Norton Anthology of Western Music

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This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times. Highlights of the repertoire include new works from all periods: more contrasting virelais ballades and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works including Gabrielis In ecclesiis Lullys Te Deum Haydns Creation and Prokofievs Alexander Nevsky; more opera including Norma Les Huguenots and Madama Butterfly; orchestral and chamber works by Schubert Schumann Brahms Dvork and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie Bartk Milhaud Prokofiev Varse Hindemith Cowell Cage Feldman Stockhausen Boulez Berio Reich Adams Ligeti Schnittke and Michael Daugherty.