Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music

by J. Peter Burkholder, Claude V. Palisca

Overview

The Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music offers dynamic performances by great artists of every work in the Norton Anthology of Western Music.

Performers include:

• Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars
• Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renée Fleming, and Joan Sutherland
• Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
• Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstein
• The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra
• Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thomas
• String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quartet
• Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393936872
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/22/2014
Edition description:	Seventh Edition
Pages:	3
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He has written and edited four books on Charles Ives, as well as numerous articles on topics spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, 19th-Century Music, Music Theory Spectrum, and other journals. He has served as President, Vice President, and Director-at-Large of the American Musicological Society and on the board of the College Music Society. His writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and ASCAP.

Claude V. Palisca, late professor of music at Yale University, began his collaboration on A History of Western Music with the Third Edition. Among his many publications are a history of Baroque music and a collection of scholarly essays on Italian Renaissance music.