5

Lucy Mauro and Scott Beard

Alfred Publishing, 2011




Essential Two Piano


Essential Two-Piano Repertoire

Lucy Mauro and Scott Beard

Shanghai Music Publishing House, China, 2010 
Alfred Publishing, 2004



Essential Piano Trios


Essential Keyboard Trios

Lucy Mauro and Scott Beard

Alfred Publishing, 2009




Essential Piano Duets 4


Essential Keyboard Duets, Vol. 4

Lucy Mauro and Scott Beard

Alfred Publishing,  2009




Recordings


The following list includes WVU School of Music faculty's work on commercially released recordings. It does not include complete recording information for each album.


Rosowksy

Solomon Rosowsky: Chamber Music and Yiddish Songs

Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival

George Willis, percussion

Toccata Records, 2018


Fife

Mountaineer Fife and Drums

George Willis, director

Released by Mon Hills Records, 2017



Birifor Bori

Birifor Bori: Bori Music of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire

Michael Vercelli, percussion; Mark Benincosa, engineer

GCIA Collective, 2017



Long Time

Long Time on This Mountain: The Songs of Shirley Stewart Burns

Travis Stimeling, producer

Laurel Fork Music, 2017



Engel

Joel Engel: Chamber Music and Folksongs

Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival

George Willis, percussion

Toccata Records, 2017


Baltimore

Leonard Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
John Weigand, clarinet
American Classics, 2017


Torrent

Torrent: Wet Ink Ensemble

Michael Ibrahim, saxophone

Sound American, 2017



Boulanger

Mademoiselle:  The Music of Nadia Boulanger

Lucy Mauro, piano/producer; Mark Benincosa, engineer

Delos, 2016



React

React

Mikylah Myers, violin; David Taddie, composer; Mark Benincosa, engineer

Parma, 2016




Blank Bass

Allan Blank: Works with Contrabass

Andrew Kohn, contrabass; Michael Ibrahim, saxophone; Mark Benincosa, engineer

Self-released, 2016



Flammen

Flammen; Christophorus, einer Vision einer Oper

Robert Chafin, voice

CPO, 2016



Vayu

Vayu: Multicultural Music for Solo Flute from the Twenty-First Century

Nina Assimakopoulos, flute

Amp Records, 2015



Joyful Jazz

Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra Christmas

Keith Jackson, trombone

Manchester Craftman’s Guild, 2015



McAuliffe Return

Return to Old Ireland:  Music of Mary McAuliffe

Lucy Mauro, piano; Mikylah Myers, violin; Nina Assimakopoulos, flute; Cynthia Anderson, oboe; Andrea Houde, viola; John Winkler, trumpet; Keith Jackson, trombone; Michael Ibrahim, saxophone; Mark Benincosa, engineer -- Delos, 2015


Soviet Sax

Soviet Music for Saxophone and Piano

Michael Ibrahim, saxophone; Peter Amstutz, piano; Mark Benincosa, engineer

Teal Creek Music, 2015



Black Hole Zion

Blood Nebula

Black Hole Zion

Mark Benincosa, composer

Self-released, 2015


Gordon

Rushes by Michael Gordon

Rushes Ensemble

Lynn Hileman, bassoon

Renssalear Polytechnic Institute’ Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, 2014


Waltzes

Waltzes Live at the Village at Heritage Point

Michael Ibrahim, saxophone; Peter Amstutz, piano; Mark Benincosa, engineer

Teal Creek Music, 2014



Lang Unforgetting Skies

From the Unforgetting Skies: The Piano Music of Margaret Ruthven Lang 

Lucy Mauro, piano; Mark Benincosa, producer/engineer

Delos, 2013



Distances Within Me

Distances Within Me

Michael Ibrahim, saxophone; Peter Amstutz, piano; Mark Benincosa, engineer

Teal Creek Music, 2013



New Love

New Love Music Rise:Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang, Volume II 

Lucy Mauro, piano; Mark Benincosa, producer/engineer

Delos, 2012



Komm mit mir

Komm mit mir!  Come with Me!  Romantic Songs of Mathilde von Kralik

Lucy Mauro, piano; Mark Benincosa, producer/engineer

Delos, 2012



Solo Sax

Solo

Michael Ibrahim, saxophone

Omninova, 2012



French Music for Saxophone

French Music for Saxophone and Piano

Michael Ibrahim, saxophone; Mark Benincosa, producer/engineer
Cala Records, 2012



Blank Song

Song Cycles with Double Bass and Piano

Andrew Kohn, double bass; Mark Benincosa, producer/engineer

Albany, 2012



Lang Love

Love is Everywhere: Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang, Volume I

Lucy Mauro, piano

Delos, 2011



Swing Low

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

American Spiritual Ensemble

Hope and William Koehler, voice

DBH Sound, 2011


Mincek Tilt

Alex Mincek, lift - tilt - flter - split

Michael Ibrahim, saxophone

Carrier Recordings, 2010



Mahler 3

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

George Willis, percussion

Exton, 2010