SERIAL AND MULTI-VOLUME HISTORIES OF MUSIC
This list is just the very basics, enough to get you started in research. They are only a small fraction of the volumes of music history in any good library.
Cambridge History of Music. Cambridge ; New
York : Cambridge University Press
One of the most recent series, this is not yet complete. There are also volumes
on specific topics (such as theory) that are not listed here.
Tim Carter and John Butt, eds. Cambridge
History of Seventeenth-Century Music. 2005.
Simon P. Keefe, ed. Cambridge History of
Eighteenth-Century Music. 2009.
Jim Samson, ed. Cambridge History of
Nineteenth-century Music. 2002.
Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople, eds. Cambridge
History of Twentieth-Century Music. 2004.
Thomas Christensen. Cambridge History of
Western Music Theory. 2006.
David Nicholls. Cambridge History of
American Music. 2004.
New
Oxford History of Music. 10
vols. London: Oxford University
Press, 1957-90. Norton History of Music Series. New York: W.
W. Norton, 1940-66. Curt Sachs. The Rise of Music in the Ancient World. 1940. Gustave Reese. Music in the Middle Ages. 1940. _____. Music
in the Renaissance. 1954; rev. ed., 1959. Manfred Bukofzer. Music in the Baroque Era. 1947 Alfred Einstein. Music in the Romantic Era. 1947. William Austin. Music in the 20th
Century. 1966 Norton Introduction to Music History Series.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1978-2005. Richard Hoppin. Medieval Music. 1978 Allan Atlas. Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600. 1998 John W. Hill. Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe, 1580-1750. 2005 Philip G. Downs. Classical Music: The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. 2005 Leon Plantinga. Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
1984 Robert P. Morgan. Twentieth-Century
Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America. 1991 Prentice Hall History of Music Series. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965- Jeremy Yudkin. Music in Medieval Europe. 1989. Howard Mayer Brown and Louise K.
Stein. Music in the Renaissance. 2nd
ed. 1999. Claude Palisca. Baroque Music. 3rd ed. 1991. Reinhard Pauly. Music in the Classic Period. 4th
ed. 2000. Rey Longyear. Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music. 3rd
ed. 1988. Eric Salzman. Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction.
4th ed. 2002. Taruskin, Richard. 6 vols. Oxford
History of Western Music. London: Oxford University Press, 2005.
A well-respected ten-volume history comprising chapters by many different
authors. Two volumes of a second edition were published but the project was
then abandoned.
A high-quality series that is now significantly out-of-date, but some of the
volumes are still valuable.
A newer series by Norton reflecting more recent scholarship, with a score
anthology to accompany each volume.
Another well-respected series of histories. Shorter than the Norton volumes,
and without anthologies. Only the current editions are listed, and only those
on Western music, although there are also volumes on music of other cultures.
A single-author history with some emphasis on historiography (the study of how
history is written). Contains many musical examples, including facsimiles.
