Synopsis • Combining current scholarship with cutting-edge pedagogy, the Ninth Edition of A History of Western Music is the text that students and professors have trusted for generations. Because listening is central to music history, the new Total Access program provides a full suite of media resources including an ebook and premium streaming recordings of the entire Norton Anthology of Western Music repertoire with every new text. Combining thoughtful revisions particularly to chapters on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with exceptional media resources, A History of Western Music provides all the resources that students need in a text that will last a lifetime.'

The definitive history of Western Music. The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits, and why it matters.

The definitive Western music, now with Total Access. Combining current scholarship with cutting-edge pedagogy, the Ninth Edition of A is the text that students and professors have trusted for generations. Because listening is central to music history, the new Total Access program provides a full suite of media resources?including an ebook and premium streaming recordings of the entire Norton Anthology of repertoire?with every new text. Combining thoughtful revisions?particularly to chapters on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?with exceptional media resources, A provides all the resources that students need in a text that will last a lifetime.