Norton anthology of Western music: ancient to baroque / Volume 1
This comprehensive collection of scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times, with a strengthened emphasis on twentieth-century music. The ideal companion to A History of Western Music, this anthology includes historically-significant scores,...
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| Format: | Kit |
| Language: | Spanish English |
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New York:
W. W. Norton,
2006.
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| Edition: | Quinta edición. |
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| Summary: | This comprehensive collection of scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times, with a strengthened emphasis on twentieth-century music. The ideal companion to A History of Western Music, this anthology includes historically-significant scores, with a strengthened emphasis on twentieth-century music. 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, Dvoy#345;ák, 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 741 páginas: ilu 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | incl. ref. |
| ISBN: | 0-393-97990-3 |