Describes and illustrates a wide range of musical styles found in Western culture throughout history, and highlights the art and contributions of significant composers

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.

First published in Rome in 1555, Nicola Vicentino's treatise was one of the most influential music theory texts of the 16th century. This translation of the work shows how Vicentino tried to change how composers wrote and how musicians thought about music.

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Product Description: 'Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries' shows Claude Palisca at the height of his powers, discussing the relationships between musical style and history, the influence of humanism on the revival of music theory, and competing notions of style.

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: Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, published in 1581 or 1582 and now translated into English for the first time, was among the most influential music treatises of his era...read more

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.

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: This survey of Western music presents its chronological development, with some eras considered geographically or by genre. It starts in Ancient Greece and Rome and continues to the 21st century.

Product Description: Now includes a chapter on French and English sacred music in the 17th and 18th century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Fine, extremely hard to find, very collectible. This copy is in almost perfect conditions, contents are clean, tight, unmarked, look unread. Dust Jacket very light shelf wear on top edge mainly...read more

Product Description: 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, Varese, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty...read more