Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Western Music in Context: A Norton History)

Product Description

A concise anthology including a wide range of music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, part of the
Western Music in Context series, is the ideal companion to
Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Twenty-six carefully chosen works―including music by Claude Debussy, Kurt Weill, William Grant Still, Pauline Oliveros, and Chen Yi―offer representative examples of genres and composers of the period. Commentaries following each score present a careful analysis of the music, and online links to purchase and download recordings make listening easier than ever.

About the Author

Joseph Auner is Chair and Professor of Music at Tufts University. His publications include
A Schoenberg Reader,
The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg (with Jennifer Shaw), and
Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought (with Judith Lochhead). A past editor-in-chief of the
Journal of the American Musicological Society, Auner is the recipient of grants from the Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including
Brahms: The Four Symphonies,
The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 1903–1908, and
German Modernism: Music and the Arts. He is the recipient of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.