The Oxford History of Western Music
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The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
Richard Taruskin and Christopher Gibbs have taken the best-selling six-volume Oxford History of Western Music and created a one-volume edition suitable for the undergraduate music history sequence. This compelling narrative introduces students to the broad sweep of music history by making connections between music and the larger human, social, and political context in which pieces were created and heard. Abundant features such as timelines, chapter summaries, key terms, study questions, and a glossary, ensure the volume will be accessible to students of varying levels.
The description is commendably clear, well-written and wide-ranging in its references, placing works and events within their global cultural, social, and political contexts.. A milestone in the publication of music reference books. * John Robert Brown, Classical Music *
Richard Taruskin is Class of 1955 Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor (with Piero Weiss) of Music in the Western World: A History in Documents (Second Edition, 2007), as well as the author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through Mavra (1996) and Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance (OUP, 1995). Christopher H. Gibbs is James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music at Bard College, Co-Artistic Director of the Bard Music Festival, and Associate Editor of The Music Quarterly. Gibbs is a recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. Since 2000, Gibbs has served as program annotator and consulting musicologist for The Philadelphia Orchestra, where he frequently gives lectures.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195097627 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195097629 |
| Title | The Oxford History of Western Music |
| Author | Richard Taruskin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2012-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 1248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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