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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, 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 emphasising 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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[S.l.]: HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 986 pages, 129 pages): illustrations, music (some color) Details: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1.

Digital Library Federation, December 2002. Contents: Guide to recordings -- The ancient and medieval worlds. Music in antiquity -- The Christian Church in the first millennium -- Roman liturgy and chant -- Song and dance music in the Middle Ages -- Polyphony through the thirteenth century -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century -- The Renaissance. Music and the Renaissance -- England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century -- Franco-Flemish composers, 1450-1520 -- Sacred music in the era of the Reformation -- Madrigal and secular song in the sixteenth century -- The rise of instrumental music -- The Seventeenth century. New styles in the seventeenth century -- The invention of opera -- Music for chamber and church in the early seventeenth century -- France, England, Spain and the New World in the seventeenth century -- Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century. The early eighteenth century in Italy and France -- German composers of the late Baroque -- Musical taste and style in the Enlightenment -- Opera and vocal music in the early classic period -- Instrumental music: sonata, symphony, and concerto at midcentury -- Classical music in the late eighteenth century -- Nineteenth century.

Revolution and change -- The Romantic generation: song and piano music -- Romanticism in classic forms: orchestral, chamber, and choral music -- Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury -- Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century -- Late Romanticism in Germany and Austria -- Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century -- The twentieth century and after. The early twentieth century -- Modernism and the classical tradition -- Between the World Wars: jazz and popular music -- Between the World Wars: the classical tradition -- Postwar crosscurrents -- Music since 1970 -- Glossary -- For further reading. Responsibility: J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V.