Music has been significant in social, religious, and political ritual, and in education, art, and entertainment in all human cultures from antiquity to today. The Cultural History of Western Music presents the first study of music in all its forms - ritual, classical, popular and commercial - from antiquity to today. The work is divided into 6 volumes, with each volume covering the same topics, so readers can either study a period/volume or follow a topic across history. The volumes are:
1. A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity 2. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages 3. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance 4. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment 5. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age6. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age The topics are identity, communities and society; changing philosophies and ideas about music; politics and power; musical exchange and knowledge transfer between the West and the non-West; musical education; popular culture and musical entertainment; the places, practices, and experiences of performance; and the development of music technologies and media.
The page extent for the pack is approximately 1712pp. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Western Music is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
Irving, David R. M.: - David Irving, ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, Spain. His research focuses on the role of music in intercultural exchange, colonialism, and diplomacy in the early modern period (1500-1800). He is author of Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila (Oxford, 2010), and co-editor of Intercultural Exchange in Southeast Asia: History and Society in the Early Modern World (I.B. Tauris, 2013). He was awarded the Andrew McCredie Medal for Musicology in 2015, and the Jerome Roche Prize by the RMA in 2010.
Rehding, Alexander: - ALEXANDER REHDING is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. His research focuses on music in its cultural, theoretical and intellectual contexts from ancient Greece to the present day. He is author of Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (Cambridge, 2003), Music and Monumentality (Oxford, 2009), and Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 (Oxford, 2017). He was co-editor of Acta musicologica and is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Handbooks Online series in music. His awards include the Dent Medal of the RMA in 2014.
