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Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music
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Richard Taruskin (, Professor of Musicology, Univeristy of California, Berkeley)

Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

The Oxford History of Western Music

Richard Taruskin (, Professor of Musicology, Univeristy of California, Berkeley)

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Oxford University Press Inc
08 December 2011
Early music (up to c 1000 CE); Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)
The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks- the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. This first volume in Richard Taruskin's majestic history, Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century , sweeps across centuries of musical innovation to shed light on the early forces that shaped the development of the Western classical tradition. Beginning with the invention of musical notation more than a thousand years ago, Taruskin addresses topics such as the legend of Saint Gregory and Gregorian chant, Augustine's and Boethius's thoughts on music, the liturgical dramas of Hildegard of Bingen, the growth of the music printing business, the literary revolution and the English madrigal, the influence of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, and the operas of Monteverdi. Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse period.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 187mm,  Width: 260mm,  Spine: 56mm
Weight:   1.769kg
ISBN:   9780199842148
ISBN 10:   0199842140
Pages:   930
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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