Concise History of Western Music

Key differences between 5th and 4th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 4 years (2014 vs 2009).
• Hanning's textbook was first published in 1997.
• The newest Fifth Edition contains 79 pages more than the Fourth Edition.
• Media resources for listen and study are included with the purchase of a new book.
• Part 6 "The Twentieth Century and Today" has been restructured and now includes the following chapters:
• Classical Modernism
• Vernacular Music in America
• Radical Modernism
• Music between the Two World Wars
• The Changing World of Music since 1945
• Into the Twenty-First Century