TY - BOOK AU - Taruskin,Richard AU - Taruskin,Richard TI - Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century T2 - The Oxford history of western music SN - 9780199842148 (alk. paper) AV - ML172 .T37 2010 U1 - 780.9/02 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Music KW - 500-1400 KW - History and criticism KW - 15th century KW - 16th century N1 - 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 ER -