Carolyn Abbate, Roger Parker
A bold, engaging exploration of opera’s fundamental nature and enduring appeal, from the sixteenth century to the present.More
Samuel Adler
Third Edition
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Samuel Adler
Second Edition
Young musicians today are faced with a rapidly expanding and complex repertory of styles, tonal as well as pre- and post-tonal.More
J. Heywood Alexander
Following the same chapter organization as An Introduction to America’s Music, To Stretch Our Ears is the first gathering of significant and far-reaching readings that illuminate many aspects of American music.More
Denis Arnold
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.More
Allan W. Atlas
Renaissance Music, by Allan W. Atlas, is a formidable new addition to Norton’s Introduction to Music History series.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
Joseph Auner, Walter Frisch
A concise anthology including a wide range of music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.More
Joseph Auner, Walter Frisch
The music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.More
Carl Philipp Emanuel (C. P. E.) Bach, William J. Mitchell
Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments is a classic of musical literature in the true sense of
the word.More
Johann Sebastian Bach, Gerhard Herz
An original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.More
Johann Sebastian Bach, Gerhard Herz
An original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.More
John Backus
Second Edition
Although the science of acoustics is fundamental to the art of music, relatively few musicians understand the scientific properties of musical sound.More
Hugh Barker, Yuval Taylor
Musicians strive to “keep it real”; listeners condemn “fakes”; ... but does great music really need to be authentic?More
Tim Barnwell, Jan Davidson
A celebration of Appalachian artistic traditions from Nashville to Raleigh, with an accompanying CD of music.More