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The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what's important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices, and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow's musicians.
"The narrative of A History of Western Music naturally focuses on the musical works, styles, genres and ideas that have proven most influential, enduring and significant - but it also encompasses a wide range of music, from religious to secular, from serious to humorous, from art music to popular music, and from Europe to the Americas."--Publisher's description.
Study Space. Visit WWnorton.com/studyspace and select Concise History of Western Music from the Music menu. Use the free registration code from your text to access streamed music, style identification quizzes, composer biographies, and more. Each chapter is structured to help you organize (with study plans and chapter outlines), learn (with quizzes and flashcards), and connect the music with the history. Norton Anthology of Western Music, Sixth Edition A three-volume set of-spiral- bound scores for 97 works featured (and 205 works mentioned) in Concise History of Western Music and on the recordings. Volume 1,Ancient to Baroque: Volume 2,Classic to Romantic: Volume 3,Twentieth Century: Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Sixth Edition Three volumes of CDs containing the entire Norton Anthology of Western Music repertoire. Volyrne1 (6 CDs): Volume2 (5 CDs): Volume3 (3 CDs): Concise (6 CDs): Book jacket.
Offers chapter outlines and objectives, study questions, review questions, key terms and names, and valuable study guides to help students listen more productively and retain the essential material from the text.
Charles Ives is famous for using borrowed material in his music. Almost two hundred individual works or movements, spanning his entire career and representing more than a third of his output, incorporate music by other composers or from his own previous work. In this book, the eminent Ives scholar J. Peter Burkholder identifies the different kinds of "quotations" in Ives's music, explores the complex musical, aesthetic, and psychological motivations behind the borrowings, and shows the purpose, techniques, and effects that characterize each one. Burkholder catalogues fourteen distinct ways that Ives borrowed, ranging from direct quotation to paraphrase, variation, collage, modeling, and styl...
An engaging new portrait of the seminal American composer
Concise History of Western Music combines Grout and Palisca's uncompromising reliability, scope, and respect for the narrative, while offering many more pedagogical aids, such as chapter preludes and postludes; "Etudes," excursions that explore the material more deeply than the main text; and "Windows," boxed discussions of special topics.