Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin''s provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a sig...