Norton Anthology of Western Music
Paperback
Volume(s): 1: Ancient to Baroque
J. Peter Burkholder (Editor, Indiana University), Claude V. Palisca (Editor, late of Yale University)
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, Dvorák, and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie, Bartók, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Varèse, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty.
Book Details
- Paperback
- February 2009
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ISBN 978-0-393-93126-6
- 7.8 × 9.8 in
/ 783 pages
- Volume(s): 1: Ancient to Baroque
- Territory Rights: Worldwide
Other Formats
Sixth Edition / Paperback
Volume(s): 3: Twentieth Century
Sixth Edition / Paperback
Volume(s): 2: Classic to Romantic
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