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Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music. Vijf delen in paperback: The Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century, The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Nineteenth Century, The Early Twentieth Century, The Late Twentieth Century. Van € 129,50 naar € 99,95.

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NRC Handelblads Peter de Bruijn: 'Als er een Nobelprijs voor muziek zou bestaan, zou de eigenzinnige Amerikaanse musicoloog Richard Taruskin die direct moeten krijgen. Om zijn fabelachtige kennis van de westerse muziekgeschiedenis, maar ook om zijn vermogen die geschiedenis tot leven te wekken. Met pakkende anekdotes, frisse inzichten die de canon doen kantelen, en altijd vrij van de dweepzucht waarmee geen kunstvorm zo is omgeven als de muziek.'

Paul Griffiths in The Nation: 'This is an astounding achievement.'

Interview met Taruskin in de New York Times: 'If you look at the earlier books, they are usually more detailed up to the 18th century and become less detailed through the 19th and 20th. I don't know why that is. Maybe because musicology was originally an antiquarian kind of pursuit. But my book is the opposite. The five volumes of actual text are distributed so that the first one goes through the 16th century, the second takes in the 17th and 18th, the third is given over entirely to the 19th, and the fourth and fifth divide the 20th.'

Bij de Amerikaanse NPR had Taruskin een serie radioprogramma's aan de hand van zijn boek. Over muziek in de 20ste eeuw: 'The question is: to what does a composer owe his primary loyalty? And I guess the difference would be between those who would say one's primary loyalty ought to be to one's audience, and those who say one's primary loyalty ought to be to one's art.'

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