Concise History of Western Music
Title | Concise History of Western Music PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Russano Hanning |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Pages | 585 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780393971682 |
Concise History of Western Music combines Grout and Palisca's uncompromising reliability, scope, and respect for the narrative, while offering many more pedagogical aids, such as chapter preludes and postludes; "Etudes," excursions that explore the material more deeply than the main text; and "Windows," boxed discussions of special topics.
A Concise History of Western Music
Title | A Concise History of Western Music PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2006-06-29 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0521842948 |
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A History of Western Music
Title | A History of Western Music PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Jay Grout |
Publisher | |
Pages | 862 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780393969047 |
A History of Western Music
Title | A History of Western Music PDF eBook |
Author | D. J. Grout |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Concise Oxford History of Music
Title | The Concise Oxford History of Music PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Abraham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 968 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Norton Anthology of Western Music
Title | Norton Anthology of Western Music PDF eBook |
Author | Claude V. Palisca |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Music appreciation |
ISBN | 9780393969061 |
Oxford History of Western Music
Title | Oxford History of Western Music PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 6390 |
Release | 2009-07-27 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199813698 |
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 c