Product Description

This landmark collection of over 200 complete musical compositions and movements, ranging in time from the Middle Ages to the present, contains a large and varied body of music for study. In addition to providing ample material for both a full-year course in the analysis of musical forms and a one-semester course in twentieth-century techniques, the book offers first- and second-year music theory classes a wealth of illustrations of chords, voice-leading techniques, and forms--plus some material for figured-bass realization and score reading. Because the book consists primarily of music and takes no theoretical position, it is adaptable to any theoretical approach and to any type of curriculum, including those that combine theory study with music literature and the history of musical style.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18773 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 624 pages

Review
"We have tried other (anthologies) over the years, but always come back to Burkhart’s."

"I find the Burkhart Anthology is perfectly suited for the undergraduate theory sequence. It has a wide scope of pieces that are well-chosen for formal attributes, chord vocabularies, historical styles ... including many 20th-century selections." ... "(The introductory comments to the musical selections) are very useful, show excellent scholarship in their detail, and I have always appreciated the introductory material as the selections are brought to the class for discussion and analysis." ... "It is a better anthology for undergraduate theory than any other on the market now."

"The Burkhart Anthology remains clearly my first choice among anthologies for theory and analysis classes, ... I think of it as the standard by which I evaluate other anthologies."

About the Author
Charles Burkhart, internationally recognized scholar in Schenkerian analysis; pianist; author, ANTHOLOGY FOR MUSICAL ANALYSIS; co-author, A NEW APPROACH TO KEYBOARD HARMONY; articles and reviews in THE MUSIC REVIEW, PERSPECTIVES OF NEW MUSIC, JOURNAL OF MUSIC THEORY, and THE MUSIC FORUM.

Customer Reviews

Reasonable, print quality issues
This anthology has a reasonably good selection of classical music works for students. The one thing I noticed regularly throughout, however, is the poor quality of some of the printing which makes some of the scores illegible. Often, the original score has been reduced in size to fit the anthology's page format, thereby reducing the graphic details to the point where they cannot be deciphered even with magnifying glasses.

Music theory
This analysis provides extensive excerpts, which is good for preparing theory analysis class, however, if the analysis would be provided by the composer, or have the pieces grouped according to their nature / harmonic structure, then the book would be even more beneficial and convenient to many amateurs as well.

Fantastic examples, but no analysis in the book
The examples and pieces selected are wonderful and cover a vast cross-section of music and I was very excited to see that there are several full orchestral scores included. It is well-organized and neat and overall is clear and concise. However, I was very disappointed that there is really no actual analysis or even much prompting of the music in the book itself. You are expected to do all of the analysis yourself, which is a good exersize, but I was hoping for more professional and technical insight. It is basically just a book with a lot of sheet music. The footnotes for each piece are helpful in that they provide other resources that provide full analysis, but for the price, I was expecting this book to do just that! It is also spiral bound, so again, I don't understand the price.