Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century

Publication Data

• Title Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century
• Alternative Title Oxford history of western music. 1, Earliest notations to the sixteenth century
• Author Richard Taruskin
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Originally published as: Oxford history of western music. Vol. 1, Earliest notations to the sixteenth century. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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.

Topics

• Music :: 500-1400 :: History and criticism
• Music :: 15th century :: History and criticism
• Music :: 16th century :: History and criticism

Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century by Richard Taruskin. ISBN 9780195384819. Published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.