Co-published by MENC: The National Association for Music Education Presents an overview of the elementary through high school curriculum, the goals of the course of study, scope and sequence of instruction, and teaching recommendations. Developed by the MENC Task Force on String Education Course...  more

Co-published by MENC: The National Association for Music Education Presents an overview of the elementary through high school curriculum, the goals of the course of study, scope and sequence of instruction, and teaching recommendations. Developed by the MENC Task Force on String Education Course of Study.

From Adam (de la Halle) to Zwilich (Ellen), The Norton Anthology of Western Music provides a comprehensive collection of scores illustrating every significant trend, genre, and national school. These authoritative readings are reproduced from reliable and easy-to-read originals, and all...  more

From Adam (de la Halle) to Zwilich (Ellen), The Norton Anthology of Western Music provides a comprehensive collection of scores illustrating every significant trend, genre, and national school. These authoritative readings are reproduced from reliable and easy-to-read originals, and all foreign-language texts are accompanied by English translations. Each work in the anthology is discussed in A History of Western Music. The editor's notes and comments follow the score of each work. The new Fourth Edition includes twenty-two new selections, including works by Luca Marenzio, Benjamin Britten, Amy Beach, John Adams, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, all of whom are newly represented in The Norton Anthology of Western Music.

"This text provides an approach to perceptive listening and an introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. Its discussions of composers' lives, individual styles, and representative works aim not merely to impart facts but to stimulate curiosity and enthusiasm. The book was...  more

"This text provides an approach to perceptive listening and an introduction to musical elements, forms, and stylistic periods. Its discussions of composers' lives, individual styles, and representative works aim not merely to impart facts but to stimulate curiosity and enthusiasm. The book was written to heighten the readers' love of music as well as to develop their listening skills." - from the Preface to the Seventh Edition Through six editions, Roger Kamien's Music: An Appreciation has become the most widely used text for Music Appreciation and Introduction to Music Literature courses. The author has approached his new seventh edition with the goal of re-examining the scholarship and refreshing the repertoire while maintaining the strengths that have made the book number one - the clear presentation of musical elements, the vivid depiction of music history, the carefully chosen musical examples, the detailed and informative Listening Outlines, and the unsurpassed supplements package.

Contains two essays written by Blume on the history of music in the Renaissance and the Baroque periods.

Revised ed. This title has been planned and organized to be used in a variety of ways: as a basic text with collateral readings, as an outline and review for any standard text on the subject, of as a self-study guide for those wishing to embark on a study of the literature and history of music...  more

Revised ed. This title has been planned and organized to be used in a variety of ways: as a basic text with collateral readings, as an outline and review for any standard text on the subject, of as a self-study guide for those wishing to embark on a study of the literature and history of music on his own.Information on scores, recordings, and collateral readings can be a guide to unlimited reading and to a selected list of musical examples that will serve as a basis for the understanding of musical styles.

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...  more

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.   .