基本説明
気鋭の音楽学者による最新・最大規模の音楽史。１：中世・ルネサンス／２：１７・１８世紀／３：１９世紀／４：２０世紀前半／５：２０世紀後半／６：資料巻・索引
A magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin, University of California, Berkeley. "One of the great cultural monuments of our day, the product of a mind as humane and morally focused as it is technially assured." (TLS July 15, 2005)
Full Description
"The Oxford History of Western Music" is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, "The Oxford History of Western Music" provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the context of each stylistic period - key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific events - influenced and directed compositional choices.
Unlike earlier surveys, Taruskin provides greater attention to the full range of 20th century music, including American music as part of the mainstream tradition of western music, women in music, and popular music. The five volumes of main text each have musical examples and black and white pictures throughout, source notes, and an index. The sixth volume contains a comprehensive chronology, further reading, and an index to the entire set.
