The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard TaruskinCall Number: ML160 .T28 2019
Taruskin, Richard. Oxford History of Western Music. 5 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Available as ebook. The physical copy is for use in the library only.
The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. He also describes how the context of each stylistic period--key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific events--influenced and directed compositional choices.