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  • The Music of Black Americans: A History

    Eileen Southern

    Third Edition

    Paperback

    A new edition of the classic text on African American music.

  • Sight Singing: Pitch, Interval, Rhythm

    Samuel Adler

    Second Edition

    Paperback

    Young musicians today are faced with a rapidly expanding and complex repertory of styles, tonal as well as pre- and post-tonal.

  • Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

    Philip G. Downs

    Hardback

    In this, the fourth volume in the Norton Introduction to Music History series, Philip Downs traces the rise and decline of the "Classical" style from the birth of Haydn (1732) to the death of Beethoven (1827).

  • Anthology of Classical Music

    Philip G. Downs

    Paperback

    For this carefully selected anthology, the author of Classical Music has chosen representative works from the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. All seventy-six selections--complete pieces, movements, or integral sections--are discussed at length in the companion text.

  • Anthology of Twentieth-Century Music

    Robert P. Morgan

    Paperback

    Designed to accompany and supplement the author's survey, Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America, this selection of 29 works or groups of works by 24 composers covers a time span from 1903 to 1983.