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A History of Western Music (Tenth Edition) J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. The definitive history of Western Music The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars. Search the history of over 377 billion web pages on the Internet. A history of Western music by Grout, Donald Jay. Publication date 1973 Topics Music, Musique Publisher New York, W.W. Borrow this book to access EPUB and PDF files. IN COLLECTIONS. Books to Borrow. Craftsman 42 riding lawn mower parts. Books for People with Print Disabilities. In the new Oxford History of Western Music, musicologist Richard Taruskin explores the music of Europe and America from the rise of musical notation in the eighth century to the beginning of the 21st. Learn the History of Music, through Music. A History of Music in Western Culture, 4/e is based on the premise that the best way to convey the history of Western music is to focus on specific works of music. The text is structured around a carefully selected repertory of music that reflects the development of the art form throughout time.

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Maintaining the authority and breadth of coverage that have always defined this classic text, J. Peter Burkholder has meticulously revised and restructured the text to make it more accessible for today's students. This revision places a stronger emphasis on social and historical context and adds substantially expanded pedagogy and striking four-color design.

Published July 6th 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published 1960)

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[To listen as you read.]

The audience for “serious” music—art music of a certain complexity that requires some effort to understand—has never been more than a small fraction of the population.

What seems like a long time ago, I worked in a university music department as a professor’s office assistant. At the time, I was trying to improve my meager understanding of art history by reading E.H. Gombrich’s excellent Story of Art. Seeing art as an integral part of civilized society, in the context of..more

Dec 21, 2015Jonathan Chuang is currently reading it · review of another edition

This is simply a marvellous book. The book itself is beautifully printed and bound; on the cover is a gorgeous work by the impressionist painter Renoir, and on the inside awaits crisp, glossy pages lined in full-colour and laid out in a simple and classy theme, which is so often not the case with textbooks. (For comparison, the only textbooks I own which are comparable in their physical beauty are Kandel's Principles of Neural Science and Molecular Biology of the Cell, both also the standard wor..more

i'm such a nerd. i've never read this cover to cover, but i've probably read every page at least once, and i'm getting ready to the whole cover to cover thing soon for a big exam. i <3 the grout, and each edition has been better than the previous. it even has a few chicks and black people in it now. no black chicks yet. are there any other grout nerds out there?

Mar 06, 2012Edi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Marvelous introduction to Music History in Western Civilization.
My copy was well-worn, and almost purloined by Igor Stravinsky, who misunderstood I wanted to autograph the page with a sketch of him by Picasso. Dr. Edgar Sholund of Chapman College

Everybody else in my class hates this book, but I think it's wonderful. It does go into a lot of detail about the form and structure of specific pieces. But even that information can be useful and interesting. If you want a resource on music history, this is great. It provides great historical context for the development of musical eras and genres, and makes lots of parallels to literature and art too.

Read for MUS 221
-Brief overviews of cultural movements
-Summaries of musical eras
-Short biographies of important composers
-Analysis of select musical pieces

Read it as a review for my qualification exams in grad school. Not thrilling reading, but a good overview of the history of western classical music. I recommend it for any music grad student who needs to bone up on history for history or qual exams.
Because it is by design an overview, it obviously can't go too deep into any one topic. For my purposes it was great because it went into just enough detail of medieval and renaissance music but didn't get lost in the weeds.

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Jun 21, 2017elstaffe rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A good introduction to the history of Western music, assuming that by 'Western' they mean 'mostly white men.' Still, a good starting point from which to dive off into bits of musical history that were whitewashed or carefully curated over, not just in this book but in most histories of Western music.
Took me five years but I conquered you, HoWM!

Jul 23, 2018Simon rated it really liked it

Yip.

Sep 30, 2018Arya rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Pretty good book covering the whole history of western music! I wish I read it more when I was actually in my music history classes, but it explains things in a very clear and concise way!

Aug 05, 2019Kelsey McKenna Brownfield rated it liked it · review of another edition

Quotable:
To the general public Handel is known almost exclusively as a composer of oratorios; nonetheless, for thirty-five years of his life his principal occupation was composing and conducting operas. That Messiah is known to everyone and Giulio Cesare only to a few may be explained by the fact that opera is one of the most ephemeral of all species of musical composition. Yet Handel’s operas contain as large a proportion of memorable music as his oratorios. He was no revolutionist, like Montev..more

Jun 28, 2013The Blue Crow rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The material covered is highly comprehensive ranging from Greek music to electronic music. I appreciate how the book consistently touches on the political, intellectual, and religious movements alongside with the development of music in a given era. The context helps keep everything grounded in the real world so it's easier to relate, understand, and memorize the plethora of musicians and the underlying meaning behind their works. Explanation of the material never gets too difficult to understan..more

Feb 08, 2017Colleen Chester rated it really liked it

I mean it was in college..but still counts right? Very straight forward and informative.

Aug 06, 2007Josabry rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommends it for: anyone who REALLY wants to understand music

So, let me be honest. I read this book to pass the Praxis exam for music teachers. It took about four months to read, and I ended up buying four other books to use as references, most of them music theory books.
I learned more about music from reading this book than I had in the twenty-nine years and eight months prior to picking it up. It was just amazing. His writing style is very dense - when I say four months, I mean four months, several hours a day of reading, note taking, cross referencing..more

Aug 07, 2013Alex Kartelias rated it liked it · review of another edition

The sections on Greek and Rome music theory and philosophy was fascinating- as well as the troubadours during the middle ages, and the short bio's from some of the composers from the baroque, classical and romantic periods- but the music theory for most of this book was just long and drawn out. This is not a book to read if you just want an overview of composers and famous classical pieces. The information goes into a lot of depth. But, for those who are music majors, reading this book will be v..more

As a resource, it's nice -- pretty comprehensive, gives just enough details to either pique your interest in a certain topic or give you the certainty that you don't really care, etc. Rather dense, but if you're very much into music history, it's great. Otherwise -- unless you're also looking for a sleep aid, a paperweight, or something very large and heavy to collect dust on your bookshelf -- stay far away. You have to really want the knowledge.
Music students: Good luck.

Well written documentary style of western history through the ages. I read selections relating to Baroque, Classical and musical Romantic periods for college paper. Despite not being familiar with most aspects of these time periods prior to writing my paper for college, was able to grasp most of the concepts from numerous genres of music (vocal, instrumental, theater, etc.) and write a decent paper earning full marks (equivalent to an A).

Just finished reading this book from cover to cover in preparation for graduate school entrance exams (granted, it was only the third edition, which is much shorter than the current version). Whew! It was difficult to get through, and I have a feeling the current edition has a better layout and is easier to follow. Still, it was a good review, but left much to be desired (you can only fit so much detail in a 750 page book on the entire history of Western music!).

Oct 05, 2015AskHistorians added it

This textbook is one of the standard texts that surveys Western music history from antiquity up to present times. It's used in many Western music history courses for undergraduates. Burkholder did well to revise the book to reflect recent historical research, and used his knowledge of twentieth and twenty-first century music to provide much more information for more recent trends in music.

Comprehensive for college music majors only. Grout is comprehensive and difficult. It is a historic effort that challenges anyone with passion for music. This book made me want to write a different book. For a different approach to music appreciation check out www.interactivelistening.com all of the music and videos are built into the ebook.

Mar 05, 2011Andrea rated it liked it

It has a great depth and breadth of information--if you can find it. The book is poorly organized and sections are ordered in a counter-intuitive way. Again, a good thorough survey text that deserves its place as the standard of Western music history. Pity you'll have trouble finding things in it.

I love history and context and I am a musician. Again a book I read while studying. I had to rate it higher than counterpoint and theory books simply based on my own preference of subject. Another book to be read by the music student or enthusiast.

Apr 02, 2015Sam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A lot of material here. It's composers are presented roughly chronologically and it's not until 200 pages in that Monteverdi is covered and then another 100 until Bach. Would be nice to have a multimedia version of this book, so you could listen to the music described.

Sep 17, 2013Rosemary rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Much more concise and informative than my lecturer.

Feb 01, 2016Mills College Library added it · review of another edition

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Apr 19, 2012Stephen Ian Savage rated it liked it · review of another edition

It is full of [essentialist] fallacies and is written in a simplistic, Philistinian manner.

Sep 04, 2009Becky Lu rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Since I'm also a pianist aka post music major, I had to study this text for all the knowledge of musical styles and their composers as well as the composers' famed works. Loving this text.

Great book, learned a lot.

Got me through my degree!

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