Authors: J. Peter Burkholder
ISBN-13: 9780393931259, ISBN-10: 0393931250
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: May 2008
Edition: 8th Edition
J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He is the author of previous editions of A History of Western Music, the Norton Anthology of Western Music, and the Study and Listening Guide. In addition, he has written or edited four books on Charles Ives and has written 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, and his writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society, 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.
The Eighth Edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid,
accessible, and richly contextual view of music in Western culture.
1 | Music in antiquity | 4 |
2 | The Christian church in the first millennium | 24 |
3 | Roman liturgy and chant | 50 |
4 | Song and dance music in the Middle Ages | 71 |
5 | Polyphony through the thirteenth century | 87 |
6 | French and Italian music in the fourteen century | 116 |
7 | The age of the Renaissance | 148 |
8 | England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century | 167 |
9 | Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520 | 190 |
10 | Sacred music in the era of the Reformation | 210 |
11 | Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century | 240 |
12 | The rise of instrumental music | 264 |
13 | New styles in the seventeenth century | 288 |
14 | The invention of opera | 307 |
15 | Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century | 328 |
16 | France, England, Spain, and the New World in the seventeenth century | 353 |
17 | Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century | 384 |
18 | The early eighteenth century in Italy and France | 416 |
19 | German composers of the late Baroque | 438 |
20 | Opera and vocal music in the early Classic period | 472 |
21 | Instrumental music : sonata, symphony, and concerto at midcentury | 506 |
22 | Classic music in the late eighteenth century | 525 |
23 | Revolution and change | 568 |
24 | The Romantic generation : song and piano music | 595 |
25 | Romanticism in classic forms : orchestral, chamber, and choral music | 631 |
26 | Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury | 659 |
27 | Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century | 679 |
28 | Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria | 714 |
29 | Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century | 737 |
30 | The early twentieth century | 758 |
31 | Modernism and the classical tradition | 801 |
32 | Between the world wars : jazz and popular music | 844 |
33 | Between the world wars : the classical tradition | 865 |
34 | Postwar crosscurrents | 893 |
35 | The end of the millennium | 941 |