A history of western music

Burkholder, J. Peter (James Peter). (Author). Grout, Donald Jay, (author.). Palisca, Claude V., (author.).

Summary: Renowned for its comprehensive coverage of genres and styles in Western music from antiquity to the present, A History or Western Music has secured its place--through six editions and for almost a half- century--as the definitive resource for every music student. Maintaining the authority and breadth of coverage that have always defined this classic text, J. Peter Burkholder has meticulously revised and restructured the text to make it more accessible for today?s students. This revision places a stronger emphasis on social and historical context and adds substantially expanded pedagogy and striking four-color design.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393918298
ISBN: 0393918297
ISBN: 9780393937114
ISBN: 0393937119
Physical Description: print
xlii, 1009, 143 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Edition: Ninth edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Music in antiquity -- The Christian church in the first millennium -- Roman liturgy and chant -- Song and dance music to 1300 -- Polyphony through the thirteenth century -- New developments in the fourteenth century -- Music and the Renaissance -- England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century -- Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520 -- Sacred music in the era of the Reformation -- Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century -- The rise of instrumental music -- New styles in the seventeenth century -- The invention of opera -- Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century -- France, England, Spain, and the New World in the seventeenth century -- Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century -- The early eighteenth century in Italy and France -- German composers in the late Baroque -- Musical taste and style in the Enlightenment -- Opera and vocal music in the early classic period -- Instrumental music : sonata, symphony, and concerto -- Classic music in the late eighteenth century -- Revolution and change -- The Romantic generation : song and piano music -- Romanticism in Classical forms : orchestral, chamber, and choral music -- Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury -- Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century -- Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria -- Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century -- The early twentieth century : vernacular music -- The early twentieth century : the classical tradition -- Radical modernists -- Between the World Wars : jazz and popular music -- Between the World Wars : the classical tradition -- Postwar crosscurrents -- Postwar heirs to the classical tradition -- The late twentieth century -- The twenty-first century.