Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century / by Richard Taruskin.

By: Taruskin, RichardContributor(s): Taruskin, Richard. Oxford history of western music. 1, Earliest notations to the sixteenth centuryMaterial type: TextTextSeries: The Oxford history of western music ; v. 1Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xxii, 906 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780199842148 (alk. paper); 9780195384819Subject(s): Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism | Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism | Music -- 16th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 780.9/02 LOC classification: ML172 | .T37 2010
Contents:
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.
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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.

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