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Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music - Taruskin, Richard
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This first volume in Richard Taruskin's majestic history, Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century, sweeps across centuries of musical innovation to shed light on the early forces that shaped the development of the Western classical tradition. Beginning with the invention of musical notation more than a thousand years ago, Taruskin addresses topics such as the legend of Saint Gregory and Gregorian chant, Augustine's and Boethius's thoughts on music, the liturgical dramas of Hildegard of Bingen, the growth ...

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Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music 2011, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780199842148

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 Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music 2009, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195384819

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