Norton's Chronological Music History Series

The Norton Introduction to Music History) is a music history series planned by Norton Publishing Company in the United States in the late 20th century. It consists of six monographs, four of which have been translated and published: Richard Hopping's "Medieval Music", Philip Downs' "Classical Music: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven" Era", Plantinga's "Romantic Music: A History of European Music Styles in the Nineteenth Century", and Robert Morgan's "Twentieth Century Music: A History of Modern European and American Music Styles" were written by famous scholars in various fields of chronological history. They reflect the new results of today's music research and have won widespread praise from the academic community. "Romantic Music: A History of European Music Style in the Nineteenth Century" Douban score 9.3 "Romantic Music: A History of European Musical Styles in the Nineteenth Century" has won widespread acclaim from the academic community for its careful and detailed discussion of historical facts, in-depth and authentic music analysis, wide-ranging cultural interpretation, and clear style of analysis. It is widely used in the English-speaking world as an important teaching and research reference book for music graduates (and undergraduates). It is also a must-read for music lovers to understand music in depth. It provides a scope of thinking and a perspective for in-depth research on the historical evolution of Western music and its humanistic implications. "Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven" Douban score 9.0 "Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven" not only provides an in-depth, comprehensive, solid and sufficient description of the "music civilization ecology" including music creation, music thought, music establishment, music fashion, music publishing, etc. From the mid-18th century to the early 19th century, but also sorts out the many historical threads that extend from the past and extend to the future, involving historical events, musical forms, musical techniques, musical styles or other musical phenomena, on both the macro-structure and micro-narrative levels. "Music of the Twentieth Century: A History of Modern European and American Musical Styles" Douban score 9.3 The book "Music of the Twentieth Century: A History of Modern European and American Music Styles" skillfully traces the many genres of art music in the twentieth century with rich and detailed content. The author's discussion begins with iconic figures such as Mahler, Richard Strauss and Debussy, and then moves on to the nationalist movement represented by Charles Ives and Vaughan Williams, the philosophical movement embodied by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and the French Group of Six, and self-contained giants such as Bartók and Stravinsky. In addition, the various "isms" - serialism, minimalism, occasionalism, neo-romanticism and pluralism - are also clearly explained. "Medieval Music" Douban score 9.5 "Medieval Music" discusses the development background and musical characteristics of medieval music through careful and detailed historical facts. As the beginning of this series of books, this book, with its in-depth and authentic music analysis and broad cultural interpretation, has established the authoritative position of "Norton's History of Music" in the field of music academic research! This book is also among the required textbooks for postgraduate medieval music courses in the United States.