Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries [electronic resource] / Richard Taruskin.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taruskin, Richard
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:The Oxford history of western music ; v. 2
Subjects:
Music > 17th century > History and criticism.
Music > 18th century > History and criticism.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Oxford History of Western Music
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Opera from Monteverdi to Monteverdi
  • 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.