Based on the award-winning five-volume work by Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition, presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive history of Western music available. Distinctive Features BL Offers a unique focus on the people behind music history BL Places musica[...]
The Oxford Anthology of Western Music, Volume Three: The Twentieth Century, accompanies the twentieth-century portion of The Oxford History of Western Music*, College Edition, by Richard Taruskin and Christopher H. Gibbs (9780195097627). Beginning with Gustav Mahler and ending with Kaija Saariaho, t[...]
This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and[...]
Franz Schubert's tragically short life was spent in one of Europe's most richly musical cities: a Vienna that worshipped Beethoven, adored Rossini, and thrilled to Paganini. Schubert, with the help of supportive friends who were themselves immersed in the arts, won fame for himself through songs and[...]