A History of Western Music 9e - Hardcover

Burkholder, J. Peter; Grout, Donald Jay; Palisca, Claude V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393918297 ISBN 13: 9780393918298

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

Combining current scholarship with cutting-edge pedagogy, the Ninth Edition of A History of Western Music is the text that students and professors have trusted for generations. Because listening is central to music history, the new Total Access program provides a full suite of media resources including an ebook and premium streaming recordings of the entire Norton Anthology of Western Music repertoire with every new text. Combining thoughtful revisions particularly to chapters on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with exceptional media resources, A History of Western Music provides all the resources that students need in a text that will last a lifetime."

About this title

About the Author:

J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He has written and edited four books on Charles Ives, as well as numerous articles on topics spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, 19th-Century Music, Music Theory Spectrum, and other journals. He has served as President, Vice President, and Director-at-Large of the American Musicological Society and on the board of the College Music Society. His writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and ASCAP. Donald Jay Grout, late professor of music at Cornell University, also wrote a standard history of opera. Claude V. Palisca, late professor of music at Yale University, began his collaboration on A History of Western Music with the Third Edition. Among his many publications are a history of Baroque music and a collection of scholarly essays on Italian Renaissance music.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393918297
• ISBN 13: 9780393918298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1200