Traditionally, books of Western music history features musical style and individual composers. Prentice-Hall history of music series, firstly published in the 1970s, include style period histories of Western music that are in moderate lengths.
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Seay, Albert. 1975. Music in the medieval world. Call no.: Music 780.902 S4 Yudkin, Jeremy. 1989. Music in medieval Europe. Call no.: Music 780.901 Y9 |
Palisca, Claude V. 1981/1991. Baroque music. Call no.: Music 780.9032 P1 |
Brown, Howard Mayer, and Louise K. Stein. 1999. Music in the Renaissance. Call no.: Music 780.9031 B87 m9 |
Pauly, Reinhard G. 1973. Music in the classic period. Call no.: Music 780.9033 P3 Pauly, Reinhard G. 2000. Music in the classic period. Call no.: Music 780.9033 P333 m |
Longyear, Rey M.1973. Nineteenth-century romanticism in music. Call no.: Music 780.9034 L8 |
Salzman, Eric. 1974/1988 Twentieth-century music: an introduction. Call no.: Music 780.904 S18 t |
Another series, Norton Introduction to Music History examines each style period in depth. Each anthology consists of scores that are representative works from the period.
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Hoppin, Richard H. 1978. Medieval music. Call no.: Music 780.902 H7
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Hill, John Walter. 2005. Baroque music: music in Western Europe, 1580-1750. Call no.: Music 780.9032 H64
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Atlas, Allan W. 1998. Renaissance music: music in Western Europe, 1400-1600. Call no.: Music 780.9409031 A88 r3
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Downs, Philip G. 1992. Classical music: the era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Call no.: Music 780.9033 D75 c6
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Plantinga, Leon. 1984. Romantic music: a history of musical style in nineteenth-century Europe. Call no.: Music 780.9034 P7
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Morgan, Robert P. 1991. Twentieth-century music: a history of musical style in modern Europe and America. Call no.: Music 780.904 M84 t9
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Anthology of medieval music.1978. Call no.: Music 780.902 A6 anthology |
Anthology of Baroque music: music in Western Europe, 1580-1750. 2005. Call no.: Music 780.9032 A62 H anthology
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Anthology of Renaissance music: music in Western Europe, 1400-1600.1998. Call no.: Music 780.9409031 A88 a6 score
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Anthology of classical music.1992. Call no.: Music 780.9033 A62 D7 anthology
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Anthology of romantic music. 1984. Call no.: Music 780.9034 A62 P7 anthology |
Anthology of twentieth-century music. 1992. Call no.:Music 781.0904 A62 t9 anthology |
Since the past decades, musicologists look at the cultural, social and historical contexts for music. Western Music in Context: A Norton History Series divide each period in a single handy book. Each anthology includes scores and analytical commentary. Use this when you want to have one specific period and its contents are cultural and social perspectives.
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Fassler, Margot. 2014. Music in the Medieval West. Call no.: Music 780.902 F249 m98 |
Heller, Wendy. 2014. Music in the baroque. Call no.: Music 780.9032 H47 |
Freedman, Richard. 2013. Music in the Renaissance. Call no.: Music 780.9031 F85 |
Rice, John A. 2013. Music in the eighteenth century. Call no.: Music 780.9033 R49 |
Frisch, Walter. 2013. Music in the nineteenth century. Call no.: Music 780.9034 F91 |
Auner, Joseph Henry. 2013. Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Call no.: Music 780.904 A926 m98 |
Anthology for Music in the Medieval West. 2014. Call no.: Music 780.902 A62 F2 anthology
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Anthology for Music in the Baroque. 2013 Call no.: Music 780.9032 A62 H47 anthology
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Anthology for Music in the Renaissance. 2013 Call no.: Music 780.9031 A62 F85 anthology
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Anthology for music in the eighteenth century. 2013 Call no.: Music 780.9 A62 R49 anthology
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Anthology for Music in the Nineteenth Century. 2013 Call no.: Music 780.9 A62 F91 anthology
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Anthology for Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 2013 Call no.: Music 780.904 A62 anthology
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Taking a critical perspective that challenges the received wisdom of the field, Richard Taruskin sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history.
Taruskin, Richard. The Oxford History of Western Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Call number: MuR 780.9 T19 o9 v.1-6 |
v. 1. The earliest notations to the sixteenth century
v. 2. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
v. 3. The nineteenth century
v. 4. The early twentieth century
v. 5. The late twentieth century
v. 6. Resources: chronology, bibliography, master index
Concise history of western music - 5th edition
Hanning, Barbara Russano, and Donald Jay Grout. 2014.
Concise history of western music.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Call no.: Music 780.9 H24 c7
Oxford History of Western Music: college edition, a single thick one, is based on the six-volume work by Richard Taruskin.
Music: an appreciation.
Music: an appreciation.
Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Call no.: Music 780 K155 m9
The enjoyment of music: an introduction to perceptive listening
Textbook - 11th edition | Anthologies - 11th edition |
Forney, Kristine, and Joseph Machlis. 2011. The enjoyment of music: an introduction to perceptive listening. New York: W.W. Norton. Call no.: Music 780 M14 e5
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Forney, Kristine, and Roger Hickman. 2011. The Norton scores: a study anthology. New York: W.W. Norton. Call no.: Music 780.82 N88 F7 v.1-2 anthology Volume 1: Gregorian chant to Beethoven Volume 2: Schubert to the present |
Listen
Kerman, Joseph, Gary Tomlinson, and Vivian Kerman. 2012.
Listen.
Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Call no.: Music 781.17 K39 + DVD
Listening to music
Wright, Craig M. 2011.
Listening to music.
Boston, MA: Schirmer/Cengage Learning.
Call no.: Music 781.17 W94 l7 + CD
Music in our world: an active-listening approach
White, Gary C., David Stuart, and Elyn Aviva. 2001.
Music in our world: an active-listening approach.
Boston: McGraw Hill.
Call no.: Music 781.17 W58 m9 + CD