Performers include: Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherland Cellist Yo-Yo Ma Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstein The Berlin Philharmonic, the Ch[...]

The eighth edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid, accessible and richly contextual view of music in western culture. Building on his monumental revision of the seventh edition, Peter Burkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation of students, placing people at the centr[...]

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[...]

The eighth edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid, accessible and richly contextual view of music in western culture. Building on his monumental revision of the seventh edition, Peter Burkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation of students, placing people at the centr[...]

The anthologies feature outstanding teaching pieces that reveal the sweep of history through changing genres, styles, conventions, forms, techniques, and materials. The Seventh Edition includes new twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by Adams, Bernstein, Carter, Golijov, Higdon, Revueltas, Saa[...]

Combining current scholarship with cutting-edge pedagogy, the ninth edition of A History of Western Music is the text that students and professors have trusted for generations. The text has been thoughtfully revised in response to feedback from professors to reflect the way that music history is tau[...]

The anthologies feature outstanding teaching pieces that reveal the sweep of history through changing genres, styles, conventions, forms, techniques, and materials. The Seventh Edition includes new twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by Adams, Bernstein, Carter, Golijov, Higdon, Revueltas, Saa[...]

"An extremely important and gracefully written book on a significant and controversial topic. It is the most thoroughgoing study of Ives's compositional procedures that has yet been attempted."-Larry Starr, author of A Union of Diversities: Style in the Music of Charles Ives "A unique in-depth study[...]