Oxford History of Western Music : (5 Volumes) Multiple copy pack
by Richard (Professor of musicology, Professor of musicology, University of California, Berke Taruskin
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The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time.
This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age.
Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within thelarger 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 andremembered.
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 c
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- Format:Multiple copy pack
- Pages:3856 pages, 530 Halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:27/08/2009
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- ISBN:9780195386301
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Item not Available
- Format:Multiple copy pack
- Pages:3856 pages, 530 Halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:27/08/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195386301