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 Gabrieliââ¬â¢s In ecclesiis, Lullyââ¬â¢s Te Deum, Haydnââ¬â¢s Creation, and Prokofievââ¬â¢s Alexander Nevsky; more opera, including Norma, Les Huguenots, and Madama Butterfly; orchestral and chamber works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, 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.Categories:
- Arts & Photography
- Music
- Reference
- Music
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Co.
Author : Donald J. Grout
Language : English
Edition : Shorter ed., rev
Published :1973-09-24
Number Of Pages : 575
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0393093581
ISBN-13 : 9780393093582
Item weight : 2 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 6.2 in x 9.3 in
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