Product Description

This new edition brings together a collection of outstanding works from the Western music repertory. In addition to many long-familiar pieces, the book includes examples of musical theater and jazz, compositions by women, and works that reflect the influence of traditional, popular, and non-Western music sources. Spanning Gregorian chant to late twentieth-century computer music, this anthology represents all major genres and forms, making it ideal for use in a variety of music courses. In addition to the scores themselves, this volume features:

* a unique system of highlighting that makes it easy to follow a complicated score;
* reproductions from the best available editions or newly typeset versions;
* excellent English translations for all foreign-texted vocal works;
* wide margins for jotting down notes;
* icons that refer the user to The Norton Recordings and The Norton CD-ROM Masterworks;
* CD track numbers throughout each score; and
* Four practical; appendices and an index of forms and genres.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #403739 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 654 pages

About the Author
Kristine Forney is professor of music at California State University, Long Beach, where she regularly teaches music appreciation and music history to undergraduate students. Her understanding of today's students and her highly regarded teaching abilities make her the ideal author for this appreciation-level textbook. She is also a respected scholar who has written extensively on music of the Renaissance, and is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Customer Reviews

The Norton Scores vol. 1
This text book was used in my music history class. I felt that it provided a fairly comprehensive overview of the span of time and composers it covers. It was especially valuable when used with the accompanying CDs. The info given about each composer and the featured piece was very helpful. Usually, the pieces chosen to represent each composer were good examples and in many cases inspired further study. My only real complaint about this anthology is that they don't always put the whole piece or movement in the book.It would be nice to have a score reference that would be more complete in this way.