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This title in other formats:Other titles in the Norton Anthology of Western Music series:Norton Anthology of Western Music, Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque Fifth Editionby J. Peter Burkholder and Claude V. Palisca
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:'This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times. Highlights of the repertoire include new works from all periods: more contrasting virelais, ballades, and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works, including Gabrieli"s In ecclesiis, Lully"s Te Deum, Haydn"s Creation, and Prokofiev"s Alexander Nevsky; more opera, including Norma, Les Huguenots, and Madama Butterfly; orchestral and chamber works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvork, and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie, Bart"k, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Varse, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty.' Synopsis:The ideal companion to A History of Western Music, Seventh Edition, the two-volume Norton Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, includes 172 historically significant scores, 71 of them new to this edition, with a strengthened emphasis on twentieth-century music. Revised and enlivened commentaries closely examine the scores to clarify their historical significance, and professional recordings of all works in the anthology are included on CDs, many in dynamic new performances. About the AuthorJ. Peter Burkholderis Distinguished Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He is the author of previous editions of A History of Western Music, the Norton Anthology of Western Music, and the Study and Listening Guide. In addition, he has written or edited four books on Charles Ives and has written numerous articles on topics spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, 19th-Century Music, Music Theory Spectrum, and other journals. He has served as President, Vice President, and Director-at-Large of the American Musicological Society and on the board of the College Music Society, and his writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, and ASCAP. Claude V. Palisca, late professor of music at Yale University, began his collaboration on A History of Western Musicwith the Third Edition. Among his many publications are a history of Baroque music and a collection of scholarly essays on Italian Renaissance music. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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