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The Oxford History of Western Music: Volume 1: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
The Oxford History of Western Music: Volume 1: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth 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.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Languages:
- Original: English
- Number of Pages:
- 930
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:
- 2009-08-27
- Release Date:
- 2009-07-27
- ISBN / EAN:
- 9780195384819
- Weight:
- 1710 g
- Dimensions:
- 18/25/5 cm
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
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