Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque

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	Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque W. W. Norton, 2005 - 742 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The ideal companion to A History of Western Music, Seventh Edition, the two-volume Norton Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, includes 172 historically significant scores, 71 of them new to this edition, with a strengthened emphasis on twentieth-century music. Revised and enlivened commentaries closely examine the scores to clarify their historical significance, and professional recordings of all works in the anthology are included on CDs, many in dynamic new performances.

Excellent

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The book was in great condiditon. It is put together well with great description, both theoretical and musical, about each piece.

Not necessarily for your average music lover

These anthologies are mostly used in music history courses to my knowledge and so I don't believe it's fair to say that this book fails to offer enough excerpts in this genre, or in this country, or during such and such years. I used this book during my first semester of music history at the undergraduate level (focusing on the second volume the next semester) and there simply isn't enough time to cover everything that ever happened during this period.

The anthology strives to give textbook examples of certain genres, forms, etc. and even ones that don't follow such rules that I HOPE are explained by an instructor. The reason they do that is so students don't leave the class thinking every piece fall neatly into rules. It's only big schools (who more than likely have a graduate program like I'm in) that can afford to offer classes that can focus on narrower time periods. It was only until I was in grad school that I could take a semester class that just focused on the Baroque; Just 150 years were studied in one semester and even then things were left out. For a comprehensive reference for music history, this is a great anthology.

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meh -it's a textbook

It was a textbook required for a class. It's a very scholarly book and if you have an interest in ancient-baroque music this has very good examples of that music.

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