richard taruskin

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Ri

"Musicology's all-time happiest warrior leaves us with an omnibus collection that balances history and historiography, past and present, East and West

"Musicology's all-time happiest warrior leaves us with an omnibus collection that balances history and historiography, past and present, East and West

"A remarkable collection by a remarkable author. From beginning to end, this is a collection that generously repays close study."—Stephen Hinton, Aval

"A remarkable collection by a remarkable author. From beginning to end, this is a collection that generously repays close study."--Stephen Hinton, Ava

Features thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the f

“In surveying the continent of Russian music, Richard Taruskin has breathtakingly altered its scholarly appearance, displaying its arc in space as if

“In surveying the continent of Russian music, Richard Taruskin has breathtakingly altered its scholarly appearance, displaying its arc in space as if

Incorporating essays, this book sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context. It also pres

"Taruskin's work is a major contribution to thinking about music in the broadest sense. The book is lucid, powerful, varied, self-aware, and courageou

Shows how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Ru

Focusing on forensic serology and forensic DNA analysis, this book introduces students to the methods and techniques utilized by forensic biology labo

A RENOWNED BRAIN EXPERT SHARES THE SIMPLE TRICKS THAT WILL FUTURE-PROOF YOUR MEMORYMemory gets worse with age - right? A fact of life. But what if we

This is a revised version of the survey on Homer which the author originally published in 1996. It is a clear introduction to the Iliad and the Odysse

A collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. It includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom,

Niveau A2 bis C1 Zielgruppe: Anfänger zum systematischen Lernen und Üben; Fortgeschrittene zur gründlichen Wiederholung und Systematisierung; allgeme

Niveau A2 bis C1 Das neu bearbeitete und aktualisierte Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik eignet sich für Lerner der oberen Grundstufe und

'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the M

Now in its sixth edition, The Economics of European Integration is a timely and insightful text on this everchangingand controversial topic. This edit