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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816300203321

Autore

Taruskin Richard

Titolo

Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

ISBN

0-19-979596-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2008 p.)

Disciplina

780.9/02

Soggetti

Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism

Music -- 16th century -- History and criticism

Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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. Now in paperback, each of the volumes is being sold separate for the first time. This first volume in Richard Taruskin's majestic history, Music from t