Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries /

A survey of the traditions of western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, this book illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taruskin, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Taruskin, Richard. Oxford history of western music ; v. 2.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:A survey of the traditions of western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, this book illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age.
Item Description:Rev. ed. of: Oxford history of western music. Vol. 2, The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 805 p. :) ill., maps, music.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 759-768) and index.
ISBN:9780195384826
0195384822
9780197846148
0197846149