The definitive history of Western Music

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices, and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians.

1.THE TWETIETH CENTURY AND AFTER.
1.The Early Twentieth Century: Vernacular Music.
2.The Early Twentieth Century: The classical Tradition.
3. Radical Modernists.
4. Between the World Wars: Jazz nad Popular Music.
5. Between the World Wars: The Classical Tradition.
6. Postwar Crosscurrents.
7. Postwar Heirs to the Classical Tradition.
8. The Late Twentieth Century.
9. The Twenty-First Century.

AUTHORS
J. Peter Burkholder
(Indiana University)

Claude V Palisca
(late of Yale University)

Donald Jay Grout
(late of Cornell University)

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