Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
By: Richard Taruskin.
Contributors: Taruskin, Richard.
Series: The Oxford history of western music -- v. 2
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 805
ISBN-13: 9780195384826
Subjects: Music -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Oxford history of western music. Vol. 2, The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 759-768) and index.
Table of contents: title: Opera from Monteverdi to Monteverdi; title: Fat times and lean; title: Courts resplendent, overthrown, restored; title: Class and classicism; title: The Italian concerto style and the rise of tonality-driven form; title: Class of 1685 (I); title: Class of 1685 (II); title: The comic style; title: Enlightenment and reform; title: Instrumental music lifts off; title: The composer's voice; title: The first romantics; title: C-minor moods.