Learn the History of Music, through Music. A History of Music in Western Culture, 4/e is based on the premise that the best way to convey the history of Western music is to focus on specific works of music. The text is structured around a carefully selected repertory of music that reflects the deve[...]
Draws on philosophical, literary, political, and musical sources as well as contemporary accounts to trace the shift in the status of instrumental music and the attitudes toward listening in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.[...]