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Oxford History of Western Music offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists, Richard Taruskin. He combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, illustrating 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 practices.
Composer, performer and librettist biographies, encyclopedic coverage of music genre and form, works lists. Combines the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music.