Norton Anthology Of Western Music - Shorter Edition

Norton Anthology Of Western Music - Shorter Edition - Edited by Claude Palisca


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, Dvorák, and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie, Bartók, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Varèse, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty.

ISBN 10: 0393951553 / 0-393-95155-3 ISBN 13: 9780393951554 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Publication Date: 1980 Binding: Softcover

Book has never been used, however it is showing some signs of shelf wear.