Taruskin, Richard.
Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century / by Richard Taruskin. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xxii, 906 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - The Oxford history of western music ; v. 1 .
Originally published as: Oxford history of western music. Vol. 1, Earliest notations to the sixteenth century. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 855-864) and index.
The curtain goes up -- New styles and forms -- Retheorizing music -- Music of feudalism and fin' amors -- Polyphony in practice and theory -- Notre Dame de Paris -- Music for an intellectual and political élite -- Business math, politics, and Paradise : the ars nova -- Machaut and his progeny -- "A pleasant place" : music of the trecento -- Island and mainland -- Emblems and dynasties -- Middle and low -- Josquin and the humanists -- A perfected art -- The end of perfection -- Commercial and literary music -- Reformations and counter reformations -- Pressure of radical humanism.
9780199842148 (alk. paper) 9780195384819
2008045028
Music--History and criticism.--500-1400
Music--History and criticism.--15th century
Music--History and criticism.--16th century
ML172 / .T37 2010
780.9/02
Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century / by Richard Taruskin. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xxii, 906 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - The Oxford history of western music ; v. 1 .
Originally published as: Oxford history of western music. Vol. 1, Earliest notations to the sixteenth century. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 855-864) and index.
The curtain goes up -- New styles and forms -- Retheorizing music -- Music of feudalism and fin' amors -- Polyphony in practice and theory -- Notre Dame de Paris -- Music for an intellectual and political élite -- Business math, politics, and Paradise : the ars nova -- Machaut and his progeny -- "A pleasant place" : music of the trecento -- Island and mainland -- Emblems and dynasties -- Middle and low -- Josquin and the humanists -- A perfected art -- The end of perfection -- Commercial and literary music -- Reformations and counter reformations -- Pressure of radical humanism.
9780199842148 (alk. paper) 9780195384819
2008045028
Music--History and criticism.--500-1400
Music--History and criticism.--15th century
Music--History and criticism.--16th century
ML172 / .T37 2010
780.9/02
