Music History Resources, Fall Term 2012
Music History Resources I
Texts and Materials
Required Purchases
1. Bonds, Mark Evan. A History of Music in Western Culture. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 2010.
(ISBN-10: 0205645313 | ISBN-13: 978-0205645312) (HMWC)
2. Idem. Anthology of Scores for A History of Music in Western Culture. Vol. I. Prentice Hall,
2010. (ISBN-10: 0205656978 ISBN-13: 978-0205656974)
3. Idem. CD Set Volume I for A History of Music in Western Culture. Vol. I. Prentice Hall,
2010. (ISBN-10: 0205657001 ISBN-13: 978-0205657001)
Supplementary Materials (highly recommended for purchase)
10. Poultney, David. Studying Music History: Learning, Reasoning, and Writing About Music
History and Literature. 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 2005. (ISBN-10: 0131902245 | ISBN-13:
978-0131902244)
11. Randel, Don, ed. The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. 4th ed. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2003. (ISBN-10: 0674011635 | ISBN-13: 978-0674011632)
Other Useful Resources
20. Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians. New York : Grove's
Dictionaries, 2000. (If you can get access to New Grove online, it would be better.)
21. Treitler, Leo, and Thomas J. Mathiesen, eds. Source Readings in Music History: Greek Views of
Music (Vol. 1). Rev. ed. W. W. Norton, 1997. (ISBN-10: 0393966941 | ISBN-13: 978-0393966947)
(Strunk)
22. Treitler, Leo, and James McKinnon, eds. Source Readings in Music History: Early Christian Period
(Vol. 2). Rev. ed. W. W. Norton, 1997. (ISBN-10: 039396695X | ISBN-13: 978-0393966954) (Strunk)
23. Treitler, Leo, and Margaret Murata, eds. Source Readings in Music History: The Baroque Era (Vol.
4). W. W. Norton, 1997. (ISBN-10: 0393966976 | ISBN-13: 978-0393966978) (Strunk)
24. Treitler, Leo, and Gary Tomlinson, eds. Source Readings in Music History: The Renaissance (Vol. 3).
Rev. ed. W. W. Norton, 1997. (ISBN-10: 0393966968 | ISBN-13: 978-0393966961) (Strunk)
25. Weiss, Piero, and Richard Taruskin. Music in the Western World. Belmont, CA: Thomson Schirmer,
2008. (MWW)
Other Undergraduate Survey Textbooks
30. Burkholder, J. Peter, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music. 8th ed. W.
W. Norton & Company, 2009. (HWM)
31. Burkholder, P., and Palisca, C. (Eds.). (2010). Norton Anthology of Western Music (Vol. 1). 6th ed.
New York: Norton, 2010. (NAWM)
32. Idem. Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music: Concise version (6 CDs). New York: Norton,
2010.
33. Seaton, D. Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2010.
34. Stolba, K. Marie. The Development of Western Music: A History. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1997.
35. Idem. The Development of Western Music: An Anthology, Volume I: From Ancient Times through the
Music History Resources, Fall Term 2012
Baroque Era. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hihll, 1998.
36. Idem. Compact Disk; Vol I for use with The Development Of Western Music. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill,
1998.
34. Wright, Craig, and Bryan Simms. Music in Western Civilization. Vol. A. Belmont, CA: Thomson
Schirmer, 2006. (MWC)
35. Wright, Craig, and Bryan Simms. Anthology for Music in Western Civilization. Vol. A. Belmont, CA:
Thomson Schirmer, 2006.
36. Wright, Craig, and Bryan Simms. Audio CDs for Music in Western Civilization. Vol. A. Belmont, CA:
Thomson Schirmer, 2006.
Period Histories
Atlas, Allan. Anthology of Renaissance Music. Norton, 1998.
Idem. Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600 . Norton, 1998.
Brown, Howard Mayer, and Louise K. Stein. Music in the Renaissance. Norton, 1998.
Hill, John Walter. Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe, 1580-1750. Norton, 2005
Idem. Anthology of Baroque Music. Norton, 2005.
Hoppin, Richard, ed. Anthology of Medieval Music. Norton, 1978.
Idem. Medieval Music: A Norton Introduction to Music History. Norton, 1978.
Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music. 3rd ed. Norton, 1990.
Seay, Albert. Music in the Medieval World. 2nd ed. Waveland Press, 1991.
Yudkin, Jeremy. Music in Medieval Europe. Prentice Hall, 1989.