The Oxford History of Western Music
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 2 December 2004
- ISBN 9780195169799
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages4250 pages
- Size 272x268x198 mm
- Weight 9437 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones, maps and music examples 0
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Short 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, Richard Taruskin. 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. The five volumes of main text have musical examples and black-and-white pictures throughout, and each has five 8-page colour inserts. The sixth volume contains a comprehensive chronology, further reading and other source material, and an index to
the entire set.
Long 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. The five volumes of main text each have musical examples and black-and-white pictures throughout, source notes, and an index. The sixth volume contains a comprehensive chronology, further reading, and an
index to the entire set.
...astonishing (and achieved) enterprise to relate the entire history of music in the post-classical West in six large volumes. One of the most sublimely hubristic enterprises that the humanities have seen in recent decades. Open the book at any point, and the account is liable to be as good as anything to be found in any other broad survey of the musical history of this period that is currently available, and often better.
