Norton Anthology of Western Music, Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque

Norton Anthology of Western Music

by J. Peter Burkholder (Editor), Claude V. Palisca (Editor)

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, Varese, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction, History, Textbooks, Reference, College

784 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Edie Walls · Rating 3 out of 5]

I never want to take another listening quiz again but I have another semester of Music History still to do :(