A History of Western Music 4e

Fantastic book. Every chapter is illustrated with samples. All what my students need.

It is essential reading for my daughter's university course. It has been - and still is - very well used.

This book is beautifully ilustrated and has complete informations of a huge amount of themes.. Fantastic guide of Music History!

Book came in reasonable condition (as was described), and in reasonable time.Only draw-back is that is has the full name, telephone number, and e-mail address of the person who owned the book before me was written on the inside cover; I feel that may potentially have been a safety issue if I were a psychopath.Otherwise, excellent service and price and delivery.Cheers.

Bargain, great condition

In my opinion, this is the best existing book on the history of western music ever published. There is a host of information, written clearly, from the ancient Greece to contemporary music. I was astonished by the quality of presentation, with continous references to recorded examples, wonderful illustrations, bits of graphs and pictures showing musical notation, etc. Not to mention the extraordinarily good, vast, reasonably-priced ancillary material. This include both online and off-line materials, and it was thanks to this book that I discovered I could download some mp3 files and also access all of Naxos music library for six months with a small additional $15. Just type "a history of western music 7e" in Google and explore what is available on the first website that comes up. If you're serious about learning the history of music, buy this book now. I can guarantee you will be happy.

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A great book covering the history of western music from the earliest music to the music we have today. Highly Reccomended.

Mesmo não tendo mudado muito em relação às edições anteriores da série, esse volume da antologia vale à pena ser adquirido (mesmo para quem possui a edição anterior) pelas poucas adições ao repertório.

比我想像的還要良好幾乎快全新 ^^

As a student, I was required to use this text book for music history (1750 - ) and, unlike most other textbooks, I actually read this one! I was very impressed with both the depth and breadth of the text, as I found the text to include an impressive balance of both.Our final project for the course was a "historiography" paper (or the "history of history"). For this project we examined seven text books, comparing purposes, organization, etc. I found that the Grout by far met my needs, as an undergraduate music performance student, the best. I believe, it's the industry standard because it's truly excellent. While there are texts that provide more depth and others for a more general audience, Grout, et al. provide a solid introduction (as a music history course should) to the field, providing sufficient examination of the music itself and the background of the composers.Below is an excerpt from my final paper for the course. For this I chose to compare the treatment of Beethoven in each of the seven texts."For the past semester, I have been reading from A History of Western Music by J. Peter Burkholder as my primary source for studying music history and therefore it has been very influential in my conception of music history and how it should be taught and studied. Burkholder devotes nearly an entire chapter to the composer, thus emphasizing his centrality in the development of music. The entire text is very well organized, being systematically broken down essentially into an outline; this carries through in the discussion on Beethoven. After a brief introduction, Burkholder discusses Beethoven according to the three periods of his life. He provides an account of the circumstances in each period and a description of a piece from each of the three periods (which are also in the accompanying anthology and recording set). This allows the reader to have an aural, visual, and descriptive comparison of the changes in Beethoven’s music. The model of Haydn and Mozart in the Pathetique Sonata, the heroism of the Eroica Symphony and the characteristic inwardness of the late period in Op. 131 are seen, heard and described in the chapter (and accompanying scores). Burkholder not only refers to both the track number of the accompanying CD set and the page in the anthology, guiding the reader to the music, but marks the references in a different colored ink. He includes several source readings, musical excerpts, timelines, pictures, diagrams, and other resources throughout the chapter for the greater comprehension of the reader. Together these elements provide strong evidence for the "centrality of Beethoven" discussed at the conclusion of the chapter."

billig und ausreichend für den Zweck. nicht die neueste Edition aber hat alles was ich brauchte. und beim Test hat es sich hilfreich bewiesen.