Leeman L. Perkins
A richly detailed portrait of the music and surrounding culture in one of history's most creative eras.More
Leon Botstein
The 1997 centennial of Brahms's death has intensified interest among
concertgoers and music lovers in the composer's prodigious body of work.More
Charles Ives
Ives's second piano sonata, Concord, Mass., 1845, stands among the masterpieces of American music.More
Igor Stravinsky
While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book—the composer's first—we hear from the man himself.
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Peter Ostwald
"[Glenn Gould] marks a major advance in our understanding of one of the 20th century's most significant performing artists.... Ostwald is as engrossing a writer as any who has tried his hand at biography."—Ted Libbey, Washington Post Book WorldMore
Duncan McLean
High Fidelity meets Blue Highways in this gloriously offbeat quest for the true roots of Texas Swing.More
Leo Treitler, W. Oliver Strunk
Revised Edition
The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century.More
Leonie Rosenstiel
A detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music.More
Allan W. Atlas
In this carefully selected anthology—the author of Renaissance Music presents full scores for all the music highlighted in the companion text—a total of 102 works of complete movements by some 75 composers.More
Allan W. Atlas
Renaissance Music, by Allan W. Atlas, is a formidable new addition to Norton’s Introduction to Music History series.More
Leo Treitler, Margaret Murata
Revised Edition / Volume(s): 4
Jan Swafford
An illuminating portrait of a man whose innovative works profoundly influenced the course of twentieth-century American classical music.More
Metropolitan Opera, Paul Gruber
For anyone trying to select the best from the vast array of operas on video.More
Leo Treitler, Wye Jamison Allanbrook
Revised Edition / Volume(s): 5
Winton Dean, Anthony Hicks