Concise History Of Western Music
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Author | : Barbara Russano Hanning |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780393971682 |
Concise History of Western Music combines Grout and Palisca's uncompromising reliability, scope, and respect for the narrative, while offering many more pedagogical aids, such as chapter preludes and postludes; "Etudes," excursions that explore the material more deeply than the main text; and "Windows," boxed discussions of special topics.
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2006-06-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521842948 |
Author | : Donald Jay Grout |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 862 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780393969047 |
Author | : Gerald Abraham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 968 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Music |
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Author | : Claude V. Palisca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Music appreciation |
ISBN | : 9780393969061 |
Author | : D. J. Grout |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 6390 |
Release | : 2009-07-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199813698 |
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 | : David S. Mason |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2011-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442205350 |
Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that shaped modern Europe, A Concise History of Modern Europe provides a readable, succinct history of the continent from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution to the present day. Avoiding a detailed, lengthy chronology, the book focuses on key events and ideas to explore the causes and consequences of revolutions—be they political, economic, or scientific; the origins and development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity. Any reader needing a broad overview of the sweep of European history since 1789 will find this book, published in a first edition under the title Revolutionary Europe, an engaging and cohesive narrative.
Author | : Julian Rushton |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780500202104 |
Portrays the musical era between 1750 and 1830 against its intellectual and cultural background and describes both its famous and obscure composers.
Author | : N. Alan Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2015-12-21 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781940771335 |
Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!