“A Pleasant Place”: Music of the Trecento »
Chapter: “A Pleasant Place”: Music of the Trecento
Source: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
Author: Richard Taruskin
Richard Taruskin As we know, the rise of European vernacular literatures began in Aquitaine, toward the end of the eleventh century, with the troubadou...
Academic Art »
Chapter: A Perfected Art
Source: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
Author: Richard Taruskin
Academic Art An academic style is one in which the process of making is considered to be of paramount value, and therefore one in which the maker’s tec...
Academicism, American Style »
Chapter: The Apex
Source: Music in the Late Twentieth Century
Author: Richard Taruskin
Academicism, American Style The Requiem Canticles had its first performance (the last Stravinsky premiere) under Robert Craft in October 1966, at a con...
Academies »
Chapter: Pressure of Radical Humanism
Source: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
Author: Richard Taruskin
Academies The original Academy, a school located in the gardens of Academus (a legendary hero) near Athens, was founded by Plato early in the fourth ce...
Accepting Boundaries »
Chapter: Containing Multitudes (Transcendentalism, II)
Source: Music in the Early Twentieth Century
Author: Richard Taruskin
Accepting Boundaries And yet these pieces, while technically (or at least technologically) “advanced,” were not composed in anything like an avant-gard...
Accessibility »
Chapter: After Everything
Source: Music in the Late Twentieth Century
Author: Richard Taruskin
Accessibility Partly following Rochberg's example, partly in response to a general turn away from utopian thinking that mounted through the 1980s towar...
Adam De La Halle and the Formes Fixes »
Chapter: Music of Feudalism and Fin’s Amors
Source: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
Author: Richard Taruskin
Adam De La Halle and the Formes Fixes Jehan’s musical debating partner at the Arras Puy was often Adam de la Halle, called “Adam le Bossu”—Adam the Hun...
Addressing Throngs »
Chapter: Instrumental Music Lifts Off
Source: Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Richard Taruskin
Addressing Throngs Every point made in the foregoing paragraph applies fully to the Symphony in G major (no. 94in the standard numbering), the one firs...
After Everything »
Chapter: After Everything
Source: Music in the Late Twentieth Century
Author: Richard Taruskin
Richard Taruskin The Modern Age, which sounds as if it would last forever, is fast becoming a thing of the past. 1 —Charles Jencks, What is Post-Modern...
“Agremens” and “Doubles” »
Chapter: Class of 1685 (I)
Source: Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Richard Taruskin
“Agremens” and “Doubles” To conclude this little study of the French Suite No. 5, two more comparisons are in order, one “internal,” and the other “ext...
