This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four dis…
[This book] offers a ... contextual history of music in Europe and the Americas. From tropes in Latin masses to minimalism and the avant-garde, the history of Western music has long been a struggle between tradition and innovation, and [the author] explores the issues and people…
The seventh edition of "A History of Western Music" offers a vivid, accessible and richly contextual view of music in Western culture.
A survey of Western music from the ancient and medieval worlds to the new millennium. This revision places a stronger emphasis on social and historical context.
Maintaining the authority and breadth of coverage that has always defined this classic text, this new revision places a stronger emphasis on social and historical context and adds substantially expanded pedagogy and striking four-color design.
Muziekgeschiedenis aan de hand van muziekvoorbeelden van de Griekse oudheid tot en met de barok, voorzien van uitvoerige toelichtingen bij de gekozen fragmenten.