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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 anddirection to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical...

Musicology’s all-time happiest warrior leaves us with an omnibus collection that balances history and historiography, past and present, East and West, while exploring presentism and intolerant progressivism as well as the bad blood between music history and theory. Even when he’s reminiscing, the writing is fresh and often very funny, teeming with bright ideas that will take on lives of their own."—Simon Morrison, Princeton University "Who els...

Musicology’s all-time happiest warrior leaves us with an omnibus collection that balances history and historiography, past and present, East and West, while exploring presentism and intolerant progressivism as well as the bad blood between music history and theory. Even when he’s reminiscing, the writing is fresh and often very funny, teeming with bright ideas that will take on lives of their own."—Simon Morrison, Princeton University "Who els...

A remarkable collection by a remarkable author. From beginning to end, this is a collection that generously repays close study."—Stephen Hinton, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University “A dazzling collection of essays. This is a book that incites: to thought, to anger, to the desire to respond—in short, to participate in a discipline that Taruskin succeeds in bringing to the center stage of what the humane study of a...

Music In The Nineteenth Century".

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Now in paperback, the set has been reconstructed to be available for the first time as individual books, each one taking on a critical time period in the history of western music.

Music In The Early Twentieth Century".

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The definitive history of Western music by one of the leading musicologists of our time. The five paperbacks explore music from the earliest notations to the late twentieth century.

Music In The Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries".

Originally published: 2005. New introductions and prefaces added to each volume.

Music In The Late Twentieth Century". Written by the foremost musicologists of our time, exploring the styles, themes and key figures.