Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 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.
Title: The Oxford History Of Western Music: Music In The Late Twentieth Century
Author(s): Taruskin Richard (Professor Of Musicology Professor Of Musicology University Of California Berkeley Usa)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780195384857
Pages: 610 Pages, 72 Halftones And Musical Notation
Publication Date: 7/27/2009
Series: The Oxford History of Western Music
Category: 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music