Norton anthology of western music

by Claude V. Palisca

Printed music, 1988

Status

Available

Call number

780.9

DDC/MDS

780.9

Collection

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c1988.

Description

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, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie, Bartok, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Varese, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty.… (more)

Original publication date

1980
2019

Physical description

24 cm

ISBN

0393956423 / 9780393956429

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