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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 780.9 EAN: 9780393979909 Edition: 5th ISBN: 0393979903 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 742 Publication Date: July 11, 2005 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Norton AnthologyThe book was in great condiditon. It is put together well with great description, both theoretical and musical, about each piece. Rating: - Not necessarily for your average music loverThese 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 ... Read More Rating: - ExcellentThis book was sent out the day after I bought it, and was in the stated condition. Excellent service, would buy from this seller again. Rating: - meh -it's a textbookIt 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. Rating:  - Too Much Information, Too Little SpaceAs is typical with surveys of music written before 1800, this volume devotes way too little time and space to a period of music history spanning almost 2000 years, and yet volume two deovtes roughly the same amount of space to two hundred years of music history (ca. 1800-present). One gets the impression that a series of relatively inconsequential composers filled in the blanks until Bach and Handel, and that's grossly unfair not only to the composers of those works (and the works themselves), but ... Read More 
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