Concise History of Western Music OLD EDITION - Softcover

Barbara Russano Hanning

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393263223 ISBN 13: 9780393263220

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

Barbara Hanning's Concise History of Western Music offers students a manageable introduction to the forces that shaped music. Combining concision with the imaginative pedagogy that her text pioneered, Hanning focuses on an essential repertoire of 109 characteristic works-from the Middle Ages to the present-providing students with the cultural and historical context to illuminate the music and remember its significance.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Russano Hanning (Professor of Music, The City College and Graduate Center, CUNY) taught music history to undergraduate and graduate students for forty years and is the author of a book on early opera. She has served as president of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and chaired the Music Department at City College for fifteen years.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393263223
• ISBN 13: 9780393263220
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 736