Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Subtitle: by Richard Taruskin.
Series: The Oxford history of western music -- v. 2
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195384826
Subjects: Music -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Work titles: Oxford history of western music. 2, Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Notes: Originally published as: Oxford history of western music.  Vol. 2, The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Table of contents: value: Opera from Monteverdi to Monteverdi; value: Music in fat times and lean; value: Courts resplendent, overthrown, restored; value: Class and classicism; value: The Italian concerto style and the rise of tonality-driven form; value: Class of 1685 (I); value: Class of 1685 (II); value: The comic style; value: Enlightenment and reform; value: Instrumental music lifts off; value: The composer's voice; value: The first romantics; value: C minor moods.