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Music, Western

Fisk, Josiah, ed. Composers on Music: Eight Centuries of Writings. Northeastern, 1997. Composers from the 14th century to the present write about music, society.

Grout, Donald J. A History of Western Music. Norton, 2000. History of musical styles related to culture; glossary, bibliography.

Kendall, Alan. The Chronicle of Classical Music: An Intimate Diary of the Lives and Music of the Great Composers. Thames & Hudson, 2000. Yearly summaries from 1600 to 1994; glossary, biographies, bibliography.

Lang, Paul Henry. Music in Western Civilization. Norton, 1997. Hailed as a must-read classic since its first publication in 1941.

Morgan, Robert P. Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe. Norton, 1991. National and philosophical movements and trends and the music of a turbulent century.

Palisca, Claude V., ed. Norton Anthology of Western Music. Norton, 1996. Presentation of 158 pieces of music to accompany Grout's History of Western Music; tables, translations.

Rosen, Charles. The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. 2 vols. 4th ed., Norton, 2001. Traces the musical styles used by three composers.

Smith, Stuart Saunders, and Thomas DeLio, eds. Words and Spaces: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Musical Experiments in Language and Sonic Environments. University Press of America, 1989, 2002. The avant-garde scene in American music.

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