刘丹霓

Liu Danni is a Chinese-language book author about whom little public information is available; details such as nationality and dates of birth and death are not clearly recorded. Judging from the six works included in the catalog, her writing centers on music history and the humanities, covering subjects such as Western music period history, twentieth-century European and American musical styles, country music, and general music knowledge. Her representative works include the Norton History of Music series (four-volume set), Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Modern European and American Musical Styles, Romantic Music: A History of Nineteenth-Century European Musical Styles, Ten Lectures on the History of Western Music and its new edition, and the Music Humanities Reader series volume on country music. Most of these are introduced or translated music-history readers, several of which have received high reader ratings, and they are commonly classified under film and television and theory. Overall, her work leans toward organizing and spreading knowledge of Western music history, and her writing is characterized by accessibility and systematic scope.