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
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 c
Contents
Volume I: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
Volume II: Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Volume III: Music in the Nineteenth Century
Volume IV: Music in the Early Twentieth Century
Volume V: Music in the Late Twentieth Century
