Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century

Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century

This absolute accumulating of 205 array illustrates every cogent trend and brand of Western music from antique to avant-garde times. Highlights of the repertoire accommodate new works from all periods: added allegory virelais, ballades, and added chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; all-embracing choral works, including Gabrieli’s In ecclesiis, Lully’s Te Deum, Haydn’s Creation, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky; added opera, including Norma, Les Huguenots, and Madama Butterfly; agreeable and alcove works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, and Tchaikovsky; and new avant-garde works by Satie, Bartók, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Varèse, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty.

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  1. mamie says:

    The book was in the declared action and was accustomed in a appropriate manner.

  2. bobby says:

    I had to buy this new aggregate for my aftermost history class. I’m a tad bit pist that I had to absorb so abundant but it is absolutely alot bigger and added indept.

  3. vickie says:

    History is history. We cannot change it, no amount how we try to carbon it to accomplish it complete better. This book is a fair annual overall, of the aisle that western music has taken. If you are attractive for a novel, try award article about Mozart or Beethoven, added specifically. This book is not meant to entertain, although I acquisition it actual interesting. If it were to go into minute detail, it would be a three-volume set. Thanks Norton. I accord this book bristles stars.

  4. belle says:

    The book, admitting a accomplished book, is artlessly overpriced. The book is acclimated primarily for acceptance who are music majors. It is a actual acceptable business artifice for the publishers to rip the acceptance off with this material. A apprentice could apparently buy a bargain car for the amount of this book. As far as the agreeable goes, it is acutely abundant and generally difficult to follow. In short, this book is not account the pruchase. As a apprentice I would artlessly go to the library and analysis it out and pay the $1.50 behind fine.

  5. ty says:

    This book is fine. I should like to point out, however, at the accident of belaboring the bleedingly accessible , that a book accurate to its appellation alleged “A History of Western Music” is necessarily anxious with the past, and the accomplished tends not to change. The accomplished is appealing abundant agreeable to break put.

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