A Brief History of Music in Western Culture
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A Brief History of Music in Western Culture by Mark Evan Bonds
Suitable for all courses in music history. This brief and accessible text provides undergraduates with a conceptual framework for understanding stylistic and social developments in the history of music from classical antiquity to the present. This text allows the student to grasp the richness and importance of musical history in two important ways. It combines narrative with primary sources in a lively and engaging manner and it traces key concepts of musical style and the uses of music across time.Mark Evan Bonds teaches music history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds degrees from Duke University (B.A.), Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (M.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.). His publications include Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration (1991), After Beethoven: Imperatives of Symphonic Originality (1996), and A History of Music in Western Culture (2003). He has also edited Beethoven Forum and written numerous essays on the music of Haydn and Mozart.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780131838604 |
| ISBN 10 | 0131838601 |
| Title | A Brief History of Music in Western Culture |
| Author | Mark Evan Bonds |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pearson Education (US) |
| Year published | 2004-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
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