Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

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Praise for Richard Taruskin’s The Oxford History of Western Music “There is not a page without insight, and not a ...

“Erudite, biased and persuasive; an irresistible survey of a millennium of music. Its ideas, a brillliant disti ...

“Wickedly brilliant.”—BBC Music Magazine ...

MUSIC FROM THE EARLIEST NOTATIONS TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ...

THE OXFORD HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC The Oxford History of Western Music is a continuous narrative, in five v ...

MUSIC FROM THE EARLIEST NOTATIONS TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY Richard Taruskin THE OXFORD HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC ...

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Contents Introduction Chapter 1 The Curtain Goes Up “Gregorian” Chant, the First Literate Repertory, and How It Got ...

What is art? Chapter 3 Retheorizing Music New Frankish Concepts of Musical Organization and Their Effect o ...

Philosophy of History Chapter 5 Polyphony in Practice And Theory Early Polyphonic Performance Practices and the T ...

Putting it into practice Representing it Backlash Establishing the prototype: The Roman de Fauvel Taking a clos ...

Outposts Faux-naïveté Chapter 10 “A Pleasant Place”: Music of the Trecento Italian Music of the Fourteenth Century V ...

“Caput” and the beginnings of four-part harmony How controversies arise (and what they reveal) Patterns of ...

“Il eccelentissimo Adriano” and his contemporaries Gombert Clemens Willaert and the art of transition The progress of ...

Paradox and contradiction Exterior “nature” and interior “affect” Postscript: The English madrigal Chapter 18 Reformat ...

Introduction: The History of What? The argument is no other than to inquire and collect out of the records of all ...

very challenging example of that fire is a fusillade by Robert Walser, a scholar of popular music, who char ...

be evident to all readers that this narrative devotes as much attention to a congeries of “petits récits”— ...