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  • Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-Century Music

    Joel Lester

    Hardback

    Designed to introduce the reader to a variety of analytic techniques applicable to music of since 1900, this valuable book is written in a straightforward, clear style and includes abundant music examples, practical exercises, and reinforcing overviews.

  • Dido and Aeneas: An Opera

    Henry Purcell, Curtis Price

    Paperback

    An original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.

  • Prelude and Transfiguration from Tristan and Isolde

    Richard Wagner, Robert Bailey

    Paperback

    An original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.

  • Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Leon Plantinga

    Hardback

    In this volume of the Norton Introduction to Music History series, Leon Plantinga explores the origins of Romanticism, leading the reader through the maze of genres and genuses that proliferated during the turbulent nineteenth century.

  • Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis: Form and Content in Tonal Music

    Allen Forte, Steven Gilbert

    Paperback

    This book is intended to serve as a basic textbook on Schenkerian analysis, the analytical approach developed over a period of many years by the Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935).