The Oxford history of Western music / Richard Taruskin, Christopher H. Gibbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taruskin, Richard, author.

Gibbs, Christopher Howard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 874 pages, 86 variously numbered pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

College edition; Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Part I: Ancient and Medieval music. 1. Music from antiquity to Gregorian chant : ca.1200 BCE to ca.1200 CE ; 2. Secular and cathedral music in the Middle Ages : ca.1100 to ca.1300 ; 3. The Ars nova : musical developments in the fourteenth century

Part II: The Renaissance. 4. Music in Europe : toward an international style, 1300-1500 ; 5. Church polyphony in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries : ca.1475-1600 ; 6. Religious and secular music of the sixteenth century

Part III: The Baroque era. 7. Humanism and the emergence of opera : 1590-1640 ; 8. Music in Italy, Germany, France, and England : 1600-1740 ; 9. Italian opera seria and the concerto style : 1650-1750 ; 10. Class of 1685 : Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel

Part IV: The Classical era. 11. The mid-eighteenth century : from Bach's sons to the comic style ; 12. Concert life lifts off, 1725-1800 : Franz Joseph Haydn ; 13. The composer's voice : Mozart (1756-91)

Part V: Romanticism. 14. Beethoven (1770-1827) ; 15. Opera in the age of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Weber: 1810-50 ; 16. Schubert's private art : 1797-1828 ; 17. Romantic spectacles : from virtuosos to grand opera : 1800-1850 ; 18. Music and literature : Berlioz, Mendelssohn, and Schumann, 1830-50 ; 19. "Outsiders" in the Romantic tradition : Chopin, Gottschalk, and Glinka, 1820-60 ; 20. Musical politics in the mid-nineteenth century ; 21. Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi : class of 1813 ; 22. Music in Eastern Europe and Russia : 1825-95 ; 23. The revival of the symphony : 1875-1900 ; 24. Opera of the later nineteenth century : 1850-1900

Part VI: The twentieth century to today. 25. Early modernism in Vienna : Mahler, Strauss, and Schoenberg (1890-1918) ; 26. Modernism in France : 1870-1930 ; 27. Nationalism in music : 1890-1930 ; 28. Neoclassicism and twelve-tone music : 1915-50 ; 29. Music between the wars : 1920-40 ; 30. Music and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, Italy, and Germany : 1920-45 ; 31. Music and politics in America and its allies : 1930-50 ; 32. Music in the aftermath of World War II : 1945-70 ; 33. Change in the sixties and seventies : rock, minimalism, and the mixing of art and popular music ; 34. "Many streams" : millennium's end, 1970-present.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Taruskin, Richard. Oxford history of Western music.

ISBN:

9780190600228

0190600225

OCLC:

1010614102