The eighth edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid, accessible and richly contextual view of music in western culture. 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 centre of the story. The narrative of A History of Western Music naturally focuses on the musical works,

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This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of western music from antiquity to modern times. Highlights of the repertoire include new works from all periods: more contrasting virelais, ballades and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works, including Gabrieli's In ecclesiis, Lully's Te Deum, Haydn's ..

This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of western music from antiquity to modern times. Highlights of the repertoire include new works from all periods: more contrasting virelais, ballades and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works, including Gabrieli's In ecclesiis, Lully's Te Deum, Haydn's ..

Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music , published in 1581 or 1582 and here translated into English, was among the most influential music treatises of his era.

This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of western music from antiquity to modern times. Highlights of the repertoire include new works from all periods: more contrasting virelais, ballades and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works, including Gabrieli's In ecclesiis, Lully's Te Deum, Haydn's ..

The eighth edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid, accessible and richly contextual view of music in western culture. 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 centre of the story. The narrative of A History of Western Music naturally focuses on the musical works,

Joachim Burmeister's 17th-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque music practice. This edition reviews Burmeister's two earlier treatises on musical composition and analyzes Musical Poetics as a whole.

These 19 essays by a scholar of Italian Renaissance music provide research into Italian music and music theory of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They illuminate the interaction between music theory and practice and between the humanist revival of antiquity and modern ideals of expression in the decades around 1600.