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Based on "A History of Western Music", by J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, "Concise History of Western Music, Fourth Edition", offers authoritative coverage of the essential works and genres in Western music history. By setting musical events into a memorable historical and cultural context, "Concise History of Western Music" provides a history students will read and remember.
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Easy to Read, Impossible to Learn From
2 May 2008
Format:Hardcover
I've used this book for Music History 1 and 2, and after having spent the past year studying from this book regularly, I have to say it is one of the worst textbooks I have ever used. When reading, it becomes obvious very quickly that the text has been condensed from a much larger work, and the author has very little knowledge about the material itself. The language is flowery and vague, and the author spends most of her time simply praising the composer or the work as "wonderful", "influential", "brilliant", and all kinds of other useless adjectives. I've spent hours reading this book only to begin a test that asks for an essay on Brahms and realize how painfully little I actually know about him. You will read through several pages on a composer only to learn the most basic facts about his life, and a short list of works he composed. The rest is garbage. The accessibility of the language is tempting, but save yourself hours of wasted time and find a different book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
From a Musicologist / Music History Professor
27 July 2011
Format:Hardcover
I'll add that the book is riddled with errors and the format -- a condensed version of a larger text -- simply doesn't work. Students frequently complain about the symbols for the two CD set possibilities, and the author seems to jump around in an unintelligible manner in the early music sections. I will drop this textbook from my courses as soon as possible.
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Concise History of Western Music, 4e (2010)
17 July 2010
Format:Hardcover
This is an excellent music text for junior college use. The content is a reworking of Grout's original groundbreaking research, as presented in the eighth edition of A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC (2010). Hanning's treatment of key ideas, facts, composers, musical examples, cultural influences, is grand. Students, likewise, can tap into online assistance--study guides, chapter outlines, streamed musical examples, and so forth--in the publisher's Study Space at Norton's web site. In all, the cost and additional aids adds up to a great bargin and lots of musical insight in the offing.
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