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A History of Western Music Ninth Edition

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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. Because listening is central to music history, the new Total Access program provides a full suite of media resources―including an ebook and premium streaming recordings of the entire Norton Anthology of Western Music repertoire―with every new text. Combining thoughtful revisions―particularly to chapters on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries―with exceptional media resources, A History of Western Music provides all the resources that students need in a text that will last a lifetime.

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J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He has written and edited four books on Charles Ives, as well as numerous articles on topics spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, 19th-Century Music, Music Theory Spectrum, and other journals. He has served as President, Vice President, and Director-at-Large of the American Musicological Society and on the board of the College Music Society. His writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and ASCAP.

Donald Jay Grout, late professor of music at Cornell University, also wrote a standard history of opera.

Claude V. Palisca, late professor of music at Yale University, began his collaboration on A History of Western Music with the Third Edition. Among his many publications are a history of Baroque music and a collection of scholarly essays on Italian Renaissance music.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Ninth edition (April 15, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393918297
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393918298
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.8 x 10.3 inches

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J. Peter Burkholder writes about how music is shaped by its historical circumstances, how it conveys meaning, and how it responds to other music. His writings explore what musicians are thinking about as they create music, what problems they face and try to solve, and how knowing that background can help us to understand their music. In his books and dozens of articles, he has focused on twentieth-century composers, especially American composer Charles Ives, and on issues of musical borrowing and musical meaning. His writings have won awards from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, and have been translated and published in Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic.
Burkholder is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he taught for over three decades before retiring in 2019. He has served as President of the American Musicological Society and of the Charles Ives Society, and in 2010 he became the youngest person ever named an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society.
His books include:
Listening to Charles Ives: Variations on His America (Amadeus Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
A History of Western Music, 10th ed. (with Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca; W. W. Norton, 2019)
Norton Anthology of Western Music, 8th ed., 3 vols. (editor, with Claude V. Palisca; W. W. Norton, 2019)
Charles Ives and His World (editor; Princeton University Press, 1996)
Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition (coeditor, with Geoffrey Block; Yale University Press, 1996)
All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing (Yale University Press, 1995)
Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind the Music (Yale University Press, 1985)
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I originally rented this book for one of my classes, but once I got a good look at it, I quickly returned my rental and bought it. I knew this would be a book I'd want to have on my shelf forever. The writers do a wonderful job of providing insightful history into the lives of composers, the development of theory, as well as the dynamic between classical music and society. Very well written and enjoyable to read.
(In all fairness though, I'm a history and classical music nerd)

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Great book. My theory professor recommended it

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Great book. My theory professor recommended it. It gives a great overview of everything you need to know about Western music. The layout of the pages enables for easy reading, such as the timelines and short composer bios. Probably the most underrated part of the book is the recommended reading section in the back. The book offers more specific texts for certain topics, which is tremendously helpful. I would say that this is a must have for serious musicians. Every serious musician should at least have it on their bookshelf to reference to.

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A Wonderful Book With Excellent Supplementary Material !

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2014

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I am reviewing the hardcover edition -- This is a truly wonderful book! Although it was designed as a music school text, it is a truly great source for an individual learner who loves music; and Norton (unlike many textbook publishers) has done an excellent job of integrating the supplementary material on the web and making that accessible to anyone who purchases a new book. In the book, the maps and illustrations do a good job of putting the musical content in an appropriate context. I treasure this book and I imagine that you will, too.

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Huge book in rather small print.

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Great, detailed information...but best with supplemental materials (and educator's guidance.)

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My son says the book is good.

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2019

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I purchased this book for my son who used it for studying. He used it for his academic team practice. He says it is very good and covers a lot of material.

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I just received the book in the mail however the front cover and the binding of the front of the book is damaged quite badly. The content of the textbook is fine.

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I still play the accompanying CDs just for fun, even though I'm done with music classes

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More information than i will ever remember, but a comprehensive, encompassing study that provides insight to and an overview of the history of music. I still play the accompanying CDs just for fun, even though I'm done with music classes.

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