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Building on his monumental revision of the Seventh Edition, Peter Burkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation of students, placing people at the center of the story. 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. With a six-part structure emphasizing the music’s reception and continued influence, Burkholder’s narrative establishes a social and historical context for each repertoire to reveal its legacy and its significance today.

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    18.8 x 4.32 x 26.16 cm
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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; Eighth edition (3 March 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 986 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393931250
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393931259
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.8 x 4.32 x 26.16 cm
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is an 8th Edition copy.
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I have read volumes of music history books and countless biographies of all the major and minor composers...both classical and jazz. This one is one of the best as far as an overall broad view of music history in general. Very complete and thorough. It covers mostly classical from antiquity to modern with just a brief section covering jazz and popular music. I purchased just to review for graduate diagnostic exam. This is the series that this particular music school uses for its course work. It is pretty much the same as many of the other music history texts, but it does give a new angle or twist on some of the information.
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Julie E Asta-Ferrero
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on 26 April 2013
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Accompanied with the Anthologies of the same title this set is great for learning about the history of music. Clear and easy to read it explains everything about the music of the times covered in this edition. Great.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Très bon ouvrage
Reviewed in France on 18 October 2013
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Le livre est très complet, bien documenté, et intéressant. La présentation est agréable, ludique, et claire.
Attention: il ne faut pas avoir de difficulté à lire l'anglais car tout l'ouvrage est rédigé en parfait anglais.
Je ne mets que 3 étoiles sur 5 car j'ai été déçue de ne pas recevoir les CD avec le livre. En effet, ma prof de musicologie à l'université a requis qu'on achète ce livre avec l'anthologie de CD et de partitions; quelle ne fut pas ma surprise quand j'ai réalisé que le bouquin coûtait 55€ + les CD à acheter séparément 40€ + les partitions...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, comprehensive work.
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There is a reason many musicologists still consider this text to be the definitive comprehensive text in music history. Although dry at times, this volume presents an in-depth look at the history of music. My one real criticism is that the information is not always presented chronologically -- it is sometimes presented by geographical area or by school of thought. The only problem with this is that it gives the sense of jumping around throughout history and sometimes becomes confusing in terms of figuring out a flow of what happened when. One of Burkholder's main contributions to this work was to make it correspond to the Norton Anthologies of Western Music. I highly recommend using this book in conjunction with the Norton Anthologies and Norton Recorded Anthologies. It gives a better picture by providing examples.
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