"Offering a large and varied body of music for study and adaptable to any theoretical approach, Charles Burkhart's collection contains more than 200 complete musical compositions, ranging in time from the Middle Ages to the present. Appropriate for various music theory courses, the book indexes many illustrations of chords, voice-leading techniques, and forms. Substantially revised and updated, this new edition features: An expanded twentieth-century section, including the works of Messiaen, Ligeti, Takemitsu, Reich, and Adams; greater representation of women composers - Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann, and Amy Beach (with Ruth Crawford Seeger retained from the previous edition); significant new works, such as the dramatic chorus "Wretched Lovers" from Handel's Acis and Galatea, the first movement of Mozart's clarinet concerto; Beethoven's second "Rasumovsky" quartet, first movement; and an aria from John Adams' Nixon in China; added selections for wind ensembles, including several variations from Stravinsky's Octet for winds; and a dictionary of the foreign terms and expressions used in this book."--BOOK JACKET.