Richard Taruskin and Christopher H. Gibbs, The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition

  • Robin Elliott University of Toronto

Abstract

The review summarizes the main features and contents of the Taruskin/Gibbs music history textbook. While finding the book’s pedagogical aims and general quality to be excellent, the review finds fault with the blurring of distinctions between fact and interpretation.

Author Biography

Robin Elliott, University of Toronto

After six years as a faculty member at University College Dublin, Robin Elliott was appointed to the Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music at the University of Toronto in 2002. The main focus of his scholarly work is composed Canadian music; he has produced a dozen books and editions of music (as author or editor), thirty scholarly articles, and sixty reviews and shorter articles in this area. He has also published on European music of the Romantic era and actively teaches in that area as well. He recently co-edited (with John Beckwith) a selection of writings by the late Helmut Kallmann, which is to be published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in May 2013.

Published
2012-12-21
Issue
Vol 3 No 2: (Spring 2013)
Section
Reviews

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