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978-0-19-516979-9. The Oxford History of Western Music is a narrative history from the "earliest notations " (taken to be around the eighth century) to the late twentieth century. It was written by the American musicologist Richard Taruskin. Published by Oxford University Press in 2005, it is a six-volume work on the various significant periods ...
During the 9th century, several important developments took place. First, there was a major effort by the Church to unify the many chant traditions and suppress many of them in favor of the Gregorian liturgy. Second, the earliest polyphonic music was sung, a form of parallel singing known as organum.
After 1960 he became more interested in philosophies of music history, due in large part to his publication of a general music history textbook, A History of Western Music. A ninth edition of the book was published in 2014; after Grout's death, the new editions were revised by Claude Palisca and J. Peter Burkholder. [2]
AB, Earlham College, 1975. Occupation. Musicologist. J. Peter Burkholder (born June 17, 1954) is an American musicologist and author. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has written numerous monographs, essays, and journal articles on twentieth-century music, Charles Ives ...
In modern academia, music theory is a subfield of musicology, the wider study of musical cultures and history. Music theory is often concerned with abstract musical aspects such as tuning and tonal systems, scales, consonance and dissonance, and rhythmic relationships. In addition, there is also a body of theory concerning practical aspects ...
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. [ 4 ] Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. [ 5 ]
Baroque music (UK: / bəˈrɒk / or US: / bəˈroʊk /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. [ 1 ] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style). The Baroque period is divided into ...
Genesis of a Music. (publ. The University of Wisconsin Press) Genesis of a Music is a book first published in 1949 by microtonal composer Harry Partch (1901–1974). Partch first presents a polemic against both equal temperament and the long history of stagnation in the teaching of music; according to Alex Ross, this is "the most startling ...