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The Norton Anthology of Western Music, Fourth Edition, Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque
The Norton Anthology of Western Music Fourth Edition Volume 1 Ancient to Baroque Author:Claude V. Palisca (Editor) 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 tr... more »anslations. 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, and a total of 84 representative music scores.
The book sections are: Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages; The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century; French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century; England and the Burgundian Lands in the Fifteenth Century; The Age of the Renaissance: Music of the Low Countries; New Currents in the Sixteenth Century; Church Music of the Late Renaissance and Reformation; Music of the Early Baroque Period; Opera and Vocal Music in the late Seventeenth Century; Instrumental Music in the Late Baroque Period; Music in the Early Eighteenth Century.
The Appendices and Indexes section includes: Instrument names and abbreviations; Glossary of score and performance indications; Index of Composers; Index of titles; Index of forms and genres.« less