Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition
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Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition, Fourth Edition, explores the conceptual frameworks that have shaped musical development from antiquity to the present. In a lively narrative that... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:087484956X
ISBN13:9780874849561
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Length:431 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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The PERFECT music history survey text!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
I took a graduate music history survey course under the instruction of the author, Douglass Seaton, at Florida State University in the Fall semester of 1997. Though I hold no degree in musicology (all my degrees are in trombone performance), I have found this text to be the perfect reference, both in the context of a survey course, and especially in preperation for diagnostic/preliminary exams.The book is somewhat smaller than either the Grout/Palisca or the Stolba texts (as the book was authored with a one-semester survey course in mind), and perhaps doesn't contain all of the minutia for which the Grout/Palisca "A History of Western Music" is known. The benefit is an extremely readable source, tongue-in-cheek at times, that is still highly detailed, but compelling enough to gain a thorough perspective of the history of western music (historical contexts, performance practices, transitions between defined periods).I have recommended this book to everyone who has asked for my advice for graduate-school entrance/preliminary exam preparation.
A very thorough and interesting text
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This was my music history textbook when I was an undergrad, and I found it so fascinating that I changed my major to musicology and reread the book from cover to cover on my own time.
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