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AMERICAN SONG

45 albums (549 tracks) released from Fantasy Records, American Music Preservation Recordings and King Records, including genres such as country, doo-wop, rock and roll, spoken word, and sacred. Example albums include:

*Best of William Billings

*Celestial Praises: Music of the Shakers

*Howl and other poems by Allen Ginsberg

*Creedence Gold

*Willie Nelson: Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

*Johnny Cash: Inducted into the Hall of Fame 1980

*Patsy Cline: Country Music Hall of Fame.

CLASSICAL MUSIC LIBRARY

2009 tracks released from New Albion Records (20th century compositions), Gimell Records (Tallis Scholars) and Clear Note Publications (classical guitar repertoire). New works from:

*Karlheinz Stockhausen

*Somei Satoh

*Paul Dresher

*Morton Feldman

*Thomas Weelkes

*Orlando Gibbons

*Thomas Tompkins

*Schubert's complete chamber works with guitar

...among others

CLASSICAL SCORES LIBRARY

3,607 scores (44,564 pages) released from University Music Editions. Works by 84 new composers including:

*Berlioz

*Chopin

*Cornelius

*Glinka

*Gretry

*Loewe

*Marenzio

*de Lassus

*Palestrina

*Rameau

*Rossini

*Schein

*Schubert

*Schuetz

*Sweelinck

*Victoria

...among others

*1996 new scores from the Renaissance period

*407 Baroque scores

*377 Classical scores

*812 Romantic scores

*2 20th century scores

CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC

36 albums (414 tracks) released from Concord Records, Fantasy Jazz, INEDIT, Nimbus, and Pan Records. Genres include:

*Latin jazz

*Contemporary folk

*Flamenco

*Electronica

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