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Author | : Gerald Abraham |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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The forty-one chapters cover the whole history of music from its first recorded emergence in Sumer and Egypt ot the death of Stravinsky.
Author | : Gerald Abraham (Musicologist) |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 3856 |
Release | : 2009-07-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199813698 |
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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 describes how the c
Author | : Michael Kennedy |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 829 |
Release | : 2004-04-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0198608845 |
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"The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of music available in paperback. Coverage includes musical terms from allegro to zingaro, and musical works from Aida to Zauberflote, as well as composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras. It provides a mine of information for all lovers of music." "The book includes musical instruments and their history; and covers living composers and performers, with over 150 added for this edition."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2006-06-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521842948 |
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Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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Intends to illuminate, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective that challenges the wisdom of the field, the author sets the details of music--the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas-- within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history.
Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 2006-08-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199796025 |
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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. In Music in the Nineteenth Century , Richard Taruskin offers a panoramic tour of this magnificent century in the history music. Major themes addressed in this book include the romantic transformation of opera, Franz Schubert and the German lied, the rise of virtuosos such as Paganini and Liszt, the twin giants of nineteenth-century opera, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, the lyric dramas of Bizet and Puccini, and the revival of the symphony by Brahms. 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.
Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 881 |
Release | : 2006-08-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199796017 |
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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. Music in the Early Twentieth Century , the fourth volume in Richard Taruskin's history, looks at the first half of the twentieth century, from the beginnings of Modernism in the last decade of the nineteenth century right up to the end of World War II. Taruskin discusses modernism in Germany and France as reflected in the work of Mahler, Strauss, Satie, and Debussy, the modern ballets of Stravinsky, the use of twelve-tone technique in the years following World War I, the music of Charles Ives, the influence of peasant songs on Bela Bartok, Stravinsky's neo-classical phase and the real beginnings of 20th-century music, the vision of America as seen in the works of such composers as W.C. Handy, George Gershwin, and Virgil Thomson, and the impact of totalitarianism on the works of a range of musicians from Toscanini to Shostakovich
Author | : Alison Latham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780198606987 |
Download The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This comprehensive one-volume dictionary covers all the musical terms in English and other European languages generally used in Western music. With over 2,500 A-Z entries, this ideal reference book provides clear, succinct definitions across a broad range of subjects, including rhythm, metre, scales, harmony and counterpoint, notational systems, and many more. An indispensable reference for students and teachers of music.
Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 902 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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