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Norton anthology of Western musicVolume 2,: Classic to Romantic - v. 2 (Sixth edition)

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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.

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Product Details
WW Norton & Co
0393931277 / 9780393931273
Paperback
780
03/04/2009
United States
English
xxii, 1117 pages
25 cm
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Previous edition: 2006.