Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century / The Oxford History of Western Music. Vol. 1

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 repres...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taruskin, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2010.
Series:Oxford history of Western music ; volume 1.
Subjects:
500-1599
Music > 15th century > History and criticism.
Music > 16th century > History and criticism.
Music > 500-1400 > History and criticism.
Musique > 15e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Musique > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Musique > 500-1400 > Histoire et critique.
Music
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The curtain goes up
  • Chapter 2 New styles and forms
  • Chapter 3 Retheorizing music
  • Chapter 4 Music of Feudalism and Fin' Amors
  • Chapter 5 Polyphony in practice And theory
  • Chapter 6 Notre Dame de Paris
  • Chapter 7 Music for an intellectual and political elite
  • Chapter 8 Business math, politics, and paradise: The Ars Nova
  • Chapter 9 Machaut and his progeny
  • Chapter 10 "A pleasant place": music of the Trecento
  • Chapter 11 Island and Mainland
  • Chapter 12 Emblems and dynasties
  • Chapter 13 Middle and low
  • Chapter 14 Josquin and the humanists
  • Chapter 15 A perfected art
  • Chapter 16 The end of perfection
  • Chapter 17 Commercial and literary music
  • Chapter 18 Reformations and Counter-Reformations
  • Chapter 19 Pressure of radical humanism
  • Notes
  • Art credits
  • Further reading: a checklist of books in English
  • Index.

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