A History of Western Music / Edition 10

by J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca

Overview

This classic textbook—first written by Donald Jay Grout of Cornell U.—traces the forms and modes of Western music from ancient Mesopotamia to the present, emphasizing musical styles and genres. For the new edition, Burkholder (Indiana U.) has also sought to highlight the people creating and receiving music, the choices they made, what they valued in music, and how these choices reflected both tradition and innovation. They have also incorporated more material on American jazz, popular, and other musics, while retaining the emphasis on "art music." Included in the text are such features as composer biographies, source readings, timelines, maps, color illustrations, and cross-references to an ancillary package of music CDs available through the publisher. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393668179
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	02/08/2019
Edition description:	Tenth Edition
Pages:	1120
Sales rank:	633,562
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He has written and edited four books on Charles Ives, as well as numerous articles on topics spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, 19th-Century Music, Music Theory Spectrum, and other journals. He has served as President, Vice President, and Director-at-Large of the American Musicological Society and on the board of the College Music Society. His writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and ASCAP.

Donald Jay Grout, late professor of music at Cornell University, also wrote a standard history of opera.


Claude V. Palisca, late professor of music at Yale University, began his collaboration on A History of Western Music with the Third Edition. Among his many publications are a history of Baroque music and a collection of scholarly essays on Italian Renaissance music.