Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : by Richard Taruskin

Publication Data

• Title Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : by Richard Taruskin
• Alternative Title Oxford history of western music. 2, Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• 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. 2, The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Contents

Opera from Monteverdi to Monteverdi
Music in fat times and lean
Courts resplendent, overthrown, restored
Class and classicism
The Italian concerto style and the rise of tonality-driven form
Class of 1685 (I)
Class of 1685 (II)
The comic style
Enlightenment and reform
Instrumental music lifts off
The composer's voice
The first romantics
C minor moods.

Topics

• Music :: 17th century :: History and criticism
• Music :: 18th century :: History and criticism

Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : by Richard Taruskin by Richard Taruskin. ISBN 9780195384826. Published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.