A History of Western Music (Seventh International Student Edition)
J. Peter Burkholderis  Distinguished Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He is the author of previous editions ofA History of Western Music, theNorton Anthology of Western Music, and  the Study and Listening Guide. In addition, he  has written or edited four books on Charles Ives and has written numerous articles on topics  spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth  century forThe New Grove Dictionary of  Music and Musicians,Journal of the  American Musicological Society,Journal of Musicology,Musical Quarterly,19th-Century Music,Music Theory  Spectrum, and other journals. He has served as President, Vice President, and  Director-at-Large of the American Musicological  Society and on the board of the College Music  Society, and his writings have received awards  from the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, and ASCAP.Donald Jay Grout, late professor of music at Cornell University, also wrote a  standard history of opera.Claude V. Palisca, late  professor of music at Yale University, began his collaboration onA History of Western  Musicwith the Third Edition. Among his  many publications are a history of Baroque music and a collection of scholarly essays on Italian  Renaissance music.