Synopses & Reviews
Maintaining the authority and breadth of coverage that have always defined this classic text, J. Peter Burkholder has meticulously revised and restructured the text to make it more accessible for today"s students. This revision places a stronger emphasis on social and historical context and adds substantially expanded pedagogy and striking four-color design.
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Recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music in the English language, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of music lovers since it first appeared in 1960. Includes the latest advances in music scholarship.
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'Renowned for its comprehensive coverage of genres and styles in Western music from antiquity to the present,
A History or Western Musichas secured its place\'\"through six editions and for almost a half-century\'\"as the definitive resource for every music student.\n
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About the Author
J. 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.Donald Jay Grout, late professor of music at Cornell University, also wrote a standard history of opera.
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.