This brief and accessible text provides undergraduates with a conceptual framework for understanding stylistic and social developments in the history of music from classical antiquity to the present. This text allows the student to grasp the richness and importance of musical history in two important ways. It combines narrative with primary sources in a lively and engaging manner and it traces key concepts of musical style and the uses of music across time.

• A shorter version of Mark Evan Bonds' A History of Music in Western Culture, A Brief History.

  • Offers a comprehensive introduction to music history in a smaller package.

• Carefully selected musical works—Text is built around anthology that can be studied in detail.

  • Allows students to grasp the most important elements of music history.

• Historical context—Places music in a historical context.

  • Helps students to relate historical developments to specific composers and works.

• Abundance of primary source materials—e.g., composers' letters, dedications, contracts and critics' reviews are included.

  • Challenges students to think critically about the ideas of composers and their audiences.

• Illustrations, information boxes, and composer profiles—Found throughout the text.

  • Encourages students to engage in critical thought; aids instructors by providing a springboard for class discussions.

• Additional primary sources—Available on the Companion Website.

  • Provides students with even more primary source material for further enrichment.

PROLOGUE: ANTIQUITY.

I. THE MEDIEVAL ERA.

II. MUSIC OF THE RENAISSANCE.

III. THE BAROQUE ERA.

IV. THE CLASSICAL ERA.

V. THE 19TH CENTURY.

VI. THE 20TH CENTURY.

Music History (Two Semesters)  (Music)

Mark Evan Bonds teaches music history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds degrees from Duke University (B.A.), Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (M.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.). His publications include Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration (1991), After Beethoven: Imperatives of Symphonic Originality (1996), and A History of Music in Western Culture (2003). He has also edited Beethoven Forum and written numerous essays on the music of Haydn and Mozart.

Structured for a one- or two- semester course in music history, this text is a condensed version of Mark Evan Bonds' A History of Music in Western Culture.

A Brief History of Music in Western Culture:

• Focuses squarely on the music, tying names, dates and concepts to the study of a carefully selected repertory of works.
• Tells the story of Western music in a clear and compelling narrative to help students gain a broad understanding of the nature of music, its role in society, and the ways in which it has changed over time.
• Challenges readers to think critically about music using primary sources to demonstrate that the raw materials of history are often open to conflicting interpretations, and that these conflicts can open new perspectives.
• Integrates the textual narrative with the Anthology of Scores; every work in the Anthology is discussed in the text.

Supporting Material

• Anthology of Scores Volume I: Antiquity through the Baroque Era (0-13-014357-X)
• Anthology of Scores Volume II: The Classical Era through the Twentieth Century (0-13-014359-6)
• Recorded Anthology (6 Compact Discs) Volume I (0-13-014352-9)
• Recorded Anthology (6 Compact Discs) Volume II (0-13-014353-7)
• Bonus Disc (0-13-118294-3)
• A History of Music in Western Culture Companion Website^™
  (http://www.prenhall.com/bonds)

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