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Oxford History of Western Music: 5-Vol. Set
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Oxford History of Western Music: 5-Vol. Set Other - 2009

by Richard 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 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
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  • Title Oxford History of Western Music: 5-Vol. Set
  • Author Richard Taruskin
  • Binding Other
  • Edition Paperback Editio
  • Pages 3856
  • Volumes 5
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 2009-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780195386301 / 0195386302
  • Weight 17.05 lbs (7.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 15.1 x 10.4 x 8 in (38.35 x 26.42 x 20.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008045167
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.9

About the author


Richard Taruskin is professor of musicology at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to this work, Taruskin is also the author of such books as Music in the Western World: A History in Documents (1985), Text & Act (OUP, 1995), and Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions (1996). He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, New Republic, and many other scholarly journals.
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