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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



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Norton Anthology of Western Music, Volume 2

by J. Peter (edt) Burkholder

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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.

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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.

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.

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This book is an outstanding one of western music collections. It provides music lovers with rich information. it is very useful, and i will recommand it to my colleagues and students.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780393925623
Publisher:
W.W. Norton and Co.
Subject:
Musical analysis
Editor:
Burkholder, J. Peter
Editor:
Palisca, Claude V.
Author:
Palisca, Claude V.
Author:
Burkholder, J. Peter
Subject:
Music appreciation
Subject:
History & Criticism - General
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
Instruction & Study
Edition Number:
5
Edition Description:
Sixth Edition
Publication Date:
20090216
Binding:
CD-audio
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Pages:
500
Dimensions:
10 x 7 in

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