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Der Dichter ist tod.(The Oxford History of Western Music)(Book Review)
Richard Taruskin The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press, six volumes, 3825 pages, $600
Comprehensive histories of an art form are a daunting task, and a history of a major art form like so-called "classical" music in the West--with its long and variegated past--borders on impossibility. When compiled by a single author in five thick volumes (and a sixth for the index)--containing hundreds of musical examples and extended discussions of chosen works--this task assumes staggering, Johnsonian proportions. It is not surprising, however, to find that the musicologist Richard Taruskin, on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, has ...
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