James Peter Burkholder

Claude V. Palisca

Donald Jay Grout

"The narrative of A History of Western Music naturally focuses on the musical works, styles, genres and ideas that have proven most influential, enduring and significant - but it also encompasses a wide range of music, from religious to secular, from serious to humorous, from art music to popular music, and from Europe to the Americas."--Publisher's description.

A History of Western Music

This volume includes 50 examples of music from Debussy and Scriabin to Adams and Zwilich. With a note on using the anthology, list of instrument names and abbreviations, glossary, and indices.

Norton Anthology of Western Music: Twentieth century

J. Burkholder

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 distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives's personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published. Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives's music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America's greatest composer.

Charles Ives and His World

Jennifer Lee King

The Study and Listening Guide provides chapter outlines and objectives, study questions, review questions, and valuable guides to help students listen more productively.

Study and Listening Guide for A History of Western Music, Seventh Edition, by J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca and Norton Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, [edited] by J. Peter Burkholder and Claude V. Palisca

James Peter Burkholder

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