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Music in the Late Twentieth Century
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Description
Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the context of each stylistic period-key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific events-influenced and directed compositional choices. Unlike earlier surveys, Taruskin provides greater attention to the full range of 20th century music, including American music as part of the mainstream tradition of western music, women in music, and popular music.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
610
Release Date:
2009-07-27
Publication Date:
2009-07-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0195384857
ISBN13:
9780195384857
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Weight:
1682 g
Height:
17.8 cm
Width:
25.4 cm
Thickness:
3.9 cm
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