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This work provides a guide to the achievements of the Western musical tradition. Terms are defined, composers’ dates are given and a glossary is included. More detailed analyses are availabled in the accompanying two-volume “Norton Anthology of Western Music”…. More >>
#1 by S. Grizzell on April 23, 2010 - 2:14 am
The book was in the stated condition and was received in a timely manner.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Shannon Burns on April 23, 2010 - 3:38 am
I had to buy this new volume for my last history class. I’m a tad bit pist that I had to spend so much but it is indeed alot better and more indept.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Jay Comfrey on April 23, 2010 - 5:03 am
History is history. We cannot change it, no matter how we try to rewrite it to make it sound better. This book is a fair account overall, of the path that western music has taken. If you are looking for a novel, try finding something about Mozart or Beethoven, more specifically. This book is not meant to entertain, although I find it very interesting. If it were to go into minute detail, it would be a three-volume set. Thanks Norton. I give this book five stars.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by neil horner on April 23, 2010 - 7:48 am
The book, though a fine book, is simply overpriced. The book is used primarily for students who are music majors. It is a very good marketing ploy for the publishers to rip the students off with this material. A student could probably buy a cheap car for the price of this book. As far as the content goes, it is extremely detailed and often difficult to follow. In short, this book is not worth the pruchase. As a student I would simply go to the library and check it out and pay the $1.50 overdue fine.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by Tim Whistler on April 23, 2010 - 10:42 am
This book is fine. I should like to point out, however, at the risk of belaboring the bleedingly obvious (as comedian John Cleese might put it), that a book true to its title called “A History of Western Music” is necessarily concerned with the past, and the past tends not to change. The past is pretty much content to stay put. (On the other hand, the number of graduate students in “musicology” keeps increasing, and if these students want eventually to find positions they have to publish papers. Having found positions, if they want to secure tenure, they have to publish more papers. To accommodate them there exist paper receptacles called “journals”. The past is pretty much impervious to the contents of these paper receptacles.)
Rating: 3 / 5