This is a chronological presentation of the development of Western music within Western culture. This edition has increased coverage of 20th-century music, and timelines covering musical events throughout history.

Product Description: The Study and Listening Guide provides chapter outlines and objectives, study questions, review questions, and valuable guides to help students listen more productively.

Offers an historical selection of Gregorian chant, opera, chamber, orchestral, and choral music by composers from ancient and medieval times to Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Debussy, Stravinsky, Copeland, and Britten.

Product Description: A tool for students, this classroom-tested guide provides chapter objectives, chapter outlines, study questions, lists of key terms and names, review questions, musical exercises and guides for listening.

Product Description: Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he placed himself in the European classical tradition, drew on it heavily for his aesthetic philosophy and musical techniques, and extended it to create something new...read more

Charles Ives is famous for using borrowed material in his music. Almost 200 individual works or movements, spanning his entire career and representing more than a third of his output, incorporate music by other composers or from his own previous work. This study identifies the different kinds of "quotations" in Ives's music, explores the complex musical, aesthetic and psychological motivations behind the borrowings, and shows the purpose, techniques, and effects that characterize each one. Burkholder catalogues 14 ways that Ives borrowed, ranging from direct quotation to paraphrase, variation, collage, modelling and stylistic allusion. Arguing that these borrowing procedures were compositional strategies, he provides a new perspective on Ives's process of composition. In addition, by tracing the development of Ives's borrowing practices through his career, he contributes to an understanding of the composer's stylistic evolution. And by showing how much of Ives's music uses borrowing procedures that are common to many composers, he reveals that Ives is not as far removed from the classic-romantic tradition as has been thought. Finally, Burkholder's treatment of Ives's borrowing techniques offers a new perspective on the entire field of musical borrowing. The book includes 120 musical examples.

Looks at how Ives' music changed over the course of his career, identifies the most important influences, and discusses the themes of Ives' work