Oxford history of western music. 1, Earliest notations to the sixteenth century / Richard Taruskin.
By: Taruskin, Richard
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BookSeries: The Oxford history of western music ; v.1.Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xxii, 906 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780195384819.Other title: Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century.Subject(s): Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism | Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism | Music -- 16th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 780.902 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.902 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00164101 | |
| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.902 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00178607 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Originally published as: Oxford history of western music. Vol. 1, Earliest notations to the sixteenth century. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The curtain goes up -- New styles and forms -- Retheorizing music -- Music of feudalism and fin' amors -- Polyphony in practice and theory -- Notre Dame de Paris -- Music for an intellectual and political âelite -- Business math, politics, and Paradise : the ars nova -- Machaut and his progeny -- "A pleasant place" : music of the trecento -- Island and mainland -- Emblems and dynasties -- Middle and low -- Josquin and the humanists -- A perfected art -- The end of perfection -- Commercial and literary music -- Reformations and counter reformations -- Pressure of radical humanism.