The most influential work of its kind ever written, appraising the musical qualities and potential of over 60 commonly used stringed, wind, and percussion instruments. Includes 150 full-score musical examples from works by Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and others. Complete…
"The Musical Madhouse is the first complete translation into English of Hector Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique. It is the funniest of all his works, and consists of a number of short anecdotes, witticisms, open letters, and comments on the absurdities of concert life. Ala…
"The Musical Madhouse is the first complete translation into English of Hector Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique. It is the funniest of all his works, and consists of a number of short anecdotes, witticisms, open letters, and comments on the absurdities of concert life. Ala…
Norton anthology of western music
by Messiaen, Olivier, Berlioz, Hector, Cage, John, Adams, John, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, Handel, George Frideric, Strauss, Richard, Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, Schoenberg, Arnold, Ives, Charles, Bartók, Béla, Stravinsky, Igor, Webern, Anton, Berg, Alban, Hindemith, Paul, Copland, Aaron, Britten, Benjamin, Babbitt, Milton, Crumb, George, Penderecki, Krzysztof, Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Seeger, Ruth Crawford, Sheng, Bright, Grout, Donald Jay, Sullivan, Arthur, Lully, Jean-Baptiste, Gillespie, Dizzy, Dowland, John, Lasso, Orlando di, Rore, Cipriano de, Euripides, Wipo, Hildegard,, Saint, Bernart,, de Ventadorn, Dia,, comtessa de, Adam,, de La Halle, Walther,, von der Vogelweide, Alfonso, X,, King of Castile and Leon, Léonin, Pérotin, Vitry, Philippe de, Guillaume,, de Machaut, Ciconia, Johannes, Jacopo,, da Bologna, Gherardello,, da Firenze, Landini, Francesco, Dunstable, John, Binchois, Gilles, Dufay, Guillaume, Ockeghem, Johannes, Isaac, Heinrich, Josquin,, des Prez, Luther, Martin, Bourgeois, Louis, Byrd, William, Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, Victoria, Tomás Luis de, Encina, Juan del, Cara, Marchetto, Arcadelt, Jacob, Marenzio, Luca, Gesualdo, Carlo,, principe di Venosa, Sermisy, Claudin de, Le Jeune, Claude, Morley, Thomas, Weelkes, Thomas, Narváez, Luis de, Monteverdi, Claudio, Caccini, Giulio, Peri, Jacopo, Cesti, Antonio, Strozzi, Barbara, Grandi, Alessandro, Carissimi, Giacomo, Schütz, Heinrich, Frescobaldi, Girolamo, Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, Purcell, Henry, Torrejón y Velasco, Tomás de, Araujo, Juan de, Scarlatti, Alessandro, Corelli, Arcangelo, Buxtehude, Dietrich, Vivaldi, Antonio, Couperin, François, Rameau, Jean-Philippe, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, Hasse, Johann Adolf, Gay, John, Gluck, Christoph Willibald,, Ritter von, Billings, William, Scarlatti, Domenico, Sammartini, Giovanni Battista, Stamitz, Johann, Bach, Johann Christian, Haydn, Joseph, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Schubert, Franz, Schumann, Robert, Bishop, Henry R., (Henry Rowley), Foster, Stephen Collins, Chopin, Frédéric, Liszt, Franz, Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, Schumann, Clara, Rossini, Gioacchino, Weber, Carl Maria von, Verdi, Giuseppe, Wagner, Richard, Bizet, Georges, Brahms, Johannes, Beach, Amy, Sousa, John Philip, Joplin, Scott, Mahler, Gustav, Debussy, Claude, Rachmaninoff, Sergei, Smith, Bessie, Oliver, King, Gershwin, George, Ellington, Duke, Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, Revueltas, Silvestre, Still, William Grant, Barber, Samuel, Husa, Karel, Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe, Pärt, Arvo, Gubaidulina, Sofia
The seventh edition of "A History of Western Music" offers a vivid, accessible and richly contextual view of music in Western culture.