The New Oxford History Of Music Volume 2
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The Oxford History of Music Volume 2
Author | : Hadow W H (William Henry) 1859-1937 |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2013-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781314301335 |
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Representing History, 900-1300
Author | : Robert Allan Maxwell |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0271036362 |
"Brings together the disciplines of art, music, and history to explore the importance of the past to conceptions of the present in the central Middle Ages"--Provided by publisher.
Oxford History of Western Music
Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 3856 |
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
The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music
Author | : Jane F. Fulcher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199711984 |
As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music fosters and reflects a sustained dialogue about their shared goals and techniques, rejuvenating their work with new insights into the field itself.