This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times. Highlights of the repertoire include new works from
all periods: more contrasting virelais, ballades, and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works, including Gabrieli's In ecclesiis,
Lully's Te Deum, Haydn's Creation, and Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky; more opera, including Norma, Les Huguenots, and Madama Butterfly;
orchestral and chamber works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvor�癒k, and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie, Bart�糧k, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Var�穡se, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage,
Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty.
