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ISBN10: 0195384814, ISBN13: 9780195384819, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Softcover The Oxford History of Western Music. "It is a visionary addition to our understanding of our culture." Times Literary Supplement. [Oxford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]
ISBN10: 0195384814, ISBN13: 9780195384819, [publisher: Sydney University Press Jul 2009] Softcover Neuware - 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 onstructure 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 anddirected compositional choices. [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 0195384814, ISBN13: 9780195384819, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc] Softcover 2009. Revised ed. Paperback. Originally published: 2005. New introductions and prefaces added to each volume. Num Pages: 930 pages, numerous halftones, maps and musical notation. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1706. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 0195384814, ISBN13: 9780195384819, [publisher: Sydney University Press Jul 2009] Softcover Neuware - 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 onstructure 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 anddirected compositional choices. [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]
Oxford University Press Inc 2009 Paperback New 2009. Revised ed. Paperback. Originally published: 2005. New introductions and prefaces added to each volume. Num Pages: 930 pages, numerous halftones, maps and musical notation. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1706......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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