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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other formats:Other titles in the Norton Anthology of Western Music series:Norton Anthology of Western Music, Volume 2by J. Peter (edt) Burkholder
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:Revised and enlivened commentaries closely examine the scores to clarify their historical significance. Synopsis: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. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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