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The Oxford history of Western music
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Title
The Oxford history of Western music / Richard Taruskin ; Christopher Gibbs.
ISBN
9780195097627
0195097629
Edition
College ed.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Physical Description
xxxiii, 1211 p. : ill., music ; 27 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 12, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1161-1168) and index.
Contents
The first literate repertory in Western music : Gregorian chant
Secular and cathedral music in the High Middle Ages
The Ars nova : musical developments in the fourteenth century
Island and mainland : toward a Pan-European style
A perfected art : church polyphony in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
After perfection : pressures for change
Humanism and the birth of opera
Music travels : trends in Italy, Germany, France, and England
The height of Italian dominance : opera seria and the Italian concerto style
Class of 1685 (I) : the instrumental music of Bach and Handel
Class of 1685 (II) : the vocal music of Handel and Bach
Mid-eighteenth-century stylistic changes : from Bach's sons to the comic style
Concert life lifts off : Haydn
The composer's voice : Mozart
The emergence of romanticism
Beethoven
Opera in the age of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Weber
Private art : Schubert and inwardness
Romantic spectacles : from virtuosos to grand opera
Literary musicians
Music imported and exported
Musical politics at mid-century : historicism and the New German School
Class of 1813 : Wagner and Verdi
Slavic harmony and disharmony
The musical museum and the return of the symphony
Dramatic alternatives : exoticism, operetta, and verismo
Early Austro-German modernism : Mahler, Strauss, and Schoenberg
Modernism in France
National monuments
Neoclassicism and 12-tone music
Interwar currents : the roaring twenties
Music and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Western Europe
Music and politics in America and Allied Europe
Starting from scratch : music in the aftermath of World War II
Changes in the sixties and seventies.
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