The Oxford History of Western Music: Resources : chronology, bibliography, master index

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Oxford University Press, 2005 - Music - 329 pages
The Oxford History of Western Music online offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Since its original publication in print Taruskin's landmark study has received universal acclaim and numerous awards. The online version includes all 1.25 million words, 500 images, and 1,800 musical examples from the updated paperback edition with sophisticated search and browse functionality designed to maximize the dynamic possibilities of online reading and research.

Contents

Notes 529
30
GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFUSION
45
The Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
67
Polyphony in Practice And Theory 147
69
Island and Mainland 387
70
The End of Perfection 629
73
Courts Resplendent Overthrown Restored
78
Enlightenment and Reform 445
82
The Third Revolution 175
115
List of Musical Examples in Order of Appearance
121
Aristocratic Maximalism
131
Index of Musical Examples by Composer
171
Extinguishing the Petty I Transcendentalism I
191
Satie the French Six and Surrealism Thomson and the Lost Generation
192
Aquitaine France Iberia Italy Germany
197
MidEighteenthCentury Stylistic Change Traced to Its Sources in the 1720s Empfindsamkeit
200

The Nineteenth Century
85
Self and Other 343
90
The Symphony Goes InterNational 745
96
Inner Occurrences Transcendentalism III
104
In Search of the Real America 599
109
AQUITAINE
221
Troubadours Minstrels High Latinate and low popular style Rhythm
266
Critics
289
Schumann and Berlioz
307

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