The Norton scores : an anthology for listening

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"The Norton Scores is an anthology of music designed for the listener. In this revision, the one-volume Standard Edition includes forty-eight complete works and integral excerpts, ranging from a fifteenth-century motet by Josquin to twentieth century masterpieces by Schoenberg, Stravinksy, Bart...

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Other Authors: Kamien, Roger
Format: Musical Score Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [1972]
Edition:Standard edition, revised.
Subjects:
Music appreciation.
Musical analysis.
Vocal music.
Instrumental music.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • How to follow the highlighted scores
  • Ave Maria / Josquin Des Pres
  • Kyrie from the Pope Marcellus Mass / Giovanni Pierluigi De Palestrina
  • S'io parto, io moro / Luca Marenzio
  • Tu sei morta from L'Orfeo / Claudio Monteverdi
  • The Silver Swan / Orlando Gibbons
  • Sonata da chiesa, Opus 3, No. 7 / Arcangelo Corelli
  • Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneau / Henry Purcell
  • Excerpts from Messiah : No. 2 Comfort ye ; No. 3 Ev'ry valley ; No. 12 For unto us a child is born ; No. 23 He was despised ; No. 44 Hallelujah / George Friederic Handel
  • Organ Fuge in G minor ("Little") ; Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major ; Air and Gigue from Suite No. 3 in D major ; Prelude and fugue in C Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I ; Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf ; Crucifixus from Mass in B minor / Johann Sebastian Bach
  • String Quartet in C major, Opus 76, No. 3 / Franz Joseph Haydn
  • First and third movements from Eine kleine Nachtmusik ; Three excerpts from Don Giovanni : No. 1 Introduction ; No. 4 Catalogue Aria ; No. 7 Duet : Loa ci darem la mano ; Symphony in G Minor, K. 550 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Piano sonata in C minor, Opus 13 ("Pathetique") ; Symphony No. 5 in C minor / Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Heidenröslein / Franz Schubert
  • Fifth movement from Symphonie fantastique / Hector Berlioz
  • First movement from Violin Concerto in E minor / Felix Mendelssohn
  • Mazurka in B-flat major, Opus 7, No. 1 ; Etude in E major, Opus 10, No. 3 ; Prelude in E minor, Opus 28, No. 4 / Friederick Chopin
  • Die beiden Grenadiere / Robert Schumann
  • Duet from Die Walküre / Richard Wagner
  • Scene from La Bohème, Act I / Giacomo Puccini
  • In dem Schatten meiner Locken / Hugo Wolf
  • Prelude to "The Afternoon of a faun" / Claude Debussy
  • Vergangenes from Five Pieces for Orchestra, Opus 16 / Arnold Schonenberg
  • General William Booth enters Heaven / Charles Ives
  • First movement from Concerto for Orchestra / Bela Bartiok
  • Opening scene from Petrushka ; Soldier's march from L'Histoire du soldat ; First movement from Symphony of Psalms / Igor Stravinsky
  • Pieces for Orchestra, Opus 10, Nos. 3 and 4
  • Opening scene from Billy the Kid / Aaron Copland
  • Appendix A. Reading an orchestral score
  • Appendix B. Instrumental names and abbreviations
  • Appendix C. Glossary of musical terms used in the scores
  • Index of forms and genres.

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