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 volumes (originally
issued with a sixth containing indices and other back matter), covering the history of
literate music making in Europe and (eventually) North America from inception, with
the introduction of music notation in the ninth century CE, to the dawn of the third
millennium. This book, corresponding to Volume 1 of the whole, has been lightly
revised for the sake of greater accuracy and self-sufficiency. The indices and back
matter have been divided among the several volumes in this edition.

The Earliest    Notations   to  the Sixteenth   Century

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth  Centuries

The Nineteenth  Century

The Early   Twentieth   Century

The Late    Twentieth   Century