Peter J. Burkholder Books

Award-winning music historian J. Peter Burkholder explores Charles Ives's diverse musical output and unusual career, discussing about thirty of the best and most characteristic pieces framed with biographical sketches. Offering readers of any background a guide to listening, this book is an ideal introduction to the iconic, American composer.

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 Gabrieli’s In ecclesiis , Lully’s Te Deum , Haydn’s Creation , and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky ; more opera, including Norma , Les Huguenots , and Madama Butterfly ; orchestral and chamber works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie, Bartók, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Varese, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty.

This work provides a guide to the achievements of the Western musical tradition. Terms are defined, composers' dates are given and a glossary is included. More detailed analyses are availabled in the accompanying two-volume "Norton Anthology of Western Music".