The Norton Anthology of Western Music (v. 3)

This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of western music from antiquity to modern times. Highlights of the repertoire include new works from all periods: more contrasting virelais, ballades and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works, including Gabrieli's In ecclesiis, Lully's Te Deum, Haydn's Creation, and Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky; more opera, including Norma, Les Huguenots, and Madama Butterfly; orchestral and chamber works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie, Bartok, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Varese, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty.

ISBN 0393932400   Pages 948 ISBN13 9780393932409 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher WW Norton & Co   Weight (grammes) 1455 Imprint WW Norton & Co   Published in New York Format Paperback   Height (mm) 239 Publication date 03 Mar 2009   Width (mm) 198 DEWEY 780.9   Spine width (mm) 37 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

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