Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Oxford History of Western Music

Richard Taruskin

Oxford University Press, 2006年8月14日 - 832页

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 representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries , the second volume Richard Taruskin's monumental history, illuminates the explosion of musical creativity that occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining a wealth of topics, Taruskin looks at the elegant masques and consort music of Jacobean England, the Italian concerto style of Corelli and Vivaldi, and the progression from Baroque to Rococo to romantic style. Perhaps most important, he offers a fascinating account of the giants of this period: Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse period.

目录

• Princely and Public Theaters Monteverdis Contributions to Both: 1
• Organ Music from Frescobaldi to Scheidt Schutzs Career Oratorio and Cantata: 35
• Trag ́edie Lyrique from Lully to Rameau English Music in the Seventeenth Century: 85
• Opera Seria and Its Makers: 139
• Corelli Vivaldi and Their German Imitators: 177
• Careers of J S Bach and G F Handel Compared Bachs Instrumental Music: 233
• Handels Operas and Oratorios Bachs Cantatas and Passions Domenico Scarlatti: 305
• MidEighteenthCentury Stylistic Change Traced to Its Sources in the 1720s Empfindsamkeit Galanterie War of the Buffoons: 399
• The Operas of Piccinni Gluck and Mozart: 445
• The EighteenthCentury Symphony Haydn: 497
• Mozarts Piano Concertos His Last Symphonies the Fantasia as Style and as Metaphor: 589
• Late Eighteenthcentury Music Esthetics Beethovens Career and His Posthumous Legend: 641
• The Struggle and Victory Narrative and Its Relationship to Four CMinor Works of Beethoven: 691
• Notes: 741
• Art Credits: 755

作者简介

Richard Taruskin is professor of musicology at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to this work, Taruskin is also the author of such books as Music in the Western World: A History in Documents (1985) , Text & Act (OUP, 1995), and Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions (1996). He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times , New Republic , and many other scholarly journals.

书目信息

• 名称: Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Oxford History of Western Music; Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; The Oxford History of Western Music
• 作者: Richard Taruskin
• 出版商: Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0199796033, 9780199796038
• 页数: 832页