Some of you know that I’ve been working on the five volumes
of Richard Taruskin’s Oxford History of
Western Music for some years now. I’ve
made it to Volume 5, Music in the Late 20th
Century, and, as usual, Dr. Taruskin has grabbed my attention with thought-provoking
ideas that may or may not match up with what other musicologists think, but
that certainly make a lot of sense to me.
He started out with the premise that he could only write about the
history of the literate genres of ...
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