Music History & Musicology

Featured Books

1. Music in the Medieval West

   Margot Fassler, Walter Frisch

   Medieval music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.More

2. Music in the Renaissance

   Richard Freedman, Walter Frisch

   Renaissance music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.More

3. Music in the Baroque

   Wendy Heller, Walter Frisch

   Baroque music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.More

4. Music in the Eighteenth Century

   John A. Rice, Walter Frisch

   Eighteenth Century Music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.More

5. Music in the Nineteenth Century

   Walter Frisch

   Nineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.More

6. Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

   Joseph Auner, Walter Frisch

   The music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.More

7. The Story of Opera

   James Parakilas

   Four centuries of opera through the stories they tell.More

8. A History of Western Music

   J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca

   Eighth Edition

   The Eighth Edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid, accessible, and richly contextual view of music in Western culture.More

9. Concise History of Western Music

   Barbara Russano Hanning

   Fourth Edition

   The most engaging and accessible brief survey of Western music history, at the best value on the market.More

10. Norton Anthology of Western Music

    J. Peter Burkholder, Claude V. Palisca

    Sixth Edition / Volume(s): 1: Ancient to Baroque

    This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times.More