The Oxford History of Western Music College Edition
ISBN: 9780195097627 | 0195097629
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/25/2012
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Based on the award-winning six-volume work by Richard Taruskin,The Oxford History of Western Music,College Edition, offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive history of Western music available. Distinctive Features * Offers aunique focus on thepeoplebehind music history * Places musical works within their larger cultural, social, and political contexts, providing atruly complete narrativeof music history * Givesfull coverage of the music of all erasalong with a special emphasis on the most studied works of the past 200 years >Improves studen... MORE
Each chapter begins with a timeline and ends with a summary, study questions, and a list of key terms.
Chapter 1: The First Literate Repertory in Western Music: Gregorian Chant
Theories of Music
Historical Imagination
Christian Beginnings, As Far As We Know Them
The Legend of St. Gregory
The Development of the Liturgy: The Offices
The Mass
Writing It Down: Neumes
Guido of Arezzo
Modal Theory
Psalmody in Practice: The Office and the Mass
The Mass
Frankish Additions t... MORE
Richard Taruskin is Class of 1955 Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor (with Piero Weiss) of Music in the Western World: A History in Documents (Second Edition, 2007), as well as the author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through Mavra (1996) and Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance (OUP, 1995).
Christopher H. Gibbs is James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music at Bard College, Co-Artistic Director of the Bard Music Festival, and Associate Editor of The Musical Quarterly. He edited The Cambridge Companion to Schubert (1997), coedited Franz Liszt and His World (2006), and is the author of The Life of Schubert (2000). Gibbs is a recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. Since 2000, Gibbs has served as program annotator and consulting musicologist for The Philadelphia Orchestra, where he frequently gives lectures. Gibbs also gives lectures at other orchestras, Carnegie Hall, "Great Performers" at Lincoln Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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