Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century
Posted in Western Books & Culture on November 26th, 2009 by admin – 6 Comments
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.